Young Adults Sunday Christian Education Schedule

Greetings friends,

What follows is the schedule for the Young Adult Christian Education Hour at 9:15 AM on Sunday mornings at St. Paul's in Room 102. This is the Literature class led by Sara and Clay Gahan - both English teachers.

Oct. 12 Raymond Carver: "A Small Good Thing"
Oct. 19 Annie Dillard: "The Deer at Providencia" and "A Field of Silence"
Oct. 26 Alice Walker: "The Welcome Table"
Nov. 2 Garrison Keillor: "Exiles" and "Aprille"
Nov. 9 Richard Rodriguez: "Credo"
Nov. 16 Michael Malone: "Handling Sin"
Nov. 23 James Baldwin: "Notes of a Native Son"
Nov. 30 No Class - Happy Thanksgiving!
Dec. 7 Sue Miller: "While I Was Gone"
Dec. 14 Kent Haruf: "The Tie That Binds"
Dec. 21 No Class - Merry Christmas!
Dec. 28 No Class - Happy New Year!

All Selections are taken from the Listening for God Volume 1 Reader edited by Paula Carlson. It can be found here.

I do hope that you will all consider joining this class. If you are unable to do the reading, that is okay as you will still have much to add to our conversation. All are welcome!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

My Short Biography is Up on the St. Paul's Homepage

Hey folks,

If you would like to learn a little bit more about me, a brief biography is up on the St. Paul's homepage. It can be found here: (http://stpaulschatt.homestead.com/leopoldbio.html). Please feel free to check it out.

Peace,
Bob

Picture from Campus Ministry Escapades I Hope You'll enjoy

Greetings friends,

While this is not specifically a YAMs announcement, I thought that you all might appreciate it anyway. Last week was UTC's homecoming and I was involved with some of the events, including the Moc'n'Roll Fall Festival. They had a big blow up slide. Anyway, I raced an Episcopal Chaplaincy student down the slide and someone managed to snap an action shot of us. Pictures really do say more than words . . .

Peace, Bob

P.S. Check out those red socks I am wearing! What a bold wardrobe choice.

We're Official!

Greetings friends,

If you go to the national church's website for young adult ministries(http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_72089_ENG_HTM.htm?menupage=77625) and scroll down to the Diocese of East Tennesse, you will find St. Paul's and a link to this website. Yay!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

September 27th - Culture Fest 2008

Greetings friends,



The next event for the YAMs group at St. Paul's is the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council's Culture Fest 2008. More information on this event can be found here: http://www.artsedcouncil.org/page/culture-fest-2008/about-the-event. St. Paul's will be sharing a booth with the UTC Episcopal Campus Chaplain (I know him pretty well). At this booth, we will bring to the larger community, not only an joyful awareness of the presence of God rooted in the Gospel, but also the culture of the Episcopal Church. No, this does not just mean golf pants and highballs. We have as our cultural heritage the British Isles as well as the Thirteen Colonies of America. That being said, I hope that you will come by and see the booth. Stop in and have an Altoid or two. There may even be other British Confections there. I hope that this will be an opportunity for those of you who are not as involved as you would like to be to stop in and see us. The festival is in Coolidge Park and we will be under a tent - rain or shine.



Yours in Christ,
Bob



P.S. I hope to have an Episcopal Flag at this event . . . In light of a shared British Isles heritage, who can tell me why . . .


Check out the pics here

September 4th Dinner Pictures!

On Tuesday eveing, Sept. 4th, the Young Adult Ministries team at St. Paul's welcomed me and Lisa to the parish. The speaker for the Event was The Rev. Matilda Dunn, who spoke on the importance of our generation in the Church. Boy, is she right! For those of you who were able to attend - and there were over thirty - thank you. For those of you who were not, I hope that we get a chance to have conversations soon.

Yours in Christ,

Bob

Welcome to YAMs - Young Adult Ministries at St. Paul's Church

Greetings friends,



Welcome to the webpage for Young Adult Ministries (YAMs) at St. Paul's Church in beautiful downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. Tennesseein' is Tenebelievin'! This page has been created so that you (the viewer) can keep up to date with upcoming events related to Young Adult Ministries at St. Paul's. This will also be a place that I (the writer) can post pictures and thoughts pertaining to past events and will occasionally offer spiritual tidbits that may help us along the long path. I hope that you check back soon to see what we have in store and that I will have added much in the way that you have not seen before.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

The Rev. Robert K. Leopold
Assistant Rector for College and Young Adult Ministries
St. Paul's Church, Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
(423) 802-8215
leopold@stpaulschatt.org
http://stpaulschatt.homestead.com/