YAMs to the Lookouts Game

Friends,

On Monday, Labor Day, September 7th, at 2:15 PM, the Chattanooga Lookouts (Professional Baseball Team) play their final game of the season. The YAMs will be in attendance. We will meet at St. Paul’s at 1:30 PM and walk (or ride the Free Downtown Shuttle) to the stadium. The price of admission is $2 a person, but with a caveat. The Lookouts will be giving away a car that day. If your ticket wins, you must donate that car to St. Paul’s ☺. You may, of course, still claim the donation on your taxes. Who knows when we will return, as baseball has no time constraints. Please join us for this last lazy afternoon of Summer. As always, do not let price be an excluding factor.

Thanks,
Bob

P.S. Please view the evite here.

P.P.S. Please view the pictures here.

Pictures from Community Kitchen Visit

Greetings friends,

Many of you were able to make it with the YAMs to the Community Kitchen on Saturday, August 29. Thanks for coming out and supporting this great ministry. While we were there we moved one room full of hygiene products into another room, closer to their intended targets. During this process, we noticed certain deficiencies in their stock. Coupled with Brother Ron's concerns, here is what the Kitchen is after:

wall clocks (battery operated)
wall art
clip-on lamp (and light bulbs)
rugs (non-slip)

deoderant
hand sanitizer
epsom salt
tooth brushes
shampoo
razors

If you happen to have any of these items lying unused around your house or are in a charitable mood the next time you are at a store, please consider making these donations. There will be a drop-off box at St. Paul's in the coming weeks.

Also, here are some pictures from the outing. Enjoy!









What a mural! I hope that everyone had a great time and enjoyed helping as much as I did!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Sermon for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost

Friends,

Here are the Collect and readings for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost:

Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11), 22-30, 41-43
Psalm 84
Ephesians 6:10-20
John 6:56-69

Here are audio files of the Gospel and the Sermon:

Gospel
Sermon

Enjoy!

Bob

Young Adult Summit

Friends,

One of our upcoming events is significantly more intensive and costly than the rest. This event targets Young Adults interested in leadership roles. I am planning on going to this event, as it looks great, but I know that cost may be a factor for some of you. The event itself is offering scholarships, but the YAMs budget is just about tapped out – especially as we are currently in softball-funding limbo. So, I cannot offer much in the way of help to this event beyond a ride our car. If you are a student of any sort (or only very recently not) at UTC, I can help out with diocesan funds.

Boy howdy, all of this and I haven’t even told you what it is. Well, they have spent a lot of money on marketing and web design, so check out what the event itself is saying here. The event itself is being billed as the Province IV (Southeast US) Young Adult Gathering. It is full of great speakers and should be very exciting. I would love to take a big group from St. Paul’s to this conference. It takes place on Oct. 16-18.

There is a deadline to register that is Sept. 14th. After that there is an additional fee. I called and talked to the coordinator and she agreed to waive the fee, but it would be helpful to know who might be at all interested in this event as soon as we can. Please, please, please email me back as soon as you can if you have any interest in this event.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Pictures from Becky Welchel's Talk

Greetings friends,

Many of you were able (even in the summertime) to make it to the YAMs dinner with speaker Becky Welchel. Becky told us all about the Episcopal Metropolitan Ministries and St. Paul's support thereof. It was a great evening with great conversations and relationships begun.

Here are some pictures from the evening. Enjoy!

Thank you so much to our guests who came from EMM.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

August Community Kitchen

Greetings friends,

On Saturday, August 29th, the YAMs will go to The Chattanooga Community Kitchen in order to prepare and serve food for those to whom the Kitchen ministers. We will meet at St. Paul’s parking lot at 8:00 AM. From there we will carpool to the Kitchen, as parking is limited. As with our last trip, the YAMs have extended this opportunity to serve to the Tweeners and other college and young adults groups from other local Episcopal communities of faith. There will be plenty of opportunities for people to serve in various capacities. We will most likely be back at St. Paul’s by noon. Please let The Rev. Bob Leopold know if you can help with this event. Hopefully, we will have a strong showing for this, as the Community Kitchen really provides a wonderful ministry for this area. I hope to see everyone there.
I have been assured that this time our services will be put to good use.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

P.S. Please view the evite here.

P.P.S. Here are the pictures from the event.