St. Paul's YAMs Facebook Group

Friends,

I hope everyone knows about the YAMs facebook group on facebook. It is cleverly titled, "St. Paul's YAMs." Please join that group for the most up-to-date information on YAMs events. Here is a link for you.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Flickr Upload to Blog Test

Hello, originally uploaded by rkleopold.

Friends,

I appreciate your patience in these little tests (as on facebook, twitter, the blog, and now from flickr). I hope that they will be over sooner rather than later. In the meantime, this is a picture that I have uploaded to my flickr account for the purposes of "pushing" it to the YAMs website (and by extension being pushed to the st. paul's facebook page). Who knew ministry would take on these dimensions? I sure as heck didn't.

Thanks again,
Bob

The Pressures of this Missing Generation

Greetings friends,

As many of you know, I was hired at St. Paul's to help out in many respects, among those, with Young Adults (20s to 30s as we have had it defined for us - though there is some wiggle room).

When I arrived here, there were essentially in place monthly events for this age group. The feedback which I received from those of you who had been involved with this group is that more events were wanted. So, I planned essentially an event a week. What I have come to realize through the course of this Fall is that this is too many. So, if four times per month is too many and one time is too few, how about we split the difference?

What I am proposing is that we limit ourselves to two events per month. Hopefully, this will allow more people to be involved with those events. I will still try to program different types of events on different days at different times. This move has the approval of the ministry team here at St. Paul's and is done so that the YAMs might actually do more, not less.

An updated calendar for the remaining year will be posted shortly.

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

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