Sermon for the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

Friends,

Admittedly this post is a little belated, but here is the sermon from the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. Here are the Collect and appointed readings for that day:

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalm 89:20-37
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Here are audio files of the Gospel reading and the sermon.

Gospel
Sermon

Enjoy!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

St. Paul's Clergy at the Opening of The St. Paul's Chapel at Grace Point

Friends,

Recently, the St. Paul's Chapel was opened and consecrated at the Diocesan Camp and Conference Center, Grace Point. On the way in, your clergy was having a great time and it shows in this candid photo, snapped by Don Myers.



I hope that you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed ourselves that day!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

August St. Paul's YAMs Dinner

Friends,

You've asked for it, you've got it - the St. Paul's YAMs are eating dinner and hearing a speaker!

On Saturday, August 1st, at 6 p.m., the YAMs will attend a dinner in Key-Andrews Hall. During the dinner, quest speaker Becky Welchel - director Episcopal Metropolitan Ministries, will talk about the ministries there. More details on the speaker are still to come. We will have some non-YAMs as guests in attendence. Especially St. Paul's volunteers from EMM. They are there to hear the speaker and to meet us. We will be there to hear the speaker and meet them - as well as for many of the other great reasons to attend a YAMs event. If you are interested in beginning a friendship with some older folks at St. Paul's, I do hope that you will be there for this most enlightening evening. Please come and hear about this great Chattanooga Ministry.

Child care will be provided, and the cost is $6. (Please do not let the cost be a limiting factor.) Please RSVP to this invitation by July 29th.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

P.S. Please view the evite here.

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

Up-to-date St. Paul's YAMs Summer Calendar

Greetings friends,

Every so often, the calendar of events gets buried in the posts of this site. Almost equally as often, I must repost the calendar toward the top of the site, so that folks can see it. So, here it is:

Past Events:

Ordination
Sat. 10th January
St. Paul's Sanctuary
4-7 PM
Free

Prepare & Serve Food
Sat. 31st January
The Community Kitchen
8 AM - 12 PM
Free

Winter Games Party
Fri. 6th February
The Leopolds' House
5-9 PM
Free

Dinner with Speaker
Thurs. 19th February
St. Paul's Parish Hall
6-9 PM
$6

Mission Trip
Fri. 13th - Sat. 14th March
Appalachian Mountains
5-5 PM
$30/person

Anniversary of MLK's Death
Sat. 4th April
Chattanooga African-American Museum
12-4 PM
$4

St. Paul's Helping Weekend
17th - 19th April
Teams at Various Places
8-6 AM-PM (various times within)
Free

After Church Fun - Hunt
Sun. 3rd May
St. Paul's Campus
12-3 PM
Free

Dinner with Speaker
Fri. 22rd May
St. Paul's Parish Hall
6-9 PM
$6

Prepare & Serve Food
Sat. 30st May
The Community Kitchen
8-12 AM-PM
Free

Summer Movie
Sat. 13th June
Regal Hamilton Place
3-6 PM
$3

Summer Games Party
Sat. 4th July
The Leopolds' House
2-7 PM
Free

Summer Dinner
Sat. 1st August
St. Paul's - Parish Hall
6-9 PM
$6

Prepare & Serve Food
29th August
The Community Kitchen
8-6 AM-PM
Free

I have also attached the calendar as a .pdf here.

I hope to see you at a lot of these events!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Fall Events Suggestions

Friends,

The time has come to begin planning for the Fall season. If you are interested in doing any events that the YAMs have not yet done, please let me know. If you are not a web-searching spambot, you will be able to get my email address from the St. Paul's website's contact page here. If you are just itching to do something as a group or you have an idea about how we might improve something that we have done in the past, please let me know. Even if you want to say that we are doing a good job, let me know that too.

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Pictures from Games Party

Greetings friends,

Here are some pictures from the St. Paul's YAMs Summer Game Party held last Saturday. I hope that everyone who came out had a great time and ate their fill. We had tons of fun.

Enjoy!

Yours in Christ,
Bob

Boating with Cap'n Mozingo

Greetings friends,

Fellow YAM and skipper, Brandon Mozingo, has graciously offered to share his boat with the St. Paul's YAMs. On Sunday, July 12,at 2:00 PM, Brandon has opened up his heart and his boat house to us. If you are interested in boating with Brandon (and some other YAMs and friends), please contact Brandon for more information - directions and such. If you need help contacting Brandon, please contact me.

See you there!

Peace,
Bob