The Chimes August 2010

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The Chimes August 2010 A publication of St. John’s Episcopal Church

Quote of the Month:

Don't compare yourlife to others. You haveno idea what their journey is all about.

August Birthdays

1 Elise Ford

6 Rob Hall

15 Jean Carrigall

15 Laura

Farnsworth

16 Susan Love

17 Lianne Jelson

20 Kathleen Kelly

20 Ronnie Havran

26 Elaine Ritter

27 Jo Ritter

29 Eric Youngblood

August Anniversaries

14 Rob & GailRobertson

15 John & Susan Love

16 Jim & Sugie

Sartwelle

Changing Seasons“

The Season of Stewardship is upon us. It is now time to support our beloved

Church and Community with our financial gifts. Each year we vote on a St.

John’s Budget to support God’s work in our church, our community and the

world. This budget must be developed by our Vestry and approved by you at

our Annual Meeting before it can be forwarded to the Diocese of Texas and

the National Church. Without your stewardship and pledging our Vestry

cannot do its job of providing for St. John’s upkeep and using our gifts to help

others.

I have never been successful trying to be a media person, politician or “spindoctor”. If I had those talents I believe I would start with Stewardship in my

church, St. John’s Episcopal, Sealy, Texas.

I would tell you of the Christian formation we experience when we freely give

gifts of ourselves and our financial treasures to be used for God’s glory. I

would “spin” you stories of how your financial gifts will help change your spiritual lives; just as it helped change the life of many of my friends and

acquaintances. I might even “spin” you my personal story when I first“pledged” money to the Church. May do that at a later time, anyway!

And yes, I would “spin” the tale of how our assessments to the Diocese of

Texas benefit us at St. John’s and in our personal life.

But, as many of you are learning, I can not be a politician; I can not make a

silk purse from a sows ear; and I cannot tell you “word spin” [that is

considered by some to be a big, fat fib].

If I were Rev. T. J. Upton, the famous evangelical, circuit riding Methodist

minister of the 1800’s (don’t worry, you never heard of him, but some day you

will) I would walk down from the pulpit, kneel in the aisle and pray with each

of you about the needs of others. After counting our blessings, Rev. Upton

would then pray for the needs of others. I am sure he would then look at us

and say, “God will provide”. And, you know what? God would provide for the

needs of others through us and our gifts.

I am neither a Rev. T. J. Upton nor a “spin doctor” who can convince you todo whatever he wanted done; and for the later I am thankful.



August Hospitality

List

8/1 Pat & John Klotz 8/8 Mary Emerson &

Cody Edwards 8/15 Andrea & PerryFord

8/22 Gayle & PhilHuffman8/29 Susie Zapalac &

Kathleen Kelly

A few photos from the

125th Anniversary

Celebration.

July 4th Photos

However, I can tell you your financial gifts to support God’s work through St.

John’s, Sealy will:

* Help the Poor

* Pay our St. John’s heating and cooling bills (we do need to stay cool,

don’t we?) * Maintain beautiful landscaping

* Allow us to continue to worship in our absolutely gorgeous church* Help our Youth Grow in a Christian environment

* Feed the hungry

* Clothe the naked

* Help those in need

* The list goes on.

Many of you are sacrificing with your time to help keep St. John’s alive and

well. I can only say thank you!! Without your dedication and gift of self we

would not be able to accomplish all we do. We thank you for your gift of self!!

Let each of us count our many blessings, look honestly at the needs of others

and give thanks to God for His bountiful gifts.

Decide what St. John’s Mission is really worth to you.

Your Vestry will not allow our financial gifts to be wasted.

Remember, we will still have homemade pies, gumbo, cakes; and with

encouragement you may yet eat the best stuffed cabbage rolls you ever had --

but not until after our Stewardship Season.

God Bless,

LeB

4th of July CelebrationOur scouts, Andrew, John and Will presented the colors and lead us in thePledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the service on Sunday, July 4.Nicholas served as an usher. After church we celebrated with a hot doglunch. The hall looked festive in Red, White and Blue. Annie provided uswith a watermelon fruit basket and the youth of all ages enjoyed an icecream sundae for dessert!

Thanks to everyone who helped out to make it a great celebration,especially Suzie for planning & shopping; Lianne, Elise, Jennifer & Andrea

for decorating, and John for grilling the dogs!



Here’s the Scoop: Paul Heath just returned from a Boy Scout High

Adventure, a week of canoeing in the Northern Tier, thelakes of Minnesota and Canada.

Elise Ford's Girl Scout Troop won the Barnum & Bailey

Silver Award for their community service projects. Theywere honored at the Circus and received a $750 checkto spend on other community service projects in thefuture! The awards ceremony was during the time shewas having a great time at Camp Allen. The family wastreated to a night at the Circus when she returned.

Will Ford just returned from a great week at CampAllen!

Camille and Brandon Herring spent a week in alabamawith brandon's family for a family reunion and vacationat Gulf Shores.

Please note that "Here's the Scoop" is for every age, not justupdates on our Youth. Keep us posted on what is happeningin your life by submitting your news to The Chimes!

Youth Update

Anyone who is interested in helping with a Youth program please

contact Eric!

St. Mary's Episcopal School

in Bellville need our help!

St Mary's Episcopal Day School in Bellville needs to raiseadditional funds for Scholarships. There are several ways youcan help. Adopt a child and contribute monthly, annually,according to your situation. Make a one time offering.HOWEVER, each of you can buy a dinner when we hold ourfall fund raiser. We delivered in Sealy at the Parish Hall last

time and were successful. Thank you in advance for helping togive a Christian Education to our youth. More news to comeon dates of the dinner.

Donations may be sent to: St Mary's Day School, Attention N.Dornon, 24 N Masonic, Bellville, TX 74418



Thank you to Billy

Woody for the photos!

Blast from the past!

New to The Chimes this month - Guess who this member of the

congregation is - send your guesses along with an "old photo" .

First correct guess gets to be next month's "Guess Who" star.

Submit your answers to the Church email -

[email protected] or bring it to the church office

with a copy of your photo. Your photo will be scanned and

returned.

So, start the guessing!

mailto:[email protected]





St. John’s Episcopal Church

Hwy 36 North at 6th Street,Sealy, Texas

Office Hours:M-F 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Phone:979-885-2359

Fax:979-885-2100

E-mail:[email protected] We’re on the Web!www.stjohnssealy.com

Keep in your prayers:

The military

Our Nation

Senior Warden’s Message

If you missed the 4th of July service and picnic, I made the announcement the

Vestry elected Eric as our pastoral leader. We have received confirmation

from Bishop Doyle making it effective September 1, 2010. "Pastor " would

be an appropriate title, if you wish . There will be 'the work of the pastoral

leader' posted on the bulletin board at the parish hall.

Marge Michaelis did a reading at the picnic about the origin of the national

anthem.

Upcoming will be a work day at the parish office. Eric is moving his office

into the former bedroom, and will be available in Sealy on Wednesdays and

Sundays. See Susie for volunteering.

If you haven't looked at our website lately, do so! John Kelley is keeping it

current and is doing an excellent job. Thank you, John. In addition to our

website, he is also a student and working!

It is so good to see our youth involved in our services. Their are doing a great

job and I am really proud of them as well as our whole congregation. We are a

family sized church and we are truly family!

Andrea Ford is doing a great job on The Chimes. Please let her know if you

have anything to add.

God's blessing,

Pat Klotz






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