by Patricia Templeton | Aug 28, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, It is a joy to have some good news to share with you. A couple of good things, in fact. First, Justin and Mike Camara report that Amelia’s adoption was made official yesterday in a Zoom hearing with the judge. They are now Amelia’s dads in...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 27, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Just one thing today. The squirrels have asked me to pass on their gratitude to whoever moved the bench in the courtyard. It has made their lives much easier. The Rev. Patricia Templeton
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 24, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Both Georgia and the nation reached grim pandemic milestones over the weekend. Georgia passed the 5,000 death mark from Covid-19 (5,156 as of 3 p.m. today) and the nation marked 175,000 deaths (now 176,802). Medical experts say the actual toll may be far...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 23, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
We have entered full bore into the political season, as the presidential campaigns grow ever more intense as we get closer and closer to election day. Last week we had the Democrats’ political convention; this week it will be the...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 22, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow morning’s worship (at 10 on Facebook Live). Pentecost-12-Proper-16-20A-August-23Download You also have the opportunity to worship tomorrow evening with a new worship video by Bishop Rob Wright. He’s...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 19, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I have several things to share with you today. First, my fellow priest and good friend Kim Jackson, vicar of Church of the Common Ground, contacted me yesterday and asked if St. Dunstan’s could provide lunch for her congregation on Sunday, August...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 18, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Today is the 100th anniversary of a significant day in our country’s history, the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which removed gender as a qualification to vote. “The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 17, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, One of the biggest surprises (in a good way) to me during this time of being “scattered, yet together” has been the response to Compline. When the pandemic began and I was looking for ways for us to come together online I thought of doing the...