by Patricia Templeton | Jun 29, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I have great news to share with you on this Monday. First, I have received word from RIP Medical Debt that 2,601 households in the Atlanta area will be receiving letters this week telling them their medical debt has been paid by St. Dunstan’s. The...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 28, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me…Whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones…none of these will lose their reward.” It was Mother’s Day 1961. A few months...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 27, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, They’re married! Jessy Hamilton and Adam Steinke are now bound together in Holy Matrimony. The grooms wore matching red masks, a sign of the times in which we live. It was not the celebration they had originally planned, but the joyful Spirit was...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 26, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, In a world where it sometimes seems as if we are bombarded with grim and sad news I give you two causes for celebration this weekend. First, tomorrow (Saturday) at noon, Jessy Hamilton and Adam Steinke will be married. It will not be the celebration they...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 25, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I had not been home long this evening when I heard a huge commotion outside. Crows, seemingly dozens of them, cawing and crying, obviously in distress. I went outside and realized the sounds were coming from across the street, where our neighbors (and...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 23, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Yesterday afternoon I wrote to you that we had no food for delivery to the food pantry this week. The little red wagon and the narthex were bare. When I got to church this morning the outside bins were overflowing and when I left church this afternoon...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 22, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Below you will find the service for our nightly Compline this week. When we started doing this brief nightly service in mid-March I thought it would last for a couple of weeks at most, and that we might have a handful of people participating. I was wrong...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 21, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Do not think I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and one’s foes will be...