by Patricia Templeton | Jun 26, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
The service bulletin for tomorrow is attached. It should be a special service with guest musician, violinist Kerren Berz, and guest preacher and celebrant Deborah Silver. I’ll be back next week. Pentecost-5-Proper-8-June-27-SPDownload
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 22, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This may be a first. I’m recommending a piece that recently ran on (the national) Fox News. It is about my friend and fellow Episcopal priest, Kim Jackson, who has preached at St. Dunstan’s many times. Kim is now the vicar of the Church of...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 10, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, In the spring of 2020, as normal life was coming to a halt because of the pandemic, St. Dunstan’s did an amazing thing. We raised $55,000 to help people in our community who had crippling medical debt. Through the organization RIP Medical Debt, the...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 5, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, One of the hardest things about the pandemic was how it affected the way we cared for one another and our rituals of grief. I hated that I could not visit people in the hospital or rehab, or take communion to them at home. I hated that we had to postpone...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 2, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Several years ago I went to Montgomery, Alabama with several others from St. Dunstan’s to visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also known as the lynching memorial. The memorial is made up of long columns, many suspended from the...
by Patricia Templeton | May 29, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow’s worship. Remember that it is our first time together with most of the Covid protocols lifted. That means there will be choir and congregational singing and coffee hour! Masks are optional for those who...
by Patricia Templeton | May 26, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, As I wrote earlier this week, this Sunday we will celebrate the lifting of most of our Covid restrictions. Among other things, it will mean we may have coffee hour for the first time in 14 months. We invite all of you to bring something to share. It will...
by Patricia Templeton | May 24, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, During the Easter season the blessing I used at the end of the service began “May the living God remove the suffocating shroud that lies upon our world.” Slowly, but surely that shroud is lifting. Some parts of the world, such as India and...
