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Rector’s Update: Sat 5/29
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 have...
Rector’s Update: Wed 5/26
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...
Rector’s Update: Mon 5/24
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 Japan, are...
Rector’s Update: Fri 5/21
Dear friends, Today is a milestone day for one of the ministries we have supported during the pandemic. The PopUp Food Pantry at Samad's Grill in Sandy Springs distributed food to its last customers today. In recent weeks, as more people have gone back to work, the...
Rector’s Update: Wed 5/19
Dear friends, Happy St. Dunstan's Day! May 19 is the day on the Church calendar set aside to remember our patron saint. I have to admit that when I first applied to be rector of St. Dunstan's I had to look him up. I found that he was the Archbishop of Canterbury in...
Rector’s Update: Tue 5/18
Dear friends, As I said Sunday, Bishop Wright issued new Covid protocols on Friday afternoon in response to the CDC's announcement that fully vaccinated people can go without their masks in many instances. The new protocols are lengthy and complicated, so on Monday I...
Rector’s Update: Fri 5/14
Dear friends, The CDC's announcement yesterday that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to go most places indoors or outside without masks was good news, indeed. It is another sign that the long season of Coronatide may finally be nearing the end. What does this...
Rector’s Update: Wed 5/12
Dear friends, May means graduations, and we have some accomplished students at St. Dunstan's who are finishing up their high school and law school careers. Alexander Changus will be graduating from the Westminster Schools where he performed in the band, wind ensemble,...
Rector’s Update: Wed 5/5
Dear friends, Bishop Wright announced this morning some loosening of the Covid protocols for worship and use of the church facilities. Here are some of the more pertinent changes: We no longer have to consecrate the wafers three days ahead of time, then put them in...
Rector’s Update: Tue 5/4
Dear friends, A big surprise awaited me when I pulled into the church this morning. Sometime during the night a huge tree fell, blocking the entire parking lot. It was on the Memorial Garden side of the lot, right where the railing ends. It is a really big tree, as...