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Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN/Family Promise) hosting July 12-July 26
Families arrive TODAY! Please drop your food and supply donations at the IHN table in the Commons. We still have a few overnight and evening slots left so if you have to been waiting to see where the critical need is before signing up, now is the time. Today we will set up the bedrooms in the Youth Center and Day School. We have a million things to get ready, large and small, so any help is welcome, kids too. Lisa and I have jeans and T-shirt in the car to change into but we can find a job for you if you did not bring work clothes. Meet in the Youth Center (orange building on the south end of the campus) at 1:00 pm.
Contacts: Lisa Ottenbacher ([email protected], 512-461-7480) or Amy Novak ([email protected], 512-795-8089 Submitted by Amy Novak
Weekly Word July 12-July 19, 2015
Home run Fellowship
There are 37 of us signed up to head to the Dell Diamond for a 7:05 game this evening, July 12. We have five tickets left, so grab Fr. Christian if you want to claim them. He and a vestry member will be in the social areas after both the Family and Sanctu-ary Services handing out tickets and collecting mon-ey. He will also be at the stadium entrance gate be-fore the game if you would rather pick up your tick-ets then. If you arrive later than 7:00 pm, please text 719-359-2176 and someone will come out to meet you. Submitted by Christian Hawley
More Opportunities to Help Families Seeking Affordable Housing Foundation for the Homeless, the NPO that oversees IHN and provides the case management, transportation and continuity for the families has opened a new shelter option. They are setting up a small house in the North Lamar area that can expand IHN shelter space and provide options for families who can not rotate through the churches due to physical limitation or overnight work shifts. It will also be used as back up shelter on weeks where there is no church available to host IHN (like Easter). It also provides options for families who only need a week or two of shelter because of misalignment of whatever housing they have managed to arrange. The house has a lot of the basic furnishings but is missing a few specific items. If you have extras of any of the items below, please stop by the IHN table so we can chat. Night stands (need 5) Small lights for night stands (need 5) End tables for living room (need 2) Floor lamps or table lamps (need 2) Kitchenware (pots & pans, toaster, baby plates & cups) They have adult dishes and glassware, but need the small, unbreakable stuff (we are really hoping for these things). Submitted by Amy Novak
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Price Increase for MG Niches Deferred The Memorial Garden Committee (MGC) was made aware that some parishioners were interpreting Clause C-3 of the MG Space/Niche Purchase Agreement to mean that if they were not interred within 25 years of the purchase they would have to repurchase the agreement at the then current price. On June 30, the Vestry approved a clarification proposed by the MGC to make it clear at the 25-year mark, the purchaser simply has to verify that the agreement is not being abandoned.
Since there is no way to determine how many people were deterred from buying an agreement because of the negative implications of the prior C-3 Clause, the MGC proposed that the price increase from $1,000 to $1,500 scheduled for July 1, 2015, instead be deferred until October 1, 2015. The Vestry approved the delay, giving parishioners a chance to reevaluate any decision to not purchase a niche at the $500 savings.
Therefore, the price of a niche will rise to $1,500 on October 1, 2015, NOT July 1, 2015. Submitted by Larry Richards, MGC Chairperson
The Soul of a Musician Series is a great way to introduce people you know to St. Matthew’s Church. A link to the Soul Series can be found on the St. Matt’s website, http://stmattsaustin.org/ The Soul Series will take a summer sabbatical and will begin again on Au-gust 23, 2015 with Robert Harrison of Cotton Mather Band. Submitted by Merrill Wade
Summer Soul Music Sundays in July
10:30 am Sanctuary service
Join us for great music July 2015
July 12 - Noelle Hampton & Andre Moran
July 19 - Malia Grace
July 26 - Aimee Bobruk
August 2 - Shelley King
Sanctuary not available This Week: July 13-18!
New carpeting will be delivered to the church on Monday, July 13, where a crew will be on standby ready to take off the old carpet, make necessary re-pairs to the altar platform, and lay the new carpet. This is a Gratitude Together Project! Submitted by Chris Schumacher
Steck Ave. Lot will be closed the week of July 20!
Now that the rain has stopped, the painters can paint the light poles in the Steck Ave. lot. This job has been pending for months and we are looking forward to get-ting it completed! We are closing the parking lot the week of July 20 so the painters will not have to concern themselves with vehicles blocking their access or getting splattered with gray paint. The Mesa parking lot will be available.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation! Submitted by Chris Schumacher
Healing Service Back Downstairs
For one Wednesday only, July 15, the healing service will be back in B-14 while we install new carpet in the sanctuary. Submitted by Christian Hawley
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Trinity Center With the summer months upon us, the homeless who come to Trinity Center for aid and comfort need certain items in abundance.
This is the wish list: Water bottles, small containers of sunscreen and bug spray, socks (always!!), hats, caps, visors, sunglasses, flip-flops (all sizes), large light-colored T-shirts, backpacks, rolling suitcases, bedrolls, and raingear. Anything will be appreciated. If you have anything to donate, call Dedee Norman at 512-346-1838 or 512-914-6099, and together we can arrange to get them dropped off at my house or the church; or if you are not too far away, I will pick it up! Thank you in advance for your gifts to those who have nothing!! Submitted by Dedee Norman
Endowment Committee Gifts
The St. Matthew’s Endowment Committee thanks those members of our parish and our community who have given to the St. Matthew’s Permanent Endowment in the last quarter. We received 39 gifts during the past three months. Gifts can be given to the Endowment in honor of a friend, in memory of a loved one who has passed away, in celebration of a birth/birthday or in recognition of any significant accomplishment or sacrament. Endowment funds support existing parish related ministries as well as pro-vide opportunities to grow new ministries at St. Matthew's. At this time, we recognize gifts given….
To remember: J.R. Eastberg, Nicholas McFarlane, Jim Myers, Scott Smith, and James Street
To celebrate: Charlotte Banister’s birthday and Michael Novak’s graduation
Submitted by Nicole Banister
Memorial Garden Gifts
The Memorial Garden Committee thanks the following people for gifts that they have made to the
Memorial Garden in the first half of 2015:
Jim and Linda Fryer in honor of Jim Myers Nancy and Larry Richards in gratitude
Jill Miller in honor of: Jim Myers Jim Street
J. R. Eastberg Scott Smith Holly Miller Dyson Miller
Submitted by Larry Richards, MGC Chair
Food Handler’s Certificates
We’ve made getting the Food Handler’s Certificate easier. When you are ready to take the course, call the office (512-345-8314) and Mickie or Margaret will set you up, pay for the course, and send you the link with instructions. The office is also open on Fridays if you want to do it from the church. Submitted by Chris Schumacher
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Children’s Ministry News
Family Service Dates: *July 12 & 26—combined service July 19
Sunday School is out for summer! We will not resume until August 23. Invite your neighbors, family, friends and loved ones to join us and visit our Sunday Services (10:30 Family Service or Sanctuary Service). If you have any questions, please contact Susan Goodman at [email protected] or 512-217-6334.
We will be sending out a survey/questionnaire to St. Matthew’s families. Please fill out the survey when it arrives—we need your input! We will be asking questions about Family Service, Sunday School, fellowship activities, seasonal programs, etc. Submitted by Susan Goodman
Youth Ministry News
Fall Confirmation Course For all St. Matthew’s Youth, 6th grade and up, interested in being confirmed, Bishop Harrison will be here on St. Matthew’s Day (September 27, 2015). Our confirmation course will take place over two Sunday evenings: September 6 & 13, from 3:00 - 7:00 pm. Youth who are already confirmed are also welcome to attend as we learn about our faith as Episcopalians and enjoy dinner together. All interested in participating, please email [email protected] or chat with me after church. —Travis, Youth Minister
Help support our Missioners for Missionpalooza: San Antonio July 19 - July 24! Buy stock in our youth! Find our table in the Commons after the services. We are selling stocks between 5 and 500 shares. Each share is $1. You will receive a certificate with one youth missioner’s name highlighted. We ask that you pray for this person and write notes or create a care package for our journey. All notes and goodies are due to the church office by July 17. We could not make this trip without all of your love and support. Please be sure to write “Youth Mission Trip” in the check memo!
2015 Missioners:
Quinn Bankler Owen Earl Carsten Groos Sam Hopper Matt Kennedy
Rex Kerwin Aubrey Nichols Lucas Parker Noah Randall Aidan Thompson
Ian Webster Susan Goodman, Family Minister (Transportation/Logistics)
Travis Helms, Youth Minister Landry Staub, Youth Intern
We are working on engaging the youth in our parish and have several opportunities for them to get involved. Visit with your child (6th - 12 grade) and see if they would like to participate in the Sanctuary: acolyting, greeting, or singing in the choir. Contact Susan Goodman, Family Minister, if your child would like to get involved: [email protected] or 512-217-6334.
Intermediate Urban Mission Experience to Houston, 2015 Rising 4th - 6th Graders The Intermediate Urban Mission Experience takes place at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston on July 31 - August 2. Check-in will be at 7:00 p.m. on the 30th, and pick up will be at 10:30 a.m. on the 2nd. This year, the leaders are KariAnn Lessner and Susan Goodman. $175 for the weekend, carpooling from St. Matthew ’s available! The deadline to register is Thursday, July 23. Application is online through the Episcopal Diocese Texas. Want more infor-mation? Contact Susan Goodman, Family Minister at [email protected]. Scholarships available. Submitted by Susan Goodman
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Synthesis Today Quote
The greatest treasure next to God is a good will in this world; even if all has been lost, by it all can be regained. —Angelus Silesius.
Synthesis Today is a free service that provides quotes for the upcoming Sunday Sermon based on the Revised Common Lectionary. Feel free to pass it on. Submitted by Christine Havens
Dear Friends, Christian and I invite you to write a maximum 500-word story (2 pages double spaced). We are interested in how you share your Christian faith. Specifically, we want to hear how God leads you to reach out and support others. Why? Because we want to know what you all are doing with the faith that has been commended to you! Cer-tainly not to check on you in some way but to hear your stories to encourage us your clergy and, perhaps, to encourage fellow parishioners to take action on their faith and beliefs. Your story could be about your workplace, home life, church ministry, anything or anywhere. We want to hear how you find the sacred in the mundane, how your faith informs even the seemingly insignificant decisions you make on a daily basis. Resist an inner voice that says "others do important things, what I do is really nothing". The Spirit is at work in our lives in spreadsheets and time sheets, drop-off lines and picket lines. We want to hear about your actual experience. There is nothing too big or too small, seriously. A corollary - this is not a competition. Your story stands on its own. There is no age limit on this. Parents of young children may want to help their kids tell their story. Kids often share their faith in unaffected ways and those stories are important to hear. What will Christian and I do with these stories? 1). We will read them. 2). Once we have read them all we will contact everyone that submitted and will make a proposal about their potential use. Nothing submitted will be printed or used in any way without the approval of the author. The stories will be emailed to me at [email protected]. This will be a July/August project for the parish. We invite submittals beginning immediately and ask for sto-ries to be submitted by August 15. I invite you to email me or Christian, [email protected], if you have questions; and even if you don't have questions, one of us would love to hear if you are planning on writing so that we can look forward to reading your essay! And by all means, have fun! Merrill and Christian
Second Invitation—This is a reminder that we want to read your faith stories. We have received 7 wonderful
essays and would love to read a dozen more!
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IN OUR PRAYERS July 12 – July 19, 2015
This list is read aloud at daily Evening Prayer (6 pm, Charlotte Cauley Gray Bell Tower Chapel) and is included on the Intercessory Prayer Network.
Clergy: Justin of Canterbury; Archbishop; Katharine, our Presiding Bishop; Michael, our Presiding Bishop-elect; Andy, Dena, and Jeff, our Bishops; Merrill, Christian, Chuck, Jerry, Jim, Dorothy, Brin, and Margaret, our clergy.
Lay Leadership: the Staff, the Wardens and the Vestry, the Endowment Committee and the Memorial Garden Committee, and all the other commissions and councils of the Vestry of St. Matthew’s.
Our Outreach Partners and Ministries: Kairos, Habitat for Humanity, El Buen Samaritano, Good Faith Minis-try, MPAC, Job Support, Care for the Caregiver, Heifer Project, Casa Marianella, Caritas, Capital Area Food Bank, Trinity Center, Women’s Story Book Project, Hope House, Honduras Good Works, Interfaith Action of Central Texas (IACT), Prayer Shawl Ministry, Threads of Love, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Daughters of the King, the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Community of Hope, and the Episcopal Veterans Fellowship.
Our men and women in the Armed Forces and others who serve our country at home and overseas.
Our brothers and sisters in Christ who are actively being persecuted for your name, and all of God’s chil-dren who know suffering at the hands of war, disease, natural disaster, injustice, and oppression. Remem-bering especially the churches in Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, and the people of Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Holy Land, all those in Texas affected by the recent floods, and the people of Emanuel AME Church and the city of Charleston.
The students, families and staff of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School and other schools and seminaries: General Theological Seminary, Seminary of the Southwest, and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale .
Those on our prayer list:
Carol Stolz Jim Sparks Kelley Meyer Matthew Hauser Michael Day
Terry Winters Tom Hudson Alex Acosta Jane Bray Connie Statz
Judy Hogan Barbara Borden Terry Wilson Leah Wilson Larry Nichols
Glen Ellis Colette Torres Mike Wilson Camilla Garrett Sue DuMond
Holly Leonetti Keith Freemster Nancy Richards Erma Warhus Vim Tesar
Judy Brin Rogene Tesar Virginia Bockholt Dawn Jarvis Nadine Ridgely
Ben Knape Nancy Tony M. Doris Z. Peggy S.
Jason Casell Shannon McGee John Burton Erin, Evelyn, & Steve
Joenne O’Connell the Holt family the Contreras family
the Spencer family Robinson family the Carey family the Nimori family
the McComb family the Charba family the McNelis family Mary Nell Hall & family
the family of Conny Boyea Ilea
Altar Flowers Dedications for this Week
The flowers on the altar this week are given to the glory of God,
and in memory of Harvey Hazlewood by Verna Hazlewood.
Monday, June 29: Solidarity w/Emanuel AME, 45 Sunday, July 5: 8:00 am HE I, 23; 10:30 am HE II, 212; Family Eucharist,
36; 5:15 pm Contemplative HE, 3; Total: 302
Wednesday, July 8: 7:00 am HE, 9; 12:00 pm HE, 7; Total: 16
Vestry Persons of the Month for July: Mary Nell Frucella & Michele Meadows
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Sunday, July 12 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
IHN Families Here all week, Youth Center
8:00 AM Holy Eucharist Rite I, Sanctuary 10:30 AM Holy Eucharist Rite II, Sanctuary 10:30 AM Family Eucharist, Huffman Hall 5:15 PM Contemplative Eucharist, B-14 6:00 PM NA, B-21 7:00 PM Parish Night at Dell Diamond
Monday, July 13 [Conrad Weiser] ALL WEEK: Carpet Installation, Sanctuary 9:00 AM Senior Activity Center Board Games, B-18/19 9:00 AM Senior Activity Center Tai Chi, Huffman Hall 12:00 PM Job Support Group, B-14
Tuesday, July 14 [Samson Occum] 10:00 AM Senior Activity Center Art Class, B-18/19 10:00 AM Staff Meeting, B-06 12:00 PM Men’s Study Group, B-06 2:30 PM Al-Anon, B-14 7:00 PM Boy Scouts Meeting, Huffman Hall
Wednesday, July 15
7:00 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II, B-14
9:00 AM Senior Activity Center Tai Chi, Huffman Hall
9:30 AM Prayer Shawl Ministry, B-14 12:00 PM Holy Eucharist with Healing Service, B-14 (this week only)
Thursday, July 16 [“The Righteous Gentiles”] 6:30 AM Men’s Breakfast Group, Huffman Hall 9:00 AM Senior Activity Center Board Games, B-18/19 1:00 PM Senior Activity Center Bridge, B-18/19 7:00 PM Community of Hope/Circle of Care, B-13
Friday, July 17 William White
9:30 AM Caregiver Support Group, B-14
Saturday, July 18 [Bartoleme de Las Casas] 9:00 AM Prayer & Share, B-14 10:00 AM 2nd Saturday Caregivers Support, B-06
Sunday, July 19 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost IHN Families Here all Week, Youth Center 8:00 AM Holy Eucharist Rite I, Sanctuary 10:30 AM Combined HE & Family Service Rite II, Sanctuary 5:15 PM Contemplative Eucharist, B-14 6:00 PM NA, B-21
If we can assist you in any way, please con-tact the Church Office.
Rector: The Rev. Merrill Wade
Associate Rector: The Rev. Christian Hawley
Rector Emeritus: The Rev. Charles Huffman
Assisting Clergy: The Rev. Brin Bon, The Rev. Jerry Chapman, The Rev. Dorothy Robinson, The Rev. Jim Williams, The Rev. Margaret Waters
Director of Music/Organist: Ms. Jean Farris Fuller
Choral Director: Eric Johnson
Family Minister: Susan Goodman
Youth Minister: Travis Helms
Children’s Minister: Gloria Bankler
Our Vestry: Senior Warden, Doug Webster; Junior Warden, Lise Harding; Carol Webb; April Kerwin; Michele Meadows; Mary Nell Frucella; Debbie Simons; Jim Michael; Doug O’Connell; Janice Watkins; Lisa Ottenbacher; Christian von Wupperfeld; Charlie Smith; Alison Street; Sandra Bravo
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church 8134 Mesa Drive Austin, TX 78759
Telephone (512) 345-8314 FAX (512) 346-2085 www.stmattsaustin.org Follow us: Facebook: St Matt’s Austin Twitter: @StMattsAustin
THE CHURCH OFFERS NURTURING AND EXPERIENCED CHILDCARE EVERY SUNDAY MORNING
Summer Childcare Hours: 10:00 - Noon in B-16 for children ages 0-5
Personal prayer teams are available during communion at Prayer Stations on either side of the Sanctuary during the 10:30 service. One is located on the east side by the windows, and the other one is on the west side in the gallery. All prayer requests and discussions are completely confidential.
Home delivery of communion is available if you are unable to come to church and would like Holy Communion brought to you on Sunday, please call the church office at 512-345-8314.
If you are unable to walk to the altar for holy communion today, please notify an usher and the communion elements will be brought to you where you are seated.
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All submissions, including prayer requests, for the Weekly Word must be received by the church office by Wednesday at noon in order to appear in the
upcoming Sunday’s edition.
This Week In the Life of the Parish
July 12 – July 19, 2015
Evening Prayer Daily at 6:00 pm in the Cauley Bell Tower Chapel
