June 15, 2014 Trinity Sunday

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion

8:45 a.m. Parish Breakfast*

8:50 a.m. Prayers for the Church*

9:15 a.m. Christian Education*

for all ages

10:30 a.m. Morning Prayer*

10:30 a.m. Preschool Chapel*

followed by second hour Sunday School at 10:50 a.m.

11:15 a.m. Optional Elementary Children’s Program

during sermon*

11:45 a.m. Father’s Day Celebration*

12:00 p.m. VBS Workday

5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer*

in the Chapel followed by Bible Study & light

refreshments in Koslow

*Nursery

The Lectionary

Genesis 1:1-2:3

2 Corinthians 13:5-14

Matthew 28:16-20

Psalm 150 or

Canticle 2 or 13

Volume 34, Number 24 June 13, 2014

THE MESSENGER SAINT ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

(cont’d on page 2)

Recently I attended a colloquium of historians

at which all the (very elated!) talk was about

what they called "the emotional turn" in the

study of history, a development held to enable

a more subjectively authentic understanding of

history itself. It reminded me of the elation of

many mathematicians in the late 16th century

about Franciscus Vieta's mathematically self-

constructive "turn" towards symbolic algebra

(by which "no problem cannot be solved!"), as

well as many philosophers in the 19th century

about Immanuel Kant's "transcendental turn"

in epistemology.

I was immediately suspicious!

There are some among my acquaintances who

know that — if not

always why! — I

hold the view that

the history of the

world, ideologically,

can best be

understood as

having taken what I

consider an

apocalyptic "turn"

when the notion that

Zero should be

regarded as a

number got the

upper hand in

constructive mathematics. Indeed, what

Salomon Maimon said towards the end of the

18th century in the wake of

Vieta and Kant sums up the

implications of such

"turns" for theology as

well, especially once

Zero is decreed to be a

number: "In this, Man

has become like God."

This, on its own terms, is

anathema, if not the very

abomination of

desolation.

With respect to a more recent "turn" that is

also closer to home, there are those —

parishioners, even friends and family! — who

wonder why the clergy of our Diocese and

Parish, and I in particular, presume to make

highly charged moral, ethical and ideological

pronouncements, unapologetically and

unambiguously, not about mathematics but

about contemporary religion and culture,

calling into question, in specific and often

personal terms, the Episcopal Church, its

leaders, and many of its supporters. Here's

why: such forthrightness is neither more nor

less imperative than is clarity of conviction

about whether God or Man is the maker and

measure of all things. It's a salvation issue.

By now it has been more than two decades

since six priests of the Episcopal Church

(myself included) published The Baltimore

Declaration seeking to engage in

"dialogue" (sic) with those in the cat-bird seats

of our national denomination about the

spiritual jeopardy inherent in what William

Murchison later catalogued as the Episcopal

Church's Mortal Follies; by now, considering

our Declaration's consignment to the footnotes

of ecclesiastical history, it seems

incontrovertible that the understanding of

Christian faith, truth, identity and mission held

by the Episcopal Church's leadership simply

cannot in any honest way be reconciled with

what we Baltimore Declarationists affirmed as

the "givens" of Biblical Revelation, of Created

Nature, of Rational Wisdom, and of Orthodox

Tradition. Theologically, Zero cannot be a

number! But over the course of time —

however covertly at the time — the movers

and shakers of the Episcopal Church have not

only allowed the very notion of such "givens"

to vaporize but have in practice replaced them

by a whole new set of assumptions and

axioms, based on the theological equivalent of

Zero counted as a number! This post-modern

"turn" in theology has arisen not out of a

renewed embrace of divine Truth and Law

THE CONTEMPORARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: NO MORE BIBLICAL THAN MODERN MATHEMATICS IS TRUE!

by Dean William McKeachie

Franciscus Vieta

Salomon Maimon

Cont’d. from page 1

2

but, all too elatedly, of human

experience and, putatively,

entitlement.

Those who promote the current trajectory of the

Episcopal Church are wont to claim for themselves the status of modern-day "prophets"

on behalf of the view that "the arc of the

moral universe bends towards justice" — as well as towards

enlightenment, egalitarianism and spiritual self-help. It is as if Émile Coué's maxim about things getting better and better every day in every way (for those who say so!) could be applied to history on its own terms. Is this anything other than a recycling of the so-called Whig view of history, or for that matter the Pelagian view of Man? But have not such views been made more untenable than ever by the egregiously evil instances of Man's inhumanity to Man perpetrated throughout the twentieth century? The actual biblical prophets of ancient Israel, of course, held exactly the opposite of a Whig view of history, although that hardly made them Tories!

Not only does the biblical Christian not suppose it is possible to be on what the Presiding Bishop (among others) likes to call "the right side of history" but, on the contrary, the biblical scriptures themselves witness to the "alternative" claims of a history contrary to history, an "alternative" history in the perspective of an "alternative" universe, sub specie aeternitatis. Saint Augustine said it best in The City of God: "In its pilgrim course [that is, historically] the heavenly City possesses the Peace of God by faith" (Book 19, chapter xvii).

Agnostic that he was, the late Oxford historian A.J.P. Taylor used to deride what he called the anti-Whig, or Tory, view of history as: scepticism about human nature; distrust of improvement; adamant adherence to traditional institutions; and nostalgic preference for the past over the future. Such, of course, is hardly an any more biblical view than is Whiggery! Yet the biblical Christian does know that history as such has in itself no "right" and "wrong" sides, that its "arc" does not bend of its own accord in any direction but that of hell, that human beings have no capacity to heal or save history from itself (rather, the contrary), and that only when history's dramatis personae are "in Christ" and conduct its affairs "by faith" does its pilgrim course reflect Divine Providence and, proleptically, the Peace of God.

Zero ain't no number in the trigonometry of the relationship between what C.S. Lewis called "Time and Beyond Time" — the intersection of eternity with history.

Why must the current leadership of the Episcopal Church be reproved for heresy and apostasy? Can't we all just get along, agree to differ, maybe even reconcile? Why must it be forthrightly attested that the attempts (however well-intentioned on the part of the Archbishop of Canterbury and others) at "reconciliation" between those with conflicting views about such issues as sexuality, gender, and authority — attempts undertaken on the basis of therapeutic techniques just as

subjective and fallacious as constructive mathematics! — are diabolically rather than divinely inspired? Why can't Zero be a number?

The biblical, historical, and mathematical answers to such questions are all of a piece. "Reconciliation" on human terms was a trick tried by Pontius Pilate long before either Vieta or Kant, Neville Chamberlain or Justin Welby, tried playing similar tricks. The outcome in any and every case of such legerdemain, whether mathematical, political or theological, is bound to be the same: hellish, not heavenly.

In the history of epistemology, Kant's trick is called the transcendental turn. In theological and ecclesiastical history, the current fashion might be called the experiential turn. Both are reminiscent of that primordial first turn away from God in the Garden.

Yet the good news is this: Jesus, Logos Himself, the very One whose unique and universal ability to "turn" alienation into atonement is denied by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, accomplished that very thing, that once-for-all "turn" two millennia ago, transforming the Place of a Skull and the tombs of many skulls into the womb of the New Israel, the burnt Garden and splintered Tree into a new Heaven and a new Earth, the bruised and buried Body into the eternal Second Adam, and, by God's own sovereign will alone, the black hole of our human holocaust into the infinity of God's own plenitude. Within less than half a dozen generations, the "Church Father" Irenaeus put it this way about that double "turn" of Cradle and Cross: "God became as we are that we might become as God is."

Jesus doesn't need you or me or Katharine Jefferts Schori to heal the world on the basis of the ancient pagan notion (disingenuously adopted by the Presiding Bishop) that it is the Body of God! Jesus Himself, the true Body of God, has — for all Man's inhumanity to Man — already transformed the outcome of the world's history at Golgotha and indeed from before the foundation of the world itself. Such is the calculus of the Logos of eternity — in which there is no "place" for Zero as any kind of number!

Émile Coué C.S. Lewis

An Appeal for the Venables

A dear friend of this parish and diocese is Archbishop Gregory Venables of Argentina. He was our honored preacher at our centennial service and he was the one that helped the Diocese of Fort Worth find a temporary jurisdictional home in the Southern Cone at the onset of our legal/canonical adventure. We are much in his debt.

Sadly, the Archbishop and his wife, Sylvia, were brutally beaten and robbed at their home last week. One friend of the Venables stated this, About a week ago Bishop Greg Venables and his wife

Sylvia returned home to Olivos in the Buenos Aires only to find a robbery in progress in their home. The thieves threw Sylvia to the floor and bound and terribly beat Greg. They then proceeded to steal everything of value from their home.

The thieves took a MacBook Pro that we had gotten for Greg as well as an unlocked iPhone. All of their electronics were stolen along with all of Sylvia’s jewelry and even Greg’s pectoral crosses. No insurance is available.

To add insult to injury, the Diocese of Argentina bank account in the UK was closed. The bank said it was because there was no answer to mail that they had sent. Of course, all the mail had been answered. Several thousand dollars is being held by the English bank and won’t be recoverable until he can go there in person. In short, they have lost everything except the roof over their heads.

Certainly we as a parish need to be praying for the Venables. But we would also like to offer tangible, material support. Please consider contributing to St. Andrew’s Mercy Fund for the Venables. Our vestry members have already committed to supporting this effort and hope that all in our church family who are able will join them in supporting and lifting up these members of our extended Church family.

We would like to replace the laptop and the iPhone and raise some serious cash on their behalf to assist with many of the items that were lost in this violent attack.

If you are able to help with this worthy cause, would you please contact our Parish Administrator, Caron Overbeek, either by phone, 817-717-1017, or by email coverbeek@st-andrew.com

Thank you. Bill+

For they gave according to their

means, as I can testify, and beyond

their means, of their own accord,

begging us earnestly for the favor of

taking part in the relief of the saints—

and this, not as we expected, but they

gave themselves first to the Lord and

then by the will of God to us. II

Corinthians 8:3-5

3

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Getting one’s attention is not as difficult as some may think. A blaring horn; a sudden pain; a crying child; a pretty woman/handsome man; a badge of authority; a slithering snake; a burning bush; a sudden flood. The list is endless, and yet there are those who just can not seem to get the attention of others without going to extremes. In their desperation these “attention getters” become living examples or in some cases deceased examples of a plot gone wrong. Whose attention are you trying to get? Are you finding yourself scheming on how you can get that certain someone to pay attention to you… the audience or judges to hear your voice… or perhaps you find yourself on “the other side” or on the losing team so desperate to win that cheating and falsities become your game. How far will you go to get the attention you desire?

When I was a young married, a popular book appeared entitled The Total Woman. The author, Marabel Morgan, wrote this book with observations and personal experiences on “how to keep the attention going” or in modern day terms… how to revitalize your marriage. She offered suggestions for “getting his attention” such as dressing up in costume to surprise your man of the house when he arrives home. Sometimes such an act might merit the desired attention or the not so desired attention of others as the costumed Spanish Senora

discovered when she sashayed to the door to greet her husband, arms in the air, castanets and all belting out “Ole!” The Fed Ex delivery man was amused, and it certainly got his attention! And of course the never fail sure and safe way of keeping the attention going or revitalization according to the author is revealed in a chapter entitled

Blueprint for Blessings… Don’t Keep the Faith. A reporter asked Rose Kennedy if she had but one thing to leave her children, what would it be? She answered, ‘Certainly it wouldn’t be money and estate, or any other material thing, nor even success, could I guarantee it. Faith! It’s the most important, the one legacy I would choose to pass on. When we have faith we are happy,

because God is directing our lives, our work and our play. You know,’ she paused, only a flicker, ‘we need a sense of direction, a purpose to our life. Faith gives us confidence.’

Eve’s fig leaf costume did not seem to get the attention of anyone except the slithering serpent and eventually her husband Adam.. Eve could have been the total woman had she faithfully kept her attention on HIM. And now, thousands of years later, we continue to see and hear of living examples of those seeking self glorification instead of HIS glorification… attention getters desiring the light to be on them instead of on HIM.

Some news media have refrained from mentioning the names of serial killers as it has been discovered that the horrific acts of violence they demonstrate are revengeful acts of getting the attention they feel deserved. The Memorial Weekend tragic random killings in California were but an example of a young college student who felt he never got the attention he deserved. No longer a living example he made sure he would be remembered by posting on the internet his pitiful tale prior to killing six innocent people.

Attention getters! Oh the places they will go just to get attention! A recent mailing within our community brought this revelation a bit closer to home. I prefer to take the stance of the news media and not mention names or give details because that is what they desire. While it may have gotten my attention momentarily and that is all this mailing deserved with its falsities and deceiving words purposely chosen to confuse the receiver. I say receiver because no one subscribes to this random mailing. It saddens me to see how far someone will go when in a desperate state just to get some attention. This is a living example and no doubt it has gotten HIS ATTENTION. HE desires our attention. HE deserves our attention. HE is worthy of our attention. God wants to be our “attention getter” and through our faith HE will direct our lives, our work and our play never deceiving us but giving us confidence and a purpose to our life. Are you a living example walking in faith and truth with your attention on HIM?

WOMEN’S MINISTRY: GETTING ONE’S ATTENTION...LIVING EXAMPLES by Marsland Moncrief

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First Tuesday & First Thursday

of each month

Immediately following

Holy Communion,

prayers and anointing

with oil will be offered to

anyone who is

experiencing trouble,

sorrow, need, sickness, or any other

adversity.

When He went ashore He saw a great crowd

and He had compassion on them and healed

their sick. Matthew 14:14

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“Saddle up with the Savior…. on the trail with Jesus”

July 14-18 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For: ages 3 through entering 6

th grade

Nursery available for volunteers’ children No registration fee. Visitors welcome!

Welcome to the lazy, hazy days of summer! With children’s many summer activities , they are not always so “lazy and hazy” these days, but they are a nice and welcome change of pace from the nonstop “busyness” of the school year. The rotating “seasons of the year” are a good thing for families and are helpful and valuable in our church year as well. God’s blessings for a healthful, happy, and wonderful summer, full of chances for some worthwhile “re-creation.”

I hope the dates of St. Andrew’s Vacation Bible School are marked in red on your summer calendar! VBS 2014, titled “Saddle Up with the Savior… on the trail with Jesus” will be held July 14-18, from 9:30 to 12:30 daily. Cowboys and cowgirls eligible to be “students” in the week are children from age 3 to entering 6th grad-ers. Middle and high school age students may serve as VBS aides (cowpokes), but they must take the required training and be inter-viewed by the VBS director. They are a valuable part of the VBS team, and we appreciate their service so much!

Think “Old West,” and hunker down for some “serious fun” this summer as we prepare to ride along the trails of life with Jesus in the saddle, leading us. As construction progresses in the weeks ahead, Moncrief Hall will become an Old Western settlement, where you can hang out and meet friends. There will be plenty of ACTION in the town, as there will be all over the parish house and Ryan House, where everywhere you look, you will see Western memorabilia. We will offer Bible stories in the Trail Dust Room,

colorful skits in the middle of St. Andrew’s Town, hearty snacks each day from the Chuck Wagon, songs around the

camp fire in the Choir Room, lively games with a Western flair, rustic crafts in the Homestead Arts and

Crafts Room, homeroom time in the classroom corrals, and daily chapel services of prayer and praise to

the Lord of life. Sound like a fun week? It will be, every second of it! Gee haw, “pardner,” bring several friends

to St. Andrew’s Town this summer, for a first class adventure of learning about the Lord under the wide, open skies of Texas!

VBS 2014 Important Dates: VBS Work Days and Work Nights: Sundays, June 8 through July 13: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, June 11 through July 9: 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday, July 12: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Youth Helpers: Tuesday, June 17, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (with pizza lunch)

Bible Storytellers: Sunday, June 22, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.

Homeroom Moms: Wednesday, June 25, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (The VBS Crafts Committee has already met and is at work. There might be another work day or two added as the days go on. Come work for a few hours when you can. Wear OLD clothes - for paint-ing. We also have t-shirt cover-ups).

Father’s Day Celebration! Sunday, June 15, 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Preschool Area and Area outside Youth Room 3 For Dads of Preschoolers through rising 6

th Graders

“Honor your father and your mother” Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16

Summer Sunday School Notes Summer Sunday School for our children is off to a great start! Special Note to Parents: We do not “promote ahead” to the next age/grade level in our Sunday School program until Rally Day in September, when a whole new year of programming begins for all ages, fol-lowing our longtime practice at St. Andrew’s. In the sum-mer months, we will be featuring studies from our “Dwell” Curriculum as well as some special topical studies. We realize families are in and out of town during these weeks; thus, each study easily stands on its own. It is also nice to be able to invite a few guests to speak with our children during the summer.

On June 1, it was a treat to feature a young man, Taylor Johnson, who had just returned from a two-week mission trip to South America… a great example of someone who took the words of Jesus’ Great Commission seriously. He did VBS style training and discipleship instruction for children and youth in three countries there. His high school age sister, Alison Johnson, assisted him with the program. Thanks, Taylor and Alison! Then on June 8, it was a joy to have our dear friend, Messianic Rabbi David Stone, here in town from Beaumont, join us on Sunday morning for a very special Pentecost program. David talked a little about the Old Testament Festival of Pentecost (a harvest festival sometimes called the Feast of Weeks), and he and I together en-joyed presenting a hands-on, interactive program on the great Christian Festival of Pentecost (or Whitsunday) for our elementary age children. On June 15, children of all ages will do a short study on “honoring their fathers” in addition to their regular Bible study of the day. A very exciting summer lies ahead! Come enjoy all the good things that are planned!

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY: DON YOUR BOOTS, “PARDNER,”

& GET READY FOR FUN! by Judy Mayo

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Marriage

Carissa Finney

& Adam Hilliard

June 7, 2014

June 15 John Woodfin Jacob Becker Lucy Hyden Tim Ferrer Carrie Woodson

June 16 Ted Mayo Frank Bailey

June 17 Susan Brown Alyssa Lange Allie Kobs

June 18 Virginia Miteff Frances King

June 12 Doris Coleman Gregory Timmons

June 19 Jeff Grable Charlie Cauble

June 20

Mary Weber Madelon Bradshaw

June 21 David Keller

Nancy Parker

June 22 Tom Hodges Glenda Brazzel Michael Philpott Riley Genua Harrison Genua Corey Estes

June 23 Claudette Watson Sally Prater

June 24 Charles McCollum

June 25 Dave Bryant Lindsay Patterson Martin Fortier James Adams George Sell

June 26 Frosty Tempel Kathleen Lundquist

June 27 Marina Scarborough

June 28

Diane McMullen Perry Nelson

Birthdays

The flowers for Sunday, June 15,

are given to the glory of God

at the Church altar

in thanksgiving for

Glen Thornton

father of Paula Perkins

and at the Chapel altar

in memory of

Clark N. Rhoads &

George G. Smith

Altar Flowers

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Make a Joyful noise unto the

Lord!

Have you been curious about singing in the choir but don’t have time to commit to

Wednesday rehearsals?

Have you been away from the choir for a while and

would like to just experience choral singing?

Come and sing during the month of July!

Be a part of the service in a new way by helping to lead the congregation in worship

from the chancel.

Rehearsal will take place at 9:45 on Sunday mornings

in the choir stalls.

We would love to see you there.

Baptism

Rebecca Edens Schmid

daughter of

Ali & Will Schmid

sister of

Benjamin Gibson Schmid

niece of

Matt Schmid

granddaughter of

Elizabeth and

W. A. (“Mickey”) Schmid III

great-granddaughter of

Lilabeth Penny and

Geraldine and W.A. Schmid, Jr.

great-niece of

Lindy & Bill Penny,

Karen & William Schmid,

and Charlotte &

Paul Tripplehorn,

great-great niece of

Betty Claire McKnight,

second cousin of

William, King,

& Lawson Penny,

Adley Schmid, & Alexis Claire

& Jacob Tripplehorn (Rebecca),

third cousin of

Rob Dupree (Jenny) and

Ellen Dupree Davis (Ron),

fourth cousin of

Tabitha Wolfe and

Claire, Shapley,

& Robert Davis

June 8, 2014

Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church

917 Lamar Street

Ft. Worth, Texas 76102

817-332-3191, Fax: 817-332-9724

Email: church@st-andrew.com

SAINT ANDREW’S MESSENGER is published weekly, except bi-weekly during the summer and the week after Christmas, by St. Andrew’s Parish. Periodical postage is paid at Fort Worth, TX. USPS 5898-90.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 917 Lamar Street Fort Worth TX 76102.

The Rt. Rev’d Jack L. Iker, D.D. Bishop The Rev’d Dr. R. William Dickson Rector The Very Rev’d William N. McKeachie Vicar for Parish Ministry The Rev’d Canon Ronald L. McCrary Director of Pastoral Care & Spiritual Formation

Kendall Felton Dir. of Student Ministries Jason Runnels Choirmaster Glenda Robinson Organist Elisabeth Gray McKeachie Harpist Judy Mayo Dir. of Children’s Ministries Marsland Moncrief Liaison to Women’s Ministries Peggy Rush Editor/Publications

Mission Statement St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church exists to worship God in the beauty of holiness and in Spirit and truth; to win the lost to Jesus Christ and disciple every believer; to equip and empower every member for ministry; and to spread God’s kingdom through charitable, righteous works locally and globally.

Weekday Worship Schedule

Tuesday 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion Thursday 7:00 a.m. Holy Communion

Daily Schedule Monday, June 16

Tuesday, June 17 6:45 a.m. Men’s Devotion & Bible Study, Chapel & Koslow 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 11:30 a.m. VBS Youth Helpers, Koslow 1:30 p.m. Staff Meeting, Koslow

Wednesday, June 18 12:00 p.m. Rector’s Bible Study, Koslow 5:00 p.m. VBS Work Night,*Moncrief 5:15 p.m. Associate Vestry,* Koslow 7:00 p.m. St. Andrew’s Choir Practice,* Choir Room

Thursday, June 19 7:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 7:00 p.m. Greek Class,* Koslow 11:30 p.m. Messenger Deadline

Friday, June 20 12:00 p.m. Office Closed

Saturday, June 21 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Prep, Kitchen

Sunday, June 22 The Second Sunday after Pentecost 6:00 a.m. Breakfast Prep, Kitchen 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 8:45 a.m. Parish Breakfast,* Koslow 8:50 a.m. Prayers for the Church,* Chapel 9:15 a.m. Christian Education for all ages,* Koslow & other rooms

10:30 a.m. Morning Prayer,* Church 10:30 a.m. Preschool Chapel,* Children’s Chapel followed by Second Hour Sunday School,* Preschool Rooms 11:15 a.m. Optional Children’s Program during sermon,* Youth Room 3 12:00 pm. VBS Work Day, Moncrief 12:15 p.m. VBS Storytellers Meeting, Koslow 5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer,* Chapel followed by Bible Study and light refreshments

Monday, June 23 9:00 a.m. Senior Trip to Heritage Homestead, Offsite

Tuesday, June 24 6:45 a.m. Men’s Devotion & Bible Study, Chapel & Koslow 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 1:30 p.m. Staff Meeting, Koslow

Wednesday, June 25 10:00 a.m. VBS Homeroom Moms Meeting, McFarland 12:00 p.m. Rector’s Bible Study, Koslow 4:30 p.m. Vestry, Koslow 5:00 p.m. VBS Work Night, Moncrief 7:00 p.m. St. Andrew’s Choir Practice,* Choir Room

Thursday, June 26 7:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 7:00 p.m. Greek Class,* Koslow

Friday, June 27 12:00 p.m. Office Closed

Saturday, June 14 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Prep, Kitchen

Sunday, June 29 The Third Sunday after Pentecost 6:00 a.m. Breakfast Prep, Kitchen

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Chapel 8:45 a.m. Parish Breakfast,* Koslow 8:50 a.m. Prayers for the Church,* Chapel 9:15 a.m. Christian Education for all ages,* Koslow & other rooms 10:30 a.m. Morning Prayer,* Church 10:30 a.m. Preschool Chapel,* Children’s Chapel followed by Second Hour Sunday School,* Preschool Rooms 11:15 a.m. Optional Children’s Program during sermon,* Youth Room 3 12:00 pm. VBS Work Day, Moncrief 5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer,* Chapel followed by Bible Study and light refreshments

* Nursery

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Events, under the Stay Connected tab.

Prayer Chain Requests Names may be submitted

to Carrie Brent at 817-738-6496

and/or Patti Parrish at parrishuc@mac.com.

Permission should be obtained before submitting the name of someone other than oneself.

Evening Prayer with Holy Communion

Sunday 5:00 p.m.

in the Chapel Refreshments &

Discussion

in Koslow Library

following the service.

Nursery available.

If you want to be in the

know, it is off to the

web you go... A weekly Messenger

will be published

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or subscribe to our

weekly eMessenger.

Go with Christ On Trinity Sunday we

acknowledge the mystery that although we wor-

ship the one true God, he exists eternally in three

persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God

the Holy Spirit. All three are equally divine, yet

each is separate and distinct in role, relationship

and function. They relate to each other and to

each of us in distinctly different ways, yet they

are but one God. God the Father sent his obedient Son to die for our

sins. The Son and the Father send the Holy Spirit to inhabit and enliven

all believers. Just as the Father gave his authority to his Son, so the Son

commissions believers with the authority to carry out the mission of the

church. Disciples make disciples, through the power and in the name of

the Trinity. We experience the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit as we go

forward into mission. We go with Christ to the end of the age.

Matthew 28:18-19 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in

heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disci-

ples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have com-

manded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end to the age.”

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