Episcopal Church in Snellville, GA
Aug. 20, 2017 – Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost 8 a.m.
Aug. 20, 2017 – Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost 10.30 a.m. with Epiphany Choir
Aug. 20, 2017 – Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Announcements
Aug. 13, 2017 – Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 8 a.m. and 10.30am
Aug.13, 2017 – Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
Aug. 6, 2017 – Transfiguration of our Lord – 9th Sunday after Pentecost 8 a.m. and 10.30am
Aug 6, 2017 – Ninth Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
We took 25 people, more than 10 bins of food and supplies, 5 vehicles and lots of SPIRIT on the Fall Youth Retreat to Camp Tugalo in Toccoa on Aug 11-13th for a weekend of laughing and learning.
The theme of the retreat was “Wholly Devoted.” Through exploring the Levitical sacrifices, we learned about God’s sacrificial love for us, and how we can sacrificially love God and others. Youth enjoyed Team Building events, spent time bonding with each other, and spent some time with God, too. There were small groups, sports, games, s’mores, singing and more!
We also went hiking at “Little Falls” at Toccoa Falls College, and enjoyed a visit to the historic Toccoa Falls (pictured below).
On the retreat, we welcomed a several newcomers to the Youth Program as well! We all had a blast!
The second annual Karaoke night was a huge success! We had enthusiastic participation from young and old, visitors and members. I even caught the Snellville police officer tapping his foot! The food was yummy, the DJ lively and everyone who came had a great time. If you missed it this year, be sure to get it on your calendar for next year. A HUGE thanks of appreciation to Nancy, Oscar and the Fellowship team for another FANTASTIC event. Y’all ROCK!!
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July 23 2017 – Seventh Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
July 23 2017 – Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 9.30am with Epiphany Choir
July 16, 2017 – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Announcements.pub
July 16, 2017 – Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 9.30am
July 2, 2017 – Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 9.30am
July 2, 2017 – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
June 15-18 was our youth service retreat, fulfilling our Baptismal vows to “seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our (local) neighbors as ourselves”. We sought to see Christ in all people from all different walks of life. We responded to three major issues: hunger, refugees, and homelessness.
Youth Service Retreat “Seek & Serve”
HUNGER
The first day, we learned about hunger, both globally and in our local area, then responded by serving at the Southeast Gwinnett Food Cooperative ministry. Some of our youth served in the pantry, filling orders and loading up clients’ cars. Some of our youth played outside with the children of clients while they got their food. Our youth experienced so much joy playing there!
REFUGEES
Next, we focused on refugees. We headed down to Clarkston to learn about several ministries with refugees, including Intertwined Candles, which provides jobs to mothers who need to work from home so they can also care for their children. We attended a rally at Refuge Coffee Company (which helps provide job skills to refugees by training them as servers and baristas). The rally was in celebration of World Refugee Day, where many different nations were represented. We heard the stories of resettlement of two refugees, one from Syria and one from Congo. Our youth were inspired with ideas for how we can serve the needs of refugees in our own area.
HOMELESSNESS
Finally, we learned about the issue of homelessness. On Sunday, we were joined by another youth group from St. Mark’s in Jacksonville (their youth minister is a childhood friend of our youth minister). Together, our youth groups packed lunches for the Church of the Common Ground, an Episcopal community which worships in Woodruff Park, largely attended by the homeless in that area. Thanks to the generosity of St. Matthew’s, we were also able to provide them with TONS of socks for their foot care clinic.
SEEKING & SERVING CHRIST IN ALL PERSONS
Each day, we reflected on how we had seen Christ in each person. The youth saw Christ in so many ways…in the delight of the children playing with bubbles or hula hoops, in the delight of their parents watching them play, in the creativity of a street performer at the Refugee Day rally, in the bright blue eyes of a soft-spoken man we met on the street, who attended church with us, in all our brothers and sisters in Christ that we met for the first time, and when we passed the peace, and the barriers seemed to come down. It was an incredible and amazing experience! If you get a chance, ask one of the youth to tell you what was meaningful to them! They will have so much to say, and they’d be happy to share!
June 25, 2017 – Third Sunday after Pentecost 10.30am with Epiphany Choir
June 25, 2017 – Third Sunday after Pentecost 8 a.m.
June 25, 2017 – Third Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
June 18, 2017 – Second Sunday After Pentecost Announcements
June 18, 2017 – Second Sunday after Pentecost 8 a.m. and 10.30am
June 11, 2017 – First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday 8 a.m. and 10.30am.pub
June 11, 2017 – First Sunday After Pentecost Trinity Sunday Announcements
June 4, 2017 – The day of Pentecost 8 a.m. and 10.30am
June 4, 2017 – Day of Pentecost Announcements
A special thank you to the church and all the lovely volunteers for their help during this summer’s Hero Central VBS. We had around 100 kids on campus and they had a blast! From Charmaine helping me with the color printer to ensure the perfect name tags to Oscar, Sylvia and the youth moving the Fellowship Hall dividers to the sanctuary to create our “cityscape”, VBS has truly been a work of love. Through this week, I’ve watched the volunteers holding hands and comfort crying kids as well as helping them create art and explore what it means to be a true hero in God. For me, it was easy to see what a hero was because any group of people who give up time–our most important non-renewable resource–to help foster God’s love in our youth are heroes in the truest sense of the word. A heartfelt thank you to all of you, especially the center leads who spent many hours preparing their center – VBS would be nothing without you. You are all heroes!
Kira Coats
VBS Director