Sundays: Holy Eucharist (Rt. I): 8:00 a.m.

Adult & Children’s Sunday School 9:15 a.m.

Holy Eucharist (Rt. II): 10:30 a.m.

Mondays: AA: 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays: Holy Eucharist & Healing - 7:00 p.m.

Thursdays: Holy Eucharist: 10:30 a.m. AA: 8:30 p.m.

For information on the next Episcopal Marriage Encounter week-end, Oct. 19-21, contact the Bergerons: 770/951-1411.

"The photo shoot was a great success. I would like to say thanks to all who participated; this was a good thing! Thanks to you, whether you brought photos, unlocked doors, just gave me a pat on the back to keep me going, etc. A special thanks to Bill and Sue Johnson, Ethel Quimby, and Blanche Shropshire for their much needed help; couldn’t have done it without you.

Thank You **** Thank You **** Thank You. Can’t wait to see your smiling faces in the new directory. God Bless.

Will

Congratulations to Sandra & Jimmy Gardner on the birth of their granddaughter, Leah Jude, on August 17.

Deaths: Lillian Nelson, sister of Carol Kadidlo; Brandon Ogden, nephew of Katie Aboul-Khair; and Carlyle Harrison, father of Martha Spring. May the souls of the faithful departed rest in God’s nearer presence.

FAITHFUL ADVOCATES

For the last several years, the Diocese has led groups to the Georgia Capitol to educate Episcopalians on issues related to the legislative process as it relates to children and justice. This year, the Diocese is starting early so we can be prepared before the 2002 legislative session begins. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 9:30-1:00 in Room 301 at the Cathedral, the Diocese is hosting a workshop to hear about the legislative process, to find out what issues involving families and children are on the horizon, and to hear from Bp. Alexander about his theology of advocacy. Call Connie Dee Belmore at 404/601-5352 for reservations or with questions.

To our dear friends and members of St. John’s, we express our sincere appreciation for your prayers, phone calls, cards and letters as Lucy and I move forward to life after Christians Academy. Your thoughtfulness is overwhelming. Quite frankly, your concern for our well being is no less an extension of the vital support you demonstrated for the school during its very successful four year run. This community continues to be loving and generous to its members in so many ways. We are blessed. May our Lord continue to richly bless you.

P.S.  The Academy has many good books available - appropriate for all readers, Pre-K thru Adult. Books on fact, fiction, how-to, self-help, educational, just for fun and much more are included in a selection we wish to offer you. Please visit Room 208 (in the education building at the end of the first hallway from the church, next to the copier room) any time prior to the end of October. Find something that interests you and please help yourself.

Children: Sunday School begins on September 9 at 9:15 a.m. for all ages and classes. Look for signs to the appropriate classes for yourself and your children. Youth Sunday will be September 30.

Adults: Anne Meroney will lead a class in Bott Hall called "Prayer School." The rector will teach later in the fall.

It’s time to turn out for Sunday School!

YOUTH HIKING TRIP

All St. John’s Youth, from the very young to the not so young, are invited to go hiking at Sweetwater Park after the 10:30 service on the 30th. Look for more information about these activities in the next few weeks.

The Newcomers Committee will meet at 9:30 am in Bott Hall on 9/9. Please plan to attend if you are on this committee. Others who are interested are urged to join us. Please call Jeanne Mull at 770-969-0489 for details.

RUSS AND JENNIFER WYLLIE have been transferred to Greensboro, NC. Here is a recent e-mail from them: "We are just about unpacked. On a scale of 1 to 10, this move has been about a 6. We haven’t found a parish yet, mostly because we haven’t started looking. That seems to be the hardest part about moving to a new area. St. John’s is a hard act to follow. We miss yawl."

The Work of Our Hands has moved to its new location at 315 Pharr Road in Atlanta, one block south of our former location, on the lower level in the rear of the building. This is a non-profit organization which supports and encourages artists and the creative arts, provides a retail outlet for their work, provides seminars and workshops to help people learn more about the creative process and try their hand at it, and we support inner-city art education projects at Holy Comforter and Emmaus House. Recently we furnished a complete woodworking shop at Emmaus House, where classes will be taught to youth and adults on a regular basis. We are also planning our Second Annual Folk School at Camp Mikell in March of 2002. Come by our shop and see-and-buy wonderful and original work from over 200 artists. There is also a small workshop at our Buckhead site where you can "Learn to Turn a Pen." Check our web site: www.workofhands.com.

I love processions and panoply, and before Bishop Alexander’s Ordination, the Church Office asked me to write about the service, particularly the processions and the music. Well, I missed most of the 30-minute 400-person procession. Jame-son Chamlee had been selected as one of the working Acolytes, and Robbin Iddins was drafted as a torchbearer as well. Becky Rivas had agreed to carry our parish banner and I wound up carrying our United Thank Offering banner as well. Our section did a quick run-through as the middle section of the Procession, then returned the banners to the reception hall, displayed there for the rest of the event. Since there were many more attending than expected, most of the Acolytes and banner carriers wound up without seating, so there were robed and decorated figures everywhere, some sitting in chapels, many on the floor in the Narthex. So we didn’t actually see much.

Following the sermon, Robbin and I managed to find standing room in front of one of the massive stone pillars to the left side of the Cathedral’s vast Nave (of course, once the congregation stood up, we could see nothing). After being ordained (sometimes crushed by the hands of many other Bishops), the new Bishop’s very first act is to lead the congregation in the statement of faith, the Creed.

Many Sundays, I recite the Creed during both services and sometimes it’s like We believe, we say this every Sunday so let’s get through it.... Two thousand voices at the Cathedral said, WE BELIEVE (and we don’t care who knows it)...!!! We could feel it in the stone of the pillar behind us, in the wood of the pew in front, even in the marble floor under our feet. It was a statement of faith that rocked the place. People around us were glancing at each other as if registering surprise and taking up the challenge. That massive crowd at that place and time really believed what we say we believe. It eclipsed the rest of the service for me and really blew me away.

Some years ago, I heard a preacher ask "If being a Christian was a crime you could be executed for, would you admit it and would there be enough evidence to commit you?" At the Cathedral that day, the answer was a resounding We Believe!!

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