This Week’s Announcements • Sunday, July 25, 2010
Readings for August 1, 2010
(Tenth Sunday after
Pentecost; Proper 13)
-
Hosea 11:1-11
Psalm 107:1-9, 43 -
or Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23
Psalm 49:1-11 - Colossians 3:1-11
- Luke 12:13-21
(From The Lectionary Page)
We are in Year C of the Sunday Lectionary (RCL)
and Year 2 of the Daily Office Lectionary.
Daily Office Readings for this week
Please remember the Cathedral Caregivers' Prayer List in your prayers this week.
The Week Ahead:
| Sunday 7/25 | Ninth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 12 | |
| Monday 7/26 | Saint James the Apostle [transferred] | |
| Tuesday 7/27 | William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909 | |
| Wednesday 7/28 | [Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, George Frederick Handel, 1759, and Henry Purcell, 1695, Composers] | |
| Thursday 7/29 | Mary, Martha, [and Lazarus] of Bethany | |
| Friday 7/30 | William Wilberforce, 1833, [and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, 1885, Prophetic Witnesses] | |
| Saturday 7/31 | Ignatius of Loyola, Priest and Monastic, 1556 | |
| Sunday 8/1 | Tenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 13 |
Adult, Youth & Children’s Formation classes are off for the summer.
Watch our website, bulletins and The Angelus for information about the new season starting this September.
Children’s Chapel
Children’s Chapel will meet in Haden Hall at 10:15 a.m. for children age 3 through 3rd grade. We will join the rest of the congregation in the Nave during the passing of the peace.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Brenda Colburn at childrensformation@ghtc-kc.org.
Nursery care is offered during the 10:15 a.m. service.
Seventh Annual
GHTC Fall Classic
Croquet Gender Challenge
October 9
Think
Croquet!
Engaging our faith, Empowering Christ's mission
Thank you for engaging your faith and empowering Christ’s mission with a financial pledge for 2010.
Pledge cards are available at the back of the church, or you can pledge online. Completed cards may be placed in the offertory plates.
Wednesday, July 28 • 5:30 p.m.
- Dinner will be at 5:30 p.m. with small group activities to begin at 6:30.
- All parishioners are cordially invited to join the fun, bring bread or a salad to share, and enjoy the fellowship!
- You might even want to stay and scope out one of the small group activities to see what they’re up to.
Small Groups • 6:30 p.m.
- Reel People: We’ll be viewing Departures, a Japanese movie of wonderful sensitivity about the Japanese cultural attitude towards the passing of a loved one and those who attend to the departed. Departures is a must see. This month we will try again to select our movies and hosts for the coming year. So, come with your calendar and suggested movies. Any questions email Chris and Peggy Morgan at jagcaptsix@hotmail.com or call 816-523-2347.
- The Seekers
- Inklings Book Group
- Charitable Needlework
See our Café Grazia page for full details.
Break
out your watering can
The Garden Guild is seeking volunteers to water plants for the next several weeks. They have the gardens divided into zones so each person will care for one zone. If you would like to help keep the Cathedral gardens beautiful, contact Gerry Reynaud at 816-536-0843.
School supply drive: August 15
Start
watching for those great back-to-school sales on school supplies. The
Social Action Committee is sponsoring a school supply drive for the
foster children at Crittenton and in foster homes in the Kansas City
area. The children are in need of tablets, pencils, pens, folders and
other supplies needed for the school year.
Please bring your donated supplies to church August 15 and the Social Action Committee will deliver your gifts to the children. Any donations will be appreciated. The more colorful, the better.
Cathedral
Bookstore
Specials
- Browse our cart of books under $10: The selection changes each week! We have daily meditation booklets and a variety of small books that make wonderful gifts, too. Looking for a special book? Let us help you find it with a special order request!
- Episcopal gear is red, white and blue! We now have lapel pins, window decals, keychains, baseball caps, short AND long-sleeved t-shirts (with the ‘top ten reasons to be an Episcopalian’ on the back).
- Our jewelry continues to be 1/2 off the regular price.
As always, thank you for supporting
the Cathedral Bookstore!
Open Sundays
Following both morning services
Are You Handy?
We
are looking for women and men to join the Handyperson Guild, who will work
around the Cathedral.
If you have skills in painting, plumbing, electrical work or other areas & would like to use those talents at GHTC, contact David Barker (816.322.7635, dbarker1@kc.rr.com) or Steve Moore (913.383.2282).
Coffee Hour
We offer MANY thanks to the Holy Hands guild who have faithfully provided tasty Coffee Hour treats throughout the 2009-2010 program year. They are taking a well-deserved summer sabbatical beginning June 13 and will resume their ministry of hospitality in September, following Rally Day.
Coffee Hour will continue through the summer months; any parishioners who wish to bring tasty treats on Sundays are encouraged to do so.
Botswana Palapye Project
On Sunday, June 20, GHTC hosted the launching of the Botswana Palapye Project — a day care center for orphaned and vulnerable children in the Palapye community. The Rev. Canon James Amanze from the Companion Relationship Committee in the Diocese of Botswana was our honored guest for this celebration.
Members of the Diocesan Companion Relationship Committee (of which Dean White is a member) determined that our partnership with Botswana should focus on addressing the needs of orphans and vulnerable children whose only care was being provided by a small Anglican congregation.
To that end, the Diocese will assist in this effort by sponsoring a day care center to address the educational and spiritual needs of these children. This Center is targeted to serve approximately 100 children, with a future goal of developing a full-service community center.
The annual operations of the center are estimated to be $84,500. This would provide daily care for the orphans and vulnerable children, aged 2-6 years. Classroom lessons, meals and snacks and social activities are essential features of the program. In addition, after school care for primary school age children would include tutoring and other educational opportunities.
The Cathedral is one of several diocesan congregations financially supporting this important ministry. Please extend a warm welcome next Sunday to Canon and Mrs. Amanze, as well as to parishioners of other West Missouri congregations.
Get more information on the Diocesean website and find out how you can help.
What can you do to fight hunger in KC?
Hunger is not just a Third World problem. Hunger does not discriminate. Young and elderly, black and white, male and female… the many faces of hunger are different, but the pain and the need are the same. For thousands in our community, hunger is one of life’s daily realities.
Through the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network, a cooperative network of anti-hunger ministries offered by many parishes within the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri and the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, the Episcopal Church will serve nearly 1 million meals to the homeless and working poor in our community. Our programs are thriving with volunteer help and financial support from people like you. For more information on the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network, call 816-561-8920.
The Network includes ministries such as the Kansas City Community Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Breakfast at St. Paul’s, BackSnacks and the pantries and other feeding programs of the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network.
What can you do to help? Donate money, food or time.
- Because we can buy food in bulk from Harvesters at a very low price, cash goes a long way. You can write a check to Episcopal Community Services, or directly to one of the pantries or you can donate online (www.episcopalcommunity.org).
- You can organize a food drive at school, work or in your neighborhood to support the pantries. We can help!
- If you have time to volunteer, contact us or one of our pantries and we’ll put you to work feeding the hungry.
A Note Concerning Assisting Those in Need
Over the last several months the number of individuals coming to the Cathedral seeking financial assistance has grown substantially, especially on Sunday mornings after the late service. Should anyone ask you for money, the Cathedral clergy strongly encourage you to point them toward a deacon or priest. Please do NOT give cash, even if you hear the response: “I already talked to them and they won’t help me.” Please do not consider it “unchristian” to refuse to give cash to someone who asks you for it. It is our policy never to give cash, but to provide assistance in other forms. Outreach to individuals is made possible by the clergy discretionary fund, and if you wish to assist those in need you may contribute to that fund. Thank you for your generous support of those in need, and if you have any questions please speak with a deacon or priest.
Rood
screen and pulpit celebrate 100th anniversary
The rood screen and pulpit have been two of the more prominent fixtures in the Nave for more than a century. You can read more about them here.
Gifts beyond the present: safe start in Haiti
Healthy Mother–Healthy Babies Foundation, which sponsors Maison de Naissance (MN), is determined to continue and expand programs in the current service zone and beyond, and is counting on us for support. HM-HB has proven methodologies and needs only the resources to deliver them. A gift, in honor of a friend, family member or associate, will provide the finances needed now to move ahead in this life saving work.
Please look through MN’s catalog of gifts/wish list and choose one (or more!) that appeals to you, or make a direct contribution so that it can be used where the need is greatest.
How do I honor someone with a "gift beyond the present"?
Online catalogs can be accessed by going to www.maisondenaissance.org and clicking on the title, "Take Action" at the top of the homepage. Simply choose a gift item from the online catalog and indicate who the gift is honoring. A certificate will be presented to the recipient. Anonymous gifts are also welcome.
Orders may be placed directly on the web site listed above or mailed to: Healthy Mother–Healthy Babies, 6247 Brookside Boulevard, Suite 224, Kansas City, MO 64113. Direct questions to 816.812.7100 or catalog@hm-hb.org.
Maison de Naissance is a program of The Healthy Mother–Healthy Babies Foundation,
a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.
Friends of MN
Reducing the mortality rate of both infants and their Mothers is in line with #4 and #5 of the UN Millennium Goals. The services provided by Maison de Naissance in Haiti include family planning, vitamins and medicines for older children in the family, and treatment for expectant Mothers who have AIDS so that their babies will not be born HIV positive. It is the hope of MN that even more services can be added in the future. More services will require more funding. We can help.
Watch for the MN collection box at coffee hours on the Sundays when there is an infant baptism and please make a donation to ensure the delivery a healthy baby in Haiti.
Parking Safety
Several cars belonging to parishioners have been vandalized while parked on the streets adjacent to the Cathedral during Sunday morning worship. Whether you park on the street, in the Cathedral parking lot or the parking garage, please do not leave valuables in your car. This includes anything that "might" contain something valuable such as shopping bags, gym bags or backpacks.
Be a tutor
Have you ever wanted to make a difference in a child’s life? Have you ever considered how you could make the Kansas City School District better? Do you have an hour a week you could commit to an enormously rewarding experience?
The Cathedral has a wonderful opportunity to reach out to our surrounding community. We are partnering with Primitivo Garcia Elementary School on the West Side to provide one-on-one tutoring in reading to students Kindergarten through the fifth grade. They will provide orientation and training on their educational software.
Tutors will work at the school with individual students in 15-20 minute intervals. The only requirement is that you be able to read English reasonably proficiently. Spanish language skills are not necessary. Almost any scheduling limitations can be accommodated as the school can use tutors anytime from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information or to volunteer please contact the Cathedral office at 816.474.8260.
Offering Hospitality and Prayers
As part of our ministry of hospitality, the Cathedral has recently added a book for intercessions. This bound volume may be found on a lectern adjacent to the prayer desk in the nave. Here, Cathedral members and visitors alike throughout the week can offer prayer on behalf of themselves or others, or offer thanksgiving for a blessing received.
We believe that God hears the prayers of faithful persons everywhere AND we believe that sometimes we need to make our prayers concrete by writing them down; we ask only that the Cathedral community treat with holiness the prayers that are offered, honoring the dignity of those involved through appropriate measures of confidentiality.
The yellow prayer request cards will continue to be available in the pews and in the tract rack near the tower room. These cards will continue to be the primary means by which the Cathedral Caregivers’ Prayer Chain will be apprised of parishioners’ prayer requests.
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Cathedral Information
Avail yourself of prayer cards, information about the Cathedral and The Episcopal Church, Day by Day reading guides, pledge cards and current issues of The Angelus and Children’s Formation’s rejoice!
The materials are located at the base of the stairs, before you enter the Tower room.
Miscellaneous Items
Go Forward Day by Day by reading portions of scripture each day. Forward Movement prints a manual of daily Bible readings and devotions. Copies are available in the Tower entrance and in the racks under the bulletin board.
The Kansas City Community Kitchen needs your help. We are feeding more than 500 people a day and operating on fewer funds. Please consider contributing to this valuable ministry. You may place a contribution in the offering or mail it to Episcopal Community Services, 11 East 40th Street, Kansas City MO 64111.
Happy
Birthday! If you or someone you love is celebrating a birthday or other
special event this week, the Foster Care Outreach Group invites you to celebrate
by sharing with a Kansas City area foster care teenager. Through your donation,
in any amount, you will help purchase a $25 gift card, which will be given
to a foster care teenager on his or her birthday. For some children, this
may be their only gift. Please mark your check or offering envelope “Foster
Care Birthday Fund.”
The Diocese of West Missouri publishes a monthly newspaper, The West Missouri Spirit. If you do not receive it and would like to, please call the Diocesan office at 816.471.6161 or the Cathedral office at 816.474.8260. It is also available on the Diocesan website, www.episcopalwestmo.org.
