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Trinity Women's Gathering
April 28, 2016
Trinity Women will gather on Tuesday, May 3 at the home of Maggie Dearnley (34 Riverpoint) at 5:00 p.m.
This is a great time of fun and fellowship.
Please bring an appetizer or bottle of wine to share.
More information and directions can be found here.
Women's Institute: Summer Quest
April 27, 2016
ECW invites you to join us for Women's Institute 2016 on June 3-5.
Women's Institute: Summer Quest is an annual three-day retreat held the first full weekend of June at Camp Mitchell atop Petit Jean Mountain, located near Morrilton, Arkansas. Women of all ages come together, bringing diverse experiences and representing different parishes and missions.
Beginning on Friday with a personal spiritual growth day known as Quiet Day, Women's Institute: Summer Quest also features a noteworthy speaker, workshops, time to rest, and lots of love and laughter.
The retreat is a strong tradition of the church women of the diocese and continues to draw women together, year after year, for personal experiences of the Divine, friendship and fun.
This Sunday! 5/8/2016
April 26, 2016
Preaching this Sunday:
Aly Jameson (9:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.)
The Very Rev. Dr. Christoph Keller, III, Dean and rector (7:30 a.m. and (5:00 p.m.)
Youth Sunday: Join us for Youth Sunday! Read all about our Youth Sunday plans here!
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: Will Stebbins will be giving his Senior Chapel Talk during the Dean's Class.
- Living the Questions will join the Dean's Class this Sunday
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!
May 8 is Youth Sunday!
April 26, 2016
Join us on Sunday as we celebrate our youth!
On Sunday May 8 at 9:00 a.m. we will recognize our senior youth and the youth will lead the service. Also at this time we will recognize the children who have earned Cross & Crown Attendance Awards (a long standing tradition here at the Cathedral) and our faithful catechists (formation teachers), liturgists, and choir recognition.
The following children will be recognized for their participation in the Sunday Morning Formation Programs: Cameron Albert, Grace Albert, Harper Bennings, Will Brock, A J Clements, Josephine Felton, Mary Eleanor Felton, Palmer Flanagin, Ruby Logan, Emma McGarrah, Lily McGarrah, Marion Milwee, Virginia Milwee,Christopher Tompkins, Cate Thompson, Ellis Tucker, Mari Francis Tucker, Allison Tuite, Evie Tuite, Alex Wayland, James Wayland, Michael Wayland. Congratulations on this great achievement.
The following catechists and liturgists will also be recognized for their faithful ministry to the children's programs:
Denise Albert, Susan Allen, Sarah Bennings, Karen Cline, Sarah Gibson, Kim Hahn, Otis Howe, Courtny Logan, John Milwee, Susan Payne, Susan Penick, Jerry Shurgar, Alana Thompson, Toga Tuite, Marcia Wayland, Melissa Whitfield. Many thanks for all the blessings you share with our children.
We will also recognize the following individuals who taught adult formation classes during the year:
Greg Albert, Robert Johnson, Michael McNeely, Angela Pinckard-Hale.
We will also have four of our senior high school students reading the lessons and prayers, and Aly Jameson will preach. The two children's choirs, Cherubs & Seraphims, will sing.
Aly will also preach at the 11:15 service and the children's choirs will sing.
At approximately 10:10, following the 9:00 service, we will gather in Morrison Hall for a bake sale (proceeds go to our summer mission trip), brunch prepared by our EYC, and Chapel Talks from some of our seniors from Episcopal Collegiate.
Please join us for a festive Mother's Day/Youth Sunday!
This Sunday! 5/1/2016
April 26, 2016
Preaching this Sunday:
The Bishop of Arkansas (9:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.)
The Rev. Amber Carswell (7:30 a.m. and (5:00 p.m.)
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: The Dean's Class will not meet this week.
- Living the Questions will meet in Baker Parlor. Dr. Robert Johnston will lead a discussion. This week's topic is "Comparing the Commandments of Jesus in the Book of Common Prayer and in the Gospel of Thomas." Attendees are invited but not required to participate. It is usually lively. Bring in your brunch.
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!
INSIGHTS Presents: Glennon Melton Doyle
April 26, 2016
INSIGHTS Presents Glennon Melton Doyle on April 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Glennon Doyle Melton in her own words: For twenty years I was lost to food and booze and bad love and drugs. I suffered. My family suffered. I had a relatively magical childhood, which added an extra layer of guilt to my pain and confusion. Glennon – why are you all jacked up when you have no excuse to be all jacked up?
My best guess is that I was born with an extra dose of sensitivity to life’s brutality and my own nakedness. I didn’t want to walk through life’s battlefield of rejection, friendship, and tender love naked. So when I was eight years old, I made up my own little world called addiction and I hid there for decades. I felt safe. No one could touch me.
On Mother’s Day 2002, unwed and addicted, I found myself holding a positive pregnancy test. I decided to become a mother and vowed to never again have another drink, cigarette, drug, unhealthy relationship, or food binge. I found myself marrying a man I’d known for ten sober nights.
Twelve years later, I’m still married to that man I barely knew, and I’m also the mother of three kids, two mutts, a geriatric guinea pig and the two most majestic banyan trees you’ve ever seen. I’m also a Sunday School teacher, an award-winning blogger, a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and the founder and president of Together Rising – a non-profit that serves women who need help getting back on their feet. Underneath and on top of all that I’m a Recovering Everything. Every morning, I open my eyes and immediately understand that I am still that girl on the bathroom floor, holding that pregnancy test like a terrifying invitation, trying to decide whether to stay down on the cold floor or get up and walk.
Most days I decide to walk, because I was right when I was little. Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real.
My job is to wake up every day, say yes to life’s invitation, and let millions of women watch me get up off the floor, walk, stumble, and get back up again.
- See more at: http://momastery.com/
Glennon's appearance is made possible by generation donations from Helen Porter, Isabel & John Ed Anthony, Annie Burton & Jack Lankford, Sale by Anna, Jane Wilson, Jane McMullin, Lisa McNeir, Belinda Shults, and Paula & Jim Moseley
The event is sold out, but don't forget to come if you have a ticket!
Power of the Purse
April 19, 2016
Can you help a needy child give a Mother's Day gift to a needy mother?
A lady's purse filled as you wish and wrapped in a gift sack to be given to the children living at Our House to be used as a surprise gift to their Mother on Mother's Day.
Please use a new or gently used purse and fill it with any or all of the following:
- cosmetics
- lotions/potions
- costume jewelry
- a scarf
- a wallet
- a key chain and/or change purse
Elaine Pagels Book Study!
April 17, 2016
The Rev. Dr. Russ Snapp leads a book study on Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels. The book study begins at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12th in Baker Parlor. Join us!
This Sunday! 4/24/16
April 05, 2016
Preaching this Sunday: The Rev. Canon Dr. J. Russell Snapp, Sub-Dean
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: This week? The Resurrection of Jesus. We meet in Morrison Hall at 10:15.
- Living the Questions will meet in Baker Parlor. Dr. Robert Johnston will lead a discussion. This week's topic is "Ranking the Ten Commandments of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas." Attendees are invited but not required to participate. It is usually lively. Bring in your brunch.
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!