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In Memoriam

Robert Adron Joyner, father of Tricia Harris

Margaret Landis, parishioner

Estelle Crumpler Tharrington, mother of H. I. Tharrington

Louise Lucas, mother of Angela Urquhart

Gwendoline Looney Corinth, parishioner

Rest eternal grant to them O Lord:

And let light perpetual shine upon them.

Birthdays September 2 Bill Bullock

2 Quintin Mangano

3 Mary Craig

6 Mary Ruth Divine

6 Ron Williams

6 Barden Winstead

7 Angela Urquhart

7 Elizabeth Burnette

8 Shields Harris

9 John Harris

10 Alice Thorp

11 Jim Wood

12 Michie Coppedge

12 Pat Weeks

13 Carolyn Turner

14 Kate Harrison

15 Richard Learn

16 Robert Hendrix

16 Pat Stevens

17 Jim Curtis

17 Steven Avent

17 Wes Morrison

17 Riley Bullard

18 Diane Box

19 Norita Watson

19 Stokes Suiter

19 Lucas Bayless

20 Lisa Godwin

22 Alston Meadows

24 William Langley

25 James Poole

25 David Daughtry

27 Maureen Kroncke

28 E.L. Daughtridge

28 Bernice Dawson

28 Westray Hicks

29 Dylan Box

29 Gillian Beaver

30 Riki Mottershead

30 Bruce Daughtry

30 Laurie Lilley

2 Jim & Alice Thorp

3 Charlie & Nancy Penick

13 Lee & Lois Riggins

14 Chris & Heather Vann

19 Kim & Nan Bayless

20 Nelson & Kay Lockey

21 Tom & Mary Davis Betts

26 Quintin & Kristin Mangano

28 Bill & Millie Walker

29 John & Virginia Grochowski

Anniversaries September

How I Spent the Summer

(and Survived Scott’s Sabbatical)

Inside this

Issue August

2010

Adult Forum 2

Anniversaries 8

Altar Flower Dates 7

Birthdays 8

Day School 4

In Memoriam 8

Music News 7

Parish Picnic 2

Youth Events 3&4

Wonderful

Wednesdays 3

The top 10 things I learned this summer:

#10 The priest is not in charge. If you want to know where the real power in

church lies, call the church office and speak to the parish administrator.

#9 No matter how I am feeling about my sermon, someone will tell me that it is

exactly what he or she needed to hear, and I am thankful for the gift of the Holy

Spirit all over again.

#8 Sunday mornings aren’t as much fun without Louise.

#7 It is not being nosey if asked in the name of pastoral care.

#6 The phone rings a lot more when you are “in charge,” and sometimes with

some very random requests: Do we want to buy radio space to keep kids off

drugs? (Does radio space do that?) Do we want to order a “Jesus and the Real

Apostles” biography DVD for every member of the congregation to enjoy?

(Ummm, no thank you?)

#5 It is really not that hard to lay down a linoleum floor (thank you, Gatekeep-

ers), and if you don’t have the special machine to roll out the air bubbles under the

linoleum, the combined weight of about 10 teenagers will do.

#4 There will never be enough FIGS crisis assistance money, and there are far

too many people struggling to pay their bills in Nash and Edgecombe counties.

#3 When in doubt, pray. When certain, pray some more.

#2 Never, ever, EVER allow your passport to expire.

#1 If not for the good people of the Good Shepherd I would not have learned so

much, or had nearly as much fun as I have had this summer.

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The Good Shepherd Parish

Picnic Sunday, September 12, 11:15a Come one and all to the kick-off of our

2010/2011 academic year at Good Shepherd with

our traditional Parish Picnic. Great food with the

best BBQ chicken ever, hosted by the Men’s

Group. There will be fun and games for the kids

with face painting, juggling, balloons, and more.

$7 per person with a maximum of $25 per fam-

ily. Sign-up using one of the order forms and

paying by check or credit card; or sign-up on-line

at www.goodshepherdrmt.org.

Resume our Regular

Schedule Sunday, September 19

We will begin a new church year this coming

September when we resume our regular

schedule for worship and Christian Educa-

tion. On the 19th our services will return to

8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 11:00 a.m. Chris-

tian Education for all ages will be held at

10:00 a.m.

What is an Episcopalian,

anyway? Inquirer's Class, beginning August 22 at 4:00p The Rector will lead a class for all who are inter-

ested in knowing more about faith and about the

Episcopal Church. The class will cover the fol-

lowing topics: What do Episcopalians believe

about the Bible? What does it mean to be

"saved?" Do I have to believe everything in the

creeds? Why do some people cross themselves?

and more. Once you have taken this class you

will be prepared to be confirmed and received

into the Episcopal Church or to renew your bap-

tismal vows. The class will meet August 22, 29,

September 5, 12, 19 and 26. Please contact Scott

White for more information and to sign-up.

EFM EFM - aka "Education for Ministry" is a way

through study, prayer, and reflection to move

towards a new under-

standing of the fullness of

God's kingdom. A pro-

gram developed by the

School of Theology at Sewanee, EFM groups

have provided an opportunity for people to

deepen their faith as they learn about their beliefs

and the history and theology of the church.

Good Shepherd is putting together a group, and

is looking for interested folks who would like be

a part of this. The group would meet for 36

weeks beginning in September and ending in

June. We need at least 6 people in order to have a

group, and there is a fee involved. If you would

like to learn more, or if you are interested in

signing up, please contact Stephanie Allen at 442

-1134 x226 or sallen@goodshepherdrmt.org.

Adult Forum - Religious

Experiences in the New

Testament Sunday, September 19 and 26 The Sunday morning Adult Christian Formation

forums will begin with visiting professor from

Barton College, Dr. Rodney Werline, teaching a

CHURCH INFORMATION

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Music At Good Shepherd

2010-2011 Choir Season Begins on

Wednesday, August 25th

After a summer break, the Alleluia and Cherub Choirs will resume regular

Wednesday rehearsals on Wednesday, August 25th. The Cherub Choir (for

children ages 3 through 1st grade) rehearses on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. for

thirty minutes. This choir learns fundamentals of music and liturgy and sings

at the 9 a.m. service several times throughout the year, at the St. Francis Day

service, on Christmas Eve, and at the Mother’s Day Dinner Theatre. The Al-

leluia Choir (for children in 2nd through 8th grades and 1st graders with excel-

lent reading ability) rehearses on Wednesdays from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. This

choir sings at the 9 a.m. service every two to three weeks from September

through May, at the St. Francis Day service, at Lessons & Carols, on Christ-

mas Eve, and at the Mother’s Day Dinner Theatre. The Good Shepherd

Choir rehearses on Wednesdays from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. with rehearsals resum-

ing on Wednesday, September 8th. The Good Shepherd Choir sings in church

weekly at the 11 a.m. service, at evensongs, at Lessons & Carols, on Christ-

mas Eve, and at other services on the liturgical calendar. The Good Shepherd

Choir also sings throughout the summer with a brief rehearsal thirty minutes

before each service. For more information about any of our choirs, please call

Lawrence Goering at 442-1134, ext. 224 or e-mail at lgoer-

ing@goodshepherdrmt.org. Come sing with us!

St. Francis Day Choral Evensong with

Blessing of the Animals

Wednesday, October 6, 5:30 p.m.

Bring your pets and a blanket or lawn chair for this special service that will be

sung by the Cherub, Alleluia, and Good Shepherd Choirs in the Hunton Me-

morial Cloister Garden.

Church Closed The Day School and Church will be closed on

Monday, September 6, 2010 in observance of La-

bor Day.

Baptism Dates We have set dates throughout the year on which

the service of Holy Baptism will be held. There is

great advantage to having these dates set in ad-

vance. Please make a note of them and plan

ahead. Baptisms will be held: August 22 at the

10:00a.m. service, and November 7 at both the

9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. services.

Altar Flowers 2010 We still have Altar Flower or Altar Green dates

available for 2010. The altar flowers or greens

are prepared by the Flower Guild. To order your

altar flowers or greens please call Sheryll Barnes

at 442-1134, ext. 221. The cost of altar flowers

or greens from the Flower Guild is $53.00 for

which the church office will invoice you.

September 5 & 26 Flowers

October 3, 24 & 31 Flowers

November 7 & 14 Flowers

December 5, 12, & 19 Greens

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Pictures from Gatekeepers Workcamp

and Costa Rica Youth Mission Trip 2010

(Articles in the next newsletter.)

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class on “Sample Religious Experiences in the

New Testament.” The class will examine how the

early Christians may have experienced Jesus,

God, and spiritual powers. Trying to describe any

experience can be challenging, and even more so

if it is a religious experience, and one from 2,000

years ago. Please join us as Dr. Werline shares

his current research and writing on this fascinat-

ing topic.

Youth Forum -

Life Lessons: a look at

Proverbs and Psalms Sunday, September 19, 26 and

October 10 Have you ever had a song that was your theme

song? A song that expressed perfectly what you

were thinking or feeling or experiencing in a par-

ticular time in your life? The Book of Psalms and

the Book of Proverbs in the Bible are kind-of like

theme songs for us in our lives. We will look at

some proverbs and some psalms and see if they

really can say what we are feeling in our lives

right now. This will be two separate classes: one

for our high school forum group, and another for

our middle school group.

Faith Quest! Children’s

Christian Formation Sunday mornings, 10:00a Faith Quest for our children, pre-K through 5th

grade, begins again on Sunday, September 19 at

10:00am. New stories! New recipes! Fun art!

Lots and lots of loving God and neighbor! Don’t

miss it!

Wednesdays are

Wonderful once more! Our Wonderful Wednesday program will begin

again on Wednesday, September 15. Wonderful

Wednesdays is an evening for all ages: families,

singles, young and old. The evening will include

dinner, choir rehearsals, bible study (tbd) for

adults, child care for our nursery ages, youth

group meeting time for our Middle Schoolers,

and more. (If you need childcare, please let Scott

or Stephanie know in advance.) Meal cost is $5

adult, 5-8 y/o $3, 4 y/o and under free, and not to

exceed $20 per family. Come for any part of the

evening that works for you and your family.

5:00 - 5:30 Cherub Choir Rehearsal

5:15 - 6:45 Dinner Served ($5 for 9 y/o and

over, $3 for 5-8 y/o, and under 5 y/o free, not

to exceed $20 per family)

5:30 - 6:30 Alleluia Choir Rehearsal

6:00 - 7:30 Adult Study in The Parish Hall

Middle School Youth Group in

the Youth Room

7:30 Good Shepherd Choir Rehearsal

Youth Events Lake Gaston Youth Kick-off Party

All High School

and Middle

School students

are invited, with their families, to our Youth Kick

-off party at the Harrison’s lake house at Lake

Gaston on Saturday, September 11 from 11am

until 4pm. Bring your family, your bathing suit

and towel, something to drink, and an appetizer

or dessert to share. The youth council will be

providing the rest of lunch, so please call Stepha-

nie to let her know you are planning to attend and

for directions.

Middle School Youth Group The Middle School Youth will meet on Wednes-

day nights at 6:30 in the youth room, beginning

on Wednesday, September 15. Bring your dinner

upstairs or eat dinner before you come. We will

hang out, play games, watch movies, and have

some God-talk, and lots of fun. For more infor-

mation, contact Stephanie Allen.

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Senior High Breakfast Time to make the donuts! Senior High breakfast

starts up again on Tuesday mornings and will be-

gin on Tuesday, September 14. There has been a

request to try Dunkin’ Donuts for a change, and

so we will meet at the Dunkin Donuts on High-

way 301 - across the street from our Bojangles -

and see how it goes. We meet at 7:10am, have

some conversation, a little prayer, and are fin-

ished by 7:40 so folks can get to school on time.

Good Shepherd Fun Run

For Charities Fun Run For Charities for Rocky Mount - Good

Shepherd Day School and People of Faith Filling

In The Gaps were presented with checks on

Wednesday morning. The Day School raised

$1,200 and recieved a match of 38.69% for a

grand total of $1,664.22. People of Faith Filling

In The Gaps raised $815 and received a match

of... 38.69% for a grand total of $1,130.28. Thank

you for all your generous donations and your time

volunteering for this great event!

Day School News

August is here and a new school year is fast ap-

proaching. We say goodbye to some while we

usher in new families to our program.

The staff and children have enjoyed tons of sum-

mer fun, which included visits to the Spray n Play

Park for the entire school, while getting very

creative in the classroom with music, art and out-

side activities.

Our school year at Good Shepherd will begin

September 1st. We are looking forward to a great

school year.

Have you heard?

Our brand new baby and older toddler room is

officially open!! Everything is new! If you know

of someone who's in need of childcare, please

refer them to us.

Our Fun Run for Charities check was $1664.22.

Hooray and thanks for your donation!

If available, please stop by to see the Day School

in action. Volunteers are always needed! Storytel-

ling, art activities, music, and cooking activities

with the children are just a few ways to volunteer.

We are flexible!

Enjoy the rest of the summer season!

Jackie Wilkins

Director

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It has been a busy, exciting and challenging

summer, and I have learned quite a bit, but then

again, I hope I never stop learning. As we learn,

we grow. Growing in our faith means learning

about God through studying the scriptures,

knowing our history, talking about theology, and

reflecting upon our own experiences and encoun-

ters with the sacred, and growing in our faith

means learning more about ourselves.

We have many opportunities for such learning

and growth this fall at the Good Shepherd. Our

Sunday morning Adult Forum will begin with a

visiting professor of religion from Barton Col-

lege, Dr. Rodney Werline, who will be talking

about the faith and learning experiences in the

very early days of the church. The Wonderful

Wednesday program will offer opportunity for

study and fellowship. And the EFM - Education

for Ministry - course that will begin in September

will allow time for those who would like to dive

into deeper theological waters, connecting scrip-

ture, history, and theology with personal experi-

ence.

Faith Quest for our children’s learning will

help to bring alive the stories of scripture with

play and hands-on experience, and our youth will

continue to meet for community and prayer on

Wednesday nights and Tuesday morning break-

fasts, learn about their faith on Sunday mornings,

and have fun with youth group.

Believe, belong, and become, and come learn

with us this fall at Good Shepherd. Welcome

back!

Stephanie

Friends at Good Shepherd,

Have you ever gotten a phone call from God?

In the past months, I’ve had the joy of watching a

very special project unfold. What started as a

mission trip to Africa has blossomed into an ef-

fort to bring hope of a better life to the commu-

nity of Chitambo, a small village in Zambia.

We see God’s blessings each day in so many

ways, but to witness God’s hand nudging and

coaxing so many lives to cross paths toward this

project has been an extraordinary experience for

me.

Today, as a result of a great deal of prayer and

careful research, the Agape Village Foundation

is a realization. Bricks are being made and work

has begun on an orphanage that will house 96

orphans. Immediate plans include digging a well

for desperately needed water, and a community

center is part of the long range focus. In this land

of 12 million where the life expectancy is 38 and

there are 1.2 million orphans, this promises to be

the answer to the prayers of so many.

As fellow parishioners, I ask you to pray for this

project, for those who are involved, and for the

precious children of Zambia. I also hope you will

visit the website to find out more about this en-

deavor.

You may have recently seen an article in the

Telegram that told a bit about the efforts of this

foundation. If you are at all curious about, “the

rest of the story,” please talk to me and I will tell

you just how amazing God’s grace and mercy

have been as he set into motion this project that

brings hope for a better life to the endearing

children of Chitambo.

It all began with a phone call from God…

With love in Christ,

Joan Ashby

937-6268 or www.agapevillagefoundation.org

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Thank You Jim Wood

Thank you to Jim Wood for the beautiful watercolor he

has donated to our parlor. Please stop by during coffee

hour to see this beautiful addition.