- This Week at St. Mary's
Come join us
for a joyful and faith-filled
experience of community!
Adult Education Offerings
This Sunday Today's Gospel meets at 9 a.m. in Cay's Room. Join us to discuss the Gospel reading for this Sunday and reflect on how the message relates to our lives.
United Thank Offering
Please take a UTO blue box home today and start collecting change for next year's ingathering. Spend time each day with God in Bible Study, prayer, or quiet reflection, and intentionally call to mind the blessings you receive each day from God. Use the blue box as a way of marking your own awareness of thanksgiving by giving something back to help others in need.
For more information, contact Nancy Burke, our parish UTO coordinator at , or visit us on the web at: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/uto.htm.
Sunday School is on hiatus until fall. Please join us again in September!
Welcome to St. Mary’s Youth Group “OPUS”!
Youth group meetings have ended for the summer, but that doesn't mean we won't be seeing each other! Watch this space, the Sunday bulletin, and St. Mary's weekly email for information about youth activities.
This Sunday, August 1
Our preacher at the 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. services will be the Rev. Connie Jones. Music will feature Wade Hampton Miller and St. Mary's Praise Singers.
- Announcements
The Diocese of Alaska has a new Bishop-Elect!
At the Diocesan Convention at Meier Lake Conference Center on Saturday, April 10, the Very Rev. Mark Lattime was elected as the 8th Bishop of Alaska. Pending the required consents from a majority of the church's diocesan standing committees and bishops with jurisdiction, the consecration and ordination is scheduled for September 4 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Anchorage. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be the chief consecrator.
2010 Vestry: Val Baffone, Terry Barakis, Tom Bradley, Valerie Buckendorf, Susan Burch, James Harris, Beth Knight, Rachel Mason, Mike McCormack, Jeannie Ryan, Brad Sewell, Becky Windt.
St. Mary's Has a New Associate Rector
The Rev. Dr. Ted Cole, Jr. comes to St. Mary's from Christ Church in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he has served as a deacon and priest since 2005. Among his responsibilities, he built up and coordinated Christ Church's youth ministry program, including a youth pilgrimage to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. last summer, and he also built up the baptism ministry, including the presenting of faith baskets to baptism families to help them form their children in our Christian faith at home.
Ted attended Middlebury College (1990) in Vermont, Harvard Divinity School (1993) in Cambridge, and most recently Boston University where he was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship for Graduate Studies in 1995, finally earning his Ph. D. in philosophy of religion in 2007 (yes, a 12 year journey!). Ted has taught two short courses in philosophy and religion at the parish. Before ordination, he made his money working in restaurants for 21 years.
Ted's been married and divorced with no children, and has a good-sized family back East including a fellow Episcopal priest for a brother, many nieces and nephews and now a great niece and nephew. He loves our Episcopal Church, creative and dramatic worship, the Gospel of John, baseball (Mets fan and born-and-raised New Yorker), hiking, reading, movies and music. He and his cat, Saki, enjoyed the journey to St. Mary's last summer and are getting settled in their new home!