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PARISH PICNIC SEPTEMBER 11

Andy and Margie Miller’s Home 104 Wesley Lane, Browntown, VA

Those of you who have been part of our Calvary family for a while know that we have changed the venue for our outdoor ser-vice and parish picnic a number of times over the years. This year we have a brand new venue. Our service and picnic will be held at the home of Margie and Andy Miller, 104 Wesley Lane in Browntown. For those who may not be familiar with the area, Browntown is approximately eight miles south of Front Royal. Coming from Front Royal on Route 340 S the turn for the Browntown Road is the next left turn just past the turn to Shenandoah National Park. In the September issue of Calvary Life, we will have a map with directions to Margie and Andy’s home. Rides from the church will be provided for those who are not able to drive or do not wish to do so. Mark your calendars now and look for more information on our service and picnic as we get closer to the date.

Just a reminder—starting this coming Sunday, August 7, and for the month of August, we will have ONE service of Holy Eucharist and Healing at 9:00 a.m. We hope this will provide an opportunity for folks who attend the different services to get better acquainted with each other. This Sunday the 8:00 a.m. crew is providing coffee hour, and they do a great job! Come join us.

Youth Sunday School and our Adult Class, Jour-ney in Christian Living, will resume on

Sunday, September 18, 2016.

StewEARTHship Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Fundamentals of Fire SafetyFundamentals of Fire SafetyFundamentals of Fire Safety (AARP Bulletin – April 2016)

—Make sure you’ve got ionization and photoelectric alarms on every floor, including the basement. When the alarm chirps, replace the battery. —If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you may need an alarm that flashes or vibrates to alert you that some-thing is amiss. —They can lower your utility bills, but they’re also a prime cause of home fires. Buy a new model that turns off automatically if it tips over or gets overheated. —Problems with electric blankets and heating pads tend to occur when they’re more than 10 years old. Re-place if they have charred spots, they have frayed or cracked electrical cords, or they’re a decade or more old. —Older homes may not be equipped to handle today’s stash of electronics. Overburdened systems can spark fires. Replace, don’t repair, damaged electrical cords. —Faulty fireplaces and wood stoves are prime hazards. Have a trained professional inspect your system, espe-cially if it’s been a while. Generators should also be checked, ideally every year. —Have an escape plan and practice it. Any plan should have two ways out of every room; make sure windows and doors open easily. Remember: stay low and go. —Smoking-related fires cause the most fire deaths in the U.S. It’s best not to smoke inside your house, but fires can start outside too. Dampen butts and ashes before throwing them away. —Battery-charged appliances, paper and cloth towels, and dryer lint.

Linda Fleet

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Clergy and Staff The Reverend Deborah W. Rutter, Rector The Reverend Fritz Trumbore, Priest Associate (Retired) The Rev. Ann H. Truitt, Priest Associate Tom Bowen, Director of Music/Organist Kim Kiec, Handbell Choir Director Jean Mary Taylor, Lay Assistant Libby Funk, Parish Secretary Dennis Funk, Sexton

Vestry and Wardens Class of 2016

Melissa Chapman, Sr. Warden Bonnie Landis Jorie Martin, Finance Chair, Liaison for Outreach

Class of 2017 Maria Dutton Edward Turner, Jr. Warden, Alternate Delegate to Council Lauren Wells

Class of 2018 Harris Hovarter Andy Miller Chris Peterson

Vestry Appointments Eric Adamson, Trustee Frank Baxter, Gift & Endowment Chair, Mission Chair Chris Fleet, Trustees of the Endowment Fund Chair Kim Kiec, Assistant Treasurer Arthur Maddox, Trustee Don McNeill, Trustee Margie Miller, Register, Delegate to Council Tom Varney, Treasurer

Parish Organization Contacts Ralph Cable, Ushers Sue Cobb, Altar Guild Chair Peg Goodyear, Women of Calvary, Tuesday’s Table Kate Gorecki, Youth Charles “Chips” Lickson, Men of Calvary Drew Moffatt, Skip Barchers, Website Ministry Jean Mary Taylor, David Silek, Dennis Burke, Acolytes Debbie Rutter, Bonnie Landis, Hospitality Guild Jean Mary Taylor, Rich Steadman, Andy Miller, DPT Sandra Varney, Calling and Caring Coordinator Jessica Dean, Facebook editor Calvary Church (established 1854) belongs to Region XIV, within the Diocese of Virginia; in the Episcopal Church; and is a part of the world-wide Anglican Communion. The Region consists of 19 congregations and ministries (including the Episcopal seat, the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration at Shrine Mont in Orkney Springs) and the Diocese is home to 182 congregations and two diocesan conference centers, six

church schools, six diocesan homes, 15 regions, and the largest Anglican seminary in the world.

Men of Calvary’s Annual Picnic Mark your calendar now and plan to join us for the Men’s Club Annual Picnic on Saturday, August 27, 2016 at the McNeill’s residence (240 Locust Dale Rd, Front Royal). Social hour begins at 5:00 p.m. with dinner at 6:00. All adult members of the congregation and their guests are invited to attend.

The menu consists of appe-tizers, a 7-8 oz. New York strip steak, baked potato, salad, and dessert. Ham-burgers will also be avail-able and a beverage bar.

The cost for the steak meal, $16; hamburger meal, $10; and vegetarian meal, $8. Please call the parish office to make your reser-vations, or sign up on the sheet available in Wagner Hall and indicate your choice of steak, hamburger or vegetarian meal. Reservations need to be made no later than Thursday, Au-gust 25.

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Volunteers are needed to host Coffee Hour following the service on Sundays. In August, there is only one service at 9:00 a.m. Coffee hour will be held after the service. Cookies and juice are all that’s needed. Ask a friend to help and sign up in Wagner Hall this Sunday. Diocesan Newsletter With hurricane season upon us, the Diocese of Virginia’s weekly email communication, The e-Communique, included a link with information on how to prepare your home for a hurricane. If you are not already receiving the e-Communique, and would like more informa-tion on this, as well as events around the diocese, go to www.thediocese.net and look under Quick Links to sign up. For those who may not have internet access, copies of the hurricane preparedness sheets are available in Wagner Hall and the parish office.

Rector’s Discretionary Fund On the first Sunday of each month, the loose offering, that is, gifts exclusive of payments toward a member’s annual pledge, is desig-nated for the Rector’s Discretionary Fund. Gifts to the fund may be made at anytime by writing a check to Calvary Episcopal Church and designating in the memo line “Rector’s Discretionary Fund.”

Forward Day by Day The new Forward Day by Day booklets for August—November 2016 are available in the Tract Rack at the back of the church, in Wag-ner Hall and Weber Hall. There is a limited number of large print for those who’d prefer one. Please help yourself!

Brass & Silver Polishing All Altar Guild members are asked to attend a brass and silver polishing on Monday, August 21, from 1—3 p.m. and Tuesday, August 22, from 9 am—Noon. Please plan to attend at least one or both of the sessions, if possible.

Evie Moreman, Sue Cobb Altar Guild Chrs.

Dear Calvary Congregation, News in the press concerning an escalation of fight-ing in South Sudan has been unsettling. Several of you have asked if our sister parish has been af-fected. Yes to a limited extent. I am including re-cent correspondence from Seth describing his or-deal. I have been in conversation with Seth concerning opportunities to educate youth beyond primary school. Discussions have centered on sending some of their youth to other locations with opportunities beyond primary school. They would become role models for others with the understanding that they would return to Manikakara and train others for at least one year. Those conversations are ongoing and Seth addresses some of my questions. I ask you to continue praying daily for the safety of our Christian brothers and sister at St. Paul Parish.

Frank Baxter, Chairman Calvary Mission Committee

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Dear brother in Christ Frank, Warm greetings from the Christians of St. Paul Par-ish to all our brothers and Sisters at Calvary Church in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Many thanks for your usual concern about us here. This time we have both good news to tell you as well as bad. The good news is we are safe and our area remain peaceful and have started our unit prayer occasions across the Archdeaconry as usual. We also have an opportunity this time by the bishop who has just informed us to get two of our youth members to get prepared to go to Nairobi Kenya for studies (Diploma course for two years in Church mission and professional studies) this will have great positive impact to our Church and the society we have tried to assist them to have national certifi-cates and passports. These two youth members are Moses Bati Elia and Tameko Isaiah Severio their sponsorship is guaranteed but they will face slight challenges of transport fees and pocket money and other requirement all these can cost 1,000 USD. For this real we can call for prayers and small help from our friends hence it is encouraging our youth to look forward for bright future.

Some of the discouraging news includes the inci-dent which erupted in the capital Juba between the riffle forces which has lead to lose of our fellow brethren lives and forced other people to flew to other location for their safety. Another news is that part of the building of our Church St. Paul parish had crack and collapsed due to heavy rain which is some how a set back and may require effort to raise some funds for ma-terials like cement and bricks so as to reconstruct the site which has problem I will have a picture and send to you to see. Lastly I personally fell into ambush last week as I was traveling from Ibba to Yambio to create bank account for our Parish my mobile phones the Lap-top computer which was sent to us by friends from Calvary and motorbike I was riding were all col-lected by criminals who pretend to be from the re-bel group but later they left me free and didn't do harm to by body now am back to Manikakara and am safe. Anyway these are some stories which we may all pray for especially the situation in our Country to get back to normal and we have stability. Really we are very happy for you all as you pray for us. Our youth both boys and girls as long as gender is concern are willing to go for further edu-cation if there is any support. There are various studies and trainings which they can go for and return home in fact to help their people. According to research I have done it is better to go to coun-tries like Uganda and Kenya which are peaceful and mostly the expense is 2,000 USD for one stu-dent to complete a course. If there is any opportu-nity from your side kindly let's make it a success. We all remain faithful to God for the Love you have for us and thank the Lord for being protective to all of us. Wish you all good time as we continue praying for each others.

Thanks Brother in Christ

Seth

Ministry Spotlight: Parish to Parish Partnership with St. Paul Parish, Mani-kakara, Diocese of Ibba, South Sudan

MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT will periodically feature vari-ous ministries with which Calvary is associated. Make sure that your ministry is highlighted in Calvary Life soon.

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Birthdays & Anniversaries

1 Eleanor Schumann Mark Olson Lee Ruddle & Dane Toler 2 Amelia Eden 3 Marilyn Stearns Rebecca Smith 4 Diane Stives Kendall Burke Brad & Jenny Boelter 5 Dennis Henry Hunter Bohan 6 Bud & Carolyn Blacklock 7 Donna Muller Mark & Diane Olson 8 Sara Bates

9 Mike & Debbie Frankel 13 Bradley Cute Geoff Ludeman 14 Michael Goodman Andy & Margie Miller 19 Susan O’Kelly Larry & Patty Comstock 20 Ruthie Berglund 21 Judi Floyd Karl Petrick 22 Patricia Weichmann Roxie Leonard Jessica Smith 23 Fred Arena 24 Jared Dean

25 Frank Dowling 26 Larry Comstock 27 Tom Varney Bruce & Pat Weichmann 28 Heather Koviack 29 Jean Mary Taylor Amelia Gedney 30 Karen Williams 31 William Marshall

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Anglican Cycle of Prayer

Week of August 7—13, 2016 Pentecost 12 Sunday 07-Aug- Psalm: 68:19-20, 24-35 Mt 27:45-56 PRAY for The Church of South India (United) The Most Revd Govada Dyvasirvadam Moderator of CSI & Bishop of Krishna-Godavari Monday 08-Aug- Psalm: 69:1-13 Mt 27:57-66 Ely - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Stephen David Conway; Ely - Huntingdon - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd David Thomson Tuesday 09-Aug- Psalm: 69:14-20, 29-36 Mt 28:1-10 Embu - (Kenya) The Rt Revd David Muriithi Ireri Wednesday 10-Aug- Psalm: 71:1-14 Mt 28:11-20 Enugu - (Niger, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Emmanuel Chukwuma; Enugu North - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Sosthenes Eze Thursday 11-Aug- Psalm: 71:15-24 Jer 23:1-8 Esan - (Bendel, Nigeria) The Most Revd Friday Imaekhai Friday 12-Aug- Psalm: 73:1-14 Jer 23:16-30 Etche - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Precious Nwala Saturday 13-Aug- Psalm: 73:15-28 Jer 24 Etsako - (Bendel, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Jacob Bada

Week of August 14—20, 2016 Pentecost 13 Sunday 14-Aug- Psalm: 119:97-112 Lk 3:1-14 PRAY for The Anglican Church of Southern Africa Monday 15-Aug- The Assumption of Mary Psalm: 72 Lk 3:15-22; Etsako - (Bendel, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Jacob Bada; Evo - (Niger Delta, Nige-ria) The Rt Revd Innocent Ordu Tuesday 16-Aug- Psalm: 74:1-12 Lk 4:1-13 Exeter - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Robert Atwell; Exeter - Crediton - (Canterbury, Eng-land) The Rt Revd Sarah Mullally; Exeter - Plymouth - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Nick McKinnel Wednesday 17-Aug- Psalm: 74:13-23 Lk 4:14-30 Ezo - (Minye, Sudan) The Rt Revd John Kereboro Zawo Thursday 18-Aug- Psalm: 75:1-7, 9-10 Lk 4:31-44 Faisalabad - (Pakistan) The Rt Revd John Samuel Friday 19-Aug- Psalm: 76 Jer 25:1-14 False Bay - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Margaret Brenda Vertue Saturday 20-Aug- Psalm: 77 Jer 26:1-9 Suffragan Bishop for Federal Ministries - (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd James Magness

Week of August 21—27, 2016 Pentecost 14 Sunday 21-Aug- Psalm: 119:113-128 Lk 5:1-11 PRAY for The Anglican Church of South America The Most Revd Hector Zavala Muñoz Pre-siding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America & Bishop of Chile Monday 22-Aug- Psalm: 78:1-7 Lk 5:12-16 Fianarantsoa - (Indian Ocean) The Rt Revd Gilbert Rateloson Rakotondravelo Tuesday 23-Aug- Psalm: 80 Lk 5:17-26 Florida - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd John Howard Assisting Bishop of Florida - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Charles Keyser Wednesday 24-Aug- Psalm: 81 Lk 5:27-39 Fond du Lac - (VI, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Matthew Alan Gunter Thursday 25-Aug-2016 Psalm: 82 Lk 6:1-11 Fort Worth - (VIII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Rayford High Friday 26-Aug- Psalm: 84 Jer 26:10-24 Fredericton - (Canada, Canada) The Rt Revd David Edwards Saturday 27-Aug-2016 Psalm: 85 Jer 29:1,4-14 Freetown (Sierra Leone) - (West Africa, West Africa) The Rt Revd Thomas Arnold Ikunika Wilson

Week of August 28—September 3, 2016 Pentecost 15 Sunday 28-Aug- Psalm: 86 Lk 6:12-26 PRAY for Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan & Sudan The Most Revd Dr Daniel Deng Bul Yak Archbishop of the Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan & Sudan & Bishop of Juba Monday 29-Aug- Psalm: 87 Lk 6:27-38 Gahini - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Alexis Bilindabagabo Tuesday 30-Aug- Psalm: 88 Lk 6:39-49 Gambia - (West Africa, West Africa) Vacant Wednesday 31-Aug- Psalm: 89:1-18 Lk 7:1-10 Gboko - ( Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Emmanuel Nyitsse Thursday 01-Sep- Psalm: 89:19-37 Jer 30:1-9 George - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Brian Marajh Friday 02-Sep- Psalm: 90 Jer 30:10-21 Georgia - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Scott Benhase Saturday 03-Sep- Psalm: 91 Lk 7:11-17 Gippsland - (Victoria, Australia) The Rt Revd Kay Goldsworthy; Grafton - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Sarah Macneil

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All unsolicited submissions for the September 2016 edition of Calvary Life are due by Wednesday, August 24, 2016.

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Mission Statement The family of Calvary Episcopal Church is a fellowship of individuals on a common journey of spiritual growth committed to

reaching out into the world in Christ's name. Adapted 11-14-2013