| St. B's Upcoming Youth Events | For St. B's Youth
 Downtown Smyrna on Sunday, August 26 Join us for an "Event of Biblical Proportions"! We'll meet at Moe's for lunch. More details....
You can contact Courtney at 678-279-4300 or via email at Courtney@MySaintB.org to RSVP or for more information.
Check out the photos
from St. B's Youth & Family Community Service event on July 30th where we made 500 PB&Js for for MUST ministries. Take a look...
Coming Soon! We will be adding a Youth Calendar to our Web site to keep you better informed of upcoming events.
| The Rule of St. Benedict
| "Insights Into the Art of Living"Teaching and Learning
What is taught by example
is more significant than
what is taught by words.
The greatest lesson,
the way to live,
can never be learned by rote,
but is found only by the practice
of one's own authentic spirit.
Those who seek to find their genuine course
need to submit to the direction of wise
leaders.
And as we each have duties to perform in
society,
acceptance of the authority of others is
also necessary
for the tasks of the community to be
accomplished.
One who seeks to teach should strive to remember what a perilous and serious task it is to attempt to instruct others. Each learns in disparate ways, and finds distinctive paths.
For each person the goal is distinctive in its aspects. For we, as finite creatures, can perceive only what we are capable of perceiving. Therefore each person must be dealt with in accordance with his or her unique disposition and capacities.
Always We Begin Again
The Benedictine Way of Living
by
John McQuiston
This book may be purchased at amazon.com | Daily Prayer at St. B's
| Every day at 10:00 AM we hold a prayer service at St. Benedict's offices. We invite you to join us or to send your prayers to Lang.
If you decide to join us, or just want to come by for a visit, please feel free to drop in (directions).
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| | "e"piscopalian? | 
Getting his point, I answered that as a denomination we are not noted for our evangelism in ways that other denominations go about this important aspect of being a Christian. Yet I argued that at our roots Episcopalians are very evangelical in terms of who we see ourselves as Christians. In fact I told him that one of the reasons I was persuaded to become the Vicar of Vinings and to start a new mission church was our Bishop's appreciation that being a Christian does mean bringing people to a relationship with Christ.
Whether I convinced him that we are big "E" Episcopalians or not remains to be seen. Just for fun I do plan to invite my friend, the Evangelical pastor, to our Founders Day celebration on September 2nd (click here for details) so he can hear the Bishop talk about why the St. Benedict's mission is big "E" evangelism and important to the Diocese of Atlanta.
I hope you will come and bring others as well to hear our Bishop on this important aspect of being an "E"piscopalian. Remember you don't have to be a Founder to come and you don't even have to be a Braves fan (if such exists!). I am excited that the Bishop and several of the Canons in the Diocese will be at our Founders Day celebration event and hope you will join us for this exciting day.
Peace,
To find out more about St. Benedict's or to learn how you can build Christ's church, please visit our Web site at www.MySaintB.org, or contact Lang directly via email or at 678-279-4301. | Founders Day Celebration, The Braves & The Bishop
|  It just keeps getting bigger and bigger...
Bishop J. Neil Alexander will join us for our Founders Day celebration on September 2! We will celebrate St. B's firs t Founders Day at the home of Jonathan & Margaret Jones. Following an outdoor worship service, where we will consecrate our new worship cross, we will all share in a brunch. Afterwards, we will travel to Turner Field where we will watch the Atlanta Braves vs. the New York Mets.There are still a few Braves tickets remaining, but if you want to attend the prayer service and brunch only, that's fine as well.
You can go to our Web site for more details... | Pilgrimage to Honor Jonathan Myrick Daniels &
All Martyrs of Alabama |  The ninth annual Jonathan Myrick Daniels and Martyrs of Alabama Pilgrimage honoring Daniels and others, who lost their lives during the civil rights movement, will take place August 11 in Hayneville, Alabama. If you are interested in attending as part of St. Benedict's please let Courtney know as soon as possible, no later than August 8th. (click here for details)
More information about Jonathan Myrick Daniels can be found here.... | St. B's Women's Summer Book Series - Final Meeting
|  On Thursday, August 16, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., the St. B's Women's Summer Book Series will meet at Pam Adams' house in Smyrna. The Rev. Nan Kennedy, Associate for Pastoral Care at St. Luke's, will lead the discussion of Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith. More details...
Please contact Courtney Vaughn at Courtney@MySaintB.org or at 678-279-4300 if you are interested in joining The St. B's Women's Book Series. You don't have to read the book to come!!
Although the Summer Book Series is concluding, The St. B's Women's Group will continue to meet. Courtney is already lining up some events, but if you have any ideas, please let Courtney know. Thanks.
| "Imagining the World that Scripture Imagines"
|  St. B's has secured a limited number of tickets to Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson's course "Imagining the World that Scripture Imagines." This one-day course on Saturday, September 29, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., will include two lectures by Dr. Johnson, Q&A, break-out sessions, lunch, and book signing. The course is presented by The Institute for Ministry and Theological Education of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta.
Dr. Johnson is the R.W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. More information about Dr. Johnson may be found here....
If you are interested in attending, please contact Patty via email or at 678-279-4302
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