Table of Contents

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1. Pentecost Weekend! ---------------------------- 1

2. FEED THE NEED ----------------------------------- 1

3. Children & Youth at St. Simon’s -------------- 1

4. Monday Book Group ---------------------------- 1

5. Lectionary Bible Study moving to Sundays 1

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1. Haiti Medical Mission --------------------------- 1

2. FEED THE NEED ----------------------------------- 1

3. Update from our seminarian, Josh Woods - 2

4. Nursing Home Visits ----------------------------- 2

5. Sending Love from the Homefront ---------- 2

6. School Snack Collection on Pause ------------ 2

7. Meeters & Greeters Needed! ----------------- 3

8. Fr. Jack’s Kitchen --------------------------------- 3

9. Altar Flower Dedications ----------------------- 3

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1. Supporting our Military Members ----------- 3

2. Donate to St. Simon’s – FREE! ----------------- 3

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1. Let Us Know --------------------------------------- 3

2. St. Simon’s Counseling Center ---------------- 3

3. Bereavement Support Group ----------------- 3

4. Depression & Bipolar Support ---------------- 3

St. Simon’s on the Sound

Episcopal Church 28 Miracle Strip Pkwy., S.W.

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548

(850)244-8621

Office Hours: Mon-Thurs. (9-4) / Fri. (9-12)

www.stsimons-fwb.org

e-pistle June 1, 2017

Our Mission: We seek to create a Christian

community of love, acceptance, and unity in

order to glorify God through worship and

ministries.

DEADLINE for article submission is Tuesday noon

to office@stsimons-fwb.org.

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1. Pentecost Weekend! Remember - NO Saturday service on June 3rd due to

Billy Bowlegs

Pentecost is this Sunday, June 4th, one of the major

feast days of the church year. Please join us and

WEAR SOMETHING RED!

Following each service, to celebrate the birthday of

the Christian church on the 1st Pentecost, we will

have birthday cakes for each month of the year in

the Parish Hall. Many thanks to all who are providing

cakes and decorating their tables. Please stick

around and enjoy time with one another as we

celebrate this day.

Come Holy Spirit!

2. FEED THE NEED

We need you to pack meals for hungry children on

Saturday, June 24 at the Gregg Chapel Life Center.

Deacon Clelia will be in the Atrium after both the 8

and the 10:30 service this Sunday with sign-up

sheets. Please visit her table and register for this

exciting and important event.

3. Children & Youth at St. Simon’s School may be out for the summer, but check out all

the wonderful things happening at St. Simon's on the

Sound!

Click Here for more information!

4. Monday Book Group The Monday Book Group will meet on June 26, 2017

at noon in the Parish Hall to discuss A Gentleman in

Moscow by Amor Towles. This book was selected

Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post

and several other newspapers. It is available through

Amazon. Bring a lunch and join us for discussion.

Please call JoAnne Connell (850) 240-3051 for more

information.

5. Lectionary Bible Study is moving

to Sundays This group is facilitated by Jennifer Lee and will focus

on the Gospel lesson for the week. They will meet

every Sunday at 9:30 am in the Fellowship room

located across from the library. There is no

preparation work or homework and you need not

attend every week. Hope you will join us! Everyone

is most welcome!

1. Haiti Medical Mission We have received so many generous contributions

for our upcoming Haiti

medical mission. Thank

you all so very much.

Additional support is

always appreciated.

We have not yet met our

fundraising goal, and we

could certainly use more

Tums!

Peace, Deacon Clelia

2. FEED THE NEED On Saturday, June 24 from

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM St.

Simon's Church will

sponsor a FEED THE NEED

food packing at the Gregg

Chapel Life Center, 15

Carson St., Ft. Walton

Beach. https://feedtheneed.life/

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The goal of the event is to package 100,000 meals to

distribute to Okaloosa County food pantries. We are

inviting you to join us and to bring your family and

friends to an unforgettable festive, hands-on

opportunity to roll up your shirt sleeves and feed the

hungry families and their children in our area.

Children and adults of all ages will participate in

assembling meals of Instant Apple Cinnamon

Oatmeal, Macaroni and Cheese Dinner (made with

real cheese), and Pasta with Italian Basil Tomato

Sauce. The meals are packaged, sealed, and

distributed to local food pantries that have been

selected through an application process. Spending

just a few hours to help feed the hungry can be a life

changing events for people of every age – Please join

us.

You can sign up for the event online at

https://feedtheneed.life/ or by calling Deacon Clelia

at St. Simon’s, 561-271-2890. Donations of $30 per

person, payable to St. Simon’s/Feed the Need, are

being requested to pay for product expenses. All

donations are tax-deductible.

3. Update from our seminarian, Josh

Woods

Click the graphic to see the update!

ST. SIMON'S - LET'S HELP JOSH WITH HIS VESTMENTS!

It is tradition for the "sending" parish to purchase

vestments for their seminarian. As Josh enters his

final year of seminary, he needs vestments for his

field ed parish and beyond. I still use the Cassock and

Surplice my sending parish gave me in seminary!

Josh has found the Cassock and Surplice he would

like. We would like to raise $1000 to take care of this

expense and get something that will last Josh a long

time.

If you can help, please designate your gift to "Josh

Woods Vestments". Thank you, this will mean so

much to Josh as he prepares for ordination and his

service as an Air Force chaplain.

Fr. David+

4. Nursing Home Visits Nursing homes are scattered throughout our

community. They vary in size, location and

amenities, yet all share one thing in common. All

have lonely people living inside.

Studies suggest that 60% of all nursing home

residents are alone. They have NO ONE who reliably

visits, writes or calls. Sadly, there is no easy fix for

addressing this pervasive and growing problem of

loneliness. But there are ways we can help. Here’s

one idea.

Each month, Outreach

members visit Emerald Coast

Nursing Home. We celebrate

birthdays, pass out some

needed hugs and engage

residents in some serious

rounds of bingo. Our visits

don’t last long and they don’t provide a lasting cure

for loneliness. But they do provide a sign of caring

presence that conveys this much needed message to

lonely residents: You are remembered, valued and

loved.

Our visits to Emerald Coast Nursing Home occur at

2:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month. We

invite you to consider joining us.

Contact:

Mary Hauge yel69vette@aol.com or 314-7513.

5. Sending Love from the Homefront We're preparing Care Packages for two parishioners

who are away on military deployments. Donations

of nonperishables like jerky, candy and nuts are

welcomed and can be dropped in the military care

box in the atrium. We're leaving lots of space for

expressions of care to be tucked inside our boxes.

So please stop by the Healing Touch table and write

a note of support, encouragement, or appreciation

to send to our members who are serving far from

home.

6. School Snack Collection on Pause A big THANK YOU to

everyone who contributed

school snacks this year.

Your contributions helped

ensure that students at

our adopted public school

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didn’t go hungry because their families couldn’t

afford non-essentials like school snacks.

Snack collection is now on pause for school vacation

and will resume in August when students return to

their classrooms.

7. Meeters & Greeters Needed! Please sign-up to be a meeter/greeter as we start-up

our new Front Door Ministry. Teams will be set-up

according to service times and will rotate on a 4-6-

week schedule. PLEASE JOIN US!!!

For questions, contact Elle Estes at (850) 830-0170

or elleestes5@gmail.com.

8. Fr. Jack’s Kitchen Father Jack’s kitchen could really use more socks and

hotel size toiletries. If you have any of these items

please place them in the basket in the atrium. Thank

you in advance! -Jennifer Lee

9. Altar Flower Dedications If you would like to make a dedication for Altar

Flowers in the Sunday Bulletin, please fill out an

Altar Flower Order Form (found in the pew, office &

online) and drop it in the plate. Please call the office

if you have any questions.

1. Supporting our Military Members

If you have someone deployed who would enjoy

receiving a note, you may submit the name and

address to Outreach at office@stsimons-fwb.org.

2. Donate to St. Simon’s – FREE! Want to help St. Simon’s just by shopping on

Amazon? The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate

0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible

AmazonSmile purchases. This is the easy link to use

to order and let St. Simon’s receive a portion of the

proceeds: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/59-1052160.

1. Let Us Know

If you or a member of your family is hospitalized or

in need of pastoral care, please call 244-8621.

2. St. Simon’s Counseling Center Hurting? Or in need of someone to talk with?

Everyone is welcome, call 244-8448 for an

appointment with one of our two Licensed Mental

Health Counselors.

3. Bereavement Support Group St. Simon’s hosts a Bereavement Support Group on

Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in the

Fellowship Room. For information or to register,

contact Christopher Keown at 862-1069.

4. Depression & Bipolar Support

The Depression & Bipolar Support Group meets

every Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in Room 207 at

St. Simon’s. For more information contact Lexxy at

Lexxy500kTorri@gmail.com or at 850-833-5019.

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PARISH CALENDAR June 2 – June 10, 2017

Friday – June 2 Office Closes at Noon 10:00 a.m. Hawthorne House Eucharist Saturday – June 3 9:00 a.m. Flower Guild (Team 1) Sunday – June 4 8:00 a.m. Rite I Eucharist 9:00 a.m. Pentecost Birthday Party/Cakes 9:30 a.m. Choir Rehearsal 10:30 a.m. Rite II Eucharist & Children’s Church 11:30 a.m. Pentecost Birthday Party/Cakes 11:30 a.m. Choir Rehearsal 12:00 p.m. Fr. Jack’s Kitchen 6:00 p.m. GA Meeting Monday – June 5 11:00 a.m. Staff Retreat (Until 2:00 p.m.) 1:00 p.m. Knitters’ Guild Meeting 7:00 p.m. AA Group Tuesday – June 6 7:00 p.m. Bipolar Support Alliance 7:00 p.m. Food Addicts in Recovery Wednesday – June 7 10:30 a.m. Rector’s Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Bereavement Support Group 12:00 p.m. Eucharist & Healing Service 12:00 p.m. Cursillo Reunion Group 5:00 p.m. Cursillo Reunion Group 6:00 p.m. Rector’s Wednesday Night Bible Study Thursday – June 8 9:00 a.m. Food Addicts in Recovery 10:00 a.m. ECW Board Meeting 10:00 a.m. Westwood Eucharist 6:15 p.m. AA Group Friday – June 9 Office Closes at Noon Saturday – June 10 9:00 a.m. Flower Guild (Team 2) 10:00 a.m. Vogel & Leatherwood Wedding 5:00 p.m. “Come as you are” Eucharist

THE RT. REV. RUSSELL KENDRICK, BISHOP

THE REV. J. DAVID KNIGHT, RECTOR

THE REV. CLELIA P. GARRITY, DEACON

ST. SIMON’S ON THE SOUND EPISCOPAL CHURCH 28 Miracle Strip Parkway SW

Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548-6613

Parish Office: 244-8621 Fax: 664-2827

Website: www.stsimons-fwb.org