St. Hubert's Episcopal Church

 Thursday Lectionary Study

 at 10:00 a.m. continues via ZOOM. If you would like an invitation, please let Denise know and she will see that you are included! We'd love to see you! denisemiller@sthuberts.net

Dear Parish Family, 

You have all received our announcement of our regathering on July 19th.  It will be heartening for a congregation to congregate the old-fashioned way, albeit from a safe distance of 6 feet, masked, and seated in your own chair!

The creative tension is that while resuming long standing norms of behavior, we are also called into a new time and place with each other, and with God.  Isn't that always the way, though?  102 years ago, St. Hubert's was a chapel along the shores of Lake Erie at The Girl's Friendly Society Summer Camp, so this is our first pandemic as a church.  We've navigated it well so far, but we must not let our guard down as we ensure each other's safety.  Outdoor services will help with that effort and so will your ability to adhere to the protocols as set forth by The Diocese.  We live to love God; and to love our neighbors as ourselves.  This regathering will offer us a new opportunity to express that love with a healthy sense of interdependence.  It is a new season!

At the same time, I am so glad that we are continuing with online worship.  Many of you wisely have decided that regathering is not an option, yet we gather online very well these days!  Zoom lectionary, coffee hour and the upcoming class for adult formation all provide us with much needed interaction in a new style of congregational gatherings.  God does provided, indeed!

Bless you as we watch numbers in Ohio increase, especially in Cuyahoga County, just to the East.  We must flexible and responsive to changing circumstances  

Faithfully,

Dan

St. Hubert's Building Continues to be Closed

Although Governor DeWine  has opened the State of Ohio for businesses, the Diocese of Ohio continues to recommend that "in-building staffing be minimal and on a drop-in basis as necessary to maintain essential operations."  Therefore we at St. Hubert's continue to work remotely.  We are in the office only to collect mail and to keep the operations of the church in order.  Voicemail is checked each day, and email works too.  Worship and all gatherings continue to be cancelled or postponed with your health in mind.

Deacon's Dismissal  

(Musings from The Rev. Josh Butler) 

I try to be careful which actions in this world I attribute to the Holy Spirit. Sometimes, things just happen. Other times, things happen with purpose, the Holy Spirit somewhere in the mix. I said to a man, “The Spirit is at work in your life!” He countered by expounding on the physical world, about neurons and random actions and subconscious decision matrices and so on. All I could say in reply was, “Exactly! Just so!” Maybe that is how the Holy Spirit works, in ways too wondrous to comprehend. Some things are true, even if I don’t understand them.

Blankets and P.J.'s and, and, and!

Last week it was reported that the sewers had added pillowcases, but I forgot to tell everyone about Have Backpack Will Travel. The sewers are creating soft backpacks for epilepsy patients who need to be monitored around the clock. The monitors can go into the backpack, and the children can then go to activity rooms. The technology for wireless monitoring is relatively new and very helpful to both physicians and patients. Isn't that wonderful?

Food Ministry Dates:  

St. Hubert's Online Directory

Remember, that we have an online directory with up to date contact information.  To log on to this, go to www.sthuberts.net and click the MEMBER LOGIN button in the top left corner. Your user name is your name with no spaces, i.e. danschoonmaker. Your password is peace (unless you have changed it). "We're well, you and yours be well also!"

FLOWER FUND

Thanks to all who have made contributions to The Flower Fund.  We will acknowledge our loved ones, honored or remembered, in a list on the first Sunday we are able to gather at church.  Meanwhile, weekly listings will be published in this email.  

White Fragility - (First) Summer Book Read

White Fragility by Robin J. DiAngelo who is an American academic, lecturer, and author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies.  The New York Times best-selling book explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. Other parishes in the Diocese of Ohio are reading this book this summer also. The book is available from Barnes and Noble (must be ordered) for $13.99, from Amazon (where it is temporarily out of stock) for $10.90 and Kindle for $9.99.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION - JULY 19, 2020VESTRY ELECTIONS FOR THE TERM 2020-2023

The St. Hubert's Annual Meeting was to have been held on May 3, 2020 when, of course, we were all staying home and staying safe. On July 19 services will resume, outdoors, without music, with masks and social distancing. 

While some of the business of the church can wait for a meeting, Vestry members who came on board in 2017 (Jenna Bing, Sheila Black, Sheryl Weaver and Doris Webster) saw us through our building renovations and now COVID-19. It is time to give them a rest and elect the four who had agreed to come aboard last spring.  The Nominating Committee presents the following slate for Vestry to be voted upon at this special meeting.

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