August Birthday Clean Up... Well sort of. Marco Rosito and Andrew Janseck had quite a tale to tell.  Apparently they felt called by God to attack the "cudzoo" skirting our property. They set out with comparing this cudzoo with all that is sinful in the   world and in need of God's judgement.  They gathered what they cut and placed it on the fire pile.  They might have set fire when God spoke to them in a kinda like vision.  He spoke  by sending down a lightning bolt which somehow convinced them to cease their judgement upon the infamous cudzoo.  God will be the one to seperate the weeds from the wheat or the cudzoo from the magnolias. In the end Marco vows to return to his other hobby of making spaghetti sauce from scratch.  And Andrew is still trying to master his golf swing as he communicates with God.  Andrew just hold that nine iron at 90 degrees and wait for those cumullous clouds to show up.  We are very thankful to them for their courage to rid our corner of the world of the cudzoo. Vestry notes for the month of July: IMPORTANT DATES Fall Festival                                                          10/01 Outreach Sunday                                                 10/02 ECW Annual Conference                    10/7-10/8, 2005 Stewardship Sunday                                             10/09 Annual Parish Meeting                                         10/30 Diocesan Convention                             2/23-2/25 2006 Bishop Parsley visitation                               4/23 2006 Stewardship: Christian Education: September 4th we are going to hold a children's service at 9:45am  all children and their families are welcome to join us. Please gather to discover The Fall Festival OCTOBER 1st Tickets are now on sale for the Pancake Breakfast,  the Barbecue Lunch, The Evening Entertainment. UPDATES MISSION 2006  to Honduras Members of our congregation who are interested in a mission trip to Honduras in the summer of 2006 Please call Don Sorjonen for details.  The cost of the mission trip will be about $1,400.00.  It would be good to begin saving up. NEW CHURCH E-MAIL: We want you to know that you can now access the church office by e-mail, Please try to keep business correspondence at this address. ststephenspc@bellsouth.net For more personal mail you can use Fr. Ken's address revkenmerypepin@bellsouth.net