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+ Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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The Week Ahead…
Parish Office Summer Hours: Tue, Wed, Thurs: 9:30 AM – 2 PM
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Thursday, August 20: Bernard of Clairvaux, Monastic and Theologian, 1153
Friday, August 21:
- Fridays are marked by acts of discipline and self-denial. If you wish to know more about the meaning of this practice and its benefits, please enquire with Fr. Brandon.
- 4 PM: Game and Movie Night! (more info)
Saturday, August 22:
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+ 8 AM: Holy Eucharist (said). In-person.
+ 9:50 AM: Nursery open (Godly Play is on break for summer)
+ 10 AM: Holy Eucharist (sung). In-person and online.
Following the 10 AM Liturgy:
- The Poetry Group meets in the Adult Ed room
- Coffee Hour in the narthex
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Painting begins on the Church Roof this week. When visiting the church during the week, please do not park in spaces adjacent to the building.
Monday, August 24: Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
- The parish office is closed on Monday.
Tuesday, August 25: Louis, King, 1270
Wednesday, August 26: Simeon Bachos the Ethiopian Eunuch
- 10 AM: Rite I Holy Eucharist
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Prayer Requests from this Parish: Dale & Jeanné, Mike, Patt, Beth & Jim, Coralie, Juanita, Bill, Julia, Br. Matthew nOGS, Patti, Rich, Family Promise, Salem for Refugees, Mending Wings Youth Ministries. For peace; for those who serve in the Armed Forces and their families; for rain and for all those affected by wildfire and those who fight the fires.
For Those with Birthdays Next Week: Anne Whitney, Rick Gaupo, Ron DeWilde, Sharon Earl
In the Diocese of Oregon: St. Aidan, St. Barnabas, St. David of Wales, and St. Gabriel the Archangel; Portland
In the Anglican Communion: The Church of the Province of West Africa
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The funeral for Keith Eckley will take place at St Timothy’s on Saturday, August 29th at 11 AM.
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Zoom Recording of Last Week’s Sermon
Saint Mary’s Day
Passcode: =nrNKH0=
Sunday, August 16
Passcode: 9jCRU!uu
Links will be valid for two weeks.
The Lectionary Readings for this past Sunday can be found here.
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Men’s Group – Today!
This group will meet on Thursday, August 20 at 6 PM. We usually share a meal together, followed by a time of discussion led by the host around a particular theme or topic, and ending with Compline. If you would like more information about the group please contact Ron DeWilde, Steve Cowgill or Chuck McFerron.
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 Game and Movie Night
This Friday, August 21
Games begin at 4 PM; Movie at 6 PM
Join us in the Parish Hall for a time of games (starting at 4 PM) followed by a movie – The Prince of Egypt – at 6 PM. Bring your own picnic-style dinner, as well as snacks and beverages to share – and don’t forget your favorite games! ALL ages are welcome!
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Poetry Group – this Sunday
The Poetry Group meets this Sunday in the Adult Ed room following the 10 AM liturgy. All are welcome! Bring some poetry, or come along and listen to what others have to share.
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Hoover Teacher Luncheon
Thursday, September 3rd at 11:30 AM
As part of our support for Hoover school, we are hosting a luncheon for the staff and teachers on Thursday, September 3rd as they return to work and prepare for the start of the new school year. Please sign-up in the narthex if you are able to help. You may talk with Emma Glennen or Linda Craven if you have any questions!
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Scam Alert – Email spoofing and phishing
We are yet again seeing scam emails being sent out which appear to be from Fr Brandon’s email address. These emails often seem to focus on needing help with something urgent and discreet. Urgency is a typical technique in a scam email, so be wary whenever you receive a communication that makes you feel this way. These emails are not being sent from Father Brandon and use a technique called spoofing. CLICK HERE for some helpful information on this topic – what it is and how to spot it – sent from the Diocese.
Please also do not respond to emails requesting a pdf or electronic version of the Parish Directory. Forward all these requests to the Parish Office and Emma will attend to them.
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Family Promise
 St. Timothy’s next Family Promise rotation is scheduled for the week of Sunday, Aug 30 – Sep 3.
Update: We need to provide meals and evening hosts on Tue, Wed and Thurs (Sep 1–3). Because of a switch with another church, our overnight hosting nights have changed – we now need overnight hosts for Sunday, August 30; Wednesday, September 2; and Thursday, September 3.
For those who may not be familiar with this excellent outreach ministry, Family Promise provides temporary housing and support for families experiencing homelessness. During our rotation, St. Timothy’s volunteers help in three ways each evening:
- Evening Host – Be a calming presence while families gather, relax, and the children play (typically, half of the guests are kids)
- Meal Provider – Prepare and serve a simple evening meal.
- Overnight Host – Stay overnight at the church to be available if needed.
A sign-up sheet is located in the narthex. If this sounds like a ministry that might interest you, or if you would like more information, please contact Steve Cowgill – 503-871-9856
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From Your Parish Librarian
Russia annexed Crimea and blockaded the Black Sea. No, it’s not what you’re thinking: Go back a few years to 1853-1856 when France and Britain fought Russia in Crimea to stop Russian expansion of its territory and to maintain European dominance of power. Ah, there is “Nothing new under the sun,” so says Ecclesiastes 1:9.
The Crimean War was the background in the life of this week’s Saint of the Week : Florence Nightingale – The Lady with the Lamp.
Read on . . . .
Florence was born in Italy in 1820, while her parents were on vacation and returned to England within her first year. She was a member of the Anglican Church, which inspired her youth and occupied her attention when illness made her homebound.
Florence was 18 when she became superintendent of a hospital for invalid women in London. After war was declared in Crimea, 33-year-old Florence volunteered for duty and brought 38 nurses with her to comfort injured soldiers and change bedpans; for that was about all nurses could do at that time.
She organized the first modern nursing service in the British field hospitals, which she ran on a strict discipline of high standards of sanitation, radically reducing the drastic death toll and rampant infection then typical in field hospitals.
Three years later that particular Crimean War was over, bringing Florence back to England where she established a nurse-training program that became significant in helping to elevate nursing into a profession. Her work in public health reforms was conducted from her bed, for Florence brought home with her “Crimean Fever,” which today is called brucellosis. It caused her chronic and relapsing fevers, joint pain and extreme tiredness.
Prominent church leaders of the day, including her local parish priest who regularly brought her Communion, frequently conducted spiritual conversations and correspondence with Florence.
Throughout the world Florence Nightingale is honored as the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She believed that serving the sick was her divine calling and her understanding of God’s physical laws meant maintaining pure air, clean water and sunlight for the sick. Florence believed that the patient’s environment must be managed so God’s laws could act. She believed the Miasma Theory in that disease is spread through foul air and dirt–not invisible germs–because pure water, clean sheets and washed hands prevent sickness. Patients’ rooms must be well-ventilated and filled with sunlight.
Evelyn Underhill in her Practical Mysticism, cited Florence Nightingale several times, calling her “one of the greatest and most balanced contemplatives of the 19th century.”
Her love of nature and animals shines through many of her notes and letters: her first patient was a sick dog when she was still a child; in 1850 while visiting Greece, she bought an owl from some boys who were tormenting it, nursed it and brought it back to England with her; she once wrote about a butterfly referring to it as “God’s butterfly.”
Here’s an entry from one of her letters : “I never see a soap bubble when I am washing my hands without thinking how good God was when he invented water and made us invent soap. He thought of us all and thought how He could make the process of cleansing beautiful, delightful to our eyes, so that every bubble should show us the most beautiful colours in the world.”
Father Brandon and Father Bryant, et al, you might want to stop reading at this point because Florence Nightingale did not like the idea of litanies, calling them “tiresome petitions to be delivered of something it was our duty to deal with ourselves.” You can look it up in, Notes for Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, in Volume 4 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, available from university and public libraries or from here. Florence did agree with the Anglican teaching that hell is not a physical place of burning fire, rather as “eternal death in our rejection of God.” (Page 862 of the Catechism in the BCP.)
Florence Nightingale died in 1910 at 90 years old.
Florence Nightingale’s feast day was last week on August 12th.
–Bonnie Bonham–Parish Librarian–
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The St. Stephen’s Fund
Available to all
St. Timothy’s has a special fund to assist parishioners during times of financial hardship. This fund is overseen by a Board of Stewards, consisting of Fr. Brandon, Michael McFetridge, and David Tatman.
If you have a need, contact one of us. This fund is in a great position to help. It has helped pay bills, make home improvements, fix autos…and many other things.
All requests are handled with great discretion. This fund was established decades ago and has benefited many parishioners over the years.
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Shine in our Hearts
O Lord Jesus Christ,
you are the sun of the world,
evermore arising, and never going down,
which by your most welcome appearing and sight,
brings forth, preserves, nourishes,
and refreshes all things,
as well that are in heaven as also that are on earth;
We beg you mercifully and faithfully to shine in our hearts,
so that the night and darkness of sins,
and the mist of errors on every side
may be driven away;
with you brightly shining in our hearts
we may all our life go without stumbling or offense,
and may decently and seemly walk as in the day time,
being pure and clean from the works of darkness,
and abounding in all good works
which God has prepared us to walk in;
you who with the Father and with the Holy Ghost
live and reign for ever and ever. Amen.
Source: Thomas Cranmer
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