Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & Dr. Michael Berkeley (5 pm)
  

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements)
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Mission Report Sundays – Hall Life Center
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – L16 & L18

Children's Summer Sunday School
Birth - age 2: Rm 114
Age 2: Rm 120
Age 3 - Kinder: Rm 122
Grades 1 - 5 : Rm 115

Youth Summer in the Psalms Sunday School – Room 238

Happening Today

Jump Into Sunday School - Information Meeting
Have questions about Sunday School? Join us at 10:15 am in the Scout Room to learn all about your child’s Sunday School class. We will have information on all classes from nursery to grade 5 including info on how you can get involved.

Mission Report Sundays
Mission Report Sundays are an opportunity to hear from our mission teams and learn about the ways God showed up during their trips. Join Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit at 10:15 am in the Hall Life Center as she interviews mission team members and finds out how you might get involved in mission! This week we will have reports on youth trips.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Luke 12:49-56

12:49 “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

54 He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?

Musical Offering in the Church

Today, we welcome soprano Blair McLaughlin and tenor Sean Saunders. With over two decades of experience as a church musician, Blair joined the SJD music team as a staff singer after many years of service as a substitute singer. As both a soloist and a leader in the SJD Chorale, she is committed to “bringing joy, comfort, and spiritual depth to every worship experience.” With the start of the school season, Sean is beginning his 20th year as a music educator and choir director. Having grown up in the chorister program at St James, Conroe, Sean brings a wealth of experience and appreciation of liturgical music. He has been a section lead of the SJD Chorale since 2021.

During his tenure as composer in residence for James Brydges who became the first Duke of Chandos, Georg Frideric Handel composed as series of anthems for use in Anglican worship, especially for the chapel being built at Chandos. At the Offertory, Blair and Sean sing a duet from the fourth of these Chandos Anthems with a text from the Psalms, “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” During the Ministration, the choir offers Handel’s delightful setting of the chorale “Lord, I trust thee.”

A special welcome to our music intern

Today we welcome Grace Jackson, the 2025-26 recipient of the Gerre Hancock Internship in Church Music. The internship was established by the Association of Anglican Musicians to create full-time mentoring opportunities for extraordinary young church musicians who demonstrate a strong interest in the music and worship of the Episcopal Church. The internship is named after renowned and influential church musician, Gerre Hancock (1934-2012). A native of Lubbock, Texas, Hancock made a substantial contribution to sacred music in America and was a mentor to several generations of church musicians. He inspired many during his tenure as Director of Music at St. Thomas Church, NY and leader of the church’s renowned choir of Men and Boys.

Grace joins us for a 10-month residency working closely with Director of Music Steve Newberry and our talented music staff and will be immersed in all aspects of our music ministry and liturgy planning. Grace is in the final process of completing her DMA at the University of Michigan having completed her Master of Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame. We eagerly look forward to her work among us.

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