All Souls Connection

All Souls Connection - July 2010

Food Booth Weekend and the Biltmore Village Arts and Crafts Fair is upon us. Our grounds will be transformed the weekend of August 7-8, 2010 with over a hundred artists from all over the Southeast and hundreds of buyers. Our job is twofold-welcome the visitors to our grounds and provide hospitality to them and make this a place to build community for our parish. The third component is to raise money for local nonprofits in the area.

Loving Food Resources’ food offerings will be the target for the 5th Annual BBQ Benefit coming up this month. Uncle Ottie’s from Abingdon, Virginia will make the trek to Biltmore Village for the fourth year to do the cookin’ and slicin’ - - - and all we need are the diners! An economical meal at $10 per plate ($5 for those under 12 years), you can also enjoy music from the band Unpaid Bill and the Bad Boys, and eat under the shade of the trees on the All Souls green, or under the cloister alongside our cathedral building.

Sunday, 10:10 am, Zabriskie Hall In a format involving all ages, we will be featuring several community ministries in which All Souls parishioners are engaged. These Sundays will provide both information on the ministries and allow those present to prepare items used by these groups.

Sunday, July 11: Children First presented by Loretta Andrews

Sunday, July 18: The Dominican Republic presented by Tom Crook

Sunday, July 25: Loving Food Resources presented by Mike Stevenson

Sunday, August 1: The Episcopal Peace Fellowship presented by Mason Wilson and Ross Jones

Deacon on the Bridge

The summer months bring us an opportunity to see some new faces in the liturgy. Summer always means that vacations take people out of their usual roles from time to time, and new faces appear leading us in our weekly celebrations of thanksgiving to God.

Discussion times and locations for East of Eden and Reading Jesus, both of which are All Souls Book Group “Group Pick”s, are as follows:

East of Eden meetings:

**Monday, June 28, 7 p.m., the first floor conference room of the Warner Building.

**Monday, July 12th, 7 p.m., the first floor conference room of the Warner Building.

Reading Jesus meetings:

**Monday, July 26th 7 p.m., the first floor conference room of the Warner Building. Discussants should be prepared to talk about Part I of Reading Jesus.

**Monday, August 9th, 7 p.m., the first floor conference room of the Warner Building. Discussants should be prepared to talk about Parts II and III of Reading Jesus.

It is called “Taste of Chicago”, a ten day festival of food, music, art and people gathered in and around the lakefront of Grant Park. Some 70 restaurants and some 3 million people are present over the ten days

leading to July 4.

It is a collection of all sorts and conditions of people. It is a wonderful snapshot of Chicago.

It will have stiff competition this year from the “Taste of Benson”, a much lesser known but every bit as significant event taking place in Chicago the same weekend. There will be a grand variety of food, a wide array of entertainment, and plenty of storytellers. It is actually known as the Benson Picnic, an annual summer Sunday gathering of my mother’s mother’s family which began in the mid 1950’s.

For the last several years, we have offered an Evening Prayer service at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday. Those who gather for the prayers have numbered in twos and threes. We never need worry about violating fire code with standing room only crowds.

Recipes from the UTO Ingathering

Many folks have asked about some of the recipes from the UTO Ingathering. Today is your lucky day! See the delicious recipes below! Thanks to Electa Smith for her work on this ministry.