Young adults reach out to flood victims
Diocese of Atlanta Young Adults members Lauren Woody, Elizabeth Baker, Sean Holder and Whitney Callaway went to West Cobb County last weekend to help remove furniture, carpets, debris, and precious items from a house devastated by the recent floods.
After being contacted by Senior Citizens Services of Atlanta, DAYA representatives joined around 30 other people to clean up the house of an 84-year-old woman. Volunteers from DAYA, Peach Movers, and Atlanta City Council candidate Ceasar Mitchel joined members of the woman’s family to remove all the woman’s possessions, which were damaged by the flood.
Said Woody, “Relief workers were all over this devastated street trying to help the 50-something homes start the process of removing things and treating the homes for mold. Please pray for relief and comfort for them in the scary months that are ahead.”
Hannum, chaplain to students at Georgia State University and Georgia, said he took photographs but they couldn’t show:
• “us praying with a home owner as all her belongings from 30 to 40 years were being carried out and piling up around us;
• “the smell of everything wet;
• “the mud on the floor and up the walls;
• “strangers working so well together;
• “work crews and neighborhood children lining up for free lunches served by DAYA members Lauren Woody and Elizabeth Baker, while people in a Salvation Army truck served beans and franks three doors down; and
• “Elizabeth (a nurse) cool and calm, tending a worker who was bleeding profusely from a head wound.
“There is a unique weight to this kind of work,” Hannum said. “All of it is heavy lifting, whether it’s soaked carpet or a framed picture of loved family members now long dead.”
Episcopal Campus Ministry at Macon's Mercer University gives fall a jazzy start
[Sept. 15, 2009] The Episcopal Campus Ministry at Mercer University, supported by four Macon churches, kicked off the fall semester recently with a low-country boil in the Religious Life Center on campus. A jazz ensemble of Mercer students dubbed "The Canterbury Trio" provided more than an hour of classic American jazz and Latin jazz favorites. Lee Wilson and Gerald Train, parishioners at St. Paul's in Macon, provided the food. The Very Rev. Camille Hegg officiated at the first service of Compline for the semester.
The ECM Canterbury Club meets each Tuesday evenings at Mercer and is open to students and faculty. Upcoming events include a Taizé service, U2charist, a lecture series on "Finding God in Star Trek” by Professor Paul Lewis, a poetry reading and discussion with Professor Anya Silver (a member of St. Francis), lectio divina, centering prayer, a presentation on homelessness in Macon, movie nights and more. Compline is at 9 p.m.
For more information contact Canterbury Club President Alex Moreschi, alexander.thomas.moreschi@student.mercer.edu or 229-395-9274 or the Very Rev. Camille Hegg, stpaulrector@bellsouth.net
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