The services for this coming Sunday, September 8th, the Sixteenth
Sunday after Pentecost, will be at 8 and 10 AM, with coffee hour following each
service.
Readings for this
Sunday: Jeremiah 18:1-11; Psalm 139:1-5,13-17;
Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33.
There is a Service of
Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 AM. We hope you will join us for
worship and fellowship. This coming Wednesday there will also be a Round Table
Eucharist in the Prince Room at 6:00 to which all are welcome. It’s followed by
brown bag supper at 6:30 and the Vestry meeting at 7:00.
A new parish
directory is in the works!!! Now we need your picture! Duane will be available to do photos after the service this coming
Sunday. Please see him in the “photo studio corner” of the Parish Hall. If
you have already left town for the season or happen to have a favorite “head
shot” of your own, you are welcome to email your picture to Debra in the office
(office@standrewsinthevalley.org). Even if we have your picture from a previous
directory, maybe it’s time to update it? Thanks.
Our
Annual Rummage Sale is this Saturday, Sept. 7, from 9 to 3. $5 for a whole
bag of clothes! Come and look for treasures among the piles! Thank you to the
hard working volunteers, especially Diane Lombardi, who have put in many hours
this week setting up. Thank you, too, to those of you who have made clothing
contributions. The team would love some
extra hands around 2:30 Saturday to bag up what doesn’t sell. Many hand make
light work … an hour at the most!
Food Pantry
Note: We are a little low on some foods and on
miscellaneous “non-food” items. If you have a chance to add to our Sunday food
basket or drop items off during church open hours, it would be greatly
appreciated. Suggestions: Mac n’ cheese,
spaghetti sauce, instant coffee, shampoo, dish soap, evaporated milk, elbow
macaroni. Thank you. Peg R.
Preparations are
beginning for the Sandwich Fair – October 12-14.
Calling all jam- and jelly-makers!!!
This year will be depending on the “value added” items even more than in the
past. Take advantage of the fresh fruit and berry. If you know where
elderberries or blackberries are plentiful for picking, let Gretchen know
(323-7459). We are also looking for
people with artistic and crafting skills to help with turning dried gourds into
decorative items –
We do well at being a welcoming
parish, but here’s the question: How do
we move beyond just being welcoming to become a truly inviting Parish? Join with your rector and some vestry members
for this year’s Evangelism Institute on Saturday, September 21, 2013, from
10:00 to 3:00 at Lake Opechee Inn, in Lakeport, (Laconia) NH. The registration
deadline is this Sunday, September 8, so do it now … on-line at http://evangelism.nhepiscopal.org/
This year’s Institute will
feature fewer speakers, but more conversation leaders. As attendees, we will be
more engaged with the presenters but also with each other at your tables. The
day will be broken into four movements: Speed Evangelism, Come and See Q&A,
a Welcoming Ministries panel, and a World Cafe conversation.
Special thanks
to Kate Vachon,
flutist (pictured left), who joined Bernice last Sunday to enrich our worship with wonderful
music by Georg Philipp Telemann and Johan Helmich Roman.
See you in
Church! –
Heidi+