This coming Sunday – May 31st and Trinity Sunday – we
will have services at 8 and 10 AM, each followed by coffee hour. We hope you
will join us for worship and fellowship. The Rev. Susan Ackley will preach and
preside, while Heidi and Duane spend four days with family and friends in
Massachusetts. Susan is a long-time friend of the parish and a former member
who was raised up for ordination in the 1990s from Saint Andrew’s.
Readings for this coming Sunday:
Isiah 6:1-8, Psalm 29, Romans 8:12-17, John 3:1-17.
Don’t miss the gallery with more
Pentecost pictures from last Sunday’s worship. They’re at the end of this MEMO! Special thanks to our Gospel
readers; we heard the Gospel in King James English, Spanish, German, Italian,
French and Latin!
Taste of the Valley, a Fundraiser
for the Bearcamp Valley School and Children’s Center is next Sunday, June 7th,
at the Hobbs Tavern. We can reserve
a table for ten for $8 a person, and we already have about 16 people signed up,
so we’re on our way to TWO tables!!! A group of us from Saint Andrew’s went to
this event last year and had a great time enjoying mealtime companionship in a
public space as “the church.” St. Andrew’s contributions support the Bearcamp
School as a parish outreach project.
Call the office or sign up on the Parish Hall Sign-up sheet by the kitchen door. Enjoy a delightful dinner featuring menu samples from area restaurants at a very reasonable meal price, and support this valuable nursery school, day /afterschool care center. $8 covers the cost of the meal! Respond by this Sunday so that we can be assured of a second table together!
Call the office or sign up on the Parish Hall Sign-up sheet by the kitchen door. Enjoy a delightful dinner featuring menu samples from area restaurants at a very reasonable meal price, and support this valuable nursery school, day /afterschool care center. $8 covers the cost of the meal! Respond by this Sunday so that we can be assured of a second table together!
Do you have any extra rhubarb
growing in your garden? Carol
Tubman would be grateful for contributions of rhubarb, which she will freeze
and use for jams to sell at the Sandwich Fair.
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| Lorna in motion talking with spirit about how flowers work together |
Special thanks to Lorna
McMurray for
leading a group of nine of us for a flower-arranging workshop yesterday!
Participants brought in flowers and greens and engaged in the “Holy Play” of
experimenting and creating. Lorna offered a thoughtful list of principles take
with us to guide us and encourage us in working with blossoms and greens. Her
hope was that more people will gain the confidence to arrange flowers for the
altar during our lush growing season. To that I would add the invitation to
bring in other arrangements appropriate to locations in our sanctuary and
Parish Hall. If you would like to provide altar flowers and/or arrange them,
please sign up on the flower chart posted on the Food Pantry closet door.
Food for
thought from
Mokichi Okada, a 20th century Japanese religious leader founder of a
school of flower arranging as a spiritual practice:
A
person who loves and appreciates flowers and their beauty has a heart that is
equally beautiful and is open to God.
May all of us take the time
and prayerful attention to the richness and variety of natural beauty springing
forth, new every day, from our gardens, woods, and fields.
Blessings, Heidi+
Picture Gallery:
Pentecost:
