Vestry
The Vestry would like to thank everyone that came out for our Stewardship Drive-Thru or made a pledge prior to this. As of today, we have 34 pledges. If you did not have a chance to drive by on Sunday, do not despair! You can still mail in your pledge, drop it in our mailbox or bring it into the office. The drawing for the basket will be done live this Sunday at our 10:30 Zoom service. Tune in to see if you’ve won! We would also like to thank Bill Cunnane, Vivian Carden and Lynda Ellis for sharing their personal stories with us during our Stewardship moments. It is not always easy to put into words why we pledge, but each of them beautifully summarized how their faith and generosity are intertwined.
St. James’ has qualified for a Potomac Edison program that will convert the rest of our building’s conventional lights to LED lights. In the past, this program covered 70% of the upgrade costs; but due to COVID, 100% of the costs will be covered! A big thank you to Ty Conlon for arranging this and seeing this through. He estimates this could be saving us approximately $2000 in the cost of replacement bulbs.
Sunday Worship Information
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has suspended all indoor worship due to increasing COVID-19 numbers until at least December 4. We will continue our online service via Zoom and Facebook at 10:30 am.
ONLINE WORSHIP
Join us on the First Sunday of Advent for the Liturgy of the Word at 10:30 am followed by Zoom Coffee Hour, or watch the service livestreamed on Facebook.
We will be welcoming The Rev. Canon Stuart Wright
Canon for Transitions and Director for Human Resources for the Diocese of Maryland as our guest preacher this Sunday.
We will “open the doors” beginning at 10:15 am for folks to greet each other and say good morning. Kristin+ will give instructions at 10:25 am and we will begin recording and livestreaming the service promptly at 10:30 am. Don’t worry if you’re late – you can still attend via Zoom if you “get to church” at 10:40!
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Meeting ID: 820 8668 4148
Passcode: 242425
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Facebook Livestream
We plan to begin streaming to Facebook at 10:30 am. If you arrive at Facebook and you don’t see the video, please refresh your screen. There is a delay.
There will be NO classes for either group on Sunday, the 29th (Thanksgiving weekend). Everyone stay safe and be well!
Thrift Shop
The Thrift Shop continues to receive a voluminous amount of donations from our community. Some days we only need to curtail donations for a few hours before our volunteers have made more room in the shed. Our employees and volunteers are working extremely hard sorting through all the donations. We are now minus two employees and without the additional help of our volunteers we wouldn’t be able to keep up with the amount of donations. In addition to our five regular volunteers, we have an additional 10 new ones! We are so grateful for their help! The hours they volunteer range from two to 20 hours weekly.
Winter coats, gloves and hats are being placed on the racks as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas merchandise. Every week we have at least three sales going to keep the merchandise moving.
Saturday, November 28 and December 5 from 11:00-3:00 we will be having our annual Secret Santa Shop. We have been saving gifts year round specifically for this occasion. It will be a little different this year because of the Covid guidelines. We won’t be wrapping gifts but we will provide each customer a gift bag for each of their purchases. Only 20 people will be allowed in the store at one time including staff and volunteers. You may purchase a gift card at the shop for those who like to shop for bargains.
Thank you again to our volunteers! We greatly appreciate you!
WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advent Series: A Thrill of Hope
Weekly from Noon-1:00 pm
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Meeting ID: 840 0945 7236
Passcode: 507341
Lectionary Readings for the First Sunday of Advent:
Next Week’s Commemorations:
Prayer Rotation
Please join the Daughters of the King in praying for each parishioner in rotation during 2020 by taking this notice home and by posting it where it will remind you pray to on a daily basis for the needs and blessings of:
David and Sheila Pyatt
David Rak and Kathleen McKaig-Rak
Charles and Susan Riel
A member of the Daughters of the King will be contacting you this week for special prayer requests.