A Sabbatical Prayer
Guide us, Lord, as we all journey through the months ahead together.
Help us to walk trustingly in faith with our parish family and to serve one another humbly.
May we always be aware of your presence and direction in all we do.
Be with Kristin+, Zachary, and Jasper and give them joy and contentment as they travel, and return them safely to us. Amen.
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Vestry
We’re conducting an annual audit of the finances at our church, thrift shop, and nursery school. If you are willing to assist and have a day free in August please contact Dave Rak or Natalie DelRegno.
The vestry contracted to obtain natural gas at a rate that’s locked in for three years. Several natural gas providers competed for the business of multiple organizations. The winning (lowest) rate offered is 25% less than the current market rate. Because of market volatility caused mostly by the war in Ukraine, there was a period of time earlier this year where natural gas providers were not even willing to offer long-term contracts. This provides us some financial stability.
The vestry thanks Vic Pellicier for photographing Kristin’s send-off event, and we thank Karen Larrimore and Joan Fader for creating and assembling a memory book for Kristin. The memory book will be provided to Kristin when she returns in October. It’s worth a look! If you’d like to see it, ask Joan Fader.
Jim Bullington, our warden responsible for buildings and grounds, has been busy contracting with a locksmith to get work done on the lower doors before Nursery School opens. He’s also worked with an electrician to correct a failed ground-fault interrupter.
Jane Barger and Jason Kilmore met with an arborist from the Bartlett Tree Company to see if an ailing honey locust in our memorial garden can be revived. The arborist took soil and root samples and will come back with recommendations.
If you’re traveling, enjoy summer and bring back a post card or photo to pin on our sabbatical sign board. Have a great trip!
Finally, thank-you to everyone that signed up to host a “non-coffee” coffee hour! It’s really great to have these again.
FORMATION
SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS
We are currently recruiting teachers for our Sunday School program which will begin in September. The Bible Stories for Preschoolers is a fun opportunity to read a Bible story and do a coloring activity (provided) and to get to know our little ones. The 3rd-5th grade class is also in need of a teacher. This group, along with the rest of our classes, uses Living the Good News Curriculum. A Leader’s Guide with lesson plans and suggested activities is available. Both the Bible Story class and 3rd-5th class can be a shared teaching position. For further information and questions, please contact Joan Fader (301-703-8787) or faderj1@juno.com.
We give thanks to our Sunday School students and families for the generous donations made through our Lenten outreach mite box offerings. The total collected was $975.00, which was matched by our St. James’ Outreach – totaling $1,950.00. This amount was donated to Mary Anne and Rick Smith for their outreach work with A is for Africa and the children of the Matim Primary School. Thank you all for making this possible.
The “We Journey Together” bulletin board that is displayed outdoors each Sunday, has various postcards of our parish travels. We will also post pictures or brochures of your adventures, sports events, camping trips and local activities. You may mail them to St. James’ at 1307 N. Main Street, Mt. Airy 21771, drop off at the office or bring with you on a Sunday. The bulletin board also includes Rev. Kristin’s sabbatical journey with Zachary and Jasper. Let’s stay in touch and journey together!
CHOIR
The choir is excited to be returning from our summer siesta with lots of exciting music planned for Fall 2022! Our first Sunday service with a full choir will be September 11th, and we can’t wait to make music together again!
Do you know what makes us even more excited? You! Come join us on Wednesdays at 7:15p, beginning August 10th! No experience necessary—we have sing-a-long tracks to help you get started!
Take care,
Richard Drehoff Jr.
music@stjamesmtairy.org
757-274-7840
Basket Raffle
DONATIONS FOR SILENT AUCTION REQUESTED
Donations of specialty items of higher value for our Silent Auction are being accepted with a deadline of August 28th. Also, we will still accept items for the Basket Raffle.
Items for the Silent Auction would be those that would generate higher bids by themselves rather than as a part of a basket. Such items could include paintings, quilts, unopened perfume, fine jewelry or high-value gift certificates, and the like.
All donations may be placed in the labeled large blue tub under the table in the narthex. Please direct any questions to me at Ladyzip2004@yahoo.com or 301-788-0136.
Thank you, in advance, for your help to support our biggest annual fundraising endeavor.
Marilyn Hancock
Chairperson
16th Annual Basket Raffle & Silent Auction
Sunday Worship Information
Join us on August 7th for The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost. We will celebrate Holy Eucharist at 9:30 am in the Memorial Garden, or watch the livestream on Facebook. Our Guest Celebrant will be the Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud.
On October 3, 2011, the Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud became Interim Director of Worship at the Cathedral, as position she held through April 28, 2012, when she accepted a call to serve as interim rector at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Virginia. She had returned to the Cathedral as a priest part-time in November 2010. Before that, Canon Sulerud had been serving the Diocese of Washington as canon for deployment and vocational ministry, a position she assumed in October 2005. Canon Sulerud had also served for a year prior to that as interim precentor at Washington National Cathedral, beginning in the fall of 2004, maintaining responsibilities as canon for stewardship for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Bishop John Bryson Chane appointed Canon Sulerud to the diocesan staff in 2002. From 1995 to 2002 Canon Sulerud served as rector of Church of the Ascension in Silver Spring, Maryland. Prior to that, she had been assistant rector at Grace C
hurch in Alexandria, Virginia, and assistant chaplain for the upper school at Saint Stephen and Saint Agnes School, also in Alexandria.
Canon Sulerud is currently a member of the General Board of Examining Chaplains, the board responsible for administering the General Ordination Examination each year. She has served as a spiritual director at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and as a co-trainer of seminary supervisors in the Field Education office at VTS. She is active as a consultant nationally in the areas of stewardship and congregational development with a special emphasis on developing faith communities around a rule of life.
She has recently authored “The Soccer Ball,” a meditation published in the Washington Window (fall 2004); an article on stewardship for Vestry Papers (fall 2003); and the booklet Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Stewardship and Were Afraid to Ask (Feb. 2005).
A printable bulletin can be found here.
Lectionary Readings
Facebook Livestream
We plan to begin streaming to Facebook at 9:30 am. If you arrive at Facebook and you don’t see the video, please refresh your screen. There is a delay.
Announcements
The Shelves are Bare!
With the increase in families needing food assistance, the shelves at Mt. Airy Net are nearing empty. Over the next three weeks your Outreach Committee is making a big push to restock the shelves. If you can donate please bring in your items by Sunday, August 14. Here is the list…
| Personal Care Items toothpaste, tooth brushes, toilet paper, shampoo |
Soup all varieties |
| Canned Meat tuna fish, spam, chicken, sardines |
Pasta any variety, as the main course and sides, already stocked up on spaghetti |
| Canned Fruit peaches, pears, mixed fruit, any kind of fruit |
Breakfast Cereals and Oatmeal |
| Canned Vegetables any type, except green beans or corn |
Rice and Rice side dishes |
| Canned Beans pinto, baked, lima, any type, already stocked up on black beans |
Potatoes and Potato side dishes |
| Canned and quick pack lunches | Condiments and Salad dressings |
| Snacks granola bars, cookies, crackers |
Desserts brownie, cake, and corn bread mixes |
All items can be placed in the grocery cart located in the Narthex at St. James. The Outreach Committee will make sure the items are taken to Mt. Airy Net. Thank you all for everything you do. The world is a better place when we work together.
Next Week’s Commemorations:
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Prayer Rotation Please join the Daughters of the King in praying for each parishioner in rotation during 2022 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: James Dunbar and Kingsley Edwards A member of the Daughters of the King will be contacting you this week for special prayer requests. |
