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
| It’s not easy to run a business. It takes a lot of time, expertise, and attention to detail. We’d like to thank Cheryl Windsor, Chris Henyon, and Deb Schaeffer – these three stepped up and volunteered to run our thrift shop ever since our previous thrift shop manager, Sandy Baker, became too ill to work. They volunteered and ran it successfully for a mighty long run. Even now, they’re guiding the newly-hired thrift shop manager, Lori Howes. So thanks Cheryl, Chris and Deb for all your work, we appreciate it!
It takes a lot of volunteers to keep our parish running. Thank-you to everyone that’s helping out in so many ways. Our largest fund-raiser of the year, the basket raffle, is almost complete. This Saturday baskets will be displayed in downtown Mount Airy. Thanks to everyone that’s helping out with this big job. Kristin’s sabbatical will end as she returns October 9th – please look for invitations to celebrate her return and respond when you receive them. This month the vestry signed off on the official audit and our Treasurer Natalie DelRegno submitted the letters to our diocese. Jim Bullington, our warden responsible for building and grounds, is pursuing locksmiths to fix the slightly wonky main doors to our church and nursery school. We’ll get there soon. Arborists at Bartlett began treatments on the ailing honey locust tree in our memorial garden. The vestry approved minor changes to the Personnel Handbook for our employees. Dave Rak, Senior Warden |
Thrift Shop
Welcome to our new store manager, Lori Howes. Lori resides in Sykesville and comes to us with valuable experience in retail merchandising. Lori is applying her skills and making many visual display improvements, and a new display unit for our infant onesies is on its way!
As usual, tons of wonderful donations are coming in daily from our community for which we are very thankful.
Oktoberfest will take place in Downtown Mt. Airy this Saturday. The church Basket Raffle will be displayed in front of the shop. Please stop in and say hello after you purchase your raffle tickets. Main Street will be closed to traffic so remember to take the “back way” to the town parking lot.
Speaking of parking lots, paving will begin on our parking on on Friday, September 24th and continue through Tuesday, September 27th.
Basket Raffle
IT’S ALMOST HERE!!!
The big day for our 16th Annual Basket Raffle & Silent Auction is almost here!! Thank you so much to those who have volunteered online to help with this, our biggest fundraiser of the year. There are still a few opportunities to help, therefore, if you have an hour or so on Saturday or Monday, please sign up using the link below.
Also, if you haven’t had a chance to participate in our Basket, Cabbage Patch and American Girl Dolls or Tubs of Cheer! Raffles, Silent Auction, or shop our Cash ‘n Carry items, you will have one last opportunity this Sunday in the sanctuary after church services. Raffle winners will be drawn and called on Monday morning—YOU could be a WINNER!!!
Marilyn Hancock
Chairperson
2022 Basket Raffle & Silent Auction
We’re using SignUp.com to organize our upcoming volunteer needs. Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:
1) Click this link to see our SignUp: https://signup.com/go/RzoTsLD
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It’s Easy – you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com.
Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually. Marilyn Hancock ladyzip2004@yahoo.com
Sunday Worship Information
Join us on September 25th for The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. We will celebrate Holy Eucharist in the sanctuary at 8:30 am and 10:30, or watch the 10:30 service livestream on Facebook. Our Guest Celebrant will be The Rev. Mary Davisson.
A printable bulletin can be found here.
Lectionary Readings
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.
Announcements
From the A is for Africa July/August newsletter:
St. James Episcopal Church Mite Box Collection … A Decade of Support
The tradition of Mite Boxes goes back about 1,000 years. The collection of coins for helping the poor even has biblical references. For more than 10 years the children of St James Sunday School have made their own mite boxes and collected money during Lent. A is for Africa was honored at a presentation in July to receive the children’s donations this year and their collections were matched by the Parish Council, for a total of $1950! Thank you, St James Episcopal!
CARE PACKAGES FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
The Outreach Committee would love to have the names and addresses of all our young men and women that are attending college whether they are away from home, commuting or studying virtually; please send their contact information to office@stjamesmtairy.org.
We plan to send them “CARE Packages” in mid-October; so please donate NOW.
Please donate items such as hot chocolate, razors, shower scrubbies, fruit snacks, pencils, cookies, pop tarts, instant coffees, tea, chips, goldfish, Pringle’s, microwave mac ‘n cheese, microwave popcorn, tissues, lotion and small bottles of hand sanitizer.
Collection containers will be in the in the Narthex.
Thank you so much, in advance, from your Outreach Committee for your kind donations.
Next Week’s Commemorations:
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:
Kenneth and Violet Kraft (Scott, Katie)
Kristin Krantz (Zachary, Jasper)
Sanjay and Jen Krishnaswamy (Sandhya, Dhruva)
A member of the Daughters of the King will be contacting you this week for special prayer requests
