The E-pistle from St. Paul's on-the-Hill
July 30, 2010
Dear Friends,
I'm glad to be back after a great vacation with my family in New Mexico. I hope to reconnect with you this weekend. See you in church.
Peace,
Hilary+
Saturday, July 31st
5:00 p.m. Service
Holy Eucharist Rite II with a blend of music, praise and traditional
6:00 p.m. Preparing for the Food Pantry (see announcements below for how you can be a part of our Outreach Ministry through the Pantry and the Men's Mission to those in need)
Serving Saturday (revised):
greeter: Mikhail Arthur; usher: Bruce Gallup; reader: Sarah Gallup; prayers: Diane Fadley; LEM: Brooke Parker
August 1st, 2010;
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday Schedule and Serving
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II
9:00 a.m. Adult Education on the Book of Revelation
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II
Children are always welcome to stay in the worship space for the whole service, but can go to our activity room next to the nursery for the summer - Sunday School resumes in the Fall
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Food Pantry
CALENDAR AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
August
Sunday 1 Services followed by Fellowship Time
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Food Pantry
Tuesday 3 12:00 noon “Brown-Bagging with the Bible”
7:00 p.m. Vestry Meeting
Thursday 5 8:00 a.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly)
10:00 a.m. Prayer Shawl Knitting
7:00 p.m. Book Club
Saturday 7 5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II
Sunday 8 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00 a.m. Adult Education
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time
11:15 a.m. St. Paul’s Table Meeting
Serving Sunday:
8:00 a.m.
reader: Frank Scheder
LEM: Flonnie Williams
10:00 a.m.
vestry person of the day: Barbara Epperson
greeter: Babe McDaniel
acolytes: Amy Voight and Maria Hoogeveen
ushers: Cindy Culbert and Vic Arthur
tellers: Cindy Culbert and Vic Arthur
readers: Virginia Allen (1st) and Jamey Keefer (2nd)
LEMS: Joanne Killough and Joe O’Hara
Intercessors: Virginia Allen and others
kitchen team leader: Bonnie Crawford
altar guild: Estelle Pitta, Ruth Boyd
Children Welcome – Children are always welcome to remain for the service.
Preparing for the Food Pantry – following the service tomorrow night, we will be packing bags with food for the pantry tomorrow. If you can help with the packing, please join us downstairs in the parish hall.
Wednesday Night Service – is suspended until September 8th.
Welcoming Newcomers Ministry – an organizational meeting will be held on Sunday August 15th at 11:30am in the library. All who would like to help and all newcomers are encouraged to attend.
Vestry Meeting – This Tuesday, 7pm.
Book Club – This Thursday, 7pm. We will discuss Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen hosted by Jan Ritter, 2636 Welltown Road, 540-662-7091.
Stewardship Meeting – hosted by the Senior Warden Bill Stewart will be held on Sunday August 22nd at 11:30am in the library. All who would like to help with this important ministry are invited to attend.
Rector’s Read – Meets on Wednesday August 25th, 7pm to 8pm, to discuss Finding God in All Things: A Companion to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius by William A. Barry, S.J. Sign up to order a book.
Fellowship Time - Sign up to host fellowship time following the Sun. 10am service. Clear instructions are provided; also financial assistance for the food you provide, if requested. The vestry asks that everyone/every family take a Sun. between now and the end of the year. Get your preferred date today to make sure all parish members share equally in building the fellowship & connections that make SPOTH a special place.
Men’s Mission Ministry –the last Sun. of each month, members of our church prepare & serve a meal at the Men’s Mission, Cameron St. If you can help, contact Scott Lang. Future mission dates: August 29th and September 26th.
Flowers – all are welcome to donate flowers for our services one or more weekends a year. You can give the flowers in memory or honor of someone, or in thanksgiving for something God has done in your life. The cost is $25.00, and the altar guild will obtain the flowers; you do not have to get them yourself.
St. Paul’s Table Food Pantry – this Sunday and each first Sun., 1-3 pm. Needed: plastic and paper bags (ideally, paper shopping bags with handles); meat for the freezer (hot dogs, packs of ground meat, chicken pieces, frozen fish, etc.) You are invited to an organizational meeting each 2nd Sun. after 10 a.m. service in Library. St. Paul's Table has fed 25–40 households & 29-82 children (18 & under) recently. Let Scott Lang (smlnva@aol.com, 540- 662-0216) or Linda Binder (lbinder798@comcast.net, 540-665-0675) know if you can help. Ways to help with the Pantry and the Men's Mission:
Mission Dinner – Last Sunday of the Month
Winchester Union Men’s Mission
435 North Cameron Street
Winchester, VA 22601
(540)667-5379
Volunteers purchase, prepare, deliver and serve dinner for approximately 20 men on the last Sunday of the month. Volunteers typically prepare a meat entree, pasta dish, stew or chili, etc., salad with dressing and/or vegetable side dish, as appropriate, rolls and butter, and a dessert (fresh fruit, cookies, brownies, etc.). A beverage is good to include as well, such as a case of bottled water, juice, iced tea or a couple of large jugs of the same. Napkins are always a handy item to bring.
Arrive at the Mission at about 4:30 p.m. Park and enter through the rear. There is a parking lot immediately adjacent to the Mission; drive through to the alley and pull around. The men staying there are very helpful and will assist in bringing in the food and generally help with setting it up to serve buffet style. The kitchen has plates, serving and eating utensils. Meal service begins with a prayer. The men may come back for seconds after everyone is served. Once everyone has been served you are free to leave – they handle the clean up.
If you are volunteering for this, please remember to call the Mission (number above) a few days in advance to remind that St. Paul’s on-the-Hill is bringing Sunday dinner. You may turn in your receipts to Trudi to request reimbursement or consider it your own contribution as you prefer.
This is a great volunteer opportunity for a family, a few friends, youth group, etc. We have had times when someone makes food, others deliver and serve – there are various ways to help out.
For those of you who are interested, but are uncertain -- the men are very nice and appreciative. The Mission is run by Pastor Stone. He runs a tight Christian ship with prayer and service mandatory – and a zero tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol.
The Mission also takes donations of men’s pre-owned clothing if you are so inclined. Those can be dropped off any time.
Pantry -- Baked Goods Pick-Up from Food Lion and Martin’s
Volunteers pick-up baked goods from the Food Lion on Senseny Road and the Martin’s off of Route 7 near Interstate 81 on the Saturday and Sunday mornings of the weekend when the Food Pantry is held.
Show up at the stores between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. At Food Lion, go to the bakery area and tell them you are from St. Paul’s on-the-Hill. At Martin’s, you need to drive around the rear of the store and knock on the loading dock door (there is a ramp you walk up) and tell them you are from St. Paul’s on-the-Hill. Martin's requires you to sign a form. Sign your name and indicate it is for St. Paul's on-the-hill Church Food Pantry.
These two stores have been donating baked goods to us for over two years. Deliver the baked goods to Baden Hall at St. Paul’s by 11:00 a.m. Sunday.
The Food bank has implemented new reporting procedures that require a more precise accounting of goods donated by our partners -- Martin's and Food Lion. When you drop off the baked goods at church, please keep the donations from each store separate and mark them if you can. Those working the pantry on Sunday will estimate the weight of each store's donations for our reporting.
Pantry – Purchasing Fresh Produce
Volunteers purchase about $125 of fresh produce -- the basics, and look for sales. Costco and WalMart are good places, Food Lion and Martin's when they have deals. Aldi Foods can be good as well. You can turn in your receipt to Trudi for reimbursement if you like.
We try to buy enough for 30-40 families. We divide up the produce into smaller quantities and place them in plastic bags before we open at 1:00 pm, so try to get it to St. Paul's by 11:00 a.m. the day of the Pantry.
These seem to work:
§ several bunches of bananas
§ bags of fresh carrots
§ bags of potatoes
§ bags of onions
§ bags of apples or oranges
§ lettuce, cabbage or other veggies if you find sales
Pantry – Bag Stuffing
In order to make the distribution process more efficient, volunteers pre-stuff bags with non-perishables the Saturday before the Pantry. Typically, we do this following Saturday service. We try to have 40 to 50 bags stuffed each month. Bags that are left and are not distributed are saved for the next month. Place those bags on the round table in the hall, as they will be distributed first. Newly packed bags can be placed along the wall.
Once you have the count of how many bags are needed, count out enough empty bags and lay them on a table. Then, place the boxes from inventory out and form an assembly line, so volunteers can take a bag, walk the line, and place one or two items (judge based on quantities) from each product station in the bag. We often have miscellaneous items from the previous month and donations from parishioners. We typically combine those into a single product station for packing purposes.
Pantry – Set-Up & Staffing
Volunteers prepare following the 11:00 a.m. service. Those who are staffing are typically helped by parishioners who are there for fellowship. That assistance is so much appreciated. A summary of tasks follows:
§ Produce prep (breaking bulk items into smaller bags for distribution)
§ Bakery goods (setting up the tables for distribution)
§ Registration (signing clients in)
§ Assisting clients (walking with, answering questions, carrying bags)
§ Meat Distribution (loading plastic bags with a variety of meat products from freezer – based on household size and inventory)
Wednesday Bible Study Group Suspended until September - The Tuesday group continues to meet at noon.
Adult Education for the summer –Sundays at 9:00 am. Plan to attend!
Parish Directory – Olan Mills will be taking our pictures for a new directory on September 10th and 11th. Sign up will be closer to the dates.
Parish Retreat – Sign up now to attend our parish retreat at Shrine Mont, Sept. 18 and 19 at Shrine Mont. The Rev. Jonathan Bryan will be our leader.
Pet Loss Support Group - 3rd Sat. of each month, 10:45 a.m. - noon, 312 W. Cork Street. See Outreach bulletin board. Organized by Blue Ridge Hospice.
5th Annual Camp Hope - free one day camp for children 6-16 who have experienced a loss; August 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m @ Jim Barnett Park War Memorial Bldg., 1001 E. Cork St. Registration is 8:30 a.m. See Outreach bulletin board. Organized by Blue Ridge Hospice.
