On behalf of Father Rick and all of us at St. Edward’s. . . We welcome you!
We are holding in-person worship this weekend at 8 AM – Rite I and 10:15 AM – Rite II. We hope that you will join us! We have put in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety and we are mindfully complying with mitigation efforts through the governor’s office, as well as our diocesan office.
Please know that we extend our warm invitation of worship to those in the wider community and those parishioners who are still at home, via YouTube Live, with our live streaming service each Sunday. We are one community of faith and we are worshipping together!
Besides prayers, calls, cards and emails, there is one more thing you can do to support St. Edward’s during this time. Please keep up-to-date with your pledge or regular contribution. Pledges/giving can be mailed to the church, and we also have an easy-to-use “Give to St. Edward’s” button on our website that links to our secure Paypal page.
We have also been blessed to discover that the diocese has set up online giving for each parish. If you feel comfortable making your weekly giving or pledge donation in this manner (it is a secure giving tool), simply go to the diocesan web site, click on the tab up top and it will take you to a page where you can scroll down, find St. Edward’s, and continue with making your contribution! Thank you for maintaining your faithfulness through your financial stewardship!
If you are interested in learning more about our parish and our current ministry/fundraising offerings, please click here to view our July/August Scepter. We have many opportunities to be in community in many ways, even in these times of Covidtide. We are continually building strong bridges within our parish community and in the wider community and there is a place for you, here, at St. Edward’s.
On Saturday afternoon, we will be sending our message with links to all things for Sunday worship.
We continue to raise funds for our Memorial Garden Phase One project. Through the generosity of so many, we have raised $7,250 to date towards our fundraising goal of $12,500 and we have initiated various aspects of Phase One this past week in clearing, weeding, and meeting with contractors. The response is so gratifying and tells us how very important it is to beautify and steward this sacred space.
Our Basket Auction is filling out, as we now have 16 baskets. We are seeking 4 more baskets! If you would like to contribute a basket but need us to do the “shopping” for you, please let us know! We are working on a fun and inventive way to hold our auction this fall (with baskets due mid-September), so stay tuned!!
I am happy to report that we have our first cookbook recipe submissions, (thank you, Carol and Carl Cotnoir)! This could be a very interesting, fun, and exciting publication for our parish with the sharing of our most favorite recipes, as well as tapping into their creative spirit with artistic submissions to help us compile a wonderful and spirited book that embodies St. Edward’s parish family. think outside the box for your creative expressions. Because the book will be digital, we are able to insert things like YouTube videos that you might consider creating with your talent. We hope this is the beginning of many more submissions.
SOCIAL OUTREACH MINISTRY NEWS:
We are also participating in a school supply drive for the Landisville Primary Center for the 2020/2021 school year. Supplies needed are:
Pencils
Colored pencils
Crayons
Erasers
Notebook paper
Colored paper
Glue sticks
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., black
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., red
Folders without clasps
Let’s help our neighborhood children be ready to learn! There will be a drop off box in the narthex on Sundays and in the front entry just inside the red doors during the week for supply drop off. We thank you for your generosity in helping St. Edward’s reach out to the wider community.
Hempfield Area Food Pantry
Good News! The pantry is now accepting food items, again! Current requests are:
One or 2 pound packages of rice, canned fruit (no fruit cocktail no Mandarin oranges)
Canned tomatoes, canned peas, canned kidney beans, canned soup (no chicken noodle) and cereal.
If you would like to donate food, please bring on Sunday and drop in baskets in the narthex. If you would like to donate food and do not come to services but would like a curbside drop-off, please call the parish office to make arrangements. We want to make certain we are here to accept your donation.
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Continue reading below for the details for our Friday and Saturday worship and fellowship activities.
“All the days of the poor are hard, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.“
– Proverbs 15:15
Be well. Stay safe. Keep the faith.
Michelle
We invite you to Evening Prayer this Friday evening at 7:00 PM. This is a wonderful way to peacefully end our week and is led by Patrick Ishler.
Join us for our Virtual Saturday Social from 9 AM – 9:40 AM Saturday morning on Zoom. It will be hosted by Christina and Joe McLaughlin. So join us! Ask questions, give us your feedback and enjoy some fellowship THIS SATURDAY, July 25th at 9:00 AM. Pass code and join code were in the Thursday email message.
Our summer heat wave has arrived! And we hope all of you will stay safe, hydrated, and cool during these next few days of extreme weather. If you missed the Sunday online service, you can enjoy our Sunday service of Holy Eucharist Rite II for Sunday, July 19th right here.
We leave you on this hot day with a prayer and. . .
Click this link below for a virtual tour of the cool, calm, serenity of Finland in a time lapse Winter Wonderland.
A Prayer for Peace St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Be well. Stay safe. Keep the faith.
– Michelle
— MINISTRY HAPPENINGS AT ST. EDWARD’S
PLANT-A-TREE MEMORIAL GARDEN PROJECT
Our Phase One fundraising has received such generous support from all of you! And we continue on with raising funds. We hope you will prayerfully consider donating to this phase of this most important and sacred space. Please know that there are other very important elements of Phase One that would benefit from your gift.
BASKET AUCTION
We have commitments for 14 baskets! We are seeking 6 more for our fall auction. Contact the parish office if you would like to donate or create a basket. Don’t want to go out to shop for your basket? We will do that for you! As always, we can arrange the basket, & we wrap, bow, and tag each basket for you!
SCHOOL SUPPLIES for the Landisville Primary Center
Collections had a wonderful start this past Sunday. We continue to collect supplies over the next week, with a box set up in the narthex. The list is as follows:
Pencils Colored pencils Crayons
Erasers Notebook paper Colored paper
Glue sticks Tissues Hand Sanitizer
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., black Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., red
Folders without clasps Let’s help our neighborhood children be ready to learn!
COOKBOOK MINISTRY
We are starting to hear that people are gathering their favorite recipes and any creative writing, drawing, music, photography, and creative musings they would like to share for our cookbook! But it is more than a cookbook. It is an expression of who we are at St. Edward’s!
GREETING CARD MINISTRY
A ministry we are launching today is a greeting card ministry. With great good fortune and some very heavy lifting, Thomas Ishler was able to secure quite a bounty of greeting cards from a pharmacy that was closing its doors in Lancaster County. Thousands of cards were to be tossed away and Thomas had a wonderful idea to bring them to St. Edward’s so that we could open the opportunity for people to come in, safely “shop” for greeting cards, and donate a free-will offering for their selection. We have set them up in the Christian Ed wing in safe and healthy spaces for people to, take a drive, get out of the house, browse the cards and make their selections. Bring your own “green” shopping bag to fill up. In our season of Covidtide, card writing is a great way to reach out to those who you miss so dearly. So, stop by and stock up! Zoom, Facetime, text, and email are great, but everyone loves to get a card in the mail from people in their life. We also encourage people to reach out to others they know and perhaps put together packets of cards to give away. Maybe the residents of retirement communities or nursing homes would love a supply of cards to send. What a great way to reach out to our wider community in ministry and love! If you feel comfortable, give an organization a call and see if you can put together a bag of cards to drop off for their residents! Everyone has an extra shopping bag to bring in and fill up. We hope to see you soon! Please come in any day, Monday – Friday between 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM. We have in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety.
MINISTRY, WORSHIP & FELLOWSHIP THIS WEEK Vestry Meeting – Tuesday, July 21st
Our vestry, led by Father Rick, will hold their monthly meeting, via Zoom, at 6:30 PM. Please keep Father Rick, and the vestry, in your prayers as they work together to steward our parish, not just through this Covidtide, but every day in ways that keep St. Edward’s vibrant and fulfill our mission in ministry.
Wednesday Noonday Service of Healing – July 22nd
Please enter through the parish hall doors. Masks are required. We have put in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety. May we ask that you please let the parish office know if you are planning on attending (if you have not already done so).
Friday Evening Prayer We invite you to Evening Prayer this Friday evening at 7:00 PM. This is a wonderful way to peacefully end our week and is led by Patrick Ishler. Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86327105082 Join Code: 863 2710 5082
Look for the Saturday afternoon message which will have links to all things for Sunday worship.
We are so grateful for the response in these first two weeks of the Memorial Garden fundraiser. As of the writing of this email, through the generosity of all of you, we have raised $6,200. The response is so gratifying and tells us how very important it is to beautify and steward this sacred space.
On the Basket Auction front, we have secured 13 baskets (we are seeking 20 baskets). We hope others will prayerfully consider donating a basket, or if you would like to contact the office and contribute a basket but need us to do the “shopping,” please let us know! We are working on a fun and inventive way to hold our auction this year, so stay tuned!!
We hope people are gathering up their favorite recipes to share, as well as tapping into their creative spirit to help us compile a wonderful cookbook that shows our fellow parishioners and wider community how special we are and could be used to promote our parish community and raise funds for social outreach.
We are also participating in a school supply drive for the Landisville Primary Center for the 2020/2021 school year. Supplies needed are:
Pencils
Colored pencils
Crayons
Erasers
Notebook paper
Colored paper
Glue sticks
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., black
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., red
Folders without clasps
Let’s help our neighborhood children be ready to learn! There will be a drop off box in the narthex on Sundays and in the front entry just inside the red doors during the week for supply drop off. We thank you for your generosity in helping St. Edward’s reach out to the wider community.
As a friendly reminder, we are mindfully complying with the mitigation efforts established through the Governor’s office, as well as our Diocesan office.
Continue reading below to get the details for our Friday and Saturday worship and fellowship activities.
Be well. Stay safe. Keep the faith.
Michelle
We invite you to Evening Prayer this Friday evening at 7:00 PM. This is a wonderful way to peacefully end our week and is led by Patrick Ishler.
Join us for our Virtual Saturday Social from 9 AM – 9:40 AM Saturday morning on Zoom. It will be hosted by Christina and Joe McLaughlin. So join us! Ask questions, give us your feedback and enjoy some fellowship THIS SATURDAY, July 18th at 9:00 AM.The Zoom Join code and Passcode are in the Thursday email.
We leave you, this Thursday with a quote from Maya Angelou:
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”
― Maya Angelou
We welcome you to St. Edward’s! Father Rick welcomes you!
We are holding in-person worship this weekend at 8 AM – Rite I and 10:15 AM – Rite II! Join us! We have put in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety!
Please know that we extend our warm invitation of worship to those in the wider community and those parishioners who are still at home, via YouTube Live, with our live streaming service each Sunday. We are one community of faith and we are worshipping together!
Besides prayers, calls, cards and emails, there is one more thing you can do to support St. Edward’s during this time. Please keep up-to-date with your pledge or regular contribution. Even though we must keep our doors closed for a period of time, we also must continue to pay our fixed expenses such as electricity, insurance, and salaries. We will continue to pick up our mail, so you can easily mail your contributions to the office and we will see that they are properly credited. We have also been blessed to discover that the diocese has set up online giving for each parish. If you feel comfortable making your weekly giving or pledge donation in this manner (it is a secure giving tool), simply go to the diocesan web site, click on the tab up top and it will take you to a page where you can scroll down, find St. Edward’s, and continue with making your contribution! Thank you for maintaining your faithfulness through your financial stewardship!
Soothe your soul and read about all of our ministry opportunities in our Summer Scepter. (click link)
Memorial Garden updates & plant-a-tree project
Fall Basket Auction
St. Edward’s Cookbook project
Food Pantry & School Supplies donations
You are in our thoughts and prayers and please keep your fellow parishioners, and those in need, in your daily prayers, and give them a call, to say “hello.”
Look for the Saturday afternoon message which will have links to all things for Sunday worship.
There are many exciting ministries that we launched in our July/August Scepter. If you haven’t read about them, yet, we direct you to the link (above) where we hope you will join us, in ministry and fellowship, as we launch into several initiatives meant to beautify our sacred spaces, such as the Memorial Garden; soothe the soul (and our love of food) with our parish cookbook initiative; and raise funds (and have some fun!) via our annual Basket Auction.
Through these initiatives, we are working on creative ways to enfold all of us, whether we see each other at church weekly for in-person worship or whether we have chosen to stay closer to home, for now, worshipping online, so that our community of faith stays connected and strong, for each other and the wider community. It is our hope, that you will join us!
We are so grateful for the response in our first week, as we have 5 trees purchased for our plant-a-tree fundraiser for our Memorial Garden (we are seeking a total of 20) and we have secured 5 baskets for our basket auction (we are seeking 20 baskets). Our goal is to have all of the trees purchased and all of the baskets secured by the end of August!
We are also participating in a school supply drive for the Landisville Primary Center for the 2020/2021 school year. Supplies needed are:
Pencils
Colored pencils
Crayons
Erasers
Notebook paper
Colored paper
Glue sticks
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., black
Dry Erase Markers, fine pt., red
Folders without clasps
Let’s help our neighborhood children be ready to learn! There will be a drop off box in the narthex on Sundays and in the front entry just inside the red doors during the week for supply drop off. We thank you for your generosity in helping St. Edward’s reach out to the wider community.
Continue reading below to get the details for our Friday and Saturday worship and fellowship activities and our closing prayer for the parish, from the Book of Common Prayer, page 817.
Be well. Stay safe. Keep the faith.
Michelle
We invite you to Evening Prayer this Friday evening at 7:00 PM. This is a wonderful way to peacefully end our week and is led by Patrick Ishler.
Join us for our Virtual Saturday Social from 9 AM – 9:40 AM Saturday morning on Zoom. It will be hosted by Christina and Joe McLaughlin. Maybe we could talk about the cookbook initiative and favorite recipes to share and where we find them (grandma’s old recipe box, perhaps?!?) So join us! Ask questions, give us your feedback and enjoy some fellowship THIS SATURDAY, July 11th at 9:00 AM. Please check your Thursday email for the join code and the passcode.
We leave you, this Thursday Eve, with a Prayer for the Parish
Almighty and everliving God, ruler of all things in heaven and earth, hear our prayers for this parish family. Strengthen the faithful, arouse the careless, and restore the penitent.
Grant us all things necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within your holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Welcome to the hazy days of summer this week! What better way to spend a quiet Monday afternoon than to watch the St. Edward’s service, from the weekend. In case you missed it, it was a wonderful combination of meditative and spiritual celebrating of the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 9.
To follow along with the bulletin, the 10:15 AM service for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 9, Rite II, click here to access.
Another way to enjoy our worship, if you attend the 8 AM Rite I service, is to download the bulletin, here, and then to watch the service below at the 16:30 mark to hear Father Rick read the gospel and then stay to listen to, Dina Carter Ishler, give the homily for this past Sunday.
Fellowship and Ministry Opportunities Abound at St. Edward’s!
Join us in ministry and fellowship this summer with several activities featured in our July/August Scepter. They are safe. They are community. They forge our ministry of giving to St. Edward’s, each other, and the wider community.
Our Cookbook Ministry: Details on page 15
Our Annual Basket Auction: Details on Page 7
Our Memorial Garden Plant-a-Tree Fundraiser: Details on page 12
Plus. . . many other efforts led by Social Outreach (page 11) & Donna Holwager & Carol Cotnoir (page 16)
Wednesday Noonday Service of Healing
It is here! Starting this Wednesday, July 8 at 12 noon. Please enter through the parish hall doors. Masks are required. We have put in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety. May we ask that you please let the parish office know if you are planning on attending (it you have not already done so).
We leave you for the start of this week with a prayer For the Beauty of the Earth, from the Book of Common Prayer:
We give you thanks, most gracious God, for the beauty of earth and sky and sea; for the richness of the mountains, plains, and rivers; for the songs of the birds and the loveliness of the flowers. We praise you for these good gifts, and pray that we may safeguard them for our posterity. Grant that we may continue to grow in our grateful enjoyment of your abundant creation, to the honor and glory of your Name, now and forever. Amen.
We welcome you to St. Edward’s! Father Rick welcomes you!
We are holding in-person worship this weekend at 8 AM – Rite I and 10:15 AM – Rite II! Join us! We have put in place healthy practices for your comfort and safety!
Please know that we extend our warm invitation of worship to those in the wider community and those parishioners who are still at home, via YouTube Live, with our live streaming service each Sunday. We are one community of faith and we are worshipping together!
Besides prayers, calls, cards and emails, there is one more thing you can do to support St. Edward’s during this time. Please keep up-to-date with your pledge or regular contribution. Even though we must keep our doors closed for a period of time, we also must continue to pay our fixed expenses such as electricity, insurance, and salaries. We will continue to pick up our mail, so you can easily mail your contributions to the office and we will see that they are properly credited. We have also been blessed to discover that the diocese has set up online giving for each parish. If you feel comfortable making your weekly giving or pledge donation in this manner (it is a secure giving tool), simply go to the diocesan web site, click on the tab up top and it will take you to a page where you can scroll down, find St. Edward’s, and continue with making your contribution! Thank you for maintaining your faithfulness through your financial stewardship!
Let us start by inviting you to Evening Prayer this evening at 7:00 PM. This is a wonderful way to peacefully end our week and is led by Patrick Ishler.
Join us for our Virtual Saturday Social from 9 AM – 9:40 AM tomorrow on Zoom. It will be hosted by Michelle Bentley. The parish office will be introducing some great new ministries and fellowship activities that the parish has started to plan for the summer into the fall. So join us! Ask questions, give us your feedback and enjoy some fellowship THIS SATURDAY at 9:00 AM.The link and details will be in Friday’s email.
And now, on to Sunday news!
We welcome you to St. Edward’s! As we continue to work with the phased re-opening of Lancaster County, for this Sunday, we are able to accommodate more people at our worship services at 8 AM for Rite I and 10:15 AM for Rite II. Whatever your choice may be, or if you would like to worship with us via our YouTube Livestream service at 10:15 AM, which is our service inclusive of wonderful music, we are ready to welcome you!
As you feel comfortable, please consider joining us on future Sundays in-person. We do not need to take “reservations” but should you have any questions as to our protocols or capacity, please do not hesitate to contact the parish office. We want you to feel safe, relaxed and make certain we maintain all safe social distancing protocols.
Here is all you need for this Sunday’s worship:
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 8 – June 28th
Besides prayers, calls, cards and emails, there is one more thing you can do to support St. Edward’s during this time. Please keep up-to-date with your pledge or regular contribution. Even though we must keep our doors closed for a period of time, we also must continue to pay our fixed expenses such as electricity, insurance, and salaries. We will continue to pick up our mail, so you can easily mail your contributions to the office and we will see that they are properly credited. We have also been blessed to discover that the diocese has set up online giving for each parish. If you feel comfortable making your weekly giving or pledge donation in this manner (it is a secure giving tool), simply go to the diocesan web site, click on the tab up top and it will take you to a page where you can scroll down, find St. Edward’s, and continue with making your contribution! Thank you for maintaining your faithfulness through your financial stewardship!
Leslie Arnold has created a wonderful program of Christian Formation lessons for our youth, which can be found on our Christian Education page on our web site (link below). For youth, and the youthful at heart, take a look. They are quite wonderful and actually may be exactly what some of us “older youth” may actually like to engage in as well!
What would a week at St. Edward’s be without another project, right?!?!?
So, not only did Father Rick and I do some outside work in the Memorial Garden (well, we’ll give that one to Father Rick. . .I just brought the water bottles!) but we also reorganized the Parish Hall and created a new contemplative chapel area for our Wednesday Noonday service, which will commence on Wednesday July 8th at 12 Noon. In doing so, we unearthed some wonderful St. Edward’s artifacts, like our church crest and we also cleared up much of the tables and chairs that had been cluttering the wall space. (Click on the gallery images to enlarge).
We wish you a peaceful evening and hope that we see you in-person, virtually, or that you are with us in spirit as we journey through this weekend.
What a wonderful day it was yesterday at St. Edward’s! The church was ALIVE with 8 AM Rite I parishioners and 10:15 AM Rite II parishioners. And, it was a beautiful re-opening of our parish home.
So special to welcome Father Rick for his first in-person worship at St. Edward’s as our new rector. It was such an incredible day to finally be able to be in community, with him, and experience him celebrating and preaching, in-person.
So nice to hear the organ and piano masterfully played by Karen Waddill along with Patrick Ishler as our wonderful soloist. All very special.
Our ushers/health safety volunteers did a fantastic job with all of our protocols and their wonderful hospitality to all who came to worship with us, while maintaining social distancing. We are so lucky to have our bright and spacious sanctuary to be able to re-open safely with such love and welcoming, It was a lovely day!
The 10:15 AM Rite II YouTube Livestream was wonderfully received by those who we reach out to at home and in the wider community and we look forward to making our technology adjustments as we all lean in to this expanded and new way we will be worshipping together. We thank you for your support, patience, and stewardship and we so look forward to continuing our re-opening and adding new things, as we can, while adhering to all of the health and safety protocols for you.
Share our Facebook posts and YouTube videos with your family and friends!
In case you missed the service yesterday, you can find it here:
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As is our tradition, our “Scepter Summer Issue” is a July /August combination. So, if you have items, pictures, articles you would like Mac to publish for the next two months, please get them to her no later than this Wednesday, June 24th. You can send them to:
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We received a notice from Community Aid today reminding us that while they are working to manage the bins, they understand that there is a large overflow of donations that are being placed in the bins, many times falling out or being placed on the ground. Unfortunately, when items are left on the ground they must be tossed away and it takes a substantial amount of time and funds away from their mission to pick up and pay for the disposal of the overflow items, as they are then considered “trash.” They are doing their best, but prayerfully request that we be good stewards of our donations and if the bin is full to either wait until the pick up has been taken care of (they usually come once every 10 days) or to take your donations to the store on Good Drive and Columbia Avenue where you can ensure your gifts will not be wasted. We thank you for your understanding.
We leave you with a Prayer for the Parish, from The Book of Common Prayer – page 817
Almighty and everliving God, ruler of all things in heaven and earth, hear our prayers for this parish family. Strengthen the faithful, arouse the careless, and restore the penitent. Grant us all things necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within your holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
As always for this week, and every week: Be well. Stay Safe. Keep the Faith.
