Dear friends and parishioners,
To start your week, we share with you a lovely image from Friday, once the storm had cleared from St. Edward’s, with this poem about nature and life from Emily Dickinson.
The rainbow never tells me
That gust and storm are by,
Yet is she more convincing
Than Philosophy.
My flowers turn from Forums—
Yet eloquent declare
What Cato couldn’t prove me
Except the birds were here!
– Emily Dickinson
Missed the Sunday service? You can watch it here!
Be well. Stay safe. Keep the faith.
– Michelle
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MINISTRY HAPPENINGS AT ST. EDWARD’S
VARIETY SHOW/TAKE-OUT DINNER/BASKET AUCTION: Stay tuned in the next week as we will be sending out information on our variety show/call for talent as well as tease some details about our October 24th Fundraising Event. It is going to be FUN!
COOKBOOK MINISTRY
We’ve received some wonderful recipes, creative writing, and photos. We hope others will consider contributing their talents to this project. If you have a creative spirit or reflections, but no recipe, we welcome your contribution. If you have recipes, only, that is wonderful, too!
GREETING CARD MINISTRY
If you have not had a chance to stop buy and “shop” for greeting cards, we invite you to our greeting card ministry. Thomas Ishler was able to secure quite a bounty of greeting cards from a pharmacy that was closing its doors in Lancaster County. We have set them up in the Christian Ed wing in safe and healthy spaces for people to browse the cards, make their selections, and consider a free-will offering. 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. We also encourage people to reach out to others they know and perhaps put together packets of cards to give away. We hope to see you soon! Please come in any day, Monday – Friday between 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM.
MINISTRY, WORSHIP & FELLOWSHIP THIS WEEK
Finance Committee Meeting – Tuesday, August 11th at 6:30 PM via Zoom
Wednesday Noonday Service of Healing – Wednesday, August 12th
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).
Bible Study – Wednesday, August 12th
Led by Bill and Yvonne Gasperetti. For more information about upcoming Bible Study sessions, please contact Bill at [email protected] or Yvonne at [email protected]. This is the 2nd to last Bible Study meeting for Session 2. Session 3 begins on September 9th and will be a weekly meeting. If you are interested in joining the group for Session 3, please contact Bill or Yvonne.
Friday Evening Prayer – August 14th
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
School Supplies Drive 2020 for Landisville Primary Center
Due to the overwhelming generosity and kindness of our parishoners, we have enough supplies to completely cover the needs of 30 school children at the Landisville Primary Center. We were also able to purchase a $100 gift card to give to the school to cover some of the additional needs of the students.
We received $505.00 in monetary donations. Finn was my super helper at Target. He did the calculations and counted out all of the 40+ expo marker packages that we bought today. Many thanks also to Dina for helping to count and record all of our donated supplies and to Beth for finding additional hand sanitizer and tissues. I am simply overwhelmed by how everyone pitched in to help our neighboring school children in this time of need.
Peace, Ellen
Thanks be to God!!! Ellen, your leadership on this has been absolutely stellar, and it feels like such a grace to walk in Christ with such a loving and responsive group of folks. Go St. Ed’s!
Rick+