2 Aug 2023

Worship and weekly news for August 6, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday of the Transfiguration – August 6, 2023.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week with news on our Stepping Up Together Campaign.

This week we celebrate Phoebe, a first-century Christian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, verses 16:1–2. A notable woman in the church of Cenchreae, she was trusted by Paul to deliver his letter to the Romans. Paul refers to her both as a “servant” or “deacon” and as a helper or patron of many. This is the only place in the New Testament where a woman is specifically referred to with these two distinctions. Paul introduces Phoebe as his emissary to the church in Rome and, because they are not acquainted with her, Paul provides them with her credentials.

Also, there are flower dedications available for the next few Sundays. Please let the office know if you have anything you’d like to celebrate or memorialize.

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday of the TransfigurationOur weekly Worship schedule

This Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.

Other Parish Events

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

2 Aug 2023

Worship and weekly news for July 30, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2023, Year A.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week with news on the Community Health Fair and thank you from the Property Committee.

This week we celebrate The Philadelphia Eleven: eleven women who were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood.

Also, there are flower dedications available for the next few Sundays. Please let the office know if you have anything you’d like to celebrate or memorialize.

Ninth Sunday after PentecostOur weekly Worship schedule

This Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.

Other Parish Events

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

2 Aug 2023

Property Committee July 2023 update

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Greetings from the Property Ministry.

We wanted to thank those who helped the Property Ministry care for St. Thomas’s this spring. We had a few people fill out leaves on the Property Care Tree in the foyer.

  • Rob & Jackson Hartman removed the rusty old basketball goal from the pole.
  • Plus, Rob and Jackson started helping the mowing ministry for the cemetery.
  • Paul Lyons helped to trim the bushes by the stained glass windows, letting lots more light shine though to light those beautiful windows.
  • Plus Paul and his wife Wanda helped to trim the azaleas in the cemetery.
  • Alan Lynam provided assistance in assessing the issues with the collapsing wall on the back stairwell. In addition he spent a couple of mornings cutting out some scrub trees in the back of the parking lot and removing some large branches that came down in the Grove during a storm.
  • Tom Price has worked countless hours over the last year with some occasional help from Sally and Sue Houghton to refinish one of the teak benches. It is a real beauty.
  • Fr. Howie has spent time picking up downed branches in the Grove.

The following is the current list of opportunities for helping out over the Summer. Please feel free to tackle any of these items and fill out a leaf on the Property tree so that we know you helped out. If you are interested in helping, but not sure what to do you can email the Property Ministry at stthomasproperty@googlegroups.com or talk to Sue Houghton.

Summer at St. Thomas’s
• Trim suckers in the Grove
• Plant annuals
• Water annuals
• Clear out stairwells
• Water pots as needed
• Water annuals as needed
• Remove vines from trees in the Grove
• Bush Trimming as needed
Bigger Jobs Non-Seasonal
• Paint Doors
• Scrape and paint trim on windows
Summer Cemetery Jobs
(Mowing Ministry: Contact Wayne Weaver to be part of the rotation
of mowers May thru September)
• Flower Bed Weeding
• Vine Trimming as needed
• Dead wooding trees as needed

24 Jul 2023

Worship and weekly news for July 23, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, July 23, 2023, Year A.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week. This week we celebrate James the Great: The son of Zebedee and Salome, James is styled “the Greater” to distinguish him from the Apostle James “the Less,” with “greater” meaning older or taller, rather than more important. James the Great was the brother of John the Apostle.

This Sunday is a “Family Church Sunday”, so in addition to seeing some of our youth participating in our service, we will enjoy a gradual anthem by the “Family Choir”. The Family Choir will meet promptly at 9:45 a.m. in church.  The anthem will be Revive Us Again. We all are a part of this faith family and so ALL are most welcomed to participate.

Also, there are flower dedications available for the next 2 Sundays. Please let the office know if you have anything you’d like to celebrate or memorialize.

Our weekly Worship schedule

Eighth Sunday after PentecostThis Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.

Other Parish Events

  • Sunday, July 23, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Blood Drive
  • Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Health Fair
  • Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023 – Newark Community Day. We will have a booth.

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

20 Jul 2023

Second Annual Community Health Fair 2023

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2023 Health FairThe Second Annual St. Thomas’s Community Health Fair 2023 with free Narcan (Naloxone) training, Covid and flu shots, chidren’s activities, health care information and education will be held
Saturday, September 9, 2023
from 10:00 a.m. – 2 p.m.
at St. Thomas’s Church, 276 S. College Ave. Newark Delaware 19711.

Narcan training is offered at 11 a.m. and sign-up is required.

This event is open to the public. For questions or to reserve a table, call (302) 368-4644.

Vendors at the fair are as follows:

Hillcrest Pharmacy – Flu and COVID shots
Nemours peer to peer breastfeeding support
Delaware Blood Bank
Westside Health Center
atTAck addiction
UD Cooperative Extension
Immunization Coalition of Delaware
Blue Hen Bounty, a food pantry that provides supplemental nutrition to University of Delaware students who are food insecure and cannot provide ample nutrition for themselves.
Children and Families First
Pain & Prayer Project
Delaware Council on Gambling
Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder
Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Heart in the Game
Delaware Ovarian Cancer Foundation
Thrive Physical Therapy
Health and Fitness Coach, Sarah Rockhold

11 Jul 2023

Hope Dining Room volunteers needed Monday, July 17, 2023

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Dear Families of St. Thomas’s and St. Nicholas,

Monday, July 17, 2023 is our opportunity to serve at Hope Dining Room, serves a mid-day hot meal to those in need in the Greater Newark area.

We have a full roster of helpers this month, so I don’t need to ask! THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! 

We do, however, need just a few items for the meal. Please volunteer for the things we need for the meal and for volunteers we need to carry this out. If you are donating your time or an item for the meal, THANK YOU!!!   

If you are donating one of those items, you can bring it to St. Thomas’s, Monday –  Thursday from 9 – noon, OR when you come to church on Sunday? Please mark your item and leave it on the counter in the kitchen. Sally Price will be heading up the team this July 2023. 

Helpers, don’t forget your ball caps and aprons. All of this takes place at Kingswood Methodist Church on Marrows Road in Brookside Park. It is a team effort, lots of fun and it makes you feel so good to feed people who really appreciate it.

MANY Blessings to you ALL,
Madeline Johnson

6 Jul 2023

Worship and weekly news for July 9, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 9, 2023, Year A.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week. This week we celebrate the couple Priscilla and Aquila: a first century Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament. Aquila is traditionally listed among the Seventy Disciples. They lived, worked, and traveled with the Apostle Paul, who described them as his “fellow workers in Christ Jesus.”

Also, there are flower dedications available for the next 3 Sundays. Please let the office know if you have anything you’d like to celebrate or memorialize. Volunteers are needed for Code Orange.

Our weekly Worship schedule

Sixth Sunday after PentecostThis Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.

Other Parish Events

  • Sunday, July 23, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Blood Drive
  • Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Health Fair
  • Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023 – Newark Community Day. We will have a booth.

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

6 Jul 2023

Need Volunteers for Code Orange

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What is the opposite of Code Purple? It’s Code Orange. Friendship House (the agency that administers the Empowerment Center and runs Code Purple) is expecting a warmer than normal summer. In an effort to keep our homeless friends safe from the heat, they have come up with an idea: it will be called Code Orange.

IF the heat index is predicted to be 95 or above, they will call a Code Orange. It will have a permanent host church at Calvary Baptist Church, but will need volunteers from all of the churches! The duties will be light: sit in an air conditioned place and serve cool things like ice water and popsicles etc., assist the Friendship House supervisor, as needed.  Help with set up and clean up. 

The shifts will be:
M – F   10:30 – 1:30  (the Empowerment Center will be available for the guests,  after 1:30).
Saturday   10:30 – 1:30 and 1:30 – 4:30
Sunday   11:30 – 1:30 and 1:30 – 4:30

St. Thomas’s will provide volunteers for the 4th Code Orange on the 8th, 12th etc. There are 3 churches who will assist with Code Orange before we are needed. We will need 2 volunteers for each shift on whatever day we are needed. 

If you aren’t thoroughly confused yet, send me a text or an email and let me know if you’d be willing to help. Since we don’t know dates yet, if you are on the list, know that you can’t be expected to commit far ahead, just let me know if you are willing to be notified.

MANY Blessings to each of you,
Madeline Johnson

30 Jun 2023

Worship and weekly news for July 2, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 2, 2023, Year A. This week we celebrate Thomas the Apostle: one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as “Doubting Thomas” because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus Christ when he was told of it (as is related in the Gospel of John); he later confessed his faith (“My lord and my God”) on seeing the wounds left over from the crucifixion.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week. There are flower dedications available for the next 4 Sundays. Please let the office know if you have anything you’d like to celebrate or memorialize.

Our weekly Worship schedule

Fifth Sunday after PentecostThis Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.

Other Parish Events

  • Sunday, July 23, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Blood Drive
  • Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Health Fair
  • Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023 – Newark Community Day. We will have a booth.

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

21 Jun 2023

Worship and weekly news for June 25, 2023

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Hello faith family! This is the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 25, 2023, Year A.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter for this week.

Our weekly Worship schedule

Fourth Sunday after PentecostThis Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saint Readers
  • 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
  • 2nd Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes in September.
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room
  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program. Program suspended during summer and resumes Sep. 10, 2023.
  • Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – adult education. Resumes in September.
  • Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries. Resumes in September.
  • Sunday, July 2, 2023 – Family Church Sunday

Other Parish Events

  • Sunday, July 23, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Blood Drive
  • Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Health Fair
  • Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023 – Newark Community Day. We will have a booth.

In this strange pandemic time, the church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644