12 Feb 2024

Hope Dining Room volunteers needed Monday, February 19, 2024

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

Next Monday, February 19, 2024, is our opportunity to serve at Hope Dining Room. Hope Dining Room where we serve “a midday hot meal with dignity, to those in need in the Greater Newark Delaware area.”

Guests at Hope are “dining in”, so we have 2 different short shifts for which you can volunteer. The setup and cooking shift goes from 10 – 11:45 a.m. The serving and cleanup shift goes from 11:45 – 1:30 p.m.

If you’d like to help, please bring a ball cap and an apron. We would LOVE to see you! All of this takes place at Kingswood Methodist Church kitchen 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.

Please volunteer for the things we need for the meal and to volunteer.

If you are donating one of those items, THANK YOU! You can bring it to St. Thomas’s, Monday – Thursday from 9 – noon, OR when you come to church on Sunday! Please put it in the kitchen and mark it for “HOPE DINING ROOM”.  If that doesn’t fit into your schedule, give me a call, text or email and I will pick it up at your house.

MANY Blessings to you ALL,
Madeline Johnson
mad1240@comcast.net

9 Feb 2024

Worship and weekly news for February 11, 2024

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Hello faith family! This is the Last Sunday after Epiphany – February 11, 2024, Year B.

This week, we celebrate Absalom Jones, who was from Delaware! He is also featured in our St Thomas Pilgrimage Windows; can you find him this Sunday? He was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War. In 1794, Jones founded the first Black Episcopal congregation, and in 1802, he was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting.

Last Sunday after EpiphanyOur weekly Worship schedule

This Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Jan. 15, 2024
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

  • Tue., Feb. 13, 2024 – Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner
  • Wed., Feb. 14, 2024 – Valentines Day and Ash Wednesday
  • Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
  • March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
  • Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

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

8 Feb 2024

Graceful Waves Podcast 2024

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Podcasts are a multi-task friendly medium, allowing you to listen to them while doing other activities such as doing housework, driving, or taking a walk. You can pause if needed and restart when you are ready. This is also a great format for you to share messages with others, by utilizing the share button available on each episode.

You will find many of your favorite past sermons from Fr. Howie, Fr. Clay, and Deacon Sheila. Re-listening can help you to find additional meaning and understanding and pick up details that you may have missed the first time around. Coming very soon, our daily Lenten Devotionals will be available through this podcast (as well as on YouTube). What else do you think that we should add? Please share your suggestions on how we can grow this ministry.

Our exciting new podcast is available on many platforms. Please see the links below and choose your favorite
Amazon/Audible
iHeartRadio
Spotify
Podchaser

Here are PodBean step-by-step instructions to follow Graceful Waves. If you are not a regular podcast consumer, subscribe to Podbean today to follow “Graceful Waves”! It is completely free.

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

Here are the daily Lenten 2024 podcasts:
Week 1: Feb. 14, Feb. 15, Feb. 16, Feb. 17,
Week 2: Feb. 18, Feb. 19, Feb. 20, Feb. 21, Feb. 22, Feb. 23, Feb. 24
Week 3: Feb. 25, Feb. 26, Feb. 27, Feb. 28, Feb. 29, March 1, March 2
Week 4: March 3, March 4, March 5, March 6, March 7, March 8, March 9
Week 5: March 10, March 11, March 12, March 13, March 14, March 15, March 16
Week 6: March 17, March 18, March 19, March 20, March 21, March 22, March 23
Week 7: March 24, March 25, March 26, March 27, March 28, March 29, March 30

5 Feb 2024

Black History Month 2024

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Each day this month, we will hear from African-American theologians (and one African!),past and contemporary. 

Which of these voices do you hear speaking about your own experience? 
Which are calling you to a new vision of God’s plan for humanity? 
And who should we hear more from? 

God’s peace to you today and always.

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5 Feb 2024

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner February 2024

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Pancake DinnerPlease join us on February 13, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. for a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner preceding Ash Wednesday.

Eating starts at 5:30 p.m. But, the preliminary work starts at 4 p.m.

We need help pulling it together and here’s a Sign Up Genius for you to sign up for things we need help with. Feel free to sign up for more than one task. But, just one is just fine, too.

As always, you can call me to tell me what you would like to do to help if you are uncomfortable using the Sign Up Genius (SUG).

Thank you! You are welcome to bring your friends and neighbors!

Sally Price

18 Jan 2024

Worship and weekly news for January 21, 2024

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Hello faith family! This is the Third Sunday after Epiphany – January 21, 2024, Year B. This week, we celebrate Florence Li Tim-Oi, who was the first woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion, on 25 January 1944. In 1931, Florence Li was present at the ordination of Deaconess Lucy Vincent at St. John’s Cathedral in Hong Kong when the preacher had asked for women to give their lives to work for Christian ministry.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting and the Adult Education Series – The Rule of Saint Benedict.

Our weekly Worship schedule

Third Sunday after EpiphanyThis Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Jan. 15, 2024
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

  • Sun., Jan. 28, 2024 at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
  • Wed., Feb. 14, 2024 – Valentines Day and Ash Wednesday
  • Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
  • March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
  • Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

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

14 Jan 2024

Adult Education Series – The Rule of Saint Benedict

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The Rule of Saint Benedict series will be held on January 14, 21, 28th, and February 4, 2024 from 9-10 a.m.

In the 6th Century, Benedict of Nursia founded a religious community and wrote for it set of guidelines on how Christians (monks in his case) ought to live a godly and peaceable life together, “The Rule of St Benedict.”

It strikes a balance between the needs and goals of the individual and the community, and is known especially for its emphasis on moderation in all things. In 15 centuries since it was written, it has influenced the lives of countless Christians, those living in religious communities and those living in the secular world.

Join us as we read “Rule”, as it was at its birth and as it is lived today. For source material, we will draw on the Rule as originally written and on “St Benedict’s Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living,” by Jane Tomaine (an Episcopal priest).Whenever possible, we will offer all our programs in person and virtually. Please make plans to attend in whatever format best fits your circumstances.

Please email the office if you need a zoom link: StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com

See our brochure for Offerings for the 2023-2024 Christian Education Season.

12 Jan 2024

Worship and weekly news for January 14, 2024

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Hello faith family! This is the Second Sunday after Epiphany – January 14, 2024, Year B. This week, we celebrate Julia Chester Emery. She was the National Secretary of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Board of Missions for forty years, from 1876 to 1916. The Episcopal Church calendar honors her with a feast on January 9. During her four decades as National Secretary, a position she first held at age 24, Julia visited every diocese in the United States, coordinating and encouraging work in support of missions. During her four decades as National Secretary, a position she first held at age 24, Julia visited every diocese in the United States, coordinating and encouraging work in support of missions. The United Thank Offering continues to this day and collects and gives away over $1 million annually.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting and the Adult Education Series – The Rule of Saint Benedict.

Our weekly Worship schedule

This Sunday’s Schedule

Growth and Fellowship

  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
  • Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
  • 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Jan. 15, 2024
  • Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
  • Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

  • Wed., Feb. 14, 2024 – Valentines Day and Ash Wednesday
  • Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
  • March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
  • Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

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

12 Jan 2024

Annual Parish Meeting 2024

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St.. Thomas’s Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024 after the 10:30 a.m. service. Before the Annual Meeting, we will hold two working preparation sessions on January 21 and February 25, 2024 from 9-10 a.m.

We invite everyone to come with good ideas and with passion for the mission of God at St. Thomas’s to one or both of the prep meetings. And, we hope to see all of our faith family at the Annual Meeting.

Help us to answer:
What should we dream of for the parish going forward?
What is God calling us to do and be now and in the years to come?

You can help shape our future. Help make decisions about how we share the way of love throughout our faith family, our church, and our community. Share your unique perspective.

And, it is also the season to elect new vestry members. Please speak to any member of the vestry, Fr. Howie or Fr. Clay about what being on the vestry means and how to nominate yourself or someone else. Nominations can begin this Sunday and elections will be held at our annual meeting.

9 Jan 2024

Hope Dining Room volunteers needed Monday, January 15, 2024

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

Next Monday, January 15, 2024, is our opportunity to serve at Hope Dining Room. Hope Dining Room where we serve “a midday hot meal with dignity, to those in need in the Greater Newark Delaware area.”

This month, our day to serve, falls on Martin Luther King Day and our teens have no school. SO, they have decided to do some community service and will be our cooks and servers at Hope this month! When you see them at church, be sure to thank them for volunteering!

Please volunteer for the things we need for the meal and to volunteers. We had 20 fruit cups left from last month, so we only need 20 more. We plan to serve 40 people.

If you are donating one of those items, THANK YOU! You can bring it to St. Thomas’s, Monday – Thursday from 9 – noon, OR when you come to church on Sunday! Please put it in the kitchen and mark it for “HOPE DINING ROOM”.  If that doesn’t fit into your schedule, give me a call, text or email and I will pick it up at your house.

MANY Blessings to you ALL,
Madeline Johnson
mad1240@comcast.net