We are making plans for the 2025 Confirmation Class. All youth 12 years of age and up are invited to join us on a spirit-filled journey centered around worship, learning, service, witness, and fellowship. We’ll have loads of dialogue, laughter, and fun, too!
Weekly classes will be held on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. from September 2024 to May 2025.
Contact Mr. Bob Rys (bobrys05@gmail.com) for more info.
Bring your pet to St. Thomas’s for a blessing and stay for fun with animals, vendors, giveaways, and more!
DATE: Sunday, September 29, 2024
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION: 276 S. College Ave., Newark, Delaware 19711
This event is open to the pubic.
ALL God’s creatures are invited: Please bring your companion on a leash or in a carrier. If your wild one does not travel well, you are welcome to join in the blessing and carry it home with you.
We look forward to seeing you and your pet!
Hello faith family! This the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 25, 2024, Year B. University of Delaware students are back! There is excitement in the air! And, so much FUN and FELLOWSHIP is being planned for this fall.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. You can stay informed through this newsletter, our parish calendar, the schedules printed in the back of the worship service booklets, running on the monitors around the church building, or by contacting the office. Please share your exciting events such as musical performances and sporting events with the office if you’d like to extend an invitation to your faith family.
News items:
Our weekly Worship schedule
This Sunday’s Schedule – accompanying worship booklets available on Sermons page.
Growth and Fellowship
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, or YouTube.. 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
St. Thomas’s Blue Hen Bounty (BHB), our student/community food pantry, serves University of Delaware (UD) students who are food insecure and cannot provide ample nutrition for themselves.
Blue Hen Bounty is gearing up for the return of UD students later this month and needs your help with several things.
If you have any grocery bags – paper, plastic or multi-use – please drop them off in the classroom. We are running low and expect many students to “stock-up” the first few weeks of school.
As always, we can use and food and personal hygiene items, which can be dropped off in the classroom.
If you are available to help out stocking and/or monitoring BHB please let me know. We now have three stockers which has helped us provide a better selection to more students. We can always use more help. If you are available once a month or once a week let me know and I will provide training and keys. If you are more comfortable not having keys, you can come in any time Cana is in the office (generally 9-12 noon M-Thurdays).
We are also looking for monitors. Hours are 9 – 12 noon M-F or any portion you are available – monthly or weekly. There is often some down time so I always bring something to read or work on.
For questions, email StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or contact Teresa Coons email tlcoons411@comcast.net to volunteer.
Thanks for your continued support of Blue Hen Bounty.
Teresa Coons
At the Sunday, September 8, 2024 worship service at 10:30 a.m., we will bless backpacks, workbags, and laptops.
Students, teachers, and education professionals are invited to bring them and receive a blessing for a successful 2024-5 school year.
This service is open to the public. All are welcome.
Are you yearning for meaningful conversations that touch the depths of your soul? Look no further! Join us at the Novel Theology Discussion Group, where hearts and minds converge in fellowship and exploration. Novel Theology is a lively discussion group.
Meetings are held the third Sunday of the month from September through May at 9:15 a.m. in the Great Hall Classroom. There will be coffee, snacks, fellowship, and conversation!
What: Novel Theology Discussion Group
When: Every fourth Sunday from September through May
Time: 9:15 a.m.
Where: Great Hall Classroom
Why Attend?
Feel free to share this invitation with kindred souls who seek the divine in dialogue.
September 22: “Innocent Libertine”, by Davis Bunn
October 27: “This Tender Land”, by William Kent Krueger
November 24: “Murder Cuts the Mustard”, by Jessica Ellicot
December 22: “The 4th Wiseman”, by Henry van Dyke
Dear Families of St. Thomas’s and St. Nicholas,
Monday, August 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.
We have fruit cups left over from last month AND Father Howie is making his secret recipe cake for all to enjoy! All we need is helpers this month!
MANY Blessings to you ALL,
Madeline Johnson
mad1240@comcast.net
Blue Hen Bounty (BHB) is gearing up for the return of University of Delaware students later this month and needs your help with several things.
If you have any grocery bags – paper, plastic or multi-use – please drop them off in the classroom. We are running low and expect many students to “stock-up” the first few weeks of school.
As always, we can use and food and personal hygiene items. Again, just drop off in the classroom.
If you are available to help out stocking and/or monitoring BHB, please let me know. We now have three stockers, which has helped us provide a better selection to more students. We can always use more help. If you are available once a month or once a week, let me know and I will provide training and keys. If you are more comfortable not having keys, you can come in any time. Cana is in the office (generally 9-12 noon Mondays-Thurdays).
We are also looking for monitors. Hours are 9 – 12 noon M-F or any portion you are available – monthly or weekly. There is often some down time so I always bring something to read or work on.
Thanks for your continued support of BHB
Teresa Coons
Hello faith family! This the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – August 4, 2024, Year B.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. News items:
Our weekly Worship schedule
This Sunday’s Schedule – accompanying worship booklets available on Sermons page.
Growth and Fellowship
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, or YouTube.. 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
Hello faith family! This the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – July 28, 2024, Year B.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. News items:
Our weekly Worship schedule
This Sunday’s Schedule – accompanying worship booklets available on Sermons page.
Growth and Fellowship
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, or YouTube.. 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