St. Thomas’s will hold its Annual Bazaar on the following dates:

Friday, Nov. 8, 2024 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. – 1 p.m.

We will have crafts, vendors, bake sale, soup sale, and a white elephant sale. Lunch is available for sale on Saturday. There will also be a pre-order sale of pies by Desserts by Dana for pickup Nov. 23, 2024.

This event is open to the public and admission is free. Won’t you join us?

Volunteers may sign up to help!

For questions, contact he Parish Office at (302) 368-4644 or StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

Poets’ Corner Reading Series presents Marceline White on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, 276 S College Avenue, Newark, Delaware. This event is co-sponsored by St. Thomas’s Parish and the University of Delaware Department of English.

A two-time Pushcart Prize and recent Best of the Net nominee, Marceline’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in trampset, Culinary Origami, The Heartland Review, Prime Number, The Orchard Review, The Indianapolis Review, Atticus Review, Little Patuxent Review, Gingerbread House, The Free State Review, and The Loch Raven Review and others. She was a recipient of an Aspen Words Fellowship in 2023. When not writing, Marceline can be found serving her two cats, posting too many pictures of her garden, and telling her son to text her when he arrives at the party. In her spare time, she’s an award-winning consumer advocate and has written and advocated on gender and trade. Read more at www.marcelinewhitewrites.com.

ALL ARE WELCOME. Open to the public.

Poets’ Corner Reading Series presents Jamie Brown reading the poetry of his favorite poets on Saturday, September 16, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, 276 S. College Ave., Newark, DE. See the flyer.

James C. L. Brown is CEO of Broadkill Publishing Associates, which publishes chapbooks under the Broadkill Press imprint, and full-length collections of fiction and poetry under the Broadkill River Press imprint.

He is the Founder, and former Publisher and Editor, of The Broadkill Review. He is Founder and was, for the first decade, Director of the Annual John Milton Memorial Celebration of Poets and Poetry and he was, for the first nine years of the Prize, Director of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, which was then an annual chapbook manuscript competition open to Delmarva Poets.

He has taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Delaware and Wesley College. He taught the first Creative Writing Workshop to be offered at the Smithsonian Institution and has served as a member of the Poetry Committee of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The list of his poetry publications is long. He’s been an important and generous force in the Delaware and Eastern shore literary scenes for decades.

This event is co-sponsored by St. Thomas’s Parish and the University of Delaware Department of English.

Open to the public.

A new committee is coming together at St Thomas’s. This “Events Committee” will be responsible for commissioning events. So many brilliant ideas never come to fruition. This group will help to organize ideas and put together smaller commission groups to bring these events to life.

What ideas do you have? What events would you like to see happen at St. Thomas’s? More movie nights? Another NARCAN training? A potluck dinner? Many hands make light work.

If you are interested in joining this new committee or if you have event ideas, please reach out to Kristin: kristin.sausville@gmail.com. This group will communicate primarily through google groups with occasional in-person meetings. ALL are Welcome to participate.

Upcoming events you can be a part of:
• Confirmation celebration
• Newark community Spring Crocus photo contest
• A trip to the Glencairn Museum in Philly
• …what fun ideas do you have?

Lectionary Bible Study is a relaxed and friendly group that meets in the classroom at the church on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the lessons for the following Sunday. Come every week or drop in when you can for some new perspectives on familiar stories and maybe some speculation about where the sermon will go! For more information, contact Carol Palermo at cpalermo625@gmail.com.

It is time for one of our favorite St. Thomas’s traditions! And, this year St. Francis’s feast day is actually on Sunday, October 2, 2022, making this one extra special. Join us on Sunday, October 2, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. in the Grove next to the church.

Please bring your companion(s) 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. Human friends and their pets are also invited, so share this date with yours!

All of God’s creatures are welcome!

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