Since October 2023 has 5 Sundays, Family Choir will be Sunday, October 29, 2023 so that anyone in Sunday School can participate. Please arrive no later than 9:45 a.m. to the front choir area of the church. Anyone who is interested will be welcomed; we are all part of this wonderful faith family.
No worries about your voice…come have a wonderful experience using it in worship!
See you at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday!
Thank you!
Marc Cheban, Organist and Choir Director
Poets’ Corner Reading Series presents Caleb Curtiss (www.cdcurtiss.com) reading from his new book “Age of Forgiveness” on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, 276 S College Avenue, Newark, Delaware.
ALL ARE WELCOME
This event is co-sponsored by St. Thomas’s Parish and the University of Delaware Department of English.
Open to the public.
Hello faith family. We have some very good news. We have exceeded our Step Up Together 2023 Campaign goals again!
We gave gifts of $25,000 and will receive a $25,000 matching grant from our Diocese. Then, we raised an additional $5,000 where the Diocese will match $.75 to the dollar so we received another $3,750 matching grant. On top of that, we gave gifts in the amount of $7,991 which will reduce the $40,000 loan that we will have to acquire. To date we have received $37,991 in gifts! Thank you, thank you.
Our hearts are full and it is time to express the thanks and love that we have shown for our parish.
Won’t you join us on Sunday, October 22, 2023, after each service for treats and to sign a thank you card for the Diocese?
In thanksgiving,
The Step Up Together Committee
Hello faith family! This is the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 15, 2023. This week, we celebrate Luke the Evangelist: The New Testament mentions Luke briefly a few times, and the Epistle to the Colossians refers to him as a physician (from Greek for ‘one who heals’); thus he is thought to have been both a physician and a disciple of Paul. Luke is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter. Fall continues to bring exciting fellowship opportunities and FUN. Read about all of the EXCITEMENT headed our way!
Annual Giving Campaign underway
Hope Dining Room volunteers needed
Truck or Treat needs volunteers
Our weekly Worship schedule
This Sunday’s Schedule
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, 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
Children’s Ministries will sponsor TRUNK OR TREAT 2023 on October 29, 2023 from approximately noon-2 p.m.. Families with children and/or youth of St. Thomas’s, St. Nicholas, and the surrounding community are invited to share an afternoon of fun and fellowship.
Parishioners are invited to decorate their cars, share treats, play games and do a craft or two for an afternoon. Parishioners with no children, who do not want to decorate a car can still get in on the fun by donating goodies or decorations for the event, by running a game or craft table, or by helping with set up or clean up!
Please sign up to indicate that you will attend, to reserve your parking spot (so you can park your decorated car), to donate edible or non-edible goodies, to run a craft or game table, and/or to help clean up or setup.
Blessings,
Belinda Young-Payne
Hello faith family! This is the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 8, 2023. This week, we celebrate Edith Cavell: “Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled her to help all those who needed it, including both German and Allied soldiers. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in wartime was a death penalty offense.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter. Fall continues to bring exciting fellowship opportunities and FUN. Read about all of the EXCITEMENT headed our way!
Annual Giving Campaign underway
Step Up Together campaign update
Blessing of the Animals needs volunteers
Pies by Dana 2023 Outreach Fundraiser
Our weekly Worship schedule
This Sunday’s Schedule
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, 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
St. Thomas’s Annual Bazaar 2023 will be held on
Fri., Nov. 17, 2023 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 18, 2023 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 19, 2023 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
If you pre-ordered Pies from Dana, they may be picked up at the Annual Bazaar.
Admission is free and the public is warmly invited.
The funds raised at the bazaar are used for a variety of Outreach Missions.
Please volunteer either your time or your talents.
St. Thomas’s Parish is located at 276 S. College Ave., Newark, Delaware.
We are almost there faith family, we are almost there! We are a few dollars short of our $30,000 second goal. Do you still wish to give a gift or give another gift to push us over the finish line? Every dollar given is valuable.
Our first goal was to acquire $25,000 in gifts. That means, our diocese will grant us $25,000 in a matching gift. Our second goal was to collect $5,000 in additional gifts and our Diocese would match that at $.75 per dollar or a $3,750 grant. We are just dollars away from that second goal!
We will wrap up this campaign at the end of October. Any gifts received over our goal will be applied towards the $40,000 loan we must acquire.
At the end of the campaign, we will have a celebration and invite everyone to sign a thank you card to our Diocese for their matching gifts.
We anticipate that work will begin on repairing the stairwell and retaining wall in mid-October.
All campaign details are available at Step Up Together 2023 Campaign.
The school year has started in earnest, the students are back, and Blue Hen Bounty (BHB) food pantry is seeing its highest need ever (yes, even more than pandemic levels). One thing in particular contributing to this is that we are seeing student athletes for the first time.
I took a look today, and the cupboard is almost bare. Can we make an effort to refill it this weekend? The most requested items are rice, eggs, cooking oil, soup, bread, tomato sauce, instant oatmeal, and sanitary products. Pasta isn’t going as quickly, so there is less need for that.
Just today, a student stopped by to share that BHB is what makes it possible for them to attend classes and work. Let’s keep it as well stocked as we can.
Thanks to all of you who have been donating items to Blue Hen Bounty (BHB) food pantry provided by Episcopal Camus Ministry (ECM) for University of Delaware students who are food insecure and cannot provide ample nutrition for themselves.
While you are doing your grocery shopping, please consider purchasing anything that is on sale for Blue Hen Bounty. If you have an overabundance from your garden or bought more than your family will use, fresh fruit and veggies are always welcome.
Donations can be left in the box for BHB in the Great Hall or left in the classroom.
We even get requests for eggs. (If you donated eggs, please place in the frig with a note saying ” For BHB”)
If you prefer, you can always make a cash/check donation – just indicate funds are for BHB.
Thanks for your support for this important ministry.
The church building is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. – noon. There is a bin by the name tag station marked for Blue Hen Bounty donations or put donations on the tables or counters in the great hall classroom. For questions, email bluehenbounty@gmail.com. Thank you.
Thanks,
Kristin Sausville, Senior Warden
Hello everyone!
This Sunday, September 24, 2023 – the last Sunday of the month – there will be Family Choir. Please arrive no later than 9:45 a.m. to the front choir area of the church. Anyone who is interested will be welcomed; we are all part of this wonderful faith family.
Come sing with the Family Choir this Sunday….meet at 9:45 a.m. No worries about your voice…come have a wonderful experience using it in worship!
See you at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday!
Marc Cheban, Organist and Choir Director