It’s Annual Bazaar time on November 12-13, 2021 and you are invited to sign up to volunteer. Below are sign-ups needing volunteers. Donations may be brought to St. Thomas’s on Wed., Nov. 10 or Thurs., Nov. 11, 2021, between 9-4 p.m. and should be labeled “Annual Bazaar.”

Volunteer sign-up – many hands make light work! Have fun working with others while making income to be donated to local charities. Questions may be directed to Barbara Graham at 44graham@comcast.net.

Soup Donation sign-up – please include a list of ingredients with your soup. We don’t need the recipe, just the ingredients so customers can check for allergies. The soup should be delivered by Thursday and be in quart containers labeled with the name of the soup and its ingredients. Please put soup containers in the freezer. Questions may be directed to Debbie Kearns at dak2464@aol.com.

Gift Bags/Baskets sign-up – please deliver your donation on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 while we are setting up for the Bazaar. Questions may be directed to Philippa Sunnergren at phil@sunnergren.com.

Cookie sign-up – please include a list of ingredients with your cookies. We don’t need the recipe, just the ingredients so customers can check for allergies. Cookies should be delivered Friday morning and labeled with the type of the cookie and include its ingredients. If Friday morning is not convenient, contact Carol Palermo at cpalermo625@gmail.com to make other delivery arrangements.

Non-cookie sign-up – please include a list of ingredients with your baked goods. We don’t need the recipe, just the ingredients so customers can check for allergies. Baked goods should be delivered Friday morning and labeled with the type of the baked good and include its ingredients. If Friday morning is not convenient, contact Carol Palermo at cpalermo625@gmail.com to make other delivery arrangements.

One of our returning vendors at the Annual Bazaar is Cherita Brasier. She represents Tastefully Simple. Tastefully Simple not only provides delicious products that are quick and easy, this season they are in partnership with Feed My Starving Children.

There are catalogues in the office with order forms. You can also look at the products available on line at
https://www.tastefullysimple.com

If you order in advance, the order will be waiting for you at the Annual Bazaar on November 12 or 13, 2021. The pre-order offer is available until October 30, 2021.

Thank you for supporting our bazaar and our vendors.

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

Monday, October 18, 2021, is our opportunity to serve at Hope Dining Room. If you are free between 10 a.m. and noon that day, we would love for you to experience the joy that it gives to be part of a team that makes a simple lunch for people who really appreciate it. 

It is a lot of fun and very heart-warming to help feed people in our community, who REALLY appreciate it. At this time, it is a “grab and go” lunch, because of COVID. All of our kitchen helpers are masked and our guests who are also masked come through the dining room stay 6 feet apart, grab their styrofoam clamshell lunch, and go out another door.

We begin cooking at 10 a.m. at Kingswood Methodist Church on Marrows Road in the Brookside Park community. We finish cleanup by noon.

Here is a Sign Up Genius for the cookies, fruit cups and kitchen helpers:  
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4DACA72AAAFF2-hope14  

You may drop off your donations of fruit cups and cookies at St. Thomas’s on Tuesday through Thursday between 9 a.m. and noon or Sunday morning when you come to church. If those times don’t work for you, give me a call or email and I will pick it up at your house.

MANY Blessings,
Madeline Johnson     mad1240@comcast.net

Visit St. Thomas’s Annual Bazaar to be held on
Friday, November 12 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday, November 13 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

You will find unique holiday crafts (many under $10), fresh baked goods, cookie walk (build your own cookie tray!), quarts of homemade soups, St. Thomas’s t-shirts and hoodies, second-hand Christmas decorations, resale shop / white elephant sale, and exclusive new items. Tastefully Simple is taking pre-orders. which you may pick up at the Bazaar.

On Friday and Saturday, join us for lunch, which may be purchased between 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Won’t you consider volunteering? Volunteer sign-ups via Sign-up Genius are available for you to sign up.

All proceeds from the Annual Bazaar go to Outreach Ministries.

Open to the public. Invite your family and friends!

Questions may be directed to Barbara Graham at 44graham@comcast.net.

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

Monday, September 20, 2021 is our opportunity to serve lunch at Hope Dining Room. We begin cooking at 10 a.m. at Kingswood Methodist Church on Marrows Road in the Brookside Park community. We are usually finished cleaning up by noon.

It is a lot of fun and very heart-warming to help feed people in our community, who REALLY appreciate it. At this time, it is a “grab and go” lunch, because of COVID. All of our kitchen helpers are masked and our guests who are also masked come through the dining room stay 6 feet apart, grab their styrofoam clamshell lunch, and go out another door. 

Here is a Sign Up Genius for the cookies, fruit cups and kitchen helpers:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4DACA72AAAFF2-hope13  

You may drop off your donations of cookies and fruit cups at St. Thomas’s, on Monday through Thursday, between 9 a.m. and noon, or Sunday morning when you come to church.    If those times don’t work for you, give me a call and I will pick it up at your house.  

MANY Blessings,
Madeline Johnson mad1240@comcast.net

We will be holding our Annual Bazaar in 2 short months. Soon you will be seeing sign-up sheets to provide baked goods, your wonderful craft items and most importantly your TIME.

There will be sign-up sheets at the Time and Talent Day at our table on September 26, 2021. The sign-up sheets will also be posted on the bulletin board near the Choir Room. Please stop by our display and see some of the items that will be offered at the Annual Bazaar on November 12 and 13, 2021. Also, you will have an opportunity to vote to decide the Saint Tile hot plates that will be produced for sale this year at the Annual Bazaar.

In the meantime, if you have any clear wine bottles (we can take off paper labels), we need about 3 dozen of them. Considering the response in the past for wine corks, I don’t think this will be a problem for our congregation!

Also, any ideas that you have for items to sell at the Annual Bazaar are appreciated.

For questions or ideas, please contact Barb Graham at 44graham@comcast.net.

Dear Family of St. Thomas’s,

You have, no doubt, heard about the Afghan refugees that are coming into the Philadelphia airport. They are, eventually, going out to cities all over the country. Some are coming to Delaware! 

We have the opportunity to team up with Jewish Family Services (JFS), which is one of the agencies helping to settle these families. They have jobs we would be good at: Helping to furnish their living quarters – don’t we all have an extra spatula or can opener in our kitchen drawers?  An extra chair, mattress or bed? Helping to take them to appointments or to the grocery store. Or, helping them connect to the community.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) will give us a quickie class in cultural sensitivity. We will have a translator available if nobody in the family speaks English. You can tell  JFS exactly what your availability is. Every person who volunteers is a blessing.

These people have come to our country for refuge, with NOTHING. It’s hard to imagine. If you are interested in helping, please send me an email at mad1240@comcast.net and I will let you know when our “Cultural Sensitivity” class will be and how we can obtain our clearances to work with these new friends.

Many Blessings to you all,  Madeline Johnson