This Sunday, May 24, 2020 is the Seventh Sunday of Easter. Connect to our service at St. Thomas’s YouTube channel. Please subscribe and ring the notification bell (twice) so you never miss a presentation. Here is the service leaflet  that accompanies the service.  I look forward to worshiping together on Sunday!   

On Sunday, June 7th, we will join with most other churches in the Diocese of Delaware to “attend” Bishop’s Brown’s livestream service. Consequently, there will not be the usual 9 a.m. service at St. Thomas’s. Details about time and how to connect to the Bishop’s service will be sent soon.   

In this strange time, 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 your church or online giving. See our Giving page. 

As always, please share your thoughts. What did you find meaningful, and what suggestions do you have for the next service?  Thank you for all of the suggestions and comments sent- they are very helpful.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com

Hello friends! There will be an Intercessory Prayer service today, Wednesday, May 13, 2020, at noon. Please join us. The service will be LIVE on YouTube and here is the accompanying service leaflet for Wednesdays in Easter Season.

This is a quiet, spoken service of Intercessory prayer.

After today, our next LIVE worship service will be at 9 a.m. on Sunday.  By Friday, we will publish the Sunday leaflet for preview and email a reminder on Sunday morning a few minutes before the service. This Sunday’s worship service will come to you LIVE from St. Thomas’s this week!  

As we continue to improve the online service delivery, your feedback is needed.  Please share your thoughts and suggestions either in the live chat in YouTube or by sending email to the parish office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator

May 10, 2020 is the 5th Sunday of Easter and we will be worshiping together and streaming LIVE from St Nicholas at 9 a.m. on YouTube . Here is the accompanying service leaflet. 

If you have not already done so, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and hit that notification bell (twice to receive notifications EVERY time) ? to receive alerts every time we go LIVE.

In this strange time, 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. While Delaware remains under a “shelter in place” order through at least May 15, 2020 and services are broadcast on YouTube, please consider continuing your giving to St. Thomas’s. See our Giving page.  Contributions can also be mailed to the church at 276 S. College Avenue, Newark, DE  19711.  The mail is collected daily so checks do not remain in the mailbox for long.

As always, please share your thoughts: what did you find meaningful, and what suggestions do you have for the next service?  Thank you for all of the suggestions and comments sent- they are very helpful.

I look forward to worshiping together on Sunday!  

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman

See the worship service leaflet for this Sunday, May 3, 2020. This service will be LIVE online at YouTube at 9 a.m. from St Thomas’s.  Next week’s service will be live online from YouTube from St. Nicholas. If you have not already done so, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and hit that notification bell (twice to receive notifications EVERY time) ? to receive alerts every time we go LIVE.

In this strange time, 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. While Delaware remains under a “shelter in place” order through at least May 15, 2020 and services are broadcast on YouTube, please consider continuing your giving to St. Thomas’s. See our Giving page.  Contributions can also be mailed to the church at 276 S. College Avenue, Newark, DE  19711.  The mail is collected daily so checks do not remain in the mailbox for long.

As always, please share your thoughts: what did you find meaningful, and what suggestions do you have for the next service?  Thank you for all of the suggestions and comments sent- they are very helpful.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator

Please join us Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 9 a.m. online and LIVE on YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and click the notification bell so you never miss a service. Here is the accompanying service leaflet for 3.29.20.

Please share this with friends and neighbors looking for a way to worship during these unusual times of COVID-19.  If you need a printed copy of this leaflet or any worship materials, please let me know and I will do my best to deliver.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator

Dear Friends,

I hope you are all doing well in these strange times due to COVID-19. Isolation may have physical health benefits, but it leaves much to be desired mentally and spiritually.  Please do what you can to stay connected- and let the church know how we can help.

One thing we can do is return to Sunday worship.  After a week of silence, Sunday worship will return this week, though in a different form.  We will gather virtually at 9:00 a.m.for the service of Holy Eucharist.

To abide by the conditions of the present state of emergency, those present in church will be limited to the small number needed to conduct the service.  Everyone else is encouraged to join by tuning in on YouTube Live.  If you have not already done so, the steps to get ready for this are simple:

1)  Click on this link to Deacon Cecily’s sermon from last Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mippg8Ny5tY

2)  Just below the video, click on the red Subscribe button.

That is all you have to do!  Once you are subscribed, you will receive electronic notifications whenever we are broadcasting.

See the service for Fourth Sunday in Lent – March 22, 2020 via video from YouTube and also see the accompanying service program.

This is clearly not our normal way of doing church.  Nor is it ideal.  Please be assured that the Bishop, the clergy, and many others are churning away on creative ways to keep up united as the Body of Christ.  We have all received the blessing of cleverness – we just have to find ways to apply it!  Expect to see us try more new things and please bear with us as we find our way through unfamiliar territory.

And as always, please keep the sick and those who care for them in your prayers.  I will be very glad to be with you again – even virtually – this Sunday.

Peace – and be well,
Howie+
Rev. Dr. Howell Sasser, Jr., Rector