Hello faith family! This is the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 10, 2023. This week we celebrate Alexander Crummell was an American minister and academic. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in the United States, Crummell went to England in the late 1840s to raise money for his church by lecturing about American slavery. Abolitionists supported his three years of study at Cambridge University, where Crummell developed concepts of pan-Africanism and was the school’s first recorded Black student and graduate.
Weekly News
See our Carpenter’s Helper Newsletter. And, see info on our Stepping Up Together Campaign August Update.
There is quite a bit of news coming up as we roll into the fall. Watch for details about all of the EXCITEMENT headed our way!
Our fast approaching Health Fair TOMORROW
Children’s Ministries update
Blue Hen Bounty food pantry requests
Our booth at Newark Community Days next week
Poets’ Corner resumes next week
Adult Education resumes! Check out the schedule for this year.
Our weekly Worship schedule
- Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
- Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
- Wednesday at noon – Intercessory Prayer with Holy Communion in-person. (Intercessory Prayer booklet).
- Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).
This Sunday’s Schedule
- Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
- Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Adult Education
- Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program
- Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
Growth and Fellowship
- 1st Sunday of the month – Gospel in Spanish
- Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
- Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services. Resumes in September.
- Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology. Resumes September 17, 2023
- 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room.
- Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
Other Parish Events
- Sat., Sep. 9, 2023 – St. Thomas’s Health Fair
- Sat., Sep. 16, 2023 – Poets’ Corner
- Sun., Sep. 17, 2023 – Newark Community Days. We will have a booth.
- Sun., Oct. 8, 2023 – Blessing of the Animals
- Tue., Oct. 31, 2023 – candles in the cemetery
- Sat., Nov. 4, 2023 – All Souls special service
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