Sunday Announcements

This Sunday's Weekly Bulletin...[printable]
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• July 2010 St.Paul's Tidings is now online!
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  • The articles for our next edition of Tidings
    are due by August 3rd.

• WELCOME VISITORS
  St. Paul's welcomes all who are visiting today. Please take a moment to sign our guest book. You'll find the book located to the right of the front door as you are leaving the church.

• STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
  We have finally tallied all the expenses from the Strawberry Festival and we are pleased to let the parish know we had a profit of $3,685.52.
  
  Thank you to everyone for your much needed support.

• LOOKING FOR PHOTOS OF STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
  Did you take a nice picture or two (or more) of this year’s Strawberry Festival?  We’d love to post them on the parish website.  If the pictures are digital, please send copies to webmaster@kinderhookny.us.  If you have prints, please lend them to the parish office so we can scan them (we promise to take good care of them). 
  
  Any questions, please call Mark Kelly at 518-428-7385.

• INTERMENT
  Today, July 25th immediately following the 10:30am service Fr. Curtis will commit Becki Brook's ashes in the columbarium. The family has extended an offer to anyone in the parish who would like to attend especially any choir members. Becki was a member of the choir for many years before leaving the area.

• COMMUNITY SUPPORT - The DEMEREST FAMILY
  The Demerest family lost everything recently in a devastating house fire. A fund has been established at the Hudson River Bank in the name of Jack and/or Kelly Demerest. There are various drop-off points for donations:
  
  Stuyvesant Fire House - accepting all donations, please call 758-6713 and leave a message. Someone will call you back to make necessary arrangements.
  
  En Vogue Hair Design - accepting donations
  Stuyvesant Town Clerk's Office - accepting clothing and monetary donations, please call 758-6248 ext. 10 or email to stuy@fairpoint.net  to make arrangements.
  PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE DONATIONS IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING
  
  There is a list posted in the narthex of the church and in the McNary Center with more information regarding clothing needed and the appropriate sizes.

• SUMMER HOURS
  Effective July 2, the parish office will be closed on Fridays. The office hours will be Monday-Thursday from 9:00am till Noon. Our sexton will not be in on Fridays either during the summer.
  
  Please remember, in case of an emergency,
  please contact Pat Armstrong at 755-4421.

• PARISHIONER CONTACT INFO
  During our parish transition, among many other projects, we are working to clean up our parishioner contact information, as well as our birthday & anniversary lists. Not surprisingly, in the process we have found many pieces of conflicting and/or outdated information. In the coming weeks we will be contacting you, either by telephone, postal or electronic mail to verify the information in our records. Let us assure you, that this information will not be shared publicly, and is intended for office and pastoral care use only.
  
  If it would be more convenient for you, please feel free to complete our online form at:
  http://stpauls.kinderhookny.us/contact_INFO.htm

• BLAST FROM THE PAST
  - 1997 PARISH SELF-STUDY SURVEY

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• MONTHLY SCHEDULES
  The Acolyte, Eucharistic Minister and Reader Schedules are available in the narthex of the church.

• The server schedules are also available here on the St.Paul's website.  Thank you.

• HOLY COMMUNION
  We look forward to seeing Deacon McDarby next week. The Deacon will be here to provide Holy Communion at 8:00am on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month for the parishioners who regularly attend the 8:00am service.

• ST. MARK'S CHURCH
  St. Mark's, Maple Avenue and Main Street, Philmont has a Thrift Store with gently used clothes, at tag sale prices open July 6th through August, 31st - Tuesday and Saturday from 9:00am - Noon and Thursday evening from 6:00-8:00pm.

• ORGANIST
  We would like to thank Alex Malsan for providing our Morning Prayer services with organ music on Sunday, July 18th and July 25th while Bob Stackman is taking some much deserved time off.

• MUSIC PROGRAM
  Bob Stackman will continue to provide us with organ music through June and part of July at our 10:30am service. We look forward to the return of the choir in September.
  
  Bob will be taking a well deserved vacation and will be away July 18th and 25th - Alex Malsan has graciously offered to provide the music on those two Sundays. Our organist will also be on vacation during the month of August as well.

• FOOD PANTRY
  "Let not the needy be forgotten,
  nor the hope of the poor be taken away."
  Please try to remember those in our community that are struggling with having enough to eat. One in 8 children are meal uncertain, meaning they do not know where their next meal is coming from. As summer begins, children no longer have access to no cost or low cost meals at school. Donations of fruit, vegetables, soups or other canned goods will be gratefully received. There is a food collection basket in the Main Hall and in the narthex of the church. .
  
  Please help us to help others.

• PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
  Please review the sick list and see if there is anyone healthy enough so we can remove them as the list is getting quite long.

• ALTAR FLOWERS
  Flowers may be placed on the altar through Pentecost. All dates in August are available. Flowers may be placed for any occasion, not only in loving memory of someone, but also for joyous celebrations of births, anniversary or baptisms.
  
  The donation request for flowers remains the same at $25.00. The flowers are dependent on donations, if we do not have a memorial or donation for that weekend, no flowers will be placed on the altar

• MILITARY SPECIAL REMEMBRANCE
  Please take a moment to remember the servicemen and servicewomen with family ties to our church especially:

  • Benjamin Stevenson, David Phillips, Jamie Brandon & Patrick Reilly, the Rev. Donald Rutherford, Darrell Green, Jeremy & Chastity Northrup, Brett Farnam, Jeremy Brown, Scott Buchanan and Darren Friort, Aaron Gagne and Charles Therrien, III.

• BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
  Work continues on the Rectory to make it ready for our new priest. The electrical work is now complete and we are waiting on the plumber.
  
  The furnace in the McNary Center is in need of replacement. Bids are being taken from several companies. Prices quoted are around $14,000. Since this is not in the budget, your vestry will be looking at ways to raise money to pay for the furnace. We are looking for any ideas you may have to help us attain this goal. We have received $1,100 in donations to date towards the furnace.

• MISSING EQUIPMENT
  If anyone has borrowed the garden hose and wheel that was located by the McNary Center, please return it as soon as possible. We need this equipment to water the flowers.

• LANDSCAPING WORK
  Joe Russo has been very busy these last couple of weeks working on our flower beds in front of the Church. He weeded, cleaned up the tulip bed, and put down mulch around those beds. We look forward to seeing the finished project.

From our Vestry:

• SURVEY RESULTS
  The results of the survey have been tabulated and we anticipate the results to be posted on our web site in the very near future. The web site is http://stpauls.kinderhookny.us. 
  
  We will have a limited number of hard copies available to those parishioners without a computer or access to the internet.

• BUDGET & FINANCE COMMITTEE
  Our next meeting is on Tuesday, July 27th at 7:00pm in the McNary Center.

• COMMITMENT TO ST. PAUL'S
  As you know, our pledge income is down and with summer here - vacations, the down turn in the economy, and other commitments, but the bills are still coming in. If at all possible, please any monetary donation you can make towards your pledge is greatly appreciated.

• TREASURER UPDATE
  Julie Racquet will be transitioning into the Treasurer position after having heart surgery and as soon as she is able after recuperating. Nancy will be here to help with the transition throughout the summer.
  
  John Phillips has graciously agreed to do the payroll and the quarterly taxes beginning July 1st.

• SEXTON'S HOUSE
  Great news - the sexton's house has been rented effective July 1st. The lease has already been signed.

• CHALLENGE TO GROW
  We are looking to enable our parish to grow by encouraging one another to Worship the Lord, and inviting those looking for a Church to come to St. Paul's.
  
  We had 5 attend Evening Prayer on Saturday, and at 8:00am we had 32 in attendance at 10:30am Morning Prayer we had 20.

• SHARE THE WOOL
  We continue to knit and crochet our way through the stores of wool people have donated. We have several newly completed shawls and throws which will be blessed on Sunday. We have given out two or three more, and one has been marked for a friend of Christine's who is in a home.
  
  If you know of anyone who should be given one of these prayer shawls, please let us know. You can contact St. Paul's at 758-6271 or stpauls@berk.com, or Laura Lane at 758-7271, or 929-1071 or LMLane@fairpoint.net.