Weekly newsletter for February 28, 2010

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February outreach

The St Thaddeus soup kitchen will be featured at outreach Sunday, February 21, and throughout the month. Special donations to outreach and the loose offering on the 21st will be for the soup kitchen. Please mark your checks accordingly.

The soup kitchen serves about 150 meals each Saturday morning. This number includes meals delivered to St. Thaddeus shut-ins and take-homes for those who cannot get out. All parishioners are encouraged to come to the large parlor on a Saturday morning, observe, and roll up the sleeves to help. Help is needed, physical, financial and prayer.

St Thaddeus Home and Garden Tour

The St. Thaddeus Home and Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, March 27, from 10am-5pm. Tickets will be $25 and will be available after March 1st at the church, Plum Pudding, York Cottage and Material Things. The homes are spectacular this year, you won’t want to miss it. We shall need between 100 and 120 hosts and hostesses so please consider volunteering by signing up for a morning or afternoon shift after church today. You will be entitled to a $10 reduced priced ticket for the tour while helping St.Thaddeus raise funds for outreach within the Aiken community. There is also a sign up sheet for pound cakes needed for the Strawberries and Cream Tea, we would be most grateful if you could help.

Ticket Sales begin Monday, March 1

The 2010 St. Thaddeus Tour of Homes and Gardens informational poster is available and ready for distribution within the area. If you have a prominent spot to display the posters at your business, place of work, or within the community, please feel free to stop by the front desk in the Church office to pick one up.

POUND CAKE REMINDER: Pound Cake bakers for the Home Tour Tea (March 27) are asked to locate their recipes and get ready to bake! If you want to sign up to bake, please contact Cathy Harte or Dee James.

Church study group announcements

  • The Wednesday Morning Study Group started Wednesday January 6th – they began a new study: Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesu by Anne Spangler and Louis Tverberg. If you are interested in joining this study please contact us. All are welcome.
  • Drop-in Sunday School Class is finishing up Living the Questions in Luke. We will start Max Lucado’s No Wonder They Call Him the Savior on March 7th. Kathie Fowler will have the books, hopefully next week. Marianne Swearingen and Kathie Fowler are the facilitators. Please join us.
  • This Sunday should be a special treat for the Sunday Bible Class. The Rev. Dr. Walter Dunnett, who with his wife Dolores has been visiting Aiken and St Thaddeus these past several weeks for a brief respite from the cold of Chicago, has kindly agreed to lead us through an academic comparison of Isaiah Chapters 7 – 11, which is what he outlined in class last Sunday.

Easter memorials

Easter memorials may be turned in to the office. Please be sure to mark in the memo line that it is for an Easter Memorial and attach a note letting us know the name of the person(s) being remembered. Or use the memorial forms in the narthex or church office.

Employment with the U.S. Census

Jobs are available with the Census.

  • Census Takers
  • Crew Leaders
  • Crew Leader Assistants
  • Recruiting Assistants
  • Census Clerks.

Apply today at 2010censusjobs.gov or call toll-free 1-866-861-2010.

Bumper stickers

Free (as long as they last) Bumper Stickers available in the Narthex and Bookstore – share the Joy!

Walk with Luke . . . in the footsteps of Jesus

On Saturday, March 6 from 9:30 AM until 12:30 PM, Fr. David Valtierra from the Oratory in Rock Hill, SC will present an overview of the Gospel of Luke. Please call 803-593-2241, Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church, if you plan to attend.

Reminders

  • Schedule events at the church online. At the calendar page, click on “Add Event” to reserve a room. You will receive a return email with approval or decline if the room is already booked. Questions should be directed to Denise or Ellie in the Church Office.
  • Please give the Church office any new or revised email addresses. Thank you.
  • Save Box top coupons, Campbell’s Soup labels, and Tyson Project A+ labels for Mead Hall school. The goal for the school is 25,000 Box Tops so that a Smart Board can be purchased!
  • Please remember that all announcements are due in the office by Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. if not sooner.

Attendance

  • Services, February 21, 2010: 303
  • Average Sunday Attendance for 2008: 235
  • Nursery Attendance: 7
  • Children’s Chapel: 9
  • Sunday School 4k – 1st: 6
  • Sunday School 2nd – 5th:
  • Middle School:
  • Sr. High Sunday School: 4
  • Wise/Kennedy Adult Class: 20
  • Fowler/Swearingen Drop-In Class:
  • EYC: 8
  • Wednesday Bible Study, February 24: 15
  • Wednesday Service: (11:00 am) February 24: 46
  • Lenten Lunches Thursdays (noon) at St. Thaddeus: 150
  • Saturday, February 20, 2010 Soup Kitchen served: 137
  • Mead Hall Episcopal School enrollment: 205+