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A HOLY MOMENT OF THE WEEK Send yours to goodnews@saintjamesgi.net
Linda Shannon Rugel and Sharon Metz manning the St. James ECW Cookbook table at St. Michael’s Craft Fair in Lincoln Park. |
The Interfaith
Thanksgiving Eve Service
will be held Wednesday, November 25 at 7:30pm at St. Thomas Lutheran Church (9393 Meridian). Afterwards, we will meet for conversation and refreshments.
Thanks+giving Fun Run is this week! Join us for a 1 mile Kid’s Dash and/or a 5K “there-and-back (which means you can cut it short if you need to)” along East River. Learn more: www.saintjamesgi.net Bring friends & neighbors!
Popper Supplies are being collected now! The following items are being collected in the large box in the hallway: leftover Halloween candy (check out sales at stores too!), curling ribbon, Tape, Christmas wrapping paper, and cardboard tubes from T.P. rolls. Our youth will assemble the poppers after the 10am service on December 13, and they will be given as gifts when we serve Christmas Dinner at the Spirit of Hope soup kitchen.
Junior Choir will begin when six young singers are signed up (outside the music office). This is for all in grades 3 through 8, although younger children will be accepted if they can read and are willing to work together with us. Rehearsals will be on Sundays, 11:15 – noon. “Train up children the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it.”
Prayer is Powerful, and the 10am Prayer Team is looking for more individuals to help with this important ministry. Please prayerfully consider if this might be a way for you to serve. Contact Herman Rugel at 250-3375 for more information.
Place an Order For Scrip Gift Cards and avoid the stress of holiday shopping! A percentage of the gift card comes back to Saint James. Order forms and the list of over 400 participating retailers are located on the information table. Orders must be pre-paid. Make checks payable to St. James Scrip. Contact Lynn Blanks (734-676-3967 or lblanks@wideopenwest.com) for help.
If Feet Could Talk Sock Ministry is still collecting socks. Two barrels, one by the chapel and one by the main church entrance, are open for your donations for new and gently used socks. As winter winds approach we will also need help delivering the socks to Detroit homeless shelters and individuals.
Tickets For The Grosse Ile Boar’s Head Festival (Dec 10-13) are still available. This non-profit community event involves over 600 people in cast, crew, and choirs. It includes a full orchestra, bagpipe, organ, countless talents and so much more. Most importantly, it celebrates the birth of our Savior. Kids tickets and Senior tickets available. www.boarsheadgi.com.
The Gospel of Thomas is being considered at our weekly Sunday morning Bible Study held in the Fireplace Room at 9 am. The text was discovered in 1945, and supposedly contains over 100 sayings of Jesus not otherwise recorded in the New Testament. Are they genuine? Come join this drop-in Bible Study.
Coffee and Fellowship follow the 10am Service every Sunday in Galloway Hall.
Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saintjamesgi for updates.
Fr. Phil’s Open Office Hours are every Tuesday from 4:30-6:30pm.
A Weekday Eucharist focused on the life of a saint is held every Wed. at 10:15am.
FEATURES & ARTICLES
Please send your write-up on church events to goodnews@saintjamesgi.net
GREENS MARKET
As we prepare for this year’s Greens Market, ECW looks forward to your support for another successful year! Everyone is welcome to come help- new comers, men and members alike!
Dates for Greens Market:
Saturday, November 28, 8:00 A.M. Set-up (note:time change)
Monday-Friday, Nov 30 Dec 4, 9:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. Work week
Monday-Thursday, Nov-30-Dec 3, 6:00 P.M. – 10 P.M. additional work times
Friday, Dec 4th 7:00 P.M. – Open House
Saturday Dec 5th 9:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. Greens Market Sale Day
Saturday Dec 5th 2:00 P.M. Clean-up
Invite your friends!
Help get word out via social media. Three easy steps. 1. Please visit the Face Book event page titled “Historic St. James Greens Market” 2. Invite all your local friends. 3. Share it on your page for visibility. Thank you, we really appreciate it!
Order Forms
Pick up an order form on the info table, and return to the church office!
Homebaked goods needed for the sale
Pull out your holiday recipes and consider baking something for the goodies table. Any desserts, sweets, breads or preserves are most welcome! Please drop them off on Friday Dec 4th or the morning of the sale before 9:00A.M.
A Volunteer is Needed to Make Little wooden Tree Frames
They are cut and really need to be assembled. Contact Collie at 671-1831.
Bring Your Little Tree Frame
and you’ll be credited $1.50 off your next Green’s Market purchase!
MUSIC NOTES
A Weekly Series by Daniel Susan, our Minister of Music
King-sized bed, king-sized headache, king of pop; we maintain the word “king” in our everyday language. In our Christian life we continue to cultivate additional ways to name God that do not derive solely from past male political structures. Even among nations that maintain kings and queens, the royals do not exercise the total power they once did; our God is no figurehead! So our liturgical calendar, and the hymns today, remind us of the particular view of Jesus that includes our total submission and obedience more in the former way of understanding “king”. We don’t always like those words, submission and obedience, yet that is what we are reminded of as we sing of “Christ as our king” – the God of power, might, and glory who is to rule our lives of faith. But let us also remember “The king of love”, the “shepherd king” who walks before us and with us and does not simply sit in power above us. If we can have a “king of rock and roll” then surely we can have a king of love and a king of glory in Jesus.
SERVING THIS WEEK
Email goodnews@saintjamesgi.net if you want to serve in one of these capacities.
| November 22 | |
| Altar Guild | Marie Johnson, Carole Vandenberg, Nancy Clark |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Margaret Horvath |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | David Hartwell |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Mike Bisaro |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Jane Colwell |
| 10am prayers & chalice | Warren Johnson |
| Ushers | Walt Denson, Chuck Kurth, Zach & Merri Lewis |
| Greeters | Chuck & Linda Kurth |
| 10 am Crucifer | Landon Johnson |
| 10am Acolytes | Thomas Shumate, Anna Shumate |
Angel List
Suggestions for above and beyond regular giving
Does your ministry area have needs beyond the budget? Do you have a vision for something that could make a difference to church or the mission of God?
Send needs with a cost amount to goodnews@saintjamesgi.net.
Maybe an angel will bring you Good News!
- Life-sized wooden creche for Mary, Joseph, and Jesus $350 + labor
- Freebridge billboard for a month $1600
- Christmas lights installed on the church front lawn $750+
- New plexiglass on the chapel’s Evangelist’s window $12,000
- Island-wide mailing $3,000
- Area rug for Sunday School classroom $150
- Ornamental weeping pine for Memorial Garden $225
*All items are run by the wardens before being listed.
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Coming soon? Featured member/family of the week
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This space is currently reserved for highlighting individuals or families in our congregation, featuring a photo and a short write-up. Could you helpCELEBRATIONS & PRAYERS
Birthdays This Week
| Maxwell Bearden (11/24) | Bettine Cleaver (11/25) | Gavin Mahon (11/28) |
Wedding Anniversaries
| MaryJo & Jo Brough (11/24) | Jean & Pete Fernandes (11/28) |
Healing prayers for:
| Lee | Jerry Zavadil | Dorothy Galloway Crooks | |
| Jerry | John Kurth | Marsha Childress | |
| Pete Fernandes | Jean Fernandes | Andrew Brunell | |
| Philip Metz, Sr | Van Johns | Nancy Volk | |
| Michael Gratz | Charles | Carol Tyler Gacioch |
Pray for the infirm & homebound
| Joe Rogers | Sally Frisch |
Pray for those serving in The Church For leaders of the worldwide church, for Philip our priest, members of our vestry, heads of our guilds & committees, and the staff and lay leaders of this congregation; for those engaged in mission work, for Jamie Treadwell in England, Todd and Patsy McGregor & family in Kenya, El Hogar in Honduras, and the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen in Detroit.
Pray for those serving in the military Drew, Jimmy Adams, AJ Allen, Billie Ray Brewer, John Chambers, J.B. Faistenhammer, Cristopher Gernand, Devon Goyert, Steven Grzywa Jr., Matt Hertl, Keith Johnson, Laura Levillier, Blake Liddle, Ken Matthews, Buckley Neal, PJ Ramsey, Brett Ready, Ronald Riling, Christopher Rodgers, Kristina Rodgers, Bettina Sauter, Jonathan Southerland, Jeff Speer, and Travis Tam.
To ensure our Lists are current petitions for healing are listed for 4 weeks per submission. Names may be re-submitted any number of times to office@saintjamesgi.net.