| A HOLY MOMENT OF THE WEEK
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A Blessing of the Pets will be held THIS MORNING, October 21, on the front lawn of the church at 11:15 AM (after the 10AM service). Fr. Phil will move from group to group to offer a personal blessing with you and your furry friend. Creatures of every kind are welcome (even photographs!), but please keep your littlest family members in a bowl or leash.
An Animal Petting Zoo is here this morning from 11AM to 1PM on the front lawn, We will have Rabbits, Puppies, Kittens and Goats. PLUS PONY RIDES! This is a perfect event to invite your family and friends to!
Art Show, Sale, and Auction Jean Teague: An Artful Life: will take place at St. James Episcopal Church, 25150 East River, Grosse Ile on October 20 from 12:00-5:00 p.m. and on October 21 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. in Galloway Hall. For further information, please call (734) 675-1701.
Pumpkin Palooza 2018: A contest open to all Grosse Ile residents to find the best Halloween Pumpkin on Grosse Ile on Sat. Oct. 28. Bring a prepared pumpkin (carved, painted etc) to the Macomb Commons to be displayed between 9 & 11am. $5 entry fee will be collected that day. All proceeds go to the Rev. Edward R. Aller Scholarship Fund for graduating seniors through St. Thomas Lutheran Church. Prizes will be awarded. Please register by sending your name and age and name of your entry to gipumpkinpalooza@gmail.com by Sat. Oct. 20. Questions? 734-676-7999.
Photo Directory Coming Soon! Please confirm your household information by submitting your updated information online or on Sunday morning by initialing next to your family’s name on one of the 6 draft address sheets at the back of the church. Thank you!
A Musical Road Trip “Festival of Psalms” will take place at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green on Sunday, October 21 at 4 p.m. Combined choirs from Bowling Green churches will open the program with “Psalm 150” by Cesar Franck, and then the audience will join in congregational singing of several hymns based on Psalms. The program will conclude with a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” by the University Choral Society. The entire program should last approximately one hour. There is no charge to attend. A carpool will leave the Saint James parking lot at 2:20 p.m. for the one hour and ten minute drive to St. Mark’s. By arriving a half hour of so early we will have a chance to stretch our legs, use the bathrooms, look around the church, and find “the best seats in the house”! Light refreshments to follow. If there is interest, we may grab a bite to eat in Bowling Green before heading home. Questions? Call or text David Hartwell at 313 318-9009
All Parish Clean Up Day will be on Oct. 28, after the 10am service. Wear jeans to church, bring garden implements. For information on tasks for the day speak to members of the Grounds Beautification Team – Lois Zook, Libby Dinwiddie, Kim Faistenhammer, Sue Lowery, and Brian Weston.
An All-Parish BONFIRE is being hosted by the men’s ministry group on Friday, November 2. You’re welcome to bring a snack to pass and a beverage of your choice and maybe an extra log to throw on the flyer! Festivities begin at 7 PM. There will be entertainment. Also…BYOS (bring your own smores)
The ECW general meeting: has been rescheduled for October 28. See you then!
Tickets For Boar’s Head are now available! This year you can choose your seat, so the sooner you order the better your choice. The Grosse Ile Boar’s Head Festival is an island-wide celebration of Christmas with full orchestra, original music, a 60-person choir and many dramatic roles. Performances are Thursday Dec 6, Friday Dec 7, Saturday Dec 8, and Sunday Dec 9. Order Tickets at www.boarsheadgi.com. Free tickets to the performance of your choice and the Beefeater Brunch can be gotten by making a tax-deductible donation on the website under “Sponsor.” Don’t miss this community celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ!
Thanks+giving Fun Run! Kid’s Dash at 8:30am, 5K Run/Walk at 9:00am. Register online at SaintJamesGi.net. Entry fees are free-will donations to support local families through Saint James’ ministries, the Sacred Heart Food Pantry, and the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen. All donations are tax deductible.
A Recap of General Convention’s 2018 actions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/GC2018-RECAP , written by Fr. Phil. He was one of four clergy that represented the Diocese of Michigan at this 18 nation legislative gathering of 1100 persons. Please reach out to him for more information.
The ECW’s 43rd Annual Spiritual Journey “Sharing Our Stories” with Rev. Mary Jane Peck Jan. 17-19, 2018, Columbiere Center, Clarkston ($205 for a single room) ($185 for a double room) Check the ECW FB page or the hallway bulletin board for more info.
Rummage Sale Fall 2018: We want to thank everyone who helped with the food for the rummage sale. On Monday Charlotte Campeau & her daughter Angelique made pulled pork & chicken with beans & Coleslaw. We fed 59. Tuesday Donna & Larry Crabtree made ham & cheese sandwiches with chips & the kitchen crew helped & made pasta salad. We fed 68. Wednesday Nancy Crysler made Parmesan chicken, Mac & cheese with Judy Christie’s orange jello. We fed 70. Thursday Amy & Frank made Taco Soup with Salad by the kitchen crew. We fed 70. Friday Sue Lowrey made sloppy joes & Chips with Linda Kurth’s potato salad & Judy Christie’s red jello. We fed 63. On Saturday The kitchen crew made hot dogs & Chips with coleslaw & salad. We fed 65. Thank you to Liz Hartley, Wendy Kiblawi, Lil Everlove, Mary Lou Cartwright for the kitchen help. Coleen Lough & Norma Smereka. Ps: the hot dogs & buns were free with our points!!!
The Thursday Book Group meets at 1:30pm in the library. Our book is “The Screwtape Letters” by C. S. Lewis, a classic with over 3,000 five-star ratings on Amazon. THE WEEK’S READINGS ARE POSTED on an orange sign in the library by the door.
Capital Campaign gifts can be given online at saintjamesgi.net/cc150 Thank you!
Open Bible Study A drop-in Bible Study runs every Sunday morning from 9:05-9:50AM in the Fireplace Room. The study requires no preparation, and you can come on whatever Sundays are convenient for you. Drop in any time!
Gluten-Free Wafers are always available at communion. Just ask.
Secretary Office Hours: Colleen is in the office Tues-Thurs 9-2, & Fri 9-noon.
Open Office Hours Fr. Phil is available for appointments throughout the week for meetings of any length, but on Tuesday evenings you never need an appointment. Drop in any Tuesday between 4:30-6:30 pm and say hello.
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OUT THERE WITH OUTREACH: OCTOBER SOUP KITCHEN
As previously noted, the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen meal for Saturday, October 20th will be prepared and served by the Detroit Moose Hockey Team. Saint James and Sacred Heart will both have the day off.
Our next turn to prepare and serve the meal at the Spirit of Hope will be on Saturday, November 17th. We will leave our Chapel parking lot at 8:20 a.m.
With your help, we will offer a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings! There are sign-up sheets on our bulletin board, to help with preparation of the meal, serving the meal, and to volunteer to donate, roast, slice and bag turkeys. Please bring your roasted, sliced and zip lock bagged turkey with you if you are able to come downtown to help with the meal. Please include the juice from the roasting so that we can make “real” gravy! If you cannot come, please write “Soup Kitchen Turkey & Juice” on the bag and put your turkey in the Soup Kitchen freezer in the back room. You are welcome and thanked whether you donate a breast or a full turkey, Patricia Saavedra and her mom Janet will be making pumpkin rolls for the dessert! Yummy!!! We will also appreciate individually wrapped candy to make poppers, with our Youth Groups for treats for the Holiday meals at Spirit of Hope as well as for Christ/Net in November. Left over Halloween candy works really well for this project!!! We will also need t.p. cardboard tubes, wrapping paper, tape and zip-ribbon to create the candy popper gifts for our guests!
We had a wonderful crew for the Spirit of Hope meal on September 15th! Dave Christie not only helped with the meal, he and Judy donated the 30 pounds of ground beef needed to make the taco soup for the meal! Also helping with the meal were Lori & Mark Ferguson and their two sweet little boys Reed and Crosby, Diane Larkin, Amy Paik and her daughter Meredith, Linda & Barry VanEngelen, and Beth and Paul Primeau. Thank you one and all!
Sacred Heart will prepare and serve the December 15th meal. We will have the day off.
If you have any questions about our volunteerism at the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen, please give us a call at 734-693-0694. Thank you so much & may God bless you.
Sincerely, Amy & Frank Kohair
SAINT JAMES WISH LIST
Listed below are some things that St. James would love to have, but the budget does not allow them at this time. If one of these items speaks to your heart, please make a donation toward the purchase. All partial gifts will be gratefully accepted and put toward the total cost. Also, if you see or think of something that should be on this list, please let us know at goodnews@saintjamesgi.net!
*Do you have an item for the Wish List? Please speak to a Vestry member
or to Fr. Phil to have your wish listed here!
🎵 🎶 🎶 MUSIC NOTES 🎵🎶🎶
Upcoming Music Events:
Nov. 10, 7:30pm: The Organ in the Sanctuary. A recital by Robert Ragoonanan featuring works by Willocks, Bach, Clérambault, and Franck.
Jan. 19, 7:30: The Organ in the Chapel, featuring students from the U of M: An Arbor.
March 23, 7:30pm: Music from Bowling Green, featuring DMA students performing music from the 20th and 21st centuries’
April 21, 10am: Easter Sunday will feature a brass quintet, bell choir and the St. James Choir performing music for Easter.
CELEBRATIONS & PRAYERS
We Celebrate Birthdays This Week
| Sawyer De Paul (10/21) | Natalie Rankine (10/23) | Robert Lange (10/25) | |
| Greg Glover (11/3) | Thomas Bidari (10/27) | ||
We Celebrate Anniversaries This Week
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Please Pray This Week For Healing
| Elke | Gabby | ||
| Bruce Stahlman | Jerry Zavadil | John Brass | |
| Linda Kohn | Jean Fernandes | Jackson Beidler | |
| Robert Kohn | Michael Stoddart | Gregory Kohn | |
| Ron Kohn | Sally Byers | Lindsay Labaddie | |
| Joe Rodelett | Shaun Stahlman | Michelle Mills | |
| John Marion | James Marion | Wendy Waltz | |
| Kate Kohn Parrott | Cynthia Lear | Linda Rossi | |
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 AJ Allen, Buckley Neal, JP Pandoff, Brett Ready, Dr. Bettina Sauter, Alexander Turin, and Alex Bearden.
**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
PARISH CONTACTS
To update information contact goodnews@saintjamesgi.net or 734-676-1727
| STAFF | CHURCH OFFICE | office@saintjamesgi.net | 734-676-1727 | |||
| Rector | The Rev. Phil Dinwiddie | rector@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Minister of Music | Jim Johnson | jjcricket1958@yahoo.com | ||||
| Secretary
Sexton |
Colleen Herman
Harold Schwochow |
office@saintjamesgi.net
office@saintjamesgi.net |
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| VESTRY | Treasurer | Curt Crysler ‘19 | treasurer@saintjamesgi.net | |||
| Member-at-Large | Carl Colwell ‘19 | carl@carlcolwell.com | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Margaret Horvath ‘19 | mhorvath@comcast.net | ||||
| Recording Secretary | Lynda VanEngelen ‘19 | barrylyndahtg@wowway.com | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Mel Bonis ‘20 | melandron@wowway.com | ||||
| Building & Grounds Jr. Warden | Jeff Faistenhammer ‘20 | jfaisten@yahoo.com | ||||
| Secretary of the Vestry | Beth Primeau ‘20 | bethholliday323@gmail.com | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Barbara Valmassei ‘20 | btvalmassei@comcast.net | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Tom Benson ‘21 | thomas.b.benson@gmail.com | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Laurent Chappuis ‘21 | lbchappuis@icloud.com | ||||
| Member-at-Large | Kim Faistenhammer ‘21 | kfaisten@gmail.com | ||||
| Senior Warden | Blanche Hutchison ‘21 | bhutchison1@hotmail.com | ||||
| MINISTRIES | Acolytes | Tom & Erica Benson | (231) 690-9655 | |||
| Altar Guild | Linda Kurth
Michael Glover |
(734) 675-1506
(734) 676-1062 |
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| Bell Choir | Bobby Ragoonanan | office@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Chapel Tours | Kate Hartwell | (313) 318-3275 | ||||
| Children’s Ministries | Nancy Crysler | ncrysler@outlook.com | ||||
| Choir | Bobby Ragoonanan | music@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Church Rejuvenation | Sue Hartley
Judy Christie |
suecartwright1@comcast.net
(734) 323-8663 |
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| Counters | Curt Crysler | treasurer@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Eucharistic Ministers & Readers | Sue Weston | (734) 931-2232 | ||||
| Episcopal Church Women | Colleen Lough | colleenlough@gmail.com | ||||
| Finance Committee | Curt Crysler | treasurer@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Greeters | Lynn Blanks | lblanks@wideopenwest.com | ||||
| Helping Hands | Linda Kurth | (734) 675-1506 | ||||
| Interfaith Council/ Outreach | Sue Lowery
Jane Colwell |
(734) 675-0417
(734) 671-9446 |
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| Men’s Ministry Group | Jim Holubka | jholubka@sbcglobal.net | ||||
| Memorial Garden | Carole Vandenberg | (734) 671-6492 | ||||
| Office | Colleen Herman | office@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Pastoral Care Team | Marie Johnson | (734) 671-6502 | ||||
| Prayer Team | Herman Rugel | (734) 250-3375 | ||||
| Rainbow Bell Choir | Sue Johnson | (734) 783-1752 | ||||
| SCRIP & Kroger Rewards | Lynn & Paul Blanks | lblanks@wideopenwest.com | ||||
| Soup Kitchen | Amy & Frank Kohair | (734) 693-0694 | ||||
| Ushers | Carl Colwell | carlcolwell@hotmail.com | ||||
| Vestry | Marie Johnson | (734) 671-6502 | ||||
| Worship Committee | Fr. Phil | rector@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
| Youth Group – Sr. High | Fr. Phil | rector@saintjamesgi.net | ||||
SERVING THIS WEEK
THESE ROLES ARE ALWAYS OPEN to new participants.
To join a team contact the office at goodnews@saintjamesgi.net
| October 21 | |
| Altar Guild | Michael Glover, Laura Fornwalt, Lois Zook |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Sarah Bates |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | Tom Coleman |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Larry Crabtree |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Jane Colwell |
| 10am prayers & chalice | Colleen Lough |
| Ushers | Sue Anderson, Carl Colwell, Robin Knudson, Chi Paik |
| Greeters | Sue Anderson, Robin Knudson |
| 10 am Acolytes | Zoie Christie, Paiten Christie |
| 10 am Crucifer | Sam Rankine |
| Prayer Team | Herman Rugel & Linda Shannon |
| October 28 | |
| Altar Guild | Jennifer Dermody, Diane Mammo, Gwyn Dugliss |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Mike Callahan |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | Kim Faistenhammer |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Pat Zavadil |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Blanche Hutchison |
| 10am prayers & chalice | Warren Johnson |
| Ushers | David & Judy Christie, Jack Hartley, Chuck Kurth |
| Greeters | David & Judy Christie |
| 10 am Acolytes | Joi Boswell, Crystal Turner |
| 10 am Crucifer | Anna Shumate |
| Prayer Team | Sue Anderson & Amy Kohair |
| November 4 | |
| Altar Guild | Joan Hemsworth, Linda Kurth, Marilou Arvin |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Sue Callahan |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | Sue Weston |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Mike Bisaro |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Andrew Johnson |
| 10am prayers & chalice | Jane Colwell |
| Ushers | Paul & Lynn Blanks, Merri & Zach Lewis |
| Greeters | Wendy Kiblawi, Marie Johnson |
| 10 am Acolytes | Landon Johnson, Caleb Johnson |
| 10 am Crucifer | Andrew Johnson |
| Prayer Team | Sue Anderson & Amy Kohair |