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Jane Colwell welcomes guests for a tour of our Historical Chapel. |
HAPPY EASTER! May the Great Fifty Days be joyous ones for you!
Welcome Fr Frederick Nestrock who leads us in worship today.
Our Annual Detroit Riverboat Cruise June 11th. The cruise will be catered this year! Like last year an informal Saturday Communion in the Park will be held just before the boat trip begins.
We’re Updating Our Picture Directory If you’d like to add or update your picture in the directory please send an electronic photo to office@saintjamesgi.net. Please also send any corrections and additions to phone, address and e-mail. Look for the new version in the fall!
Don’t Have a Directory? Pick up a directory on the table outside the office. When the pile gets low we’ll print another 15.
Beginner’s Belly Dance is Back! Have fun learning the basics of this ancient dance form and have fun shaking and shimmying! Erica Chappuis will be teaching this free one hour class again each Wednesday from April 6 through May 18 (omitting May 4th for rummage set up). Wear comfortable, stretchy clothes. Hip shawls and veils will be provided or bring your own. Erica has taken belly dance for 12 years and attended workshops in Hawaii and Ann Arbor. Meet in Galloway Hall, 7pm.
A Piano Needs A New Home A local family is looking to pass on their simple, upright piano. It’s yours if you can pick it up! Please contact the office for more information.
What is dying to come to life in you? Explore this question and more at The Heart’s Journey Through the Seasons on Tuesday, April 5, 10 – 11:30am. (This is the ONLY session. No evening this month.) SPRING says, “Now! Now! Now is the time to resurrect! Now is the time to enjoy what is emerging within, to savor the taste of hope, and to trust what the future promises.” Join your friends and neighbors to celebrate this post- Easter season with this mini-retreat on springtime with prayer, reflection and sharing. Held at Sacred Heart and led by Sr. Betty Leon, IHM and a team from Saint James, St. Thomas, GIPC and Sacred Heart. Free will offering.
A New Book Study is meeting at Saint James’ on Thursday mornings at 10:30am. Beginning and ending with centering prayer, most of the time is spent discussing the reading selection for a week on Faith, by such authors as Thomas Aquinas, Ghandi, C. S. Lewis, Augustine of Hippo. Contact the office to find out more.
Not Your Conventional Bottle Drive! St. Frances Cabrini Free Clinic located in Corktown can use your old prescription bottles. The Cabrini Free Clinic is the oldest free clinic not only in Detroit, but in the nation. Andy June will be volunteering at the clinic and will happily take the donated prescription bottles to be used in their pharmacy. Please remember to remove all labels prior to donating them. There is a donation basket set up in the hallway across from the office. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Andy!
Our Spring Rummage Sale is May 6 & 7. Items will be accepted beginning April 17. Please wait until then to deliver rummage.
Coffee & Kids is a new group is being created for parents/caregivers of young children. This weekly come-if-you-can group is designed as a space for parents/caregivers to come together in fellowship. The group is planning to meet at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Wyandotte during a weekday morning or afternoon for an informal gathering where we will discuss parenting, spiritual life, and more. If you are interested in knowing more, contact emilie.maierhofer@gmail.com. Please indicate how many children you care for, and their ages as well as any ideas you have for the group.
The Ten-Week Preparation For Confirmation is under way for 7 students: Andrew Ador Johnson, Warren Johnson, William Johnson, Abbey McNeill, Emma Rankine, Tommy Shumate, and Hannah Thomas. Please pray for these special young people confirming their faith on April 24th.
The Bishop is Coming! Make sure to be in attendance on Sunday, April 24, for the bishop’s triennial visitation.
There will be no Sunday School April 24 so the children can experience worship with the Bishop.
We Continue To Collect Diapers for the “Bottoms Up” diaper program in collaboration with Grosse Ile Presbyterian. The diapers are distributed to qualified, low-income families with babies and toddlers through Fish & Loaves, a local food pantry in Taylor, MI. Diapers and coupons can be placed in the box in the hallway. If you have any questions or to make a monetary donation please contact: Jane Colwell (734-671-9446) or Susan Lowery (734-675-0417)
The Next Saint James Coffee Bean Collective Buying Club (CBCBC) order will be placed on Monday, April 4. In May our order will be placed on Monday, May 2. Go to www.coffeeam.com and see what coffee you would like to purchase. When it was suggested that we consider sharing expenses for taste test trips to both Hawaii and Jamaica many of you raised your hands. In April we’ll get together for some Hawaiian Kona ‘Volcano Estate’ and in May we’ll enjoy Jamaica Blue Mountain ‘Estate’. Different coffee brewing methods will be used because each method will provide a different taste experience. Coffee club members pay a good deal less for a 1 pound bag of coffee than what the website shows and 1/2 pound bags can also be ordered. Your order will be roasted on Monday night, bagged and shipped on Tuesday, received on Thursday or Friday, and you can pick it up on Sunday. Any non-flavored coffee you order may be ground in the church coffee grinder or CoffeeAM can grind your coffee for you. Call or email David Hartwell with questions or comments: 313 318-9009 or dhartwell4@yahoo.com
Games to Share? We are looking for some fun games to be used as learning tools in Sunday School. If anyone has a corn hole game, foosball, air hockey, etc. they would like to donate contact Nancy Crysler, ncrsyler@outlook.com
New Bible Studies are being offered through Saint James. Join us Sunday mornings at 9:05 in the Fireplace Room. A second weekly Bible Study runs on Thursday mornings at 10:30am in the Library. Sign up on the Bulletin Boards by the front doors or email goodnews@saintjamesgi.net.
An Open Bible Study is held every Sunday Morning in the Fireplace Room at 9:05 am. We are currently reading & discussing the Gospel of Luke a chapter at a time.
A Weekday Eucharist focused on the life of a saint is held every Wed. at 10:15am.
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Fr. Phil’s Open Office Hours are every Tuesday from 4:30-6:30pm.
Coffee and Fellowship follow the 10am Service every Sunday in Galloway Hall. Volunteers are always needed. To host contact Joan Hemsworth (734-675-8191).
SERVING THIS WEEK
Email goodnews@saintjamesgi.net if you want to serve in one of these capacities.
| April 3 | |
| Altar Guild | Joan H., Jennifer D., Meren J. |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Margaret Horvath |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | David Hartwell |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Larry Crabtree |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Jim Holubka |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Walt Denson |
| Ushers | Paul & Lynn Blanks, Zach & Merri Lewis |
| Greeters | Paul & Lynn Blanks |
| 10 am Crucifer | Sarah Hemsworth |
| 10am Acolytes
Prayer Team |
Mitch Lewis & Alex Bidari
Maria Turner & Amy Kohair |
SAINT JAMES WISH LIST
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.
- New plexiglass on the Evangelists window $6,000
- Island-wide Evangelism mailing $3,000
- Landscape and decorate area outside breezeway
- New windows for Galloway Hall
Several gifts have been recently given for our Sunday School rugs and tablecloths! Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
🎵 🎶 🎶🎵 MUSIC NOTES 🎵🎶🎶 🎵
A Weekly Series by Daniel Susan, our Minister of Music
We will sing a new “Song of Praise” for the remainder of the Easter Season. In former times this was the “Glory to God” preceded by the Kyrie – “Lord have mercy”. The 1979 prayer book now asks for only one of these, and promotes the ancient use of many various canticles – hymns from the bible – not just the Gloria. The “Song to the Lamb” (you can preview this in your home copy of the Hymnal 1982 at S 266) is set to music by the American Episcopal composer, Calvin Hampton. He was one of the brightest lights among late 20th century musicians serving the Church and his life was cut short by AIDS. Compositions of his remain in wide use and seem to have staying power. Hampton was famous for his creative planning of music at Calvary Church, New York City. Weekly midnight organ recitals drew large crowds to hear his playing and creative programming. At my nerve-wracking audition for graduate school, in order to relieve tension one of the professors, an Oberlin College classmate of Hampton, shared an anecdote about the monumental musicianship of the man. Of all the musicians he might have chosen to tell a story about, it remains telling to me that Calvin Hampton drew his praise. His New York Times obituary says he was “An iconoclastic performer with distinctive ideas.” In the coming weeks I expect to have the choir sing his most famous hymn tune, a setting of “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy”. Let us pray for the next generation of Calvin Hamptons to grace the Church with their gifts.
CELEBRATIONS & PRAYERS
We Celebrate Birthdays This Week
| Vivian Miklos (4/3) | Dennis Davenport (4/3)) | Zachary Lewis (4/4) | |
| Jack Hartley (4/5) | Jay Tissot (4/5) | Dana Uhse (4/5) | |
| Mitchell Craig (4/6) | Laurent Chappuis (4/7) | Rose Czajka (4/8) | |
| Jill Craig (4/8) | Pat Bracey (4/9) | Claire Buhl (4/10) | |
| Libby Dinwiddie (4/10) |
We Celebrate Anniversaries This Week
| Jennifer & Matthew Drake (4/3) |
Please Pray This Week For Healing:
| Lee | Jerry Zavadil | Maureen Kohn | |
| Jerry | John Kurth | Marsha Childress | |
| Pete Fernandes | Jean Fernandes | Andrew Brunell | |
| Philip Metz, Sr | Linda Petras | Judy Williams | |
| Mary | Charles | Carol Tyler Gacioch | |
| Robert | Christopher | Bradley | |
| Terri Thurlow | Lola Boyd | Jackson Bruce Beidler | |
| Joan Klose | Joan Haggard | John Haggard | |
| Christian William | Cindy | Cliff Mace | |
| Dan Boyd |
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.