A HOLY MOMENT OF THE WEEK
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Jackson Bruce Beidler celebrates three months! Jackson was born early and with a brain tumor. We’ve been praying for him!
WELCOMED IN HOLY BAPTISM This weekend we mark the baptism of Juliette Morrison. Welcome and Congratulations!
RED is the Color of Pentecost. We invite you to wear red this Sunday for Pentecost as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit!
A Saint James’ Clean-Up Day is scheduled for Sunday, May 15th after church. Wear jeans to church and bring lawn equipment. Our goal is to spruce up the grounds for the sunny months that are coming. We’ll be spreading mulch and other outdoor tasks.Special Thanks to Sharon Metz and Joan Hemsworth who have volunteered to make a simple meal for us workers!
RED is the Color of Pentecost. We invite you to wear red this Sunday for Pentecost as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit!
The ECW Annual Meeting is Sunday, May 15 at 5PM at the Grosse Ile Golf and Country Club.
A Dream Keepers Concert is being presented Friday May 20 at 7:30pm and Saturday May 21 at 4pm by The Community Chorus of Detroit with the Capuchin Soup Kitchen Choir. From a viewpoint of compassion, hope, and courage, the concert will focus on the global crisis of homelessness, with stunning and deeply meaningful music by Dilworth, Elder, Rutter, Ticheli, Lennon, and others. Location: Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church, 8625 E. Jefferson Avenue, Detroit.
Graduate Recognition Sunday is planned for a Sunday in June. Please let the office know if you are graduating (from anything!) so we can include you.
Baccalaureate Service is Wednesday, June 8th at 7pm. The service will be held at the high school with a cookie reception following. All church members are invited to attend and celebrate with our graduates.
Tickets for the Saint James Boat Cruise on the Detroit River on Saturday, June 11, will be available for purchase on Sunday mornings or in the office during office hours. Tickets for adults are $20. Children under 18 can attend free when accompanied by a parent. The cruise will be catered this year, and will start with an optional Communion in the Park.
There’s Power in Your Blood. Help save lives by giving blood at the Red Cross Blood Drive at Sacred Heart on Sunday, May 22, 8am – 2pm. Appointments can be made at redcrossblood.org (sponsor code “sacredheart”) or by calling 734-692-4255.
Exotic Coffees to be Featured at Our Sunday Coffee Hours from such far flung countries as Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Sumatra, and Tanzania. This first week you will be traveling to Brazil for some Brazil Santos coffee. Won’t you please join us? If you would like to learn more about Brazil Santos coffee go to the coffee roaster’s website — http://www.coffeeam.com/brazilsantos.html.
Holy Moments Happen Around Us Every Day – a quiet moment at home between a parent and child, an evening of boisterous laughter with friends and family, or an encounter with God’s beautiful creation. We encourage you to open your hearts and minds to see the holiness in every day. And when you capture a holy moment on film (or rather, digitally!) send it to goodnews@gmail.com. We’ll share them here to inspire others to see the holy in every moment.
Open Book Theatre Company, run by our secretary Krista, will soon have a new home at 1621 West Road in Trenton – Look for shows to begin there in September! The final show of this season, Calypso’s Corner, is running now through May 21, at the rented venue in Southgate. Visit openbooktc.com for more information, or just ask Krista. She’s always happy to talk about it!
New Kroger Community Rewards cycle has begun. If the bottom of your Kroger receipt now reads, “At your request, Kroger is donating to St. James Episcopal Church—Grosse Ile,” you are enrolled for 2016-2017. If your receipt does not show this, please go to KrogerCommunityRewards.com and enroll/re-enroll right away so you can continue earning for Saint James. Our group number is 82842. Questions: Contact Lynn Blanks, 676-3967.
Join The Pastoral Care Committee to adopt a homebound parishioner, visiting them every week or two, bringing a bulletin and communion. This group is also the core of the emergency prayer chain, which is activated in times of immediate need. Contact chair Marie Johnson mariewarrenj@comcast.net or Fr. Phil.
We’re Updating Our Picture Directory If you’d like to add or update your picture in the directory send your new picture 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. If you don’t have a current version you can pick one up on the table outside the office.
Beginner’s Belly Dance Continues will continue to run on Wednesdays at 7pm.
We Continue To Collect Diapers for the “Bottoms Up.” Diapers and coupons can be placed in the box in the hallway. Contact Jane Colwell (734-671-9446) or Susan Lowery (734-675-0417) with questions or to make a monetary donation.
Not Your Conventional Bottle Drive! St. Frances Cabrini Free Clinic located in Corktown can use your old prescription bottles. Please remember to remove all labels prior to donating them. There is a donation basket set up in the hallway.
New Group Studies are being offered through Saint James. Join us Sunday mornings at 9:05 in the Fireplace Room. A second weekly Study runs on Thursday mornings at 10:30am in the Library. Beginning and ending with centering prayer, most of the time is spent discussing the reading selection on Faith, by such authors as Thomas Aquinas, Ghandi, C. S. Lewis, Augustine of Hippo.
A Weekday Eucharist focused on the life of a saint is held every Wed. at 10:15am.
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).
Blessing of the Bicycles
Saturday, June 4 at 10am – FREE
Blessing, Police Escorted Ride, Lunch
Out There With Outreach: Third Saturdays in May – Sept. at the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen:
“Soup” in May at the Spirit of Hope will be on Saturday, May 21st. Saint James will prepare the meal which Sacred Heart will serve. We will be there from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m.
On Saturday, June 18th, the Detroit Moose Hockey Team will do the whole day without us.
On Saturday, July 16th, Saint James will do the whole day alone, preparing & serving. We’ll be there from 9:15 a.m. until 1:45 p.m.
On Saturday, August 20th, Sacred Heart will do the whole day alone.
On Saturday, September 17th, Saint James will prepare the meal and Sacred Heart will serve.
That’s it for the Summer of 2016 at the Spirit of Hope Soup Kitchen! We would be so happy to have your help! We always have a great time!
Sign-ups are now listed for all summer dates on the Soup Kitchen bulletin board in the hallway at Saint James. If you have any questions, please call Amy Kohair at 734-693-0694 or Frank Kohair at 734-693-5974.
SERVING THIS WEEK
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| May 15 | Pentecost |
| Altar Guild | Sue Hartley, Joan Hemsworth, Marilou Arvin |
| 8am 1st lesson reader | Meren James |
| 8am Eucharistic Minister | David Hartwell |
| 10 am 1st lesson reader | Sue Johnson |
| 10am 2nd lesson & chalice | Walt Denson |
| 10am prayers & chalice | Jane Colwell |
| Ushers | Paul & Lynn Blanks, Jack Hartley, Chuck Kurth |
| Greeters | Chuck & Linda Kurth |
| 10 am Crucifer | Sarah Hemsworth |
| 10am Acolytes
Prayer Team |
Charlotte Glover & Kaleb Turner
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.
- Evangelism Ink Pens to share – 500 pens $275
- New floor in the River Room Kitchen $600
- Hard Cover Bibles in the Pews $2,000
- Automatic per-cup Espresso Machine for Galloway $1,200
- Landscape and decorate area outside breezeway $1,700
- Chapel window plexiglass $6,000
- Island-wide mailing $3,000
- Fall flowers and decorations for hallway and Galloway $400
- Finish the Organ Fund ($35,000 of the $65,000 has been received.)
Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
🎵 🎶 🎶🎵 MUSIC NOTES 🎵🎶🎶 🎵
A Weekly Series by Daniel Susan, our Minister of Music
“Come, Holy Spirit” is our song this week. We’ll sing it, hear it, and pray it with a determined single-mindedness and focus just as we do with the Christmas and Easter message on those days. It’s the last day of our 50 day Easter party and is traditionally considered second only to Easter in importance on the Christian calendar. It likely suffers these days as it offers no commercial angle for profit. “Come down, O Love divine” is a religious poem by Bianco da Siena, a 14th century Italian mystic. Through the years I have met a number of people that consider this one of their favorites – who knew? …a favorite Pentecost hymn! The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote a few new hymn tunes for the English Hymnal (1906), and this is one. He named the tune “Down Ampney” as that English town is his birthplace. As opposed to some of his vigorous hymn tunes like “Sine Nomine” (For all the saints), this one features a gentle, memorable melody that easily carries the text into the heart and soul. My father would say “it’s a keeper”. Have you memorized a hymn lately? Try this one: The Hymnal 1982, No. 516. Take it out the door and let it live in you.
CELEBRATIONS & PRAYERS
We Celebrate Birthdays This Week
| Gordon Miles (5/17) | Jay Craig (5/19) | Diane Mammo (5/19) | |
| Neely Carroll (5/20) | Ben Lazorka (5/20) | Joni Bohl (5/20) | |
| Betty Burns (5/22) | Marina Carroll (5/22) |
We Celebrate Anniversaries This Week
| Lynda & Barry VanEngelen (5/21) |
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 | |
| Rachael Village | Lola Boyd | Jackson Bruce Beidler | |
| Joan Klose | Pat Smith | Allison Bell | |
| Rick | Kathy |
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.