St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church
An Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina
The Altar Guild will meet on Sunday, November 7th at 10:15 AM in the Parlor. All Altar Guild members are asked to attend. Some topics for the meeting will include issues that need addressing and what our tasks will be through the Advent and Christmas seasons. This will be a good time for other volunteers who may be interested in Altar Guild work to attend the meeting and learn more about who the Altar Guild members are and what they do.
Our Church School will be focusing on Stewardship through Sunday, October 31st (Touchdown Sunday). So that the children wll all have the opportunity to complete a pledge care, we are asking all the children, in their Halloween costumes, to join their parents in the pews of the Church at 11 AM. At that time we will pray and then allow a number for minutes for the parents to help their children complete their pledge cards. The children will then bring their pledge cards forward and offer them in thanksgiving to God. The children will participate in the Solemn Procession for All Saints’ Day and then join the Church School classes in the Parish Hall. With this emphasis on pledging, the children will learn that they give part of themselves in service to the Church and that pledging is the outward sign of that offering to Christ’s Body, the Church.
Pledge cards are due in to the Parish Office. If you have yet to complete a pledge card for 2011, please do so this week. The Vestry is trying to complete the Every member Canvass, and we are well below where we need to be to meet our 230-pledge goal. Pledge cards and envelopes are available in the narthex and can be placed in the alms basin during the offertory or mailed back to the Parish Office. Saint Timothy’s depends mainly on the giving of her faithful parishioners to meet the needs of the parish, so please know how important and helpful your pledges are.
Our goal is to score a touchdown on Touchdown Sunday, October 31st. This means we will have received 230 pledges with the pledged amount increased by 10% over last year’s amount. We can do this if we pledge just $3 more per week for 2011. The Vestry will be contacting all members of the Parish who have yet to pledge throughout the remainder of the campaign to see if we can’t score a “touchdown” by October 31st. Let’s do it!
As part of our Stewardship Campaign, we will also have a series of speakers from the Parish leading up to “Touchdown Sunday”. Peter Bourey (October 10th), Samantha Mason (October 17th), Emma Elsea (October 24th) and Sara Smothers (October 31st) will give a brief stewardship talk before the sermon on each of those Sundays, explaining why St. Timothy’s is important to them and why supporting St. Timothy’s ought to be important to all of us.
At the requiem that we will celebrate on All Souls’ Day, Tuesday, November 2nd at 12 noon, we will remember by name departed souls of our families, friends and loved ones at St. Timothy’s Altar. Please print the names of the loved ones you would like remembered at the Altar on the bulletin board outside the Parish Office. May they rest in peace.
Please join us at the Bobby Asher Golf Classic on October 30, 2010 at Riverwood Golf. This has been a successful event in the past, and we are looking forward to another successful tournament this year. Fliers for the tournament can be found in the bulletin and in the narthex. Please contact Warren Grant at 812-5727, Bob Elsea at 231-9350, or any of the members of the Men’s Fellowship for additional information.
For the next two Wednesdays, the Bible Study Group will examine two areas of theological teaching: salvation and predestination. Questions concerning these two areas have arisen many times in the course of our study of the Books of the Bible. We are taking two classes and looking at these teachings from historical and denominational perspectives. We will return to the Books of the Bible in a few weeks. Please join the study on Wednesdays at 7 PM in the Parlor.
The Vestry will hold their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, October 21st at 6:30 PM in the Parlor.
The Pastoral Care Committee will meet on Thursday, October 21st at 3:30 PM in the Parlor.
St. Anne’s will meet on Wednesday, October 13th following the 10:30 AM Communion Service. We welcome new members and would love to have you join us. We ask that you bring a sandwich to share and a salad; dessert and drinks will be provided. We will be discussing our upcoming Bake Sale.
Our Church School will be focusing on Stewardship from now through Sunday, October 31st (Touchdown Sunday). We will have pledge cards available for the children, and we will be participating in a Service Sunday on October 17th. We will be assembling backpacks for BackPack Buddies for North Raleigh Ministries. This program provides healthy foods to hungry children at time when other resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations. We will be collecting food from now through October 17th. Please consider having your family purchase the items to fill an entire BackPack. This will help us plan the number of completed BackPacks and give us a count of what items are still needed.
Each BackPack contains 2 cans of vegetables, 1 can of fruit, 2 cans of meat or meat stew (tuna, chicken or ravioli), 2 noodle packs (Easy Mac in the box which we will separate into individual packs, or Ramen), 2 100% juice boxes, 3 boxes of shelf-stable milk (found in the baking aisle), 2 healthy snacks (dried fruit, granola bar, Goldfish crackers), 2 breakfast items (oatmeal packet, small low-sugar cereal boxes, or breakfast bars). Pop-top and individual sizes are best. NO soft tops or high sugar items are allowed in the BackPacks.
