This Week at St Timothy's | Nov. 8, 2016
Today is Election Day
Almighty God, to whom we must account for all our powers and privileges: Guide the people of the United States in the election of officials and representatives; that, by faithful administration and wise laws, the rights of all may be protected and our nation be enabled to fulfill your purposes; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
(Book of Common Prayer, page 822)
News & Updates
This Wednesday's Faith & Health Presentation: Grief
Agnes Barry returns this week with a presentation on grief. The lecture will begin at 6pm in ECW Hall. 

Dinner begins at 5pm and there is Christian formation for all ages.
Overflow Shelter Dry Run
Join us as we prepare to host our homeless friends for the winter! The dry run offers logistical training for volunteers (all roles) and a good refresher for veteran volunteers. Dinner will be provided.

St. Timothy's youth will simulate our "guests" and volunteers will have the opportunity to walk through a typical night in the shelter as a volunteer.  The shelter is both life-changing and life-giving and an opportunity to follow Jesus beyond our comfort zones and into something holy and good.  Come and see!

Ready to Volunteer? Overflow Shelter Sign-Ups are Live

The fall is flying by, and our overflow shelter opens in only 36 days! Each year we have partnered with different congregations to fill our spots, and our super group churches take a night and are fully responsible for it. Those are: Highland Presbyterian on Mondays, Knollwood Baptist on Thursdays, and Ardmore Baptist on Fridays. Please sign up for days OTHER than the ones designated for those groups; that is Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Sign ups for the shelter are live - click  here  to pick your dates! If you have any questions, contact Katie Harper at  [email protected].

Shelter Needs

We are collecting new, unused, pillows to use with our guests this fall.  Our goal is to have 40 new pillows by the time the shelter opens on  Dec.1.  We can also use the zippered pillow protectors (preferably not the crinkly plastic kind).  Donations can be left on Drake stage or in front of Katie Bryant's office in Gribbin Commons.  

Other items being collected: hotel-sized toiletries, women's underwear, & white crew socks.  We ask that all clothing donations be directed to other non-profits in town who take clothing.  Our guests can get vouchers to shop in these stores.  We are also looking for someone to be our Hospitality Coordinator--keeping up with supply needs and keeping our supplies organized.

Make Someone's Thanksgiving!
As you begin to make plans for celebrating Thanksgiving & Christmas, consider helping to feed another family too this holiday season.  New Communion Mobile Food Pantry has made this easy for us--for $32 you can sponsor a full meal (all of the ingredients needed to make a grand feast!) for a family.  To sponsor a meal, make checks payable to First Christian Church with "New Communion" in the memo line and turn in to St.Tim's by this Sunday, November 13 for Thanksgiving and December 12th, for Christmas.  St.Timothy's will continue collecting pasta each month for the mobile food pantry, but this is an additional way we can help families in some of Winston-Salem's most food-insecure neighborhoods this holiday season.  If you're interested in learning more about New Communion, email [email protected] or check out them out on facebook here.

Support a Singer
Did you know that St Timothy’s has seventeen choristers?! They rehearse Mondays and Wednesdays and sing in mass 1-2 Sunday mornings a month and for monthly Evensong.
With this many choristers, we needed to purchase more music stands for rehearsals and neck ruffs to wear with our vestments. 
For $100, you may support one of our choristers by providing a music stand and a neck ruff.

In addition to our choristers, twenty-three other children and youth rehearse Wednesday evenings to sing in mass once a month. They bring a lot of life to mass when they sing and truly help lead the hymn-singing and service music. 
For $50, you may support a singer by helping provide a new anthem for them to sing. 

St Timothy’s also has some professional musicians, our choral scholars, who help lead our liturgies on Sunday mornings and evening masses. They are an integral part of helping us learn the amount and quality of music required by our liturgies, and they help our faithful volunteer singers learn music quickly.
For $250, you may help support a choral scholar so we can continue offering music at the highest level possible.

If you would like to support one of our many singers (and do so in memory or honor of someone), please indicate “Music Ministry: support a singer” in your check memo, online, or on the giving kiosk.