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The Weekly News
for September 20, 2017
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Greetings!
In this issue of The Weekly News:
- Parenting Teens Class
- Youth Group Meeting and Lunch
- Friends and Family CPR Class
- Fill the Car
- Hamilton County CROP Hunger Walk
- Young at Heart Luncheon
- Natural Playground Work Day
- Photos for Parish Database
- Rhythm & Roast Photos
- Important Dates for Your Calendar
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Parenting Teens Class
"The Space Between Us: A Parent's Guide to Teenage Development" is a six-week class coming up that will be facilitated by Brad and Katrina Lewis, parents of two college-age children. The class will focus on communication and being a positive and proactive bridge-builder into your teen's world. We hope the class will also allow you to give and receive support among other parents. This class will be scheduled at a time convenient for participants who register. The cost for the class is $10. Scholarship money is available, so don’t let the cost stop you (contact Mother Jenny).
Registration closes September 24 and classes begin the week of October 1.
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Youth Group (Grades 6 to 12) meeting and lunch
Please join us for a fun Youth Group meeting immediately following the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday, September 24, 2017.
Victoria Hoppess, Waycross Camp Director and Diocesan Coordinator of Ministries With and For Youth, will be with us. In her position, she develops and runs the summer camp program at Waycross and coordinates diocesan youth ministry events. She leads the diocesan Youth Steering Committee and provides support to parishes in the areas of youth and camping ministries.
Victoria will bring an activity that helps her to get to know our youth. She also will provide a lesson that introduces youth to the diocese (what it is and how it relates to them). She will share information about activities that our youth can participate in at Waycross.
We will have lunch together. Please plan to stay and enjoy the fun until 12:45 to 1:00 p.m.
We need a count for pizza!
Please RSVP by Friday, September 22.
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Friends and Family CPR Class
September 24, 11:30 a.m.
Sue Blase, our parish nurse, will offer a Friends and Family CPR Class on Sunday, September 24, after the 10:00 a.m. service. The class will include an instructional DVD and material from the American Heart Association. This will not be a certification class. Instead it will be an informational class on using CPR and an automated external defibrillator (AED). St. Christopher's has an AED. The class will meet in the Conference Room and will last from 30 minutes to an hour.
If you want to attend this class, please send an email to Sue Blase by Thursday, September 21, so she can have sufficient materials. If you are interested but unable to attend on September 24, email Sue with another date that might work with your schedule.
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Fill the car! Yes, that's right: that's car not cart.
Two of Eva Gilbert's nieces, Kathy and Beth, lost everything in Hurricane Harvey. Kathy is coming up to get Eva's car.
We want to fill the car with items they need. We are collecting bottled water, cleaning supplies, and gift cards (Macy's, Kohl's, Walmart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lowe's, and Home Depot), but they can use anything. There is a collection area in the Narthex for your donations.
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Hamilton County CROP Hunger Walk 2017
CROP Hunger Walk is about walking one day for those who must walk
every day for life’s basic needs of food and water.
On Sunday, September 24, we will launch our CROP Walk campaign to help the food insecure across the globe and here at home in Hamilton County. Did you know that Hamilton County contains the SEVENTH largest population of food insecure individuals in Indiana? There are 27,150 people (11,470 children), who are either hungry or food insecure as they live without knowing what their next meal will be.
Here are ways you can participate in CROP walk:
- “Sock it to Hunger” begins Sunday, September 24, and runs to October 29 for change collections...every penny, nickel, dime, and quarter helps others!
- Join the St. Christopher’s CROP Walk after church on Sunday, October 8, at 11:35 a.m. It will include Coffee Hour as one of our stations on the walk.
- Donate online at the link below (and be sure to select St. Christopher's Team for your donation). You can also talk with your friends and associates to sponsor your walk.
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Young at Heart Luncheon, September 27
Join us for a light lunch in the Parish Hall at 11:30 a.m. Enjoy a nutritious meal, easy conversation, and good fellowship. If you are not currently on the call list for Young at Heart Luncheons, please all Nancy Barney at 317-255-2699. The Daughters of the King will provide the delicious meals for which we give thanks.
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Natural Playground work day on Saturday, September 30
The Playground Committee has planned a work day to accomplish a number of important tasks. On September 30, we will work from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. We will build the boardwalk, the bird blind, the arbor, and extend the climbing wall. We also will install edging, spread mulch and gravel, and auger holes for the trees we will plant later this fall. All tools and materials will be provided. Lunch also will be provided.
Please sign up using the link below so we know what you want to help with and can plan food for lunch.
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Do we have your photo?
Currently most of our profiles in the parish database have an image of the blue character to the right. We're on a mission to remedy that situation and get a photograph of all our members for the database. This will help Father Stephen and all of us put names with faces more quickly. If you have a photo, you can upload it.
(Click here for instructions.)
If you do not have a photo, we can help. Volunteer photographers will be available in the Parish Hall after the 7:45 a.m. service and during Coffee Hour after the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday, September 24.
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Speaking of photos....
Many of you have asked about photos taken at the Rhythm & Roast Celebration.
Thanks to Marty Torrance, Carolyn Parrott, Dick Carter and Robert Richter, we had over 300 of them. Use the link below to access the pictures.
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Important Dates for Your Calendar
The
Save the Date page
of St. Christopher's website is updated weekly. Check this resource for new information. You also may want to review the insert in the Sunday bulletin, as it provides the schedule for the coming week.
October 1 | Father Stephen's First Sunday as Interim Rector
October 8 | CROP Walk
October 14 | Daughters of the King (Father Stephen will speak)
Church office hours
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
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