The Altar Flowers are given in Honor of our Organist, Patty Oeste,

as she starts her seven week sabbatical. 

We've been listening to your feedback on how we communicate with you. You told us that you find the Lab Walk long, repetitive and, as a result, you either flip through it or rapidly scroll through it on your smartphone.  After some consideration, we've decided to move to more frequent, but shorter communications to you.  Here's what we're moving to (and, of course, we're open to feedback on this new approach):

Aug 28, Doug Stroud - 3 Slots open    

Sept 4,  David and Marilyn Larson - FULL

Sept 10, Ted and Leigh Ann Warriner - FULL

Sept 18, Kathryn Spinks - 4 Slots open 

Sept 24, Jerry and Madelyn Adams - FULL

 

Journey weekend is scheduled for Friday, November 2 ^nd through Sunday, November 4 ^th at Camp Mitchell. It is open to all from any denomination, and non-Episcopalians. The weekend is a retreat designed to enliven the faith of interested Christians so they may begin to discover Jesus' will for their lives, then return home and work to strengthen and bless their local church and communities in light of the Kingdom of God.
The cost for the weekend is $150.00. There are partial scholarships available. Please contact Nancy Thompson at 428-2236 or email [email protected] for more information. Brochures and applications are in the lobby.

FREE Tables!

There are still several open dates for altar flowers in Sept., Oct., and Nov.
The sign up sheet is on the bulletin board by the restrooms. You may also call the church office to sign up. A member of the Altar Guild will contact you regarding the size of arrangement you would like to purchase. Also, please keep in mind, that it is customary to leave the arrangement at the church so that they flowers can be given to shut-ins and those that are ill.

Join us in the Parish Hall Chapel on Tuesdays at Noon for a brief, quiet service.

August 26   Claire Losardo

This week's Food Pantry Need

2 cans tuna/water; 2 pkg pasta; 2 cans pasta sauce

Pantry Musings

Immigration is a contentious political issue in our country today. The borders between Canada and Mexico and the United States have always been open in my lifetime. When you are stopped by the border patrol, especially between Mexico and the United States, it is normally to check the nature of your cargo and how much you have spent. Now more frequent stops are made and searches are targeted and people are questioned. Laborers, especially in California, come across for the day or for a season. Many follow the crops and farmers are dependent on this labor source. There is a mutual economic dependence in southern California and Mexico that has been present for years. Now that dependence has extended to many locations in the US, not just a seasonal, migrant labor but as labor that we traditionally will not do. Chicken catchers, for instance, in a Tyson plant are primarily all from Mexico. They are paid low wages and their living conditions are crude. Their presence in our workforce means that crops are picked and packed and shipped out to the rest of us. It also means that the prices of some goods are lower and that we are able to purchase chicken. There are more low level positions of employment. Maids, day laborers, babysitters, you figure some of the positions that pay little, require hard heavy work, yard work, snow removal, window washing. Immigrants tend to take whatever job that is available. We resist their presence. We think that it is important to build a wall to keep people out. Why? Is it because they are taking your jobs? Are you going to work at Tyson's catching chickens? You might last a day! Maybe a week. Tyson needs someone more dependable. Or is it because they are different? Different body build, different skin and hair, different language, different food, different ideas, different ways of having fun, different dress. In some cases they have fled terror and abject poverty, carried an infant and kept track of a young child or two as well. They come from South America across Mexico, they may come on foot, some are smuggled in trucks with no air circulation, some make it here, some die trying. Only to be met at the border by immigration officials to be separated from their children and be deported. Where are we, Christians? Does difference really matter? We act as though difference is a matter of life and death. The people who risked everything, finally arrive to knock on our door, and we treat them like an enemy.  Love your neighbor as you love yourself. - Ann Drake

Birthdays

August 26      Emily Madden

August 28      Hayden Henderson

August 28      Dawn Sullivan

August 30      Jeff Auglur

August 30      Len Rishkofski

August 31      Ann Drake

September 1  Chandler Henderson

Anniversaries

August 29     Jerry and Madelyn Adams

Parish Calendar

Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
August 28	August 29	August 30	August 31	September 1
12:00pm Noonday Prayer (PH Chapel) 6:00pm Cottage Meeting (Doug Stroud)	12:00pm Brown Bag Book Club (Library) 1:30pm Library Reserved 2:00pm Staff Meeting 5:00pm EYC (Parish Hall) 6:30pm Narcotics Anonymous (Morgan House) 7:00pm Evening Prayer and Prayers for Healing	6:00pm Servant Leadership (Morgan House) 7:00pm Evening Bible Study (Library)	4:00pm Conway Locally Grown (Lobby)	9:00am Food Pantry

August 26     Vestry Meeting 1:00pm

Ministry Team 4

Claire Losardo, Team Leader