It's time again to assemble the crew. This year's theme is "Shipwrecked" and All Saints' is hosting!  July 22nd-25th. 

The first volunteer meeting will be Sunday, May 6th after the 10:30 service in Sutherland Hall.

Sunday, July 22nd with Registration 4:30 - 7:30
Monday and Tuesday July 23rd-24th 5:00 - 7:30
Wednesday, July 25th Closing Program (Families Invited)

To Register as a Volunteer, Click Here

To Register your child, Click Here. 

*Please print and return this forms to the All Saints' Office or Mail to 501 S. Phoenix Ave. Russellville, AR. 72801


Volunteer Opportunities:

Adults:

1. Decorating and Clean-up

 

A Note of Gratitude

Many thanks to KaDee McCormick for constructing pew pockets to hold visitor and prayer cards. Take a look at the back of the pew the next time you are in worship!

 

Teri

The First Thursday Book Group will meet next on May 3rd at noon in the parlor of All Saints'. Our book will be Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli.

All Saints' Talent Showcase - Join us for the All Saints' Talent Showcase on Saturday, April 21 at 6:00 pm to enjoy the many talents of the members of our congregation! The show will feature a variety of performances and is sure to entertain!! The evening will also feature a dessert and coffee/tea bar. The cost of the event is $5.00 per person, and donations will be used to purchase new tablecloths for the church. If you are interested in participating in the show, please sign up in Shoemaker Hall, or contact any DOK member.

 

The Wednesday Morning Bible Study is beginning a study of the letter of James. This short book of the New Testament is thought by many to have been written by James, the brother of Jesus. It is an exhortation to moral behavior within a Christian community, a piece of religious instruction. Bible study begins at 10 am in the Faith & Reason Classroom, and all are welcome to attend.

Bee Report from Doug Ryan, Volunteer Beekeeper in the Edible Churchyard, A Live and Learn Community Garden

The bees in the hive at the EC were lost during the winter.   Bee keepers in general can expect a 10% loss over the winter, but I have had a much greater loss this year (as a lot of bee keepers did). What happened? Well probably several things, some known and some unknown.   We had a swarm in the spring from the EC hive (which is natural, they grow a new queen and the old queen leaves with about half (20,000) of the bees to find a new home. The new queen has to survive her trip out in the world to get pregnant (for the rest of her life). Sometimes she doesn't make it back, that is when you need to be on top of it and get a new queen in hive before workers thinks she wants to take over laying eggs, only thing is she lays unfertilized eggs (drones). Once you get a laying worker it is hard to introduce a new queen because they think they already have one and so they kill her. So we lost the new queen but I thought I caught it early enough and I put in some frames from a different hive with a few queen cells. I thought things were doing good, finally got a laying queen, producing eggs, lots of bees, making honey. Then checked one day and SHB (Small Hive Beetles) moved in. They had a good handle on them as the bee population was good, so I just put in a few beetle jails (little containers with veg oil in them and the bees run the little beetles in the holes and they drown). Things seemed to be doing fine into the fall, I left lots of honey with them into the winter so they would not need extra feeding of sugar water and in November I treated the hive for varola mites, even though I did not see any (another big problem pest honey bees have to contend with).

 

Took advantage of a nice warm winter day to check on the bees, now the bad news: most of them gone, what was left were clustered on honey and dead. It wasn't for lack of food. Why did they leave such a nice home? Don't know. I'm not a professional beekeeper, I learn more every hive I get. Now we try again.

 

Hive is just about ready for a new group of bees. I plan to put a Apimaye screen bottom board on with a mite tray that works real well for capturing SHB using Diatomaceous Earth in the bottom tray that is removable to check on how effective it is. I will put in a new swarm with a laying queen in it this spring. The EC misses bees, blueberries are blooming and they love bees, all the spring bloomers are blooming (henbit, spring beauties, dandelions, and the elm trees bloomed and put on seed already, holly in full bloom. By the way daffodils are not visited by honey bees, nice to look at but not a bee flower.

 

Time to plant plants and bees! Doug

 

Doug would like to restore our bee colony, but there will be an approximate $150 in expenses to do so. If anyone would like to help fund new bees for the EC make a check to the Edible Churchyard or drop a donation in the "NEW BEES FOR THE EC, PLEASE" jar on the welcome/information table.

Summer Camp

If your child is interested in going to camp this summer, please fill out an application form on the Camp Mitchell Website, https://www.campmitchell.org/

If a scholarship is need, please contact Kimby Tackett or David Williams at the church office.