St. Giles & Children's Garden Preschool are teaming up to host our annual Pizza & Pumpkins event! Please come join us outdoors, in the preschool parking lot near the playground, from 5:00-7:00 on October 23rd. It's a wonderful evening of pumpkin carving, pizza eating, cookie decorating, and plain old wonderful fellowship! Bring your own pumpkins (although we always have extra on hand) and we'll provide the carving tools, paint supplies, food, & fun! Please RSVP by Friday, October 15 to allow us to plan and make our evening a safe and fun time for all! In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact Heather Agnello at (804) 282-9763, ext. #14 or at hagnello@stgiles.org. Hope to see you there!

Thank you to all who participated in our organ dedication last Sunday. It was a very special evening filled with much joy, praise, and beauty. A special thank you to Linus and Ben for their thoughtful planning and organization. A big thanks also to Patience Flynn and all of the volunteers that put together a wonderful reception afterwards.

If you would like to watch the dedication online, Matt Sherrard and Richard Hernandez made for a very special presentation of it through multiple camera angles. You can view it via the video link above.

Future concerts in the St. Giles Concert Series are:

Oct. 27@ 7:30 PM – Bel Canto –

An Artsong Evening – The Miller Studio

November – Event TBA

Dec. 5 @ 6:00 PM – Organ Concerto & Vivaldi Gloria –

St. Giles Choir and Linus Ellis

January – Organ Concert by Joseph Jacob from Calabar, Nigeria

Saturday Oct. 30 from 10:00 – 2:00 there is a training opportunity for those who currently are, or would like to participate in being prayer ministers on Sunday mornings and in healing services. There will be lunch in the afternoon, so please RSVP with Patience at pflynn@stgiles.org. If you have any other questions about the event please contact Rebecca Modrzynski at rebecca@stgiles.org.

The Women of the Church meet each Tuesday morning here at the church. If you have not been participating in our study we would welcome YOU. We gather at 9:30 AM for fellowship and light refreshments. At 9:45 we begin with prayer, worship, and announcements followed by a video series. We are currently enjoying the study of Jesus and Women done by Kristi McLelland. She is a speaker, teacher and college professor. Her expertise is explaining the Bible passages on women through a Middle Eastern lens. We have been blessed by her expertise in teaching us about the Western Lens versus the Middle Eastern Lens. We are allowing her to unfold the stories of the Samaritan woman at the well, and the woman who anoints Jesus' feet with her tears and wipes them with her hair, and more. Jesus restores honor and dignity to these women. We continue to look forward to all that she has to share with us in the remaining weeks of this video series. We are trusting God to grow us in our individual walk with the Lord and to experience his love more deeply.

Our Senior Men’s Ministry, Second Half, is meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday in Common Grounds. This ministry is now in its 19th year and has been meeting via Zoom for the last 15 months. All senior men are welcome. We have 60 men presently meeting in this ministry and it has been a wonderful fellowship and support for the needs of senior men. For questions please contact Gordon at 804-562-6576 or email hipriority7@gmail.com.

We are low on volunteer servers for our Wednesday night dinners. Please contact Jane Harler at (804) 741-3534 if you are interested in helping out.

We are now live-streaming many of our events, including Sunday worship and some of our classes on our YouTube channel. These can also be viewed later at the same YouTube channel. Take advantage of the opportunity to catch up on anything you’ve missed, or to share these ministries with friends who might benefit from them.