Over the next two weeks the Children, Youth, and Family Ministries Steering Committee will be placing calls to parish families both to check in and briefly ask their preferred shape for Christian Ed this fall. A number of options are on the table but we want to be sure the program will be something you are interested in participating in. This check in will take the place of the previously mentioned digital survey as a more personal way to hear from you. Please be on the look out for this call because we are looking forward to talking with you!

GHTC youth, through the leadership of Luke Thomas, are organizing a canned food drive in support of FeedMore. A list of the most needed items at FeedMore can be found here and donations can be dropped off at any of the locations listed below. Please consider supporting our youth in this work of charity.

Dykshorn Family: 125 North 25th Street, Richmond, VA. Turn into alley beside the house. Located inside the back gate. 

Alexander Family: 9008 Rio Grande Road, Richmond, VA. Located next to the mailbox.

Smithson Family: 3706 Lenox Forest DR, Midlothian, VA. Located on the front porch.

John H. Thomas PC: 536 Granite Ave, Richmond, VA. Located on the front porch.

Starting this September a regular, bi-weekly column on the GHTC website will begin appearing, each one featuring a resource for spiritual formation at home. Resources will generally be curated by Aaron Davis, but if you have something you have found helpful and would like to share with other parish families please just let Aaron know. Watch for the first of these to be linked in next month's update and the eNews.

Julia Terhune's summer music camp will still be with us through August. Be sure to get your Bible, watch your inbox, and get ready for some more fun learning and crafting with her over the next few weeks:

August 8 - A Pan Flute Psalm

August 15 - Remembering the Lord with Homemade Guitars and Banjos

August 22 - Keeping the Beat in Faith

August 29 - Making Joyful Noise with King David

Have you been following our series of children's homilies on the Sacraments and Sacramental Rites? Each week we have been looking at a different one of these important rituals and what the prayer book has to tells us about their place in our lives as Christians, and Episcopalians particularly. We have just a few left to go, so be sure to turn in:

August 9 - Marriage (Sacramental Rite)

August 16 - Reconciliation of a Penitent (Sacramental Rite)

August 23 - Unction of the Sick (Sacramental Rite)