St. Andrew's will remember our faithful departed with the reading of the necrology this Sunday.

The Reverend John Henry, Celebrant

November 6

Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost

+The Holy Eucharist+

Rite I 8 a.m. | Rite II 10 a.m.

Masks are optional.

8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - child care in the nursery.

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite One

9:00 a.m. - Choir Rehearsal | Confirmation/Reception Class

9:15 - Adults - Morning Prayer & conversation in Pearson Hall

10:00 a.m. - Church School, Lower Level

10 a.m. service in person & streamed via Facebook Live.

+Remembrance of the faithful departed occurs during today's service.+

Coffee hour following the service

Sunday Readings

• Job 19:23-27a
• Psalm 17:1-9
• 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
• Luke 20:27-38

2023 Stewardship Campaign

As of Saturday, November 5, a total of 33 pledges have been received for 2023, compared to 48 pledges at this time last year. The total amounts for the past two years were $158,020 for 2022 and $110,460 for 2023. The average pledge for 2023 is slightly higher than for the current year.

Pledges may be submitted at any time during the year but during this fall campaign it is hoped that most remaining pledges will be received tomorrow, November 6, or soon after as the vestry needs to know what funds will be available for a rector's salary/benefits and operating expenses for 2023.

Make Your Offering!



• Online: standrews-edwardsville.com/stewardship/
• Mail: Send your check to St. Andrew's Treasurer, at 406 Hillsboro Avenue, Edwardsville 62025.

Return your pledge form this Sunday, November 6!

The Week of November 6

• Sunday, November 6, Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m.
• Monday through Friday - Daily 8 a.m. morning prayer and 5:30 p.m. evening prayer in the chapel.
• Tuesday, November 8, Election Day
• Wednesday, November 9, 11:30 - Lunch Bunch at Sugo's
• Friday - 7 a.m., AA Meeting in Pearson Hall.

Looking Ahead

• November 24, Thanksgiving Day
• November 27, First Sunday in Advent
• November 30, Feast of Saint Andrew
• December 11, Children's Christmas Concert

Return to Standard Time, November 6

Fall back to standard time this Sunday! The official time to set clocks back is 2 a.m.. Enjoy an extra hour this Sunday as we make this transition. Daylight savings returns on March 12. Many Americans favor Daylight Savings time; legislation is under consideration to make it "standard time" all year round. 

Vote on November 8!

[Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Diane Tomlinson voted on November 3, she didn’t have to leave her church.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church, where Tomlinson is rector, provides space in its second-floor Nicholas Center to serve as an early-voting site in Rockford, Illinois. The congregation remains nonpartisan and doesn’t get involved in running the polls, but Tomlinson told Episcopal News Service she thinks it’s important for Episcopalians to get involved in the electoral process.

“It’s part of our duty as Christians, to be a part of the conversation,” she said. “By voting, we are able to register what we believe.” Continue here.

Thank you to all of you who have responded to the 2023 Stewardship Campaign so far. If you have not yet turned in a pledge card, please do so at your earliest convenience. Your commitment to supporting the 2023 parish budget will permit the Vestry to make plans for the next calendar year, which will include the compensation package for our next Rector.

Kevin Babb

Today: Last Book Fair of 2022

Cindy Reinhardt reports that the final book fair of this year (and the final book sale for the Reinhardts) brought in $2,908. Many thanks to the large group of volunteers who worked yesterday and today to set up and close down the sale or serve customers. And, of course, thank you Mike and Cindy! The sale was a wonderful gift to St. Andrew's, giving us very positive attention in the community and dollars to support operations and maintenance at St. Andrew's!

Michelle Babb Receives 2022 Spirituality Leadership Award

The SIUE Center for Sustainability and Spirituality awarded its Spirituality Leadership Award to Michelle Babb, wife of Senior Warden Kevin Babb, on October 22. Michelle is the Director of Servant Ministry at St. John’s Methodist Church in Edwardsville. Her ministry is dedicated to inspiring others to joyfully live out their faith through effective service to others. [Note: Michelle is pictured above/left with Connie Frey-Spurlock, Chairperson of the Center for Spirituality and Sustainability Board.]

The Center for Sustainability and Spirituality, located in the geodesic dome on the SIUE campus, hosts an annual awards ceremony honoring two awardees each year. One award is presented for spiritual leadership and another for leadership in sustainability. These annual dual awards allow the Center to recognize those who have shown leadership values that reinforce the Center's mission to promote humanity's sacred connection to the Earth and each other.

A Love Affair

by Jim Weingartner



In a box of papers collected by late parishioner Dick Norrish and preserved by JoAnn Nabe, I came across a sermon. It is undated and unsigned but almost certainly written by Fr. Steve Weissman, St. Andrew’s rector from 1975 to 1990. In it, he departs from “the spacious subjects of the gospel” to talk about “the parish I love.” It is worthy of sharing with St. Andrew’s parishioners, some of whom may remember it.

The first thing a visitor to St. Andrew’s may notice is that the place is small…. Here the clergyman knows anyone who comes more than twice, and if a newcomer makes any effort at all and doesn’t flee out the door as soon as the service ends, other parishioners soon know him/her as well….

But if someone wishes just to attend church and be left alone, that too is possible here…. No one will be hustled at St. Andrew’s.

On the other hand, if a person wishes to become involved, plenty of room is open for everyone’s contribution…. More often than not, if some job needs doing, someone will come forward and do it. The laity’s initiative is great here. The “father knows best” mentality would never flourish around this parish because so many sharp lay people have a stake in the ministry. You pastor each other, calling, offering rides, praying, teaching, and providing hope and cheer in difficult times. This is a participatory parish….

An unusual way the laity participates is in the preaching. Another priest … told me he has been at a certain church for a year and no one has said anything, good or bad, about his sermons …. Not at this congregation! I can guarantee that if I say something wrong, you’ll tell me…. It shows how this congregation has a high proportion of givers, not just takers. As further evidence, look at the music program, or the education, or the lay readers’ list or the altar guild schedule or the other organizations’ rosters.

While you are looking at the organizations, notice the diversity of their composition…; but they are not divided into cliques…. We usually disagree charitably. The factionalism which tears apart some congregations has been prevented here by a spirit of acceptance. I like that toleration of diversity….

This place is relatively simple in style. No electronic device amplifies the voice nor synthesizes the music…. The oak pews press hard; the candles burn real beeswax; the family must come to the table to be fed. We praise God by hand here; and in a world taken over by the electronic, I value that.

Intimacy, participation and simplicity will not insulate us from sin, decay and death; but, having been together thus, we may be able to face those enemies with added grace…. Last year I was in St. Louis … where they were giving me advice about cases [of mental illness]. “You’ve got some real duzies over there in Edwardsville,” said one of the doctors. “Yes,” I replied, “a few are as crazy as I am.” Maybe in the final analysis that’s what keeps me attached to this parish. The nutty, lovable Christians here.

Fr. Weissman called his time as St. Andrew’s rector “The best job I ever had.” Many parishioners thought as highly of him as he of them. Some are still with us, bearing loving witness to those years.

Lunch Bunch at Sugo's

Wednesday, November 9, 11:30 a.m.

Everyone is welcome!