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St. Giles News
August 12, 2020
Pastor Keith's Video Blog
This Sunday at St. Giles
Sunday, August 16, 2020

10:30 AM Livestreaming from the Sanctuary


Our Sunday Morning
Worship Plan Continues
As Virginia has now entered Phase 3 of re-openings, our basic plans for in-house worship continue. These plans enable us to partner with the larger community to slow the spread of the virus, and to keep our St. Giles folks safe.

Livestream will continue! So whether you are in the church house or at home, you may continue to join us.

Here’s what we’re doing:

  • We will have a single service at 10:30 in the sanctuary, and we will continue livestreaming worship.

  • We will ask anyone with Covid-19 symptoms or recent exposure not to come.

  • We will have children will sit with their families.

  • We will sit only in every other pew, individually or by family.

  • We will wear masks. (We have some masks for those without their own.)

  • We will visit outside after worship, with safe distancing.

  • We will celebrate communion with various protections in place.
Gifts for Beirut
We have all been stricken by the devastation from the explosion in Beirut. If you would like to help with relief efforts there, our ECO denomination works through World Renew. They have the means in place to provide basic human needs of food and hygiene for survivors. You can learn more and give electronically at: https://worldrenew.net.
Adult Discipleship
Sunday Morning Classes
Sunday morning classes have ended for the summer. We'll resume on September 13, the first Sunday after Labor Day.
David
This Wednesday's Bible Study will look at I Samuel 28 & 29.
Please contact Ross Anderson via rossandbetty@yahoo.com if
you would like to join the Zoom webinar. Class starts at 7:00 p.m.
Daily Bread
Skip and Karen Thistle have been providing copies of Daily Bread for any who would use it for devotionals. But with most of us not coming into the church building these days, where we can pick one up, our distribution system has broken down. So Skip has volunteered to deliver a copy to any who request it. Thanks, Skip! If you’d like a copy, just call the church office, and we’ll get word to Skip.
Community Outreach
Kazakh Partner Shares Conference
for Connecting With Muslims
Olya Cherevko, a long time partner of our work in Kazakhstan, has recommended a conference for anyone wanting to know more about how to talk about our faith with Muslim people. Hope Conference is organized by the Crescent Project. and will be held online September 10th at https://www.crescentproject.org/hope.
Free! Free! Free!
Now that we are officially in the dog days of summer (July 3-August 11), you are probably looking for something new to read, to eat, or to listen
to. Have we got a deal for you! Until August 31, Common Grounds
will be open for you to drop by at your leisure (wear a mask of course) and pick up a free book to read, a praise CD made by Wayne Zeigler
and our praise team of yester year, or a St. Giles cookbook. Some of
the books include "A History of St Giles" by Louis Skidmore, "A Faith to Move Nations", by Dr. J.B. Belk, and many others.
Church is open from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Thursday.
Make Studio Donations
Make Creative Studio thanks
you all for your generous donations! You have been so generous that our bins of recycled material are overflowing. For
now we are taking a pause on recycled donations. As soon as
our supplies are depleted we will let you know! For more info on what we are still accepting, please contact Angie at makestudio.makestuff@gmail.com
Love Your Neighbor: Adopt Your Block!
St Giles is joining with 80+ area churches and For Richmond to offer a simple and safe way for us to love our neighbors. Click the link below to find out more.
Livestreaming Bible Study and Worship

One of our newer ministries is livestreaming our worship services and some of our classes. If you’d like to check it out, use this link to our YouTube channel. We’re doing it simply - no fancy sound or cameras - but it works to bring you the basics. If you don’t click on during the actual live stream hours, Sundays at 9:30 or 11:00, know that the videos are saved on our YouTube channel page, along with Pastor Keith’s video blogs. Find us at: http://bit.ly/StGilesYouTube