– Book of Common Prayer, p. 366

Dear Friends in Christ, 

This week, we will send off our Group Mission Trip team to Delaware where they will partner with other teens around the nation to serve in the name of Christ. We will pray with and over them at the 10:00 a.m. service before we come to the Altar for Eucharist. They are embarking on an almost indescribable trip where they will encounter the Christ! 

Thank you to all of our participants and especially to Carl Jones and Stacey Peters who are our adults going on the trip. The Rev. Colleen Schiefelbein will also join them in the middle of the week. Thank you to each and every participant and all who have helped to make this possible, especially the families of our teens. Your willingness to engage in this mission is a step in faith and a response to Christ’s love. 

Within our Baptismal Covenant, we are called into the missio dei (Mission of God). At St. Andrew’s we have always had an outreach mentality and a heart for service. It is part of our identity just as it is part of our identity as Christians. We recall that in the mission of God, it is not a one-way path, but a mutuality in relationship. In serving, we find ourselves in receipt of Christ’s love. 

After partaking in the Eucharist, the particular presence of Christ, we are all sent out into the world. Above, you see a quotation from our post-communion prayer. We will send out our mission trip participants with Christ’s love and remember that we too are all sent out into the world to carry and continue to receive Christ’s love. 

Please continue to keep our mission trip in your prayers this week and we look forward to seeing you in person or online this weekend! 

Faithfully yours,

We are happy to announce our in-person services no longer require pre-registration. Masks are still required for everyone two and older, but all other restrictions have been lifted. We do ask that if you are feeling ill to please stay home and follow along with our online services, which can be found at the links below.

@ 6:00 p.m. – Evening Prayer

@ 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist: Rite I

@ 9:00 a.m. – Bible Study (mtg: 142 074 0872 | pwd: CMrCxTkf488)

@ 10:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist: Rite II

@ 11:00 a.m. – Coffee Hour (mtg: 882 2614 9734 | pwd: 254222)

@ 9:00 p.m. – Compline with St. Phoebe's (via Zoom)

@ 9:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist: Rite II (in-person only)

Note: When joining any of our Zoom meetings, please make sure your name is displayed.

2nd Note: If any of the service links above don't work, check our website for updated links.

Note the 3rd: All of our services are also available on our Facebook page.

Contact: Jen Koerner and Woody Browne (fellowship@standrews.net)

Since check in is no longer required, the back, exterior doors will be open for our 10:00 a.m. Sunday service. No need to walk around to the front if you parked in the back lot.

Childcare is now available during our 10:00 a.m. Sunday services. The two classes that are open are the Nursery (ages 1-3) and the Pre-K class (ages 3-5). Pre-registration is not required, but children will need to be signed in when dropped off at their classroom.

All children over the age of two must wear a mask while inside. When the weather is good, the Pre-K class and older Nursery children may go outside to play on the playground. Children do not need to wear their masks outside, but send them with anything they may need to wear while outside.

In order to provide this to all of our young families, we will need help staffing the classrooms. We need at least one volunteer to help each of our teachers every week. Volunteers must be 16 years or older, fully vaccinated, and wear a mask. 

Thank you all, and we hope to see a lot of you in the coming weeks.

Contact: Emily Nein (emily@standrews.net)

We’ve now been able to clear our Wait List and we are still working on getting more housing! If you would like to join us, be sure to sign up on our Wait List so we know how much more space we still need. Please contact Amy if you have any questions.

For those of you who have been to Shrine Mont, no words are necessary, you know how wonderful it is. For anyone who hasn’t been, you simply must experience it! This fun-filled weekend retreat is an all-inclusive stay in the picturesque Shenandoah Mountains. Shrine Mont is home to the cathedral of The Diocese of Virginia, unique in that it is an outdoor cathedral.

This is not a camping trip to the woods (sorry, scouts). We stay in cottages with heating and bathrooms, meals are provided in their cafeterias (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch), and there is an unlimited supply of beautiful nature, fun fellowship, and good old-fashioned family time. This year we will have some Halloween activities as well as our yearly favorites: hikes, S’mores around a campfire, and plenty of time for relaxing and visiting with each other.

We will be there from October 29th - 31st, and this year we want to encourage families to attend, so everyone 17 and under will be free!

Contact: Amy Dutton (amy@standrews.net)

Contact: Michelle Ramsdell (michelle@standrews.net)

Please keep these members of our community in your prayers: 

Contact: Deborah England (prayer@standrews.net)