WEEKLY E-NEWS

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Bulletin for Sunday, October 29 at 8:00

Bulletin for Sunday, October 29 at 10:00

Prayers of the Parish

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If you have a name tag, please wear it!

If you need a name tag, let an usher know!

OCTOBER 29

8:00 Holy Eucharist Rite I

9:00 Guest speaker, Professor Nicole Miller Struttmann

AND donut hole Sunday!

10:00 Holy Eucharist Rite II

5:00 Pumpkin Carving with snacks followed by vesper service

OCTOBER 30

Names for the All Saint's remembrances are due to the office!

6:00 Worship committee meeting

NOVEMBER 1

6:00 Dinner

6:30 Children's choir in the choir room (follow Mrs. Romano!)

6:45 Taize service in the chapel

7:30 Adult choir rehearsal

NOVEMBER 3-4

Diocesan convention

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It's the Fifth Sunday of the Month!

At 9 am Sunday, we will have a guest speaker, Nicole Miller-Struttmann. Ms. Miller-Struttmann is the Laurance L. Browning Jr. endowed associate professor of Biology at Webster University. Professor Miller-Struttmann has been working with Dale Penrose, studying the local bee population, and much of her research has been on pollinators and climate change. For those who may not know, we have a love/hate relationship with bees around here. The Queen apparently likes our home and has made it hers twice! Check out the photo from 2021! P.S. it's donut hole Sunday!!

Turning in a pledge card means you are committing to a financial contribution in 2024. That commitment allows us to budget what we can do in 2024. A pledge is a promise. We know you probably have a budget too and you rely on an income source to attain that budget. Sometimes during the year there can a happy surplus or a sad deficit to that income. The same thing can happen at Emmanuel. That's why we make a plan and we pray for the best.

If you wish to pledge online, you may use this link for an online pledge card. We will also have a QR code in the bulletins linked to the online pledge card.

At Ingathering Sunday, November 12, we will ask everyone to bring their card to the altar to be blessed. There will be extra pledge cards in the narthex. Note there's a checkbox on the card for "already pledged"!

This week, the stewardship team asked Deacon Jerre Birdsong to note the many actions that the Faith in Action team did this past year.

Faith in Action encompasses all of the ministry work outside the parish. The activities are divided into four pillars: Caring and Feeding, Diocesan, Earth Love and Justice & Equity. In this report you will see all the organizations we support either financially and/or with volunteers. Deacon Jerre also included the Faith in Action work done by our youth this past year.

Click here to read the entire list of activities your pledges helped support.

Last Sunday at brunch, Steve Cunningham told us his thoughts on stewardship. Here's some of what he told us:

..."Can interpretation of the Great Commandment be applied to a stewardship campaign? “Love God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself.” (Matt 22)

This lesson from Jesus is perhaps the most perfect statement to address stewardship!

How do we define stewardship? Care? Service? Love? Responsibility? Obligation? Justice?

The Great Commandment points us directly toward stewardship as we love God and his creation. Stewardship is the expression of love for his creation, the resources of earth, the climate around us, the land and sea and the people of earth.

Christian Stewardship is care and loving treatment of all creation with our heart and soul and mind and strength. Loving your neighbor as yourself is indeed included as an integral part of Christian stewardship!..."

It's Pumpkin Time!

Bring all your fall pumpkins to Emmanuel on Sunday, October 29 at 5 pm. The weather looks like it will be spooky, so we'll be inside. If it's possible, we'll do vespers outside.

We will carve pumpkins (snacks included!) then put candles in them and have a short Vesper service outside, weather permitting. It's a great time and great fun to see everyone's creations!

Come ready to have a will be a ghoulish evening!

The Feast of All Saints is Sunday, November 5.

After the 10 am service, we will gather in the Memorial Garden to read the names of loved ones no longer here. There will also be a bulletin insert with those names.

If you would like to include the name of a loved one, please send names via email or call the office (314-961-2393) no later than Monday, October 30. 

Email to: parishadmin@emmanuelepiscopal.org!

IT'S WAGON TRAIN TIME!

The Food Center is looking for volunteers to help with The College School food wagons that will arrive Friday, November 17.

Volunteers are needed to help receive, sort and move to storage the thousands of canned goods they have collected. Seriously, this is our largest ingathering of the year!

Volunteers are need 9 -12 that day, and a sandwich lunch is provided. Please let Charlotte Martin or Gail Range or Christi Maginn know if you are able to help!

Be SMART:

Step Four - Recognize the Role of Guns in Suicide

by the Rev. Mary Haggerty, Diocesan Missioner for Gun Violence Prevention

Click here to read about SMART

October 25, 2023

The fourth step in the Be SMART program is “R” Recognize the Role of Guns in Suicide. First, some facts and figures about firearm suicide:

• Firearm suicide is uniquely lethal—90 percent of suicide attempts using a gun end in death and half of suicides in the US are gun suicides.
• 70 percent of people who survive a suicide attempt will never attempt suicide again.
• Over 80 percent of children under the age of 18 who died by gun suicide used a gun belonging to a parent or relative.
• For people of all ages, access to a gun increases the risk of death by suicide by three times.

Read more...

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