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News from Nick:

The Newsletter for the Community of St. Nicholas

1072 Ridge Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL  60007

( 847 ) 439 - 2067

www.StNicholasEpiscopal.org 

                                                                                
August 11 - 17, 2011
 


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Upcoming Events

Rummage Sale Set-up (all hands on deck!) 

 Holy Innocents Hall & Gathering Space

Sunday, August 14 thru

Thursday, August 18

 

 Bishop's Committee Meeting
Sunday, August 14
8:15 am

 

Executive Committee Meeting
Wednesday, August 17
9 - 10:30 am

 

Rummage Sale
(sign up to help at this link

Friday, August 19

9 am - 3 pm

Saturday, August 20

9 am - 3 pm 

 

Ongoing Events:

 

Worship

Saturdays - 4:30 pm

Sundays - 10:00 am

   

Children's Liturgy

First Full Weekend of each Month

 

Food Pantry

1st & 3rd Wednesdays

4:30-6:00 pm

 

Prayer Requests

Eunice Dohra

Vernon Forde

Marie Butera, mother 
of Denise Butera, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer. 

Ivan Felty, Lisa Felty & Ivan Felty Jr.

Audrey Cannon

Godfrey James Catanus, Paul Swanson's friend who is out of coma and in recovery.

Repose of the soul of  

Ben Taylor who was taken off life support.  For his family, friends and all who grieve for him.

Repose of the soul of
Vince Julian and his grieving wife, Mary Jo.

Mary Beth Jarvis as she begins the transition of moving away.

Tony Begonja who is ill and prayers of support for Fran, his wife.

Carrie Loos

Richard Gans 

 

Paul Brouillette

 

Edmond Feller 

 

Our sisters and brothers at St. Bede's Church, as they discern their future and search for a new house of worship. 

 

For those in transition: those searching for work, those who are moving and those encountering changes in life.

 

For success and blessings during this time of discernment and search for our new vicar.

 
In This Issue
+Upcoming Events
+Prayer Requests
+Reflection from Paul: How Does Your Garden Grow?
+Help Us After Church This Weekend?
+Rummage Sale: Spread the Word & Sign Up to Help!
+Bishop's Committee News: The Garage is Coming!
+St. Nick's Shout-Outs
+Upcoming Scripture Readings & Resources

-News from Nick Archive-

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Reflection from Paul
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How does your garden grow?

 

Thanks to the work of Bill Barlow and our other volunteer gardeners, the vegetable garden is yielding its produce. It's wonderful that our food pantry visitors are able to enjoy the healthy nourishment of fresh vegetables this time of year.

 

My father always had a garden as far back as I can remember. When the tomatoes were ripe, my older brother and I would head for the garden with salt shaker in hand. We would pick the ripest looking tomato and eat it like an apple, throwing on a dash of salt. The summer before my father died, at age 88, he still grew tomato plants 6 feet high with beefsteaks the size of grapefruits. He had mastered the art of helping those tomatoes reach their full capacity. I learned from him the satisfaction of planting a seed and watching and helping it grow. These days I'm cultivating only four tomato plants by the side of the house, but I still enjoy watching them grow (and eating the tomatoes). According to Phyllis Theroux, "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."

 

I believe that God calls us all to be earth-keepers or gardeners. When we are gardening, that's the time we can feel most in harmony with God. Perhaps it harkens back to the story of the first Garden.

 

Gardeners are people who grow things. Whatever we do, we garden. When we sit at the computer composing a word processing document, we are gardening with words and phrases. When we sit at the piano, we are gardening with notes and silences. When we prepare a meal for our loved ones, we are gardening - creating something from God's creation. In our ministries at St. Nicholas we are gardening, because we are helping with the growth of our community and those we serve. We are also working with God to contribute to our own personal growth. You could even say that we are God's co-creators.

 

Now that we are entering harvest time, I hope you will have the opportunity to grow and cultivate a garden. But if you don't get the chance to actually put your hands into the dirt, I hope you have had the chance to enjoy those other types of gardening - contributing to God's creation.

 

Paul+

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Help Us After Church this Weekend?
BoxesWe need help moving items from the vicarage garage to Holy Innocents Hall and the gathering space after both Saturday and Sunday services this weekend, August 13 & 14. 

If you can stay awhile and help us carry items over, that would be great!

Thanks in advance!

 

Our Rummage Sale is Coming!
Friday, August 19 & Saturday, August 20, 9 am to 3 pm

Rummage SaleWe need your help to make this sale a success.  Please:

Come and enjoy the fun and camaraderie, plus make money for St. Nicholas!

Bishop's Committee News

 

Construction of our new garage is underway!  The concrete has been poured for the floor and erection of the actual building will begin next week.  With the vicarage for sale, we need to empty the garage at the vicarage and move it to our site.  Granted, with the upcoming rummage sale, we hope most of the merchandise in the garage will be sold!  And most of what isn't sold, we will donate to worthy causes, as we have in the past.  But we still need somewhere to store the riding mower, lawn equipment, and various other items we use that we have no space for in the church.  Plus, there's always next year's rummage sale to plan for.

 

Pat Kalicki

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St. Nick's Shout-Outs

Thank you!

Thanks to:

 

All who have donated to our Rummage Sale.  A special thank you to Giles Kelley of Winning Bid Auction House, Jeanette McBeth of Platinum Estate Sales and Bruce Treadway of Caring Transitions Estate Sales. 

Scripture
Upcoming Scripture Readings

 

August 14, 2011 - The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost  

 

The Episcopal Church uses the Revised Common Lectionary.  When a choice is given for the Old Testament lesson and Psalm, at St. Nicholas we use the first option, or Track 1.  More about the Revised Common Lectionary is at this link.  

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