Urgent Needs List for The Living Room Center
The Living Room has a need for many items to help them minister to the women and children who are homeless.
Gift Cards and cash donations are greatly appreciated and immediately put to use! Below is a partial list of what they need:
¨ Strollers
¨ Diapers - Sizes 5 & 6
¨ Baby Wipes
¨ Socks - Infant and Toddlers
¨ Underwear - Toddlers
¨ Sippee Cups
Sacred Yoga ~ Sacred Space: Please join Numina for our new movement centered practice of yoga in the church. We meet every Wednesday from 5:30pm-6:30pm. The practice is gentle version of traditional form of yoga. Mats are provided. All ages and abilities are welcome. No experience necessary. Contact Liza Weaver Brickey 707-529-3735
Small Groups News
Christianity, the First 3,000 years is an exciting Summer Series sponsored by Small Groups and your Adult Spiritual Formation ministries. The series continues this Wednesday, July27, 7-9pm in Farlander. We take a two week break and the series will start up again on Aug. 17, 7-9pm in Farlander. All are welcome!
Your Animal Ministry Group is looking for people to help with either an Animal Ministry Adoption Fair with Sonoma Humane Society or Animal Ministry Parishioner visits. If you would like to help you can contact either Lauren Read or Eileen Harrington by emailing them at animalm@incarnation-sr.org or you can call 703-4162.
The Men's Group will meet this Wednesday, July 27, at 7 pm in the church. Our group explores the challenges men face in living their lives of faith in a safe, intimate environment. All Men are welcome and we hope to see you there. If you have any questions you can email Jose Ramirez at mensgroup@incarnation-sr.org or call 703-4162.
Growing Together! A Place for Families summer calendar is up on our website. Go here to check out our schedule, http://incarnation-sr.org/small-groups-at-church-ofthe-incarnation/growing.php. We have a few more play dates in August and look forward to you being a part of the fun, fellowship, and excitement. We look forward to seeing you at our events!
Share and Care is now meeting every Thursday from 6-7pm in the Clergy Conference Room. This is a group for those who live with pain, depression, trauma, illness, anxiety and/or disability. No one should be alone. A group can often help in a situation that is overwhelming to an individual. To name a hurt can lessen its power. Maybe your experience can help another. Come and share with others who live with pain and illness. Past or present, chronic or acute, physical or mental or all of the preceding. God is always with us and works through us to aid each other. All are welcome.
A Rummage Sale Thank you and A Thought (or two)
The Annual Guild of the Incarnation Rummage Sale was the end of June/beginning of July and as always it was a lot of work and a lot of fun. We had some great rummage to sell and would like to thank all who donated to our sale. It takes a lot of energy and thought and planning (and sometimes re-planning) to put together our sale. We need to thank Eric and Ernie for all their unfailing help and humor. I helped on June 27 and it was great to find Alberta Jacobson's daughter Anita there helping. While we were having our lunch break Kathy McMahon came with donations for the sale. Kathy is the daughter of Margaret Beck. I had two thoughts: 1) Kathy, Anita and I all sang in the Junior Choir, Kathy is a couple years older than me and Anita is couple years younger, and 2) some things just don't change, we are still there still working, even if it was my birthday, but then what else would I be doing on my birthday. Our Rummage Sale was a great success, not only for the money we made for our outreach, and the items we give away, but in the way we still can be multiple generations of ladies, working together, teasing and laughing while doing our special brand of God's work. Deana Dale
Are you somewhat new to the Church of the Incarnation? We would like to get to know you better! Please come to the Newcomer Welcome Party on August 28, 4 p.m., at Father Matt's house. You'll get to meet Father Matt, the church leaders and some church folks while having fun and enjoying some good food and drink! Please bring your family or a friend. The party is going to be a western theme, so if you feel inclined, come dressed in your favorite western threads! Please call Barbara Avery at (707) 577-8718 to RSVP and for more information.
Via Media Sign-up! Via Media sessions will start Sunday, September 4, and run through October 23. Via Media invites those seeking spiritual community to explore our Christian faith from a uniquely Episcopal point of view. Through an engaging course of study, prayer, conversation and questions, we will discuss topics such as the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and Jesus Christ. This exploration with others includes friendship, worship and sharing a simple meal. Participants discover a church that values reason and science along with prayer and scripture; a church where everyone is included; a church that tells the truth about its strengths and points out its challenges. Via Media, along with the Inquirers/Seekers class, fulfills a requirement for confirmation or reception into the Episcopal Church.
Sept. 4, 11:30-1:30 Sept. 18-Oct. 23, 10:45-12:45
There is a sign-up sheet on the Small Groups table in Farlander. If you want to learn more about Via Media or about being confirmed or received at Incarnation, visit our website at www.incarnation-sr.org or go directly to the Via Media page at http://bit.ly/via_media. You may also send an email to viamedia@incarnation-sr.org or call the office at (707) 579-2604.
