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We will be making a new pictorial directory for St. Andrew's and we want you to be included. We are fortunate to have a professional photographer in our midst, Kim Christensen, and she has graciously offered to take pictures of individuals or families (if yours is here) on some upcoming Sundays. We plan on having her available for pictures on May 4, 11 and 18 so come ready to smile and be a part of our new directory.
Debbie Allensworth |
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| Do you enjoy cooking?
Do you want to cook healthy meals for your family? Do you have enough time?
I live a very busy life and have found that cooking several dishes at once saves our family time and money. I'd love to share some of my tips. Join me 5/22/08 from 6:30-8:30pm in St. Andy's kitchen. Bring $5 and go home with a dish!
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| ASTROS - SAVE THE DATE! |
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Wednesday, June 11th is Episcopal Night at the Astros. Join thousands of other Episcopalians for the game. Tickets are reduced for Episcopalians that evening if repurchased. More details later
St. Andrew's will have a group in the Field Boxes. Otherwise, you can purchase your own seats in any of the levels. If you tentatively want me to contact you about seats in the Field Boxes ($23.50), let me know. If you want to start you own group in other levels let me know and I will get you started.
Jim+ frjimbo@msn.com |
| THANKS |
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Thanks to the Pack 468 Cub Scouts for weeding the flowerbeds. They look great.
Thanks to JT Cole for putting together a great Workcamp Car Wash. And thanks to you for bringing your cars and supporting the kids. They made over $800. AND Andrew Casey is THE MAN. He is not a Workcamper but he worked (hard) all day washing cars. Next wash is May 10th.
Thanks to Ed Woodward and David Allensworth who cleaned out the shed on the property sold next door. The owners had let us use the shed for our lawn equipment for over 15 years. |
| BOUNCE HOUSE FELLOWSHIP DAYS |
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Join in the fellowship for all ages once a month on the 3rd Sundays after church. Eric Mortenson eric_mortenson@msn.com coordinates these days. Starting at noon, there will be a light lunch and the new bounce house will be out for the kids. Join us!
If you join us, we ask that you take your turn at the bounce house keeping the kids safe and that you make a donation towards the lunch fixings. One exception, on April 27th, we have our annual Block Party with hot dogs, sno-cones and a water slide after church. Therefore, we will NOT have the Bounce House Fellowship Day on 4/20.
Bounce House Fellowship Days.
Mark you calendar:
May 18
June 15 (Father's Day)
July 20
August 17 |
| MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES |
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Help Local Youth and Adults - They need Community Service hours. We get free campus care assistance from those who need to do Community service for Honor society or minor infractions. Help someone who may be in the same place as a family member one day. Help St. Andrew's as well.
Musical Offering - Play an instrument? Sing? We would love to have you perform something during worship as a special offering.
Artful? - The Altar Guild needs you to help with some set up ideas.
Do you care for worship? - The Altar Guild has 3 openings. Serve about once a month.
Substitute - Our church has great Sunday School Teachers. We want them to have time off once in a while. You can help. Will you be available once in a while to sub? Curriculum and support teachers provided.
Kid's Worship - We have openings for adults who care about the worship lives of our kids. Once a month.
Usher - Would you like to help those who attend worship? Service once a month.
Block Party Help- No experience needed. Just a desire to have fun. 4/27.
Happy Birthday - Once a month, address Jim's birthday and anniversary cards. Do at home and drop off.
Men to Help on Mother's Day - Hey, turn this one down and see what happens! ;)
Pamela Rushing Memorial Golf Tournament - Saturday, May 17th. We need your help.
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ROCK U. NEWSLETTER |
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You promised God when your child was baptized that you would bring her or him to church each week and raise them in the Christian Faith and life. Here's help, complements of your child's God Rocks! teachers. They want to help you in raising your children (grandchildren). Check it out in the pdf attachment from your April 7th email. Let us know what you think. Pass it on. |
| WORSHIP TIMES |
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| Every Sunday
8:00 am: Rite I with organ
9:15 am: Christian Education
10:30 am: Rite II with band |
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Contacts:
Fax: 281.485.4936
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| ST. ANDREW'S ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY |
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Calling "kids" of all ages (yes, that's you!)
Sunday, April 27th - Noon-3 p.m.
Food, Fun, Fellowship and a BIG Water Slide! Also sno-cones and cotton candy!! Come and spend some time having fun and getting to know some other members of St. Andrew's. This is a free event just bring yourselves, a side dish or dessert and a swim suit and towel for the kids.
To RSVP or if you would like to help with the planning or on the day of the event, contact Debbie Allensworth at debbie@standrewspearland.org or 281-485-3843. |
| TROOP 468 SPEGHETTI DINNER |
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St Andrew's Boy Scout Troop 468 will be holding it's 6th Annual Dinner and Silent Auction on April 26 from 3:30-8pm.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased from one of your Scouts: Jacob Barger, Connor Allensworth, or Carter Allensworth, or at the door. Dinner includes salad, spaghetti, bread, and a drink. Take out is available and a dessert bar for those with a sweet tooth. All proceeds help fund your Troop and the boys programs. St Andrew's has a great Boy Scout program and we appreciate the support of all parishioners. |
HOT BREAKFAST
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 Starting May 4th
You asked for it. You've got it! We now have a hot breakfast each week. Come hungry and come early.
To keep it going, volunteer to help consider a donation buy a guest breakfast
Don't know a guest? Meet one person you don't know. Show people that St. Andrew's is friendly.
Contact Bobby Nicholls, Merv Taylor, Jim Lawless, Larry or Donna Musick or Judy DeVine to help out. Oh, and THANK THEM.
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| GRADUATE SUNDAY |
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It's that time of year again - graduation is just around the corner. We would like to celebrate all of our St. Andrew's graduates and their families.
If you have someone in your family graduating (high school or college) or recently graduated (in the past 6 months), please forward their name to me so we can start collecting the information we need for our Graduate Sunday celebration.
Graduate Sunday will be Sunday, May 18th, so please get your information in as soon as possible. Thank you!
debbie@standrewspearland.org |
| YOUTH MINISTER |
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In an answer to prayer, I am pleased to announce that Ryan Perry has accepted my call to serve at St. Andrew's as Assistant to the Rector for Youth Ministry, effective May 3rd. A number of you met him and his fiancée this past weekend. Ryan will serve us well.
Our ability to have a youth minister at this time is due to a grant from the Diocese of Texas. Without this grant, we would not be able to afford a Youth Minister this year. Our promise in accepting this grant was to increase our Sunday attendance (come more often and add new members,) and increase our giving. The latter we are currently doing and and we adopted a balanced budget for 2008. We are still working on the former with attendance at around 204 a week with our goal being 250.
Our 4/23/08 Dinner has to do with us fulfilling our remaining promise to the diocese. Thank you for your prayers and support.
Welcome, Ryan! |
| SHANE BOYNTON BENEFIT |
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Dear church friends, You may recall praying for the family of Shane Boynton at the time of his death last fall. A benefit for his children's educational fund is being held this Saturday April 26 at Clear Lake Park Pavilion. To get to the pavilion, head down Nasa Road One, past the Hilton take a left at the light, Clear Lake will be on your right. There will be many local bands performing, including Mark May. Please keep the benefit and the weather in your prayers. If you are able to come by, it should be a fun event.
Jim+ |
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| Camp Invention is once again coming to St. Andrew's. The camp will be held the week of June 23-27. Camp Invention is an amazing experience for all. The campers will get to explore new ways of creative thinking and imaginative solutions as well as get to take apart all that old electronic junk you have in your garage and make something new and amazing using the "junk" and their imaginations.
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| BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES |
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Happy Birthday
Justin Cole; Jonathan Gaston; Sarah Barger; Jeff Campbell; Jenny Vittingl; Dean Forrest; Jessica Liberatore-Busby; Dakota Willingham; Brenda Hicks; Bendel Rushing; Kailey Cambron; Emily Turner; Joshua Harland; Delmas Jones; Zachary Bergstrom; Allison Curl
Happy Anniversary
Larry and Myrna Harbuck; Don and Jan Manges; Jason and Deirdre Smith; Chris and Samantha Pulse
Missed yours? email the office at
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| BIRTHS |
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Kaleigh Savannah Funke - Born Wednesday, April 16th at 1:51pm - 7 lbs 6 oz and 19 inches long. Mommy and baby are fine and home from the hospital.
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| Debbie Allensworth Scholarship Fund
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I was very surprised and blessed to be recognized on my 10th anniversary here at St. Andrew's with the incredible honor of having a scholarship for children and youth started in my name. We have been working hard, behind the scenes, to get this fund organized and ready to start doing business. I am thrilled to announce 3 new members of the Scholarship Board, they are:
Anne Harland, Bendel Rushing and Roxie Woodward
I very much look forward to working with this team to do as much good for the children and youth of St. Andrew's as possible with this scholarship fund. We will start taking applications for the scholarship on May 10th of this year.
Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of:
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Financial need
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Date of last application
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Total available funds
These scholarships will be offered to the children and youth of St. Andrew's and will be made for a portion of the total cost of the event. To be elligible, the events must be sponsored by either St. Andrew's or the Diocese of Texas.
Our intent is that this will be a sustaining, not depleting, fund and we will have envelopes available for individuals to make donations beginning in May.
Please watch the next newsletter for a link to the application form, as well as a link to more information on the scholarship. Thank you.
Debbie Allensworth |
| FINANCES |
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Questions?
Beth Bishop bookkeeper@standrewspearland.org |
| SAVE THE DATE |
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Important Dates Coming Up
Place in your date book
4/26 Boy Scout Spaghetti Dinner
4/27 St. Andrew's Block Party at noon
5/10 Work Camp Car Wash
5/11 Mother's Day and Graduate Sunday
5/17 Pamela Rushing Golf Tournament
5/18 Bounce House Fellowship
5/28 Parish Dinner at 6:30pm
6/11 Astros
6/15 Father's Day with Christian Artist in Worship
6/15 Bounce House Fellowship
6/23-6/27 Camp Invention
7/14-7/18 Vacation Bible School
7/20 Vacation Bible School Sunday
7/20 Bounce House Fellowship
8/17 Bounce House Fellowship
8/24 Rally Day and Tailgate Party
9/13 Dinner Auction
9/27 Pumpkin Unloading at 9am
10/5 Parish Election and Pet Blessing
10/17-10/18 Craft Fair
10/18 Pumpkin Unloading at 9am
11/21-11/23 Parish Retreat at Camp Allen
11/26 Thanksgiving Eve Service at 7pm
12/24 Christmas Eve Services at 6pm and 10pm |
| LIGHTEN UP |
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Bishop Alexander Garrett in Philadelphia (a true story)
At Philadelphia, when Bishop Garrett got up to speak, he was introduced by a noted layman in this way:
"I have visited Texas myself, I consider it the most God-forsaken country on the face of the earth. I hope you will give the poor Bishop, who by the cruelty of the Church is expected to reside there, a patient hearing and a generous response."
Bishop Garrett got up and said, "It is true my friends that we have some undesirable citizens in the State of Texas, but we are catching them as fast as we can and sending them back to the various States of the Union in which they received their early training. My friend need not be alarmed. All who belong to him will return in due time." |
| RECYCLING |
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Cans - Every time you are ready to throw out
that soda or other beverage can, remind
yourself that you are throwing away money
that could have gone to the Work Campers.
Every aluminum can counts. You may drop off
your collection in the old kitchen. We are
collecting all the way through July. So please
recycle the cans!
Kids Stuff - Cleaning out your children's toy
box and play area in order for the new stuff
from Christmas to fit in? How about donating
the stuff to Shriners Hospital. They take
stuffed animals, toys, working electronics,
videos, books and cds. You may drop off
the donations at the church. Just place the
stuff behind the desk in the church office.
This would be greatly appreciated.
Ink Cartridges - Reduce pollution, and raise
funds. Most of us have inkjet printers at home
or work. When you have an empty cartridge
next time, do not throw it away-just bring it
to St. Andrew's. We have a special recycle
box in the Foyer of the Family Life Center.
St. Andrew's is paid up to $4.00 for each
cartridge.
Cell Phones for Soldiers - The cell phones
are recycled for cash and the proceeds
are used to buy prepaid calling cards for
our soldiers serving in the Middle East.
Bring your cell phone and battery along
with anything else that goes with them
to the drop-off boxes at church. One is
in the Foyer of the Family Life Center and
one is in the hallway of the Worship
Building by the Coke machine. For more
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