Communion Breakfast- Sunday, May 20

All families of children participating in the communion celebration are invited to a light breakfast at 9:15 AM this Sunday.

Thanks to all the 3rd grade parents for providing the breakfast!

With the mild winter, this has been a fantastic spring for gardens. We invite you to share that abundance at the opening of St. Luke's Farm Stand this Sunday.

Please bring in your potted plants, flowers and herbs for transplanting, any early crops for sharing.  All of the items are free for swapping or sharing, but if you want to make a small donation all proceeds will benefit the local food pantries.  Please label all pots.

St. Luke's Farm Stand is Back!

Tickets and books are now on sale for our 6th Annual Ladies Night on Wednesday, May 23rd at the Lightkeeper's Cottage in Cohasset. Please see me after the 10 a.m. service to make your binding reservations. You can also email (jdmmfoley@msn.com) or call (781-545-3506). This event was sold out last year so please let me know early if you will be attending. Tickets are $40 and the paperback book is $14.86.  

 

We are thrilled that Anne LeClaire will be our guest speaker this year. She came highly recommended by author, Ann Hood, our 2011 speaker.  Anne LeClaire is the author of Listening Below The Noise, a meditation on the practice of silence. In addition to novels and the memoir, she has written short stories and essays. She is a teacher and lecturer here and abroad on the creative process, as well as on the practice of silence. She has taught creative writing on Cape Cod, in France, Ireland and Jamaica, at the Maui Writers Conference, and to women in prison. Her essays have been included in a number of anthologies, among them: I've Always Meant to Tell You, Letters to Our Mothers: An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers; From Daughters and Sons to Fathers: What I've Never Said; and A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape Women Writers. 

 

We are pleased that Silent Chef will be catering our meal once again. Beverages (including wine!) will be provided.Listening Below The Noise is also available at Front Street Book Shop. FYI: the store is moving close to Riva the first week in May.

 

Peace~ Darlene

Last call ! Our 50th Anniversary Time Capsule will be hidden on June 3rd. Please bring a small item that reflects life in 2012 to the church office before then.

Recruiting Help for Services

Our lists are dwindling and we need new volunteers to be Acolytes, LEMs, Ushers, Greeters and Lectors.  For a small commitment of your time (usually one hour a month), you'll play an important role in helping our worship at St. Luke's.  Please contact Grant for more information, revgrant@comcast.net , 781-974-3210.

    We are able to have a Youth and Family Minister because Dick Clay left a significant bequest in his will...specifically for youth ministry?

 

     If everyone who is a 'member in good standing' at St. Luke's (in church 3 times a year, supports the parish financially, even if modestly) and children all came on the same Sunday we'd have close to 400 souls in church (and we only seat 250 or thereabouts)?

 

     St. Luke's enjoyed a net gain of 12 members in 2011--new households who joined over against those who died/moved away?  

Sensory-friendly worship the first Sunday of every month at 2 PM.
Please join us for A Special Grace. Epiphany Church, 62 Front St., Walpole, MA 02081, 508-668-2353. www.ASpecialGrace.com   Contact Rev. Joyce for more information, momscheyer@gmail.com

We are in need of three items. If any parishioners would like to donate said item or make a contribution toward the purchase of same, the church would be extremely grateful.

• Automatic Coffee Maker (commercial type- similar to the Curtis Alfa model in the kitchen)
• 2 Baby Swings for the Nursery
• A tent with side flaps (10' x 20' or larger)

Our present coffee machine is on its last legs and when it fails we will all be in deep trouble. The tent is much needed for future fundraisers and will help to generate revenue and finally the swings would alleviate a growing need in the Nursery.

Work as a community, as called by Jesus, to endow our time, talent and treasure, to engage in the fellowship of Jesus, to enable connections, to empower us as His servants as we embody the Christian faith. We are not only teaching the love of God but showing the love of God. Join with us.