Did you know that we have a church committee actively looking into using solar panels to meet most of the church's electric energy needs? We also have many church members who already producing electricity at their homes from solar energy.

If you have a solar array at your house we would like to invite you to be a "solar shepherd". Please bring in a picture of your house with its solar panels. It would be great to have your family in the picture also. We would like to post your picture on our Creation Care display during coffee hours in late July. Beware, if you give us a picture for our display, people will want to talk to you about it and you will automatically become a Solar Shepherd.

Please give your picture to either Andy Milligan at the 8:00 service or Don Holm at the 10:00 service.

Steve Day is pleased to announce that, along with All Saints members Robert Pierpont and Bob Champagne, he has completed editing the short TV spot advertisement for Starting Home Veteran Transitional Services. Please click on the link below to watch the ad on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4AG34jhoA

Your vestry has four ministry teams it is looking for you as a saint of All Saints' to consider serving on:

* Hospitality Team - The group that welcomes, invites and coordinates fellowship opportunities to welcome one another and build community through coffee hours and events across the congregation.

* Missions Team - The group that educates, informs, advocates for and motivates the congregation about mission outreach projects, including recommendations to the vestry about disbursements from our mission fund.

* Worship Team - The group that serves in an advisory capacity to the rector and minister of music to provide meaningful worship opportunities for the congregation and community from the scheduling and style of worship, worship space, to recruitment and training of special ministers of worship and the assistance of Christian education regarding worship.

* Altar Guild - This group prepares the altar for services, cleans altar pieces and linens.

If you have gifts and interest in these vital support ministries, God just might be calling you to share them. The vestry will approve new* participation in these teams, so if you are interested please speak to any vestry member. 

*[Hospitality has a number of current people serving, but would love to add more]

• Office Coverage Donna will be taking vacation the week of August 10th and volunteers are needed to staff the Office (Tuesday through Friday) to greet people, answer phones, retrieve voicemail and fold/assemble bulletin. Hours are 9 am until noon. If you are available, please contact the office at 569-3453. Thank you.

• eNews Backup We are looking for 1-2 people to train as backup or co-editor for our weekly eNews. Our faithful Editor Phoebe Giessler has handled this job solely for years now and time has come to expand this team. Please contact Donna in the office if you are interested.

We have a need that if you are interested, please contact our Junior Warden Andy Milligan at handyandy@metrocast.net , or our Parish Administrator Donna Young at allsaints@metrocast.net:

The main All Saints' building has 5 entry porticos that have weathered and need painting-so if you love the outdoors, have some time to give (or just want to get out of the house) and know which end of a paint brush to hold, God just might be calling you to paint one or more of these!

EfM provides a 4-year curriculum that develops a theologically informed laity prepared to listen for and respond to God's call. EfM helps lay persons discover and exercise their varied gifts for ministry wherever they live and work.  Through study, prayer, and reflection, EfM helps participants move toward a new understanding of the connections between their faith and their lives. The seminar group, consisting of 6-12 participants and a trained mentor, meets weekly for 36 weeks. Participants are given weekly reading assignments. If you are interested in learning more, please attend an Open House at Trinity, Meredith on Tuesday, July 14, at 2:30 p.m. Sessions will run September through June on Tuesday afternoons. Please call  Robin Soller at 279-6689 for more information.
 

Drivers needed. This group is a non profit in town that provides rides for medical appointments to hospitals and doctors. You can choose how much or how little you wish to participate. You can also choose if you wish to stay local or drive longer distances. If you are interested, please contact Shirley Bentley at 569-3714.