Christy Parker and Phil Wasmuth collaborated on a 13 minute slideshow of last Saturday's Fair. The slide show covers the events leading up to and including the fair. Click on the link below to view it:

http://philwasmuth.phanfare.com/6963866

This Sunday we welcome Michael T. Gilman as guest organist while Holly is on vacation. Michael-Thomas Gilman holds the degree of Master of Music in Organ Performance from Yale University. He has taught at New York University and was Director of Music at the University of Saint Joseph. He is delighted and honored to be at All Saints this morning.

We are called to be challenged in our life, recognizing the dynamic nature of our faith. As our faith grows, so will our blessings, and our responsibilities. Paul writes: "...the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." 2 Corinthians 9:6

This Saturday Is the Tenth Anniversary of St. Katherine Drexel, Alton/Wolfeboro. There is a 4:00 pm Mass this Saturday, July 25th of the dedication of their church celebrated by The Most Reverend Peter Liasci, Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester. Area clergy including Pastor Bill have been invited and will attend and vest for the service.

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.

Churches may differ in doctrine, but one thing that the faithful (and the not-so-faithful) can agree upon is our responsibility to feed the hungry among our neighbors. For this reason seven churches in our region came together to establish the Wolfeboro Food Pantry housed at All Saints' Episcopal Church and operated by volunteers of the L.I.F.E. Ministries, a collaborative ministry of All Saints, St, Katherine Drexel, First Baptist, First Christian, First Congregational, and the Melvin Village Community Church.

The Food Pantry provides high-quality food for almost 14,000 meals a month to more than 1,400 clients--a third of whom are infants and children, and a fifth of whom are elderly. Clients are local, from communities throughout the Eastern lakes Region, and include many working families whose income is not sufficient to cover all of life's basic necessities.

Unlike some seasonal or age-related programs, every week all year long the Food Pantry feeds whole families and individuals, distributing food donated by markets or purchased for pennies on the dollar from the Food Bank in Manchester. Funds for food purchases come from friends and residents of our towns concerned about the well-being of their neighbors.

This Sunday, July 26, we ask you to consider making an additional financial gift to the Food Pantry for feeding food insecure people in our area.  More information about L.I.F.E. Ministries is available on line at lifeministriesfoodpantry.org or at 603-569-0202.

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.