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The 12th Sunday After Pentecost
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It is with sadness that we announce the death of longtime parishioner, Don Blesse. The details of Don's funeral service will be shared when finalized. In the meantime, please keep Don's wife, Carol Blesse, in your prayers.
May Don rest in peace and rise in glory.
FAMILY PROMISE   
We need someone to provide dinner for our guests on Saturday, 22 August
.    Can you be the chef?  
 If you can, please email Brenda, as she is acting as Parish Coordinator while Janine is away. 
 Additionally, we need to stock the pantry for our Guests (we'll have 13!).  
 If you can provide any pantry items, or diapers/wipes, please email Janine ( jlammroy@me.com) for donation ideas and drop-off times/locations.  We truly appreciate all the support in this parish for the Family Promise ministry! 
LYRA Housing 
Needed
  St.George's-by-the-River will welcome the Russian group LYRA to the 10:00 service on Sunday, September 6, 2015.  These musicians will arrive in the US on Friday, September 4 with St. George's being  their first stop.  We are looking for parishioners to host this group of two women and three men for the two nights of Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5. Normally, the men stay at one house and the women at another. Please contact Denise Thomas (732-859-2751 or denisethomas@mac.com) if you are able to host any combination of women or men. Many thanks for your consideration!
Chuch School 2
Church School 
Registration
Church School begins on Sunday, September 13th.  
There will be registration forms 
in the entrances to the church and in 
Ralph Hall. 
Please fill them out and return to the church office before September 13th. 

PARENT TEACHERS NEEDED
Classrooms will be PreK/K, 1st/2nd, 3rd, 4th/5th and 6th/7th/8th.  
We are in need of parents to volunteer as teachers. 
With multiple volunteers per classroom, you may only have to teach every 4-5 weeks!  
And think of the huge impact you will be having on the faith formation of our children! 
If interested in teaching, please contact Brenda.
Thank you!
Nursery Clip Art
NEEDED
Volunteers are needed for the nursery on the following Sundays:
This Sunday,

 8/16, and 8/23 and 8/30.

Please contact Nicole Houston to sign-up.  

Canterbury Fair Wrap-Up Meeting!
Do you have ideas for next year that you can share?!?
All interested persons invited to a Canterbury Fair wrap up and brainstorming meeting on
 Wednesday, 19th at 6:30pm in the library.  Please RSVP to Ophelia.
Do you have a Favorite Hymn?

If you would like your favorite him sung during the 10am Service, please email Phil with your hymn.  Your name and the hymn will be published in the Sunday bulletin.
Participate in our Summer Choir
Come lead our liturgy, even it is only for one Sunday.  Warm-up and anthem rehearsals begin at 9:15am each Sunday in the choir room of Ralph Hall.  Give it a try!
Please be kind and avoid blocking our neighbors' driveways when parking your car.  Also, please refrain from parking in the driveway on the south side of the church unless handicapped.  Thank you!

  This SATURDAY, August 15th,
5:30pm on 
Anchorage Beach
 Holy Eucharist  
Please join us and our Lutheran brothers/sisters for our next beach worship service -  this Saturday -  on Anchorage Beach. Beach Services will continue til the end of August. For easy parking, park at St. George's and walk over the bridge, turning left at the bottom of the bridge.
Anchorage Beach is first beach on right after crossing the bridge.  Look for the Episcopal flag. 
 
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Foster and Adoptive Services (FAFS)

August 10th through September 13th

 

We are starting our annual collection of backpacks and school supplies for donation to Foster and Adoptive Services. Any school supplies would be greatly appreciated (backpacks, pencils, markers, notebooks, rulers, erasers, crayons, etc.). There are sales currently at Staples, Target, Walmart on back to school items.

 Last year over 70 backpacks filled with school supplies were collected. The children who received these were thrilled! Containers will be set up in Ralph Hall for you to drop off supplies. The backpacks will be brought to the altar and blessed on 

Sunday, September 13th.

  

If you are interested, GROUPON is having a special on fully supplied backpacks for 29.99. CLICK HERE for the link.

 

Foster and Adoptive Services is headquartered in Monmouth Junction. They are the leading statewide advocacy agency for foster and adoptive parents. They provide support, training and advocacy to meet the special needs of foster, adoptive and kinship families, who provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children in foster care.

 

FAFS' Backpack Program was born from the images of children being removed from their homes for reasons of abuse or neglect with their belongings placed in trash bags. Today, when caring people like you donate backpacks, they are given to children in foster care by their foster parents as a gift to welcome foster children into the foster home.

 
Canterbury Art Show
Labor Day Weekend 
September 4th-6th  

 

RAFFLE TICKETS  

 

It is Raffle Ticket Sales time again as part of the Canterbury Art Show and to benefit parish ministries - both in and outside of the church. Please encourage your friends and family to purchase a ticket. You can see the fantastic prizes listed here on the ticket! Please email Cathy Sutherland if you have any questions: cathygsutherland@gmail.com

 

The Canterbury Art Show:Can You Help?   
As in years past, the art show takes place down the cloister walkway and in Ralph Hall. If you've been in the church leading up to the art show, you can't help noticing the black metal grids lining the walls and set up in Ralph Hall. We need a few able-bodied men to help us move the grids from the storage facility in Red Bank to the church.

Here's the schedule: We meet at St. G's on Sat, Aug 15, 9AM, go in tandem vehicles to Red Bank where we meet up with Calvin and the rental truck, load the grids, return to church, and unload. You will be finished by 11! (The procedure is reversed on Sat. Sept 12th).

Come for the fun, the fellowship, the workout, and the satisfaction of knowing you are making a difference!

Please volunteer to help by contacting the church office or a committee chair: Coni Lefferts, Beth Sherrard,
Denise Weiner, or Maggie Raynor.

Another Canterbury Art Show Artist:
Blake Reuter
"Highlands Sea Bridge 2005"

"Winston Churchill once said that there is nothing he enjoyed more than an afternoon of painting. I figured that if Winston Churchill could find time to paint then so could I. And I agree, working on a painting is a source of great enjoyment. 

I like to experiment with different approaches and subject matter in my painting. I've created both real and abstract paintings and particularly favor semi-abstract works. I work exclusively in acrylics for several reasons with the primary one being versatility. For drawing I like to use chalk pastels and Conte crayons. My favorite artist is Franz Marc from the Blue Rider German abstract expressionist movement active in the early twentieth century. 

As a former resident of Sea Bright, and frequent summer visitor, I enjoy painting scenes from Sea Bright. There is a wealth of subject matter, including ocean, beaches, rivers, marshes, dune grass, bridges, laughing gulls and on and on. My painting entered in the Canterbury art show is titled, Highlands Sea Bridge 2005. This acrylic painting, which is done in Pointillism style, was created from a photograph taken along the Shrewsbury River where the old Something Fishy restaurant was located. The composition is decidedly vertical with horizontal intersections from the bridge and the small waves in the water. This bridge was demolished in 2009 in favor of the current one." ---Blake Reuter
 
Pledges during the Summer

 

Please remember your pledges to 

St. George's this summer. 
It would be great if we can avoid the usual summer cash flow crunch. 
Thank you in advance!