This Week at St. Bart's

May 18, 2016

A Message from the Reverend Andy Dunks

Living the Trinitarian Life

As you continue in the practice of your Christian faith....

- Are you growing more and more in spiritual freedom - less often bogged down by worry, fear, anger or out-of-control desires or other negative emotions?

- Are you growing in empathy and concern for others? Are you more and more able to serve them from love rather than serving from a sense of duty, or rather than ignoring their needs?

- Are you increasingly finding your deepest joy in the bringing of joy of others? Are you also growing in your capacity to receive love?

- Are you less self-absorbed than you have been in the past? Do you find growing within you a sense of connectedness to God, to others, and to the natural world?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these, then you are becoming more and more filled with the life of the Holy Trinity, where the Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in both complete freedom [three Persons] and complete union with each other [one Divine nature]. The Trinity is a blaze of outgoing love for each other, for us and for the entire universe they created. We were made in the image and likeness of God - in other words, for exactly this kind of life - and in the Church, the Body of Christ, we can grow into it.

That's God's plan even from before creation - to draw us into the dynamic, ecstatic, outgoing life of God. Beloved in Christ, let us pray fervently for ourselves and for each other that God's plans for us be fulfilled!

Blessings,

Mission

Our mission is to seek, serve, and celebrate Christ in every person.

We invite the community to worship with us, to share our gifts, and to grow in Christ's love.

In This Issue

Rector's column

This Sunday

Spring Clean Up

Financial Information

Coffee Hour Sign-up

Spiritual Formation Group

Food Donations

Fundraiser

Devotionals weekly readings

St. Bart's Youth Group

Prayer Request/Answered

On the Horizon

Web Site

www.stbartsrichmond.org

Email

stbartsrva@gmail.com

Phone

804-740-2101

Street Address

10627 Patterson Ave.

Henrico, VA 23238

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 29626

Richmond, VA 23242

Father Dunks's

contact information

Cell: 804-937-7145

dunks.andy@gmail.com

This Sunday

8:30 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
9:30 AM Adult Sunday School

10:30 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II

5:30 PM Sudanese Service

Spring Clean Up Day!

The date is June 4th. We will start at 8:00AM and will work to complete as
many tasks as possible. We will be working outside and inside so there will be
something for everyone.

Please bring any of your favorite tools or cleaning supplies and stay as long as

you can. Let's get our "spring cleaning" done and make our building and

surroundings beautiful for the summer season. This is also an opportunity for

fellowship and getting to know others a little better.

Hope to see you there!!

Financial Information

Year to date 1/1/2016 - 3/31/2016

Actual Budget Difference

Pledges $28,052.00 $33,364.97 -$5,312.97 84.8%

Total Income $29,989.42 $36,083.40 -$6,093.98 83.11%

Total Expenses $33,132.89 $36,185.20 -$3,052.31 91.56%

Net Income -$ 3,143.47 -$ 101.80 -$3,041.67

As you can see the pledges are behind so far this year. It would be great if
everyone would try to catch up their pledges before the summer gets here.
The bottom line does not look too bad because we have been fortunate and
our expenses are also below budget.

Coffee Hour

Please consider signing up to sponsor coffee hour after a 10:30AM service. All

you have to do is bring goodies to share, stay and enjoy the company and then

clean up afterwards. This time gives us the opportunity to get to know other
members and welcome visitors.

There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board.

Spiritual Formation Groups

Starting within the next few weeks, most of our small groups will
begin new series.

This would be a great time for you to join if you'd like to experience
learning, prayer and fellowship with other church members. Feel free
to bring a friend too!

Monday Night Group (at St. Bart's)

The Monday Night group meets at the Church from 6:30-8:00pm.

This group will begin a video series, Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus in which
a Biblical scholar takes us on a tour of the Holy Land sites mentioned in the
Gospels.

Wednesday Morning group (at St. Bart's)

The Wednesday Morning Group meets at the church for prayer and study from
10:30-11:30AM.

The Wednesday 10:30am group and Sunday School (9:30am): Will discuss "what
would happen to you if you died having neither been a particularly bad person,
nor a particularly good one? C.S. Lewis answers this question through a delightful
and thought-provoking novel, The Great Divorce.

First Sunday Food Donations for the Hungry

We continue to collect food donations on the first Sunday of each month.
If you forget that scheduled collection date, just add your donations
to the box to the right of the door anytime. We are currently delivering
the food to the Lamb's Basket Food Pantry in the Lakeside neighborhood. While
they accept any canned or packaged, food, items they regularly distribute to
each family the following products:

Pasta sauces

Soups

Beans

Vegetables

macaroni and cheese boxes

dry pasta

fruit (they have a goodly supply of fruit right now.)

In addition, they offer choices of juices, staples such as cooking oil, condiments
and a shelf of toiletries, detergents and paper goods. On my last delivery, they
mentioned they were low on baby food.

They would also like to have a steady source of fresh eggs. Due to our storage
constraints, I purchase eggs on the way to deliver the food. If anyone wants to
donate cash for eggs, I would be happy to add that to my donation.

Thank you for your support of this outreach project.

Fundraiser - Save the Date!

Ladies Night Out! @ St. Bart's

Wednesday June 8th 6:30- 9:00 p.m.

A Fundraiser Event with proceeds going to the Mike Oglesby Shrine Mont
Scholarship Fund and the Mary Nugent Scholarship Fund.

Premier Jewelry Party- awesome and fun jewelry - half of the proceeds
donated from that night's Sales. Watch for your invite on line and in the mail!

Tickets- $5. Bring a friend! RSVP Cindy Reynolds at 804-502-5661. Spirited
drinks and light fare provided.

Come have fun and help raise money for a worthy cause!!

Family Bible Devotionals

May 29 - June 4

Paul's Conversion (Acts 8:1b-3; 9:1-31).

Jesus Storybook Bible, p 334.

E100, #76.
Bible Story Handbook, Ch. 163.

St. Bart's Youth Group

Calling all youth 13 years and older to join our youth group. The meetings
will be held on Sundays at 6PM. We will continue to meet twice a month on
the second and fourth Sundays. Together we will explore the bible and see
how it can apply to our daily life. We will also be talking about how we can
help the church and community.

We would like to provide dinner for the youth group on the Sundays
we meet. Please call Marlaina Knowlton at 804-897-1495 if you could
help with dinner any Sunday. We will place a sign up sheet on the
bulletin board. Please consider helping by signing up. Thanks.

Prayer Request and Answered Prayers

Prayer Requests:

This week we are praying for: Arlene, Autumn, Audith, Betty Sue, Betty P.
Betty W., Bill, Carole, Carolyn, Carter, Cathy, Christy, Cierra, Clara, Claudine,

Diana, Dorothy, Don, Donna, Ethan, Frank, F.G., Ginny, Harlow, Hayden, H.B.,
Jane, Jeanne, Jennifer, Jimmie, Joyce, Julia, Kathy, Kelly, Kent, Klaire, Kym,
Laura, Lexie, Lilliam, Linda, Maggie, Martin, Michael, Mindy, Molly, Nick, Okpil,
Paige, Paul, Rob, Robert, R.W., Sarah, Sebastian, Terry, Thomas, Tony, Tukie,
Vonie.

On the Horizon