St. Martin's Newsletter
   Weekly E-News   July 17, 2015


Summer Worship Schedule
Sunday
9am and 5:30pm
Holy Eucharist
8:45am Nursery
Wednesday
7am Service with Holy Eucharist 
9am Morning Prayer in the Chapel 

From the Director of Christian Formation

 

We have another LEGO Fairy! Many thanks to Karen Bracken for her gift of an enormous tub of LEGOs. We will use them in KidZone this year for about one half of our sessions; our teachers will present Bible stories and invite the kids to respond to them by building Lego creations. This is based on Emily Given's book, Building Faith Brick by Brick: An Imaginative Way to Explore the Bible With Children. As we prepare for Fall I am cleaning and sorting the little bricks into general categories. If you are interested in spending an hour or two in LEGO-sorting and conversation, please let me know. It's cool down there in the Youth Room, and many hands make light work! And yes, you may bring the kids-something tells me this might be a task that is up their alley.

FYI

 

I can still use a few small shoe boxes (small is ideal, but any size will do), so please keep

St. Martin's in mind when you go to DSW... :-)

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Are you itching to be creative? I'm looking for someone who likes putting up bulletin boards in the KidZone and outside the Great Hall.  Please contact me if you're interested-Thanks!

 

Linda

 
Building & Grounds Update

The summer is half over, and St. Martin's has been busy with improvements and changes.

 

Inside:

 

The entire church has been repainted. The entire cost of plastering and painting was covered by insurance. Our sextons Mario Costa and David Ely spent two days in the church after the painting was finished washing the floors and light oiling every piece of woodwork.

 

The Chapel window was removed, and new stone work was installed. The stained glass was removed, cleaned, re-leaded and re-installed. If you have not viewed the window since that work was done, please take the time. It is beautiful!

 

We have been busy restructuring the altar and the front pew seating in order to place the congregation closer to the altar. Your input on this would be greatly appreciated. Please email Mark here with your thoughts.

 

Another area that is seeing some change is in the Chapel. After some intense detective work, the altar has been moved forward so that clergy may stand behind it and face those attending worship. This work was done in-house at a very minimal cost.

 

Church restoration, the company that did the interior work, claim that St. Martin's is the most beautiful church that they have ever worked in, and we agree!

 

We have installed over 350 new energy saving light bulbs, which were available through National Grid's Energy Program for churches. The cost to us was only $50 for shipping. We are also working on replacing the lighting in the hanging fixtures in the church.

 

Outside:

 

The bell tower stone work has been re-caulked on the south and west sides to eliminate constant leaks. This repair was required before the Chapel window could be repaired.

 

The external leaks from last February's storms have been repaired and the damaged plaster replaced. The roof drains at the entrance to the Chapel have been enlarged to eliminate internal wall and ceiling damage.

 

The hand rails at the Atrium entrance have been sanded and oiled. The hedges have been pruned and the grass cut and fertilized by our sexton Mario Costa, in addition to all his other duties. He is greatly appreciated by us all!

 

There will always be projects and repairs in a church of this size, and we must anticipate them and plan for their repair long before they are needed, so we now have a long range property committee headed by Peter Lofgren, in order to address these projects in the future.

 

Gordon Partington
Property Manager

***Summer Service Hours***
Sunday services at 9am and 5:30pm

Continuing:
Holy Eucharist on Wednesdays at 7am
Change:
Morning Prayer at 9am on Wednesdays ONLY.
READINGS THIS WEEK


Jeremiah 23:1-6 (OT)

  Ephesians 2:11-22 (NT)
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 (Gospel)
Click here for this Sunday's readings.
     THIS SUNDAY
 Nursery at 8:45am
Join us for Coffee Hour in the Great Hall after the service
Gluten Free Hosts available at the altar rail
MORNING PRAYER
    
It is my practice to endeavor to say Morning Prayer in the Chapel of the Church at 9am.

In July and August, Morning Prayer will be offered on Wednesday mornings only
I look forward to seeing you there!   
               Mark+
+FYI...
Our Thrifty Goose Thrift Shop is closed for the summer. 

Donations may still be made between 9am-12noon M-F. 
Contact the office when you arrive to arrange for the sexton to help you carry in the items.
 
Save the Date!
July & August
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Community/Family Barbeques
Wednesdays July 29 and August 12 , both at 5:30pm 
Please contact Gail Peet here if you'd like to help out.

To our July volunteers John and Rosalind Ditson and Meg LoPresti for helping maintain our beautiful St. Martin's Memorial Garden. 
 

Time for your Summer closet clean-out!

                                  
 D
onations for Saint Martin's Thrifty Goose and The Cloak closet are always welcomed!  (And they are tax deductible).                                                                                                                 

               The CLOAK is looking for blue jeans for men/women/children.                                                         

The Thrifty Goose is in need of summer items: clothes for the family, all things for the beach, sun hats and umbrellas!                                                                                                                              

              Make your summer closet clean-out a win-win situation!!                         

For the Cloak please contact Mary Gray at [email protected]

For the Thrifty Goose please contact Karen Bracken at [email protected].

Ministries
July 19, 2015
Reading link (Track 2)
July 26, 2015
Reading Link (Track 2)
9am:  
Reader: Laura Bartsch
Altar Guild:  (9am)
Amy Fuller
Natasha Lofgren
Laura Bartsch
Altar Guild (5:30pm)
Elizabeth Welshman
Eucharistic Ministers:
Linda Griggs
Hal Conner
Acolyte:
David Whitman
Ushers:
Sarosh Fenn
Carol Tucker
Waylan Tucker
9am: 
Reader: Jennifer Kiddie
Altar Guild (9am)
Al Howes
Karen Bracken
Altar Guild (5:30pm)
Natasha Lofgren
Brooke Hammerle
Eucharistic Ministers:
Linda Griggs
Gail Peet
Acolyte:
Erin Welshman
Ushers:
David Brookhart
Linda Brookhart
Ray Esposito
Cathy Bodner



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