St. Martin's Newsletter
   Weekly E-News May 27, 2016
Worship Schedule

Sunday  
   8:00am  Holy Eucharist
   8:45am  Bible Study 
   9:15am  Nursery
   9:30am  Holy Eucharist with choir
and sermon 
     10:45am   Christian Formation 
Tuesday-Friday
9am Morning Prayer in the Chapel
Wednesday
7am service with Holy Eucharist

 
A Special Note of Thanks
for the St. Martin's Children and Youth Formation Team
 
I want to take a moment to sing the praises of a wonderful group of people who has served faithfully and creatively this year, preparing each week to share their time and energy with our young people. They have patiently weathered Safe Church training, schedule adjustments, and floods of emails from me as part of their ministry. They have played with Legos, popsicle sticks, yarn, foam, markers, glue, chalk, paper (construction, contact, tissue and news) and countless little sparkly things as they encouraged kids to reflect on their own stories and how they are woven in with God's great Story. They have wrangled angels and shepherds and directed our Christmas Pageant. They have read, prayed, sung, played and laughed with the kids. They have wiped up juice, crumbs, glitter, noses, and the occasional tear. They have shown gentleness, patience, wisdom and humor as they have modeled God's love for the children each Sunday. I hope that when you get the chance you will take a moment to thank these dedicated folks for all that they have done this year:
 
Teachers: Mary Blake, Beth Ellis, Jane Danek, Lian-Marie Holmes, Andrew Hughes,
Melissa Hughes, Pat Kao, Meg LoPresti, Davis Moore, Karen Ng, Laura Pippitt,
Allison Spooner, Charlotte Stutz, and Michael Stutz.
 
Guest Teachers: Jude Kostas and Waylan Tucker.
 
Teen Assistants: Diana Blake, Elizabeth Blake, Allison Kostas, Peter Kostas, Ben Loell, Rebecca Loell, Oliver Parker, Rebekah Potter, and Teague Spooner.
 
Thank You!!!
Linda+ 

The Epiphany Soup Kitchen is in action tomorrow, Saturday, May 28th at 3pm.

They need volunteers. If you can help please contact Gail Peet at gep@cox.net.
This Sunday...
Healing Prayers will be offered in the Chapel during communion 
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Adult Christian Formation in the Great Hall following the 9:30am service
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Church School teachers will have their end-of-year wrap up in the KidZone following the 9:30am service.

Please click here for Participants list for Sunday, May 29th.  
READINGS THIS WEEK

 
1 Kings 18:20-21, 22-29, 30-39 (OT)
Galatians 1:1-12 (NT)
Luke 7:1-10 (Gospel)
 Click here for this Sunday's readings.
     THIS SUNDAY
8am  Holy Eucharist
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8:45am Bible Study   
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9:15am  Nursery
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9:30am Holy Eucharist with choir and sermon 
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 Adult Christian Formation in the Great Hall following the 9:30am service.
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Church School teachers will have their end-of-year wrap up in the KidZone following the 9:30am service. 
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Gluten Free Hosts available at the altar rail. 
MORNING PRAYER
    
Morning Prayer is said in the Chapel of the Church at 9am on Tuesday through Friday each week. All are welcome!
               Mark+
Biblebox
(Weekly Bible Study) 
Luke 7:1-10
To dig a little behind the Gospel text for this Sunday, take a look at this week's  Working Preacher in preparation for discussion at our weekly Sunday Bible study at 8:30am in the Church Office this week.

June 5th, 2016 
After the 9:30am service we will celebrate our choirmaster Jay MacCubbin's  
30 years at St. Martin's!! His last official day is July 31st. Please join us for the festivities.
Coming Up...   
Saturday, June 11th 11am-3pm
Prayer Shawl Ministry 
Last Prayer Shawl Ministry session until the Fall 
Great Hall  - Pot Luck 
For more information contact Natasha Lofgren  
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Sunday, June 26

Join us for our special "End of Year Story" during the Formation hour 
following the 9:30am service. 
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The Women's Spirituality Group will meet for a potluck party at 6pm.  
Contact Susan Allen for more info at susan_heuck_allen@brown.edu
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  ♫ "Take me out to the ballgame "♫
  PAWSOX Day is July 25th!
Tickets going fast!!
St. Martin's has 20 FREE tickets left for a 7:05 pm night game. The ticket includes a $2 food voucher. First come, first served. Call the office to request tickets.
The Thrifty Goose 
 
The Thrifty will be closed for Memorial Day weekend. 
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Their last day open will be Saturday, June 11th, then closed for the summer. 
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Everything will be half-price from June 1st through the 11th!!

The Book of Comic Prayer: Using Art & Humor to Transform Youth Ministry
by our own Heather J. Annis is available for pre-order on Amazon.com
for August 24th delivery.
[Correction to step #4 below...please take note]

St. Martin's joins the Amazon Smile Program!
St. Martin's has registered with Amazon's charitable giving program which is called Amazon Smile. Under Amazon Smile, ½ of 1% of all your purchases go a to a charity of your choice. Parishioners can now designate St. Martin's to receive ½ of 1% of their Amazon purchases.  
Here is how to participate:
  1. Go to smile.amazon.com
  2. Enroll in program by giving your email address and your regular Amazon password
  3. The next page will welcome you to the program and show a default charity such as the Audubon Society. Next to the default charity name will be a small arrow asking if you want to change the charity. Click on the arrow.
  4. Type in St. Martins Parish (exactly) in the box and our name will come up. Click select.
  5. After this, when purchasing from Amazon you must go through smile.amazon.com for you purchases to qualify.
  6. Price, service and selection is exactly the same as on the 'normal' Amazon web site. Subscribers to Amazon Prime can use the Smile program.
If you have any questions please contact the office. (And thank you!!)