St. Francis Episcopal Church

We seek to be instruments of God's peace, bearing witness to the love of God in Jesus Christ for all people.

Little Portion

Week of January 13, 2014

Annual Meeting...

St. Francis Episcopal Church

70 Highland Street, Holden, Massachusetts

The Official Call to Annual Meeting

Notice is hereby given for the Call to Annual Meeting of St. Francis Episcopal Church, Holden, Massachusetts, to be held on Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. to:

Receive reports from the Interim Rector, Wardens, Treasurer, and Parish Ministries
Elect Vestry Members and Delegates to the Annual Diocesan Convention
Transact such other business as may legally come before Annual Meeting

Dawn Rooke, Clerk of the Vestry

About Parish Membership - Eligibility to Serve on Vestry - Voting at Annual Meetings...

About Parish Membership - While regular attendance and participation in the life of the parish makes one an active communicant, an individual is not enrolled in the parish until one takes action to be so enrolled. There are two general categories of membership and several ways in which one may act to be enrolled in each category:

BAPTIZED PERSON-One may become a Baptized Person by 1) being baptized at St. Francis, or 2) requesting that one's baptism be recorded at St. Francis. (It doesn't matter what church you were baptized in...what matters is that you were baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit).

COMMUNICANT MEMBER-One may become a Communicant Member by 1) being confirmed or received by a Bishop at St. Francis, or 2) transferring your Communicant Member status from your previous Episcopal parish via a Letter of Transfer to St. Francis.

To be elected to the Vestry or a voting member, one must be a Communicant Member AND be in GOOD STANDING, which means that you actively attend services, participate in the life of the parish and regularly give to support the parish budget.

2014 Offering Envelopes...there are still a number of envelope boxes that have not been picked up. They are located on the table in the narthex. Please take a moment and pick yours up. Thanks

Hope for Housing....

Shopping cards for Big Y, Stop & Shop, Star Market/Shaw's and CVS will be available for purchase on the 2nd and 4th weekends of each month in the narthex. If anyone is interested in purchasing a card on an off week they can email Kathy Diehl, khdiehl@charter.net and make arrangements.

The office will be closed....

on Monday, January 20th for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Serving this weekend: January 18/19, 2014

Altar Guild: Roz Glanville, Jane Howell, Sarah Ribiero, Julie Russell

Saturday, January 18 -

5:00 p.m.

Ushers: Laurie Sanchez and Betty Hofstra

LEMs: Ann Scannell and Kathleen O'Connor

Sunday, January 19 -

Nursing Home: Bev Giarusso

8:00 a.m.

LEMs: Mary Chris Berglund