The Latest News at St. Jude's

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Sunday School Teachers/Assistants If you planning on teaching or assisting in Sunday School this Fall, OR if you are interested in learning about whether you would like to join the team, please come to the Sunday School Meeting from 9-10:15 am in Room 5 on Sunday, August 29th. Childcare will be provided. If are interested, but can't come 8/29, or if you have any questions, please contact Linda Morris or ask Maly.

No Wonder! A Christmas Worship Musical for Kids ATTENTION ALL YOUTH, grades K-12: Mark your calendars and join us Sunday, September 12th, 10:00 am, Room 5 for a Special Preview (a.k.a. Listening Party—yes, there will be food) of this musical. You’ll get a chance to hear the music, see the cast list and all of the exciting roles both on- and off-stage that must be filled, including actors/singers/dancers, musicians, set designers, tech crew, costume and props coordinators, and more! This is not just a Sunday School event. We need the support of Youth Group members and/or adults to make it possible. Please come see what we’ll be developing over the next several weeks and consider joining in the fun! If anyone wants to come and listen at 10 am and leave for church before 10:30 am, that would be fine also. All will join the congregation at the Peace. Contact Kathy Disney.

Regular Sunday School will resume on Sunday, September 19th at 10:15 for K-5 and 10:30 for Middle School. (See above about September 12th Sunday School Listening Party.) Please bring completed registration forms on 9/12 or 9/19 (forms here and in Parish Hall/Farmhouse). (There will be no Sunday School on 9/5.)

The ECW General Meeting Sisterhood of Faith and Service will be Saturday, October 16, at St. Andrew's, Saratoga. See flyer for details.

The Partnership of the Dioceses of El Camino Real, Gloucester and Western Tanganyika: a letter to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams from our 3 Bishops regarding our partnership and being on safari (journey); with one another is posted on the kiosk and on the diocesan website here

Read about the "greening" of St. Jude's.

Latest images for our site plan are here.

Pr. Karen Siegfriedt announces the New Associate Rector: It is with joy that I announce our next associate rector, the Rev. Maly Carswell Hughes.  Read more about her.

Latest diocesan communications are available.

Charter for Compassion Q&A document mentioned in a recent sermon

The Episcopal Church Welcomes You - Learn what it means to be an episcopalian.

If you would still like to join a Small Dinner Group and/or be asked on occasion to come to a dinner, or you have any questions, please contact Linda Morris.

Deanery Website
There is a new website for the deanery at scvd.org

Do you know about our St. Jude's Library?

Bishop Mary's online video is available here.

Stephen Ministers are now available.  Several of our Stephen Ministers have recently concluded care giving assignments and now await new care receivers.  If life has become a struggle or perhaps God seems very distant, you might consider this opportunity to have a confidential listener with whom to speak.  If you wish more information, speak to one of our Stephen Leaders:  Betsy Fox Fisher, Diane Snow, Susan Stanley, Jerry Witherspoon.

Are you called to be a Stephen Minister?  The Stephen Ministry at St. Jude's is looking for potential candidates to join our training class this winter.  Contact a Stephen Leader if you would like to learn more about this opportunity for service and personal spiritual growth.

Ever wonder about the story behind the apricot stained glass window at St. Jude's?

Updated 8/30/2010
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