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ON THE CALENDAR
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Every Week
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Mark Your Calendar
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9:00 am Tuesdays
St. Martha's Guild
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May 1, 2005 – Breakfast Sunday
9:00 am celebrating Uno de Mayo with scrambled eggs, refried beans and hash browns, sausage, tortillas, muffins, salsa, sour cream, etc. with orange juice, coffee or tea
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7:30 pm Thursdays
Choir Practice
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May 7, 2005 – Softball Team Qualifying ~ See Karen Adelseck
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6:30 pm Wednesdays
Pot Luck Dinner
and Study Session
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May 14, 2005
Annual Dinner Auction
5:00 pm Country BBQ Buffet
RSVP to Sandy Marx
(562-423-7761)
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First Sunday of
Every Month ~ Breakfast!!
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May 15, 2005
Pentecost Sunday
One Service – 9:00 am
Special All Parish Celebration of our
Vision and Mission Statements
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From the Senior Warden
Barbara McRae
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We've made it through round two of our focus groups for the Natural Church Development project. I hope that most of you have been able to participate in this process. I have personally found it to be very enlightening and educational, both about the direction St. Thomas is going, and about the people who will be helping take it there.
The small groups have been a wonderful avenue for getting to know people on a different level and in a different setting. It's been a lot of fun to share ideas and to see people getting excited to work the next steps. . .
Which brings us to Pentecost. From this day (Pentecost) the early church grew from a band of unsure devotees to an evangelical movement of tremendous stature. Sounds like history may repeat itself at St. Thomas.
Mark your calendar:
Pentecost Sunday
May 15, 2005.
One service ~ 9:00 am
to celebrate a milestone in the Natural Church Development process ~ the development our new Vision and Mission Statements!! These declarations will lead us into the next steps.
After the service on May 15th, we will gather for something to eat, and to prepare for the team work that you signed up for in the focus groups (if you weren't able to sign up at a focus group, please join us anyway to be a part of this important step). This won't be a very long meeting, but it will be very important to get us organized and ready to move on.
Thank you to everyone who has made such a great effort to get us this far in our NCD process. And, thank you to our hosts and hostesses who have opened their homes and shared their gifts of hospitality. I look forward to seeing you all at our Pentecost Celebration on May 15th!!!
Scrip
There are many ways to help your self and to help the church at the same time. It may seem that some of our appliances will last forever. That is not always true and it seems like they fail at the most inopportune times. Our scrip program here at St. Thomas can be the answer when you find yourself in need of a new appliance. Recently one of our members was able to purchase a new washing machine from Home Depot with scrip. Our member was happy and the scrip program made some money. Remember that the scrip table is available every Sunday between services and after the 10:15 am service. This is also the perfect place to buy last minute gifts. If you are, or will be, in the market for new appliances, or are doing some remodeling you may order scrip for Home Depot, Sears, Circuit City, Best Buy or many other companies. See Sandy or Becky for more information.
UNITED THANK OFFERING
The U.T.O. is a practice in our life in Christ that begins with daily prayer and gifts of thanksgiving. Each year these gifts are given in the form of grants to support and strengthen the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church throughout the world. St. Thomas has two in-gatherings each year: one in the spring and one in the fall. Please come on May 22nd for the U.T.O. Spring In-gathering.
Shirley McRae
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