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Visual Lectionary Vanderbilt – Pentecost 2 – Sunday June 11, 2023
Notebook Paper Collection for Caroline’s Promise School Supply Distribution
Sunday, July 16th is the deadline for St Peter’s to collect 8.5”looseleaf, hole punched notebook paper for Caroline County school children, to be distributed by Caroline’s Promise on Saturday, July 29th. Our goal is 200 packs of 8.5×11 looseleaf notebook paper, 3 hole punched . There is no specific quantity (200, 500 sheets, etc) to purchase. Most of them have been 150 sheet packs
[As of July 9 we have collected 37 packs of notebook paper. One week to go. ]
Bring your donation to church and place it in the back pew. If you’d like to make a monetary donation toward this project, write a check to St Peter’s and put Notebook Paper/Outreach on the memo line.
We have frequently partnered with Caroline’s Promise for school supplies. (Last year it was markers). Caroline’s Promise works to help young people in Caroline County to succeed by providing a healthy start and future, one of their five promises. You can read more about Caroline’s promise at
this link. https://www.carolinespromise.org/
Their distribution July 29, 10am-12pm
Caroline Middle School
13325 Devils Three Jump Road
Milford VA 22514
Sermon, Proper 5, Pentecost 2, June 11, 2023
Sermon, Proper 5, Year A 2023
Hosea 5:15-6:6, Romans 4:13-25, Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
Please look at your bulletin cover. The device in the photograph shows a person in a wheelchair, and underneath the image is this statement.
“Press to operate door.”
I usually don’t use these devices, even when they are available, because I believe that I am self-sufficient enough to open the door myself.
But think about it. On some level, every one of us here today is that person who stands in front of a door and can’t get it open. The door isn’t stuck, we are! All of us need God’s help in some way or another. Maybe your belief system has you stuck, or you are devastated by grief and can’t get up, or you are physically sick and can’t stand. All of these ways of being stuck keep us from pushing open the door into the glorious freedom of life in God.
Give it some thought!
What keeps you stuck?
Bulletin, Pentecost 2, June 11, 2023
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UTO spring ingathering completed June 4
This is a recent history
Ingathering | Amount |
---|---|
Fall, 2021 | 268.87 |
Spring, 2022 | 384.88 |
Fall, 2022 | 484.73 |
Spring, 2023 | 330.50 |
The United Thank Offering (UTO) is a ministry of The Episcopal Church for the mission of the whole church. Originally it was started in the 1880’s to support missionary work. Through UTO, individuals are invited to embrace and deepen a personal daily spiritual discipline of gratitude. UTO encourages people to notice the good things that happen each day, give thanks to God for those blessings and make an offering for each blessing using a UTO Blue Box. UTO is entrusted to receive the offerings, and to distribute the 100% of what is collected to support innovative mission and ministry throughout The Episcopal Church and Provinces of the Anglican Communion.
The UTO was able to fund 22 grants, including two historical grants in 2022. They had $1,051,154.14 available to award in 2022.
Over the next 3 years, The United Thank Offering, in the spirit of Matthew 25:36, will focus on areas of ministry that serve those who society has left out and left behind. Therefore, the UTO grant focus for 2023 will be on innovative mission and ministry projects addressing all aspects of the worldwide incarceration crisis, specifically:
•preventative programs and intervention;
•prisoner support outreach;
•prison reform work;
•or post-prison re-entry.
Recent Articles for June 11, 2023
1. Projects
Jamaica Project, 2023.
Purchase supplies for the Jamaica Project
Notebook paper for Caroline Promise, due July 15
2. Pentecost 2, June 11
Lectionary for Pentecost 2
Vanderbilt Visual Commentary
Celebrating the Rappahannock in Pentecost
Anything but Ordinary! Ordinary Time
Remembering St. Barnabas, June 12