Parish Life
ECW FALL RUMMAGE SALE
Our fall Rummage Sale on Saturday September 20.
Please limit donations to fall and winter items. We will have another Spring Rummage Sale in Aprile.
Donations will be collected on
Thursday and Friday, no early drop
offs. Volunteer sign up will be
posted at the end of August. Please plan on spending a few
hours with the fun-loving ECW as we laugh and enjoy
each other while we sort and organize and even clean up
Outreach Commission
The Outreach Commission at St. Peter's is a busy, year-round entity which does more than just allocate outreach funds on behalf of the parish. We are trying to find out all the areas that our parish is reaching out beyond St. Peter's walls, so if you are doing something individually or as a group, please let us know. We will be having monthly bulletins in the Key on specific outreach areas that St. Peter's is involved in, as well as how parishioners can get involved if they wish to. So let us know what you are doing, how you are doing it, and if you need and want help.
This year we have allocated funds to the following: Light & Peace (a program for inner city children at St. Paul's and St. James, New Haven), Peru ministry (run by former parishioner, Ken Metz), El Hogar (supporting young Pedro in a Honduras residential home for orphans/needy children), Waterbury Interfaith Ministries (runs food bank and soup kitchen at St. John's, Waterbury), Sober House (residential treatment for ex-inmates), Chrysalis, Meriden, Safe Haven, Waterbury (both safe houses for abused women & children), Spanish ministry, St. John's, Waterbury, Episcopal Relief & Development Fund (specified for Katrina relief), and help with tuition for nursing recertification of Herbert (Maxx) Terry (who has taken time from his profession to run the food bank in Waterbury), and financial help for St. Peter's youth group to buy supplies for boxes to service people in Iraq. Parishioners do much more, of course, individually, bringing food for the food bank, infant supplies for needy mothers, bibles for inmates, children's books, rummage items, quilts for children or shut-ins, Christmas gifts, etc., etc. We hope to let everyone know more about these ministries in more detail in the months to come.
The members of the Outreach Commission are: Tracy Andrews, Jim Chapman, Ana Dunlop, Anita Linsley, Mary Ellen Morgan, Barbara Sireno, chair, and Christine Tall. Please contact any of them for questions or information about outreach you are doing.
Altar Flower List
The 2008 Altar Flower calendar is posted on the Board of Opportunity in the narthex. Write your name/phone number on the date you.d like. Flowers may commemorate the memory of a loved one or be given in celebration or thanksgiving for a current event i.e. wedding anniversary, graduation, new baby, etc. The cost is $35. unless you opt to share a date with somone, then the cost is divided. During Lent, only greens will be used on the altar. If you wish a memorial Sunday in Lent, you may sign up and make a small donation for greens. Please respect our limit of two Sundays per family per year. For details, call Sandi Baker at
250-0360.
Acolytes Needed
We are again recruiting acolytes for both services. Individual training sessions will be arranged. This ministry is open to boys and girls, and men and women, from the age of seven and up (depending on maturity). Anyone interested may email me at jaycyn195@cox.net or call me at 272-0142. George Jensen, Head of Acolytes
Friendship Quilts
Friendship Quilts is a merry little year round ministry that takes place in the parish hall on Thursday mornings following the 10 AM service. A small group gathers to pin and sew the brightly colored fabrics, and enjoy each other's company along with some light refreshments. The tradition is that as we tie each bow on the quilt, we say a little prayer for the person who will receive it. A small label is sewn on the back of the quilt that says "This quilt has been sewn with love and prayers for you by your friends at St. Peter's Church, Cheshire, CT". We are grateful for the support that so many parishioners have shown to this happy, quiet ministry with contributions of fabric, teddy bears and stuffed animals and also the delivery of the quilts. The quilts are given to children being placed in foster care through the Covenant To Care program. Quilts are also sewn and given to parishioners convalescing from illness, coping with difficult life situations, or in thanksgiving for a particular ministry. If you know of someone who might be perked up by receiving one of these quilts, please call Tina McGrath or Nancy Darius. Each and every one of you is invited to join us. You do not have to sew. You can just pop in to see what we're working on and chat with us, have a cup of tea and some cookies and, perhaps tie a few bows and add your own prayers/blessings to the quilt.
BELL COMMITTEE
MESSAGE FROM THE VESTRY
NEW MEMBER MINISTRY AD-HOC COMMITTEE FORMING
NEWCOMERS COMMISSION
LECTOR, INTERCESSOR, CHALICE MINISTER, LAY READER SCHEDULE
COUNTERS SCHEDULE
USHERS SCHEDULE
GREATER WATERBURY INTERFAITH MINISTRIES
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