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Newsletter for the Week of August 8, 2021
Jeff's cell: 413-522-1540 Church email: stpauls01301@yahoo.com
Many people in our church family are very sensitive to strong scents. Please be mindful of their needs on a Sunday morning at church.
Return to In-Person Worship
On Sunday, July 4 at 9:30 am we will return to in-person worship. Here is a list of our latest guidelines which continue to be very fluid.
1. If you have not been vaccinated, please wear a mask.
2. Jeff, the ushers, and the reader will wear a mask.
3.If you want to sing, please wear a mask.
4.The offering plate will be placed in the center of the church for your offerings.
5. There will be no common cup.
6. Refreshments will be downstairs and will include coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cookies, etc.
7. Mackenzie Pion will work downstairs in the high school room with the young children after the Red Basket lesson
Latest Service Project
Beginning Sunday, August 1st we will have our annual Fill the House to collect household cleaning supplies and diapers for the Family Inn and Shelters in Greenfield.
During September and October, we will have our collection for school kits. Now at Staples there are many great bargains on the items needed. You don't need to donate a complete kit, just donate the items you can and we will assemble the kits in November. We have the back packs already.
Items needed:
70-sheet notebooks
Boxes of 16 or 24 crayons
Pencil sharpeners
30-centimeter rulers
Blunt scissors
Unsharpened No. 2 pencils with erasers
Black or blue ballpoint pens
2½” erasers
Looking Ahead to Our Fall Bazaar
On the first Saturday in November, November 6, we will have our Fall Bazaar. Now is the time to work on your craft items for the Bazaar. If you have any ideas or want craft ideas, please contact Kathy Zimmerman, 413-522-0477.
A New and Exciting Project of the Lutheran Church in New England
Our ELCA World Hunger emphasis in New England this year is supporting projects in Rwanda and Malawi! We'll help provide vulnerable, unemployed Rwandan youth with training in welding, tailoring and entrepreneurship.
Thanks to funding of equipment, tools and training materials, students will have a sustainable future. We, New England Lutherans, can help provide the needed $7,000 for this project!
Congregational donations will be matched up to $100 when contributed to this fund. Church or individual checks may be written to the New England Synod and in the memo line please add: " WH Rwanda & Malawi 2021." Checks may be mailed to: New England Synod, PO Box 13, Worcester, MA 01614. Or to give online, go to www.nelutherans.org/donate and indicate in the special instructions line: "WH Rwanda & Malawi."
Ways to Help Your Neighbor
During Lent we have a collection for the World Hunger Appeal. This year I ask that you select one of the opportunities below and make a contribution to her your neighbor.
Request from our Sister Synod in Jordan and the Holy Lands
View a video from our bishop about the situation and how to give.
Request from Franklin County Community Meals Program
Click here for details about the Brown Bag Brigade on Sunday, February 21 at the Second Congo Church in Greenfield. You may prepare ten brown bags following instructions in the link or contribute toward the project.
Links for Helping Your Neighbor
Franklin County Crop Walk Donation Page
Hillside Pizza Community Meals Program
People's Fund COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund
Cathedral in the Night and in the Light
Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity
Virtual Sunday School
Click on this link for 10 minute virtual Sunday School with messages and crafts. Well done. If you make a craft, please take a picture and email to Becky (fishOmen@hotmial.com)
Corn Hole Games
Jim Carpenter has made 6 regulation corn hole games with wraps, retractable legs, handles and 8 bags. He made them for next year's craft fair. He is offering them for sale now. They would make great Christmas gifts. Price is $185.00, with the money going to the church. Phone 413-325-8258. Address is 206 Lower Rd. Deerfield, MA 01342. See example below. Other nature backgrounds available.
Links to Daily Devotions
Haiti Program
Consider supporting the Good Samaritan School in Haiti which provides an educational program for the slave children. For only $3 you can pay a teacher's salary! Follow this link to Opportunities for Communities to contribute and learn more about how you can help. Hurricane Matthew tore the roof off the school.
Tanzania Program
Each year the church gifts our sister church with money for projects. In the past we have purchased a motor cycle for the pastor, help with building materials for the educational wing of the church, paid for electrical hook-up, and purchased ceiling fans for the church.
Update from Bolivia
Click Here for PowerPoint Presentation: The last slide explains how to make a donation by sending your check to the church.
Refugio Rafale is located in a Quechuan community in Marguina, Bolivia, people living in the Andes Mountain area where living conditions are simple. The Refugio is a unique community support facility, staffed by local people and assisted by international partners. It provides education, economic development, medical assistance, and homes for single moms and their children. Wayne and Susie are actively involved in the program. To help support this ministry visit www.refugiorafael.com
LIVING LUTHERAN ONLINE MAGAZINE
Read about the Wider Church-- the ELCA: God's Work, Our Hands
Reformation 500 Website Lecture on Bach by our organist David King
Click Here to see and hear the choir from our sister church in Tanzania
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