Weekly Worship Service
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Worship In-person and via Zoom with Coffee Hour to follow—10:00am
This Sunday Colleen Carpenter, a St. Mary’s member, will be our Preacher. This will be an adapted Morning Prayer service…no Eucharist. Zoom coffee time and outdoor visiting for in-person worshippers will allow us to have social time after the service.
- First Message: Psalm 23
- Gospel: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
For the Zoom worship service on July 18, 2021 Click HERE
If asked for a passcode, enter 657179
If asked for a meeting ID, enter 915 5954 9145
To join by cell phone only (voice only, no video),
call: 312-626-6799
Enter Meeting ID 915 5954 9145
If asked for a passcode, use 657179
For the Service Bulletin – Click HERE
For the 2021 Summer Songbook – Click HERE
What’s in this Weekly?
Worship Team
Technology for Sunday Worship
Altar Guild
- Volunteers needed – Please review and consider this request as we are in danger of soon NOT having a functioning Altar Guild.
Pastoral Care
Education
Outreach
Upcoming Events at Saint Mary’s
Worship Team
- To hear The Rev Susan Moss’ sermon from Sunday, July 11, Click HERE.
- 1 Corinthians 12:14…“For the body is not one member, but many.” The body is not supported by just one person, but by all of us. We’re strongest working together in unity. Teamwork is the key to living life in harmony so we can do God’s work. YOU ARE NEEDED!! If you haven’t signed up to do a Sunday morning lay ministry, now would be a good time to do that…usher,
greeter, techie, Lay Leader/Officiant, Verger, musician, altar guild member, choir member—ALL ARE NEEDED. Click HERE to learn more and to sign up. - In an abundance of caution to keep children and those who can’t be vaccinated safe, masking is still required while in the Saint Mary’s building.
Feedback is welcome!
Expect changes as we try things, see how they work and make improvements! Your feedback is more important than ever before to help us know what’s working well and what isn’t. Please send your thoughts, ideas, suggestions to the Worship Team.
Click HERE to give feedback. Thanks!
Volunteers for Sunday Worship Service Technology
Brian Nerbonne would appreciate some technology volunteers so that we can continue to provide an online option for worship, and so that he can take a few Sundays off. He has a couple people signed up, but not enough yet to provide coverage for when Brian is on vacation. There are two jobs:
- Audio/Video live stream from church, which requires a laptop and cell phone
- Zoom host, which can be done from home or even from church if you bring your device. The Zoom host shares the PowerPoint files of song lyrics that Vonda creates for each song.
Neither job is actually very difficult, and Brian is happy to train people on how to do each. If you can help, please let Brian know. Click HERE with questions or to volunteer.
Volunteers for Saint Mary’s Altar Guild
As we open for the first time in a very long time, we are looking for new volunteers for Saint Mary’s Altar Guild. Your duties will be to serve on a team for one Sunday a month. Your team will set up for the services that day. Making sure that the wine and bread are ready for each service, the correct linens are placed where needed, candles are replaced occasionally, and various other small chores having to do that Sunday. Then clean up when the services are over. Once in a while there will be a 5th Sunday, those are rotated among the 4 teams. We really, really do need you, please volunteer if you are interested. I will talk you through the process in detail first and answer questions. Finally you will have the backup of other team members.
Also badly needed are folks that like to bake, one month out of the year you would bake the communion bread for that month, the recipe is simple and we have bakers that will give you the recipe and instructions.
Thank you, Kitty McFarland
mcfarlandkitty274@gmail.com or text 651-955-1639
Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care Calendar for Summer 2021:
Pastoral Care Team
The Team meets on Zoom on Monday nights at 6:30. Please contact Rev. Cindi if you would like to join us.
LGBTQ+
Monday, July 19th and each third Monday, ongoing
6:30pm meets monthly for reflective conversation and community building. Please contact Rev. Cindi if you would like to join us.
Compline (All Are Welcome)
Each Tuesday at 8:30pm, all are invited to pray Compline in our Zoom prayer room. We will use the Prayer Book. This is a brief form of the Liturgy of the Hours, prayed before bedtime. All are
welcome. Contact Rev. Cindi for details / the link.
pastoralcare@saintmarysepiscopal.org
Each first Tuesday at 7:00pm: ongoing. All are welcome; please contact Rev. Cindi for more information / to register and to get the link.
Pray with and for your friends and family at Saint Mary’s.
Please contact Rev. Cindi if you would like to be included among those praying for the needs of St. Marians or if you have a prayer request. (No meeting required)
Reach out to Reverend Cindi Brickson at pastoralcare@saintmarysepiscopal.org for a Zoom Link.
Book Club
Next iteration of the St. Mary’s Book Club — video edition
Slavery and racism aren’t new – and they aren’t accidental. How were these systems created in the British colonies and woven into the founding of the United States? Join us for a series of “watch parties” in which we will view and discuss the 2005 PBS series “Slavery and the Making of America.”
We will meet Mondays at 7:30, starting on June 14, for 6 sessions (final session on July 19). Feel free to join us even if you can’t make all the meetings. We’ll watch 30 – 40 minutes of the video and then have some time for discussion at each session. Plan for sessions to run 7:30 – 8:30 PM, with the option for people to stay later for further discussion if there is interest.
Please email Beth Varro at beth.varro@gmail.com to sign up and get the Zoom link. Hope you can join us!
School Tools Drive
We will once again join with Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul (I. A.) and other faith communities, to collect new school tools for low-income families involved in 10 different programs in Saint Paul.
Supplies Needed
- Backpacks
- 3-ring binders, loose-leaf paper and folders
- Calculators
- Spiral and composition notebooks
- Pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, crayons, erasers, highlighters, pencil sharpeners
- Glue sticks & bottles
- Scissors & rulers
- Facial tissue
- School boxes
- Hand sanitizer
- Reusable masks
The drive will run from July to August 1st. Items can be left downstairs by the entrance to the church. Monetary donations can be done online to I. A., under “donations” with “school tools” entered into the “other” text field. Checks should be sent to the I. A. with “school tools” in the memo line. More information is available on the I. A. website – Click HERE.
Thanks for considering supporting low-income students with the school supplies they need! If you have questions, contact:
Rainy Morgan at Morgan55105@yahoo.com
Beware Phishing Emails
- The return email address: the email sending the message is often something like bishop@gmail.com or the.
rt.rev.craiglowa@gmail.com . They might look semi-plausible, but aren’t the actual email of the individual being impersonated. You can expect any email coming from ECMN to come from an account using the domain @episcopalmn.org or @ecmn.org - The message: phishing emails often address the recipient as ‘dear friend’ or ‘hello’ but don’t list you or your name in the message.
- Grammatical errors: phishing emails often have strange grammatical errors or use language, phrases, and content that seem out of character for the individual being impersonated.
- Don’t open any attachments
- Don’t click on links
- If you can, report the email to your provider as phishing or spam (in Gmail, you can click the stop sign with the exclamation point inside to let Google know the email is illegitimate).
Confirm requests with a conversation. Even if the email seems legit, if a request contains an urgent ask for contact, personal information or money, or it seems even remotely “off,” don’t respond to the email or act on it until you confirm it.
Upcoming Events at Saint Mary’s
Opportunities for Worship, Education, Choir, & Meet Ups
for the week of 7/16 – 7/22
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Worship In-person and via Zoom with coffee hour to follow
10:00am
Link
Monday, July 19, 2021
Pastoral Care
6:30pm
Contact Rev. Cindi for details and link Click HERE
Monday, July 19, 2021
LGBTQ+
6:30pm
Contact Rev. Cindi for details and link Click HERE
Monday, July 19, 2021
Book Club
7:30pm
Please email Beth Varro at beth.varro@gmail.com to sign up and get the Zoom link.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Finance Committee Meeting
6:30pm
Contact for details and a link Click HERE
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Compline
8:30pm
Contact Rev. Cindi for details and link Click HERE
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Saint Mary’s Dinner Group
Contact Julie Thomas for more information. Click HERE.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Thursday Evening Contemplative Service
Led by Erika Scheurer and Anna Clark
7:00pm
Link
Visit the Saint Mary’s Calendars page for more information on what is happening.