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Christ centered, Biblically based, spirit filled and a place of simple hospitality, we have shared our communal life with our church,our community, and those in need. Your presence enriches us.
August 5 -11:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite II
August 5 -12:00pm Coffee Hour
Help Us Collect School Supplies for Caroline County. Details
Thanks to the following who brought school supplies on Sunday, July 29th – Elizabeth (red carton supplies), Johnny, Joe as well as Susan O. (not pictured). Fred and Hugh load Fred’s truck for a rist delivery.
We will continue to collect them until Aug 19th. Details of what we are collecting.
August , 2012- Projects Here and Abroad
Whether you will be hanging around here or venturing away, August has both.
First let’s consider places far away
The Parish Post as several articles about the mission trip to Staten Island to work with the Moravians. We will send them off in the August 19th service before participate between the 22nd-28th. In general the purpose of this mission trip is :
• To create an awareness of the global body of Christ and to participate in that work . This year is the 9th annual clothing distribution for the children who have been referred by social service agencies who are in need of clothes for the upcoming school year.
• To build relationships with those in NY and to foster fellowship.
• To encourage personal spiritual growth for all participants.
12 of you are going (plus one from outside the parish. That about’s 30% of typical attendance of a Sunday. That’s extraordinary! Hopefully some ideas from the experience could enrich our life.
The second point above is important. Besides working on the clothing distribution there will be a chance for a baseball game, tours of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and free time around.
We have several links about the trip:
About the Moravian Clothing Distribution – a powerpoint presentation about 12 minutes
Information about the Moravians
We will have a group web site within the St. Peter’s website at (http://www.churchsp.org/statenisland2012) so that the participants can post their thoughts and you can comment on them. It should be off the ground by August 12, 10 days before the tirp
Projects here
We are starting two initiatives this month:
1. Church Directory – The Vestry would like a group to consider publishing a Church Directory. Yes, we do have a directory both in print and online. However, they were looking one with pictures and broader scope.
There are a couple of decisions about directories
A. Concept ?
1. Traditional Church Directory –LifeTouch will provide a no cost directory both print and online since they make their money selling custom photos and photosets. LifeTouch needs 35 families to sit for photos. We can extend the minimum to Port Royal and those outside the Church but they would not be in our directory
2. Yearbook – Instead of a traditional directory, we could make it like a yearbook with event photos and other features. There are companies like Entourage that allow you to design the book online with their templates. There obviously is more work to do this, possibly more cost and more risk to come out even but it allows us to have a greater role in the final product
3. Keep it as it is
B. When would it appear ? June at the end of the program year ? Dec at the end of the calendar year ? January in time for the parish meeting ? Another time ?
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Bless Ralph Fall who published his history of Port Royal. However, that has been 30 years ago. As good as it is, it doesn’t cover the many groups and ministries we have fostered. We would also like to try some oral history of members and possibly produce an updated history. Could this be supplemented with an updated story of Port Royal ? Interested ?
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How do mission and these internal initiatives of a directory and updated history fit together ? We are family. We can provide gifts of ourselves to provide labor to help children in another community and learn about another faith. By participating in a mission and by documenting our own story better, we are both building a new chapter in our history and also looking back in our recent past to understand who are and who we can become. How can we delve more deeply into our Christian story—our scriptures and traditions—so that we can be more powerful witnesses to God’s love in all the places in which we live and work?