Newsletter, May 18

Reverend Sheelagh’s Thought for the Week: May 18, 2016

The reading from Proverbs introduces us to Wisdom, Sophia in Greek.  Wisdom is female, and declares “The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.  Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth…”  I love that God the creator gave a female persona to wisdom, companion to his work.  She continues,” I was beside him like a master worker; and I was daily his delight.”  As the beginning of all things was created, can’t you just picture the joy of these two, Creator and Wisdom, as they exclaim with joy and delight, “It is good!”

Reminders

Serving at the Altar 5/22& 5/29

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Congratulations Once More To All Our Graduating And College Bound Students.

Here’s where they are headed:-

Jadyn Herry – NYU
Eilis Price – Goldsmith’s College – London
Rammi Rugbeer – University of British Columbia, Canada
Grace Savoie – Americorps
Thomas Singer – Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania
John Soughan – George Washington University, DC
Autumn Jones – Berklee College of Music, Boston MA

Congratulations To Our College Graduates

Jessica Clarke from GWU going to NYU Law.
Arabella Pluta-Ehlers from University of Chicago working in DC.
Ramadan Smith McCloud – from Rutgers Business School

UPCOMING EVENTS  Sunday, May 22nd

St. John’s Episcopal Church
Thanks to those that responded! Below is an updated list of what food is being donated. Please confirm if you can also volunteer. We still need 5-7 more people. Thanks again!

1.      Pre-made Turkey & Cheese Sandwiches (20) Linda Soughan

2.      Pre-made Turkey Sandwiches (10) Denise Price

3.      Pre-made Ham & Cheese Sandwiches (20) Nancy Sieffert

4.      Pre-made Ham Sandwiches (20) Denise Price

5.      Pre-made American Cheese Sandwiches (10) Sam and Soraya Polanco

6.      Pre-made Meat Deli & Cheese Sandwiches (20) e.g. Salami, etc Alex/Dick 

Cole

7.      Chicken Soup (feeds 10) Need volunteer

8.      Chicken Noodle Soup (feeds 10) Carole Francis

9.      Hearty Veggie Soup (feeds 10) Carole Francis

10.    Mom’s Specialty Soup (feeds 10) Need volunteer

11.    Spicy Gumbo Soup (feeds 20) Patti Moore

12.    Soup bowls Sam and Soraya Polanco

13.    Hard boiled eggs (6 dozen) Barbara Riedel

14.    Fruits (Apples and/or Oranges) Sue Macbeth

15.    Condiments Barbara Riedel

16.    Popcorn Barbara Riedel

17.    Containers Barbara Riedel

18.    Cookies Denise Price

19.    Beef dish with vegetables Sara Ruth

20.    Volunteers Denise Price, Jaydn Price, Barbara Riedel

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact via us email at

ssguillenpolanco@gmail.com  or give us a call directly Soraya at (201) 779-6852 or Sam at (646) 805-8682 Have a lovely week ahead! 🙂 Please feel free to forward this email to anyone else that might be interested in attending.

With Much Love & Appreciation,
Sam + Soraya Polanco

Christine’s Kitchen     June 4, 2016 from 10:30am-1pm

We serve neighbors in need at Christine’s Kitchen at Holy Trinity in West Orange. Holy Trinity is located at Washington and Main Streets in West Orange. Parking is on the street.  We can use entrees, fruit, and other foods, as well as volunteers.   If you feel like bringing something additional, do so!  Food will not go to waste.

If you want to volunteer or contribute call Claas at 908 451-0426, or email him at cehlers@familypromise.org.

Thought For The Week

Thinkers.  Writers.  Please consider writing a brief  “thought for the week” on anything at all for the weekly e-news during the sabbatical period.  Let Claire or Janet Hager know you are interested.

NOTICES

Please send all articles and e-mails for the newsletter to Claire by NOON on Tuesday at church@ststephensmillburn.org.

St. Stephen’s Church, Millburn
119 Main Street
Millburn, NJ 07041-1115