Rally Day! VMC Race! And much more!
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Because VMC is our neighbor and it helps countless people in OUR neighborhood!
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Because we want to defend our title of “Church with the Most Registered Runners”—and there are a lot of churches out there clamoring to beat us!
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And because if we reach at least 175 registered St. James parishioners…..
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Let’s help our rector meet the challenged posed by St. James parishioner and VMC Executive Director, Ginny Weatherstone! Sign up Sunday in the parish hall or Contact Pam Stickland, St. James Race Team Leader, Pam Strickland, 386-0805 or pamstrickland@mac.com.
Rally Day is comin’ up! Come as you are…Be part of our Family! September 12, we will kick off a new year of great ministry activities and Christian Formation.
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Fun and Games for the kiddos!
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Ministry Fair–Representatives from St. James ministries will be in the Parish Hall following both services to share what their groups do and to invite you to join in.
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You will see the new and innovative Christian Formation opportunities that will begin the following week, September 19.
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There will be a Ministry Parade during the 10:30 service
Fellowship Dinner next Wednesday, September 8, 6:15 pm Join your St. James pals for the annual Dog Days of Summer hot dog cookout. You don’t have to bring ANYTHING except your appetite!
BONUS! Karol Harper, VMC public relations and development director, will be with us to share all the services VMC provides for our neighbors just up the street.
Now…let’s look at the weekend ahead!
Friday, September 3
VMC Cook and Serve
Saturday, September 4
9:00 am
Helping Hands
Men’s Group: SPECIAL MEETING!! ALL St. James men are invited to join this great group of guys for a very special meeting! Paul deLeon, English teacher for immigrant students at Beaumont Magnet School, and Lourdes Garda, director of Hispanic Ministry for the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, are volunteers with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. They will speak on what we know about immigration, what we’d like to know, and what we want to about it. Breakfast will be served at 9 am with the meeting beginning right after that.
10:00 am
Prayer Shawl
Sunday, September 5
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I
10:30 am Holy Euchatist II
12:00 pm Junior and Senior High Youth Groups
12:15 pm Hospitality Time: C’mon, all you September birthdays folks! This one’s for you!
Monday, September 6, Labor Day
The St. James Office will be closed.
6:00 pm Centering Prayer
Blessings,
Marilyn
Jobs available… No experience necessary! :)
“Jobs available…No experience necessary…Approximately 30 hours a year…”Great benefits!!! For more information come to the St. James Altar Guild Booth on Rally Day, Sept.12th. or call Patty Chase @ 865-524-0551.
Try to remember the times in September…
9:00 am FOCUS
10:00 am Altar Guild meeting and brunch.
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I10:30 pm Holy Eucharist II12:15 pm Hospitality Time5:00 pm Summer Reading Club
St. James Sunday is Sundae Sunday!
The ECW will hold a Rummage Sale, Friday, August 13 and Saturday August 14. You can help in two BIG ways:First, gather up your best stuff–good toys, collectibles, kitchen items, nice towels and linens, framed pictures, functional furniture, knick knacks, costume jewelry, infant and toddlet clothes, men’s and women’s accessories (please, no clothing). The dates you can bring your donations will be announced in the coming weeks. Please don’t bring them just yet.Second, COME and support the St. James women and find some new treasures at the same time!The ECW will have an annual arts and crafts fair, December 3 + 4. Artisans and crafters may contact Marilyn Canady, 384-5048, canady4@bellsouth.net, to get information.
9:00 am FOCUS
9:00 am Helping Hands Food Pantry10:00 am Daughters of the King
8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I10:30 am Service of Holy Baptism and Holy Eucharist Rite II12:15 pm Sundae Sunday!5:00 pm Reading Book Club
Episcopal School Student Hosts “LemonAid” Stand to Aid the Hungry
On Tuesday, Aug. 3, Episcopal School of Knoxville 5th grader Damon Rodefer will host his 2nd annual LemonAid Stand to raise money to feed hungry families. Proceeds will go to Knoxville’s FISH Hospitality Pantries. Last August, Damon raised nearly $4500 for FISH, helping to feed 900 families. This year he hopes to raise even more. Damon’s LemonAid stand will be in the lobby of accounting firm Rodefer Moss & Co., 608 Mabry Hood Road , Knoxville, from 9 a.m. until noon. In the afternoon, the LemonAid stand will be in the lobby of Clayton Bank and Trust, 620 Market St. , from noon until 4 p.m. All are asked to come buy Damon’s freshly squeezed lemonade and make a donation to FISH. City children are invited to help Damon or host stands in their own neighborhoods. Questions? Contact Damon and his mom, Shelley Rodefer, at damon @ rodefermoss.com [minus the spaces - Ed.]
For more information, please contact:
Kelly Norrell
Communications Director
The Episcopal School of Knoxville
950 Episcopal School Way
Knoxville, TN 37932
Desk 218-4476
Cell 806-0132
Merry Christmas in July!
By Marilyn Canady, Parish Administrator
Hello, everyone!
St. James Day will be celebrated NEXT Sunday, July 25 with Sundae Sunday right after the 10:30 service. Be sure to wear your RED shirts–or something else RED. Tee shirts will be on sale after the 10:30 service this Sunday.
Tomorrow (Friday, July 16) is the August newsletter deadline. Please send your lay assignments and any ministry news to Linda (lgoins@stjamesknox.org) and Marilyn (mcanady@stjamesknox.org) by tomorrow afternoon.
This Saturday, July 17, 10:00 am is the regular meeting of the St. James Episcopal Church Women. All women of the church are invited and encouraged to join this great group of women who do so much for the parish and the community! For information, contact Trudi Pullen, 579-6867.
Speaking of the ECW…..There’s going to be a RUMMAGE SALE, August 13+14! Please gather your best “old stuff” and be watching for the dates you can bring it in for the sale. And by all means, mark you calendars to come! There are always real treasures to be found at the St. James Rummage Sale!
This Sunday is Christmas in July for our Helping Hands Food Pantry. Please bring a small gift for a child that will be given during the Christmas Pantry.
Now here’s what’s going on around and about St. James this weekend…
Friday, July 15
9:00 am FOCUS
10:00 am Bridge Group
Saturday, July 16
10:00 am ECW
Sunday, July 17: Helping Hands Christmas in July
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I
10:30 am Holy Eucharist II
12:15 pm Hospitality Time
Doorstep Ministry Meeting-Library
Lector Training-Church
5:00 pm Reading Book Club-Parish Hall
Have a nice weekend, everyone,
Marilyn
Weekend Update – and keep cool, everyone!
By Marilyn Canady, Parish Administrator
The Sunday evening Reading Book Club starts this Sunday at 5:00 pm! It’s not too late to join Percy Jackson and the Olympians and all of their adventures!The Reading Club still needs empty cereal boxes, tissue boxes, paper towel or toilet paper cores, and newspapers.There will be NO Fellowship Dinner in July.St. James Day will be celebrated Sunday, July 25 with Sundae Sunday after the 10:30 service. Red St. James tee-shirts will be sold by the youth group Sunday, July 18. On St. James Day, everyone should were RED (tee shirt or otherwise) and plan to have a great time!Please complete the Christian Formation survey in the Parish Hall so plans can be made for programs YOU are interested in!Start saving your gently-used treasures for the August ECW Rummage Sale. Be watching for where and when to bring your things in.
9:00 am Helping Hands10:00 am The St. James Prayer Shawl group will meet in the Library. Everyone is welcomed!
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I10:30 am Holy Eucharist II12:15 pmLector Training (in the church)Episcopal Peace Fellowship (Library)1:00 pmWriters Group (Conference Room)5:00 pmReading Book Club (Parish Hall and Conference Room)Have a great weekend, everyone. Stay cool.Marilyn
Weekend Update & Happy 4th!
St. James Men’s GroupPrayer Shawl. Prayer Shawl has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 9.
9:30 am FOCUS10:00 am Bridge Card GroupVMC cook and serve
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I10:30 am Holy Eucharist II12:15 pm Celebration Sunday. Come celebrate all of the July birthdays!
6:00 pm Centering Prayer
Your weekend update
By Marilyn Canady
Greetings, everyone,
It may be a hot, sultry summer, but that doesn’t stop all of the really great things going on at St. James!
Here are a few items of interest….
LUNCH BUNCH this Sunday!!
Christian Formation Survey forms are in the Parish Hall. Please complete one and place it in the box. Your ideas are really important as we plan the new Christian Formation year!
Baptism Dates are set for St. James Day, July 25, and All Saints’ Day, November 7. Please contact Fr. John Mark (jwiggers@stjamesknox.org; 523-5687) if you or a family member wishes to be baptized.
Bishop Search and Transition information is posted at http:/www.etdiocese-search.com/. Please keep the Bishop vonRosenberg and Mrs.vonRosenburg, as well as the search committee, in your prayers during this time of transition.
Have you heard about Summer Adventures Reading Club? Rising third-graders through high schoolers (and adults who enjoy working with kids and reading adventures) are invited to get together for fun and excitement with The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, sponsored by St. James and the Literacy Imperative, Sundays, July 11-August 15, 5-8 pm. For more information, contact Patricia Lynes-Tway, 384-0610 or Megan Alden, 523-5687.
Speaking of reading, the St. James Library is working with the Boys and Girls Club to read to children and to tutor reading during the month of July. Jane Clift and Betty Bowling will be in the Conference Room after the 10:30 service this Sunday to sign people up. C’mon by!
Jim Muir Kamp for Kids, a camp for the children of encarcerated parents, named for our beloved Jim Muir, runs July 19-22 at Grace Point. The cost per camper is $325. If you would like to sponsor a child, please see the donation form in this Sunday’s bulletin, or call the church office and we will send one to you. More more information, you may contact Fr. Joe Minarik, 494-7167 or stjoseph@bellsouth.net. Contributions may be sent to Mary Berl, Diocese of East Tennessee, 814 Episcopal School Way, Knoxville, TN 37932, ATTN: Jim Muir Kamp for Kids.
Now here’s what’s happening this weekend!
Friday, June 25
9:30 am FOCUS
Saturday, July 26
9:00 am Helping Hands
Sunday, July 27
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:15 am Fr. Al’s Christian Formation Class
10:30 am Holy Eucharist II
12:15 pm LUNCH BUNCH!!
Stay COOL everybody!
Marilyn
Happy Father’s Day!
Greetings,
Happy Father’s Day Weekend, everyone!
Appalachian Kid’s Camp: July 6-8 – Megan Alden will be in charge of the Appalachian Kid’s Camp this year. Megan will be collecting a few items for the kids to use at camp from now until July 4th. Please donate to the box in the parish hall if you can help. Needs include: spray deodorant (20), toothbrushes (20), small toothpaste (20), small shampoo and conditioners (20 each), and empty gallon milk jugs.
Summer project: The library has arranged with the Boys and Girls club to go to their facility and read to the small children and do some reading tutoring for the older children. We would like to have interested people help us in this project. We will be doing this during the month of July on Tuesdays and Thursdays anytime between 10:00 and 4:00. Anyone interested needs to contact Jane Clift, 679-9110 or Betty Bowling, 584-0430.
Summer Adventures Book Club for 3rd graders through high school will be held Sunday evenings, July 11-August 5th, 5- 8 pm. If you have a child who would enjoy exploring Rick Riordan’s The Lightening Thief, all about vanquishing monsters and saving Olympus, you can register on Sunday. For more information, contact Deacon Patricia Lynes-Tway,
588-5492.
The weekend
Friday, June 18
Newsletter deadline
9:30 am FOCUS-Conference Room
10:00 am Bridge Club-Library
1:00 pm Set up for McNamara Reunion
Saturday, June 19
10:00 am McNamara Reunion-Parish Hall and Kitch
Sunday, June 20 Happy Father’s Day!
Helping Hands “Squeaky Clean” Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist I
9:15 am Fr. Al’s Christian Formation class-Conference Room
10:30 am Holy Eucahrist II
12:15 pm Hospitality Time
Have a blessed weekend, everyone,
Marilyn
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