May 13, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2022
WORSHIP
Services at 8 am and 10 am
Masks are optional during worship.
All the Way Up!
This Sunday, May 15 at 10 am
Join us on Sunday as we welcome Christie Zipfel and Adele Haley from
All the Way Up!
Empowering Adult Learners in and around Newark
Nearly 30% of Newark’s 285,000 residents have not achieved a high school diploma—a rate three times the national average. All The Way Up is reversing this trend by empowering adult learners in Newark and Greater Essex County to achieve their High School Equivalency Certification. All the Way Up provides small group tutoring with volunteer and professional tutors to better meet the unique needs of each student. This individualized support results in about a 50% student retention rate, a much higher rate than in most traditional, large-scale group GED educational models.
Sunday School
Sunday School begins at approximately 10:10 am this week with Mary Foster leading. All children are welcome!
Prayers
We ask your prayers this week for Nina, Caroline, Morgan, Meghan, Rick, Don, Brian, Cora, Martha, Kathy, Michael, Gloria, Beth, Mark, Marilyn, Sophia, John, Sarah, Mary, and Matt.
Please notify the office if you have any changes or additions to the Prayer List.
SUNDAY SPEAKER SERIES
Upcoming Speakers
June 12 - Notre Dame Committee on Human Trafficking, Phil White presenting.
Upcoming Events
Annual Meeting!
Sunday, June 12th, immediately following the 10 am service
Brunch will be provided
Please join us as we gather together in person for the first time in two years and attend to the business and future of the parish! Any annual reports should be submitted to the office as soon as possible.
Sarah Schwarz serves on the Board of Directors for Mrs. Wilson's Treatment Center for women in recovery from addiction/mental health disorders for nearly 3 years, running virtual events and more. Because we are non-profit, we depend on donations to keep our Treatment Center running. This May, we will finally be able to hold our amazing fundraising/networking event at the Park Ave Club in Florham Park on May 17th from 6-8:30. It's an incredible event at a prestigious location with amazing speakers, wonderful guests, great food and drink and opportunity for sponsorship and journal advertisements for all types of businesses.
Please consider joining Sarah at her table for a fun night out, celebrating Mrs. Wilson's 46th year helping women in recovery. If you cannot attend but would like to donate or place an ad, any and all support is welcome!
Harmonium Choral Society June 3-5 Open Hearts weekend
June 4th , 1pm - NJ premiere of the 2021 documentary Pieces of Us at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ,
Friday, June 3rd at 7:30pm and Sunday, June 5th at 3:00pm - Harmonium’s Open Hearts concert at Our Lady of Sorrows, 217 Prospect St., South Orange, NJ.
On June 4th at 6:00pm - catered fundraising dinner featuring Prince Manvendra from India at Christ Church in Short Hills, 66 Highland Ave, Short Hills, NJ, followed by a dessert reception at 7:30pm. There will be music and Prince Manvendra will speak about his humanitarian work.
For details visit: https://www.harmonium.org/specialevents, call 973-538-6969, or email manager@harmonium.org.
Poor People's Campaign March on Washington
Poor People's Campaign Working Group invites all to join the June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington. The event will be a generationally transformative and disruptive gathering of poor and low-wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering organizations. It is not just a day of action. It is a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement to shift the moral narrative, build power, make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.
NEWS
From the Diocesan Convention...
The 148th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark was held on May 7th at Calvary Church in Summit. St Paul's was represented by delegates and clergy. The theme of the event was Hallelujah Anyhow. In the midst of all that is going on, the churches in our Diocese continued to do God's work in the world and to find gratitude for the blessings we have received. We may not have had the convention that we wanted with Covid still lurking around (two days, rather than one, etc.), but we went ahead and made the best of it. Old friends were seen, reports presented, elections to Diocesan offices conducted and business attended to. The message from the bishop in her sermon was that after Covid, the church as we knew it has irrevocably changed, and it is up to us to rebuild and reimagine the church of the future.
Vestry Update
The work of the Transition Committee and the Vestry are nearing completion. Look for an announcement soon. Jed Evans, Treasurer, presented the financial report for the month of March. We are at full rent from all outside users. Expenses are down. Income is down as well. People not coming to church in person and the transition are the primary reasons for this. Color and carpet style have been approved and the project should proceed soon. Rev. Ellen reported that Christian Education and Youth Ministry need to be addressed. She would like to expand the Sunday Speaker Series and Concert Series to try to bring in people from the outside as well as our parishioners.
Congratulations to Alisher and Integrity Fencing!
Integrity Fencing Studio fencer Darren Yen finished 3rd in Div 1 at National Championships in Charlotte, NC. Darren finished 3rd out of 111 fencers, he got the National Bronze medal and renewed his rating A. This medal is the eighth for Integrity Fencing Studio on the National level and first in the highest division, Division 1! Andrew Deng made top 64 and lost his bout for top 32 to 1st seeding number fencer 15:14; Kat Xikes fenced Junior event and lost her bout for top 32 15:12.
Sad news...
Melda Pike, a well-loved, retired Chatham teacher, passed away on May 3. A viewing will be held at Bradley and Son Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m. on Friday May 13. A service will be held at Chatham Methodist at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 14.
Chatham Twp. and Boro. Police Help Senior Citizens
If you are a senior citizen, living alone, and have a telephone, the Chatham Police Departments have a program to check in with you every morning. For more information and an application, click here.
