Thursday, May 19, 2022
WORSHIP
Services at 8 am and 10 am
Masks are optional during worship.
Sunday School
Sunday School begins at approximately 10:10 am this week with Lori Piazza leading. All children are welcome!
Prayers
We ask your prayers this week for Rosemary, 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.
Annual Meeting Announcement
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.
SUNDAY SPEAKER SERIES
Speaker Postponed
The June 12 presentation on Notre Dame Committee on Human Trafficking with Phil White presenting has been postponed. Please look forward to this talk in the fall.
Upcoming Events
George Dredden, St. Paul's former seminarian, to be ordained Monday, June 6, 7 pm!
All are welcome to attend!
While we realize these are distant events, St. Paul's is supporting our Diocesan churches.
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
Thank you, Sylvia Wong!
Many thanks to Sylvia Wong for her Mother's Day Concert featuring traditional Chinese music and instruments! Thanks also to Jim Little for performing a traditional Chinese piece on piano, and Shirly Wu for organizing and hosting the event.
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.
Sad news...
Russ Worthington, former Parish Administrator at St. Paul's has passed away. More information...
Congratulations to Brooks Wang!
Brooks has been selected to participate in the New Jersey All State Orchestra. An accomplished violinist, Brooks is a ninth grade student at Chatham High School. The All State Orchestra will perform five concerts, including concerts in Atlantic City and New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Brooks passed rigorous auditions at the Region and All State levels in order to participate in this ensemble. Congratulations, Brooks!
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.
News from the Diocese
A message from Bishop Hughes on the Diocesan Convention
News from the National Church
Episcopal leaders join outcry over shooting in Buffalo and more...
