You are invited to a BBQ!

When: Saturday, July 22, 7:00 pm (right after Mass)

Where:  Paul and Sue Nauert's house

              9135 Meadowglen 63126 (about 10-15 minutes from church)

What to bring: lawn chairs, a side to share, beverage  (please feel free to bring your own reusable plates and utensils to cut down on waste. We will have plates, etc. available ,too.)

The downstairs refrigerator at church will be available to keep your cold sides cold, crockpots can be plugged in upstairs in the Fireside Room.

We will also be singing Happy Birthday to  Lisa Von Stamwitz and Sue Nauert on their  combined 117th Birthday!!!!!  That's a cake we'll  need helping blowing out the candles !

(prize awarded at the end of evening to anyone who can guess the correct age combination, family excluded.  :)

Hope to see you there!

Parish Council Nominations

It's that time of the year again...time to submit nominees for the Parish Council.

We have nine voting members on the Council, and under our Parish By-Laws, three seats open up each year and those elected to the Council will serve a three-year term. Those who are scheduled to rotate off may be nominated again. 

All those who have been registered members of our parish for at least one year are eligible to serve on the Council.  Please submit your own name and/or the name(s) of fellow registered members by July 10 to be on the Parish Council.  You can do this by e-mailing the Council chair, Caroline Reardon at [email protected] or by contacting any other member of the Parish Council.  If you have any questions regarding the duties of a Council member or questions about this process, please contact Caroline.

Once nominations are received, the candidates will be given an opportunity to present themselves to the parish with a written response to two questions about this community, and those responses will then be shared with our community.  Candidates will be selected by vote of registered members to occur in late July/early August.

Wondering how to use produce from the farmers' market or local produce section of the grocery store?  Look for occasional recipes that use fresh produce here​ the next few months.  Maybe you will find a recipe for a dish to share at the Harvest Potluck Meal on September 24.  Mark your calendars now!

Old-Fashioned Cucumber Salad

2 medium cucumbers, thinly sliced 
1/3 cup cider or white vinegar
1/3 cup water 
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Chopped fresh dill weed or parsley

Parish Photo Directory

Parishioner Matt Guempel will be setting up his portable studio at Church, both Peace UCC and the Mead Center, to take portraits of parishioners before and after Masses on some Saturdays and Sundays in July.  The main reason for this project is so that we can have a parish pictorial directory. The secondary reason is so that people can update their personal photos.

You can sign up for a time slot at church.  

Matt suggests that people wear solid colors, or simple patterns, and especially if there is more than one person in the photo. You will be able to order prints from the pictures if you choose to do so, but there is no obligation to do so. Matt will have the prints processed and they will only cost the actual production cost. He is NOT making any money on this, but is doing this as a gift to the parish.

If you have any questions you may contact Matt at [email protected]. You may also contact Jim or Frank.

Parish Tithing

As a parish, we donate 10% of our collections to worthy causes. We do this as an act of faith, trusting that, in doing this, we will still be able to meet our financial needs.

We are inviting nominations for grant recipients be submitted no later than July 31 to Marilyn Tenholder in writing or http://www.tenholder.net/SCFtithing. This information will be compiled and as a community we will vote to select recipients. Voting will happen during September and grants awarded in October. This process happens on a regular schedule twice each year.  A complete copy of the Tithing System document is available at http://scfecc.org/documents/2015/11/Tithing%20System.pdf.

Nominating Criteria and Process

• All nominations to be submitted either in email or in writing.
• Nominations to be limited to 501(c)3 entities, provided however that if the entity is a church or religious order, it is preferred that the nomination and subsequent grant (if approved) be specifically designated for ministries under the umbrella of that church or religious order.
• Nominations to include the name of the entity, its website if it has one, the contact person and address, two sentences describing the mission of the entity, one sentence describing why that entity is being nominated, and the amount of the suggested grant (the minimum grant amount is $100 and the maximum grant amount is $1,000).
• Nominations will not be accepted for entities whose mission or work conflicts with the values of the Sts. Clare & Francis Community.
• SCF members who hold a position of being able to direct or control donated funds (such as an officer, director, etc.) in an entity are ineligible to nominate such entity.
• Nominations that do not provide all of the requested information (identified above) and/or not meeting these criteria will not be accepted.  
  

Parish Office Hours 

The Sts. Clare & Francis Office, [483 E Lockwood Ave, Ste. 3, Schultz Hall (Door B) – Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, MO 63119] will be open each week on Mondays, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm and Thursdays from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Although someone is here more often than that, I am in and out much of the time. So I am making a concerted effort to have posted hours to be more available to people who might want to drop by. 

Thanks! 

Jim