Weekly e-Epistle
from
St. James' Mill Creek
Wilmington, Delaware

July 10th, 2022


We'd love for you to join us!


We would be pleased if you joined us in person or online from the comfort of your home for church services via Facebook Live at 9:30am.


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Here is a PDF of this Sunday's bulletin for you to enjoy.
Sunday bulletin (July 10)

Visiting with Us This Week

 

This Sunday the Rev. David Andrews will be visiting with us. Fr. Andrews was the rector of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew from 2010 to the end of 2021. He was ordained an Episcopal Priest in 1991 and has served congregations in upstate New York and on the coast of Maine. Fr. Andrews received a Masters in Social Work degree in 1996 from Marywood College in Scranton, PA. He has been married to the Rev. Emily Gibson thirty eight years this summer. In his retirement Fr. Andrews enjoys reading and travel. He and Emily leave for Madrid, Spain on the July 15th and will join other pilgrims from the Shalem Institute and walk for a week on the El Camino. 


 

Uptick in COVID Cases - Please Be Careful!

 

As we move deeper into summer, COVID cases continue to increase, especially with this new and more easily transmissible variant. Early indications are that prior infection does not prevent re-infection, and vaccination, while still proven to drastically reduce severe infection and death, offers little protection from contracting and spreading this new variant.

 

With all of this in mind, we continue to encourage and recommend masking indoors because of our intimate worship space. I also encourage you to re-assess your own risk level and that of our church community. If you are eligible for your second booster, please discuss with your healthcare provider whether it would be appropriate for you to receive that second booster at this time.

 

Finally, many people are presenting with no symptoms while still spreading this virus; so if you have recently been exposed but are not showing symptoms, please stay home. If you are feeling poorly and still test negative, please stay home. We will certainly miss you, and we will look forward to seeing you when you are feeling better.

Greetings from Russ's Angels team captain, Margaret Russ.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in church, June is Alzheimer's and Brain awareness month.

Three things to do to help your brain:

1. plenty of regular sleep

2. eat a healthy diet

3. stay active - I'll go on a walk with you.  

 

St. James has been a great support over the years, I want to give you the chance to help again this year.  

If you can donate there are three ways to do it.

  1.  Use the link to my page http://act.alz.org/goto/margaretruss
  2.  You can mail/hand me a check, written to Alzheimer's Association 
  3.  Or hand me cash at Church.  

If you want to join our team the walk is Saturday 10/29/22 . Use the link above to join. Would love to have you.  

 

Please feel free to reach out to me, Margaret Russ with any questions or to chat.  

[email protected]

443-945-7230

Monday Morning Bible Study Takes a Summer Break!

 

Our Monday Morning Bible Study will be taking a brief break during the month of July. We’ll resume our meetings on August 1. Enjoy your break, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when we resume!

 

Wednesdays at 10 AM - Off For July

 

Our Wednesday morning services will take a hiatus during the month of July. Wednesday services will resume on August 3 at 10 AM.


St. James’ Night at the Ballpark!

 

Are you a baseball fan? Would you like to spend the night at the ballpark with members of our St. James’ family? Or would you just like to see fun fireworks show one Friday evening?

 

If you’d like to join us for a night at the Blue Rocks on July 29th, please contact the office at 302-994-1584 or Jerry Clark at 302-354-4839. Tickets will be around $14/person, and transportation will be dependent upon the number of people who sign up.

 

Please let us know by July 6 if you’d like to join us, and we hope to see you there!

Summer Prayer Team UPDATE

 

During the summer months, the prayer team will continue to lift up prayer requests shared by parishioners through emails to the church office at 302-994-1584 or to individual members of the prayer team. We collect the prayer requests and other concerns of the parish, community, and world. Then these requests are lifted up in the daily prayers of the team members. All are welcome to share their prayer requests and we hope you will consider joining us when our monthly prayer services resume in the fall on Sunday, September 11th. More information to follow.

 

For those who have an immediate prayer need, we invite you to email your prayer needs/requests to Carolyn Mack at [email protected] or call 302-565-8675

Serving those in need with dignity and respect…

 

We are grateful for your support that enables us to

serve lunch at the Emmanuel Dining Room

and provide clothing, food, and other items

needed by those being served at the Hope Center.

 

St. James' Mission and Outreach updates

Sharing God’s gifts with others.

 

Thank you all for your generosity and caring that made and make these offerings possible. 

 

Emmanuel Dining Room

In the past, we have served from 140-200 lunches to our friends at Emmanuel Dining Room on the 31st of the month (7 times per year). Covid brought new challenges and we were able to provide the lunch “fixings”, but not help in the kitchen OR serve the meals. From March 2020 until April 2022, guests were provided a “take away” lunch that they picked up outside the dining room and had to eat elsewhere.

 

We are happy to say, WE ARE BACK in the kitchen and serving guests in the dining room.


On our next lunch date—Sunday, July 31st, our guests will enjoy tuna subs, chips, bananas, and homemade cookies and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take away for later. 

  • Please join us in the Parish Hall kitchen on Saturday, July 30th at 9 a.m. to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as an extra snack or meal for later for our guests being served the next day. (Masks and gloves, please.)
  • If you'd like to provide some homemade cookies (or store-bought cookies), please bring them to the Parish Hall kitchen marked EDR by Sunday, July 31st. You are welcome to put homemade cookies into the freezer to keep them fresh.
  • Questions: please text or call Pat Minor 302-983-6299 or Cindy Fauerbach 302-584-8053.

Hope Center and Friendship House


We continue to provide clothing items, snacks, food, toiletries and hygiene items, children's books and toys, diapers, laundry detergent, etc. for those being served at the Hope Center and Friendship House. Collection boxes are inside the front door of the church and Monday-Thursday a box is outside the Parish Hall.

 

Meals on Wheels


Meals on Wheels volunteers deliver lunch and some evening meals to our neighbors in Murray Manor. Our next week to deliver meals is June 27-July 1.

 

 

Family Promise


Our next week offering meals and caring to families participating in Family Promise is August 7-14. At this point, guests continue to live in the cottages at the Jesus House off Milltown Road. We’ll let you know if that changes and we are able to return to providing our families with lodging, snacks, and dinners in our parish hall.



St. James' Pastoral Care Team


St. James' Pastoral Care Team continues to support our parish family and our community.

If you or someone you know is in need, we: 

·        send cards, make phone calls, and pray with you and/or for you.

·        For now, in an abundance of caution, our home, hospital, and Eucharistic visits are on hold.


Please call the office (302-994-1584) and leave a message. Someone will get back to you. Messages are retrieved daily, seven days a week.


Please let us know if you need us or someone you know needs us. We will not know if you do not tell us.

“Blessful” Meditations


We all know that life can be a little stressful and hectic sometimes. We hope that by reading this short bible passage and watching a relaxing video will help you take a moment and reflect on God’s gifts.  


MATTHEW 5:16


“In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”


Do You Have Questions?


Do you sit aloft a lonely hilltop in the spring,

Wonder what this spring will bring,

Puffy clouds surfing the azure-aquamarine sky,

Do you have questions for the creator who resides on high?


Or see the sundog suddenly appear out of the blue,

Fresh-clean-sweet smell of flowers kissed by the dew,

Or watching-wondering as the ceaseless pounding of the waves upon the shore,

Do you have questions for the creator who resides on high?


Enjoy the balmy summer eve when day vanishes - the sky takes on different hues,

Off the horizon a light gray changes into the darkness of the night.

The harvest moon heavy in the sky & the stars sparkle diamond bright,

Do you have questions for the creator who resides on high?


As the cool days & nights change the green leaves to colors, oh so bright,

The palette is colorful beyond description;

Yellow, burnt orange, goldenrod & shades of rust,

As they dismount the branches-swirling-dancing unto the ground-alight,

Do you have questions for the creator who resides on high?


Temperatures plumed, the snow fall blanket the ground leaving it sparkling white,

Hanging icicles, the water in the pond freezes, the blades of our skates mar its face.  

Sledding down the hill a speeds, laughter-squeaks are pure delight.

Do you have questions for the creator who resides on high?



Faye Hart

 7/1/2022 at 4:30pm

Prayer for Knowledge of God’s Creation


Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the mysteries of your creation, we may come to know you more truly, and more surely fulfill our role in your eternal purpose; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.



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