| This Week at St. Luke’s |
| Public Health Indicators: here Event risk assessment: here. Click here and scroll down for Worship Bulletin FALL BACK: Set your clocks back one hour before bed on Saturday night. Sunday Nov 1: All Saints Day 10am Spiritual Communion on Facebook Sermon and Godly Play Story posts on Facebook 11am Coffee Hour on Zoom link 2pm In-Person Worship, Reservations required 4pm Holding Onto Hope with PB Michael Curry 8pm Durham Gregorian Chant Vespers Tuesday 7:00 Online Bible Study on Zoom Wednesday Noon Prayer and Share Zoom link Friday 8:30am Good News Garden Tending 1pm Connections & Support Group NEW Zoom link Saturday 8:30 Garden and Grounds workday 10 and 11 Croasdaile Morning Prayer Sunday Nov 8: Bishop Anne’s Visit! 10am Spiritual Communion on Facebook Sermon and Godly Play Story posts on Facebook 11am Town Hall with Bishop Anne on Zoom link 2pm In-Person Worship, Reservations required |
| New This Week |
| 2021 PLEDGE UPDATE The Every Member Canvass campaign is going well with 38 increased pledges and 2 new pledges! So far more than half who have pledge committed to increase their pledge for next year. -Pledges received through 10/28 total $248,460 -71 households have pledged Reminder that we need your pledge by Nov 8. Please either leave a message on the office phone, e-mail Kathy, or mail/hand deliver your pledge card. Thank you for your faith filled generosity, and be well! WATCH ON YOUTUBE Our worship services can now be seen on YouTube! St. Luke’s new YouTube channel,St. Luke’s Durham Worship and Music, is up and running and contains videos of our Sunday morning worship as well as some St. Luke’s music videos. Each week’s service is available for viewing on Sunday mornings and can be seen anytime thereafter. (Weekly sermons are still accessible through our website and Facebook page.) We have over 100 subscribers to our new page! A search with “St. Luke’s Durham” should bring up the page, or you can go there directly. Be sure and subscribe and “like” (thumbs up) the channel or individual videos, and feel free to leave comments. CORRECTION This year’s bishop visit will be on November 8th. The date was incorrect in the Vestry Reflection. |
| Announcements |
| REQUEST VESTRY BALLOT NOW We encourage you to vote for vestry using an absentee ballot. Each voter/household must request a ballot by e-mail or call the office. Vote for up to 4 candidates. Completed PRINTED ballot and attestations must be received before 10am on Fr, Nov 6th. You can mail with sufficient time or drop in the church mailbox (end of the drive between Johnson Hall/Sprague Room). Members who register and attend in-person worship on Nov 8th should vote at worship, not before. GROUNDS AND GARDEN WORK DAY Come one, come all! The final St. Luke’s 2020 Grounds & Gardens Workday is Saturday, November 7th from 8:30 until 10:00. There is something for everyone, whether it’s clearing leaves from the labyrinth, cleaning the Memorial walls, deadheading the huge Lantanas or gazing with wonder at our blooming Yuletide Sasanqua Camellias. (Yes, the two shrubs by the Sprague doors are covered in blooms!) Please bring hand pruners and long handle pruners if you have them. HOLDING ONTO HOPE Presiding Bishop Curry will lead a Holding Onto Hope prayer service from Washington National Cathedral at 4pm this Sunday November 1st, All Saints Day. Watch here. 2020 PECANS FUNDRAISER FOR BELIZE What: Plain and Dark Chocolate Covered, both for $11.00 for a one-pound bag. Deadline: November 1. To order: Online at https://forms.gle/H5SumLHKNrrjZfX2A. or Print/mail this pdf Pay: 1) Mail check to St. Luke’s memo “BELIZE PECANS” 2) Pay through ACS, specifying “Belize Pecans” as the fund.Pecans will be available for pickup a few days before Thanksgiving. FORWARD DAY BY DAY If you would like a Forward Day by Day booklet Nov-Jan, please contact Kathy. |
| How Can I Help? |
| HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES One of the women we help regularly needs everything to set up house (furniture, kitchen supplies, etc). If you are able to help, please contact Jan Freeman. VOTE! Voting Faithfully. 1) To have your ballot witnessed contact Bill and Carol Charping. 2) If you would like to track your absentee ballot to ensure it is counted, use this. 3) Pray! Sign up here to receive daily prayers for the election Oct 27-Nov 4. “FED UP” FOOD DISTRIBUTION The local Poor People’s Campaign is doing a twice-monthly food distribution called “Fed Up!” If you would like to donate or participate, click here and sign up for their mailing list. KEEP CLERGY IN THE LOOP Please make sure to keep the clergy in the loop if there are any needs or concerns you have or you know about. You can e-mail Helen at any time. REMEMBER, Your clergy will not send you e-mail or texts messages asking for gift cards or financial help. |
| Important Links |
| Sign-up for in-person events on our iVolunteer page. Please bookmark this page for future use. In-person outdoor services are scheduled for: Nov 1, Nov 8, Nov 22, Dec 6, Dec 22 Worship can now be viewed on YouTube All St. Luke’s Facebook events can be accessed here. |
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