| This Week at St. Luke’s |
| Public Health Indicators: here Event risk assessment: here. Free COVID test from Durham County here. Click here and scroll down for Online Worship Bulletin Sunday – Advent I 9:30 In-Person Masked Indoor Worship signup here Rev. Dr. Kathryn Mathewson Celebrant and Preacher 9:30 Livestream worship on Facebook Tuesday 7pm Bible Study on Zoom 7 pm Handbell Rehearsal – Nave Wednesday 11:30 Prayer and Share on Zoom Friday 1:00 Connections and Support Group by Zoom Saturday 8 a.m. Vestry Retreat – Johnson Hall Upcoming Schedule of Clergy for Worship 12/5/21 Rev. Dr. Jeanine Driscoll, Celebrant & Preacher 12/12/21 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Mathewson, Celebrant & Preacher 12/19/21 Rev. Dr. Jeanine Driscoll, Celebrant & Preacher Christmas Eve Special Music 6:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Eucharist 7 p.m. Rev. Jim Craven, Celebrant & Preacher Christmas Day 10 a.m. Rev. Jim Craven, Celebrant & Preacher 12/26/21 9:30 a.m. Service of Lessons and Carols with Eucharist, Rev. Jim Craven For Pastoral Care concerns, contact Jim Craven or Sr. Warden Eileen Morgan |
| New This Week |
| A big thank you to Eric Moore for getting our internet and phones back on line. Advent begins today. Advent devotional resources are available for pick up today after the service. Vestry Transition Update After considering several clergy options for our transition, the Vestry has chosen the Traditional Interim Rector option. Bishop Rodman and Catherine Massey, the Canon for Transition and Pastoral Ministries, are currently screening candidates to present to the Vestry for consideration. If you would like to make a donation towards Christmas flowers and greenery, please make your check payable to St Luke’s and mark it “Christmas flowers”. Also note in whose memory or honor it is given. It may be placed in the offering plate or mailed directly to the church office. Deadline is December 15. Share Your Christmas 2021 Has Begun! Once again this year, our Share Your Christmas (SYC) program will be virtual. Instead of shopping for and wrapping gifts ourselves, we will give our St. Luke’s/LEAP families and Maple Court veterans gift cards so they can do their own shopping. We hope to raise at least $4,500 by December 12th so the 70+ people on our SYC list can buy food, clothing, toys and household goods. You can mail St. Luke’s a check with “SYC” in the memo section or donate online through ACS. For more information, see the St. Luke’s website at https://stlukesdurham.org/share-your-christmas-2021/ or the December newsletter, or contact Carol or Bill Charping. |
| Announcements |
| PECANS FOR BELIZE 2021 – Pecans are arriving on November 29! Our order of eight cases of bagged pecans is set to arrive on Monday, November 29. If you ordered pecans, you have already received an email discussing options for picking them up. If you still need to order pecans – or if you need to order additional bags beyond your initial order – we have a few extra bags remaining. To order extra bags, either fill out and return this pdf order form to St. Luke’s (1737 Hillandale Road, Durham NC 27705) or order online at https://forms.gle/7WgxCvHBh3yy9REg6. Pay by mailing a check to St. Luke’s with “BELIZE PECANS” on the memo line or through ACS, specifying “Belize Pecans” as the fund.As always, thanks for your support. GO PLAY SAVE COUPON BOOKS St Luker’s the GoPlaySave coupon books have arrived! Coupons can be redeemed with participating merchants throughout the greater triangle area. Coupons are valid now until November 30, 2022. Cost $30.00 per book:. Cash, checks or credit cards Sales after Church on Sundays, or contact me and we can arrange a meeting date/time at St Luke’s under the breezeway. Contact: Beth Bonner Afghan Resettlement Project We need your help to support an Afghan family resettle in our community. We have the volunteers! We have the partnership with St. Titus and St. Joseph’s. Now we need to finalize the monetary contributions we need to make to Church Wood Services. If you can, please send a check to Kathy Barnes at St .Luke’s with “Afghan Resettlement” in the memo line. We need to raise $4,000. Additionally, we need more to buy certain types of home furnishings (like mattresses, pillows, etc.) We know that families are currently living in really stressful circumstances. So the sooner we can pay our portion, the sooner we can provide a lovely warm home to an Afghan family. Prayers are welcome, too! CONTACT UPDATES Up-to date contact information can be found online at ACS, or the ChurchLife App for your phone or tablet. Contact Kathy if you have any problems logging onto ACS. You can also ask Kathy to send you a paper directory if needed. |
| Full Length Articles LEAP this Fall! Here we are in our third “unusual” year of school – and good things are happening!We have over sixty children attending our two preschools (Nuestra Escuelita, located at St. Luke’s) and the DCI/LEAP Academy. Thanks to new foundation funding, we’ve been able to add a mixed age classroom at Nuestra Escuelita this year. Our classrooms are situated outside under tents and trees – where it’s safest and there are endless opportunities for learning! We’re looking forward to our 10th Annual Jingle Bell LEAP, coming up on December 4th. We’ll be back in-person this year! Sign up to complete the course at any speed you like, or to stay home as a S-LEAP-ER and just donate. https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/Durham/JingleBellLEAP5K. With holiday shopping coming up, it’s a great time to link your Harris Teeter VIC card and Amazon with LEAP, naming us as the school you’d like to support- for free! You can link your card online (https://www.harristeeter.com/together-in-education) or at the service counter (ask them to link you with LEAP, Nuestra Escuelita or #2840). Every time you buy a HT product this school year, they will send us a donation. (If you’ve linked with us before, that link has expired; you have to re-up each fall.) To link your Amazon account with LEAP just go to smile.amazon.com and choose LEAP as the organization you’d like to support. Thank you for keeping LEAP in your prayers. To keep up, please follow us on social media (durhamleap). |
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