This Sunday, during a Pot Luck Coffee Hour, we will meet for St. Thomas’s One- Hundred-Sixty-Second Annual Parish Meeting. Do plan to worship at the ten o’clock service, celebrate the ministries of the parish, enjoy fellowship together, and meet those who have come to St. Thomas’s recently and during the past year. We will do the business expeditiously and save most of the time for building fellowship and community.
 
Please bring a dish to share – protein and more filling fare!
 
Sunday School has resumed, following the Christmas break. Spiritual Formation is offered for Three-Year Olds through Senior High. Parents, fantastic lessons are being prepared by our teachers; do make sure your child(ren) don’t miss them.
 
Youth group has also resumed following the winter break. Boys and girls will meet at St. Thomas’s 4:00 – 5:30 this Sunday. Bring a friend!
Tomorrow, funeral services are scheduled at St. Thomas’s for Marjorie Hollister. Marjorie has been in a skilled nursing facility for the past decade, and so precedes many of us. But she was a delightful and spirited lady who has a special place in our history.
 
The Eucharist will be celebrated tomorrow at 11 o’clock; interment will follow immediately in the columbarium garden. Your presence is encouraged.
 
Do join us in the lounge this Tuesday evening at 7:00 and on the next two Tuesdays. Helen Bailey will be leading a three-session series on Epiphany, the revealing of God’s self in our world and our lives. We encourage your attendance at all three evenings…but do attend the ones you can, even if all three are not possible. Helen is fulfilling a concentrated eight-week, full-time internship, which concludes the end of February. Our time to learn from her (and she from us) is brief – let us make the most of it.
 
Welcome back to Alex Riffee, who spent winter break with his family in West Virginia. He was certainly missed. Alex’s internship at St. Thomas’s continues through the academic year.  
 
On Sunday, January 31, members of our Adult and Senior Youth Choirs will provide music for EVENSONG. The half-hour service begins at 5:00 o’clock. Music will focus on American composers – notably Sowerby and Jernigan (yes, our very own DAVID Jernigan). Do come and enjoy this quiet, candlelit service – an opportunity too rarely available to Episcopalians. Word has it that the canticles sung at Evensong will be sung by our choirs on their England tour in 2011. Parents bring your children – even young children will appreciate being introduced to this beautiful music!
 
Faithfully,
Fr. Ray+