News of Upcoming Calendar Events
News of Upcoming Calendar Events
Summer Coffee Hour Forum and Conversation
Sundays in June, July, and August
Our Summer Series on the Nicene Creed has run its course.
However, “amplified notes” from these sessions investigating the development of the Nicene Creed, its origins, how understandings of it have evolved, and, more importantly, what may have gotten lost in that process through either translation or transition, are available on this website and may be read here:
Our Annual 50/50 Raffle
Thank you to all who helped to distribute and sell all the tickets for our Annual Raffle. Particular thanks go to Linda Bennett for leading the effort. Thank you!
All 200 tickets were sold for the Raffle. Congratulations to Lauren Quigan, this year’s Grand Prize Winner, who took home $10,000. This year’s $5,000.00 beneficiary is the Bolton Free Library with the remaining $5K is being used to help defray some of the basic operational costs of the church.
Our Parish Thrift Shop, “Henriette’s Attic”, has opened its doors once again. We are grateful for the efforts of all those who so graciously volunteer their time and energy in making this endeavor of ours as successful as it has been. We express our deep appreciation for this ministry which you fulfill among us!
The Thrift Shop is now open every Friday and Saturday 9 - noon through October 11
In the Parish Hall upstairs.
Donations to the Thrift Shop are being received through September 20.
In addition to receiving reports on the life of the parish over the course of the last year, we will be electing people to the Vestry and entrusting them with ministry of leadership. This year we will be receiving nominations for both a Warden and a Vestry Chair. Each term is three years and entails meeting about once a month - predominantly on a Sunday following Coffee Hour. We will be also entertaining nominations to elect two Diocesan Delegates (and two Alternates) to represent the parish at the Diocesan Annual Convention. This year’s Convention will meet at the Diocesan Center in Greenwich starting with dinner on Thursday, October 9 followed up by communal workshops and activities on Friday, October 10, and wrap up with the actual “business” of Convention on Saturday, October 11. All costs for the Delegation will be covered by St. Sacrement.
Annual Parish Meeting - Sunday, September 21 during Coffee Hour
In the Parish House
Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Project
Boxes are available for pickup in the entryway to the church proper and need to be returned by mid-Novemeber
Thanks to efforts spearheaded by Linda Bennett, our application materials have all been accepted for consideration on the Registry of Historic Landmarks (including recognition on the New York State Registry of Historic Landmarks). Recognition is not only a celebration and honor for our church proper, it also is a act of good stewardship as it assures future generations unique opportunities to seek grants helping to preserve the beauty and integrity of our much beloved church.
Seeking Recognition of St. Sacrement as a Historic Landmark
Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Project, a ministry with a long history at St. Sacrement, has been re-embraced and is underway once again among us. Shoeboxes, available in the entryway to the church, each contain a label on how to fill it for a particular child’s delight come Christmas. Each box requires $10 in shipping charges so please include that as well (checks can be made out to either “Samaritan’s Purse” or “St. Sacrement Church”). Boxes can be returned to the church anytime before mid-November for holiday distribution. Thank you to Vicky O’Donnell for taking on this ministry.