Announcements September 8, 2024
Parish event Calendar from 09/08/2024 to 10/05/2024 is located following these announcements.
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The St. James Mission Statement:
St. James exists to Gather as God’s people.
Know the love of God in Christ.
Grow as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Give to the world what God has given to us.
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Please turn off your cell phone before worship begins.
Welcome, Everyone! Two restrooms are located in the front of the church, through the double doors to the left of the altar area. There is also a baby changing table that accommodates a child up to 50 pounds. “Buddy bags” for children are available behind the pews containing crayons, coloring paper and other materials to help keep little ones occupied during the service.
Altar Flowers No Altar flowers are given today.
How to Give Altar Flowers Altar flowers are given in memory of or in thanksgiving for a loved one or for a milestone event. Flowers cost $35. Please note “altar flowers” on your check. A sign-up sheet is on the table as you enter church and there are envelopes to complete and place payment inside. Place your envelope in the collection plates on Sundays. Altar flowers and prayer shawls are available to take to someone who may be ill, hospitalized – or who simply needs cheer.
Bible Study The Bible Study, “Set apart, a study of the Beatitudes” by Jennifer Kennedy Dean will be held tomorrow, Sept 9, and Sept. 23, Oct 7 and 21 at 12:30 pm in the Parish House. (Bring a lunch.)
Fellowship/Coffee Hour Thank you to Dotti Hardy and Joanne Pizzullo for hosting fellowship/coffee hour last Sunday. If you would like to host a gathering for the first Sunday of a month, the sign-up sheet is on the table behind the pews!
Food Donations Thank you everyone who has contributed to this ministry over the past 13 years! Our most recent food donation was 67 lbs for a total of 10,420 pounds. Thank you to Bill Keller for delivering our donations to the United Methodist Church Food Pantry each month. God bless you, everyone, and please continue to bring non-perishable items.
S.O.M.E. to-go Meals August's to go meal was salad, cheeseburger, baked beans, chips, fruit, dessert, and a drink. Thank you to the 10 volunteers who shopped, prepared and packed 50 meals. Volunteers are needed on the last Wednesday of each month from 4:00 – 5:30pm. Please sign up on the sheet on the table behind the pews each month you are available. Thank you!
Crochet Hats for Preemies Hats made for this ministry are given to NIC units in CHOP, St. Christopher’s, U of Penn, and St. Mary Hospitals, and any other NIC units who request them. 223 hats have been made, washed, bagged and blessed! Thank you to Ginny Capriotti for organizing, laundering, packing and distributing all the hats and to those who have made hats. Instructions are on the table behind the pews. See Denise Ciambrello for baby yarn if you want to crochet the hats!
Designer Purse & Lottery Ticket, Gift Card Raffle
Envelopes are in the Sunday bulletins for lottery tickets and/or gift cards or cash for our raffle fundraisers on Oct 12th, Fallsington Day and Oct 19th, Bristol Day. If you can spend two hours at our table, please sign up on the sheet on the table behind the pews.
Boscov’s “Friends Helping Friends” Fundraiser The shopping day is Tuesday, October 22nd from 8 am to 11 pm. Shopping passes are $5.00 each. A pass entitles you to 25% discount off lowest sale prices on most in-store and on-line purchases. *Some exclusions apply. St. James keeps the $5.00 donation. Please also ask family and friends to purchase passes. This year we have reserved tables at entrances to sell the passes. On Sept. 5 we earned $115 for passes sold! Thank you to Joanne, Dotti, Joe, and Richard!! The next date is Oct 3rd from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Two volunteers are still needed for a two hour shift. There is a sign up sheet on the table behind the pews. Joanne Pizzullo has the passes for purchase.
Bristol Borough Parade Walkers Welcomed! The Parade is Saturday, November 30th,
@ 1 PM; rain date Sunday, December 1, 2024 @ 1 PM. The parade route starting point is Green Lane, Faragut Avenue to Pond Street to Mill Street then to the Christmas Tree at Radcliff Street. We need to be in the lot at Green Lane by 12 PM for line up. “Quite Parade section” for those with sensory issues and handicapped will be between 100-200 blocks of Pond & Old Rt 13. Please donate cash in envelopes we will provide beginning in October or leftover Halloween candy for the parade to be handed out. Everyone is welcome to walk. We will have a car decorated playing Christmas music leading our group. Any questions, please speak with Cat Amos Schaumberg.
Outreach Ministries Our vestry has discussed how to better serve outreach ministries through fundraising here at St. James and have proposed the following plan: Individual months will be designated with one outreach each month organized by a chairperson or persons. As has always been the case, please know that donations to any ministry are your own choice.
Month Outreach Ministry/Chairperson Ask/Donation/ Rec'd
June S.O.M.E. – food for others $191.00 rec’d
July St. James Episcopal Church 312th Anniversary Picnic - Christopher Porter
Aug Stuff the Bus - Linda Jones $378.00 + 541 items value = $1,000.00 rec’d
Sept Purse Raffle - Women of St. James Lottery tickets, gift cards, cash
Oct S.O.M.E.–Jackie’s Daily Calendar - Pam Bergey Cash
Nov Bristol Borough Parade - Cat Amos Schaumberg Cash
Dec Angel Tree -Doris Fleetwood, Dotti Hardy, Betsy Schmidt Gifts/Gift Cards, Cash
Grants for Churches Grants will make our requests for donations here at St. James so much easier on everyone! If you would like to assist by getting involved in this project, please speak with Rose Capitano or Denise Ciambrello. Thank you!
Pew Plaques Pew plaques are given in memory of or thanksgiving for a loved one as a forever remembrance. The cost is $250. A payment plan is available to purchase pew plaques. If interested, please speak with Jim Lombardo.
Eucharistic Visitors
Rose Capitano, Danise Ciambrello, Gene Porter, and Jo Twiss are available to provide home communion. Please contact the office, (215-788-2228); ([email protected]) to ask for a home visit.
Bingo’s Foundation is a non-profit, all-volunteer cat adoption and rescue organization. They are a NO-KILL shelter and the cats roam free. We are collecting Soda/Beer/pull tabs and now BROWN’s Shop Rite receipts! All the tabs and receipts are collected for recycling to aid in the cost of their electric bill. Cathleen will mail the tabs & receipts. For more information, contact Bingo’s Foundation at www.bingosfoundation.org: or mail:PO BOX 7130, Penndel, PA 19047, phone 215-781-0378.
Dakota at Pen Ryn School Dakota is collecting paper receipts from all grocery stores for Box Tops for her kindergarten year! https://www.boxtops4education.com/s/ https;//www.penryn.org
Prayer List The prayer list in the Sunday bulletins is for people with immediate needs and conditions. If you want someone to be on the Sunday list, please contact the office (215-788-2228); or ([email protected]). Names remain on this list for up to a month then, if still needed, they are moved to the Intercessory Prayer list. See below.
Intercessory Prayer Please speak with Pam Bergey regarding people on the list. Please pray for: Melissa, Roxanne, Kevin, Carol, Doug, Janel, Catherine, Paul G., Amanda R., Miguel, Mark P., Patti P., Carrie C., Margaret, Dot A., Joe K., Will, Esther, Vivian, Jocelyn, Nellie, Blair, Sonya Mia, Julie, Steve H., Amanda, and their families. These names are on slips in a basket on the table behind the pews which will be taken to the altar and blessed. If you would like to pray for one or more of these people, please take a paper and include the name(s) in your daily prayers for a week or as long as the name remains in this space. This spreads prayers beyond Sundays.
Holiday House – Girls Friendly Society, Episcopal Church Diocese of Pennsylvania which has been a place for retreats for Girls Friendly for 100 years is struggling to survive. In jeopardy of having to be sold, the beautiful Inn in the heart of Cape May Court House, NJ has rooms to rent at very reasonable costs. There are brochures on the table behind the pews if you are interested.
With the blessing of the Diocese, wine is served at communion. Eucharistic doctrine affirms the simultaneous presence of Christ's body and blood in each of the Eucharistic elements. The doctrine of concomitance upholds the truth that the fullness of communion is available by receiving either the consecrated bread or wine. The Eucharistic ministers will sanitize their hands after each communicant. We are using high alcohol content wine. Per direction from our Diocese, intinction (dipping) of the bread into the wine is strongly discouraged. Anyone who doesn't feel safe drinking from the communal cup can leave the rail after receiving the bread.
St. James on Facebook and Wikipedia St. James has its own page on Facebook, the world's leading social network: http://www.facebook.com/stjamesbristol church. Also, St. James has its own entry on Widipedia, the Web's leading encyclopedia.
You're Invited The Diocese of Pennsylvania now has its own closed Facebook page just for the people and clergy of the diocese. Bishop Gutiérrez says that it "...will better allow us to share our great ideas, be in prayer for one another, nurture our mutual love for ministry, promote programs and activities in our parishes, and build deeper community with one another." To join, go on Facebook and search for Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. Click on "like."
ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH - EVENT CALENDAR -09/08/2024 - 10/05/2024
Location/Event Date Time
Church – Holy Eucharist 09/08/2024 9:00 –10:00 am
Parish House: Bible Study 09/09/2024 12:30 – 3:00pm
Parish Hall Usage: Mon A.A. Meeting 09/09/2024 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Parish Hall Usage: Tues A.A. Meeting 09/10/2024 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Parish Hall Rental: Zumba 09/11/2024 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Church - Morning Prayer 09/15/2024 9:00 - 10:00 am
Parish Hall Usage: Tues A.A. Meeting 09/16/2024 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Parish Hall Usage: Weds A.A. Meeting 09/17/2024 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Parish Hall Rental: Zumba 09/18/2024 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Church – Holy Eucharist 09/22/2024 9:00 –10:00 am
Parish House: Bible Study 09/23/2024 12:30 – 3:00pm
Parish Hall Usage: Mon, A.A. Meeting 09/23/2024 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Parish Hall Usage: Tue, A.A. Meeting 09/24/2024 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Parish House:S.O.M.E.To-Go Meals (volunteers) 09/25/2024 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Parish Hall Rental: Zumba 09/25/2024 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Church - Morning Prayer 09/29/2024 9:00 - 10:00 am
Parish Hall Usage: Mon A.A. Meeting 09/30/2024 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Parish Hall Usage: Tues A.A. Meeting 10/01/2024 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Parish Hall Rental: Zumba 10/02/2024 7:00 - 8:00 pm