News for the week of August 22nd

 

2010 Jubilee Jump-Start for Worship Teams

Saturday August 28th  10 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Lunch provided at 12:30 p.m.

Please plan to join the 2010 worship team Jump Start:

Adult Choir 10:00AM Choir Room

Drama Team 11:00AM Conference Room

Lectors 11:15AM Church

Altar Guild 12:00PM Sanctuary

Ushers 12:00PM Narthex

Greeters              12:00PM Cry Room

Participation is open to those who come and train.

Singers: We’ll rehearse for Autumn through Christmas. Should you decide choir is not for you, you may rejoin the congregation with no pangs of guilt. But come, share our morning, try our music and enrich our fellowship.

Please come be a part of our work & worship.

**Acolytes will have a separate training time and date.

 

Help Wanted

Next Saturday, August 28th, several animal rescue groups are having a rummage sale at St. David's to benefit homeless, abused and neglected animals  As part of the sale, Greyhound Lifesavers, the group Woody and I are active with, is having a baked goods sale. Would you be willing to donate a baked item to our bake sale to help save a hound?  We'll be at the church on Friday 7-7 if you would like to drop off your goodies. Please call  Carol Fischbach,608-8520, if you need someone to pick up your item.

 

Bridge Group
Our July meeting had over 2 tables. Beginning in September we will meet the first and third Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in the parish hall. All are welcome, we bring something for lunch and enjoy fellowship. Sarah Perkins, 786-2508.

 

Rock Star Teachers Wanted

Are you a Rock Star teacher? We're looking for energetic, excited and rocking people to teach Sunday school. We have an exciting, new curriculum and we're ready to roll. We have the following classes; The Jesus Praising Preschool, The Hope-filled Elementary, The Faith Crazy Youth (Middle School and Sr. High class) and Children's Chapel. If you have what we're looking for, contact me, Nikki Bradford via email stdavid'ssundayschool@gmail.com.

 

Stewardship: Why Give?
Colossians 1:11-12  11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

 

Also, do you know what excuse Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden?  He said, "Your mother ate us out of house and home."

 

Honors Group
The next meeting will be Wednesday, September 15. We will be visiting the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte. A tour of the Library will begin at 11:20 a.m. followed by lunch at the Graham Brothers Dairy Bar. After lunch we will tour Billy Graham’s Family Homeplace and Ruth’s Attic. Group tours are limited to 20 people, so get your reservation in early. Coley Paschal, 788-3839.

 

Seamstress Needed

We are looking for one or more talented parishioners with sewing skills to make an alter cloth for our contemporary worship service. In order to set this cloth apart from the others, we are hope to also find a seamstress with an appliqué machine in order to embroider our contemporary worship logo. Lift up your hearts in praise and contact Angie Baughman is you are interested in volunteering your time and talents. Angie Baughman 803-438-9920  

Adult Christian Formation

We will continue Adult Sunday School with a new class starting September 12.  Tom Perkins will be leading the class, all who are interested in learning more about the Old and New Testament should  plan to attend. Tom Perkins, 786-2508.

 

 Evening Bible Study

An interest has been expressed in having an evening Bible Study for women. There is a sign up sheet in the narthex for interested parties. Please sign up and indicate which evening would best work for you. Tom Perkins, 786-2508

 

Home Works
Home works is in financial crisis. The sour economy has reduced donations tremendously.  To address our financial problem we have reduced our number of employees and cut the number of homes we can repair by 25%.

 

On the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, volunteers across our service areas will stand ready at church doors holding Labor of Love donation buckets. Help us make this a true Labor of Love by donating as you are able.

 

Acolyte’s Wanted

Have you, your son or your daughter dreamed
of being an acolyte? Well dream no more!
Now is the perfect time to join the St. David’s
Acolyte Ministry! Angie Baughman, 438-9920.

 

St. David’s Relaxed

It's RELAXED time again, and before
we can actually relax, we need set-up people.
Please, if you are available at 2 p.m. Saturday
August 28 to arrange chairs, hang fabric panels, and tape directional signs to outside doors, call Hannah (736-0866) NOW and ask her to put you on the helper-person list. Should take about an hour.  
Karin Culp  754-0230

 

EYC Happenings
Midlands Convocation EYC Outreach Night
Where: St. Michael and All Angels'
When: August 28th
Time: 5-8pm
St. David's and St. Michael's are a big part of this event--as they are my favorites! The event will be
hosted at St. Michael's--they have a bigger parish hall than St. David's. We'll be doing 3 different
outreach projects: 
1) Bagging food to be taken to Bradley Elementary for students who have no food when they go home on weekends. St. Michael's has done this ministry in the past and the students really LOVE having food to take home. Each church has a specific item to bring. St. David's is bringing Tuna Fish with crackers (in packages). 

2) Making bird houses for Gravatt's Environmental Education Program. 

3) Decorating squares for a quilt to be auctioned off at Gravatt's Under The Tent Event in October. St. Michael's Quilters will be sewing the quilt for us. It promises to be a huge hit at the auction! Parents, I'll send you more info on the event. 
Wondering what I need from you??

I'm asking you to sign up to bring either fabric paint or reusable grocery bags. You might be able to get the bags donated as some grocery stores have in the past. Please let me know asap if you can provide either of these materials. There will also be dinner served as well--SMAA parents are helping with that--if you would like to help as well, let me know. Ashley Sprott, 665-9981.

 

EYC Rafting Trip
On August 6, 2010, St.David's EYC, St.Michaels and All Angels' EYC, and St.John's EYC started making our way up to North Carolina to go White Water Rafting down the Nantahala River. Our huge group of teens and chaperones were also joined by kids from different churches from all over the diocese (St. Peters, Greenville is an example of one of the churches who had kids join us). Our plan? Friday, traveling and getting supper in the Spartanburg Mall Food Court. Saturday, rafting and just hanging out in the mountains. Sunday, traveling through the Pisgah National Forest to go to Sliding Rock, picnicking, and topping it all off with going to a HUGE rock formation and jumping off of it into a small lagoon! Sound like fun? Oh it was that and so much more!! One event that was unexpected on our amazing trip was on Saturday, when Ashley Sprott, our oh so fearless leader, fell off of her raft! She was doing fine guiding her raft through the tough rapids of the Natahala River when all of a sudden, she fell off! It was quite a scary event, considering that she could of died in those crazy rapids! It took about 3 minutes but they got Ashley back into the raft where she remained for the rest of the trip down the river! Overall it was an amazing trip with some of my friends from around the diocese and I feel blessed that god allowed me to go on it! Many thanks to Ashley Sprott and Dorian Del Priore (youth leader at St. Johns) for putting together such an AWESOME trip! Cant wait for next year!!! Jordan Barber, EYC.

 

 

St. David’s Fall Festival 

Volunteer

Planning for the Fall Festival has been under way for several months, with subcommittees formed now. Select one to join and help out. They are grouped in two categories: fundraising activities and community service activities. Here are your contacts:

 

Kids Games - Angie Baughman and EYC

Auction - David Tyler

Bake Sale - Mary Finch

Crafts - Anne Bell, Carol Fischbach

Cookbook s - Jackie Hopkins

Books - Edna and Peter Horning

Photo Contest - Nancy Kauffman

Frozen Soup - Winona Rhodes

BBQ - Nate Rhodes

Ice Cream - David Kasprzyk

Flu shots - Anne Alewine

Cell Phone Recycling - David Tyler

Gray Hound Adoption - Carol Fischbach

Shredder - Anne Bell

Expired Meds – Hume Fulmer

 

Overall organization – Sandy Pruessner, 419-8425.

 

Calling All Bakers

The baked goods booth at our fall bazaars has always been successful so we’re calling on our bakers to provide home cooked goods for the Fall Festival. Let me know what you are making so I can develop an inventory.  Mary Finch; mlfinch@earthlink.net

 

Outside Vendors

We will allow outside vendors to set up for a fee. Let your friends and neighbors know. Contact Sandy Pruessner, 419-8425.

 

 

Photo Contest
All photographs submitted will be offered for sale at St. David’s Fall Festival on October 2,
with proceeds going to finish tarring the road behind the church and parish hall. First prize
winners will be placed in an auction at the Festival; the rest will be offered in the Photo Room
at the Festival.

Deadline – September 3.

Categories – (1) Adults and (2) 16 and under. Winners will be acknowledged for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention.

Themes – (1) Nature (2) People (3) Animals (4) South Carolina (5) St. David’s.

Judges – Those attending the Sunday morning breakfast and worship services on September 12.

Submission Requirements –

1 - Provide a 5x7, 8x10, or 8.5 x 11 photo, color or black and white. Photos may be matted, framed, or not.

2 - Information to be on a 3x5 card attached to the back of the photo: (1) photographer’s name, (2) contact telephone number or email address, (3) the theme (see themes above), (4) the category (adult or children’s), and (5) any other information you would like to provide – for example, where it was taken, any relevant names, a title of the image if you have one.

 

3 - Place the photograph with the 3x5 card in a large envelope marked “Fall Festival Photo Contest” and deliver the envelope to the church office by September 3.

 

Non-rules – There are no rules regarding when the photographs have to have been taken. There are no rules requiring membership at St. David’s (you may indicate if you are a friend or relative of a St. David’s member).

 

There will be no prizes given but winners will be acknowledged at
the Festival and in our church communications. This is simply a fun
opportunity to share your best photographs and to offer support for
St. David’s.

 

Questions: Nancy Kauffman, 419-8183.