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All Saints’ Episcopal Church - Events ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK
OF MAY 31 - JUNE 7
June 7 is the Last Sunday for Sunday School Classes
Students
will have the opportunity to learn Scandinavian dances for the Midsummer
Festival in the Sunday School classrooms from 10-11:30 on June 14 and 21.
Midsummer Festival Coming Up
June 28 is the annual fundraiser for Youth Ministries. Festivities
include dinner and Scandinavian dancing and singing in the Parish Hall from
5-8pm.
Brian McKinlay to Attend General Convention
All
Saints is fortunate to send one of our young adults to General Convention in
July. Your help with the
expenses will be appreciated – more information about that to come.
Meanwhile, for information, ask David Campion (number and email
below).
Quilt
Raffle to take place at Midsummer Festival, June 28
Tickets for the quilt raffle are on sale now. The drawing for the
raffle will take place on the evening of Sunday,
June 28th, at the Midsummer Festival.
Save your Stamps
Stop throwing away your used postage stamps!
When you open your mail, keep the envelopes (except “forever” stamps) and
bring them to All Saints
on Sundays to put in a box in the narthex.
This is to support a youth group service
project.
Bible Day Camp Sign-ups are taken now
Registration has begun for Bible Day Camp, scheduled to take place
July 20th-24th at All Saints. The cost
is forty dollars for kids going into grades K-6th and twenty dollars for
Pre-K participants (4 & 5 year-olds). If you have questions, contact
David Champion, 971-340-0941 or
modernherodotus@hotmail.com.
Is Someone You Know Graduating from College This Year?
If so, please let David Champion know:
modernherodotus@hotmail.com
or 503-971-340-0941.
Rosalie Grafe to Present
June 11 at 6:30pm, publisher Rosalie Grafe will be reading from a
WWI memoir by the first Chair of the Portland State English Department, Carl
E.W.L. Dahlstrom (1897-1980) in the All Saints chapel. Sent to Hell from Ann
Arbor: A College Student's World War One by Carl E.W.L. Dahlstrom, Quaker
Abbey Press,LLC, 216 pages with index, $16.95. See the slide show of the
beginnings of the Swedish-American family in Michigan and then of the
college junior who took leave from the University of Michigan to serve in a
Motor Supply Truck convoy taking ammunition shells to the frontline
batteries and wounded back to the field hospitals at the Battle of St.
Mihiel and on the Meuse-Argonne.
Awesome Autumn Auction 2009
Save the date for this year’s 2009 Awesome Autumn Auction to be held on
Saturday October 24, 2009. This
early notice is to allow you to save the date on your calendar and to think
about how you might contribute your time and talent for this vital
all-church event. Please contact
Larry Chalew, 503-775-9244,
chalewl@pacifier.com if you are willing to help with this year’s event.
Presiding Bishop Schori to visit Oregon
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be the keynote speaker at
the conference on Baptismal Ministry to be held at Trinity Cathedral on
Saturday, June 6. Registration information is available on the Parish
Hall bulletin board.
Ongoing Ink Cartridge and Cell Phone Recycling
The Refugee
Immigration Ministry (RIM) in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
collects discarded cell phones and ink cartridges.
For your convenience there is a collection box in the narthex.
This is an ongoing program, so think of the church whenever you turn
over ink cartridges or cell phones.
Anne Avery
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