Wednesday, August 24, 2011

End of Summer.... and a Fresh Start!

Here we are at the end of summer:  breathe in the smells, feel the sun,  bask in the easy-going-ness of it all;  we are on the cusp of renewed activity and scheduling.

For those of us who have lived on an academic-year schedule, in our own schooling, in our work, and as parents and grandparents of school children, Labor Day weekend can feel like "the real" New Year's.  It's certainly a fresh start, a new beginning, with opportunity and hope as present as the tidy points on the new Crayolas I loved as a kid.

So what's your fresh start?  What can you vision, dream, hope for between now and June?

This week at St. Agnes'   

TUESDAY:    1 PM  Needlecrafters,  Library
                       6 PM  Wardens meet with the Rev. Diane Rhodes

SATURDAY:  9 AM- 2 PM:   Vestry meet for Mutual Ministry Review and Planning

SUNDAY:  10 AM     Holy Eucharist,  perhaps no Children's Chapel.

Looking ahead:  


September 11: Special Service at 10 AM: 
                        Please call the church office with 9/11 memorial names
                        Archdeacon Deborah will represent us at the Township Service

September 18:  Parish Back-to-Church Picnic