What's up this week

The opening of The Food Pantry is what's up this week.  Born of prayer and a sense of the importance of helping those with food insecurity, particularly at the end of the month, The Food Pantry opens Wednesday afternoon/early evening and Saturday morning.  Part of the initial vision was a sense that families shouldn't have to choose between feeding themselves and the pets who mean so much to them, so pet food will be available on request.

People we've never met are part of this -- with donations to the drop boxes on the portico.  Members and friends have painted, built shelves, donated food and money, stocked goods, set up bags to give out.  We named it "The Food Pantry, " not "St. Agnes' Food Pantry" because we hope that it can become a community activity, a community response to a clear need.  We were delighted on Monday to have the Mayor cut a ribbon, opening The Food Pantry.

Please pray for those who come -- that they may find sustenance for their bodies and hearts;
Please pray for those who donate -- that they may sense as "well done!" deep in their hearts;
Please pray for the volunteers -- for compassion and kindliness, patience and giving hearts.

Also:  Tuesday the 24th, 1 PM    Needlecrafters meet
           Wednesday the 25th, 3:30 PM  Volunteers start
           Saturday the 28th, 8:30 AM  Volunteers start

            Sunday the 29th: 10 AM  Service in the Church (Eucharist, Rite II)
                                            and Children's Chapel

Vacation Bible School this week (7/9-15)

The Parish Hall Stage is festooned with sky-things: planes, birds, blimps, kites -- and even
(sssh a flying PIG! ) as we await Monday night (6PM-8PM) as our first evening of a week-long Vacation Bible School.   The theme of the SKY vacation bible school is "Everything is possible with God" and stories and activities, songs and games all help the children learn this trust.

Begun in 2009 as a joint of four Little Falls churches (St. Agnes', the First Reformed and Second Reformed, and the United Methodist Church) and changes venue each year.  This year, it returns to St. Agnes.

Children from 4 years old to entering 6th grade are enrolled; middle school and high school youth are helpers.  Because of grant funding, we are able to offer the VBS free of charge.

If you would like your child to be part of this VBS, come on Monday night -- you can register then!

We're also working to prepare our new Food Pantry for its first opening the last Wednesday and Saturday of July -- the shelves are up -- now we're praying for lots and lots of food donations.

We tend to think of starving people in some foreign country, of people starving in the southern hemisphere, about families wondering where their next meal is coming from -- but it's HERE, too, that families wonder how they will find food -- especially at the end of the month.

During the hours the church office is open (M-F, 9AM-Noon) you can take food to the office (door off long breezeway on the right); at other hours, you can leave it in our dropbox on the breezeway.  Thank you in advance!