News

We welcome new volunteers, young and old, and will be preparing and serving on the following Saturdays in 2010: April 17, June 12, August 14, October 9, and December 4. Contact Saint Paul’s coordinators, John Clemens (jiclemens@hotmail.com) or Catherine Boardman (cathboard@aol.com) with your questions.

Do you have a new baby or a toddler and aren’t sure what to do when you arrive at church? Come check out the Nursery… we are waiting for you! Our Nursery is staffed each Sunday with two Nursery workers and one Nursery Guild volunteer. We will be happy to assist you in getting your child settled in the nursery so you can enjoy church without having to worry! Our silent pager system will allow us to contact you if your child is in need. Feel free to come in and stay a while to help your child get acquainted with the staff and the other children. We want you and your child to feel welcome in the Saint Paul’s Nursery!

For the past two years you have read about changes that have been taking place in the two nursery spaces and the additions and renovations that have been occurring. The time has finally come for us to move on over to our “new” space! In the next few weeks we will be making the last few changes and are looking forward to sharing our updated spaces with our Little Lambs and our church family. Look for more information in the September issue of The Marker… on Discover Saint Paul’s Sunday we want you to come discover what we’ve been up to!

You haven’t heard from the Flower Guild in a while so it’s time we bring you up to speed with what we have been doing.

We saved our pennies from our Flower Guild Fund and purchased a special cooler designed to provide holding space for flowers, arrangements, and greenery at the proper temperature. The cooler is under the expert car of Peter Vagovic and Clay Coleman.

Our lovely brass containers have had the worn look of many uses so we had one pair refinished and the other set could not be redone.

We have had 20 “Open” Sundays this year, which translated means that we have not had any families request altar flowers “in memory of” or “in thanksgiving for” a family member or friends. This requires us to cover the cost of the arrangements from our budget or you would be looking at a bare altar on Sunday. Needless to say, we need families to choose a “special” Sunday that would be reserved for them from year to year and we are grateful to those who have stayed with us throughout the years. We are also thankful for Jim Hancock who has consistently provided us with fresh greenery.

Our Flower Guild is a ministry that is committed to enhancing your worship experience at Saint Paul’s through God’s gift to us of flowers. It is our fervent prayer that we fulfill that mission. The Guild is composed of individuals who are committed to that ministry. Three of the key factors concerning membership in the Guild is an individual who will be dependable, available, and prompt. Learning to arrange flowers is an ongoing process and each of us continues to learn every time we are scheduled to serve. We always need people with those qualities and we can teach the flower arranging part!

We hope to grow in number so we eventually would have special teams that would cover just weddings or funerals. If you have the “DAP” qualities we need you as a member of the Flower Guild.