Saint George's Anglican Church

 

 

 

The Litany in Procession

Hymn: 429 (Martyrdom)

The Offertory Hymn: 171 (St. Flavian - 238)

Recessional Hymn: 399 (Lasst uns Erfrenen)

 

The Alzheimer’s Walk for Memories will be held on May 31^st at the Rotary Lodge, Centennial Park. Registration is from 12 noon-2 P.M. with the walk starting at 2 P.M. For more info: 858-8380.

 

Some of our regular choir members will be away for the next two Sundays. Therefore, we need some volunteers to help us during those weeks. If you would be willing, please speak to one of the choir members, or come to the Church Hall for choir practice at 9:40 A.M. on Sunday. Thank you.

As we look toward the end of the school year, please call Debbie at the Church Office with the names of graduates from St. George’s. God willing, we will recognize them and pray for them on the Second Sunday After Trinity, June 21^st at 10 A.M.

 

Our Parish Picnic and Pot-Luck at St. Martin’s in the Woods, Shediac Cape has been scheduled to follow the 10 A.M. Eucharist on June 21^st. Please mark this date on your calendar.

The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer will be prayed in the Chapel at 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday – Friday, respectively. In addition:

Tuesday          10:00 AM Bible Study at the Rectory

2:45 PM Music Club at Edith Cavell School

                        7:00 PM Scouts

Wednesday     10:00 AM Camden Terrace Eucharist

 6:30 PM Cubs

7:00 PM Anglican Easter Series Part 4

Thursday        10 AM Holy Eucharist – Ascension Day                  

6:30 PM Beavers

Choir School: God, willing, our diocesan choir school is set to take place from July 5-12^th in Rothesay. Application forms can be down-loaded from the website: www.choirschoolsite.com They must be sent by regular mail, and a $25.00 late fee will be charged to applications received after May 29^th. This year, our parish has a limited amount of bursary funding. Youth or adults seeking assistance are encouraged to speak to the Rector as soon as possible. Also, donations towards our sponsorship funds would be greatly appreciated – please mark the amount on your Sunday envelope for ‘Choir School.’ Thank you.

 

The St. Michael’s Youth Conference for youth ages 13-19 years has been scheduled for August 24-29 at Camp Wildwood in McKee’s Mills.

A Prevention and Response Involving Sexual Misconduct Workshop is being held at St. John the Baptist Church, Riverview  on Saturday, 30 May 2009.  Online application for registration and further information is available from links on the PRISM web pageWednesday, 27 May 2009. This workshop is important and mandatory training for all in positions of leadership in the Diocese.. The registration application deadline to assure workshop materials and lunch is available is 

This time of year, after Easter, the Vestry usually reports on the financial well being of the Parish. You will recall at the annual meeting of our parish in February of this year that the Vestry proposed a budget that was adopted for the 2009 year.

This budget reported an anticipated deficit of $ 24,446. and it was based on the same offerings that were received in 2008. You might wonder if we considered ourselves to be a government, boldly planning for a deficit. This however was not true and we could have disguised this deficit by increasing the weekly and special offerings to then present a balanced financial plan. But to do that would be to take our members for granted and we preferred instead to tell you that we are heading for a deficit.

In 2008 the Parish was faced with a deficit of $ 18,356 and we asked for increased support from our church family. You responded in two ways. Weekly and special offerings were increased by $ 13,112 which more than offset the lower Endowment interest of $ 6,086. At the same time some members chose to make donations to directly support church outreach in our parish, primarily community dinners and social assistance in the amount of $ 9,743. All of the aforementioned reduced the budgeted deficit to $ 1,587. This was much appreciated and acknowledged at the annual meeting.

Budgeted expenses for 2009 were increased by $ 6,663. The significant increases were $ 2,100 for insurance (the cost this year is $ 9,500), salaries by $ 2,100 ( a 2% increase) and $ 1,500 for church maintenance, heat and light. Budgeted expenses are closely monitored and kept in check.

A big factor in our deficits the last two years was the decline in income from our Endowment funds. The payout was reduced last year from 6.5 % to 4.5% ( being the bonus interest of 2.0% not awarded and not known until late in the year) and this year the overall rate went down to 4%,now a full 2.5% decrease. The dollar amount of reduction in anticipated income this year compared to the budgeted amount in 2008 is $ 10,700. This situation is all too common everywhere today and most people are affected in some way or other by the current economic decline.

Realizing this fact and the pressure on family budgets we find it difficult to ask you to do more. We could have taken the position of not telling you about our finances, prayerfully hoping that it would get better. However that would be to ignore our responsibility as your vestry, and we decided that you should be advised.

We therefore ask that you give consideration to our request and to do as you are able and that is all we can expect. We will periodically keep you informed of our progress.

 

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Karing Kitchen, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the Rector and Congregation of St. George's Anglican Church for your moral and financial support for much needed renovations at our Kitchen that operates out of St. John's United Church.

St. George's Church congregation contributed $3,030.00 to our cause and we are heartened by the generosity and Christian charity of so many. You may be interested in one little statistic which reveals the importance of the Karing Kitchen: in 2008 alone, over 101,000 meals were served --- all free of charge to the needy in our City. Again, your generosity is greatly appreciated and worthy of acknowledgement.

Michael and Marion Bembridge

 

When: Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. Where: At the

Moncton Farmer’s Market Culinary Centre, Westmorland Street, Moncton, NB What: Fundraiser for Young People Going to the

Biblical Worldview Student Conference, in Johnson City, Tennessee,

June 1-6, 2009. Tax Receipts can be issued for your gift.

A Barbeque Meal will be served by the young people going to the conference. Jasper Stam, Peter Stam, John Stam, Cameron Rogers

 

7:00 p.m. Choral Evensong at St. Martin’s-in-the-Woods Church

Shediac Cape Preacher: Fr Kevin Borthwick. This will precede our Greater Chapter Meeting.