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St. Philip's Episcopal Church
Easthampton, MA
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Be careful: If you come here, you will grow!
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Christmas Season Bulletins
Christmas Eve:
4 p.m. Holy Eucharist [live streamed]
Christmas Day:
11 a.m. (a quiet) Holy Eucharist
(There is no bulletin for this service)
The First Sunday after Christmas (12/26)
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist [live streamed]
The Second Sunday after Christmas (1/2/22)
10 a.m. Christmas Lessons and Carols [live streamed]
(This bulletin will be available in next week's NOW)
Our Holy Eucharist service is in-person AND streamed online at 10:00 am.
The Prelude starts at 9:55 am.
Due to the fast-changing Covid situation, we now wear masks for worship.
We stream live on our website:
https://www.stphilipseasthampton.org/live-stream-channel
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Sunday Lectionary Study is at 8:45 a.m.
USE THIS ZOOM LINK
Meeting ID: 832 0782 9066 | Passcode: 270862
To Join by Telephone
Audio conferencing participant (joining by telephone) will need to call: +1 929 436 2866 US AND follow the verbal instructions. Enter the meeting ID you wish to join followed by the # key. If you are asked for a password, enter the password followed by the # key. You will be asked to enter your participant ID. If you do not know your participant ID, simply press the # key.
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Dear St. Philip's Families,
As we prepare to close the calendar and start 2022, our Treasurer is hard at work on a draft 2022 budget. As we've seen, heard, and read from our In-Gathering sessions earlier this fall, our ministries are very much needed, alive, growing, and active! We are slowly being able to gain full use of our facilities to help in our ministries, and look to new opportunities in the paths we are traveling, in 2022. As I mentioned on Sunday, unfortunately while we do good and needed work for our small community, we are a business and must balance our budget each year.
Thank you to all who have submitted their 2022 pledge. I am cautiously optimistic that our budget will reflect our growth, but we cannot know for sure until all pledges have been received. In the past the vestry and others involved in the Canvas have made phone calls to help get final pledges in. Please help us avoid these calls during Advent season by getting your pledge in if you have not already done so. If you have experienced hardship and are not able to submit a pledge this year, please let me or Fr. Michael know. Your information is kept confidential.
Thank you,
Bonnie Katusich
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ST PHILIPS ANNIVERSARY
Since we cannot safely gather to celebrate in our usual styles of food, fellowship, presentations, etc... let us gather virtually. Please write a very brief paragraph containing the theme - "What St. Philips means to me." These writings can take any form which is comfortable to you - a few sentences, a poem, a lyric, a phrase, or a scripture. What connects YOU to St Philips? Family, friends, geography, past moments, future hopes?
I would like to collect these and then publish them on our webpage, facebook, NOW, Sunday bulletin, etc.. Please take some time to consider participating in this exercise. My prayer is that it will be very uplifting to all.
If you may have pictures or brief videos capturing moments of St Philips' Parish life, these will be welcome also. These can involve special events in the sanctuary, parish hall, church grounds, or at other venues connected with the many missions and ministries of the people of St Philips.
You may send your selections to sbailey@hcc.edu or sdbailey316@charter.net. Thank you for your participation!
Steve Bailey
See submissions on our website.
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On Saturday morning Dec. 11, St. Philip’s hosted the mayor’s annual toy distribution event from 9am-12 noon. Members of the Easthampton Police Dept., City Hall, Honor Society students, Key Club members and, girls’ basketball team, distributed toys, wrapping paper, gift cards, mittens and hats to 120 children.
Money for the event was raised by the mayor’s office. Mittens and hats were donated by Robin Bielecki, director of the Easthampton Community Center. Santa Claus was also in attendance, through the efforts of our own Steve Bailey.
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Safe Passage Fundraiser Report
The Hot Chocolate Walk/Run on December 5, 2021 was very successful.
Thank you all for your support of survivors of domestic violence.
Team: Maureen Lee/St. Philip's Episcopal Church
Raised: $1,070.00
M.Lee 520.00
TOTAL $ 1,590.00
I am so thankful to be a member of St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
This is the largest amount raised.
Submitted by:
Maureen E. Lee
December 13, 2021
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The Pioneer Valley Power Pack program (PVPP)
Thanks to all who have volunteered to help. As of Nov 30, 19 people, most of them parishioners, have offered to help pick up, pack and deliver weekend meals to children attending Pepin&Center, Maple Street and White Brook Middle School in Easthampton and Smith Vocational High School in Northampton. Volunteers will pack the food on Wednesday early evenings and deliver it to the schools on Friday mornings each week.
The program will begin delivering food on January 7, 2022. Shelley March has organized former volunteers to train Mary and I on the packing process in January. In December Bonnie Pelland, our volunteer coordinator, will be contacting those who offered to deliver food, to schedule your help starting in January 2020. She will also contact the volunteer packers to start scheduling for February and March.
Thanks again to all who have volunteered and if you haven’t and wish to do so please contact Joe Bianca at jmbianca@charter.net.
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Office Hours
Tuesday - Thursday, 1 pm - 4:30 pm
Since not all afternoons are in person,
please call or email for an appointment.
Phone: 413-527-0862
Email: office@stphilipseasthampton.org
Submissions for the NOW
This newsletter is published every Thursday at 10:00 am.
The deadline for submissions is 1:00 pm on Wednesdays.
Please email them to the office by that time.
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