Even in this joyous season of Easter, as we celebrate the promise of resurrection, we still need to prepare for our earthly death. Those preparations should include a living will, our preferences for life saving measures, and a last will and testament to leave our earthly treasurers to our survivors.
As you fashion those documents, please remember to include St. Patrick's Church as a beneficiary.
One of our gifts in this life has been our church, so it is a meet and right that we should support the continuing life of our church as a gift to future members.
Make a note to do that. You will be blessed.
Fr. Ed+
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St Patrick's
Upcoming Worship Service
In Person & Zoom
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Click here to download the Sunday service bulletin.
 We have a treat for you! If you missed last Sunday's service, please click below and to listen to Take These Wings sung by the St. Patrick's Choir and accompanied by Beth Lewis on the flute.
Click Below to Listen!!
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Contact Information:
The Very Rev. Ed, Priest-In-Charge
Email: edhowell@sonic.net
Phone/text: 707-292-8033
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Our Happenings at St Patrick's Church!
May 11- Choir Rehearsal at 6:30PM
May 14- Holy Eucharist 10AM
May 15- Art & Exploring Class 11AM
May 17- Midweek Worship followed by Bible Study 10AM
May 17- *Al Anon Meeting- 6PM
*AA Meeting- 7:30PM
May 19- Centering Prayer Group 10:30AM
Please click on the link below for upcoming calendar events!
https://stpatrickskenwood.org/calendar/
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Ministries of the parish that we cannot directly accomplish, except by our hospitable welcome to these fellowships and healing work include the following:
* AA Group, weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30PM, meets in the Parish Hall.
* Al Anon Group weekly on Wednesdays at 6PM, meets in the Common Room.
* PEO, once a month on the first Thursday at 10AM and sometimes on the first Saturday at 8:45AM, meets in the Parish Hall.
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St Patrick's Weekly Calendar
Sundays: Holy Eucharist
Join us in person for Sunday Eucharist! 10 a.m.
Also available online by Zoom. Click here for the invite.
Tuesdays: Morning Coffee Hour
Let's meet over coffee! 10:00 a.m. Contact Rich Randolph for your Zoom Invitation.
Rich Randolph: rjurny@gmail.com
Thursdays: Compline
Compline on ZOOM! 4:00 p.m. Hosted by Minerva Haddad. Contact Minerva for your Zoom invite.
Minerva Haddad: minerva.haddad@gmail.com.
Fridays: The Men's Bible Study:
Grow in your faith & walk with God! 8:30 a.m.
Send a note to Rich Randolph and he will ensure you receive a Zoom invitation.
Rich Randolph: rjurny@gmail.com
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Redwood Gospel Mission
Graduation Ceremony
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On May 7, Redwood Gospel Mission celebrated the 12 men and women who completed the “New Life”program. Each received a graduation certificate and some received extra recognition for completing special training, such as food handling and retail management. Inspirational testimonies presented, uplifting music and dance shared, and prayers given in thanksgiving for changed lives, through the grace of our Lord Jesus. Rich R, Ron K, Brian B, and I were blessed to have witnessed this!
Thanks be to God!
~Jackie Senter
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St. Patrick's Friends! Blessing Bags are due this weekend on Sunday, May 14th! If you have blessing bags to turn in, drop them off in the basket located in the Narthex this weekend!
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Greetings Friends! Check out Eleanor's thankful note to her volunteers this week!
Thank you to Beth, Lauri, Natalie/Olivia and Mary L., Pam/Larry, Erin, Joel/Anna, driver Tommy and rep Arturo. 47 families/161 individuals received food tonight! In addition, all of the give-aways found new homes! Surprisingly, the 3 items remaining and in excellent condition, are things for infants and toddlers!
Thank you, Lord, for wonderful weather to do what we believe is Your work : getting food to those in need through REFB, St Patrick's and our wonderful team of volunteers.
Eleanor
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Calling All Instrumentalists!
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We are looking for instrumentalists and vocalists who might be willing to join Doug in singing or playing the hymns or even doing an anthem over the summer.
You will find a sign-up sheet on the cork boards in the back of Stevenson Hall. There are many Sundays to choose from!
Please sign up by May 21st. If you have any questions, you can reach Mark Kratz, music director at 707-230-7304 or at Mark@markkratz.com.
Thank you so much for all your support and help in making the music ministry at St Patrick's thrive this year!
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Art & Exploring Our Own Creative Expression with
Kate Rogers
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Art Classes happening on Mondays!!
Join Kate Rogers at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Kenwood on Mondays, beginning May 8th at 11:00 to 12:30. Everyone is welcome to join this delightful opportunity to focus on the creative process. NO experience is necessary, just a willingness to explore, have fun and let art happen!!
All materials are supplied. To help defray costs, a donation of $5 per class is suggested. A renewable 5 – session class card for $25 simplifies this process. We plan to schedule more than 5 sessions. The exact number to be determined. Cash or checks made out to St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church work fine.
To sign up, please contact Bobbiejo at parishadm9000@gmail.com or call 707-833-4228. For questions, contact Laurie Boone Hogen at Lauriehogen@gmail.com. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church is located at 9000 Sonoma Highway in Kenwood.
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3rd Sundays at St. Paul's
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Easter Service at Green Acres!
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Kiwanis Club of the North Bay is sponsoring a fund raiser to strengthen their youth scholarship fund and other youth programs in our local area!
They are asking people to buy tickets to a preview showing of the play "Something Rotten" at the 6th Street Playhouse on Wednesday evening, May 31st. You can buy tickets ($30) from any Kiwanis member, that is Eleanor Albon, or you can email pennylee@71briteyes@comcast.net.
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St. Patrick's Hosted Nomadic Shelter
April 29, 2023
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Saturday, April 29, was our last Nomadic Shelter for this season. We had 15 guests, 2 early staff and 2 late staff. Twelve volunteers shopped, cooked and served the meal. The expenses came to $74.50.
The menu was very popular with our guests. They enjoyed cheese and crackers as appetizers, followed by ham, mixed vegetables, roasted potatoes, ambrosia, and homemade cookies. There was so much ham left over that we packaged it in baggies for our guests to take with them the next morning.
Diana Estabrook provided some goodies for the guests, along with toiletries collected by Daughters of the King, which volunteers packed in lunch bags. We all enjoyed listening to Jackie Senter play ragtime on the piano while we ate dinner. Then Karen Borgfeldt provided hot towels for everyone to relax with after dinner. All these extra treats were appreciated by everyone.
Thank you to each of our volunteers who gave so much of their time for this Grand Finale for our Shelter season: Karen and Brian Borgfeldt, Eleanor Albon, Bernadette Gibb, Merle Holtzen, Anne Phillips, Ron Keith, Laurie Boone-Hogen, Jackie Senter, Wendy Wood, Sarah Phillips, Rich Randolph. Bernadette provided the cheese and crackers and Merle added a lot of cookies to the 3 dozen or so that Anne made. Ron made the ambrosia. Those cookies flew off the plates and there was no ambrosia left. Some guests asked for second helpings of the meal. Thanks to Bryan for slicing ham!
Everyone did multiple jobs, from setting tables to washing dishes. What a great crew!
If you haven’t had a chance to serve at the Nomadic Shelter you can watch for its return in October, with sign-ups starting in September. It’s a wonderful ministry that shows St. Patrick’s at its best.
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 Are you interested in reflecting on the meaning of your baptism for the questions, challenges, and opportunities you face in daily life? During Easter Season (also known as the Great Fifty Days), Phina Borgeson and Paul Mallatt will be offering an online, Zoom-based course called “Living Sacramentally.” All in our Russian River Deanery are invited to explore what it means to live into our baptisms, and meet the questions, challenges and opportunities to live faithfully in our daily lives. Five sessions will each be focused on a sign of baptism: water, oil, name, new clothes, light. A short reflection from one of the facilitators and a key text from scripture or the Book of Common Prayer will lead into open dialogue among those who participate. Newly baptized adults and older teens, as well as parents and godparents of newly baptized children and infants, are especially encouraged to participate, but all are welcome. Eastertide is a traditional time for Christians to reflect on living sacramentally; as part of the catechumenal process it is called “mystagogy.”
Meetings will be Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Pacific, beginning April 18 for five weeks. Paul Mallatt (paulyfa@me.com) and Phina Borgeson (phinaborgeson@gmail.com) will be facilitating. Contact either of them with questions or to receive the Zoom link.
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Food Donations Needed
F.I.S.H. of Santa Rosa
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Spread the LOVE!
Our friends at F.I.S.H. of Santa Rosa would like our help with peanut butter donations! If you would like to bring in jars of peanut butter to help fulfill their needs to keep serving those in need. You can also bring canned soup and other food non-perishable items. Peanut butter is their greatest need at the moment.
Drop off your donations in the basket located in the Narthex.
We thank you for all your help!
Donation basket, located in the Narthex
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Please Support Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church Ministry
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Please remember that if you choose to mail your gift, our mailing address is P.O. Box 247, Kenwood CA 95452.
Thank you!!!
If you choose to mail in your gift, please consider to send checks only. This is for your security.
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Contact Information:
The Very Rev. Ed Howell, Priest-In-Charge
Email: edhowell@sonic.net
Phone/text: 707-292-8033
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9000 Sonoma Highway
PO Box 247
Kenwood, CA 95452
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