This Week At A Glance

The auction to benefit our community fund closed this weekend to a resounding success.  It garnered $4610!  So much hard work goes into the auction, and we especially thank Karen Hill and Miriam King for their leadership.  And it goes without saying that generous donors and buyers stepped up to be part of the effort.  I plan to premier my new necklace very soon!

So much coming our way in the next week!

• On Wednesday, Aug. 5th: 7 pm Kate Caldwell & Friends will offer a benefit concert for our Community Fund.  It will feature sing along favorites, plus visiting guests Janine Wilson, James Key, and Basha Wyeth on piano. Wonderful music that spans roots-rock, alt-country, and blues. Reception following.
• And on Saturday August 1 at 7pm our own “Island Bells” and “Reach Singers” will perform at Open Mic Night at Blue Hill Congregational Church.  You know our ringers already, and the “Reach Singers” are Andy and Anne Bowes, Jackie Pike, and Jean Vadeboncoeur.  Come out and support our talented church musicians who are taking their act on the road!

And here is something of which we must all be aware.  The war does not just affect our own wallets, our own family budgets.  The cost is very high indeed, not just in lives lost, but in livelihoods that have been placed in severe jeopardy by the high fuel costs.
https://apnews.com/projects/days-disrupted-after-iran-war/
This is a very telling article from the Associated Press, about the impact of the Iran War on people around the world.  Read it, and if it makes you angry, act.  Come to our Thursday Stand-Out, write your elected officials, attend a demonstration, or simply pray for all those that have been harmed by this war.  A war for which we have never been given a logical rationale.

Please pick up a Habitat for Humanity volunteer application at the church. Leave them on my desk and we will get them to Habitat.  We want to assist Chastity in amassing her “sweat equity” hours.

Shouts out and thanks:  Barbara Lundblad brought us the sermon on Sunday, in my absence.  We are so grateful that Barbara shares her preaching gifts with us.  And we appreciate Anne and Dana Douglass in hosting fellowship time. And kudos to Bill Anderson for bringing his weed-eater and trimming away the weeds outside the church.  Very needed and very appreciated.  And thanks to Edie Dunham for arranging to have Nomi and Juni sing Siyahamba yesterday.  Great to have young voices!

See you in church,

Pastor Kim

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