In This Issue

• LTN Dinner
• Love Kits
• Healing a Woman's Soul
• Parish News
• Voices of Hope
  
• Zion Church Needs Help

This Week at
St. Andrew's

Monday
11am Luke Gospel Study
Tuesday
9am Facilities Meeting
5:30pm Benedictine Experience (bring a Sandwich)
6:30pm Holy Eucharist
7:15pm Planning Meeting
Wednesday
4:30pm Finance Committee
5:30pm Outreach Committee
Thursday
5:30pm LTN Dinner
5:30pm Haiti Mission Partnership Task Force
7pm Choir rehearsal
Saturday -
9am Healing a Woman's Soul - Domestic Violence Awareness Seminar
1pm Daughters of the King
6pm Concert for Haiti, Haitian Dinner

Coming this Sunday:

Monday - Leslie Cunningham

Anniversaries

Love Thy Neighborhood Dinner "April Showers"

The April dinner takes place this Thursday - our theme for this month is "April Showers." Come lend a hand and join the fun! The dinner begins at 5:30, volunteers are need from 4 p.m. on.

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It's time for our annual Love Kits collection. These kits of small personal care items are donated to the Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless and given to those using shelters in the Capital area. Items should be placed into a clear sandwich-size baggie. Please include things like: soap; shampoo; comb; tooth paste/brush; band aides; tissues; candy bar., etc. Completed Love Kits can be placed in the basket  provided at the front of the sanctuary - they kits will be collected during March and April and delivered to the Shelter at the end of April.  Contact Lee Cameron for further information 489-2487  

Healing A Woman's Soul

Domestic violence is the single major cause of injury to women, exceeding muggings, murders, rapes and car accidents. On Saturday, April 17, from 9:00-3:00, Trinity Church in Potsdam, 8 Maple Street on Fall Island, will host a training about how to help victims heal called “Hope for the Journey: The Church and Domestic Violence,” focusing especially on the impacts on women and children in our community and how as people of faith we can reach out. This includes knowing the nature of domestic violence, the signs of abuse and where to go for help. Participants will also understand why men become victims and why women may return to the abuser.

The program is sponsored by Healing A Woman’s Soul, Inc., an ecumenical ministry that helps churches provide settings where God’s healing can begin. The training will be led by Karla DiGirolamo and Rev. Anne Curtin. Ms. Digirolamo is a nationally known expert on domestic violence issues and Chief Operating Officer of Unity House in Troy New York, which among other activities is the Rensselaer County Domestic violence shelter provider. Rev. Curtin is a former teacher and attorney and is now an Episcopal priest. She has led abuse prevention programs for the Episcopal Diocese of Albany. 

Parish News

• Congratulations to Pren and Frieda Carnell who welcomed great-grand baby number three this past week, Chloe Grace Taylor.

• Bill Tatem, our Financial Administrator, will be away from Thursday, April 15 until Monday, April 26. If you have any business with him, please be sure to see him before he leaves.

Voices of Hope

Voices of Hope - a concert and dinner will be held at St. Andrew's this Saturday evening to raise money for the St. Andrew's Haiti Mission. The concert will feature the St. Andrew's Choir and singers from the College of St. Rose. A dinner will take place after the concert featuring Haitian foods. The concert is free and open to the public - a free will offering will be taken.

Zion Church Plea

Our dear historic Zion Church, Morris, NY, is in great need...water and old technology in the undercroft portion of the Church have allowed shifting of beams and foundation walls as well a cracked inner, outer and upper walls and stonework.  This endangers the marble altar...wall...pipe organ...stained glass window and sacristy.  At this point we have raised $440,000 through pledges, gifts and grants.  As a sister church, we hope you will prayerfully consider and find a way to make a donation to our Zion Church Capital Campaign.  

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Albany, New York

Call us at 489-4747
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Monday - Friday 9 am - 1 pm

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