Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church
1948 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126
San Jose, CA 95126
Pricing starts at 8:00 am, Aug 7. The staging area for organizing items will be near the sheds.
Sale starts at 1:00 pm
There will be some space available in the downstairs of the parish hall for storage of larger items such as furniture before the sale. Let David or Jean know if you have large items that need transportation so it can be arranged.
And as always, please keep bringing in items. See David or Jean for storage of items. No adult clothing as in previous years.
Many volunteers are needed for the day of the sale. Please see Jean to sign-up.
This Sunday’s special collection is for our Families In Need Ministry. Last year we were able to help three families who were in crisis & needed some special financial assistance. The funds for this ministry have been depleted & we are asking for your help so that we can be in a position to offer aid when the need arises. Please give generously! Thank you for you support of this ministry. If you have any questions please contact Marcia Freesemann.
ELCA World Hunger is a comprehensive and sustainable program that uses multiple strategies—relief, development, education, and advocacy—to address the root causes of hunger and poverty. ELCA World Hunger responds to neighbors around the corner and around the world.
Visit your mail boxes in the church entrance to get your ELCA World Hunger coin box —-- drop in some coins when you have a meal to benefit those who go without food.
(Thank you for remembering to designate on your envelope for which bill you are donating funds and including the pull-strip from the board — needed for HRLC accounting.)
If you would like to include a prayer through PrayerInsertHRLC@aol.com please submit by noon on Wednesday. [Note: Prayer requests from Sunday Morning are automatically included in the next week's Prayer Insert.]
| Sunday | 10:00 am | Celebration and Communion Service |
| 11:15 am | Fellowship | |
| (Contact: Carolyn Keck) | ||
| Monday | 9:00 am | Office Open (until 1:00 pm) |
| 10:00 am | Office Staff Meeting | |
| Pastor John Off in Afternoon | ||
| Tuesday | Pastor John Day Off | |
| 9:00 am | Office Open (until 1:00 pm) | |
| 12:00 pm | Bulletin Announcements Due | |
| Wednesday | 9:00 am | Office Open (until 1:00 pm) |
| 10:00 am | Meditation & Communion Service | |
| 12:00 pm | PrayerInsertHRLC@aol.com deadline | |
| Thursday | 9:00 am | Office Open (until 1:00 pm) |
| 7:00 pm | Pastor John at ICEJ / NAACP Dinner & program | |
| Friday | Office Closed | |
| Pastor John Off in Afternoon | ||
| Saturday | 8:00 am | Middle East Prayer Vigil |
| 8:00 am | Yard Sale Pricing |
| 1:00 pm | Yard Sale | |
| Sunday | 10:00 am | Celebration and Communion Service |
| 11:30 am | Fellowship | |
| (Contact: Marcia Freesemann and Kym Prouty) |
[St. Felix] heard the clashing of their swords,
Their voices' cruel roar,
Alack! the chase was almost done,
For he could speed no more.
All breathless, worn, and clean forspent
He looked about him there;
He spied a tiny ray of hope,
And made a little prayer.
There was a broken, ruined wall
That crumbled by the road,
And through a cleft Saint Felix crept,
And in a corner bode.
It was a sorry hiding-place,
That scarce could hope to 'scape
The keen sight of those bloody men,
For murder all agape.
But lo! in answer to his prayer
Made in the Holy Name,
To help Saint Felix in his need
A little spider came.
And there across the narrow hole
Through which Saint Felix fled,
The spider spun a heavy web
Out of her silken thread.
So fast she spun, so faithfully,
That when the soldiers came
To pause beside the ruined wall
And shout the Bishop's name,
They found a silken curtain there
Where through they could not see;
And "Ho!" they said, "he is not here,
Look, look! it cannot be;
"No one has passed this spider's web
For many and many a day,
See, men, how it is thick and strong;"
And so they went away.
And this is how Saint Felix fared
To 'scape the threatened doom,
Saved by a little spider's web,
Spun from her wondrous loom.
For when the soldiers all had passed
It luckily befell,
Among the ruins of the walls
He found a half-dug well.
And there he hid for many months,
Safe from the eager eyes
Of all those cruel soldier-men
And money-seeking spies.
And on the eve when this thing happed,
It chanced a Christian dame
Was passing by the ruined wall
Calling her Bishop's name.
For well she knew he must be hid,
And came to bring him food;
And so he answered from the well,
Saint Felix, old and good.
And for the many weary months
She came there, day by day,
All stealthily to bring him bread,
So no one guessed the way.
And when at last the peace was made,
Saint Felix left his well.
What welcome of his folk he had
There are no words to tell!