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August Chrysalis Articles

Those Who Serve

"Best of Chrysalis" - selected articles from past issues

"The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts" for this week


Announcements for August 1 through August 8

This Sunday:
Special offering for Families in Need (see below)

Next Sunday:
Please bring your items for recycling

[Thank you for bringing items only on designated days!!!]



Thought for the Week
I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers…
Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Maya Angelou


Yard Sale

Next Saturday - August 7

  • 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.


August Benevolence: Families in Need

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.


Meditation and Communion

Every Wednesday — 10 am until 11 am

Center in the Here and Now as you listen to and for
the voice of God in your life.

Rededicate yourself to carrying on the ministry
which our Lord began.

Quarterly Benevolence
July - September 2010


ELCA World Hunger

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.

Read regular postings from the World Hunger staff:
http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings/

“Hunger will not stop simply because people are told that it must end. Hunger will end when the human family changes the way it understands hunger and defines it as unacceptable and solvable.”
-The Rev. Stacy K. Johnson

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.


Bill Board Update:

Visit the Bill Board today.



We're in the red.

Hint: the bill board is to the right of member’s mail boxes in the church entrance

(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.)


Prayer Insert Requests

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.]


Click here to see ways you can help with fundraising at HRLC.


Calendar for August 1 through August 8
Sunday10:00 amCelebration and Communion Service
11:15 amFellowship
(Contact: Carolyn Keck)
Monday9:00 amOffice Open (until 1:00 pm)
10:00 amOffice Staff Meeting
Pastor John Off in Afternoon
TuesdayPastor John Day Off
9:00 amOffice Open (until 1:00 pm)
12:00 pmBulletin Announcements Due
Wednesday9:00 amOffice Open (until 1:00 pm)
10:00 amMeditation & Communion Service
12:00 pmPrayerInsertHRLC@aol.com deadline
Thursday9:00 amOffice Open (until 1:00 pm)
7:00 pmPastor John at ICEJ / NAACP Dinner & program
FridayOffice Closed
Pastor John Off in Afternoon
Saturday8:00 amMiddle East Prayer Vigil
8:00 amYard Sale Pricing
1:00 pmYard Sale
Sunday10:00 amCelebration and Communion Service
11:30 amFellowship
(Contact: Marcia Freesemann and Kym Prouty)


For information concerning an activity get in touch with the Contact Person.


The Ballad of St. Felix

Part Two
[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!
St. Felix is remembered on January 14 and,
not surprisingly, is known as
the patron saint of spiders.



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The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown
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