August 2016 St. John’s Episcopal Church, Salem, NJ

From the Deacon’s Bench By the time you read this, we will be knee deep in our annual Vacation Bible School. This event is one of the most significant outreach programs our Parish offers each year. We usually expect upwards of 40 children from the surrounding neighborhoods. This year we are partnering with the Food Bank of South Jersey for the dinner selection. This will give us the opportunity to also send each child home with breakfast for the next morning. We are excited to be able to do this. In addition to VBS, we are serving upwards of 70 bags each week from our Food Pantry. While much of this comes from our Outreach Budget, we only planned for 60-65 bags a week and as the need has grown, your generous contributions cover the costs of the additional food. We may also partner with the Food Bank for some of this food but we are only in the preliminary stages of discovering what they have to offer. There are many other projects that St John’s supports in outreach efforts. Perhaps now is a good time, in our so-called summer lull to remind you of some of them:

1. The Quilters – under the leadership of Gail Boyd, many quilts and an assortment of knit stuffed animals, are created each year and given to the Ronald McDonald House in Camden that services nearby Cooper Hospital. 2. Family Promise – St John’s has faithfully supported Family Promise financially and we are being asked to help with some volunteer work. 3. Meals on Wheels – St John’s has annually contributed to this worthwhile program. They are always looking for volunteers. 4. Salem Area Ministerium Scholarship – St John’s contributed a substantial donation to this local scholarship and this year the ministerium was able to give 18 $400 scholarships to deserving young men and women. 5. Needlework Guild of America – St John’s supports the fine work of this organization which provides new clothing to many people each year 6. Salem Middle School Backpack program – For the past 4 years, we have been providing 30-35 filled backpacks, targeted to 8th graders but also appropriate for 7th graders. This is funded entirely by your donations. We will very shortly begin this project for the upcoming school year 7. Trunk or Treat and Secret Santa Shop – last year we tried a couple of new ideas and they were very well received – Halloween fell on a Saturday and it was a beautiful day – we made a semicircle of cars and had approximately 100 children walk through with grateful parents. Halloween is on a Monday this year but hopefully will not dampen the enthusiasm to provide this opportunity for area children. Then in December we had a ‘Secret Santa Shop’ allowing the area children to ‘shop’ for mom or dad or grandmom or siblings – through your generous donations of money and items – we had a spectacular array of things. We all agreed to try this again this year with better advertising. 8. Operation Christmas Child/Shoebox – We provide the boxes, you fill them spectacularly and we turn over more than 30 boxes each year. 9. Our Merciful Savior Uniform Exchange – We have supported them every year as they provide uniforms for many children in this county, they have uniforms for Salem kids as well.

This year we also helped two different people who were ‘burned out’ of their homes as well as essential auto repair work for another person. We were able to do that through donations and also a newly designated ‘contingency’ line item in our outreach budget. While we are in this interim period as we prepare to interview and call a new Rector – it is important that we continue to do those ‘things’ that define us. Certainly our outreach actions, including those of the music program at St. John’s, make us visible to the community and also fulfill our calling to be Christ’s other self to the world. Deacon Sally

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Minister of Music Bill Clisham will be on vacation July 25-August 14. Minister of Music Emeritus, Joanne Owen will be filling in for him

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8/3 Warren Bye 8/3 Ryan C. W. Bailey 8/5 Bill Clisham 8/5 Daniell Khairzada 8/7 Phillip Correll 8/7 Carol Foulke 8/10 Lauren Miller Brown

8/14 Joanne Owen 8/23 Julie Frieze 8/29 Mary Anne Clisham

8/28 Diane & Ron Wohlrab

We welcomed Evangelina Madeline Bailey to our Christian Family with her Holy Baptism on July 17. Blessings to Evangelina and the Bailey Family!

We are sad to say goodbye to longtime member and chorister, Virginia Sisco. She will be moving to Indiana on August 12. Her new address will be:

8337 E. R 300S Frankfort, IN 46044 God Speed and Best Wishes, VIrginia

It’s that time again-VBS will be held August 1-5 from 5:30-8:00 every evening. Registration will begin at 5 PM on Monday night. Dinner will be

served at 5:30 each night. This year, the Food Bank of South Jersey is providing the dinners. We will also be providing the children with a bag of breakfast foods at the end of each evening. This year we will be journeying to Egypt to learn about Joseph. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Laurie Bailey or Deacon Sally.

We pray for those who serve in our military, especially:

Captain Ryan Bailey, US Army Pvt. Nick DeMascio US Army Private Justin Francisco, US Army

Lt. Col. Peter Larrabee, USAF Senior Master Sgt. David John Milne, USAF Captain Tyler Patrick VanSant, USAF Lt. Joseph Flescher III, USAF; Marlene Flescher, Cadet, USAF Academy

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9 AM-1 PM IAC

9 am-3 pm Needlework Guild Luncheon

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9 am-3 pm CIACC/YSC Noon HE & Healing in Chapel with Mother P8 PM AA

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8 am Rite I Chapel10:30 am Rite II Birthday Sunday

8 am Rite I Chapel10:30 am Rite IISandwich SundayVestry Meeting

8 am Rite I Chapel10:30 am Rite IIFellowship Hour

8 am Rite I Chapel10:30 am Rite IIPie Sunday

CIACC-Children's Interagency CouncilYSC-Youth Services CouncilIAC-Inter-Agency CouncilNA-Narcotics AnonymousAA-Alcoholics AnonymousMAC-Music Around the County

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL-5:30-8:00 pm Parish Hall, Church, Chapel

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St. John’s Episcopal Church

76 Market Street, Salem, NJ 08079 Established 1722

Parish Office: 856-935-1798 Fax at office: 856-279-2121 E-Mail: stjohnssalemnj@comcast.net Website: www.stjohnssalemnj.org

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Rector: Vacancy Deacon: The Rev’d Sally Maurer 856-769-1409 (h) cell: 856-297-2385 slarrabee@comcast.net Senior Warden: Ron Magill 856-935-5398 local_art@comcast.net Junior Warden: David Miller cell: 609-202-7197 rrdmiller@yahoo.com Treasurer: Ann Neff 856-358-9610 gwneff@mac.com Admin. Assistant: Marjorie Warren 856-935-1798 stjohnssalemnj@comcast.net Minister of Music William F. Clisham, Jr. cell: 908-472-7597 wfclish@aol.com Forerunner Editor: Eileen Miller 609-202-7220 ecmiller114@gmail.com Vestry Class of 2017 Sue Harker Ann Neff Trudy O’Hare Class of 2018 Ryan Bailey Bill Mecum Bill Pankonien Class of 2019 Sue Harker Jean Miller Ron Wohlrab

Schedule of Services Sundays 8 AM—Holy Eucharist Rite 1 in the Chapel 10:30 AM---Holy Eucharist Rite II in the Church followed by Fellowship Hour Wednesday Noon---Weekday Prayer in the Chapel (First Wednesday-HE & Healing Service with Mother P)

St. John’s Episcopal Church 76 Market Street Salem, NJ 08079

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