A Message from the Rector:
Dear Friends:
This poem struck me as a wonderful evocation of the mystery of the Trinity, for pondering the mystery of God who is experienced as overwhelming, as personable, and as evanescent: as Creator, as the Word Made Flesh, and as the Holy Spirit.
Rilke reminds me that what I know and experience is not the totality of Reality, and that the gift of time is the gift of God’s nature and God’s presence unfolding throughout my life in ways both familiar and strange.
In peace,
Jen+
Widening Circles
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
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Rector’s Office Drop-In Time
Rev. Jen has set her office drop-in day as Wednesday of each week from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. for anyone who would like to stop in and visit. You are always invited to make an appointment for a time convenient for you. Mondays are her Sabbath day. Rev. Jen will be away on Sunday, July 13. Rev. Don Jones will be the Supply Priest that Sunday.
The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost/Proper 9
In-Person Sunday Morning Worship Service, July 6, led by The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, 10:15 a.m.
You can stream the service via St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Greencastle, Indiana Facebook Page. Click on this link to view the Live Stream. We will start the Live Stream 5 minutes prior to the start of the service.
Click here for the service booklet for July 6.
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The Latest Updates
GETTING AHEAD MEALS NEEDED
Gobin Church’s Getting Ahead Program needs our help! They are asking for individuals or teams to step up to prepare a meal for about 15 people on August 14, 21, and 28. If you can provide a meal or a part of a meal, please let Jen+ or Renee know.
URGENT NEED FOR PARTICULAR NON-FOOD PANTRY MINISTRY
July 23 & July 24, 2025 Volunteers needed to sell State Fair tickets in two hour shifts during “Fairs Care” at the Putnam County Fair. The Putnam County Pantry Coalition splits the profit from ticket sales with participating pantries. Last year our portion of the proceeds was able to pay for two months of NFP lunches. Workers are responsible for two hour shifts which include sitting in the shade, chatting people up, and selling fair tickets. Most customers are 4-H family members and search us out each year! Please contact Fred Vallowe, (618) 927-6703, for shifts available and sign-up details.
TUESDAY BIBLE STUDY
The Book and Bible Group has begun again, meeting at 4:30 p.m. most Tuesday afternoons with Evening Prayer celebrated at 4:00 p.m. The next one will be Tuesday, July 8.
ALTAR FLOWER CALENDAR
An altar flower calendar is posted in Hamilton Hall. Sign up to sponsor the altar flowers to commemorate a birthday or anniversary, remember a loved one, or in thanksgiving for an important event. We ask a donation to help offset the cost of the altar flowers and other worship expenses. Be sure to tell the office your dedication so that it can be printed in the bulletin. Please make checks payable to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and in the memo field please put this information: Altar Flowers, person’s name, occasion, Sunday date you’d like for the flowers to be on the altar.
VESTRY MEETING MINUTES
If any of you are interested in what your Vestry is doing, there are two copies of each month’s minutes on the top of the piano in Hamilton Hall. Feel free to read and return!
SHOPPING LIST FOR NON-FOOD PANTRY
Please add adult pull-ups (all sizes) and bed pads to your shopping list for the NFP for the month of July. If you are donating adult pull-ups/briefs, they should be the ones without tabs. We are currently overstocked in adult diapers and period products. Meals and conversation in Hamilton Hall are going well. Patrons are now able to pick out items they most need. Your contributions help our budget go farther in helping meet the needs of those in Putnam County. The next Non-Food Pantry will be Saturday, July 26 from noon – 2:00 p.m. If you can help with this ministry in any way, please contact Harriet Moore or Fred Vallowe.
KROGER COUPONS
If you have any unwanted Kroger coupons, please bring them to Hamilton Hall and place in the window ledge near the “Little Library”. We would like to make them available to our Non-Food Pantry recipients so that they might be able to take advantage of them to help extend their food budget. Thanks in advance!
FREE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
We have some large print Day by Day daily devotionals in the sanctuary that you are free to take home for your personal devotions–and if we know that people would like copies, we can order the right amount. Many of you may also appreciate the on-line version of Day to Day. Click here.
ON-GOING COVID PROTOCOL
We continue to respond to both our county’s current CDC designation and to the current variant. Masking is optional. Decisions on COVID policy have moved from the Reconvening Committee to Rev. Jen and the Wardens.
Prayers and Reflections for This Week
We have heard that the daily reflections and scripture readings provided during Lent were appreciated. The meditations are written by persons from Gobin UMC and Beech Grove UMC. They will be in the newsletter each week. Whether you enjoy these every day or as the Spirit moves you, may this resource continue to bring you spiritual food for the journey. Blessings!
Click here to view the readings and accompanying links.
Non-Food Pantry Latest
Saturday, July 26
• Noon to 2:00 p.m.
There will be a distribution in Hamilton Hall and light lunches will be served inside. We are grateful for all those who have worked so hard to obtain supplies for the Non-Food Pantry. Items are having to be purchased from a variety of sources making it much more expensive. Donations to help offset this extra cost will be gratefully accepted!
Top 3 Needed Items
Your prayers are asked for:
Haile Bane, grandson of Joanne Haymaker
Beth Benedix, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
The family of Bob Breese
The family of Bill Buckheit, friend of Jen+
Jennifer Clarke, friend of Patti Harmless
Dan, Haya, Orna, friends of Macys in Tel Aviv
Debi
The family of Bob Fatzinger, Jr., brother of Barbara Pare
Katie Gleichman, relative of Jim & Cathryn Ensley
Carole Greenawald
Josh
Tom Kaiser, friend of Jen+ & Chris
Maclean
Hansford Mann, friend of Joanne Haymaker
Teresa Masten, friend of Karen & Jim Mannon
Sally Motsch, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Mary Mountz
Jeri Mucia, friend of Joanne Haymaker
The family of Sharon Muir, relative of Joanne Haymaker
Tom Mullen, father of Patti Harmless
Elizabeth & Natalie Sheffler, daughter & granddaughter of Page & Narda Cotton
Skip Sutton
Larry Taylor, former member of St. Andrew’s
The family of Julia Williams, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Dwight Ziegler, uncle of Stephanie Gurnon
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Greencastle: The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore.
Our companion dioceses: The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil: The Most Rev. Mauricio Jose Araujo De Andrade, Primate of Brazil and Bishop of Brasilia. The people and Diocese of Haiti and Saint Andre’s Parish and school in Mithon.
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Church of Nigeria.
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Anniversaries: None.
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