Beginning Sunday, July 5th we will change the time of our service of Holy Eucharist to 9:30 a.m. as we did last year. Nursery care will be available on an “as needed” basis throughout the summer. We will also continue to have fellowship time after the service. Rather than hot coffee we will serve lemonade and iced tea, along with our usual goodies. When weather permits, the refreshments will be served in the backyard of the office. Our regular 10:00 service resumes on September 13th.

We are happy to announce that a Vacation Bible School (VBS) will be held here this summer from August 10th through August  14th for children ages 5 through 12. The VBS will run from 9:00 a.m. to noon each day, and the theme will be “Studio Go,” a game show that highlights teamwork, service and fun.

We are in need of adult volunteers to help us run the VBS. Diocesan requirements indicate that we must have one adult volunteer for every five children who participate. Therefore, the number of children we can take will depend on the number of volunteers we get. If your child or grandchild is one who might want to attend the VBS, please consider volunteering one or two of the mornings that week.

Registration forms for the VBS will be available at the church and the parish office as of July 5th. The deadline for registration is July 20th.

Pastor Janice celebrated the first anniversary of her ordination to priesthood and installation as our pastor on June 7^th.

Have you seen our lovely new sign?  Special thanks to Bill Jones, who built the enclosure!

We are as proud as parents with a new baby!  We have a brand new church sign, and we are thrilled with how it turned out.  You may have noticed that the old sign was in disrepair, and functioned poorly because it was a one-sided enclosure that faced straight onto the street.  This made it impossible to read the sign from both directions when driving by.  Our new sign is double-sided, bright and well-lit at night.  The sign itself was made by a local sign company, and our Junior Warden, Bill Jones built the frame and roof for it, as well as installing the lighting.  A photo of the sign will soon be on our website, so check it out, if you haven’t already seen it in person.  We pray that it will be a beacon to many in the community to come and join us for worship and fellowship.

Many thanks to Roland Malboeuf and our dedicated choir for sharing their music ministry with us this year.  They will take the summer off, as usual, and will resume on September 13^th.  As you may be aware, our choir “grew” this past year, so that we now have twelve faithful members.  We are still lacking a tenor voice or two, so if God has blessed you with that gift, and you would like to join the  choir in the fall, please let Roland know.

On May 3rd our Youth Group participated in Project Bread’s annual Walk for Hunger. They walked 7.5 miles, and raised $295.00 for charity. We are very , very proud of their efforts.

Saturday, May 31^st our team of golfers participated in the Diocesan Alleluia Fund Golf Tournament at Southwick Country Club.  We had two foursomes playing among a field of 70 other golfers, and our foursome of Bill Jones, Bob Przybylek, Pastor Janice and Peter Kosciusko tied for second place overall.  In addition, Bill Jones won the prize for “closest to the pin,” and Rod Ford won for “the longest drive.”  We had a wonderful time, and we look forward to adding even more players to our team next year.

If you’ve been coming to church since Easter, you’ve seen the restoration of our altar rail, since it was moved during our sanctuary renovations. Thanks to the craftsmanship of Bill Jones, the 140 year old altar rail is now connected to four brand new, handmade posts. The result is absolutely beautiful. We have received many, many compliments on the rail, and all the sanctuary renovations, from parishioners and visitors alike. If you haven’t been to church in a while, seeing all that is new at Reconciliation is a great reason to come back- and keep coming.

This year of Sunday School was a journey of faith on so many levels.  When we began in September, we were unsure of how many children would actually participate, and we needed to find a new curriculum, as well as new teachers.  God provided everything we needed!  Though the number of children present on any given Sunday ran from one to six, the fact that we had class every Sunday was an incredible step forward.

We used a new curriculum, Workshop Rotations, which seemed both effective and efficient for our small number of children.  Six parishioners stepped forward to take on the role of teachers.They include Dolores Kosciusko, Denise Carrier, Holly Fellows, Dawn Christy, Tiffany Poplawski and Jane Bromberg.  They did an incredible job, and demonstrated great flexibility with both the curriculum, and the number of students participating each week.  There is no way to adequately thank them for the work they have done.  The Christian formation of our children is a top priority for us-whether there are two or two hundred-and we are grateful to God for inspiring our teachers to be willing to share themselves and their time with our children.