Please join us on June 16th at New Quarter Park, 1000 Lakehead Drive, Williamsburg, VA, at 1:30 pm for an environmental education program. Callie Houghland, Maggie Riley and Rev. Clay will give a talk about the local environment and God’s given gifts of nature. We will then have meal with fun and fellowship! Late, we will celebrate our time together with evening prayer. Who knows, some wiffle ball might even happen! Some come out and get in nature and let’s have some fun! Remember church doesn’t just happen at 1333 Jamestown Road! Please call 757-229-1111 or email eco@stmartinswmbg.org to sign up or for more information!

3 CHURCH VBS SCHEDULED-  “All the Ways We Pray” is the theme for Vacation Bible School for Hickory Neck, Bruton Parish, and St. Martin’s churches.  HNC will host VBS from 9:00 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, August 6-10.Registration forms are available in the narthex, in the May CLOAK

and on the HNC website and should be returned to HNC.  Youth and adults interested in volunteering should contact Paula Simmons (564-7998). 

Materials being collected for VBS include: parchment paper for baking, any size white or pastel flat sheets, paints, markers, colored pencils, beads and charms, elastic cord, small cord, large popsicle sticks/tongue depressors.  A collection bin labeled “VBS Supplies” is located in the narthex.

Gospel Study Invitation:  Our local "Triangle Chapter" of the Order of St. Luke is offering an opportunity to study the 26 Gospel accounts of Jesus' healings. This will start with two parallel sessions, afternoon and evening of May 22nd at the Wmbg. United Methodist Church. The full course of monthly meetings will be completed by December, taking July and August off. It requires the purchase of a study book, which provides the self-study outline needed for the group discussions that follow each month. For more info, contact David Benedict, OSL Chaplain at 258-5893 or dsbenedict@cox.net

Do you have items to donate for the upcoming yard sale? J2A is most grateful. Please begin bringing those items on or after Monday, April 30. Please deposit them in Miles Hall--in front of the stage, to the right side.
 
We will take just about anything except adult clothing (just too hard to display). 

J2A Metal Recycling Project During the Yard Sale on Saturday, May 5, the J2A youth will also be accepting metals that they will then recycle for money.  What is meant by “metals,” you say?  Here are just a few of the types of things that can be recycled: Aluminum Cans & Bakeware (aluminum anything), Copper Pipe and Fittings (look under your work bench in the garage for those pieces you saved “in case you might need them”), Small Kitchen Appliances (toasters, blenders, hand mixers, deep fryers), Cookware (pots, pans, skillets, etc.), Steel Tools (carpentry, garden, etc.), Old Cutlery (knives, forks, spoons, tongs, etc.), Metal Hangers & Shoe Stretchers, Car Parts (bumpers, hubcaps, carburetor, etc.), Lighting Fixtures (indoor or outdoor), Stoves and Cooktops (yes if they are not in good working order and Habitat for Humanity won’t take them, we will).  With that said, there are a few things we won’t take because it would be unsafe for the J2A kids to dismantle them.  They are:  NO electronics (computers, printers, etc.), NO batteries, No Microwaves NO Sharp Objects (razor blades, etc.)  HAPPY HUNTING!!!!!

SCANDAL OF THE CROSS- Kevin (VIP) Vipavetz, a NASA physicist, parishioner, and active member of the Adult Formation Committee, will present his second program during the 10am hour between services this Sunday in Miles Hall.  On April 22nd he will explore the "Scandal of the Cross."  Get your coffee in the hallway outside the kitchen, settle in Miles Hall and get prepared to be riveted by Vip's thoughts on this subject.

LEARN MORE ABOUT EFM... Like "What is it?", "Why  would I be interested?", or "What do those letters stand for?"   Come to an open house on Tuesday, April 25th @ 7pm in the Choir Room downstairs across from the staff offices.  Every baptized person is called to ministry.  The Education for Ministry (EfM) program provides people with the education to carry out that ministry.  Through study, prayer, and reflection, EfM groups move toward a new understanding of the fullness of God’s kingdom.  Participants dig deeper into the Christian faith, study the Bible, Church history and theological ideas and reflect on connecting faith with life experiences.

Our J2A young people want to remind everyone to think about what they might want to donate to the upcoming yard sale (the proceeds of which will benefit the Summer of 2013 pilgrimage).  We will take just about anything except adult clothing (just too hard to display).  If in your top-to-bottom-of-the-house-and-garage search you find some items too beat-up to sell at the sale, the J2A teens will be collecting aluminum cans, copper, and steel for recycle.  so if you have soda cans (rinsed out please),  a scratched up frying pan, rusted fence post, bent light fixture or broken faucet, J2A will give it a  second life and earn money toward their pilgrimage through recycling.