ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD MINISTRY- Due to a mouse infestation, St. Paul's Episcopal Church Food Ministry is in need of 28 quart sized containers to pack food for safe keeping.   These can be clean used containers or new. They also continue to have a need for low sugar grape jelly, brown paper lunch sacs, sandwich bags and soft or chewy granola bars or snack bars such as Nutrigrain Bars.  Please place items in the container in the narthex marked for St. Paul's.

OUTREACH MINISTRY FAIRE- The Outreach Commission would like to invite you to join us for an amazing opportunity to learn more about the organizations that help our community! The St. Martin’s Outreach Commission is sponsoring the first annual Outreach Ministry Faire. This will be an opportunity to meet leaders from the community whose mission is to improve the quality of life in the Greater Williamsburg Area. There will be opportunities to volunteer and learn how you can help and be the hands and hearts of Christ in this world! So, please join us in Miles Hall on May 20th immediately following the 9:15 service to learn how you can serve those in need in our community! If you would like more information or to be involved please email ministryfaire@stmartinswmbg.org

SPECIAL GUEST PREACHER- In recognition of St. Martin’s annual collection for Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD), The Reverend Lauren Stanley will preach at all three services on Sunday, April 22nd.  The Rev. Lauren R. Stanley is an Episcopal priest of the Diocese of Virginia who serves as a preacher, celebrant, retreat leader and consultant. She was an Appointed Missionary of The Episcopal Church for five years, serving most recently in the Diocese of Haiti, the largest diocese in the Church. Before serving in Haiti, she spent four years (2005-2009) as the Episcopal Church's only full-time missionary in Sudan, where she taught and was chaplain at the Renk Theological College in South Sudan. A graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary (1997), she served in numerous parishes in the Dioceses of Virginia and Bethlehem Pa., specializing in mission work both domestic and foreign before becoming a full-time missionary. She is the author of the Diocese of Virginia’s Short-Term Mission Handbook; the January 2010 Forward Day by Day meditations; a contributor to Walking with God Day by Day and Wisdom Found: Stories of Women Transfigured by Faith, and is a national newspaper columnist writing about God's presence in our lives. Her web site is www.gointheworld.net. Before ordination, Stanley was a journalist for 20-plus years, as well as a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Kenya in the mid-1980s.

ERD INGATHERING COLLECTION TODAY-Nets for Life Prevents Malaria - This past Sunday, April 15, envelopes were included in the bulletin for the annual in-gathering for Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) which will occur today- Sunday, April 22nd. Our collection is  dedicated to ERD's NetsforLife which works to save lives by delivering insecticide-treated mosquito nets and training in malaria prevention to communities in 17 African countries. By making your check payable to St. Martin’s Church and designating “ERD – NetsforLife” on the check memo line, we will send one check from our parish designated for this malaria prevention initiative. If you won’t be in attendance on ERD Sunday, you may submit your check to St. Martin’s prior to the collection date using the same notation on the check memo line. A $12 contribution  not only a net but also an integrated approach to malaria prevention. Please consider helping our Outreach Commission support this life-saving work.