Benediction Weekly – July 23 ⛪

Benediction Weekly – July 23 ⛪

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S

ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St. (If you would like to volunteer, please contact at (805) 528-1370)
COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Thursday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.
EARTHCARE – Zoom 3rd Wednesdays 3pm. Discussion/action group seeking spiritual and practical solutions to environmental concerns. MEN’S GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays – 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe.
HEALING SERVICE – FACEBOOK – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30  service on 5th Sundays.
HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on Zoom.
LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11-1pm and 4-6pm on last Wednesdays
PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st  Saturday of even-numbered months
VESPERS AND CONVERSATION  – Zoom –  5:30 pm Tuesdays

VESTRY / PARISH COUNCIL – ZOOM –  3rd Sundays at 12:30pm.

  • The Rev. Dr. Caroline Hall, Rector             
  • Maureen Titus, Presiding Warden
  • Lisa Gonzalez, Treasurer
  • Sandy Fisher, People’s Warden
  • Pamela Bleisch
  • Cathy Gildea
  • Esta Kandarian
  • Helen Schnieders

We are grateful for God’s financial providence and blessing. Thank you for making your offerings by mail to our PO Box, or on-line.

THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION  – This week we will continue a conversation based on the ideas in Rediscovering God by Fr. Cyprian Consiglio. You do not have to read the book to participate. Tuesdays at 10:30 on Zoom.

The Kitchen Crew is fine tuning the Potluck schedule. Below you will find the assignments for what to bring:

For our next potluck on August 6:
If your last name begins with A thru F, please bring a Dessert
If your last name begins with G thru L, please bring a Main Dish
If your last name begins with M thru Z, please bring a Salad or a Side dish

Take Action on Our Church’s Values: The Episcopal Church provides a great set of Action Alerts on key issues before Congress. The alerts help Episcopalians automate expressing our views to our representatives in Congress. You also can edit your messages to personalize your concerns. A recent Alert of note is “Urge Congress to Pass Voting Rights Legislation.”
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/office-government-relations/action-alerts/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f100768%2fRespond

PERSONAL PRAYER – If you’d like prayer support during the week, contact Lisa Gonzalez (805-441-3386). If no answer, please leave a message and your call will be returned. Prayer requests may also be emailed at any time to prayers@stbenslososos.org and requests for pastoral care may be sent to pastoralcare@stbenslososos.org.

The Altar Guild serves each Sunday by setting up and creating sacred space and then putting the vessels and linens away at the end as well as by looking after everything we use in worship. There are openings for two or more people to join the team. If God is calling you to this special ministry please talk to Diana Hammerlund.

BIDDING BOOK PRAYERS – If you’d like to request prayers for someone to have their names read out during the worship services on Sunday, please write them in the bidding book on the stand by the usher’s station as you come into church.
 

Birthdays: Lisa Gonzalez, July 24th; Fred Leahy, July 25th; David Chesebro, July 26th; Ron Thompson, July 29th


This Week at St Ben’s

Sunday

  • 8a Contemplative Service Zoom
  • 10:30a Eucharist in-person and livestreamed on FB

Tuesday

  • 9:45a Prayers for the Morning: Zoom
  • 10:30a  Spiritual Conversation: Zoom
  • 5:30p  Vespers
  • 7:00p  Resonance Rehearsal

Wednesday

  • 11:00a  Laundry Love
  • 4:00p    Laundry Love

Thursday

  • 3p  Healing Ministry

Sunday 

  • 8a Contemplative Service Zoom
  • 10:30a Eucharist, in-person and livestreamed on FB
  • 2p Deanery Meeting

Service leaflets for Sunday services and Vespers are available under the Worship tab on our website
https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

RALPH’S CARD: Please consider registering your Food for Less or Ralph’s card as donating to St Benedict’s. In the last quarter 20 households contributed this way and we received over $200. How to do this here: https://www.ralphs.com/i/community/community-contribution-program

A reminder that all organic waste must now be put into a green container not into the trash. Thank you to Ron Thompson for getting us a new compost container – note that it is WHITE. Less organic waste in the landfill means less methane and less global warming. In SLO County green waste means food waste and paper napkins/paper towels that have been used for food waste, flowers and other organic material but NOT items that are labeled compostable like plates, cutlery etc. Thank you for caring for the planet and obeying the law. No bags of any kind may go in the compost or the recycle bins.

The Altar Guild serves each Sunday by setting up and creating sacred space and then putting the vessels and linens away at the end as well as by looking after everything we use in worship. There are openings for two or more people to join the team. If God is calling you to this special ministry please talk to Sarah Chesebro.

BIDDING BOOK PRAYERS – If you’d like to request prayers for someone to have their names read out during the worship services on Sunday, please write them in the bidding book on the stand by the usher’s station as you come into church.

UKRAINIAN REFUGEES in Poland need help. We are sending money to Caro’s sisters church in Nowy Sacz, Poland. Please put “Ukraine” on your check or on-line gift.

NAME TAGS –  We are asking everyone to wear a name tag.   Please check the name tag board by the door for yours.  If you don’t have one, or if an old one has become too shabby, please ask the office to make one for you. In the meantime, you can fill out an adhesive tag for the day. 

HOW TO FIND OUR SERVICES

Our 8am and 10:30 am Sunday services are Eucharist services, held indoors at the church for anyone wishing to attend in person.  Masks are required, and we will continue to ask people to maintain social distancing by having no more than three people per pew. 

The 8:00 am service will also be available on Zoom.  There is no 8am service on the first Sunday of each month.

The 10:30 am service will also be live-streamed for those who watch remotely — either on  Facebook at  www.facebook.com/stbenslososos/  or through our website at  http://www.stbenslososos.org/facebook-including-live-stream/

Service leaflets for both services are available under the Worship tab on our website: https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/

Unless otherwise stated, our meetings happen on Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7977776046?pwd=VUFZSXY3UVpNVitJaDl2VmhPS3E2UT09    Passcode is: 93402


ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S

ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St.

COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Wednesday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.

EARTHCARE – Discussion/action group seeking local solutions to environmental concerns.  3rd Wednesdays 3:00 pm on ZOOM

HEALING SERVICE – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30 service on 5th Sundays.

HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on ZOOM. 

LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11am and 4pm on last Wednesday of each month.

MEN’S BREAKFAST GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe

PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st Saturday of even numbered months

SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION – a lively on-line conversation, often based on a book. Tuesdays 10:15am

VESPERS AND CONVERSATION – 5:30 pm Tuesdays