Upcoming Events
St. Timothy’s Trunk or Treat
Sunday October 29, 6-8pm
Your help is needed.
Paul Butt will perform a Spooky Organ Concert from 6-6:15 in the sanctuary
Afterwards there will be decorations, games and goodies on the patio as well as cars decorated and handing out candy to kiddos in the parking lot. EYC has taken this on as a youth outreach activity, but we REALLY need everyone in the parish to help.
Here is how you can help:
Concert: Paul “Dracula” Butt
Production and costumed characters: Judy James (she will need will folks to dress up and participate in this, contact her directly)
Games and goodies on the patio, The Kimbrough family will be stationed here. We need others here as well for meet and greet, play games as people exit concert.
True Trunk or Treat: decorate the tailgate or trunk of your vehicle, lit up if possible, wear costume of some sort (not too scary for small kiddos), have enough candy on hand to give to at least 100 kiddos.
Traffic control: A few folks ( arm guys?) to direct traffic, place cones to keep Trunk Treat area clear of traffic other than by foot
Please support our outreach to the community in this fun filled evening, even if you do not have kiddos, join us and invite your friends and neighbor children!
Please contact Arleen Frank to sign up to assist on the patio or with your vehicle, so we can plan for the traffic flow. 979-415-4093.
Sunday October 29, 6-8pm
Your help is needed.
- Spooky Organ Concert in the Church 6:00-6:15
- Decorations, games, goodies on the Patio
- Trunk & Treats in the Parking Lot
- Spread the Word!
Paul Butt will perform a Spooky Organ Concert from 6-6:15 in the sanctuary
Afterwards there will be decorations, games and goodies on the patio as well as cars decorated and handing out candy to kiddos in the parking lot. EYC has taken this on as a youth outreach activity, but we REALLY need everyone in the parish to help.
Here is how you can help:
Concert: Paul “Dracula” Butt
Production and costumed characters: Judy James (she will need will folks to dress up and participate in this, contact her directly)
Games and goodies on the patio, The Kimbrough family will be stationed here. We need others here as well for meet and greet, play games as people exit concert.
True Trunk or Treat: decorate the tailgate or trunk of your vehicle, lit up if possible, wear costume of some sort (not too scary for small kiddos), have enough candy on hand to give to at least 100 kiddos.
Traffic control: A few folks ( arm guys?) to direct traffic, place cones to keep Trunk Treat area clear of traffic other than by foot
Please support our outreach to the community in this fun filled evening, even if you do not have kiddos, join us and invite your friends and neighbor children!
Please contact Arleen Frank to sign up to assist on the patio or with your vehicle, so we can plan for the traffic flow. 979-415-4093.
The Teal Pumpkin Project® promotes safety, inclusion and respect of individuals managing food allergies. The simple act of offering non-food treats brings awareness and joy to doorsteps across the country and into the hearts of our very own trick-or-treaters.
Colinda Friehauf, Stephanie Kimbrough and Arleen Frank are working to bring awareness and some non-food treats into our event. They would like your help!
More about the Teal Pumpkin Project
Colinda Friehauf, Stephanie Kimbrough and Arleen Frank are working to bring awareness and some non-food treats into our event. They would like your help!
More about the Teal Pumpkin Project
Dear Parishioners,
Please join me in welcoming Jackie Koch to our parish staff. Jackie will begin this week as our new parish secretary and I hope you will make a point to stop into the church office to introduce yourself and say hello.
Jackie comes to us from D.E. Harvey Builders where she served as Field Office Manager in their Lake Jackson office. Previously she served for over 18 years at BISD as a paraprofessional and a SEMS (Special Education) Clerk. She comes to us with strong clerical and computer skills.
Jackie earned her Associates of Arts Degree Cum Laude from Brazosport College and her Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Houston Clear Lake where she was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society in Education and was on the Dean’s List.
Jackie has been married to her husband, Paul, for 33 years and has one daughter Jennifer who lives in Houston. Jackie keeps busy serving at the Food Basket in Clute and serving at her church, First Christian Church, where she is involved in teaching Children’s Church, the E-Team (Evangelism and Outreach) and most recently as part of the Visioning Team, tasked with rebuilding and refurbishing the church after an extensive fire.
In her free time you’ll find Jackie rooting for the Texans, Rockets, Astros and Dynamo, baking, shopping, attending plays and musicals, and spending time with her family and friends.
Please welcome her aboard!
P.S. (Jackie’s last name is pronounced ‘kotch’)
Faithfully,
Brendan+
Also, Jackie's email address is jkoch@stimothy.org
Please join me in welcoming Jackie Koch to our parish staff. Jackie will begin this week as our new parish secretary and I hope you will make a point to stop into the church office to introduce yourself and say hello.
Jackie comes to us from D.E. Harvey Builders where she served as Field Office Manager in their Lake Jackson office. Previously she served for over 18 years at BISD as a paraprofessional and a SEMS (Special Education) Clerk. She comes to us with strong clerical and computer skills.
Jackie earned her Associates of Arts Degree Cum Laude from Brazosport College and her Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Houston Clear Lake where she was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society in Education and was on the Dean’s List.
Jackie has been married to her husband, Paul, for 33 years and has one daughter Jennifer who lives in Houston. Jackie keeps busy serving at the Food Basket in Clute and serving at her church, First Christian Church, where she is involved in teaching Children’s Church, the E-Team (Evangelism and Outreach) and most recently as part of the Visioning Team, tasked with rebuilding and refurbishing the church after an extensive fire.
In her free time you’ll find Jackie rooting for the Texans, Rockets, Astros and Dynamo, baking, shopping, attending plays and musicals, and spending time with her family and friends.
Please welcome her aboard!
P.S. (Jackie’s last name is pronounced ‘kotch’)
Faithfully,
Brendan+
Also, Jackie's email address is jkoch@stimothy.org
Poetry Retreat 2017
Oct 27-29, 2017
Surfside Beach
Writing the Ache for God
Poetry as Prayer
A Retreat with Richard Osler
You may not have written much for many years, you might have written but not poems or you might be an accomplished writer or poet. No matter what your writing experience come and join a group of fellow pilgrims on October 27th to 29th, 2017, and ask for poems as prayers to come out of the “great” heart of you. The heart under and over your heart. God’s heart. Through words, have that heart speak its words to you – of joy, of sorrow of revelation.
The surprise a poem is. The surprise prayers can be when we invite them, don’t dictate them. During this weekend retreat we will read poems that celebrate, as Canadian poet Dennis Lee says, the miracle ache of the world. The ache that breaks and remakes us. And in that ache another ache: the one celebrated American poet Charles Wright calls the last ache in the ache for God.
Please consider this invitation and if you accept it, bring all of who you think you are, your successes and losses, your ache for God, any sense God is absent (that huge loss) and let your writing as American essayist Melissa Pritchard says: address this loss, return you to the Beloved [God] and to a sense of reunion with ourselves.
Contact Donna Box for retreat information.
Oct 27-29, 2017
Surfside Beach
Writing the Ache for God
Poetry as Prayer
A Retreat with Richard Osler
You may not have written much for many years, you might have written but not poems or you might be an accomplished writer or poet. No matter what your writing experience come and join a group of fellow pilgrims on October 27th to 29th, 2017, and ask for poems as prayers to come out of the “great” heart of you. The heart under and over your heart. God’s heart. Through words, have that heart speak its words to you – of joy, of sorrow of revelation.
The surprise a poem is. The surprise prayers can be when we invite them, don’t dictate them. During this weekend retreat we will read poems that celebrate, as Canadian poet Dennis Lee says, the miracle ache of the world. The ache that breaks and remakes us. And in that ache another ache: the one celebrated American poet Charles Wright calls the last ache in the ache for God.
Please consider this invitation and if you accept it, bring all of who you think you are, your successes and losses, your ache for God, any sense God is absent (that huge loss) and let your writing as American essayist Melissa Pritchard says: address this loss, return you to the Beloved [God] and to a sense of reunion with ourselves.
Contact Donna Box for retreat information.
Missional Communities
Our Committee on Missional Communities continues to evaluate and discern missional opportunities within our community. We will review topics discussed at Diocesan Council this year, and look at how they can be applied as St. Timothy's looks to aggressively move forward with a missional community mindset.
If you would like more information regarding missional communities or wish to be a part of this committee, contact Chris Weis or Mandy Neal.
Our Committee on Missional Communities continues to evaluate and discern missional opportunities within our community. We will review topics discussed at Diocesan Council this year, and look at how they can be applied as St. Timothy's looks to aggressively move forward with a missional community mindset.
If you would like more information regarding missional communities or wish to be a part of this committee, contact Chris Weis or Mandy Neal.
