Weekly eNewsletter from
St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson
July 30, 2020
HELLO PARISHIONERS! A couple of headliners this week. First, we have a new mailing address. For future mailings please use:
St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson
P.O. Box 490
Hughsonville, NY 12537
Just as important, Mtr. Leigh will be away August 3 - August 24. During this time Mtr. Mag will be covering urgent pastoral needs only (hospitalization, death). To contact Mtr. Mag please reach out to Greg Freeman at: Phone 845-625-4364 (leave a message if he does not answer) or Email gregfreeman262@gmail.com. While she is away, Mtr. Leigh, will have her vacation responder on, please do not call, text or email.
Thank you for your cooperation!
PLEASE NOTE: Mtr. Leigh's Office Hours and Happy Hour are on hiatus for the month of August.
Sunday worship in the churchyard has resumed. Please remember there are many restrictions and we are limited to 25 persons, who must be masked and spaced six feet apart. For more information on how worship will work, and what you can expect, please read our reopening letter. Briefly, know that:
-masks covering the nose and mouth will be required
-you need to bring your own chair or blanket
-the building will be off limits for the timebeing
-if you are number 26 or higher on the sign up list, you will be given first dibs on next week's sign up list
-the service will consist of the Liturgy of the Word or Morning Prayer II for now
-the liturgy will be sent to you ahead of time on Saturday evening
-in the event of rain, we will worship from our homes, via Zoom videoconference
We will stream our service to our YouTube channel for those who need to worship from home. We urge those who are 65+, those with underlying health conditions and/or compromised immune systems, and those who have any concern whatsoever about the virus and its spread to worship from home through the online option we are working diligently to make available.
Many thanks for your patience with this process. Churches are one of the most high risk areas for the spread of this virus, and we are doing all we can to regather safely.
To sign up to attend worship
this Sunday Click here
For this weeks liturgy Click here
NOTE: If you cannot open the sign-up sheet, please email Dana at stnicholasnewhamburg@gmail.com so she can add you to the list.
FOR OUR ROTA We need folks to volunteer for Sunday service roles. If you are interested in participating check out the different roles and signup HERE.
MEMORIAL VIDEO PROJECT: Remembering Teresa Croke
Many of you have expressed concern and deep sadness that we will not be able to gather to celebrate and mourn the death of our beloved parishioner, Teresa. I join with you in that concern and sadness. And so, as a way for our church to express our love and grief, I'd like us to make a video.
I'm inviting you to record yourself with your smart phone or device (turned horizontally, not vertically) offering your tributes and memories of Teresa. If you are able, I'd ask that you upload your video to this shared folder in Google Drive. If you are not able to record yourself, but would still like to participate, email us, and we can figure out a way to record you. If you'd like to write something and do a voiceover, we can do that too. If you have pictures to share, we can scan those and add them. The options are really limitless. The target date for the release of this video is some point later in September.
END OF LIFE PLANNING The Coronavirus pandemic has likely made us aware of our own mortality in new and profound ways. It is the responsibility of the Church to assist its members in preparing for death "while they are in health," which often entails the preparation of a will, or, at the least, the preparation of a plan in the event of a member's death. We have prepared a funeral planning form that will help you begin to think through and to plan your funeral, and we encourage you to begin this process seriously if you haven't already.
While the Rector will be away for most of August, you can download these forms and begin to fill them in. Upon her return from vacation, Mtr. Leigh will be available to meet with you to discuss these matters and to help you plan your funeral. We wish to offer special thanks to Bert and Rena Mazzuto for their assistance in developing our funeral planning forms for St. Nick's. Thank you, Bert and Rena!
From the Book of Common Prayer: "The Minister of the Congregation is directed to instruct the people, from time to time, about the duty of Christian parents to make prudent provision for the well‑being
of their families, and of all persons to make wills, while they are in health, arranging for the disposal of their temporal goods, not neglecting, if they are able, to leave bequests for religious and charitable uses." (p. 445)
EPISCOPAL NY READS 1 BOOK Coming this fall, 2020. Our church, along with all 200 parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, is invited to form a local group to read, discuss, and learn from one of the most timely and important books of our day: How To Be An Antiracist, by the acclaimed winner of the National Book Award, Ibram X. Kendi.
From Bishop Dietsche: "The plans for this diocesan book study began last year, and well before the murder of George Floyd and the nationwide protest which followed. But now this national conversation about race and about the deep currents of racism in our society and institutions has been imbued with a broad urgency which is touching everything and everyone in America.
And in that urgency, at this tipping point, Kendi’s book has become a runaway national best seller. He speaks with candor, truth and personal insight to the ancient American corruption of anti-blackness, and the intractability of white supremacy, to the profoundly historic moment in which we now find ourselves."
The diocese will offer three opportunities for diocesan wide Zoom discussions, as well as a virtual meeting with the author on October 22, 2020. Order your book now, and look for a schedule of discussions for our local St. Nick's group coming in mid-August. For more information, please see the diocesan website on the Episcopal NY Reads 1 Book project.
WHERE IS OL' FLAT NICK?
We love your #olflatnick photos; it's amazing to see where St. Nick travels! To share your #olflatnick pics, please be sure to email them to Dana in the church office at stnicholasnewhamburg@gmail.com.
HOW DOES IT WORK? Just take Ol' Flat Nick with you and take a picture with him, practicing social distancing of course :) at the beach, at the campground, in him the mountains, wherever! Then, send us your photo so we can post it in our newsletter and keep up with you. Or upload to your own social media platforms with the hashtag #olflatnick. We can't wait to see where our patron lands this summer!
Ol' Flat Nick's can be printed HERE or can be found in the narthex of the church.
2020 SUMMER READ-A-THON
2020 Friends of Darbonne Read-A-Thon News!
You can still signup to participate in this years read-a-thon HERE. Those who signup to sponsor will be contacted separately to be assigned to a Youth Reader. And the families of Youth Readers will be copied so they know who is sponsoring them!
We’ve had to change things up a bit this year and thought we would join in the fashion of having a yard sign to help communicate our interests and support. We have had small yard signs (12” x18”) made for those who are reading and/or are sponsors (image above). Please reach out to
Joan Freeman at joanfreeman3@gmail.com
if you would like a yard sign (they have a small wire frame that can be inserted into the ground… or the sign can be used to hang in a window if you would like) and in keeping with how we are living in 2020, I’ll deliver the sign to you.
Happy Reading!
Resources: Grinnell Library is now open for contactless pick-up and virtual events. Here’s the library’s website for additional information
http://grinnell-library.org
Questions? Mother Leigh or Mother Mag can help or Joan Freeman 845-897-2404 joanfreeman3@gmail.com OR Marcy Wagman 845-298-0634 wagmanml@verizon.net
BEWARE: Email Scam
Email scammers are preying on our parishioners. In two different cycles now, someone has created an authentic looking email address in Gmail, and then reached out to parishioners claiming to be Mtr. Leigh. Once you respond to the initial email asking you to get in touch, the scammer attempts to engage you in a gift card scam. Please be advised that the only two email addresses in use in the parish are: leighellenhall at gmail and stnicholasnewhamburg at gmail. Mtr. Leigh will never solicit money or donations from you through email. If you have any questions about any email or request, please contact Mtr Leigh at once. Please also forward any suspicious emails to the email provider -- "Report Phishing." We are sorry this has become such a problem, but we've heard from many other clergy that this is a real issue in churches these days, that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic.
CONTINUE YOUR PLEDGE OR DONATE ONLINE
DURING THE CORONA VIRUS CRISIS
We are grateful for each and every dollar we receive here at St. Nick's, and each one of those dollars goes to good use. We keep a lean budget, and our finance committee carefully monitors every line.
While we are not meeting in person for worship on Sunday mornings, we expect that plate donations will drop. And with so much economic uncertainty, we know that home budgets might change. In order to facilitate continued giving, we have reactivated our church PayPal account. Using the button below, you can make your pledge or donation online.
Donate Online
Additionally, you can also set up auto-draft from your own bank account using your online banking. This will cause a paper check to be sent to our mailbox at 37 Point St., which we are checking each day. The Vestry are doing the normal count, and our parish administrator, Dana, continues to record pledges in our system.
BUDDY GROUPS Our parish has been broken up into nine groups of six or seven households and assigned parishioners to be captains of those groups. The captains are a mix of vestry and other lay leaders in the parish. They will be in touch with you to check in and to make sure all is well with you. They will also help me to know what your needs are, be they pastoral or logistical. While you should feel free to call any member of the parish now, Buddy Groups will ensure that no one slips through the cracks, and that our elders, in particular, are getting the care they need right now.
For Buddy Groups and captain contact information
please click: HERE
CORONATIDE CONTACT SHEET Dana, our parish administrator, has created a temporary Coronatide contact sheet with the most updated contact information we have for all of you. If you would like a digital copy of the Temporary Coronatide Contact Sheet, please email the church office. A more complete parish directory, with photos and expanded information, will be available in September.
AA GROUP MEETINGS St. Nick's does have regular AA meetings but due to the Corona Virus restrictions they are currently on hold until further notice.
INTRA OFFICE DEADLINES Want to put an announcement in the weekly e-news? The deadline for submission is: Thursdays@12pm
AGING NEWS: SENIOR RESOURCES Click on this link for the recent enews from Dutchess County Department For The Aging:
https://www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/Aging/OFA-Golden-Living-News-for-Senior-Citizens.htm
PRAYER REQUESTS You can choose to submit a general request for the public parish prayer list or a confidential request for her only. You can submit requests using this online form.
In Our Prayers
For those for whom prayers have been asked:
Jean + Lori + Aunt Totsie + Stu + Paul + Cathy + Friends + Michael + Jake + Ashley + Teresa + Norma + Dale + Cara, Bob & Charlotte + Alex & Alison + The Howes Family + Rick + Bea + Jenn & Becky + Kim + Ashley + Tony + Christopher + Kristina & Pete + Ray John + Henry & Sue + Peggy & Tom + Kelly + Violet + Will + Those who have COVID-19 & those who have passed from COVID-19 + Steve + Bob + Donna + Danny + Charman + Chris + Henry & Family + Al + Lorraine + Helen + Eliot + Barbara + Sean + Mike + Scott + Tony + Maureen & Paul + John & Dan + Murphy + Kay + Irv + Lee Ann + Howie + Joshua
- For compassion and empathy to others
In Thanksgiving:
- For the birth of Gabriella
For the departed:
Felice Mauro + Richard + Lori Williams Minchew
+ Laurel Alksnis + Drew Hoffman + Tony Cipriano + Anthony Dass + Mike Tomkovitch + Susan Guerriero + Louie Nardella +
Patti Ciccarelli + Scott Rubinow + Helen Fuimarello
St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson
July 30, 2020
HELLO PARISHIONERS! A couple of headliners this week. First, we have a new mailing address. For future mailings please use:
St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson
P.O. Box 490
Hughsonville, NY 12537
Just as important, Mtr. Leigh will be away August 3 - August 24. During this time Mtr. Mag will be covering urgent pastoral needs only (hospitalization, death). To contact Mtr. Mag please reach out to Greg Freeman at: Phone 845-625-4364 (leave a message if he does not answer) or Email gregfreeman262@gmail.com. While she is away, Mtr. Leigh, will have her vacation responder on, please do not call, text or email.
Thank you for your cooperation!
PLEASE NOTE: Mtr. Leigh's Office Hours and Happy Hour are on hiatus for the month of August.
Sunday worship in the churchyard has resumed. Please remember there are many restrictions and we are limited to 25 persons, who must be masked and spaced six feet apart. For more information on how worship will work, and what you can expect, please read our reopening letter. Briefly, know that:
-masks covering the nose and mouth will be required
-you need to bring your own chair or blanket
-the building will be off limits for the timebeing
-if you are number 26 or higher on the sign up list, you will be given first dibs on next week's sign up list
-the service will consist of the Liturgy of the Word or Morning Prayer II for now
-the liturgy will be sent to you ahead of time on Saturday evening
-in the event of rain, we will worship from our homes, via Zoom videoconference
We will stream our service to our YouTube channel for those who need to worship from home. We urge those who are 65+, those with underlying health conditions and/or compromised immune systems, and those who have any concern whatsoever about the virus and its spread to worship from home through the online option we are working diligently to make available.
Many thanks for your patience with this process. Churches are one of the most high risk areas for the spread of this virus, and we are doing all we can to regather safely.
To sign up to attend worship
this Sunday Click here
For this weeks liturgy Click here
NOTE: If you cannot open the sign-up sheet, please email Dana at stnicholasnewhamburg@gmail.com so she can add you to the list.
FOR OUR ROTA We need folks to volunteer for Sunday service roles. If you are interested in participating check out the different roles and signup HERE.
MEMORIAL VIDEO PROJECT: Remembering Teresa Croke
Many of you have expressed concern and deep sadness that we will not be able to gather to celebrate and mourn the death of our beloved parishioner, Teresa. I join with you in that concern and sadness. And so, as a way for our church to express our love and grief, I'd like us to make a video.
I'm inviting you to record yourself with your smart phone or device (turned horizontally, not vertically) offering your tributes and memories of Teresa. If you are able, I'd ask that you upload your video to this shared folder in Google Drive. If you are not able to record yourself, but would still like to participate, email us, and we can figure out a way to record you. If you'd like to write something and do a voiceover, we can do that too. If you have pictures to share, we can scan those and add them. The options are really limitless. The target date for the release of this video is some point later in September.
END OF LIFE PLANNING The Coronavirus pandemic has likely made us aware of our own mortality in new and profound ways. It is the responsibility of the Church to assist its members in preparing for death "while they are in health," which often entails the preparation of a will, or, at the least, the preparation of a plan in the event of a member's death. We have prepared a funeral planning form that will help you begin to think through and to plan your funeral, and we encourage you to begin this process seriously if you haven't already.
While the Rector will be away for most of August, you can download these forms and begin to fill them in. Upon her return from vacation, Mtr. Leigh will be available to meet with you to discuss these matters and to help you plan your funeral. We wish to offer special thanks to Bert and Rena Mazzuto for their assistance in developing our funeral planning forms for St. Nick's. Thank you, Bert and Rena!
From the Book of Common Prayer: "The Minister of the Congregation is directed to instruct the people, from time to time, about the duty of Christian parents to make prudent provision for the well‑being
of their families, and of all persons to make wills, while they are in health, arranging for the disposal of their temporal goods, not neglecting, if they are able, to leave bequests for religious and charitable uses." (p. 445)
EPISCOPAL NY READS 1 BOOK Coming this fall, 2020. Our church, along with all 200 parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, is invited to form a local group to read, discuss, and learn from one of the most timely and important books of our day: How To Be An Antiracist, by the acclaimed winner of the National Book Award, Ibram X. Kendi.
From Bishop Dietsche: "The plans for this diocesan book study began last year, and well before the murder of George Floyd and the nationwide protest which followed. But now this national conversation about race and about the deep currents of racism in our society and institutions has been imbued with a broad urgency which is touching everything and everyone in America.
And in that urgency, at this tipping point, Kendi’s book has become a runaway national best seller. He speaks with candor, truth and personal insight to the ancient American corruption of anti-blackness, and the intractability of white supremacy, to the profoundly historic moment in which we now find ourselves."
The diocese will offer three opportunities for diocesan wide Zoom discussions, as well as a virtual meeting with the author on October 22, 2020. Order your book now, and look for a schedule of discussions for our local St. Nick's group coming in mid-August. For more information, please see the diocesan website on the Episcopal NY Reads 1 Book project.
WHERE IS OL' FLAT NICK?
We love your #olflatnick photos; it's amazing to see where St. Nick travels! To share your #olflatnick pics, please be sure to email them to Dana in the church office at stnicholasnewhamburg@gmail.com.
HOW DOES IT WORK? Just take Ol' Flat Nick with you and take a picture with him, practicing social distancing of course :) at the beach, at the campground, in him the mountains, wherever! Then, send us your photo so we can post it in our newsletter and keep up with you. Or upload to your own social media platforms with the hashtag #olflatnick. We can't wait to see where our patron lands this summer!
Ol' Flat Nick's can be printed HERE or can be found in the narthex of the church.
2020 SUMMER READ-A-THON
2020 Friends of Darbonne Read-A-Thon News!
You can still signup to participate in this years read-a-thon HERE. Those who signup to sponsor will be contacted separately to be assigned to a Youth Reader. And the families of Youth Readers will be copied so they know who is sponsoring them!
We’ve had to change things up a bit this year and thought we would join in the fashion of having a yard sign to help communicate our interests and support. We have had small yard signs (12” x18”) made for those who are reading and/or are sponsors (image above). Please reach out to
Joan Freeman at joanfreeman3@gmail.com
if you would like a yard sign (they have a small wire frame that can be inserted into the ground… or the sign can be used to hang in a window if you would like) and in keeping with how we are living in 2020, I’ll deliver the sign to you.
Happy Reading!
Resources: Grinnell Library is now open for contactless pick-up and virtual events. Here’s the library’s website for additional information
http://grinnell-library.org
Questions? Mother Leigh or Mother Mag can help or Joan Freeman 845-897-2404 joanfreeman3@gmail.com OR Marcy Wagman 845-298-0634 wagmanml@verizon.net
BEWARE: Email Scam
Email scammers are preying on our parishioners. In two different cycles now, someone has created an authentic looking email address in Gmail, and then reached out to parishioners claiming to be Mtr. Leigh. Once you respond to the initial email asking you to get in touch, the scammer attempts to engage you in a gift card scam. Please be advised that the only two email addresses in use in the parish are: leighellenhall at gmail and stnicholasnewhamburg at gmail. Mtr. Leigh will never solicit money or donations from you through email. If you have any questions about any email or request, please contact Mtr Leigh at once. Please also forward any suspicious emails to the email provider -- "Report Phishing." We are sorry this has become such a problem, but we've heard from many other clergy that this is a real issue in churches these days, that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic.
CONTINUE YOUR PLEDGE OR DONATE ONLINE
DURING THE CORONA VIRUS CRISIS
We are grateful for each and every dollar we receive here at St. Nick's, and each one of those dollars goes to good use. We keep a lean budget, and our finance committee carefully monitors every line.
While we are not meeting in person for worship on Sunday mornings, we expect that plate donations will drop. And with so much economic uncertainty, we know that home budgets might change. In order to facilitate continued giving, we have reactivated our church PayPal account. Using the button below, you can make your pledge or donation online.
Donate Online
Additionally, you can also set up auto-draft from your own bank account using your online banking. This will cause a paper check to be sent to our mailbox at 37 Point St., which we are checking each day. The Vestry are doing the normal count, and our parish administrator, Dana, continues to record pledges in our system.
BUDDY GROUPS Our parish has been broken up into nine groups of six or seven households and assigned parishioners to be captains of those groups. The captains are a mix of vestry and other lay leaders in the parish. They will be in touch with you to check in and to make sure all is well with you. They will also help me to know what your needs are, be they pastoral or logistical. While you should feel free to call any member of the parish now, Buddy Groups will ensure that no one slips through the cracks, and that our elders, in particular, are getting the care they need right now.
For Buddy Groups and captain contact information
please click: HERE
CORONATIDE CONTACT SHEET Dana, our parish administrator, has created a temporary Coronatide contact sheet with the most updated contact information we have for all of you. If you would like a digital copy of the Temporary Coronatide Contact Sheet, please email the church office. A more complete parish directory, with photos and expanded information, will be available in September.
AA GROUP MEETINGS St. Nick's does have regular AA meetings but due to the Corona Virus restrictions they are currently on hold until further notice.
INTRA OFFICE DEADLINES Want to put an announcement in the weekly e-news? The deadline for submission is: Thursdays@12pm
AGING NEWS: SENIOR RESOURCES Click on this link for the recent enews from Dutchess County Department For The Aging:
https://www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/Aging/OFA-Golden-Living-News-for-Senior-Citizens.htm
PRAYER REQUESTS You can choose to submit a general request for the public parish prayer list or a confidential request for her only. You can submit requests using this online form.
In Our Prayers
For those for whom prayers have been asked:
Jean + Lori + Aunt Totsie + Stu + Paul + Cathy + Friends + Michael + Jake + Ashley + Teresa + Norma + Dale + Cara, Bob & Charlotte + Alex & Alison + The Howes Family + Rick + Bea + Jenn & Becky + Kim + Ashley + Tony + Christopher + Kristina & Pete + Ray John + Henry & Sue + Peggy & Tom + Kelly + Violet + Will + Those who have COVID-19 & those who have passed from COVID-19 + Steve + Bob + Donna + Danny + Charman + Chris + Henry & Family + Al + Lorraine + Helen + Eliot + Barbara + Sean + Mike + Scott + Tony + Maureen & Paul + John & Dan + Murphy + Kay + Irv + Lee Ann + Howie + Joshua
- For compassion and empathy to others
In Thanksgiving:
- For the birth of Gabriella
For the departed:
Felice Mauro + Richard + Lori Williams Minchew
+ Laurel Alksnis + Drew Hoffman + Tony Cipriano + Anthony Dass + Mike Tomkovitch + Susan Guerriero + Louie Nardella +
Patti Ciccarelli + Scott Rubinow + Helen Fuimarello