St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

Smyrna, Delaware

e-Weekly

October 23, 2025

Service Bulletin for Sunday, October 26th

A special thank you to Father Kim Capwell for being our Celebrant this week!

Every Thursday- Bell practice begins at 6:00 pm and Choir practice begins at 7:00 pm

October 31^st– Happy Halloween!!!

November 2^nd-FALL BACK!! TIME CHANGE. Don’t forget to set your clock back 1 hour.

November 2^nd– Congregational meeting following the 9 am service.

November 21^st & 22^nd –Crafting Fundraiser- $40 includes both days (Friday, Oct 10^th 3pm-9pm and Saturday, Oct 11^th –9 am to 9 pm) Dinner provided. See Dawn Adams or Patty Murray for more details.

Check out the diocesan weekly newsletter— The Net!

We are featured in this weeks edition for our new website.

Fundraising Opportunity:

You can help support St. Peter’s Church by grocery shopping!

When you shop at Redner’s, simply bring your receipts into church and place them in the box located in the parish hall.

Redner’s donates a portion of your total receipt back to St. Peter’s Church.

We Want to Hear from You!

The Search Committee invites all parishioners to take part in our Congregational Survey. Your input will help us better understand who we are as a community—our needs, values, and hopes for the future—and guide us as we call our next priest.

The survey includes three brief sections: About You, About Our Church, and About Our Future New Priest.

Each household member is encouraged to complete the survey individually.

Please submit either an online or printed copy—Not Both. If you are using the printed version, please write clearly so your responses can be entered electronically by the committee.

Please submit your completed survey—online or printed—by Tuesday, November 4, 2025.

To complete the survey online, please check your email for the link sent by the church. The title of the email is: Action Required: St. Peter’s Congregational Survey, Due Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025

If you need help accessing the survey or have any questions, please contact our co-chairs, Dawn Adams (302-233-1095) or Tom Schultz (302-535-4086).

Thank you for your time, prayers, and continued support!

— The Search Committee

Prayer for the Search Committee:

Gracious and Loving God, I ask your guidance and wisdom for the search committee. Bless these individuals called to serve, grant them unity, spiritual strength, and discernment to hear your voice in their deliberations. Keep them open to one another and to your will, nurturing patience and deep trust in you. May they be sensitive to your direction as they identify the shepherd you have chosen for us, and may the chosen priest be a faithful steward of your word. Instill in all of us, the congregation, a vision of the future guided by your Holy Spirit, so that we may be united in love and gladly accomplish your mission for us.

The Annual Stewardship Campaign, has begun and will continue through November 30, 2025.

Each week a question for reflection will be placed in the weekly announcements. During the week, please think about this question and how it relates to your story in your relationship with God and St. Peter’s Church.

If you have not received your stewardship packet, extra packets are located in the front pew of the church.

St. Peter’s accepts online donations to support our on going mission and ministries. Please click HERE to support our mission. Thank you in advance for your support and donation to our ministries.

Diocesan News…..

If you would like to attend the annual conference as a guest, please click HERE to register.

Click HERE to see what is going on in the diocese.

2025 Annual Report

Monthly Lay Minister and Counter Schedule

The October Outreach is the Community Thanksgiving Dinner sponsored by the Smyrna-Clayton Ministerium. Checks need to be made out to St. Peter’s Church with “Thanksgiving Dinner” in the memo line.

Funds can be dropped off at St. Peter’s during Sunday Services, dropped off during office hours (Tues-Thurs 9AM

to 1PM), or mailed to the church.

On the first Sunday of every month, a basket will be passed around the church. The basket will contain slips of paper with items needed for the food pantry. Please draw a slip from the basket and while you are out shopping during the month, please pick up that item for the pantry. If you miss the first Sunday or would like to select additional items, please use the baskets located at both entrances to the church to select items throughout the month.

If you would like to donate your own item(s), here is a list of some of the most common items needed each week: juice boxes or pouches, peanut butter and jelly, hamburger helper and tuna helper, canned tuna, canned chicken, sloppy joe sauce (Manwich), boxed spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, mayonnaise, Cereal, fresh bread, Vienna sausage, breakfast bars, Chef Boy Ardee canned pasta and powdered milk.

We “Thank” everyone who donates to all the various groups throughout the year.

Game Time

Thanks to everyone who played Have You Seen This? for the month of September! The following people submitted the correct location of the window in the steeple above the church’s main entrance.

Tom Campbell, Stan McIntyre, Muff Meyers.

The winner of the $10 giftcard to WAWA is Stan McIntyre! Congratulations!

 Have You Seen This?-October 2025– Each month a picture will be selected from around the church (including parish hall and office wing). There is a full color picture placed on the bulletin board across from the kitchen window and one sent in the weekly email. To play all you need to do is look around the building to see if you can locate where the item in the picture is located. If you are playing in person, write down the location and put it in the envelope provided on the bulletin board. If playing online, email the church office at stpeters.smyrna@verizon.net with the location. Everyone who guesses the correct location of the picture will be placed in a drawing at the end of the month for a chance to win a $10 giftcard to WAWA. Let’s get out and look around to see how beautiful our church is!

Local Events

Images through Church Online Subscription, Account # 74074931

Episcopal Network for Stewardship-TENS Program-Tell Out My Soul