| St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Smyrna, Delaware UPCOMING INSPIRATIONS e-Weekly December 4, 2025 |
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Web Links for the Second Sunday of Advent |
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If you join us online for Sunday service: 🎶 During the season of Advent, the postludes will feature Christmas carols from different countries. Please enjoy carols from Poland, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Chile. A special thank you to Father Ed Godden for being our Celebrant this week! |
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Every Thursday- Bell practice begins at 6:00 pm and Choir practice begins at 7:00 pm December 12th– Church Cleaning- Friday at 9:00 am. Preschool will be open. Please enter using the office door. December 20th Church Decorating, Saturday at 9:00 am (Windows/trees/wreaths); Nativity and poles will go out after the service on the 21st. December 21st – Lessons & Carols at the 9:00 am Service -Vestry meeting following the 9:00 am service. -Finish decorating the church: Nativity and poles following the 9:00 am service. -Christmas Flower Memorials are due. December 21st– Carol Sing in front of the Presbyterian Church at 5:00 pm. December 24th– Christmas Eve Service, Music prelude begins at 6:30 pm with the service starting immediately following between 6:45-7:00 pm. |
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The Annual Stewardship Campaign ended on November 30,2025. Thank you all for another successful campaign! If you did not turn in your pledge card, you can still do so, extra cards can be found in the front pew in the church. Please drop it in the offertory bag or return it to the church office. |
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Christmas Flowers: Please submit your request for Christmas Flower Memorials no later than Sunday, December 21, 2025 to be included in the bulletin. Forms are located at each entrance to the church or click HERE. The lists for the 2026 Aumbry Candle and Altar Flowers are available on the bulletin outside the kitchen window or contact the church office to check availability. |
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We are getting ready for 2026. Time to crunch some numbers and complete our annual reports for 2025. The Annual Parish Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, January 18, 2025 following the 9:00am service. All committee reports are due by Thursday, January 8, 2026 to the parish administrator. Please email report to stpeters.smyrna@verizon.net. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Embert. The office number is 302-653-9691 |
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The Search committee met this past week following the Thanksgiving holiday. They continue to edit our responses to the questions on the OTM/Office of Transition Ministry form, and we are formulating the answers for those to build our Job Description. Our plan is to approve the final version in the next week and send to Canon Brad Hinton for his comments and changes. Hope to be able to have a posting by Mid to late December. Thank you to the congregation and ask for your continued prayers and support. We are ever mindful of the incredible trust you have put in us as your servants. 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. |
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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. |
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| Click HERE to see what is going on in the diocese. |
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The “Parish News” section in the bulletin will be used to announce projects completed around the church and special events that are happening in the lives of our parishioners. Please contact the church office if you would like to share any information. |
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UPDATE: Collection Date Extended until Sunday, December 6th!!!! The November Outreach is the “DHCI Christmas for Residents”. Please see “General Donations List” below. Items/Funds can be dropped off at St. Peter’s during Sunday Services, during office hours or mailed in (checks need to be made out to St. Peter’s Church with “DHCI Christmas” in the memo line). |
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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. |
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Thanks to everyone who played Have You Seen This? for the month of November! The following people submitted the correct location of the Preschool Birthday Bulletin Board located in the parish hall above the food table for coffee hour. Dawn Adams, Yvonne Belle, Carol Binns, Paula Buckley, Georgia Carter, Diana Cullison, Betty Decker, Bonnie Forgacs, Harper Lee, Linda Lingner Stan McIntyre, Muff Meyers, Riley Richard, Rosemarie Richard, Melody Richards, Linda Slicher and Jane Woodall. The winner of the $10 giftcard to WAWA is Betty Decker! Congratulations! |
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Have You Seen This?-December 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! |
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Images through Church Online Subscription, Account # 74074931 Episcopal Network for Stewardship-TENS Program-Tell Out My Soul |
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We Pray for Peace Throughout the World! |
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