The GOOD NEWS OCTOBER 2021 . NUMBER EIGHT . VOLUME TWENTY-ONE

A publication of ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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We have had a couple close calls with COVID lately. One of the people at the pantry last month tested positive several days after the last gathering. No one did anything wrong but people weren’t masked either. I got really sick several weeks ago. I had almost every COVID symptom, but both my tests were nega-tive, and I was grateful. I am a pretty rigorous mask wearer, but I had been in contact with a lot of people. The truth is, that as careful as we are, as much as we clean, as current as we try to stay with what is happening in the world, I can’t keep you safe. It’s up to you to wear a mask. It’s up to you to socially distance. It is up to you to stay home if you don’t feel well. It’s up to you to get vaccinated. If you are not coming to church be-cause you are concerned about getting sick, it is OK! That’s why we continue to have the service online. We want you to

From The Rector take really good care of yourself and never do anything that frightens you. Being a part of a community means that we

pray for each other, we do our best to keep each

other safe, we make the best decisions we can to

keep others healthy as well as ourselves. We are

not done with COVID yet. Let’s support one

another’s choices for safety and health!

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Unsung Hero

This month we thank Doug who started with

the parish through our EfM group. He has be-

come a regular in all of our outreach programs

and recently took on part of the administration

in managing our food pantry. Doug also helps

with recording the 10:30 am service. But the

best that Doug offers is being available for any-

thing that needs to be done. We are so grateful

he is at St. John’s. Please thank Doug for all he

does the next time you see him!

We so appreciate your patience, flexibility and cooperation as we plan for fall. It seems as though we are in a constant state of waiting as we watch reports on the advance of the virus throughout our Mahoning Valley. So many of our minis-tries and plans are contingent on the movement of this virus. Please pray. Please watch for weekly updates distributed through our Constant Contact email and our website: www.stjohnohio.org. For the time being, we will plan and go forward with caution and preventive measures, including masks and social distancing. Thank you!

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Christian Education

Sunday School

Sunday School Zoom lessons will begin on October 3rd for our families with children ages 3—10 led by Christa Buckler. If you need a packet for your family, please call the church to pick up your Sunday School packet with lessons and activities.

If you have questions, please contact our Christian Education Coordinator, Christa by email at: stjohnohio@gmail.com. Christa majored in Special Education/Early Childhood Educa-tion and English Language Learners and is passionate about finding creative ways to teach children from all backgrounds and cultures. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to pick up your packet containing a variety of hands-on activities with different teaching strategies to accommodate diverse learning styles!

Wonderful Wednesdays this Fall Meet our Neighbors

October 20th Holy Days in the Jewish Faith

We welcome Rabbi Paula Winning who will

present teaching on the sacred holidays in the

Jewish Faith.

7 pm on Zoom (link in Constant Contact)

REMINDER

Turn Back your Clocks

Sunday, November 7th

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OCTOBER EVENTS!

October 1 11 am Taft Elementary Student of

the Month Pizza Party

October 2 10:30 am Upward Bound Luncheon

October 3 3 pm Non-Violence Parade

October 9 10:30 am Upward Bound Luncheon

October 13 7:15 pm Choir Rehearsal Resumes

October 14 7pm Vestry

October 16 9 am Food Pantry

October 17 8/10:30 am Stewardship Kick-Off

October 19 2:30 pm Taft Mobile Pantry

October 20 7 pm Wonderful Wednesday

Holy Days in the Jewish Faith We welcome Rabbi Paula Winning who will present teaching on the sacred holidays in the Jewish Faith.

October 24 10:30 am Baptism

November 7 8/10:30 am All Saints Day

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RELATIONS

Greetings! I hope everyone had a relaxing summer! It went so fast! Gayle and I attended a meeting at Taft Elementary School, on Tuesday, August 17th. Williamson has become a middle school, and we wanted to continue supporting the elementary school children. The principal and staff were very receptive to provision of a mobile food pantry, books for the children at Christmastime, socks and underwear for the students, and cele-brating a student and staff member of the month.

I was so proud to represent St. John’s Church, and how we are able to impact a positive change through our giving. Thank you for all you do.

~ Sue

All Saints Day Sunday, November 7th

We will celebrate All Saints Day on Sunday, November 7th and honor the faithful departed. Please submit the names of those loved ones you would like to be remembered in the All Saints bulletin by Monday, October 25th.

2022 Stewardship Kick-off

October 17th marks the kick-off of our 2022 Stewardship season. Please come to show your support for God and this church. Watch for information through our Constant Contact emails each week including videos featuring our faithful parishioners, expression of thankfulness, and encouraging progress reports on improvements made throughout the 2021 year.

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Eleventh Annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally

SPONSORED BY:

Ohio Nonviolence Week Committee Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past

Youngstown Area Jewish Federation City of Youngstown

Youngstown City Schools CIRV YWCA

3 pm ~~~ October 3rd, 2021

Downtown Youngstown beginning at West Wood & Wick

There will be a sign-up sheet on the bridge. Please join us as we celebrate the kick-off of Nonviolence Week

in the State of Ohio at the Wean Park Amphitheater following the parade.

LitYoungstown Film Series

St. John’s Parlor 3rd Tuesday at 6 pm

Discussion led by film studies scholar Laura Beadling

October 19th Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel

For more information visit lityoungstown.org

Upward Bound Luncheon

We will provide lunches on the 1st and 2nd Saturday of each month. Our first Upward Bound lunch is on Saturday, October 2nd. Let Gayle+ know if you are interested. The Upward Bound program is a Saturday enrichment program for college bound high school students. When the program began they found the students couldn’t concentrate because they were hungry. This is an area where we could help!! We will prepare lunch for approximately 35 kids and adults in the Great Hall. We need volunteers to cook, serve and clean. Thank you!!

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Friday, October 8th

Mike Geither @ 5 pm Mike Geither’s plays and solo performances have been staged in San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, New York, and London. He is a four- time Ohio Arts Council fellow and has served as a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito and as Playwright-in-Residence at Cleveland Public theatre. Recent works include The Body is the Best (Zuppa Theatre, Halifax, 2022), Heirloom (convergence-continuum, 2019), and The Events of the Warren County Fair as Observed by a Young Astronaut (2016-19). He currently teaches in the NEOMFA at Cleveland State University.

Teri Ellen Cross Davis @ 7 pm

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, winner of the Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D. C.

Bonnie Proudfoot @ 7 pm Bonnie Proudfoot’s debut novel, Goshen Road, was long listed for the 2021 PEN/ Hemingway Award and selected by the Women’s National Book Association as one of their Great Group Reads for 2020.

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William H. Taft Mobile Pantry

St. John’s will partner with William H. Taft Elementary School located at 730 E. Avondale Avenue in Youngstown beginning this month, as Williamson Elementary is no longer an elementary school. We look forward to providing a monthly mobile pantry, student incentives and other items to Taft Elementary to foster an engaged relationship with our community. If you are available on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, we need you. We will need to unpack and organize the food for

families to take home. We are also giving away manual can openers to every family. Each month people are provided numerous canned foods and a can opener is essential. If you are available this month on Tuesday, October19th, let Gayle+ know. We will meet at the church at 2:30 pm and drive over. Thank you!! We will resume hosting a monthly lunch to celebrate Taft Elementary “Student of the Month”. Each class will choose a student to participate. St. John’s will bring pizza and treats for the honorees to let them know their hard work matters! Please begin now to collect new and very slightly used children’s books for all the students at Taft Elementary School (grades K-5). With the assistance of 1st Presbyterian, we hope to provide each student with 2-3 books to take home as a holiday gift. Shouldn’t every child have books at home? Help us by starting now. Ask your clubs, your neighbors, and your family members to pick up a book or two for children of all abilities. Thank you!!

Casting for the January 9, 2022 performance of the 60th Annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival will begin soon. We need to fill performance parts, as well as openings behind the scenes. There are parts for children, teens and adults! Please contact Cindy in the Church Office at 330-743-3175 or at stjohnohio@gmail.com. We will offer two performances with limited seating capacity and NO MEAL this year. Tickets for performance only (the banquet meal will be eliminated this year) will be available in November.

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October Serving Schedule

Treasurer Report—August 2021

Endowment Withdrawal The August 2021 Endowment Withdrawal for $15,500.00 - received. Old Lay Pension Withdrawal/Endowment The August 2021 Old Lay Pension Withdrawal for $1,098.75 - received. Moved $90,000 from the Robinson Family Fund into the Endowment. Endowment Withdrawal Total is $50,459.74 through August 2021. Endowment Balance through July 2021 was $1,439,162.00 = 3.51% Endowment Balance through August 2021 was $1,546,534.13 = 3.26% Audit 2020 – Completed August 24, 2021 – See Audit Report

Due to the recent spike in COVID activity we are asking that everyone wear a mask at church and other gatherings. We will have baptisms continue in the next weeks and the children are obviously unvaccinated. We also have people at risk or who are in contact with people at risk coming to services, as well as some people who are unvaccinated. We make this small sacrifice to care for our brothers and sis-ters, to be a community of hospitality, and to live God’s call to love with our actions and not just with our words. We always try to be an obvious sign of God’s love, and this is how our times demand we show it. Thank you.

Operating Fund Balance is $8,071.82 Total Expenses were $35,846.24 Total Income was $37,682.47 Current Pledges are 103.55%

Contributions (Non Pledged) are 132.56% Office Rental Income is at 104.96% Apartment Rental is at 99.88% Plate Offerings are at 53.71%

DATE RED DOOR CAFÉ READERS 8 am READERS 10:30 am VIDEOGRAPHER ALTAR GUILD

October 3, 2021 Brittney &

Friends Kathy Eva Doug Cheryl, Allen, Gary, & Ginger

October 10, 2021 Grace Lutheran

Church Phillip Sam Doug Cheryl, Allen, Gary, & Ginger

October 17, 2021 YSU Environmen-tal Science Dept.

Chuck Heather Doug Cheryl, Allen, Gary, & Ginger

October 24, 2021 The Links Inc. Hobie Walt Doug Cheryl, Allen, Gary, & Ginger

October 31, 2021 Melissa's Book

Club John Judy Doug Cheryl, Allen, Gary, & Ginger

323 Wick Ave · Youngstown, OH 44503 330.743.3175 · 330.743.3176 (fax)

www.stjohnohio.org · stjohnohio@gmail.com

Officers & Vestry

Meg Silver, Senior Warden Lance Grahn, Junior Warden Karen Eberth, Treasurer Phillip Maiden, Clerk

Elizabeth Cianciola, Kristen Hamilton, Tony Manhollan, Karen Rodgers, Eva Sullivan, and Bill Watson.

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Staff & Leadership

The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Bishop The Rev. Gayle Catinella, Rector Dr. Richard A. Konzen, Organist/Choirmaster Cindy J. Sarnowski, Administrative Assistant Karen Warchol, Financial Secretary Adam Sullivan, Sexton Michael Muldowney, Assistant Sexton Christa Buckler, CE Coordinator

OFFICE HOURS Tuesday-Friday………………………………………...8:30 am-4 pm

SERVICE TIMES & SCHEDULE In-Person services at 8:00 am & 10:30 am

10:30 am Facebook Live Sunday Service

Watch for updates on in-person meetings.

PRAYER MATTERS LET US PRAY FOR OUR OWN NEEDS AND THOSE OF OTHERS

WE PRAY FOR those on our prayer list: Pat and Margaret and family.

New Members Welcome If you are interested in becoming a new member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, please call the church office at 330-743-3175 or email our Administrative Assistant, Cindy Sarnowski at: stjohnohio@gmail.com. She will be happy to answer any ques-tions you may have and provide information.

Confirmation Requests If you wish to be confirmed or received, please contact the church office or email us at stjohnohio@gmail.com.