This Weekend...Car Wash, Rummage Sale, and the Sierra Club Presentation!

Mark your Calendar!  Boy Scout Troop #122 will be having a CAR WASH and RUMMAGE SALE - THIS Saturday, April 23 beginning at 7 AM in the North Parking Lot at St. Michael’s. We need your cars for washing and gently used items. Collect your gently used items and deliver them to the North Parking Lot on Friday, April 22nd from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM. The Boy Scouts thank you for your help!

Social Action Committee meets Sunday, April 24, in the Womble Library following 10:15 Mass. Every one welcome as we plan activities for the next few months. Agenda items: Peggy Van Norman. 

Attend the environmental presentation "From Border Walls to Border Lands" with Dan Millis of the Sierra Club's Borderlands Program, this Saturday, April 23. 9 AM coffee will be followed by a 9:30 AM program with stunning visuals, new perceptions on the border. ​FOR IMPORTANT DETAILS, SEE BELOW!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Blessings,

Nancy

You’re needed to greet our guests!

We’ve invited the community to join us this Saturday, April 23 ,9 AM at the Smith Parish Center, for a visual, informative look at environment and border lands with Dan Millis, Coordinator of Sierra Club’s Borderlands Program since 2008. Coffee and conversation start at 9 AM, program at 9:30.

Grace-St. Paul’s is helping promote the event. Calendar releases and e-invites have gone out.

Now we need you! It isn’t just that we are hosts. This will be an excellent program, informative and factual, painlessly educational, with a succinct Power Point and stupendous visuals, and opportunity for discussion and questions.

If you can help by bringing coffee hour treats, or helping set up or serve, or being a greeter, please call or e-mail Ila, You are really, really needed!

Perfect pairing with the Boy Scout car wash / rummage sale. Come check out the “reuse and recycle” items, then pay the Boy Scouts to spiffy up your car while you enjoy coffee and the program.

Announcements for Week Ending April 16, 2016

THANKS BE TO GOD !

Fr. Jeffrey Reed is at home recuperating from last Friday’s surgery. He is doing well and expects to once again be celebrating Mass at St. Michael’s. 

Margaret Harnsberger is at Handmaker, (for rehab and expects to be there approximately two weeks. (If I know Margaret…..it will be less than two weeks).

PLEASE NOTE!  In order to comply with St. Michael’s graveyard standards, the Junior Warden requests that the many faded bouquets that decorate the graves be removed. Bouquets of flowers, natural or artificial, should not exceed 5” x 5” x 5”, and, as part of routine maintenance, they will be removed when they start to fade. Thank you for your cooperation and prompt action in this matter.

A Sweet Deal

A limited supply of our Angel Food Candy is still available - for half price! It will be on sale in the Parish Center TODAY, April 10th, during coffee hour. (Volunteers are needed to sell the candy during the 10:15 AM Mass and after Mision San Miguel.) A box of our delicious toffee is only $7 on sale. The "crumbles" of nuts and coconut, perfect as a topping on ice cream and cereal, is only 50 cents! If you miss the sale, just stop by the church office this week. Thanks!

Bishop Smith has designated THIS Sunday, April 10, as Alleluia Fund Sunday throughout the Diocese. On that day, churches and parishioners are asked to support the Alleluia Fund for the important work of planting new Episcopal congregations in Arizona, as well as supporting existing congregations with special grants to help them grow. Please prayerfully consider this opportunity. There will be more information about the Alleluia Fund available today, or you can visit the Alleluia Fund webpage at: www.azdiocese.org/alleluia/index.html
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Mark your Calendar!  Boy Scout Troop #122 will be having a CAR WASH and RUMMAGE SALE on Saturday, April 23 beginning at 7am in the North Parking Lot at St. Michael’s. We need your cars for washing and gently used items. Collect your gently used items and deliver them to the North Parking Lot on Friday, April 22nd from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM. The Boy Scouts thank you for your help!




Parish Life is celebrating Cinco De Mayo a little earlier…

Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 6:30pm
La Parilla Suiza
5602 E. Speedway (just east of Craycroft)

Vamos de fiesta!


(sign-up sheets in back of church)

Reminder: Maya Textile Sale and Exhibition is This Weekend!

Maya Textile Sale / Exhibition, with a Silent Auction 
(items from local businesses)

Exceptional and daily use textiles from 
Indigena Imports of Austin

St. Michael and All Angels
602 N. Wilmot (at 5th St.), Parish Center

Friday, Nov. 7, 5 to 8 p.m.: Opening reception and sale. Hor d’oeuvre gala. Charles King, solo guitar. $10 suggested donation (to help cover costs) will be applied in full to your first purchase from Indigena Imports). Guatemalans, volunteers, and special guests gratis, of course.

Saturday, Nov 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Sale, Exhibit and Silent Auction continues. Morning coffee.  Fry bread and Indian tacos on sale after 11:30 AM (Maria Garcia, indigenous form Michoacan and owner of La Indita Restaurant, will step across traditions to feed us well).  No requested donation.

Sunday, Nov 9, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Same as Saturday, including food.

Who benefits? St. Michael’s Guatemala Project, The Castaneda Museum of Ethnic Costume, Maya women who continue the weaving tradition, and you.  This is a unique opportunity to celebrate and explore.  Please come, whether you intend to make a purchase or not.

What else to look for? Castaneda Museum’s exhibit of some of their 4000 textiles and other artifacts from around the world; Guatemala Project’s recent acquisitions from rural communities on sale (many quite inexpensive).

Maya women leaders in Guatemala frequently say they will build a just society the way they weave, one thread at a time. We’ll add that they do so with consummate artistry, skill, patience, and resilience. As CPR-Sierra leader Berta reminded us in Guatemala last summer, even in the darkest years of the war, culture and tradition sustained them, as did moments of cheer and laughter. We have much to learn from these sisters (and brothers) who have persisted in the face of great adversity.

-- Ila, Coordinator, Guatemala Project

Maya Textile Sale - November 7-9

MAYA TEXTILE SALE ** EXHIBIT ** SILENT AUCTION
November 7 - 9, with Indigena Imports of Austin, TX
St. Michael and All Angels, Parish Center,
602 N. Wilmot Rd at 5th Street

A Benefit for St. Michael’s Guatemala Project and
The Castaneda Museum of Ethnic Costume

Featured: pre-1975 traje from the Vourvoulias collection, never before shown in Tucson.  Other exceptional examples, and everyday and bargain items.
More than 300 textiles on exhibit.
Come help us celebrate cultures and artistry!

Silent Auction daily -- small, select, and varied.

Fri. Nov. 7, 5 to 8 p.m. Opening sale and Reception
Hors d’oeuvre and beverage gala.
Charles King, solo guitar.
$10 suggested donation (Fri. only), applied in full to purchases.

Sat. Nov. 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,  and  Sun. Nov. 9, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sale and exhibits continue. Coffee, gratis.  Food for purchase.
Indian tacos with Maria Garcia of La Indita on Saturday!

Tucson’s Castaneda Museum cultivates appreciation and respect for the world’s peoples and cultures through the study and exhibition of hnic and folk costume.  The collection includes over 4000 textiles, ethnic dolls, and related items.

St. MIchael's Guatemala Project is a 21-year informal partnership with rural Maya of the CPR-Sierra, who became refugees within their own country during Guatemala’s 36-year internal conflict. It focuses on health needs, arts and culture, and indigenous self-determination.

The Museum will have items on display from its global collection, and Guatemala Project will offer a new selection of Maya daily use textiles from the communities served for sale.

Announcements for Week Ending August 28th

• DISCorama: this Sunday, August 21st in the Parish Center after all morning services. A sale of CDs and DVDs, mostly classical music and opera, to benefit the Rector’s DISCretionary Fund. Some rock and pop disks included in the sale. All items $5.

• Many thanks to all the cowboys and gals who so generously contributed to the MDA and posting of bail for that rascal “Big Bad John”. Be aware! “Big Bad John” is on probation and out doing random acts of kindness. Be watchful! Contributions can still be made: www.joinmda.org/pinnacle/jrsmith49.

• CASA MARIA volunteers will meet this Friday, August 26th at 6:00 PM, in the Parish Center to prepare sack lunches. Your help is needed - the volunteers can always use a few extra hands and two dozen SHELLED hard-boiled eggs. Join us for fellowship and to help with this good work.