At St. John's
Keep in your prayers this week: Geoff Schuller, Bill Krueger, Doris McCorison, Gail Leland, Jeremy Harkins, Michael Shook, Joyce and Jim Risser, Loretta Schmidt, Susannah Jones, Theresa Mitchell, David Douglass, George Haborak, Fred & Dollis Sprague, Sara Winchenbach, Dorothea Mead, Ray and Susan McDonald, Richard Ramsdell, Cassandra Crabtree, Beth Pfeiffer, Dorothy & Jim Clunan, Bill and Barbara Loveland.
We give thanks for the live of The Rev. Robert Raymond. Please keep his family and friends in your prayers.
Remember to check out our website for MUSIC: www.saintsmdi.org Thanks to Stephen Sampson, Jayne Ashworth and Michael Shook, you may enjoy some piano music on the St. Andrew & St. John website. On the menu on the left-hand side of the home page there is now a link titled 'Music,' and clicking on that link brings you to recordings of piano pieces by Stephen Sampson.
Westside Food Pantry In one month we will open the Pantry for its 30th distribution season! Since Harbor House remains closed to outside groups, we will keep our operations at St. John Church. With church leadership, and input from people familiar with the building, we have developed a couple of options for accomplishing our distribution and registration functions inside the church building. Our goal is to minimize face-to-face exposure, move neighbors through the process as quickly as possible. New plexiglass shields at pickup and registration stations will be used to separate neighbors and volunteers from direct exposure to one another. It will be possible to move a limited number of people inside the building to protect from the elements and at the same time maintain face covering and social distancing protocols. It looks like we can achieve this in a manner similar to what is achieved in the Post Office or bank lobby.
With regard to the Thanksgiving Basket distribution. Given the need to safely assemble the Thanksgiving baskets, the Bar Harbor Congregational Church must launch registration for the baskets earlier this year. We will provide a registration form to our neighbors on "this side" to fill out and return to Bar Harbor by November 6. All baskets must be picked up in Bar Harbor this year. To compensate those who would be excluded from meeting this new deadline we will be distributing a Thanksgiving Special Voucher for $25 to each registered Pantry household. This expense is being funded 100% by an anonymous donor. I believe our neighbors will be happy with this arrangement.
Our all-important Annual Appeal Letter will be mailed on Monday, October 26. Barbara Campbell is once again hand-addressing the mailing envelopes to about 350 recipients.
We invite you to visit the new page for the Westside Food Pantry! On this facebook page you will find periodic announcements and information about the Westside Food Pantry. Please visit the page and like it. You can find it at:
https://www.facebook.com/WestsideFoodPantry/ | 
