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Thank You to Faith Formation Leaders
Thank you to the following people who volunteered to lead sessions for our children and teens during the program year of 2019-2020. A special thank you to Wendy Hatem who also filled in for Suzanne, on Sunday mornings, while she was recovering from surgery....
United Thank Offering
During Lent, we encouraged you to pick up a Blue Box, to be be grateful each day, and to share your gratitude by putting some silver coins into your Blue Box for a donation to United Thank Offering (UTO). We encourage you to continue this practice through the season...
Yard Signs Sold Out!
Parishioner Jennifer Wolf designed yard signs thanking essential workers, plus a flip side with best practices for helping each other stay safe. The signs were sold for $12 each - which covers the $8 printing costs, plus an additional $4 per sign for donation to our...
Outreach Commission Corner
Hello St. Clarians, The current Pandemic has particularly impacted those in our community already marginalized by society, the homeless and undocumented immigrants. These populations face even greater risks of infection and increased needs for food, safe...
Weekly Connection from the Diocese
Are You Receiving The Diocesan Weekly Connection Newsletter? Sign Up Here!(or at https://www.edomi.org/news/newsletter/) The Weekly Connection is the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan’s weekly newsletter. It contains events, important announcements, job opportunities and...
Giving Options: Text, Online, Mail
Your contribution to St. Clare is needed to keep our church going during this time. You can give via text, online, or mail a check to the office (2309 Packard St, Ann Arbor 48104). Visit www.saintclareschurch.org/give for all the details about online and text giving.
Musical Meditations
Over the coming days and weeks, I'll be posting Musical Meditations (improvisations from my living room) online for those who are interested. I have no plan for how many, when or what - somewhat reflective of the new normal for everyone right now - but I hope this...
Safe Church Via Zoom
During this season of staying at home, Whitaker Institute is offering Safe Church Track 2 and Track 3 classes online by request when a cohort of 6 or more can be gathered. (All “regularly scheduled” Track 2 and Track 3 courses are cancelled until August.) Our Safe...
BDFP Continues Hunger Relief Through Bryant Community Center
March 31Dear Friends,We reached out and discovered that the Bryant Community Center Food Pantry, not far from our pantry, is operating. They are serving as a lunch pick-up point for students who otherwise would have a school lunch, as well as continuing to operate...
Rector’s Discretionary Fund
In this difficult time, we anticipate that there may be an increase in St. Clare's parishioners applying to Maryjane for emergency financial assistance from her discretionary fund. A generous parish family has offered to match contributions made in the next few months...
Spiritual Communion
Spiritual Communion is a spiritual practice used by our Roman Catholic Friends. I thought since we are unable to attend Mass because of measures taken by our diocese to halt the spread of the coronavirus we could consider making an act of Spiritual Communion. Saints...
Supporting Each Other
We’ve created an online sign up to connect members of our community who need help with those who can provide support. You can sign up to help here: www.saintclareschurch.org/ICanHelp. Check back regularly for updates.We encourage you to reach out to friends and...