will be happy to tell you about the time it takes and just exactly what the job entails.
And thank you, Wendy, for your years of service in this area. It's easy to take for granted that there are always paper goods and supplies available when we need them. Your work in this area is greatly appreciated.

Sheryl McEwan and Tina Grubbe are heading up a gardening project to grow some vegetables & ornamental flowers which we are hoping to sell at the Fall/Harvest festival to benefit the church.
They do need some help though, primarily the use of a roto-tiller and were also looking for donations if anybody has the
following:

• fencing (to keep out deer)
  
• chicken wire to keep out the gophers
  
• gardening tools
  
• seeds
  

The summer I was twenty, I was on the staff of a Christian Camp, in Michigan  One night I lay on my back on one of those huge sand dunes that rise up on Lake Michigan's eastern shore I had one of those youthful moments of great awe. I looked up at that moonless sky and wondered - about infinite distances, about my odd feelings for a young woman at the neighboring girls camp, about human littleness, and about God.
Recently, as I finished Huston Smith's "Why Religion Matters", I was taken back in time to that moment on my back in the sand, and then wanted to wish all o you who are out-of-doors this summer, similar moments. Huston Smith cites a poem by Giacomo
Leopardi. In the poem" a nomadic shepherd
in Asia is posing questions to the moon. . .
questions whose horizons are themselves
infinite. " 
The poem:
And when I gaze upon you,
Who mutely stand above the desert plains
Which heaven with its far circle but confines,
Or  often when I see you
Following step by step my flock and me,
Or  watch the stars that shine there in the sky, Musing, I say within me:
Wherefore those many lights,
The boundless atmosphere,
And infinite calm sky?  And what the meaning
Of this solitude?  And what am I?
My wish for you all:  Many star struck questions as you face God's sky.

Bill Kelly

For many years now, Wendy Harrison has been our "shopping-for-supplies angel," making a COSTCO run each month to stock our kitchen cupboards with paper plates, hot and cold cups, napkins, etc. She said that she's actually enjoyed doing it AND has reached a point of activity in her life where she needs to turn this over to someone else starting in September.
Have you been wondering where you might fit into the volunteer tasks at St. Philip's?  Has God been nudging at you to "do something" at St. Philip's?  This may be just the area of service for you. It involves a shopping trip approximately once a month after checking the cupboards to see what's needed, unloading the supplies at the church and putting things away.
If you're interested you can call or speak to Karen Krestensen, Bishop's Warden, or any member of the Bishop's Committee. If you are interested and want more information, please do call. Wendy.