If you are like most people, you do some shopping on Amazon. Now, when you shop at Amazon Smile, a portion of the purchase price will be donated to
St Andrews. Smile.amazon.com is the exact same thing as Amazon.com – you use the same Amazon account that you currently have and everything else stays the same. On your first visit to smile.amazon.com you will to select a charitable organization that will receive donations from eligible purchases, before you begin shopping. Then, every eligible purchase you make at smile.amazon.com will result in a donation to St. Andrews. Giving is that easy!

These Family Faith cards are great to use at the family dinner table.  Click here for the cards. Print the faith cards double-sided, then cut out individually. Place in a basket or container on table.  Every night have someone choose a card. Read the question and take some time for everyone to share their thoughts and feelings.  Turn over the card and find a Bible verse that goes with the subject you have been discussing, and share how God works in our lives and how God can use us in these situations and circumstances.

Enjoy!

Say Spencer

Building Families

Please join us for dinner and brainstorming on Wednesday, Sept. 5, from 6:00-7:00 pm in Heffner Hall. A light meal will be served. Nursery and childcare will be provided upon request. Please RSVP to Merle Westbrook so that we can have enough food on hand and sitters ready to sit.

RSVP to Merle Westbrook

Please bring your calendars and be ready to volunteer to support this new dream for St. Andrews.  We will pray and plan and do this together.

Recycling

Coming Soon: Caring for Creation will offer an opportunity to recycle your old inkjet and toner cartridges. A recycle box will be in the narthex September 30 – October 7

The Caring for Creation Committee (C4C) is pleased to report that:

★     Carnival guests dispensed approximately 14 gallons of ice water from church-provided coolers into compostable paper cups, thereby eliminating both the cost of bottled water and the plastic bottle waste

★     The C4C WasteWise project team provided waste bins at strategic locations, from which the following quantities of waste were collected:

○      eight (8) 55-gal bags of compostable paper and food waste

○      one (1) 55-gal bag of recyclable plastic film (food packaging, table covers, etc.)

○      one (1) 65-gal bin of recyclable plastic, metal and cardboard (mostly food containers and a few drink bottles/cans brought by workers and guests)

○      about ¼ bag of miscellaneous trash, including many oily plastic bags of waste popcorn-popping ingredients that went into the SAPC trash dumpster to go to the county landfill.

Margaret Ellingson took all of the compostable/recyclable materials that Dekalb County does not accept to Emory University’s Material Recovery Facility. Consequently, the Carnival had a near-zero environmental impact!

Join us for Rally Day and Sunday School Open House at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 9th. We’ll all gather together for a continental breakfast and time of fellowship in the double room in the Education Building.Our children and youth will then meet their teachers, and go off to their classes. Adults will take a “tour,” visiting the various adult Sunday School classes. Please join us and bring your favorite breakfast finger food to share. You can sign up to help at this link or contact Paige Kubik

Mark your calendars for Wednesday evenings this fall. Dinner and programming is planned for all ages.

It’s an annual St. Andrews tradition…a shared meal of delicious pork and chicken, prepared by SAPC grill masters in our own barbecue pit. Join your church family around the table in Heffner Hall after the 10 AM service for fellowship and great food. Bring your favorite dessert or cook-out side to share. If you’d like to volunteer to help, you can sign up at this link, or contact Paige McKay Kubik.

Did you know that St. Andrews serves as a meeting place for AA and AL-Anon twice a week? They meet every Monday and Friday at 8 p.m. in the Education Building in the double room The meetings are open to any and all who need this support.