MINISTRY MEMOS:
Recharge Day: Saturday, October 5th – this clean-up includes inside, as well as, outside work. Some tasks can be done anytime during the week: weed the flower gardens, brush off spider webs on doors (the little fellows love our windows), vacuum narthex, church, & chapel, sweep hallways & bathrooms, and of course, dust! After our lunch of pizza & salad, we need a small group of people to help clean the parish hall and put on banquet table cloths. This will be about 1 PM.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS:
St. Francis Blessing of the Animals: Our annual Blessing of the Pets will be on our front porch TODAY at 6:30 PM! Bring your pet(s) – all must be restrained – or a picture, and a chair.
CROP Hunger: The annual walk will be held on Oct 13th. This is a fundraising activity that benefits the Idaho Food Bank locally and the Church World Service globally. All Saints has participated in this activity for over 20 years. Contact Julie Walker if you would like to walk with her and/or solicit donations. If you would like to make a donation online, go to 2024 Crop Walk: in the upper right corner, select donate/find a participant & enter Julie Walker/donate.
Wreath Sales: Boy Scout Troop 123 will be taking orders for Christmas wreaths and garlands on October 20th after each service. These fresh Northwest grown products will be ready for delivery around Thanksgiving – in time for the holidays! Proceeds from these sales help our Scouts get to summer camp and support their yearly dues.
BOISE BENCH & BEYOND:
St. Vincent de Paul: The need for food and donations is great, and we rely on your continued generosity to feed roughly 900 neighbors in need at our Boise Food Pantry each week. We couldn’t do this without you! To find out how to help, follow this link: https://svdpid.org/food/#boise-OC and you can always add non-perishable items to the grocery cart in the narthex!
Save The Date: The 39th Rake Up Boise™ will be November 23, 2024. Sign up to have your yard raked, to donate, or to volunteer here: https://nwboise.org/rake-up-boise/.
COMMITTEE COMMENT:
Compassionate Care
Fall is here and it’s time to update your vaccinations for all your family. It’s important you talk with your doctor about whether it is advisable for you to receive them.
- RSV is a disease of the lower airways. If you are 75 or 60 with immunodeficiency, asthma, COPD talk to your doctor to see if this is recommended for you. Women who are in their 32-36 week of pregnancy, can take the vaccine to prevent RSV in the newborn babies. Babies, young children, and those over seventy-five are at elevated risk for hospitalization if they get RSV.
- Flu vaccine. This vaccine is recommended to all over the age of 6 months and should be completed by the end of October. Adults over sixty-five are advised to take the High dose vaccine. Children between the ages of 6-17 are the biggest spreaders of the flu. Those who are at the highest risk for flu are pregnant women, people over sixty-five, those with chronic medical conditions, those with weakened immune systems or those who live in crowded facilities such as nursing homes. Those with chronic health conditions, immune-deficient and those over sixty-five are at elevated risk for hospitalization with influenza.
- Covid vaccine, like the flu vaccine it is now recommended to get the newest version every fall. If you have had the disease, you can wait 3 months. It is recommended for all over the age of 6 months. Those over sixty-five and those with chronic health conditions are at risk for complications and hospitalization.
- DTap and Tdap are vaccines to prevent diphtheria, pertussis (whopping cough) and Tetanus. DTap is for infants and young children whereas Tdap is for older children and adults. DTap is to be given every ten years OR 5 years after a dirty injury starting 10 years after children finish the first series of DTap. This is one vaccine adults forget to get and is important if you are around newborns.
Of course, consult your doctor before getting a vaccine. Some immune compromised people or those who are allergic to the ingredients (like egg allergy for the flu) should not get the vaccinations. RSV, DTap, Flu, and Covid vaccine are all non-live vaccines. Though you can take them together (this is advised for those who won’t return for the next vaccine) I have found that 2 weeks between the vaccines is easier to tolerate. Vaccines are important to protect you and your loved ones.
INTERACTION INFO:
Fr. Joseph’s contact: For more urgent situations outside of office hours, please call or text his cell at 208-917-2270. If calling, please leave a message with your name, a call-back number, and a detailed message and he will get back to you as soon as he can. You can also text this number. Emails are generally answered when he is in the office.
Our Sunday bulletin can be found here. If you can’t be here in person, we stream our 10:00 A.M. service on YouTube and Facebook.
Wondering what’s happening around the church? Click here to find our on-line calendar! If you open the event, it will tell you the time, location, and who’s putting it on.
