Dear friends and fellow cooks,

In this season of resurrection, both divine and earthly, I would like to bring back the GAME LOFT Friday dinners program.  This program is so valuable to these kids.  Here’s why:  They are fed a nutritious meal 5 days a week at the GL, NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY.  On Fridays, they have met their Federal nutrition requirements so all bets are off and they can have anything!  Popular items are tacos, spicy international fare, homemade mac and cheese, lasagna.  They aren’t crazy about fish dishes.  This offering also helps the GL stretch their budget a bit. Given school vacations and summer break, it works out to about 8 Fridays per year.  Of course, to make it really special, you can bring food, stay and serve and get to know the kids and they you!!! That really is the best part.  

Here is a brief 101 refresher course in how it works:
    sign up sheet on t/t table
    casserole dishes on t/t table
    4 casseroles are needed for one Friday per month – probably the last Friday as before
    cooked and ready to serve delivered by 5 – handed off at GL to a Gamer for delivery upstairs
    need to be reheated – deliver by 4 as above
    may be delivered to ALL ABOUT GAMES store below GL any time during that day with instructions

I would very much like to hear from you soon:  If you’d like to be a cook;  If there are times you are not going to be available to cook (this helps in planning a rotation of cooks);  any further ideas you may have, please share.

GAME LOFT has been an integral part of St. Margaret’s church since it began 20 years ago.  Let’s keep that relationship going and make it even better this time around!!!  Please join us.

Susan Mayer
GL Advocate

On Sunday, April 22, a beautiful kneeler honoring St.Margaret’s was dedicated by the  Very Rev. Dr. Benjamin 

Shambaugh, Dean of the Cathedral in Portland. The Celtic Cross in our garden, with lovely day lilies at its base, was the theme, with the bay and sailing vessels as background.

Seven years ago, at a Diocesan Convention at Sunday River, Susan Mayer purchased a Cathedral kneeler starter kit with basic directions and materials, including the requisite deep red background thread that is used on all Cathedral kneelers.  The project had some dormant periods over the years but the results are stunning. It honors St. Margaret’s life and celebrates our Centennial. 

Needle workers included Marcy Otley (an expert needle crafter from the Belfast area), Marian Fletcher, Susan Mayer, and, from the Cathedral Kneelers group, Jeri Edgar and Anna Messmer.  

The dedication service was joyful, beginning with the procession led by a bagpiper piping, a rare event. Ten kneelers were dedicated from across the Diocese. Each was a work of love, praise and beauty. What a joy to be there. Our kneeler will stay at the cathedral (it is number 379) and be used by worshipers. Look for it the next time you worship there.

–Cindy Frost (assisted by Susan Mayer)

All  levels of gardeners welcome. Bring any tools you have and gloves.

8.30am to 10.00 am 

Clean-ups will  be on the 2nd Saturday of month

Except  November, if needed,   will be the 1^st Saturday

May 12

June       9

July         14

August     11

September         8

October         13

November           3   NB 1^st Saturday of month.

Questions; call Margie Spencer-Smith at 221-2612;  or [email protected]

Dear Parishioners of St. Margaret’s,
We invite your parish to join us for the dedications of your prayer kneeler which was designed and stitched by your church. You have created a beautiful one-of-kind, unique kneeler which will represent your parish at St. Luke’s Cathedral, Portland, Maine.
Please join us in celebrating with other Episcopal parishes of the State of Maine on
April 22, 2018 at the 10 am service.
Please R.S.V.P to 207-799-3061 of [email protected]

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday at 2 pm at Nautilus restaurant

Nurturing and Noshes at Nautilus
In an effort to revitalize last Fall’s “Year of Nurturing” project , Elaine Bielenberg, representing the Vestry, will hold a brain-storming and idea-forming get-together. With the Episcopal Church’s Five Marks of Mission as our guide for generating new ideas or refreshing old ones, we will have fun finding ways to nurture one another, our church and our community.
As an ice breaker, please wear something from your past that can be a conversation starter, i.e. a logo hat, a collegiate T-shirt or sweatshirt, a button or pin.
p.s. the “noshes” will actually be a choice of Nautilus desserts. Drinks are on your own dime.

St. Margaret’s was very well represented at Saturday’s March in Belfast where it is estimated 750 to 1000 people participated.

Photo credits: Kristen Burkholder