St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Parish Life Guild Fellowship Events
St. Luke’s Parish Life Guild hosts a variety of Fellowship/social events throughout the year. These events provide parishioners with opportunities to learn more about each other and to build relationships. The parishioners have a great time working together to organize various events such as:
• Lobster Fest
• Shrove Tuesday/Family Night
• Maundy Thursday Dinner
• Dinner Auction
• Newcomers Reception
• Parish Picnic
• Pig Roast
• Fair
• Advent Wreath Party
• Christmas Party

St. Luke’s Fair and Spring Dinner Auction
Twice a year the parishioners of St. Luke’s get together in a massive effort to raise funds for our outreach/mission projects. These events draw from all the talents of our congregation and together raise about $50,000.

Christmas-at-Sea Knitters
Did you know that over 3,000 knitters across the United States work year-round to make thousands of gifts for seafarers? The scarves, watch caps, and sweaters that they make are distributed to mariners during the last part of the year so that those who are far from home will have gifts to open on Christmas Day. It’s part of a tradition begun during the Spanish American War and adopted during World War I by the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, which named it Christmas-at-Sea. Some people knit individually, while others meet to knit as a group. The Seamen’s Church reports that there is even a group of knitters from a Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
Our St. Luke’s knitters meet in the Canterbury Room on Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m. to share fellowship as they create these much appreciated gifts, but some people knit on their own or with groups near their homes. All are welcome to join our knitters, either individually or on Thursday mornings. Your completed projects may be brought to the church office in plastic grocery bags labeled “SCI”.
If you would like to print out a copy of the patterns used for Christmas-at-Sea, please visit http://www.seamenschurch.org/cas.htm and you’ll find several from which to choose. The seafarers are very appreciative of these gifts!