Pastoral Care

St. Peter’s Pastoral Care Committee serves and supports parishioners when they are sick, disabled, or otherwise in need of personal support and attention from their parish family.

The committee, which includes the Rector, meets monthly to confidentially discuss the needs of parishioners. We pay special attention to members who are unable to attend church for any reason and those coping with illness or surgery. The committee plans home visits and phone calls and coordinates with our priest and lay ministers for home communion. We also may arrange for transportation, home delivered meals, and respite care.

Prayer Requests

Prayers of the People are an integral part of our congregational worship and of our care for our community. If you would like specific prayers for someone added to the list of those prayed for during services, please be in touch with the rector or the office. Requested prayers are included in worship for a period of four weeks, but can be extended.

Flower Ministry

The Flower Ministry delivers Sunday altar flowers to members who are ill or home bound, and to those who just need to have their day brightened.  Along with the flowers, a volunteer delivers a Sunday bulletin and a card with this greeting: “These flowers have been on the altar at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. They have heard the hymns that have been sung, the prayers that have been offered and the sermon that has been preached.  Now with their silent message they come to you with our love.”

During Advent and Lent we send winter greens or a small olive wood cross with a purple ribbon.

Fellowship Opportunities

Sunday Coffee Hour

Each Sunday, a simple coffee hour follows the 10:30 AM worship service, with light snacks, coffee, tea, and juice. Coffee hour is an opportunity to visit with members, newcomers, and strangers and become more familiar with the life of the parish community. It is also an opportunity to mingle with Loaves and Fishes noon lunch program guests who arrive early to enjoy coffee hour fellowship. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up on the form posted on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall.

Newcomer Luncheons

Throughout the year, the Vestry hosts small newcomer lunches in the Parlor so that newcomers can meet the parish leadership, learn one another, and ask questions about St. Peter’s. These lunches also afford an occasion for our leadership teams to become better acquainted with newcomers.