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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL LOCAL SOCIETY NEWS 

Lend a hand, provide a meal, or make a small donation. Your time, food, or funds can change the lives of those we help! Items in need at our local pantry: Bathroom Tissue, Detergent, Canned Chicken, Cereal, Jelly, and Corn Bread Mix. Simply drop off items in the SVdP baskets at the back of either OLPH or SJA. Thank you for your support!

TURKEY DINNER/BAZAAR 2025 

Mark your calendar! We’re officially 3.5 months out from the 2025 Turkey Dinner/Bazaar. This year, the TDB is scheduled for Sunday, October 26, and will be held at the Heritage Hall in West Columbia! If you are volunteering in any way, please know you MUST be Safe Environment trained. If you’ve not completed this training, you will NOT be able to help! Please call the office for more information on how to complete this training at home or in the office. 

TDB 2ND COLLECTION WEEKEND 

On July 26 & 27, you will find envelopes stamped with brown turkeys either in the pews or near the collection box. Before the Turkey Dinner Bazaar, there will be 1 more weekend where the second collection is taken up specifically for TDB donations. If you would like to help offset the cost of our fundraiser, please put your donation inside one of the turkey envelopes and place it in the second collection slot of the collection box!

2025 Turkey Dinner Bazaar Raffle Tickets are here!!! 

Your packet is at the parish you are registered at. Please take the envelope with your name. Each envelope contains $60.00 worth of tickets. All families are asked to sell $60.00 worth of tickets to friends and family.  If you don’t see your name, please take an envelope marked blank behind the z’s.  Return all money, sold and unsold tickets in an envelope into the collection plate or bring by the office. Please write your name on your envelope if you take one marked blank.  If you sell all your tickets and need more, you may take an envelope marked blank or come by the office. 

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SEW? 

The SJA Altar Guild is looking for volunteers who like to sew! At times, they need help making prayer blankets. If you’re interested, please call Linda Miska at 979-236-3978.

TUESDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY The meeting on Tuesday mornings is shifting from a bible study, to what will now be called Adult Faith Formation! Currently, the group who meets is watching a series on FORMED called Symbolon: The Catholic Faith Explained. They are learning and discussing the Sacraments, and ways in which we can live out our faith in our lives! If you are available @ 9:00 am on Tuesday mornings, come join them!!

SJA NEW CLASSROOM PROJECT 

Our goal is to reach $225,000. We need your spiritual and financial help. YOU can help our youth become better Catholics!  Please see Ron Smith or Trish Speers for more information.

THE CHURCH DIRECTORIES ARE HERE! 

If your family had its picture taken back in 2023, then we have a free directory for you. For those families who did not get their picture taken, but wish to purchase a directory, we have extras available for sale for $8 (while supplies last). We will be handing them out after all Masses during the weekend of July 19 & 20, or you may come by the Parish Office before then to pick yours up! Please remember though that your family’s directory will be available for pickup, on the weekend when we’re handing them out, at the parish where you are registered!

IN SYMPATHY 

Julia Goodrum, longtime OLPH parishioner, passed away recently. May God grant repose to her soul and comfort to her loved ones.

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT 

Join us Friday at 6:00 pm in the OLPH hall for a Movie Night for the entire family, featuring the movie Miracles from Heaven! The evening will be picnic style, so please bring pillows, blankets, lawn chairs, etc. The youth will be selling snacks as a fundraiser to raise money for next years summer camps. We look forward to seeing you there!

FAITH FORMATION TEACHER TRAINING 

Are you interested in helping out as a catechist this year at Faith Formation? If so, join us for a training on Tuesday from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm — lunch will be provided! If you are only interested and have not committed to teaching yet, then you only have to stay until lunch. If you have committed to teach Faith Formation this upcoming school year, then you will need to stay after lunch until 2:00 pm for a teacher workshop. 

PICKLE WITH THE YOUTH C

Calling all Junior High and High School youth!! Join us Sunday afternoon at 2:00 pm for Pickle Ball, Swimming, and Kickball! Lunch, along with snow cones will be provided. The address is 5607 FM Rd 1301, Van Vleck, TX 77468. Kids must wear shirts, 2 piece bathing suits are not allowed! They are welcome to invite friends as well. If your child plans to attend, please RSVP to Ellaina Madera at 210-749-3134 so that she will have a headcount and know how much food to prepare! 

THE TURKEY BOARDS ARE OUT! 

The Turkey Boards have been put out at the back of both churches! This is another way for you to help both parishes offset the cost of the Turkey Dinner Bazaar. Please take stickers off of the board and place them into a turkey envelope, with the donation amount listed on the front of each sticker, and put that envelope into the Regular Collection slot of the collection box. Please know that you are NOT ACTUALLY going out to buy the item on the sticker you pulled — instead, you are giving a monetary donation to cover the cost of that item which is provided by the caterer!

HAPPENING THIS WEEK

Monday, July 21

8:15 am Legion of Mary (English) — SJA hall 

6:00 pm Legion of Mary (Spanish) — OLPH hall

Tuesday, July 22

NO daily Mass

9 am — 2 pm Teacher Training — OLPH hall

6:30 pm St. Vincent de Paul Meeting — SJA hall

Wednesday, July 23

NO daily Mass

Thursday, July 24

NO daily Mass 6:00 pm OCIA Class — OLPH hall

Friday, July 25

6:00 pm Family Movie Night — OLPH hall

Sunday, July 27

2:00 pm Pickle with the Youth — Van Vleck