Join us for Zoom Worship
This and Every Sunday at 9:30 am
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For ease in finding us, this information will be the same every single week.  We will keep sending a weekly reminder, but you might like to save this info to your calendar or some other handy way to remember our log-in without having to search for an email minutes before signing onto worship each week.

Time: Apr 26, 2020 09:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
        Every week on Sun, until Sep 27, 2020, 23 occurrence(s)


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email us for the password by 8:30 am - pastorbethanderson@gmail.com 

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Eric Kramer has uploaded recordings of music for our services and adds to the drop box each week. 

The recordings are in files with names beginning "SarEaster” and/or links in a file labeled "SarServiceMusicNotes”. Notes about the pieces are in the file labeled “SarServiceMusicNotes”.
​HELPFUL TIPS FOR ZOOM
  1. Come early to check connection and say hi to others.  Connection will be live by 9:25
  2. Anyone may choose to not include video, but you are welcome and encouraged to make your video available.  That will make this experience much more enjoyable with a feeling of connection.
  3. Please keep yourself muted unless you are speaking.  Background noise will interfere with sound quality if we don’t all mute (unless speaking).  During worship, you will see on your screen who is designated to speak different parts.  Those speakers will be the only ones to un-mute.
  4. Everyone is invited to un-mute during the Lord’s Prayer.  Then mute again after that.
  5. Mute and video controls are in the bottom or top left of screen.  IF you don’t immediately see the tool bar, bring your finger or cursor to the area to prompt  the tool bar to pop up on the screen.
  6. You can choose ‘speaker view’ or ‘gallery view’ at the top right corner of the screen.  One features the person speaking, the other allows you to see more faces.
  7. The chat feature allows you to ask questions of the host, communicate with all others, or select one other participant for a private call.
  8. At the end of worship, we will break out into smaller groups for “coffee hour”.  Zoom will randomly group us into about 4 (+/-) people so you can chat with each other and catch up.  I’ve heard from other congregations that this has been enjoyed by many.  You have the option to leave the meeting at anytime.  Look to your bottom right corner of the screen and see in red lettering, Leave Meeting.  Click on that to exit the zoom meeting.

​Directions to St. Andrew's Church
St. Andrew's is located at 6 Ivy Hill Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877​
(203) 438-0606 
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Please sign up for one of our Sunday Worship Service Leaders. 

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​CT Mobile Food Pantry and Feeding the Hungry

For several years now, an anonymous donor makes it possible for CT Food Bank to send their mobile food pantry to Ridgefield the second Friday of every month.  Each month, anywhere from 120-170 families and individuals come to our church parking lot to meet the mobile food pantry and to gather food.  The anonymous donor stipulates that no information about recipients can be gathered.  This allows people to receive food no matter where they reside, enabling access for residents here and those in surrounding towns.  

Due to Good Friday falling on the second Friday of April and the high level of restriction for social distancing due to COVID19, March was our most recent CT Mobile Food Pantry event in Ridgefield.  The department of social services is not sure when the next opportunity will be for us to have it here in town - perhaps June or July.

Obtaining or Supporting Ridgefield Food Supply
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Tony Philips and Karen Gaudian of Ridgefield Department of Social Services report that the town food pantry is available for residents.  We can access the food pantry on weekdays by calling town hall and arranging to meet Karen Gaudian for grocery store gift cards.  If you'd like to support the food pantry, here are the preferred donations at this time:
     1) Cash/Check donations enable the dept. to   purchase large amounts of Caraluzzi's and Stop & Shop gift cards at a 5% discount rate.
     2) Gift Cards to grocery stores
     3) Gift cards to local restaurants and Nature's Temptation (These have been a delightful gift for people, while also supporting local businesses)

All gifts can be sent directly to Department of Social Services or dropped off at the yellow box outside the police station.  Tony & Karen report almost $20,000 in gift cards have been distributed during this pandemic up to this point and the needs continue.

Meals on Wheels is also a local resource to sign up to receive meals or to make donations in support of their work to feed Ridgefield residents.

Supporting Connecticut
CT Food Bank and the Mobile Food Pantry continue to serve throughout the state, including Danbury, Bethel, Bridgeport, to name a few.  For information on food distribution locations nearby or to make a donation, please go to CT Food Bank website.

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