July 30^th will be the next Vincentian Fifth Sunday Collection, and this month, we are adding a special event as part of this offering: “Christmas in July.” The supply of gift cards, which were donated to our conference as part of the Giving Tree project in December, is almost completely depleted, and so we will be asking parishioners to choose between putting cash or checks in the second collection baskets or taking stars from the “Christmas trees” in the vestibules between July 8 and July 23 and placing these with the appropriate  grocery store or gas station gift card in the baskets.