Bible Walk Through: Sundays 9:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
This Sunday we will cover in the Doubleday Children’s Bible are; A Different Kind of King St. John 6:22-69, 8:12-59, St. Matthew 8:267-33; 9:2-8; St. Luke 9:18-22, 28-36 Faith That Moves Mountains St. Matthew 17:14-21, St. Mark 9:14-29; St. Luke 9:37-43 Children of God St. Luke 9:46-48; 17:1-3; 18:15-17; St. Mark 9:33-37; 10:13-16; St. Matthew 18:1-14; 19:13-15; St. John 3:3
Coffee Hour: October 2013 Need More People to Help
Coffee hour is an important aspect of our parish life. It’s been called “The Eighth Sacrament of the Episcopal Church.” At coffee hour we have the chance to see and talk with our fellow parishioners and welcome new people to our parish.
Doing Coffee Hour is quite simple. All that one needs to do is bring some snacks for people to share. The Coffee is already made in the Church basement. Supplies such as cream, sweetner, stirrers, napkins, and plates are already provided.
For 7:45 a.m. You simply bring a snack of some kind. The congregation is small doesn’t need help in serving. There is also no clean up because the set up will remain for the 10:15 service,
For 10:15 a.m. Again the coffee is already made and the set up is already in place. All that is needed is for the coffee hour host to set up their snack and help people, particularly the children get their’s, ( and leave some for everyone else!) The coffee hour host does help with the clean up which is taking the coffee pots and supplies down to the basement, rising them out and letting them dry. Fr. Bob and other parishioners are there to help take down and store the tables.
Like any organization, the same people tend to volunteer for the same task many times. We’d like more people to help as well. We have a sign up sheet outside that covers a period of two months. Those who’ve signed up are listed in the Church calendar so they can remember their date.
As with everything at Church of the Angels, we try to make volunteer tasks easy and accessible to all. If you’ve not thought of signing up for Coffee hour before, please consider doing so. It adds
Emmaus Road Will not meet Monday, October 13
Beginning Monday, October 21 the Emmaus Road Group begins a new book, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, by Alan Jacobs This book will look at the composition of the first Book of Common Prayer 1549 and trace its development down through the centuries.
Music With the Angels Sunday, October 13 7:00 p.m. –
Adoramus te, Christe: Sacred music for 1-6 voices and historical instruments led by Bianca Hall, USC Thornton School of Music. FREE ADMISSION
Sunday October 20, 4:00 p.m. - Water Music: by Jouyssance, Music on the theme of music from plainchant to Palestrina's Sicut Cervus and Monteverdi's Madrigals.
The Annual Parish Retreat: We need more people to attend!
Friday October 18 - Sunday October 20
Camp Thousand Pines in Crestline
We still have space for families and individuals!
The Annual Parish Retreat has been one of the most important events in our parish’s life because it gives us the chance to spend quality time with one another in a beautiful relaxing setting. For the past 25 years, those who have attended the retreats have enjoyed them immensely. Often people who knew each other only vaguely come to know each other well and become friends. Community building happens spontaneously during meals, the Saturday afternoon hike/activity, free time, sitting around the fire place, or making a puzzle, or any number of things. This new venue is also a great place for children, with lots of space for them to run around and equipment to play on.
There are several ways to participate in the Annual Parish Retreat
1. People can stay at Camp Thousand Pines. We can provide rooms for family groups and individuals.
2. People can stay at motels or Bed and Breakfasts in Crestline and come on to the Camp for the program and meals.
3. Camp Thousand Pines is on an hour and ten minutes from COA east on the 210 Freeway and up Highway 18 which is wide and easy. So people can come up for the day for Saturday breakfast, program, fun activities Saturday afternoon, social hour and dinner before returning home Saturday evening.
We would like any and everyone to participate.
The Title of This Year’s Retreat: Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
The program this year will be led by our Ministry Study Year student, Chitra Rao. As you know, Chitra is preparing for ordination and she has both finished seminary and passed her ordination exams. Chitra is a board certified hospital chaplain and endorsed by the Episcopal Church for lay pastoral care ministry and she has worked for over 10 years as a lay hospital chaplain and she has spent the last 5 years working as a chaplain in the oncology unit at UCLA hospital. As you can imagine, much of her ministry involves helping people deal with the anxiety that comes with serious illness. She recently made the comment about, “waiting for your test results.” So it seems good to have her work with us on the subject of coping with, managing, our anxiety. Anxiety arises in all of us for many reasons, some very serious, and sometimes it is something that to an outsider might appear as insignificant, but given the person we are and what we’ve experienced and suffered over the course of our own lives, what appears as insignificant, might be anything but. Anxiety saps our energy, it depletes our joy, it compromises our faith, in a word it makes us miserable. No one is immune except perhaps Alfred E. Neumann, known to readers of MAD magazine as the one who says, “What, me, worry?” Chitra will draw on her years of experience in very stressful settings to help all of us access the resources of our Christian faith to better manage, cope with, and maybe even overcome the anxiety that plagues us. At the end of weekend everyone will be enabled to simply, Don’t Worry, Be Happy.