October 6, 16th Sunday after Pentecost
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 9:10AM Bible Walk Through: Sundays 9:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
This Sunday we will cover in the Doubleday Children’s Bible are; The Pool of Bethesda St. John 5:1-18, Food for the Hungry St. Luke 8:1-3, St. Matthew 14:13-21; 15:1-20, 32-39; St. Mark 6:30-44; 7:1-23; 8:1-10, St. John 6:1-15 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
We are in need of people to do Coffee Hour during the month of October for both the 7:45 and 10:15 Liturgies. The sign up sheet is by the air pots on the coffee table on the Church patio.
Hillsides Emancipation Shower: Concludes Sunday October 6
Parishioner Barbara Robison reports that Hillsides would like us to do the Emancipation Shower again. In years past we have collected items to help the young people set up their own households. We’ve also assisted with back to school supplies. Once again this year school supplies are needed. The Hillsides display will be outside Church for one more Sunday.
Emmaus Road Monday, October 7 7:00 p.m. Parish Hall Living Room
The Emmaus Road Group will meet Monday October 7. The group has not decided on what book to take up next. That conversation will continue at the Monday meeting. The group will also discuss the recent Food For Thought offering, Vices and Virtues of Old Age Retirement. More copies of the article will be on the Food For Thought Table outside Church Sunday. The article is also included as an attachment to By Way of Reminder.
Hands of the Angels October 12, 10:00 a.m.
The Hands of the Angels Knitting group meets on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays 10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall Living Room. Everyone is welcome to join and if you’d like, learn how to knit. The next meeting will be Saturday October 12, 10:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Barbecue for Caregivers: Saturday, October 12, 4:30 p.m. at the Rectory
Fr. Bob is offering to host a barbecue for people in the parish who are being caregivers to elderly parents or other relatives. In the past couple of years, these gatherings to share a meal, stories, heartache, and resources have been a real support for people engaged in this very demanding task. A notice went out to people known to be in this situation, but if you were missed, or you’re interested in attending, email Fr. Bob at coa@lafn.org
Food For Thought
On the Food for Thought Table this Sunday. More copies of Vices and Virtues of Old Age Retirement. This for those who might have missed getting a copy and who might like to join the discussion with the Emmaus Road Group.
The other article is Grace Hurts. This article comes out of a recent issue of The Christian Century and it explores the nature of conversion in the fiction of Flannery O’Connor. As the article says, “Like all great art, O’Connor’s stories were never meant to go down easy.” “Her difficult message seems to be that the pain we seek to avoid may be the very one that both opens the door to the divine and reintroduces us to right relationship with our fellow humans.” In other words it’s not as easy that they make seem on TV!
Music With the Angels
Church of the Angels continues its concert series in honor of our 125th Anniversary. The concert Sunday September 29, “To London and Back,” was well attended and well received. The next concerts will be:
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
Friday October 18 - Sunday October 20
Camp Thousand Pines in Crestline
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.