Hands of the Angels November 23, 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 November 23, 10:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Annual Giving for 2014 underway
With All Saints we begin our Annual Giving Pledge drive for 2014. We ask parishioners and friends to make a pledge to support the parish financially for the year to come. Annual Giving Pledges fund the operation of the Parish. With a parish this size it is imperative that everyone participate. Everyone’s gift matters. Please return your pledge cards as soon as you can.
Take God for your Spouse and Friend and walk with him continually and you will not sin, you will learn how to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
St. John of the Cross
Bible Walk Through: .Sunday 9:00 a.m.
We are getting close to finishing our walk through the Bible. This week we leave the Gospels and move on to the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. The readings for Sunday Birthday of the Church St. Matthew 28:16-21, St. Mark 16:12-20, St. Luke 24:13-53, St. John 20:30-21:25; Acts 1-7, 1st Corinthians 15:1-7. On the Road to Damascus Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-19, 22:6-21; 26:12-16, Galatians 1:11-24. Sowing the Seeds, Acts 8:4-8, 26-40; 9:20-25; 10:9-11:18: 2nd Corinthians 11:30-33 What Gods are These? Acts 11:19-26; 12:1-19; 12; 14. Council at Jerusalem Acts 15:1-29.
Altar Flowers 2014
The sign up sheet for giving Altar Flowers during 2014 will be on the table outside Church this Sunday. Feel free to sign up and write in the memorial or thanksgiving you wish to acknowledge.
Christmas Decorations for 2013
There will be a sign up for people to make donations to the Christmas decorations as memorial or thank offerings. The signup will be a poster which will have pictures of the decorations: wreaths, window arrangements, garlands, poinsettias, and the altar flowers. We’ll post the price of each item. You may donate for the whole of one item, say a window arrangement, or for a part. We’ll list the donations in the Christmas bulletins The poster will be out this coming Sunday.
Year of Grace Calendars for 2014 Now Available
The New Year of Grace Calendar for the Christian year that begins on the First Sunday of Advent will be on sale after Church the next several Sundays. They come in three sizes: Laminated Poster, 26 x 26, Laminated Notebook 11 x 17, Paper Notebook 11x17. The Laminated Poster size fits nicely on a refrigerator door.
Laminated Poster: $15.00 each. There are two available but we can order more
Laminated Notebook: $5.00 each
Paper Notebook $.50 each.
Choose which one you’d like and place your check or money in the envelope at the table.
Emmaus Road Mondays 7:00 p.m.
Emmaus Road begins its annual reflections for Advent. We will be reading articles from the Advent/Christmas anthology Watch for the Light. The readings are short but very poignant and a good way to enter into and observe the Advent season. The readings for this coming Monday will be on the table outside Church on Sunday.
Music with the Angels Concerts
Our Music with the Angels, Sunday Afternoon Concert series continues with two performances for November.
November 24 4 p.m. - Concordia Clarimontis: John Barcellona (flauto traverso), Shanon Zusman (viola da gamba), and Robert Zappulla (harpsichord and director).
Liturgy for Thanksgiving: Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 p.m.
We will celebrate Thanksgiving on the evening before, Wednesday, November 28 7:00 p.m. with the Holy Eucharist. This liturgy is wonderful as we hear Scripture that touches very deeply our American consciousness, along with hymns that recall us to our heritage as well. Doing the Eucharist on the Eve of Thanksgiving gives us the benefit of touching our deep Christian and American roots, as well as leaving Thanksgiving Day free for family and friends.
Advent is Coming
Advent Event: Sunday December 1
Following the 10:15 Liturgy on Sunday December 1, we will have a Parish Potluck in the Parish Hall and make Advent Wreaths for use at home. We’ve done this event for the last three years and it has been well attended and a lot of fun. A signup sheet for the potluck will be outside Church the next several Sundays.