July 26, 2012

This Sunday, the 29th of July and the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, there will be services at 8 and 10 AM with coffee hour following each service. We hope you'll join us for worship and fellowship.

Readings for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 11:1-15, 26-12:13a; Psalm 14; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-15.


Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 AM.

News from the Facilities Planning committee: The blown-in insulation is finally scheduled -- for next Monday, July 30!  We'll be adding a thick blanket of insulation above the transept and sacristy, above the parish hall entry, lavatory, and food pantry closet, and above the kitchen serving counter. Curious about it? Ask Duane.

The Consecration date is Saturday, August 4th: If you know of someone who would like to attend (from this parish or elsewhere – Episcopalian or otherwise) there are still some tickets available directly from the consecration committee ticket chair, Susan Sielke [smsielke@ne.rr.com]. They will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.

The Consecration, on your computer: A live video “broadcast” of the consecration of our new bishop will be available over the internet, for parish or home viewing.  If you can watch a YouTube video on your computer, you can probably receive it. Access to the video stream will be available at  http://search.nhepiscopal.org/index.php/consecration.
  The Consecration begins at 11 AM on Saturday, August 4th. The video coverage is expected to begin with the preludes at 10:45.
 If you have questions, or if you want to try to organize a viewing of it at the church, contact Duane (367-8336 or duane.dale@gmail.com).

Time to get going on the Barbecue & Bluegrass Bash! Sign up to help out! Pick up a recipe sheet and help with the food! Invite your friends and neighbors!

Special Kenya event to follow the 9 o'clock service on August 5th! Tom and Peg Reinfuss would love to show you pictures of their trip to Kisumu, Kenya. They met the young Kenyan woman they've sponsored for the last couple years, painted 19 huge blackboards in two primary schools, delivered 600 lbs of books, and Tom taught about 100 Kenyan boys Hi five Lo five and created total bedlam! They also visited the homes of guardians of the sponsored children in very remote villages. Interesting and fun pictures!


See you in church!
Blessings, Heidi+


From the office at St. Andrew’s
Office Hours:  Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon

If you have anything that you would like to have put in the Thurs. Memo, please email to the office by the previous Wednesday. Your submissions are welcome.

UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:

Fri  7/27:
    10a-noon  Food Center

Sat  7/28:    
    8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)

Sun 7/29:
    8 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
    10 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II
    5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team: UUFES)

Mon 7/30:    Church office closed

Tue 7/31:   
    10am – noon  Food Center
    8pm AA (PH)


Wed 8/1:
    9 AM Service of Morning Prayer
   
Thu  8/2:      

July 19, 2012


This Sunday, the 22nd  of July, the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, there will be two services at 8 and 10 a.m., with coffee hour following. We hope you'll join us for worship and fellowship.

Readings for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a; Psalm 89:20-37; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34, 53-56.

Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 am.

Last chance for tickets to the consecration on August 4th! We have two extras that will be turned in this week if they are unclaimed.

Announcing our next meal event: 
On Friday, August 10th we will be hosting a Backyard Barbecue Bluegrass Bash! We’ll fire up the charcoal pit for a chicken barbecue with fresh corn, potato salad, coleslaw, and our (now famous) blueberry buckle for dessert, all with fabulous, live, musical entertainment by the Bluegrass Mountain Boys! So mark your calendar, invite your friends. 50% of our proceeds will go to local and regional outreach and 50% to the church. (This event is taking the place of our Lobster bake, since our lobster-boiling friends were not available this year.) We’ll need lots of help, so check out the sign-up list! Carol Tubman and Chris Mills will be co-chairing the event.

Parish Gatherings coming up: The Vestry invites you to participate in one of five comparable gatherings to be held at homes of parishioners later this summer. It’s been a long time since we’ve gathered groups of 10 to 12 together to talk about the life of our parish – our strengths, our challenges, and our hopes and dreams. Each gathering will be facilitated by two parish leaders; refreshments will be served. Bring you calendar with you on Sunday, so that you can sign up!

Our Annual Rummage Sale will have a few changes this year: It will take place in August this year to help families be ready for the start of school: Friday Aug. 24th and Saturday Aug. 25th.  Diane Lombardi is the chairperson.  This will be a morning event only, on both days. So start sorting your closets and clothes. We will be receiving contributions beginning on Tuesday, August 21st. Please remember: everything should be clean and in good condition. Clothing and fabric household goods only (linens, towels, curtains, etc.)

Looking ahead to other events in the Fall: Once again we will have a presence at the Sandwich Fair in early October. Our jellies, jams, and pickles went like hotcakes last year. So take advantage of the summer produce bounty and plan to help us out. Gretchen is the organizer of that event. More details will be forthcoming.

After that we have the Harvest Supper and Pie Auction on Friday November 16th:  Carol and Lynne, co-chairs. The Boughs and Bonbons Christmas Fair is on Saturday Dec. 1st:  Patti Rau and Lynne are co-chairs


If you have anything that you would like to have put in the Thurs. Memo, please email to the office by the previous Wednesday. Your submissions are welcome.

See you in church!
Blessings, Heidi+

From the office at St. Andrew’s
Office Hours:  Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon


UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:

Fri  7/20:
    10a-noon  Food Center

Sat  7/21:    
    8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)

Sun 7/22:
    8 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
    10 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II
    5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team:Frantz-Dale)

Mon 7/23:    Church office closed

Tue 7/24:   
    10am – noon  Food Center
    11am-2pm: Outreach Group (PR)
    1pm-3:30pm: Liturgical Arts camp (PH)
    8pm AA (PH)


Wed 7/25:
    9 AM Service of Morning Prayer
   
Thu  7/26:      

July 12, 2012

This Sunday, the 15^th of July, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, there will be two services at 8 and 10 a.m., with coffee hour following. We hope you'll join us for worship and fellowship.

Readings for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29.

Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 am.

There are still a few tickets available to the consecration of our next bishop at 11 AM on Saturday, August 4th at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. This Sunday, the 15^th, is the deadline for getting your name. Please call or stop by the office to add your name . If more people want to attend than we have tickets, there will be a drawing. If our ticket allotment is not spoken for, extras will be returned to a central "ticket bank" and redistributed to other parishes. It is very likely that carpooling will be available. This is an exciting turning point in the life of our diocese. The Ordination of a Bishop is a deeply powerful and spiritually transformative event that binds all in attendance together in the power of the Holy Spirit with the church throughout history. I hope many of you will want to gather in Concord to witness and celebrate this beginning of Rob's episcopacy.

Val played harp for the 10 o'clock service last Sunday

Aislinn found a bird's nest after church.

 

Please consider providing flowers from your garden during the summer.  The freshness of these flowers enrich our worship and delight our eyes. We encourage flowers to be given in memory, in honor of, or in thanksgiving, so please complete an envelope from the Altar flower chart in the Parish Hall and turn it into the office. If you do not have garden flowers and would like flowers to be ordered ($20), please note that accordingly on the flower chart and submission envelope.

Food for thought from Gratitude from Br. Kevin Hackett, SSJE…

The prayer of thanksgiving frees us from the bondage of our own too-small worlds. It lifts us beyond ourselves and our petty preoccupations. And it does not come naturally to any of us. Rather, paradoxically, like all prayer, thanksgiving is a gift, from God, for us, waiting to be received.

See you in church!

Blessings, Heidi+

From the office at St. Andrew’s

Office Hours:  Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon

 If you have anything that you would like to have put in the Thurs. Memo, please email to the office by the previous Wednesday. Your submissions are welcome.

UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:

Fri  7/13:
                10a-noon  Food Center

Sat  7/14:               

                8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)

Sun 7/15:

               8 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
               10 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II
               5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team:Sandwich)

 Mon 7/16:               Church office closed

Tue 7/17:             

                10am – noon  Food Center
                7pm Boyscout Committee Mtg
                8pm AA (PH)

Wed 7/18:

                9 AM Service of Morning Prayer

         

Thu  7/19:  

July 5, 2012

This Sunday, the 8^th of July, the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, there will be two services at 8 and 10 a.m., with coffee hour following. We hope you'll join us for worship and fellowship.

Readings for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13.

Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 am.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow! The necessary consents to the election of the Rev. Rob Hirschfeld have just been received from the  House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church's General Convention. Consent from House of Bishops is expected tomorrow. God willing, he will be consecrated as the tenth Bishop of New Hampshire at 11 AM on Saturday, August 4th at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord.
       15 tickets have been allotted to Saint Andrew's-in-the-Valley. If you would like to attend, please call the church office (323-8515) by July 15th and provide your name and phone number, or fill out and return the purple form that was included in your bulletin last Sunday. If more people want to attend than we have tickets, there will be a drawing. If our ticket allotment is not spoken for, extras will be returned to a central "ticket bank" and redistributed to other parishes. It is very likely that carpooling will be available. This is an exciting turning point in the life of our diocese. I hope many of you will want to gather in Concord to witness and celebrate this beginning of Rob's episcopacy.

Family and friends of Jim Young gathered in our Memorial Garden at the end of last
Saturday's memorial service for the interment of ashes.

The women’s lunch bunch will meet next Wednesday, July 11^th , at noon, at the Mt. View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. Please call Dale Appleton if you have questions.

Food for continued reflection...
Last Sunday, Tom Reinfuss and I jointly offered the following dialogue as the starting point for my homily. It seems to have resonated with many! So many of you have requested copies that I offer it here:

Installing Love                  Courtesy of “Sythesis” editor-in-chief H. King Oehmig, July 2012 edition

Tech support:              Yes, can I help you?

Customer:                    Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you help me?

Tech support:              Yes, I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer:                    Well, I’m not very technically adept, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech support:              The first step is to open your heart. Have you located it?

Customer:                    Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it OK to install Love while they are running? I have PastHurt.exe, Low-Self-Esteem.exe, Doubt.exe, and Resentment.exe running right now.

Tech support:              No problem. Love will gradually erase Past-Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Doubt and Low-Self-Esteem with a module of its own called Faith.exe. However, you have to completely turn off Resentment.exe. It prevents Love from being properly installed.

                                    Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness.exe. Do this as many times as necessary until Resentment has been completely erased.

                                    Pause

Customer:                    OK. Done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech support:              Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer:                    Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error – Program will not run on external components.” What should I do?

Tech support:              Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your heart. In non-technical terms, it means you have to value yourself as a child of God – Love yourself before you can love others. Pull down Self-Acceptance.exe; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self. txt, Realize-You’re-Forgiven.txt, Acknowledge-Your-Limitations.txt, and Ask-God-for-Help.text.

Customer:                    OK. Done.

Tech support:              Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. You also need to delete Verbose-Self-Criticism.txt from all directories and empty your Recycle bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer:                    Got it! Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile.mpg is playing on my monitor, and Peace, Contentment, and Healing are copying themselves all over my heart

See you in church!

Blessings, Heidi+

From the office at St. Andrew’s

Office Hours:  Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon

 If you have anything that you would like to have put in the Thurs. Memo, please email to the office by the previous Wednesday. Your submissions are welcome.

UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:

Fri  7/6:

                10a-noon  Food Center

 Sat  7/7:                

                8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)

Sun 7/8:
                8 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
                10 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II
                5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team:Wakefield)

 Mon 7/9:               Church office closed

Tue 7/10:             

                10am – noon  Food Center
                7pm Boyscout Committee Mtg
                8pm AA (PH)

 Wed 7/11:
                9 AM Service of Morning Prayer

         

Thu  7/12: