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"SAINT ANDREW'S-BY-THE-LAKE"!
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Service only at 9 o’clock for this coming Sunday, April 7th, the Second Sunday
of Easter with Coffee hour following the service, hosted by the Fun-Raising
Committee.
Readings for this Sunday: Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 150; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31.
Special Easter thank
yous to: the Choir and Bernice for the wonderful Holy Week and Easter music, to Reverend Ellie McLaughlin
for her Easter homily, to the members of the Altar Guild for all their work, to
Lisa Thompson, for her creativity and leadership with the children and their
mask-making (see pictures below), to our children for their wonderful Vigil
offering depicting the Flood story.
The Women’s Lunch Bunch will meet Wed (4/10) at noon at the Mountain View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. If you have questions, please contact Dale Appleton. All are welcome.
Saint
Andrew's to Present English Manor Murder Mystery Dinner on April 26th
As
the sun is setting over the hills, you find yourself in the library of
Kirkstone Manor, a lovely old stone manor in the Lakes District. It is early evening on April 26th (but 1935,
not 2013), and the guests of Sir Roger Kirkstone have gathered in his ancestral
home for cocktails. Suddenly the butler
opens the door and announces, "Inspector Smythe of Scotland Yard."
You are about to become a murder suspect, and so is everyone else!
A mystery and
mouth-watering food . . . who could resist?
Come to Saint Andrew's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church on Friday, April
26, for its second annual fundraising murder mystery dinner and help discover
exactly who done it as you dine on a four-course meal, courtesy of those
wonderful cooks in the kitchen of Saint Andrew's/Kirkstone Manor. Those in the attendance at last year's
Italian-themed murder mystery dinner were very impressed with the food, fun,
and suspense, so make sure you don't miss this year's event.
On the evening's menu are some very typical English delicious
offerings, beginning with an appetizer platter that is reminiscent of a
ploughman's lunch and ending with a heavenly trifle. You are welcome to bring your own ale or
wine. The price of admission is $20.
And by partaking in the fun-raising English Manor Murder
Mystery Dinner, you will also be helping to support some great causes; 50% of
all funds raised through the event go to organizations that provide help to
others in the local community and around the world, including these three: the
Tamworth Community Food Center, Ossipee Concerned Citizens (for Meals on
Wheels), and Starting Point.
Please call the church office at 323-8515 during its open
hours of 9 am to noon Tuesdays through Fridays to make your reservations; call
986-0232 during other times. The feasting and festivities will begin at 6 pm
sharp. Because the murder mystery is scheduled to unfold during the dinner, all
guests must be seated by 6:15. A gift basket will be presented to one of the
dinner guests who is a master at intrigue and solves the crime.
Our newly-formed, ad
hoc Communication Committee has just had its first
meeting. Recently appointed by the
Vestry, the intent of this short term group is to evaluate how we communicate
with each other, the diocese and the wider world and make appropriate changes. We’ve already identified some new internal
processes that can be put into place to help keep us all better-informed. Over
the coming weeks we hope to collect ideas and information from each of you as
well. Your thoughts about the Thursday
MEMO, The Mountain Top, the web
site, and social networking will be integral in formulating our recommendations
to the vestry.
Committee members are
Jonathan Brady, Donna Jones, Patti Rau, and the rector; Carol Tubman (Sr.
Warden) is chair. Please free to offer any ideas, share any personal
experiences or ask any questions.
The Easter begins with the lighting of the new fire (outside the church) and then the chanting of the
Exultet. Psalms are chanted in the darkness and vigil readings retell God's saving acts.
Grandfather Noah and the children enact the story of The Great Flood at the Easter Vigil.
Food for thought from the New Interpreters’ Bible as we continue to celebrate the
Resurrection…
Resurrection faith does not arise on
the basis of evidence, but on the basis of the experienced presence of the
risen Christ, by testimony of those to whom he appeared, and by his own
continuing presence among the disciples.
Where and
how are you experiencing the presence of the Risen Christ this Eastertide?
Easter
Blessings,
Heidi+
