Don't miss the gallery at the end of this MEMO.
Services
for this coming Sunday,
January 10th and The Baptism of Our Lord, will be at 8
and 10 AM. We hope you will join us for worship and fellowship.
Reading
for this coming Sunday: Isaiah
43:1-7, Psalm 29, Acts 8:14-17, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22.
Parents
and Kids: Don’t forget to pick up your copy of The Sunday Paper from the bulletin
stand. The first three sides are coloring-book material on the Gospel story and
an engaging reflection question. The last side is a helpful “Note to Parents,”
designed to help an adult go deeper with a child, but it’s good material for anyone
– after all, we’re all children at heart and before God. Interested? Take one
of the extras.
Women’s Lunch bunch will meet this coming Wednesday, January 13th, at noon at the Mountain View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. These gatherings are open to all women, whether you come once in a while or every month. If you have questions or need a ride, call Dale Appleton at 539-3761.
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| Don't miss this reading of Genesis 3. You will never hear this familiar passage the same way again! CLICK HERE for the video clip. |
Special
thanks to Val May, Ginger Heard, and their Sandwich recorder ensemble
for their wonderful contributions to last Sunday’s service of Lessons &
Carols. And thanks, too, to our readers – Chris and Carolyn Boldt, Andrea
and Davis Dassori, Sammie Wakefield, David Manley, and Dale Appleton. And for Lisa and Val’s profound and beautiful musical setting of the poem by Hungarian poet George Szirtes, “The Flight.”
Annual
Report and Meeting Reminder: If you are someone with
responsibility for writing a Committee Report, please get it to Debra by
January 15 – electronic form preferred. Our Annual Meeting, which everyone is encouraged to attend, will
be held on Sunday, January 7 – following the single 9:00 service and brunch.
Annual
Report and Meeting Reminder: If you are someone with
responsibility for writing a Committee Report, please get it to Debra by
January 15th – electronic form preferred. Our Annual Meeting, which everyone is encouraged to attend, will
be held on Sunday, January 7 – following the single 9:00 service and brunch.
A
request for participation from the Arts Council of Tamworth:
In honor of the town’s 250th, a mosaic mural is to be created
celebrating the things people love about Tamworth. They have sent a special
invitation to churches encouraging us to participate. What would you like to
see represented – about Saint Andrew’s or about the town. They are looking for
images in the form of pen or pencil drawing, photos, or just ideas, with
encouragement to think symbolically!
A mural artist is coming to town to work with the designs that are contributed,
then two collaborative mural-building sessions are scheduled for late March.
There are sheets with full details available on the bulletin board table in the
Parish Hall.
Coming up on Sundays January 17, 24, and 31: A three-part Instructed Eucharist: Why do we do what we do? In place of a sermon, on each of these coming Sundays, we will explore one section of our standard Sunday worship service. I’ve received numerous requests over the years here to do this and think I have worked out an approach that will maintain the integrity of the worship experience (There’s a big difference between a liturgy and a lecture!) and allow for a strategically placed ten-minute instructional block. On January 17th we will focus on the entrance rite, on the 24th on the liturgy of the Word, and on the 31st, the Great Thanksgiving and the dismissal. Following each service, I invite anyone interested to gather for questions and deeper consideration.
Food
for thought and prayerful reflection…A poem, The Flight, was commissioned for the 2015 Christmas Eve King’s College Chapel’s Service of Lessons and Carols, written this year with reference to the current refugee crisis and the
account of the Holy Family’s own flight into Egypt and status as refugees,
fleeing for their own safety in the face of a cruel and oppressive regime. The
poet himself fled his native Hungary in 1956 so draws on that personal
experience as well.
How are we, and how might we – as a parish and as individuals – respond to the current refugee crisis?
For the text of the poem, please return to the email that announced this Thursday MEMO.
Photo Gallery from Lessons and Carols Service on January 3rd
