Thursday MEMO
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| Thanking Chris Mills, our indomitable playwright and director |
Don't miss the Gallery of pictures below from The Dis-Oriented Express !
Services
for this coming Sunday, April
24th and the 5th Sunday of Easter, will be at 8 and 10
AM, with a coffee hour following each service. We hope you will join us for
worship and fellowship. This will be Janet Palmer’s last official Sunday as our
Child Care Provider. Be sure you are there to sign a card expressing our
gratitude for her many years of warm and gentle service to the parish.
Readings for Sunday: Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6,
John 13:31-35
It
is with sadness I
share with you the news of the death of Andrea Dassori
on Monday, April 18th. Andrea had been living valiantly with a brain cancer,
and died peacefully and not unexpectedly at home in the presence of her husband
Davis and her good friend Nina, a frequent visitor with them here.
Andrea and Davis have
been affiliate members of Saint Andrew’s for quite some time, joining us
regularly for worship when they are at their Sandwich home. Among other
wonderful qualities, Andrea will be remembered here for her sweet and memorable
English accent that gave a special note to her reading of scripture the many
times she served as a lector.
Her life will be
celebrated on Saturday, April 30th at
2:30 at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Hingham, Massachusetts. There will
be visiting hours the evening before.
Letters of condolence may
be sent to Davis at 123 Main Street, Hingham, MA 02043 and to their daughter Emma Dassori
(with her husband Michael Kaye and their daughters Hazel and Ivy) to P.O. Box
263, Center Sandwich, NH 03227. Please keep them all in your prayers.
May
she rest in peace and may light perpetual shine upon her.
Other
pastoral updates:
Ellie is recovering well and is now at the Country Village Rehab Facility in Lancaster: The Rev. Eleanor McLaughlin, Room 100, Genesis Health Care, 91 Country Village Rd., Lancaster, NH 03584.
Ellie is recovering well and is now at the Country Village Rehab Facility in Lancaster: The Rev. Eleanor McLaughlin, Room 100, Genesis Health Care, 91 Country Village Rd., Lancaster, NH 03584.
We give thanks that Larry Grace is now home and doing remarkably, following
three months of hospitalization and rehab. Judy is quick to say that “Prayers and
calls are still welcome.”
Hettie
is recovering at her brother’s home in Massachusetts and will return home as soon as her knee is load-bearing.
Mark
your calendars for the Bishop’s visit! The Rt. Rev. Rob
Hirschfeld, Bishop of New Hampshire, will be making a special visit to Saint
Andrew’s for a Service of Confirmation
and Reaffirmation of Faith on Tuesday,
May 17 at 6:30 PM. Our Bishop makes regularly scheduled Sunday “Parish
Visitations” about every 20 months, but he was happy to provide this extra mid-week
visit to confirm Sarah Huckman, Aislinn Hird, and Ann Albrecht. If there are others
who would like to make a Public Reaffirmation of Faith, please let me know.
There is a lovely pleasure in an early evening service of celebration. Please
mark your calendars now and plan to be with us for worship followed by a
reception.
Anyone interested in attending the Lay Leadership Institute on Saturday,
May 7, needs to register by Friday, April 29.
For details, talk to Carol or Heidi and click here to register: http://www.nhepiscopal.org/event-calendar/2016/5/7/lay-leadership-institute
Last
weekend’s Murder Mystery Dinner was a magnificent success
thanks to the participation and talents of many! Chris Mills (playwright, director,
actress, and cook), Carol and Jen (chief cooks and meal managers), our amazing Stone
Church Players cast: Chris, Carolyn, Aislinn, Ronan, Juli, Stephen, Sarah,
Tim, Tom, Preston, Val, Lisa, David, Heidi, Duane, Sally, Peg, and Audrey!!!
Additional thanks to Carolyn (set design and construction), Tom and Vic (stage platform builders), Duane (photographer
extraordinaire), David (reservations and tickets), Val (keyboardist), Stephen (lyricist
for our closing song), Dale, Gretchen, Michelle, and others who helped and waited on tables, and all of YOU who came and invited your friends! A show
is no show without a responsive audience, which you definitely were!
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| Consider the transformation that is taking place this very moment in your garden! |
Calls
for prayer, solidarity with the church in Ecuador: Presiding
Bishop Michael Curry and Episcopalians from across the church called for prayer
and solidarity with the Episcopal dioceses of Ecuador Litoral and Ecuador
Central and the people of Ecuador who are still trying to assess the loss and
damages caused by a devastating earthquake that struck the South American
nation Saturday, April 16.
Transformation:
Dying and rising has consequences. It does not leave us unchanged. It is a way
of inner transformation that reconnects us to God.
Eastertide blessings,
Heidi+
Heidi+
Picture Gallery from The Dis-Oriented Express
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| Getting ready. You gotta look the part! |
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"The effervescent Annie is a cosmetics saleswoman..."
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| Ready to go! (You do recognize her, don't you?) |
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| View out the window of the Dis-Oriented Express |
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| Another view out the window of the Dis-Oriented Express |
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| And the guests arrive: Madame Cade with her friends June and Lorraine! (June correctly detected the murderer, thereby winning the Prize Basket!) |
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| Be ware the scallywag! A whip of a little pickpocket! |
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| And where would we have been without the meal? Thank you to the chefs ... and their unseen helpers!!! |
