April 27, 2017



-                  JOIN US FOR WORSHIP                -

This Sunday, The 3rd Sunday of Easter, there will be two services at 8 & 10 a.m.
There is a service of Morning Prayer on Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m.

-                 READINGS FOR SUNDAY               -

Acts 2:14a, 36-41
Psalm 116:1-3,10-17
1 Peter 1:17-23
Luke 24:13-35

-                         LAST SUNDAY                      -

It was an unexpected change of plans to not do Morning Prayer service as Caroline made herself available for discussion regarding the Pledge Statement emailing error. It was a lovely service guided by Caroline through the Hymns and Prayer Book.  She will be taking this Sunday off in lieu of last.
We thank Billie Bell for playing the organ in Bernice’s absence.

-            FROM THE INTERIM RECTOR           -


MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our Spring Clean Up Day is scheduled for Sunday, May 7. Wear your work clothes and bring your yard and garden tools! Rain date is May 21.

I am off this Sunday, April 30 (since I didn’t take last Sunday off). Gretchen will lead Morning Prayer at 8:00 and Lisa and Cathie at 10:00. Many thanks to all three of them!
Easter blessings and joy!
Caroline

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Yard Sale at Saint Andrews Saturday May 27th 9am-2pm.
Our first annual Memorial Day weekend yard sale.  Buy a table for just $20. Interested please contact David Manley at 603-733-6961 and leave a message to reserve a table. 

-                          DINNER BELL                        -

Thank you to the volunteers who accepted to fill in dates in May. Please get your selections to Carol Tubman as soon as possible so that we can get any other dates filled.

-                   SEARCH COMMITTEE                  -
The Parish Survey is ready and your imput is important to the success of this survey.  All responses together will help create an accurate parish profile for our search process.  There will be opportunities to discuss the survey topics during our small group meetings.
Please complete the survey by May 1, 2017.
Click here to begin the survey.
Prayer for St. Andrew’s during this phase of the search process.
Loving God, giver of all good gifts, grant to the Search Committee, and to the parish, wisdom and faith.  Be with us as we develop and create the Parish Profile. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Search Committee: George Rau, Lisa Thompson, Cathie Lewis, Tom Huckman, Betsy Hess and Pat Adams.

-             COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER            -
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for MAY is Deoderant for men and women.

-                  FOOD FOR THOUGHT                -

Surrender
Surrender. The surrendering of our lives. Surrendering any notion that we “possess” our own lives. My life does not belong to me. That is how I would speak about having died with Christ and being raised with him.

-               FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE              -




-     MAY BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES    -
     Birthdays
1              John Marshall
7        Elaine South
11      Janet Palmer
13      Ruth Rich
15      Kitty Lou Booty, Betty Faella
17      Chuck DeGroot
18      Tim Huckman
20      Tom Forbes
26      Dan DeGroot
28      Bob Luz

     Anniversaries
13      Tom & Jen Huckman
20      Jonathan & Lois Brady
26      Grete & George Plender
28      Bruce & Denise Foreman
30      Bob & Gabriele Wallace
         


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April 20, 2017


JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
This Sunday, The 2nd Sunday of Easter, there will be two services at 8 & 10 a.m.
There is a service of Morning Prayer on Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m.

READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Acts 2:14a,22-32
Psalm 16
1 Peter 1:3-9
John 20:19-31

LAST SUNDAY
St.Andrew's Choir
See the wonderful picture gallery of Holy Week and Easter Sunday at the end of the Memo.
Courtesy of Photographers Rob Walty, Carolyn Boldt and Lisa Thompson

FROM THE INTERIM RECTOR
A  Huge Thank You!
I am grateful to so many people this Easter week. First of all to Deb, for all she did to produce the bulletins for Holy Week and Easter Day, while juggling all of her usual weekly tasks (not to mention doing the same thing for All Saints!). And to all of you who played a part in the Holy Week and Easter services, wow! The services were beautiful, from the music to the readings to the attention to hundreds of details. These services are all uniquely different, each telling a part of the story leading up to the Resurrection, and they were all moving and beautiful. At the risk of inadvertently leaving someone out, I want to thank:
-Sammie and members of the Altar Guild, for setting up for each service, for the hours of cleaning and polishing on Saturday morning, and for magically transforming the church from the bareness of the stripped altar to the glory of Easter.
-Gretchen, for taking care of getting the palms and Easter flowers, and all who donated them.
-Bunny and the Choir, for all the music, and especially the anthem on Easter morning.
-Val, for leading the music on Maundy Thursday and her beautiful harp accompaniment
-All the readers, who read with such expression and meaning; especially the dramatic readings of the Passion on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, and the readings during the stripping of the altar and at the Vigil.
-All the ushers, acolytes, lectors and Eucharistic ministers.
-Ellie and Nancy, for filling roles as Assisting Priests in all our liturgies.
-Betsy, for her beautiful rendition of the Exsultet (that took a LOT of practice!).
-Cathie, for organizing the Easter coffee hour, and to everyone who brought a delicious dish.
I am off this Sunday, April 23. Gretchen will lead Morning Prayer at 8:00 and Lisa and Cathie at 10:00.
Easter blessings and joy,
Caroline

DINNER BELL
Thank you to the volunteers who accepted to fill in dates in April and May. Please get your selections to Carol Tubman as soon as possible so that we can get any other dates filled.

SEARCH COMMITTEE
The Parish Survey is ready and your imput is important to the success of this survey.  All responses together will help create an accurate parish profile for our search process.  There will be opportunities to discuss the survey topics during our small group meetings.
Please complete the survey by May 1, 2017.
Click here to begin the survey.
Prayer for St. Andrew’s during this phase of the search process.
Loving God, giver of all good gifts, grant to the Search Committee, and to the parish, wisdom and faith.  Be with us as we develop and create the Parish Profile. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Search Committee: George Rau, Lisa Thompson, Cathie Lewis, Tom Huckman, Betsy Hess and Pat Adams.

COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
GREETINGS! 
For the month of April, the Hannaford Cause Bag program at the Hannaford store located at 891 NH 16, Ossipee, NH will be focused on the sale of the FIGHT HUNGER BAGS in support of THE COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER food pantry!!
Every day counts~ we hope you find the resources at http://newhannaford.bags4mycause.com/ helpful in your continued outreach.
And, don’t forget to share with everyone that the Fight Hunger bags with the message “This bag helped feed someone in need” can be found on the reusable bag rack at various registers.
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for APRIL is laundry detergent.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Revelation
We turn our backs on death and its legions. We turn our gaze instead toward resurrection and its infinite epiphanies. Death has been defeated, “swallowed up”! The Saints stand ready to greet us. They join the Lamb, the Spirit and the Bride saying, “Come”.
-Br. Mark Brown
Society of Saint John the Evangelist
To Read More and to Leave a Comment, Click Here

FROM Deb in THE OFFICE
PHEW!  What a week for all. Thank you to the office angels, Cathie Lewis and David Manley for their help with pulling the bulletins together. It has been a week of picking up all the little things but with breathing space.

Quarterly Giving Statements
They are going out soon!
  
APRIL BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
      Birthdays
2        Ellen Keith
3        Christine Mills
8        Ann Albrecht
14      Audrey Berry
15      Elizabeth Pease
24      Dave Adams
26      Todd Horn
28      Peggy Cannon, June Young

     Anniversaries
8        Christine & Robert Mills
16      Peter & Trudy Thompson
19      Marty & Marilyn Cloran

David & Patricia Adams


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Holy Week and Easter Sunday
PHOTO GALLERY

















April 13, 2017


Fra Angelico, "Jesus Apearing to the Magdalene"
(1440-41), Convent of San Marco, Florence
JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
This Sunday, EASTER Sunday, there will be ONE service only at 10 a.m.
There is a service of Morning Prayer on Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m.

Click here for HOLY WEEK Schedule.

READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Acts 10:34-43
Psalm 118 1-2, 14-24
Colossians 3:1-4
John 20:1-18

LAST SUNDAY
See below for the wonderful picture gallery of Palm Sunday
Courtesy of Photographer Lisa Thompson

FROM THE INTERIM RECTOR
BRING YOUR BELLS!
Remember to bring your bells to Easter Vigil, Saturday at 8pm.

Easter Morning Coffee Hour
There will be a potluck brunch for Coffee Hour after the 10am Service. You are encouraged to bring your favorite item to add to the table.

Easter Supper
If you are looking for somewhere to go for Easter Supper, Carol Tubman will be cooking for dinner bell on Sunday evening and you are invited to join at 5pm.

Faithfully, Caroline

GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING
Each year the Presiding Bishop asks us to support the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem through the Good Friday Offering, and we will participate once again this year. For more information about this cause, see the Presiding Bishop’s letter HERE, and look for more information in the Sunday bulletin.

A NOTE FROM ELAINE SOUTH
Received April 3, 2017
To the dear people of St. Andrew’s
Thank you for your kind words and hugs and all the behind-the-scene work for Brooks’ farewell. We love you all!
Sincerely,
Elaine South

DINNER BELL
Volunteer Cook Teams are needed for April 23rd and all Sundays for month of MAY. Please consider enlisting some friends to team up and help with this important outreach ministry. Please contact Carol Tubman or email the office with your availability.

SEARCH COMMITTEE
The Parish Survey is ready and your imput is important to the success of this survey.  All responses together will help create an accurate parish profile for our search process.  There will be opportunities to discuss the survey topics during our small group meetings.
Please complete the survey by May 1, 2017.
Click here to begin the survey.
Prayer for St. Andrew’s during this phase of the search process.
Loving God, giver of all good gifts, grant to the Search Committee, and to the parish, wisdom and faith.  Be with us as we develop and create the Parish Profile. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Search Committee: George Rau, Lisa Thompson, Cathie Lewis, Tom Huckman, Betsy Hess and Pat Adams.
  
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
GREETINGS! 
Starting April 1st, the Hannaford Cause Bag program at the Hannaford store located at 891 NH 16, Ossipee, NH will be focused on the sale of the FIGHT HUNGER BAGS in support of THE COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER food pantry!!
Every day counts~ we hope you find the resources at http://newhannaford.bags4mycause.com/ helpful in your continued outreach.
And, don’t forget to share with everyone that the Fight Hunger bags with the message “This bag helped feed someone in need” can be found on the reusable bag rack at various registers.
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for APRIL is laundry detergent.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
“…for Jesus yesterday was not the time, but now is the time. His hour at last has come and he is ready for whatever comes next. And what comes next unleashes a whole host of events that reverberates to this very day. What comes next shaped history, changed lives and ultimately brought us all to this very place. For what came next had to do not only with Jesus, but with you and me as well.
What came next was water and towel, bread and wine, kiss and cross, tomb and terror, light and life. What came next was seeing, and sending and saying.  Now is the time for Jesus and in a few short days we will hear him say “it is finished.” And for Jesus, his work will be done. But for us it will be just beginning.
So pay attention. Pay attention to what happens in the next few days. Pay attention to what goes on around you and within you. Pay attention to the water on your feet and the roughness of the towel in your hand. Pay attention to the softness of the bread and the sting of the wine in your throat. Pay attention to the brusqueness of the kiss and the splinters of the cross. Pay attention to the coldness of the tomb and the terror that clutches your heart. Pay attention to the brightness of the dawning light and the life that bursts forth.
Something has happened and now, now is the time Jesus tells us for him to be lifted up from the earth that he might draw all people to himself.
But soon, soon it will be our time to see, and be sent and to say so that all the world may believe.”
-­ Br. James Koestler
Society of St. John the Evangelist
Cambridge, MA
FROM Deb in THE OFFICE

Quarterly Giving Statements
While I had the best of intentions, due to an unplanned 4 days away, I am unable to get the statements out this week. I will endeavor to send them out before the end of the month of April.

  
APRIL BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

     Birthdays
2        Ellen Keith
3        Christine Mills
8        Ann Albrecht
14      Audrey Berry
15      Elizabeth Pease
24      Dave Adams
26      Todd Horn
28      Peggy Cannon, June Young

     Anniversaries
8        Christine & Robert Mills
16      Peter & Trudy Thompson
19      Marty & Marilyn Cloran
David & Patricia Adams

 Palm Sunday Photo Gallery


The Procession







Coloring Alleluias

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