October 25, 2018

& PIE AUCTION
Friday, November 16th
(details below)

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP                
THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, Pentecost 23, there will be two services at 8:00 am and 10:00 a.m.


NEXT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4,  All Saints Sunday and Pledge Ingathering. One service only at 9:00 followed by Stewardship Brunch. Please bring your favorite dish to add to the table.

Book Group will meet at 11:15 following service on October  28.

CENTERING PRAYER  
Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.

MORNING PRAYER 
Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m.

COFFEE HOUR HOSTS NEEDED!!!!!
Please check the sheet in the Parish Hall and ask someone to “team up” with you for Coffee Hour. Hosts are needed for all dates for remainder of Oct and all of Nov and Dec.

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
READINGS FOR SUNDAY                
Sunday, October 28, 2018
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 25, Year B

Job 42:1-6, 10-17
Psalm 34:1-8, 19-22
Hebrews 7:23-28
Mark 10:46-52


FROM THE RECTOR

Barbara Lord and her quilting crew have finished the quilt! It was on display on Sunday and is simply beautiful! I can’t begin to name all the people who were involved in this project, but there was a wonderful group of people – some seasoned quilters and others learning, or just lending moral support or providing refreshments. In the weeks leading up to its completion, there were people here quilting away several mornings a week. It is truly a labor of love. Abundant thanks to you all!

Be sure to purchase raffle tickets if you haven’t already, and pick some up to take with you and sell. They are $5.00 each or five for $20.00. Tickets are available in the office during the week and Patti Rau will have them for sale on Sundays while Hettie is away. The drawing will be 

Caroline
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Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
                            

- Mary Oliver

RAISE THE ROOF       

Your help is needed to sell Quilt Raffle Tickets
The beautiful quilt is finished.

Please sign-out tickets to sell to your family, friends and neighbors.

You may pick up the quilt raffle tickets in the office or after the Sunday 10:00 am service
   
CHURCH BILLBOARD


 DINNER BELL



Dinner Bell cook team for this Sunday October 28th
Sandwich Community Church

Dinner Bell cook team for next Sunday November 4th
Friends
 ~
Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for October  is deodorant for men/women.

FORWARD DAY BY DAY
Thursday, October 25

Luke 10:29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
 As a child, my neighbors were mostly folks who were African-American and Protestant, just like me. I now live in a neighborhood full of various ethnicities and faiths. My understanding of who my neighbors are has changed.
The lawyer who challenges Jesus before the parable of the good Samaritan represents the strong tribal sensibility of biblical societies. For the lawyer, neighbors are fellow Jews, not Samaritans. At the end of the story, Jesus changes the lawyer’s question by asking if the priest, the Levite, or the Samaritan in the story was a neighbor. That is, who was the true neighbor? The parable’s true heart is found in Leviticus 19:34: “The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
God has created all people, and in God’s neighborhood tribal divisions are irrelevant and our neighbors are all of God’s people, whether or not they look, act, or believe as we do.
MOVING FORWARD: Pray for your neighbors, even the grumpy ones.

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
If you do not see your birthday or anniversary listed, please make sure Deb in the office has an information sheet on file for you.

     Birthdays
5     Ray Walker
9     Joan Wright, Peter Thompson
11    Barbara Worcester, Rob Walty
20    Lois Brady
22    Sally DeGroot, John McGowan
27    Larry Grace
28    Dick Wakefield, Dwight Baldwin

     Anniversaries
8        Judy & Larry Grace

THIS MONTH AT ST. ANDREW’S
 OCTOBER
Sunday
28th
8 & 10 am
Pentecost 23
11:15 am
Book Group
Every Sunday
5:00 pm
Dinner Bell






Monday
9:30 am
Quilt Group
29th
7:00 pm
Vestry Meeting






Tuesday
Every Tuesday
10:00 am
Community Food Center
5:30 pm
Centering Prayer
8:00 pm
AA Meeting






Wednesday
Every Wednesday
9:00 am
Morning Prayer







Friday
Every Friday
10:00 am
Community Food Center






Saturday
Every Saturday
8:00 pm
AA Meeting
8:00 pm
Al-Anon Meeting
"FUN" Raising

HARVEST SUPPER & PIE AUCTION
SAVE THE DATE 
 Friday November 16th

Dinner will begin at 6 PM  followed by the Pie Auction at 7 held by the entertaining & charming Christopher Boldt.  Tickets are $15 with a simple supper of  Hearty & delicious sausage and root vegetable soup, bread, salad and apple crisp.  Children under 12  are just $5. BYOB beer or wine.  Please tell your friends and acquaintances as this is an entertaining evening and a great place to pick up the following Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner's dessert.  Lastly consider helping at the dinner by being either a dessert contributor or a helper, lists to be posted in couple of weeks prior to the event.

ChIP’s and UNITED THANK OFFERING

PLEASE turn in your contributions by this Sunday, October 28th


The CHiPs program (Children of Incarcerated Persons) collects gifts and monetary donations ($25 this year) to be given to the children of those who are in prison. 


UTO: The first priority of The United Thank Offering is to encourage the spiritual practice of gratitude and then to give grants from the abundant collection of coins and bills given each year to our Blue Boxes. In 2018 the United Thank Offering annual grant recipients, seminarian and young adult grant recipients are working towards evangelism and reconciliation as a part of the Jesus Movement. The United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church awarded 47 grants for a total of $1,169,969.55 for the mission and ministry of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The 2018 grants were awarded to 34 Episcopal Church Dioceses, 8 Companion Relationships, 4 International Dioceses/ Provinces and 1 to continue our tradition of supporting Episcopal Church missionaries.
For more information click on this link:https://www.episcopalchurch.org/files/documents/uto_2017_grants_brochure.pdf

If you are giving by check to St. Andrew’s, please mark in the memo line “ChIPs or UTO”. You may leave your contributions in the office or drop them in the collection plate.

Thank you for your generosity to these very important outreach programs.

PHOTO GALLERY

October 18, 2018


JOIN US FOR WORSHIP                
THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21st, Pentecost 22, there will be two services at 8:00 am and 10:00 a.m.

Book Group will meet at 11:15 following services on October 21 and 28.


CENTERING PRAYER  
Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.



MORNING PRAYER 
Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m.

COFFEE HOUR HOSTS NEEDED!!!!!
Please check the sheet in the Parish Hall and ask someone to “team up” with you for Coffee Hour. Hosts are needed for all dates for remainder of Oct and all of Nov and Dec.

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
READINGS FOR SUNDAY                
Sunday, October 21, 2018
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 24, Year B

Job 38:1-7, 34-41
Psalm 104:1-9, 25, 37b
Hebrews 5:1-10
Mark 10:35-45


FROM THE RECTOR

I can’t remember definitively, but I suspect I have at least touched on the importance of keeping the Sabbath in one of my sermons. It is a topic that comes up regularly in scripture, and it is something with which I often struggle in my own life. So I was excited to learn that the topic of our fall clergy retreat this week was “Resting in God: The Spiritual Practice of Keeping Sabbath”. It was led by Brother David Vryhof, one of the monks of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, MA. The Brothers are very intentional about keeping their own Sabbath on Mondays, when they close their guesthouse to the public, and I knew what David had to share would be pertinent.

Indeed, what he had to say was most helpful, and in the context of a retreat, something we could practice in short periods right there. Keeping the Sabbath is about more than taking a day off or worshiping on Sunday morning or resting from our work. As the title of our retreat indicates, it was about resting in God – knowing ourselves to be not only created in the image of God but beloved by God. As he said to us at one point, he wasn’t telling us much we didn’t already know. But I needed the reminders, and I suspect we all did.

I’d like to pass along one of the gems he shared with us. It had to do with prayer, and came from his training when he first arrived at the monastery years ago. He said that until then he had always struggled with prayer, never feeling that he was praying frequently enough, or hard enough, or in the right way. He, like most of us, saw it as something that he initiated with God, rather than the other way around. But at the monastery he learned to see prayer as something that God invited him into, and to approach each day with an expectant attitude – wondering how God would appear that day, how God might surprise him. He learned to look for God in everything he did and in everyone he met, and found himself more and more likely to recognize God’s presence in his life. As his prayer life expanded in this way he realized that he no longer felt guilty for not praying well enough, or long enough or often enough.  A shift in his approach to prayer opened him to God’s presence in a new way. What struck me most about what he shared was that when we put the onus of praying on ourselves, seeing it as something we must do, it can become simply another task on our to do list and a place where we feel we come up short.

Prayer and keeping the Sabbath are both central to our spiritual lives, and essential to our well being. I invite you to take a little time to consider these things in your own lives, and to give me a call if you’d like to learn more about either.

Caroline
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From Rest: the gentle art of doing nothing – Br. Nicholas Bartoli, SSJE

There is within us all a very sacred place, a gift of stillness, light, and love central to our being. We could call it our “heart” or our “soul” or “the indwelling of Christ.” It is at once a point of utter nothingness and the point which gives birth to all things in heaven and on earth. It is a place capable of holding both incredible beauty and terrible pain. It is the place where Christ is born, and from whence we can share Christ’s love and compassion in the world. It is God’s eternal Kingdom within us and our common inheritance as children of light. Against all reason, it is the place God chooses to call home, and so it is our home, too.

However, it very often seems difficult to even visit this place, let alone claim it as our inheritance and home. We sense its existence most often in a feeling of restlessness, the nagging feeling that there’s something we have forgotten or have missed….
As hard as it can be to describe this place, we can become more receptive to it. And the way is truly very simple. I can sum it up in just one word: rest.


To read more, go to: https://www.ssje.org/monasticwisdom/#monthly. The second section on the page is called Monastic Wisdom Monthly, and “Rest” is one of the topics there. Use the left or right arrow to find “Rest”.

RAISE THE ROOF       

Your help is needed to sell Quilt Raffle Tickets
Please sign-out a packet of tickets to sell to your family, friends and neighbors. See Hettie Buck after the 10:00 am service on Sunday or call 603-253-5035. There will also be packets of tickets in the office.


   
CHURCH BILLBOARD


 DINNER BELL



Dinner Bell cook team for this Sunday October 21st
WILCOX-JACOBSON

Dinner Bell cook team for next Sunday October 28th
Sandwich Community Church
 ~
Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

In my note last week about the Call and Response Foundation's team at Dinner Bell on 10/7, I failed to mention that Joyce Carter was also present for their delicious meal and Joyce with her kindness as always made Scott Whitmore and his team feel very welcome. Also Joyce reminded me that their meal also included delicious grilled veggies.


On Sunday 10/14 which was a lovely fall day with vibrant foliage colors, I participated for Gretchen-Behr Swenson who could not walk this year in the annual Crop Walk through the beautiful Sandwich countryside.  Many thanks to all who generously donated to the Walk. Our donations from the St. Andrew's community were $400!!


Beverly Hammond

COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for October  is deodorant for men/women.

FORWARD DAY BY DAY
Thursday, October 18
Ecclesiasticus 38:1-3 Honor physicians for their services, for the Lord created them; for their gift of healing comes from the Most High, and they are rewarded by the king. The skill of physicians makes them distinguished, and in the presence of the great they are admired.

My doctor and I are not friends, but we need each other. I need her care to maintain good health, and she needs me to support her practice. I do not know whether my doctor is a person of faith, but she is a member of God’s community of healers.



Many scholars believe that Saint Luke was a Greek physician. In Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians, the author refers to him as “Luke, the beloved physician,” and some faith traditions venerate him as the patron saint of doctors. As evangelist and doctor, Luke followed in the footsteps of our great healer.


Becoming a doctor entails many years of study and training, but the author of Ecclesiasticus reminds us that it is God who first bestows the gift of healing. Rather than seeing doctors as usurping God’s role, we should instead honor and admire them for their deep understanding of the substances the Lord has placed in the earth for our health and well-being, and for their skill in using them to heal.




MOVING FORWARD: Thank your health care provider today.

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
If you do not see your birthday or anniversary listed, please make sure Deb in the office has an information sheet on file for you.

     Birthdays
5     Ray Walker
9     Joan Wright, Peter Thompson
11    Barbara Worcester, Rob Walty
20    Lois Brady
22    Sally DeGroot, John McGowan
27    Larry Grace
28    Dick Wakefield, Dwight Baldwin

     Anniversaries
8        Judy & Larry Grace

THIS MONTH AT ST. ANDREW’S
 OCTOBER
Sunday

21st
8 & 10 am
Pentecost 22
11:15 am
Book Group
28th
8 & 10 am
Pentecost 23
11:15 am
Book Group
Every Sunday
5:00 pm
Dinner Bell






Monday
9:30 am
Quilt Group
29th
7:00 pm
Vestry Meeting






Tuesday
Every Tuesday
10:00 am
Community Food Center
5:30 pm
Centering Prayer
8:00 pm
AA Meeting







Wednesday
Every Wednesday
9:00 am
Morning Prayer







Friday
Every Friday
10:00 am
Community Food Center







Saturday
Every Saturday
8:00 pm
AA Meeting
8:00 pm
Al-Anon Meeting
FROM THE OFFICE

The attic cleanout that was planned for today, Friday 19th has been cancelled for now,
Deb has to go out of town. Thank you and will keep you posted on a reschedule date.

ChIP’s and UNITED THANK OFFERING

It’s that time of year for giving!
Over the next two Sundays we will collect gifts for ChIPs and United Thank Offering (UTO).  Each October we invite contributions which will be taken to the Diocesan Convention on November 3rd by the Delegates.


The CHiPs program (Children of Incarcerated Persons) collects gifts and monetary donations ($25 this year) to be given to the children of those who are in prison. 


UTO: The first priority of The United Thank Offering is to encourage the spiritual practice of gratitude and then to give grants from the abundant collection of coins and bills given each year to our Blue Boxes. In 2018 the United Thank Offering annual grant recipients, seminarian and young adult grant recipients are working towards evangelism and reconciliation as a part of the Jesus Movement. The United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church awarded 47 grants for a total of $1,169,969.55 for the mission and ministry of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The 2018 grants were awarded to 34 Episcopal Church Dioceses, 8 Companion Relationships, 4 International Dioceses/ Provinces and 1 to continue our tradition of supporting Episcopal Church missionaries.
For more information click on this link:https://www.episcopalchurch.org/files/documents/uto_2017_grants_brochure.pdf

If you are giving by check to St. Andrew’s, please mark in the memo line “ChIPs or UTO”. You may leave your contributions in the office or drop them in the collection plate.

Thank you for your generosity to these very important outreach programs.

PHOTO GALLERY


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