April 29, 2021

 


FROM THE RECTOR

Thank you all for your prayers and your offers to help following my foot surgery last week. I am doing well, and getting pretty adept at navigating my house on the knee scooter. It’s so much better than crutches!

This morning on the clergy call with the bishop we talked about beginning outdoor services and eventually moving inside. I’ve been thinking of outdoor services for a while, and just ordered video camera and microphone equipment to enhance recording our services. I’m grateful to the Diocese for a grant that covered the cost of this equipment. My thinking is that we will record any services at the church and live stream them on Zoom and Facebook as usual. That way everyone can decide whether to come to the in-person service or continue to attend online. I will consecrate some of the communion kits we used at Easter ahead of time and anyone who wises to pick them up ahead of time can have Communion at home.

We will continue to follow the COVID safety protocols of maintaining physical distance and wearing masks, as many, but not all of us are vaccinated. Everyone will bring their own bread as we did at outdoor services last summer.

Please let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions as we plan for meeting outdoors.

This Sunday we will have an extended coffee hour after our 9:00 service, and our topic will be outdoor worship. I look forward to seeing you then.

Blessings,
Caroline  

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP

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The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM

This Sunday-May 2nd
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The  Fifth Sunday of Easter

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READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, May 2nd
Fifth Sunday after Easter, Year B

The Collect                            

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

First Lesson                           Acts 8:26-40

This is the story of how Philip brought the Ethiopian eunuch to faith in Jesus.  Early Christians doubtless loved to tell and retell this narrative.  It shows how a significant foreign personage, who was apparently an inquirer into Judaism, learned about Jesus and was baptized.  It also illustrates the way an important passage from the Old Testament, which tells of the Lord’s servant who suffered for others, was interpreted as prophecy about Jesus.

Psalm 22:24-30

A song of praise to the Lord, who rules over all and cares for the downtrodden.

The Second Lesson               1 John 4:7-21

This reading teaches that God’s love is made known to us through Jesus.  In response we are to love one another.  No one has ever seen God, but to experience God’s love and to recognize Jesus as God’s Son is to know God.  Only by not loving other humans made in God’s image would we show that we do not know and love God.  When we do love one another, then we live in union with God and fear is driven away.

The Gospel                             John 15:1-8

In our gospel reading we hear that Jesus is the true vine to which each branch must be united if it is to bear fruit.  The vine and the vineyard were well-known symbols for God’s people.  A living relationship with Jesus in the following of his teaching is the source of fruitful discipleship.  God will cut away the dead branches and prune the healthy ones so that they will bear more abundantly.




Click below to see the readings: 

PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER

One thing we can always do while we stay at home is to pray for each other! We would like to keep our prayer list up to date and publish it each week in the Thursday Memo. Please email Deb at office@standrewsinthevalley.org with any updates.


This Week We Pray for

Health and Wholeness for:  Lenny, Joan Wright, Dave Stryker, Diana Riley, John Maloy, Brittany & Connor Cromwell, Frank, Amy, Judy Grace, Jeannette Mead, Margaret, Mary Ireland, Alyssa, Terri Hooper,  Martin, John McGowan, Sue Huckman, Steve Thompson, Joan Marshall, Marilyn Cloran, Gabriele and Bob Wallace, Dave and Dale Appleton, Carolyn Boldt, Angela B., Tom, Carolyn Jarvis, Peg Patenaude, Joyce Humphrey, 

For those who are homebound: Joyce Gendron, Marge Hagerup, Elizabeth Pease, Sara Kelley, Elizabeth Wiesner,  Audrey Berry.

For those who have died: The Rev. Brian Kelley, Bob Wright,  Kitty Lou Booty

For our First Nation people and those in this country who are living in impoverished areas with access to needed services

For all those who working with COVID patients, vaccinations and vaccines.

Updating the Prayer List

Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.



DINNER BELL

No DINNER BELL until further notice.

Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

We cannot meet at this time, but KNIT ON!

If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Spring ~ Mary Oliver 


Somewhere
a black bear
has just risen from sleep
and is staring 

down the mountain.
All night
in the brisk and shallow restlessness
of early spring
 

I think of her,
her four black fists
flicking the gravel,
her tongue
 

like a red fire
touching the grass,
the cold water.
There is only one question:
 

how to love this world.
I think of her
rising
like a black and leafy ledge
 

to sharpen her claws against
the silence
of the trees.
Whatever else
 

my life is
with its poems
and its music
and its glass cities,
 

it is also this dazzling darkness
coming
down the mountain,
breathing and tasting;
 

all day I think of her —
her white teeth,
her wordlessness,
her perfect love. 

COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.

Food pantry continues to serve the communities needs
New Hours
Alternating Wednesdays
12-4 pm
Next Food Pantry: May 12th
Any questions call 603-960-4067


Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program
Benefiting Month: May 2021

FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE


RESOURCE SHELF
Please feel free to come by and pick up
resource items from the shelf
outside the Parish Office door.
Forward Day by Day booklets
Episcopal News
and other items added occasionally

MAY  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                       
1   John Marshall
7   Elaine South
15  Betty Faella
17  Kit Morgan
18  Tim Huckman
20  Tom Forbes
28  Bob Luz
28  David Gartrell

Anniversaries                       
13  Tom & Jen Huckman
20  Jonathan & Lois Brady
26  Grete & George Plender
30  Bob & Gabriele Wallace
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April 22, 2021

 

HAPPY SPRING!


FROM THE RECTOR
Friends,
Unfortunately one of my email accounts has been hacked. Please ignore any email from me asking for a favor, money, gift cards, etc. and know that I would never make such a request via email. The purpose of the Rector's Discretionary Fund is to cover the needs of parishioners or community members in need and it typically has an adequate balance. Any time you receive such a request please let me know, and do not send money or gift cards, or worry that I am in need. Best practice is to delete such an email without responding. 

 I am so sorry this has happened!

I am off this week, April 19-26. Please contact our Sr. Warden, Patti Rau, at 603-326-8098 if you have a pastoral emergency while I’m off, I'm having foot surgery on Friday, May 23. I’ll be on crutches (or a knee scooter!) and unable to drive for six weeks as it’s my right foot. My sister will come the day after surgery to help me for the first several days. Please pray for patience and grace for me following surgery. I’m grateful that Zoom and email will allow me to continue to work regular hours and stay in touch with all of you.


This Sunday while I'm away Lisa, Gretchen and Cathie will lead Morning Prayer. The Zoom link will be the same as all of our Sunday services.


Blessings,
Caroline  
 
      
Rev. Brian Kelley

      Brian was inspired by Marge Piercy’s poem. He gave this framed copy for the kitchen to confirm and support the Dinner Bell cook teams whose service to others is selfless and real, as was Brian’s to all those in need.


SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
The 1st Sunday of the month at 9:00 AM
The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM

This Sunday-April 25th
at 10:00 a.m.
The  Fourth Sunday of Easter

via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)
or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/
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READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, April 25th
Fourth Sunday after Easter, Year B

The Collect                               

O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The First Lesson      Acts 4:5-12

Psalm 23

The Second Lesson      1 John 3:16-24

The Gospel             John 10:11-18


Click below to see the readings: 

PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER

One thing we can always do while we stay at home is to pray for each other! We would like to keep our prayer list up to date and publish it each week in the Thursday Memo. Please email Deb at office@standrewsinthevalley.org with any updates.


This Week We Pray for

Health and Wholeness for:  Lenny, Joan Wright, Dave Stryker, Diana Riley, John Maloy, Brittany & Connor Cromwell, Frank, Amy, Judy Grace, Jeannette Mead, Margaret, Mary Ireland, Jean DeThomas, Terri Hooper,  Martin, John McGowan, Sue Huckman, Steve Thompson, Joan Marshall, Marilyn Cloran, Gabriele and Bob Wallace, Dave and Dale Appleton, Carolyn Boldt, Angela B., Tom, Carolyn Jarvis, Peg Patenaude, Joyce Humphrey, 

For those who are homebound: Joyce Gendron, Marge Hagerup, Elizabeth Pease, Brian & Sara Kelley, Elizabeth Wiesner,  Audrey Berry.

For those who have died: The Rev. Brian Kelley, Bob Wright,  Kitty Lou Booty
Kathy Viens, wife of friend of Chris Boldt.

For our First Nation people and those in this country who are living in impoverished areas with access to needed services

For all those who working with COVID patients, vaccinations and vaccines.

Updating the Prayer List

Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.



DINNER BELL

No DINNER BELL until further notice.

Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

We cannot meet at this time, but KNIT ON!

If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT




COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.

Food pantry continues to serve the communities needs
New Hours
Alternating Wednesdays
12-4 pm
Next Food Pantry: April 28th
Any questions call 603-960-4067


Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program
Benefiting Month: May 2021

FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE


RESOURCE SHELF
Please feel free to come by and pick up
resource items from the shelf
outside the Parish Office door.
Forward Day by Day booklets
Episcopal News
and other items added occasionally


APRIL  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                       
2   Ellen Keith
3   Christine Mills
14  Audrey Berry
17  Sara Kelley
24  Dave Adams
26  Todd Horn
28  Peggy Cannon




Anniversaries                       
8    Christine & Bob Mills
16   Peter & Trudy Thompson
19  Marty & Marilyn Cloran
19  Dave & Pat Adams

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April 15, 2021

 

Soon (after the snow)


FROM THE RECTOR

In this Easter season we are mourning the deaths of some of our well-beloved parishioners, and the family members of others: Kitty Lou Booty (see the lovely tribute below written by her daughter, Jane Horn), Brian Kelley, Joan Wright’s husband, Bob, Dale and Dave’s grandson, John, Cece’s son, Doug and other friends and family members. They all died in March, as we were nearing the end of Lent. It is fitting that we are now moving through the Easter season, the season of the Resurrection. Knowing that all of these loved ones are now with God doesn’t stop the grieving, but as spring tries to arrive (is it really going to snow tomorrow?!) the promise of new life is all around us. And we do not lose hope, or faith, but every day see new buds, blossoms, birds and wildlife, all reminding us of the natural cycle of life and death and the renewal of all things. Our prayers are with all of you who are grieving. 

On a different note, I am off next week, April 19-26. Please contact our Sr. Warden, Patti Rau, at 603-326-8098 if you have a pastoral emergency while I’m off, I'm having foot surgery on Friday, May 23. I’ll be on crutches (or a knee scooter!) and unable to drive for six weeks as it’s my right foot. My sister will come the day after surgery to help me for the first several days. Please pray for patience and grace for me following surgery. I’m grateful that Zoom and email will allow me to continue to work regular hours and stay in touch with all of you.


Next Sunday while I'm away Lisa, Gretchen and Cathie will lead Morning Prayer. The Zoom link will be the same as all of our Sunday services.


Blessings,
Caroline  
 
      
Kitty Lou
      Catherine Louise Booty, 90

 Kitty Lou Booty died at home on Booty Family Farm in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, on March 22, 2021, a beautiful, sunny spring day when sap was collected from buckets outside her window, the sugarhouse was billowing steam, and a lamb was born.

 The daughter of Clyde and Helen Harkins Smith, Kitty Lou was born May 15, 1930, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Saint Mary’s Hall and attended the University of Texas. She met John Booty at an Episcopal Church youth conference and the two married in 1950. Kitty Lou raised four children in faculty housing at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, and the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where John, an Episcopal priest, was a Professor of Church History. At age 40, Kitty Lou went back to school, earned a nursing degree, and worked for 15 years as a nursing home meds nurse. She and John subsequently lived in Sewanee, Tennessee, where John was Dean of the School of Theology at the University of the South. In 1984, their son Peter and his wife Diane started Booty Family Farm on Mount Israel Road in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire. Kitty Lou and John happily retired there in 1990, to a house built by Peter with trees from the property, using draft horses and a portable sawmill.

 In her youth, Kitty Lou was a beauty queen (Miss Alamo Heights) and modeled for Texas Cottons, appearing in Life Magazine. She loved to dance, taking ballet lessons and continuing well into her later life as a liturgical dancer. And it was Kitty Lou who took the Booty children on camping and backpacking trips in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Mount Katahdin in Maine. In her seventies, Kitty Lou was challenged by Multiple Sclerosis, which gradually took away her mobility, but did not damage her abiding faith, her warm smile, or her generous spirit. 

A fully committed, loving Christian, Kitty Lou served on the vestry of Saint Andrew’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and was a Companion in the Society of the Companions of The Holy Cross. She loved her faith family, was devoted to daily scripture reading and prayer, and she never failed togive thanks before a meal. Kitty Lou also surrounded herself with music – classical, opera, and Broadway musicals – and loved to read fiction and poetry, especially Jan Karon, James Herriot, and Mary Oliver. At Kitty Lou’s home the bird feeders were always full, afternoon tea was served at four o’clock, and everyone was welcome.

 

Kitty Lou lived in a state of gratitude. She adored her devoted “care angels” and was so very grateful to them and to the hospice nurses who guided her lovingly, enabling her to live and die at home. She enjoyed watching the changing seasons, going for “walks” in her electronic wheelchair, and visiting with wonderful friends who stopped by to read to her, sing with her, or just enjoy a cup of tea with her on the porch. Being on the farm surrounded by family and daily activity was a blessing that Kitty Lou fully embraced. Everyone who entered her home was greeted warmly.

Tradesmen were thanked for their skills, delivery people were invited to come back for tea, children were encouraged to call her Granny, and when she was no longer able to bake cookies, she gave out hugs and smiles that fed us all. “Love goes with you” were often her parting words.

 

Kitty Lou danced off to heaven to joyfully reunite with her husband John who died in 2013, her son Peter who died in 2010, and her great grandson Owen Peter who died in 2015. She leaves behind her brother Don Smith and wife Lila, daughter Carol and husband Ernie, son Geoffrey and wife Helen, son Peter’s wife Diane, daughter Jane and husband Todd, nine grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and two more on the way. A “tucking in” service will be held for her on the farm this summer. Love goes with her, our dearest Kitty Lou, Mom, and Granny. Thanks be to God. Alleluia!


SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
The 1st Sunday of the month at 9:00 AM
The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM

This Sunday-April 18th
at 10:00 a.m.
The  Third Sunday of Easter

via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)
or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/
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READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, April 18th
Third Sunday after Easter, Year B

The Collect                               

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The First Lesson      Acts 3:12-19

Peter has just healed a crippled man, and in this passage he proclaims the fundamentals of the gospel to those who come running to hear him.  From the beginning the new faith showed its power through such healings, and these occasions were used for preaching the good news. Many of these speeches are presented as summaries of basic themes.  The role of the apostles as witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection is stressed, as is the theme of scriptural fulfillment.

Psalm 4

The prayer of one falsely accused, and an expression of confidence in God, who instills confidence and peace in all circumstance.

The Second Lesson      1 John 3:1-7

In this lesson we learn that through the Father’s love, disciples are now children of God, and they no longer live in sin.  Their destiny is to be like Christ.  Those who live without God do not understand what it means to be a child of God any more than they recognized Jesus.  But Christians know that a dramatic change has taken place in their lives, and that the mystery of what they are fully to become still awaits them.

The Gospel             Luke 24:36b–48

In our gospel the risen Jesus shows himself again to his disciples, and he interprets to them the scriptures which reveal that his death and resurrection were part of God’s plan.  This Jesus is no ghost or phantom (as some later interpretations of the resurrection might have suggested).  His appearance is real; his friends touch him and he eats with them.  Now they are to be his witnesses and to carry the message of repentance and forgiveness to all peoples.



Click below to see the readings: 

PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER

One thing we can always do while we stay at home is to pray for each other! We would like to keep our prayer list up to date and publish it each week in the Thursday Memo. Please email Deb at office@standrewsinthevalley.org with any updates.


This Week We Pray for

Health and Wholeness for:  Lenny, Joan Wright, Dave Stryker, Diana Riley, John Maloy, Brittany & Connor Cromwell, Frank, Amy, Judy Grace, Jeannette Mead, Margaret, Mary Ireland, Jean DeThomas, Terri Hooper,  Martin, John McGowan, Sue Huckman, Steve Thompson, Joan Marshall, Marilyn Cloran, Gabriele and Bob Wallace, Dave and Dale Appleton, Carolyn Boldt, Angela B., Tom, Carolyn Jarvis, Peg Patenaude, Joyce Humphrey, 

For those who are homebound: Joyce Gendron, Marge Hagerup, Elizabeth Pease, Brian & Sara Kelley, Elizabeth Wiesner,  Audrey Berry.

For those who have died: Bob Wright, Brian Kelly, Kitty Lou Booty

For our First Nation people and those in this country who are living in impoverished areas with access to needed services

For all those who working with COVID patients, vaccinations and vaccines.

Updating the Prayer List

Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.



DINNER BELL

No DINNER BELL until further notice.

Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

We cannot meet at this time, but KNIT ON!

If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT


North Country ~ Mary Oliver

In the north country now it is spring and there

   is a certain celebration. The thrush

has come home. He is shy and likes the

   evening best, also the hour just before

morning; in that blue and gritty light he

   climbs to his ranch, or smoothly

sails there. It is okay to know only

   one song if it is this one. Hear it

rise and fall; the very elements of your soul

   shiver nicely. What would spring be

without it? Mostly frogs. But don’t worry, he

 

arrives, year after year, humble and obedient

   and gorgeous. You listen and you know

you could live a better life than you do, be

   softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will

be able to do it. Hear how his voice

   rises and falls. There is no way to be

sufficiently grateful for the gifts we are

   given, no way to speak the Lord’s name

often enough, though we do try, and

 

especially now, as the dappled breast

   breathes in the pines and heaven’s

windows in the north country, now spring has come,

   are opened wide.


COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.

Food pantry continues to serve the communities needs
New Hours
Alternating Wednesdays
12-4 pm
Next Food Pantry: April 28th
Any questions call 603-960-4067


Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program
Benefiting Month: May 2021

FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE


RESOURCE SHELF
Please feel free to come by and pick up
resource items from the shelf
outside the Parish Office door.
Forward Day by Day booklets
Episcopal News
Annual Reports
and other items added occasionally


APRIL  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                       
2   Ellen Keith
3   Christine Mills
14  Audrey Berry
17  Sara Kelley
24  Dave Adams
26  Todd Horn
28  Peggy Cannon




Anniversaries                       
8    Christine & Bob Mills
16   Peter & Trudy Thompson
19  Marty & Marilyn Cloran
19  Dave & Pat Adams

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