This Sunday, the 8th of July, the Sixth Sunday
after Pentecost, there will be two services at 8 and
10 a.m., with coffee hour following. We hope you'll join us for worship and
fellowship.
Readings for
this Sunday: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2
Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13.
Morning Prayer
every Wednesday at 9 am.
Praise God from whom
all blessings flow! The necessary consents to the election
of the Rev. Rob Hirschfeld have just been received from the House of
Deputies of the Episcopal Church's General Convention. Consent from House of
Bishops is expected tomorrow. God willing, he will be consecrated as the tenth
Bishop of New Hampshire at 11 AM on Saturday, August 4th at the Capitol Center
for the Arts in Concord.
15 tickets have been allotted to Saint Andrew's-in-the-Valley. If you would like to attend, please call the church office (323-8515) by July 15th and provide your name and phone number, or fill out and return the purple form that was included in your bulletin last Sunday. If more people want to attend than we have tickets, there will be a drawing. If our ticket allotment is not spoken for, extras will be returned to a central "ticket bank" and redistributed to other parishes. It is very likely that carpooling will be available. This is an exciting turning point in the life of our diocese. I hope many of you will want to gather in Concord to witness and celebrate this beginning of Rob's episcopacy.
15 tickets have been allotted to Saint Andrew's-in-the-Valley. If you would like to attend, please call the church office (323-8515) by July 15th and provide your name and phone number, or fill out and return the purple form that was included in your bulletin last Sunday. If more people want to attend than we have tickets, there will be a drawing. If our ticket allotment is not spoken for, extras will be returned to a central "ticket bank" and redistributed to other parishes. It is very likely that carpooling will be available. This is an exciting turning point in the life of our diocese. I hope many of you will want to gather in Concord to witness and celebrate this beginning of Rob's episcopacy.
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| Family and friends of Jim Young gathered in our Memorial Garden at the end of last Saturday's memorial service for the interment of ashes. |
The women’s lunch bunch will meet next Wednesday, July 11th , at noon, at the Mt. View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. Please call Dale Appleton if you have questions.
Food for continued
reflection...
Last Sunday, Tom Reinfuss and I jointly offered the following dialogue as the starting point for my homily. It seems to have resonated with many! So many of you have requested copies that I offer it here:
See you in church!
Blessings, Heidi+Last Sunday, Tom Reinfuss and I jointly offered the following dialogue as the starting point for my homily. It seems to have resonated with many! So many of you have requested copies that I offer it here:
Installing Love Courtesy of “Sythesis”
editor-in-chief H.
King Oehmig, July 2012 edition
Tech support: Yes, can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much
consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you help me?
Tech support: Yes, I can help you. Are you ready
to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very
technically adept, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech support: The first step is to open your
heart. Have you located it?
Customer: Yes, but there are several
other programs running now. Is it OK to install Love while they are running? I
have PastHurt.exe, Low-Self-Esteem.exe, Doubt.exe, and Resentment.exe running
right now.
Tech support: No problem. Love will gradually
erase Past-Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your
permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will
eventually override Doubt and Low-Self-Esteem with a module of its own called
Faith.exe. However, you have to completely turn off Resentment.exe. It prevents
Love from being properly installed.
Go to your
start menu and invoke Forgiveness.exe. Do this as many times as necessary until
Resentment has been completely erased.
Pause
Customer: OK. Done! Love has started
installing itself. Is that normal?
Tech support: Yes, but remember that you have
only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to
get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error
message already. It says, “Error – Program will not run on external
components.” What should I do?
Tech support: Don’t worry. It means that the
Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your heart. In non-technical terms, it
means you have to value yourself as a child of God – Love yourself before you
can love others. Pull down Self-Acceptance.exe; then click on the following
files: Forgive-Self. txt, Realize-You’re-Forgiven.txt,
Acknowledge-Your-Limitations.txt, and Ask-God-for-Help.text.
Customer: OK. Done.
Tech support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart”
directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching
faulty programming. You also need to delete Verbose-Self-Criticism.txt from all
directories and empty your Recycle bin to make sure it is completely gone and
never comes back.
Customer: Got it! Hey! My heart is
filling up with new files. Smile.mpg is playing on my monitor, and Peace,
Contentment, and Healing are copying themselves all over my heart
See you in church!
From
the office at St. Andrew’s
Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon
UPCOMING
WEEK’S CALENDAR:
Fri 7/6:
10a-noon Food Center8 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
10 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite II
5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team:Wakefield)
Tue
7/10:
10am – noon Food
Center7pm Boyscout Committee Mtg
8pm AA (PH)
9 AM Service of Morning Prayer
