Thursday Memo: October 18, 2012

Services for this coming Sunday, Fall Workday, the 21st of October, the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost will be at 8 and 10 AM. Please join us for coffee hour following the service. Also this coming Sunday, please plan on staying to help with Fall Workday. Dress appropriately to work outdoors and help get the church ready for winter.

This Sunday is also the First Sunday of our Fall Pledge Season. We look forward to and appreciate your continued support of St. Andrew’s through your contributions.

Readings for this Sunday: Job 38:1-7, 34-41; Psalm 104:1-9, 25, 37b; Hebrews 5:1-10;

Mark 10:35-45.

Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Please turn in this Sunday your donations for UTO and ChIPs. These will be taken by the delegates to Convention on Saturday October 27^th.

We hope you will join us for a Saint Andrew's Harvest Supper and Pie Auction, to be held on Friday evening, November 16th. Tickets will be available at the door. Plan to come and invite your friends.! It is hoped that many of you will bake delicious pies (pies that can be frozen for Thanksgiving feasts are especially welcome) to be auctioned following the meal, beginning at about 7:30pm.

Note: Pies should be delivered on the day of the dinner/auction by 3 p.m.

Yikes! Our annual Boughs & Bonbons Christmas Fair is only a little more than a month away – Saturday, Dec. 1^st. This year, the committee is hoping to enlist the help of “many hands” to prepare the decorations for the approximately 60 wreaths that are such a popular part of our Fair. On Monday, November 5^th at 7:00 pm there will be a decorations prep party at the church (to include dessert/coffee). And, since wreath decorations are fairly pricey, we are hoping that you can bring “no-longer-being-used” embellishments you have on hand as well as any natural materials (pinecones, acorns, branches, mosses, lichens, etc) that you might find in your backyard or on a walk through the woods. This should be a fun way to get us in the holiday spirit. Hope you can join us. ~The Christmas Fair Committee~

Please contact co-chairs Lynne Clough (323-7046) or Patti Rau (367-8223) with questions or offers of help. Let’s make this Boughs & Bonbons the best ever!

Celebrating and thanking Bishop Gene Robinson. The ticket reservation deadline has been extended. Please let Rev. Heidi know by Sunday if you plan to attend.

*All Saints’ Church, Littleton: Saturday, November 3 from 2 to 4
*Grapone Center, Concord: Saturday, November 10 from 1 to 4
To contribute to the fund for an endowed Chaplaincy at the Women’s Prison, a project that he has requested in lieu of a retirement gift, and to view the video go to http://www.nhepiscopal.org and click on the “Bishop’s Retirement” column.

Food for thought from Br. Curtis Almquist SSJE as we begin our Fall Stewardship season:

You might want to take a tour through your home and intentionally acknowledge your stewardship of the material things to which you’ve been entrusted. That you belong to God, and these things belong to God, and that when God is ready to redistribute these things, you stand ready, not reluctant, but ready, by God’s grace, to give it up.

See you in church!

Blessings, Heidi+

From the office at St. Andrew’s: Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9am-Noon

If you have anything that you would like to have put in the Thurs. Memo, please email to the office by the previous Wednesday. Your submissions are welcome.

UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:

Fri 10/19:

               10a-noon Food Center

Sat 10/20:
                8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)

Sun 10/21:
            8 AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
            10 AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
                5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team: Slader)

Mon 10/22: Church office closed

Tue 10/23:

10am – noon Food Center
8pm -AA

Wed 10/24:

                9 AM Service of Morning Prayer

Thu 10/25:
                6 PM-Eucharist
                6:30 PM – Brown bag supper
                7 PM- Vestry Mtg