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| Lily's Baptism last Sunday, more pictures below. |
Services for this
coming Sunday, the Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost, will be at 8 and 10 AM. We hope you
will join us for worship and fellowship.
After
the 10 AM service, please plan on lending
a helping hand with our Fall Workday. Dress
to work outdoors and bring along rakes, gloves and other tools you may need.
Your help to get the church ready and buttoned up for winter is needed and
appreciated. Thanks go to George Rau for organizing the work list.
This Sunday begins
our Fall Pledge Season. Please plan to pick up your pledge packet.
Readings for this Sunday: Jeremiah
31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8.
Adult acolytes and
eucharistic ministers (LEMs): It’s time to brush up on what we do and why
we do it. If you missed the first refresher/training, come this Saturday (the
19th). We will begin with Morning Prayer at 8:30, followed by
breakfast at 9:00 (so no need to eat first), then the training. We promise to
be out by 11:30, probably earlier. The expectation is that everyone who serves
will attend. Please let Lisa know so that we can plan accordingly.
There is a Service of
Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 AM. We hope you will join us for
worship and fellowship
Remember the Children of Incarcerated Parents: October is ChIPs month
at St. Andrew’s. Last year our parish raised about $500 that was used to
purchase Christmas gifts (both toys and books) for children of prisoners, so
that these parents have the possibility of giving something to their children.
The gifts are presented at holiday parties where each child receives a gift and
a book. Gifts should not exceed $20
retail value, must be new. Some restrictions apply: no jewelry, balloons, crayons,
play dough, glue, bubbles, long sticks, knitting needles, glass items,
clothing, sharp tools, or toy weapons of any kind.
If you prefer to contribute financially, make the check out to Saint Andrew’s with “ChIPs Project” in the memo line. The deadline is Friday, November 1st, so that our delegates can hand them on to the organizers at Diocesan Convenention.
If you prefer to contribute financially, make the check out to Saint Andrew’s with “ChIPs Project” in the memo line. The deadline is Friday, November 1st, so that our delegates can hand them on to the organizers at Diocesan Convenention.
The Annual Ingathering of our United Thank Offering boxes is coming
up. (We turn them in at Diocesan
convention on November 1.) If you need a blue box, please pick one up in the
Parish Hall. Drop a coin in daily as you give thanks for the blessings
of the day. UTO boxes and/or check donations must be turned in by Sunday,
October 27. Please make checks payable to St. Andrew’s with UTO in the memo
line.
Are there
names you would like to have remembered at the altar during our All Saints’ Day
service on November 3rd? Please take one of the sheets for that purpose
from the bulletin table or send an email to Debra at office@standrewsinthevalley.org
. The sheets can be put in the plate or the office. All names will be recorded in our “Book of
Names.”
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| 2013 Sandwich Fair, St. Andrew's Booth |
No health insurance? Baffled by the new Affordable Care Act? If you could use help sorting out your options and signing up, Carol Tubman (our Senior Warden and unofficial Parish Nurse) is well informed through her work as a visiting nurse, and is happy to provide consultation. Contact: 539-2780 or cctubman@msn.com
We are looking
for a volunteer or two who would be willing to work on getting
vendors signed up for the Holiday Fair.
We do have some vendors who are coming back again this year, but hope to
find some new craft people with interesting, salable items that would fit with
our overall theme. Contact Lynne Clough or Patti Rau if you can help out in
this way.
As Thanksgiving approaches… The New Hampshire Food Bank is able to provide the Food Pantry with only turkeys this year, so we are making a fervent request for items to help fill our 100 Thanksgiving baskets that go out to local families. We would greatly appreciate: cans or jars of turkey gravy, stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie mix that has spices in it, and 64 ounce containers of apple juice. Or consider a cash contribution; the Food Pantry is able to purchase supplies at wholesale costs. Our deepest thanks to all of you for always supporting our food pantry. Peg R
Food for thought on Gratitude as we begin our 2014 Pledge Season.
The prayer of thanksgiving frees us from the bondage of our own too-small worlds. It lifts us beyond ourselves and our petty preoccupations. And it does not come naturally to any of us. Rather, paradoxically, like all prayer, thanksgiving is a gift, from God, for us, waiting to be received. Br. Kevin Hackett, SSJE
See you in church!
Blessings,Heidi +
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| Lily and her mom, Lauren |
