October 24,2014

Services for this coming Sunday, the Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost, will be at 8 and 10 AM. We hope you will join us for worship and fellowship.

This Sunday continues our Fall Pledge Season. Please plan to pick up your pledge packet if you haven’t yet done so, and take time for a close look at the altar frontal created by the Stewardship Committee.

This is also ChIPs Sunday (Children of Incarcerated Parents). Thanks to the Bunker family who will be hosting Coffee Hour and organizing our contribution effort. This project provides Christmas gifts for incarcerated parents to give to their children. “Remember those who are in prison.” Hebrew 13:3

Readings for this Sunday: Joel 2:23-32; Psalm 65; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14.

 

Last Sunday was our Fall Work Day. Many thanks to the David, Bernice, Carol, Cathie, Patti, Duane, Gretchen, Grete, George, Hettie, Bob, Carolyn, Chris, and Carolyn; and special thanks to George Rau for the great preparation and organization of the work jobs. (Apologies to anyone whose name was overlooked.) It was an energetic, hard-working group!

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.”

There is a Service of Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9 AM. We hope you will join us for worship and fellowship.

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.

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. 

 

Food for thought on Generosity as we live our 2014 Pledge Season.

Whenever my thoughts turn toward acquisitiveness or stinginess, my shoulders tense up and it feels as if I’m holding my breath. To find a remedy, I don’t have to improve my thoughts, I just need to be generous with them. Then freedom seems to appear automatically.

From the Buddhist writer John Tarrant

 

 

See you in church!

Blessings,

Heidi +