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| The cast of "Death by Chocolate" (more pictures below) |
Services for this coming Sunday, February 23 and the Seventh Sunday
after the Epiphany, will be at 8 and 10
AM. Each service is followed by a coffee hour. We hope you will join us for
worship and fellowship.
At the 10 o’clock service, we will have a special guest preacher, the
Rev. Beth Richardson. Beth is the Episcopal chaplain at the Women’s Prison
in Goffstown. I have invited her to join us to give us a window into her
ministry at the prison and to open the possibility of our establishing a
letter-writing ministry with some of the inmates.
Let mutual love continue … Remember those who are in prison, as though
in prison with them . [Hebrews 13:3] PLEASE TAKE NOTE ….Special All-Parish Meeting to elect new Vestry member and alternates to Convention on March 5th: This two-minute formality will take place at announcement time during the 9 o’clock service. The uncontested slate put forward by the Nominating Committee is as follows, each for a two-year term:
Vestry member: Carolyn Boldt
First alternate to Convocation and Convention: Gretchen Behr-Svendsen
Second alternate: Lisa Thompson
Absentee Voting: An absentee ballot may be cast by a member who is for good cause unable to attend the meeting, by application in writing to the Clerk. Absentee ballots must be submitted to the clerk, Chris Mill, by this Sunday. Her email address is alba4me@yahoo.com
New Parish directory is in the works!!! A draft copy will be available in the parish hall this Sunday. Please check for your information and picture. If you need a new picture, talk to Duane. If there are corrections needed, please make them clearly. If you would like to have your cell phone number and/or email address included, please specify that as well. [The directory is made available to people who attend Saint Andrew's. It is NOT posted on line. We will not include email addresses or cell phone numbers unless you request it.] Thanks.
We are in need of volunteer coffee hour hosts. Have you hosted recently? Please check the Parish Hall sign up sheet for a date that you may be available to help or host. If you’d like to provide goodies for coffee hour but are unable to serve with set-up and clean-up, or if your available to do set-up and clean-up but prefer not to do the goodies, please let the office know as well; we can pair you up and make a team! “Training” is available. Sally DeGoot, our hospitality chair, would be happy to work with you. Thank you.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrew 13:2
Lent is almost here!
Time to bring in your palms from last year for burning. They will become the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Plan to attend the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper: Tuesday
evening, March 4, at 6 o’clock. $5 for adults and teens; $2 for children. Wear
your beads and masks. Activities available for the young and young-at-heart.
Ash Wednesday services will be at Noon and 7 PM on March 5th.
Food for thought…
I was in the kitchen here at church an hour ago, heating up my soup in the microwave, and found myself reading the “Kitchen Blessing Prayer” that was posted there on the occasion of the blessing our kitchen after refurbishing it back in the fall of 2011. The poem made me think of all the hard work that was done last week relating to the Mystery Dinner extravaganza. I dedicate this poem, with gratitude to God, to the amazing workers of this parish who gave so generously of their time and talent to make that event (and so many others) all that they are!
So, to Carol (chief chef), Chris Mills (playwright and
director), David (tickets), Lynn
(publicity), Duane (photography and graphic design), Carolyn (set desgn), the Cast,
the Huckmans (clean-up team extraordinaire), and all the assistants and
behind-the-scene workers: Dan, Gina, Courtney, Michelle, Jim, Dale Judy,
Deb, THANK YOU!I was in the kitchen here at church an hour ago, heating up my soup in the microwave, and found myself reading the “Kitchen Blessing Prayer” that was posted there on the occasion of the blessing our kitchen after refurbishing it back in the fall of 2011. The poem made me think of all the hard work that was done last week relating to the Mystery Dinner extravaganza. I dedicate this poem, with gratitude to God, to the amazing workers of this parish who gave so generously of their time and talent to make that event (and so many others) all that they are!
To be of use, by Marge Piercy
The people I love the bestjump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
from Circles on the Water. © Alfred A. Knopf. Keep small font
Blessings, Heidi+
Picture array from the evening of "Death by Chocolate"
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| Ken and Deb Hoyt celebrate their 6th Anniversary at the Mystery Dinner |
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| The Chef's consult |
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| Backstage |
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| Backstage |
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| The audience |
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| Rev. Tobias with his granddaughter |
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| The lucky winner, Peggy Cannon, drawn from the correct guesses. |
