October 29, 2015



This Sunday, the 1st of November, is All Saints’ Sunday, with a Festal Eucharist of Thanksgiving at 9 o’clock, at which we will offer our pledges to God. Our liturgy will begin with the solemn reading of the names of the departed. If you have names that you would like have read, please call or email the office by Friday noon. The service will be followed by a celebration breakfast hosted by the Stewardship Committee to which you are warmly invited!

GRATITUDE UNLOCKS THE FULLNESS OF LIFE! Don’t miss our Annual Stewardship Celebration Breakfast following the service on Sunday. And if you haven’t yet turned in your pledge card, please bring it on Sunday so that it can be included in the total that will be announced at the breakfast. Many thanks to each of you has already responded. We are encouragingly close to our goal!
Daylight Savings Time ends Saturday night, so … REMEMBER to set clocks back 1 hour. The effect of this is that the “new” 9 o’clock will actually feel like the “old” 10 o’clock!
The readings for this Sunday are Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9, Psalm 24, Revelation 21:1-6a, John 11:32-44.
The liturgy at which Bishop Michael Bruce Curry will be installed as the next Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church will occur this coming Sunday at noon, at Washington National Cathedral. Bishop Curry is the first African-American to be elected Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. If you would like to read more information on Bishop Curry please visit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/bishop-michael-curry-north-carolina-elected-27th-presiding-bishop-episcopal. No media streaming information for the liturgy is available as of this date.


Last chance for donating unused Christmas and other greeting cards to be given to the residents of the Goffstown Women’s Prison for their use! Our delegation will be taking them to Convention next week. Many of you have responded very generously already! Thank you! Any unused cards – blank, birthday, sympathy, humor, and holidays – and envelopes are welcome! The collection basket is on the table in front of the parish bulletin board.

We hope you will join us for the Saint Andrew's Harvest Supper and Pie Auction, to be held on Friday, November 20th: 6 o’clock for the meal, 7 o’clock for the pie auction.  Tickets (adults $10, children $4) will be available at the door. Plan to come and invite your friends! We are hoping that many of you will provide your delicious baked pies (pies that can be frozen for Thanksgiving feasts are especially welcome) to be auctioned following the meal, beginning shortly after 7 o’clock.. We also need help delivering flyers. Please pick them up in the Parish Hall.   Note: Pies should be delivered on the day of the dinner/auction by 3 p.m.   Please contact Carol Tubman (651-8230) or Christine Mills (452-4049) with questions or offers of help. 

 St. Andrews Church is the Chartering Organization for Boy Scout Troop 151 and has been for many years.  Our Troop consists of boys from the local area including Tamworth, Madison, Effingham, Ossipee and Moultonborough.  The Scouts have been working very hard on rank advancement and earning merit badges.  We plan to hold a Court of Honor at St. Andrews Church on Monday, November 2nd at 7:00 pm where the boys will be presented their awards.  All are welcome so please attend if you wish.

Great work on the ChIPs Project! Special thanks go to the Bunker household for their clear communication of the need! We brought in $463! Kathy and her team of young people will go shopping on Saturday to purchase suitable gifts, then the gifts will be taken by our Diocesan Convention Delegates to Convention next week.  From that gathering point they will be wrapped and distributed to incarcerated parents to give to their children at their Annual Christmas Party.


Five of us from St. Andrew’s walked last Sunday, with about 25 others from area churches, in the Church World Service annual CROP Walk for World Hunger. Thank you to the many sponsors from St. Andrew’s who together contributed about $800 in support of our walkers – Gretchen, Sammie, Beverly, Grete, and Heidi. (David also raised money but was unable to walk.) We were blessed with a beautiful afternoon! A significant portion of the funds raised in the walk will be directed to the support of Dinner Bell and our Community Food Pantry.

Food for thought for All Saints’ Day…
God calls us to do God's work in all times and places. We have before us the examples of prophets and apostles, servants and martyrs, ordinary men and women who took their baptism seriously and let God's grace change their lives. The celebration of All Saints' is a celebration of our faith that we are counted in their number.              —Donald S. Armentrout.


I hope you will be with us we celebrate this powerful time of continuing connection in Christ together.
See you in church!

Blessings, Heidi+