JOIN US
FOR WORSHIP
This Sunday, The Fifth Sunday in Lent, there will
be ONE service only at 9 a.m.
There is a service of Morning Prayer on Wednesday
mornings at 9 a.m.
PLEASE NOTE: on the Holy Week Schedule that
the next two Sundays are
ONE Service only at 10 a.m.
READINGS
FOR SUNDAY
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm 130
Romans 8:6-11
John 11:1-45
CELEBRATION OF LIFE
COLORING AND COFFEE HOUR
Join us at coffee hour this Sunday for an intergenerational coloring opportunity. There will be markers and pencils available but if you have favorite tools, please feel free to bring them. Multiple Alleluia coloring posters and coloring sheets to complete between now and Easter Sunday when they will be on display.
DOG BISCUITS FOR OUTREACH
This Sunday and next Sunday-Valerie May will be selling dog biscuits for Easter during coffee hour. The proceeds will go to Outreach
LAST SUNDAY
David Manley (as the man born blind) and Chris Boldt (as
Jesus) proclaim the Gospel in word and action.
FROM THE INTERIM RECTOR
Intercessory Prayer Group Forming
A part of the
Morning Prayer service on Wednesday mornings is intercessory prayer. We pray
for those who have asked our prayers, and those whom we know are struggling
with illness, grief or any or any sort of need. Several of us who regularly
attend Morning Prayer have been a part of more formal intercessory prayer
groups, and want to begin that practice here. We will meet after Morning Prayer
each week, and pray for those on our prayer list, as well as those who have
asked for prayers. We will also pray more generally for many concerns, such as
those suffering from addiction or mental illness, for law enforcement officers
and fire fighters, prisoners, those in our armed services, our government
leaders, and so forth.
Members of
this fledgling intercessory prayer group are Ray Walker, Gretchen
Behr-Svendsen, Cathie Lewis, Lisa Thompson, Joyce Carter and me. If you would
like for us to pray for any specific need or concern please let me know. All
prayer requests will be held in strict confidence.
Our first meeting
will be next Wednesday, April 5.
Holy Week Services Lay Ministers Sign-up
Sign up sheets
for lay ministers for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil will be
in the Parish Hall on Sunday. Please sign up on Sunday, or email Caroline at InterimSAITV@gmail.com
if you can participate.
Faithfully,
Caroline
DINNER BELL
Volunteers are needed for April 23rd
and all Sundays for month of MAY. Please consider enlisting some friends to
team up and help with this important outreach ministry. Please contact Carol
Tubman or email the office with your availability.
EASTER ALTAR FLOWERS
Easter Flower dedication slips will be provided in
the bulletins and also by the flower chart in the Parish Hall. Please consider a contribution and dedication
to help with this cost. The dedications need to be in to the office
by April 10th. Please send an email to office in advance
of payment if you need to get your dedication in on time.
SEARCH COMMITTEE
We are very
close to having the Parish Survey ready. We will be seeking your opinions on
the importance and quality of various parish ministries, as well as roles and
traits you find valuable in a rector. We will be sending the survey out
electronically. If you would like help in filling out and returning your
completed Survey, please ask any computer-savvy parishioner. Or contact a member
of the Search Committee. We would be happy to help.
On Sundays,
all will be invited to write an anonymous response to a different Weekly
Question to be posted on a tri-fold in the parish hall. THIS
WEEK’S QUESTION: What ONE question would you like to ask of a candidate
applying to be our rector? (Paper
will be provided on Sunday, after the service.)
After the 9AM
service on April 2, we will meet informally with the young people of the parish
to invite and listen to their own wants, needs, desires for coming to Saint
Andrew’s.
Prayer for St. Andrew’s during
this phase of the search process.
Loving God, giver of all good
gifts, grant to the Search Committee, and to the parish, wisdom and faith. Be with us as we develop and
create the Parish Profile. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
George
Rau, Lisa Thompson, Cathie Lewis, Tom Huckman, Betsy Hess and Pat Adams.
LENTEN STUDY
The 5 Marks of Love; Living Life Marked as
Christ’s Own, continues on Wednesday April 5th at 6pm with a simple
supper.
SAFE CHURCH
If
you are a new vestry member or are in need of refresher training, please
contact Marty Cloran with your interest to attend one of these training
dates. He will advise you if you need to
also complete the online modules prior to the in person training. For more
information of the training sites listed below, click here.
You
must sign up 5 days in advance of the live training date.
April
6- 7-9pm St. Peter’s, Londonderry
April
29- 9am-noon Trinity Church, Claremont
Late
April/Early May 9-noon Trinity Church, Meredith
Sept
30- St. Thomas Church, Hanover
COMMUNITY
FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions
throughout the year.
The
monthly item for MARCH is Jello.
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
Death is Only a Horizon
We seem to
give them back to you, dear God, who gave them to us. Yet, as you did not lose them in giving, so
we have not lost them by their return.
Not as the world gives do you give, O Lover of souls! What you gave, you
take away. For what is yours is ours
always, if we are yours. And life is
eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is
nothing save the limit of our sight.
Lift us up, O
God, that we may see further; cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly;
draw us closer to you, that we may know ourselves nearer to our beloved who are
with you. And as you prepare a place for
us, prepare us also for that happy place, that, where they are and you are, we
too may be, forever more. Amen.
Attributed
to William Penn, Quaker (1644-1718)
FROM Deb
in THE OFFICE
I will be out of the office Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week but have two office angels coming in to cover phones. Thank you
for your help Bernice and Cathie.
Giving Statements:
The first quarter giving statements will be sent out the week of April
10th. If I have an email address on
file, they will be sent via email, others will go via regular mail.
If I do not have your address on file but you would be willing to
receive your statement electronically, please send it to me at the office.
Please advise of any corrections that need to be made to your
statement. We are happy to be helping towards a “greener” future and reducing
paper costs.
Birthdays & Anniversaries:
These will be posted in the Thursday Memo (at the
end) for the month. If you have not
given this important information to the office and would like to be recognized,
please send your details to me at office@standrewsinthevalley.org.
Bulletin Boards:
Unfortunately, I have not had the extra time (or
anticipate any in the near future) to keep the bulletin boards up to date and
looking sharp and creative. I am STILL
hoping for volunteers (maybe trading off for seasonal changes) who would like
to show off their creativity and dressing up the boards. If you are interested, please see Deb to
discuss appropriations for materials and providing photos, etc. This is not a huge, time consuming project
but could be fun and maybe could include our younger folks to participate and
help.
Holy Week Bulletin assembly:
I will be contacting names from the “time and
talent” office list
to enlist help for this.
Thank you.
APRIL
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
Birthdays
2 Ellen
Keith
3 Christine
Mills
8 Ann
Albrecht
14 Audrey
Berry
15 Elizabeth
Pease
24 Dave
Adams
26 Todd
Horn
28 Peggy
Cannon, June Young
Anniversaries
8 Christine
& Robert Mills
16 Peter
& Trudy Thompson
19 Marty
& Marilyn Cloran
David & Patricia Adams
Photography
by:
Lisa
Thompson
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