JOIN US FOR
WORSHIP
THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER
14TH, Pentecost 21, there will be two services at 8:00 am and 10:00 a.m.
Book Group will meet at
11:15 following services on October 14, 21 and 28.
Please read the 1st
2 sections, Childhood in White and Midlife Wake-Up Calls.
CENTERING
PRAYER
Tuesdays
at 5:30 p.m.
MORNING
PRAYER
Wednesday mornings at 9:00
a.m.
COFFEE
HOUR HOSTS NEEDED!!!!!
Please check the sheet in the
Parish Hall and ask someone to “team up” with you for Coffee Hour. Hosts are
needed for all dates for remainder of Oct and all of Nov and Dec.
WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
READINGS FOR
SUNDAY
Sunday, October 14, 2018
21st Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23, Year B
Job
23:1-9, 16-17
Psalm
22:1-15
Hebrews
4:12-16
Mark
10:17-31
FROM THE RECTOR
Note: I will be at the clergy retreat Monday,
October 15 – Wednesday, October 17, but will be available by cell phone (603)
553-9254 or email (RectorSAITV@gmail.com) in an emergency.
On Sunday we began our stewardship season for
2019. If you have not received your packet please let Deb know. Letters to our
out of town members were mailed last Friday, and to local members on Monday.
Thank you to the Stewardship Committee (Pat Adams, Barbara Lord, Patti Rau,
Lisa Thompson and Sammie Wakefield) for another season’s good work! They have
once again created a wonderful and meaningful campaign! We who are many are
one. We all know this phrase from Scripture. It comes from Romans 12:
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and
sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,
holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so
that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and
perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to
think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober
judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For
as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same
function, so we, who are many, are
one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We
have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in
proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in
teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the
leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
In so many ways this passage and others like it (1
Cor. 10:17; the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians) form the foundation
of our community of faith. We cannot be the church, the body of Christ, by
ourselves. It is only when we come together in faith and share our God given
gifts that this is possible. We who make up the body of Christ at St.
Andrew’s-in-the-Valley – our part of the vine in New Hampshire, our part of the
Jesus Movement of the Episcopal Church – we who are many, are one body in
Christ. Together we make possible ministries like Dinner Bell, the Community
Food Center and Eleanor’s Project. Together we worship on Sunday mornings and
during the week, supported by the Altar Guild, Eucharistic ministers, readers,
ushers and acolytes. Together we give of our time to take care of our building
and our grounds; and together we have given our money to “Raise the Roof”. Together
we support each other in times of sickness and grief, together we celebrate in
times of joy. Together we grow in our faith and find the strength and courage
to navigate our lives during the week. Without every one of us St. Andrew’s
couldn’t be the welcoming and loving community that it is. Without each one of
us, the rest of us couldn’t be our best selves.
Thank you for all you do, for all that you give, and
for all that you are.
With gratitude,
Caroline
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Therefore, my dear
friends, flee from the worship of idols. I speak as to sensible
people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we
bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is
it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who
are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Corinthians
10:14-17
Now there are varieties of gifts,
but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and
there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of
them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the
common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to
another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to
another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one
Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to
another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to
another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and
the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
For just as the body is one and has
many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it
is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews
or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:4-14
RAISE THE
ROOF
Your help is needed to sell Quilt Raffle Tickets
Please
sign-out a packet of tickets to sell to your family, friends and neighbors. See
Hettie Buck after the 10:00 am service on Sunday, October 14 or call
603-253-5035. There will also be packets of tickets in the office after October
14.
CHURCH BILLBOARD
DINNER BELL
Dinner Bell cook team for this Sunday October 14th
WAKEFIELD
Dinner Bell cook team for next Sunday October 21st
WILCOX-JACOBSON
~
Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!
Many Thanks
to Scott Whitmore's cook team from the Call and Response Foundation who served
the delicious meal at Dinner Bell this past Sunday 10/7. They arrived early and
brought the meal all prepared, lasagna, salad, garlic bread and apple crisp so
all 11 team members had plenty of time for socializing with the guests before,
during and after the meal.
Scott and
the members from the Call and Response Foundation were at Camp Huckins for a
weekend yoga and chanting retreat and Scott had called the church a couple of
months ago as their foundation wanted to do service to the community while on
their retreat and thus their service to Dinner Bell. Their group also prepared
the evening meal the night before Dinner Bell at the Congregational Church in
Center Ossipee.
Many thanks
to Scott and the members who so joyously served Dinner Bell! I had the
opportunity to meet them and eat with them and I also attended their
Kirtan-Sanskrit chanting Sunday night event at Camp Huckins right after Dinner
Bell which was sacred and special.
Scott and
his group hope to return next year the first weekend in October to serve Dinner
Bell again as part of their yoga/chanting retreat. Looking forward to
their return!
For more
information about the Call and Response Foundation: their website is:
callandresponsefoundation.org and their retreats are open to the public.
Beverly
Hammond
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for October is deodorant for
men/women.
FORWARD DAY BY DAY
Thursday, October 11
Acts 24:14-15 But this I admit to you, that according
to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors,
believing everything laid down according to the law or written in the prophets.
I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be
a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Jesus reassured his
disciples and followers that he was not intent on destroying the law or the
prophets but rather had come to fulfill them. Now Paul, standing before the
Roman governor, must also convince the powers that be that the Way is not a
cult and he has not abandoned the God of Israel. Paul maintains that the Way is
a furtherance of the law and the prophets, an expansion of what was established
in the calling of Abraham and the revelation to Moses. The idea of a
resurrection for both the righteous and sinners is as radical a proposition as
any of the rest of Jesus’ teachings, staking the bold claim that all are equal
before God and worthy of salvation.
The idea that old and
new beliefs can coexist is challenging for Paul and his community, as it still
is for us today. However, the Roman governor showed that he could be flexible
and allowed Paul some liberty. It is better to bend than to be absolutely
rigid.
MOVING FORWARD: How do you reconcile your own conflicts,
spiritual or otherwise, within the context of flexibility or rigidity?
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
If you do not see your
birthday or anniversary listed, please make sure Deb in the office has an
information sheet on file for you.
Birthdays
5 Ray Walker
9 Joan Wright,
Peter Thompson
11 Barbara Worcester,
Rob Walty
20 Lois Brady
22 Sally DeGroot,
John McGowan
27 Larry Grace
28 Dick Wakefield,
Dwight Baldwin
Anniversaries
8 Judy
& Larry Grace
THIS MONTH AT ST. ANDREW’S
Sunday
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7th
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9:00 am
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Blessing of the Animals
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14th
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8 & 10 am
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Pentecost 21
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11:15 am
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Book Group
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21st
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8 & 10 am
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Pentecost 22
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11:15 am
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Book Group
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28th
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8 & 10 am
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Pentecost 23
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11:15 am
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Book Group
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Every Sunday
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5:00 pm
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Dinner Bell
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Monday
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9:30 am
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Quilt Group
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29th
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7:00 pm
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Vestry Meeting
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Tuesday
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Every Tuesday
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10:00 am
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Community Food Center
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5:30 pm
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Centering Prayer
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8:00 pm
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AA Meeting
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2nd
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9:00 am
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Cooking Class
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Wednesday
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Every Wednesday
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9:00 am
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Morning Prayer
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10th
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Noon
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Lunch Bunch meets at Rosies
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Thursday
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Friday
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Every Friday
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10:00 am
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Community Food Center
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19th
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1:00 pm
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Office Attic Cleanout
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Saturday
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Every Saturday
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8:00 pm
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AA Meeting
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8:00 pm
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Al-Anon Meeting
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ChIP’s
and UNITED THANK OFFERING
It’s that time of year for giving!
Over the next two
Sundays we will collect gifts for ChIPs and United Thank Offering (UTO).
Each October we invite contributions which will be taken to the Diocesan
Convention on November 3rd by the Delegates.
The CHiPs program (Children of Incarcerated Persons) collects
gifts and monetary donations ($25 this year) to be given to the children of
those who are in prison.
UTO: The first priority of The United Thank Offering is
to encourage the spiritual practice of gratitude and then to give grants from
the abundant collection of coins and bills given each year to our Blue Boxes.
In 2018 the United Thank Offering annual grant recipients, seminarian and young
adult grant recipients are working towards evangelism and reconciliation as a
part of the Jesus Movement. The United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church
awarded 47 grants for a total of $1,169,969.55 for the mission and ministry of
The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The 2018 grants were awarded
to 34 Episcopal Church Dioceses, 8 Companion Relationships, 4 International
Dioceses/ Provinces and 1 to continue our tradition of supporting Episcopal
Church missionaries.
For more information click on this link:https://www.episcopalchurch.org/files/documents/uto_2017_grants_brochure.pdf
If you are giving by check to St. Andrew’s, please mark in
the memo line “ChIPs or UTO”. You may leave your contributions in the office or
drop them in the collection plate.
Thank you for your
generosity to these very important outreach programs.
PHOTO GALLERY
Blessing of the Animals
