Prayer Shawls Blessed!
More pictures in the gallery below.
JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
FALL CLEAN UP DAY!!!!!
Just a reminder about "Clean Up Day"
this Sunday. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and we can do the following
outdoor tasks:
Raking leaves...cleaning up perennial
beds...picking up sticks to name a few
Indoors we need to clean the pews and other
woodwork (Murphy Oil). If possible, sheets of plastic need to be put on the big
window in the Prince Room. The kitchen needs to be organized (looking for a
volunteer who knows why we have things, what they are used for, and where they
can be stored.)
When thinking about what job appeals to you, also
think about tools/equipment needed.
Thanks everyone, Come dressed in work clothes to
spiff up St. Andrew's for the Bishop's visit on November 24th.
Patti Rau, Junior Warden
WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
and FELLOWSHIP
CENTERING PRAYER
Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.
MORNING PRAYER
Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m.
READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, November 10th
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
Year C
Year C
Job 19:23-27a
Psalm 17:1-9
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
Luke 20:27-38
Psalm 17:1-9
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
Luke 20:27-38
READERS FOR THIS SUNDAY:
SAVE THE DATE
1st Reading: Sammie Wakefield
2nd Reading: Marta von Loewenfeldt
Prayers: Gretchen Behr-Svendsen
Click below to see the readings:
FROM THE RECTOR
Advent
Book Study Begins in Two Weeks!
To help us prepare for Christmas this year we will
have a book study using Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent.
The description of this book on Amazon.com says, “In Light of the World: A Beginner’s
Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical
scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of
the birth of Jesus. Join her as she traces the Christmas narrative through the
stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary, the journey to Bethlehem, and the
visit from the Magi. These stories open conversations around connections of the
Gospel stories to the Old Testament, the role of women in first-century Jewish
culture, the importance of Mary’s visitation and the revolutionary implications
of Mary’s Magnificat, the census and the stable, and the star of Bethlehem and
the flight to Egypt. The book provides a rich and challenging learning
experience for small groups and individual readers alike.”
This will be a four-week study that will begin on
Wednesday, November 20, skip November 27 (the day before Thanksgiving), and
then meet on December 4, 11 and 18. We will meet either at noon or at 5:30 pm
on those Wednesdays, based on your input. Either time will begin with a simple
soup meal. If you are interesting in joining us for this study, please let
me know your preference for the meeting time by emailing me at RectorSAITV@gmail.com
no later than next Tuesday, November 12.
Advent Quiet
Day
Saturday,
December 7, 2019
9:45 a.m. –
2:00 p.m.
Keep
awake therefore,
for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
In the
Gospel Reading for the First Sunday in Advent, the writer of Matthew’s Gospel
invites us to Keep Awake! For we do not
know on what day the Lord is coming. As 21st century Christians
what does it mean for us to keep awake? With the pace of life, the needs of
family, friends, co-workers and fellow community members, what are the ways we
can stay present to where God is in our lives.
Please join
us for a time of contemplation, conversation, and reflection on how the stories
of Advent can help us know what it means to keep awake. We will spend time with
the stories of Mary and Joseph and consider how their witness might inform our
lives of faith.
Facilitated
by Christi Humphrey, the quiet day will include times for contemplation, small
group conversation, as well as, experiential opportunities including time with
nature, art, and poetry.
Christi
Humphrey MDiv, is a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and a colleague at
the Bethany House of Prayer in Arlington, MA. She holds a Certificate in
Spiritual Direction from the Center for Religious Development. For twenty
years, Christi has accompanied others on their spiritual journey
through various projects -- spiritual formation groups, pilgrimages, mission
trips, and as a Minister of Spiritual Care.
Caroline
ELEANORE'S PROJECT
This year Eleanore's Project can use some sheets, towels and pillow cases for the wheelchair clinics. They can be any size, clean, worn, but not ragged. We can also use clean couch type pillows, and neck pillows. If you have some of these items taking up space we could use them. Packing day for this year's shipment is scheduled for December 14.
We use them to make and to cover the postural care items we place on the mat tables so that children are comfortable while waiting for their wheelchairs to be customized. We also use them for the parents to demonstrate how their child is positioned at night. After each year's clinics the items will be used by the Yancana Huasy therapists during the year for postural care training or be distributed to families who need the items for postural care.
Thanks, Sammie
FUN RAISING EVENT
HARVEST SUPPER & PIE AUCTION
SAVE THE DATE
Friday November 22nd
Dinner will begin at 6 PM followed by the Pie Auction at 7 held by the entertaining & charming Christopher Boldt. Tickets are $15 with a simple supper. Children under 12 are just $5. BYOB beer or wine. Please tell your friends and acquaintances as this is an entertaining evening and a great place to pick up the following Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner's dessert.
Women's Lunch Bunch
Wed, Nov 13th at noon
Meet at Mt View Station Restaurant
in Center Ossipee.
Contact Dale Appleton with questions.
Flower Arranging. Gretchen’s friend, Lorna will be here later this month and is willing to teach another Flower arranging class if anyone is interested. This is a Japanese style of arranging and there will be a small fee to cover the cost of the flowers. Please contact Gretchen (323-7459) if you are interested so a date and time can be set.
CAN YOU HELP?
A Call out to all PIE BAKERS and help with clean up.
Lists will be posted soon.
Please contact David Manley at 603-733-6961.
WOMEN'S LUNCH BUNCH
Wed, Nov 13th at noon
Meet at Mt View Station Restaurant
in Center Ossipee.
Contact Dale Appleton with questions.
ITEMS FROM GRETCHEN
Flower Arranging. Gretchen’s friend, Lorna will be here later this month and is willing to teach another Flower arranging class if anyone is interested. This is a Japanese style of arranging and there will be a small fee to cover the cost of the flowers. Please contact Gretchen (323-7459) if you are interested so a date and time can be set.
Wreaths. Gretchen will be picking up the
wreaths for the church Saturday, November 30th. If you would like a locally made,
undecorated, wreath from Spider Web Gardens she is willing to pick them up for
you–they are $18. Please call her at
323-7459 by Monday, Nov. 25th.
STEWARDSHIP
Please turn in your pledge commitment
as soon as possible
if you have not already done so...
and don't forget your leaf!
Thank you to Sammie Wakefield
for her construction of the grapevine
and Barbara Lord for her
creative leaves.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A Brief Theology
of Veteran’s Day, from the SALT Project
November
11 is Veterans Day, originally “Armistice Day.” On the eleventh hour of
the eleventh day of the eleventh month (i.e., November 11, 1918, exactly 101
years ago this Monday), the truce was declared that ended World War I, then
known as “The Great War” and “the war to end all wars.”
“Armistice”
is from the Latin arma (“arms”) and sistere (“stand still”).
Imagine the stillness, the quiet that came from laying down weapons on
both sides, after years of grueling, bloody trench warfare.
The
United States Congress subsequently declared that the date “should be
commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate
peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.”
Sadly,
it was not “the war to end all wars” - and so in 1954, the day was renamed,
“Veterans Day” in order to honor veterans from all the wars since, not just
World War I. But the words of Congress still resonate, as do the
holiday’s origins in that great stillness one hundred years ago.
A day
of thanksgiving: for the service of veterans, living and dead; for the
service of caregivers - doctors and nurses and chaplains and mental health
professionals and spouses and family members and friends - who walk with
veterans through the ravages of war, even after the bullets and bombs and
missiles stop flying; and for the days of peace that come at long last.
A day
of prayer: for people of all faiths (or no faith at all), a time
of prayer, meditation, or reflection on the stillness of armistice, so that the
days of peace on Earth increase, and the days of war decrease.
A day
of exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual
understanding between nations: for all of us to find ways, large and
small, to build bridges across lines of difference, suspicion, or hostility, in
our neighborhoods, our country, and among the nations of the world.
To lay
down our arms. To step into a new stillness together. To sing with
our ancestors that we, too, will lay down our swords and shields, “down by the
riverside, and study war no more” - so that the next hundred-and-one years may
be more peaceful than the last.
May
God’s peace be with you on this Veterans Day, this Armistice Day, and may we
lay down all of our arms, all of our burdens, in God’s great Shalom rising up
even now, like soldiers climbing out of trenches a century ago.
Love
and peace,
The SALT Team
The SALT Team
SAFE CHURCH
If you are up for Safe Church Renewal
you must do your renewal modules on Armatus
then sign up for one of the following meetings online.
Safe Church Zoom Call
If you have questions, please contact Safe Church Minister, Marty Cloran.
PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY
Come join us! Knitting skills not required.
1st and 3rd Wednesday morning at 10:15 a.m.
If you knit or crochet (or would like to learn how to) and are led to engaging in an outreach mission that provides physical and spiritual comfort to those in need, please join us on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at 10:15 AM in the Prince Room. We are a joyous group that will keep you in stitches! The coffee and tea will be on and new members are always welcome. If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.
DINNER BELL
COOK TEAMS
for November are:
We are in need of a cook
team for November 3rd!!!!
10-Lewis
17-Friends
24-Slader
team for November 3rd!!!!
10-Lewis
17-Friends
24-Slader
Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!
FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
9 Alys Walker
10 George Rau, Bruce Foreman
Anniversaries
22 Antonio & Betty Faella
25 John & Joan Marshall
25 John & Joan Marshall
PHOTOS
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Christy, Lin and Tina delivered hats and mittens generously
knitted and crocheted by members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry for new
immigrants arriving from Africa. We were graciously received by staff of
the Maine Immigrant Access Network who were thrilled to receive the warm items
for their clients. Lin is seen here with Christian who is from the Congo
and is anxiously awaiting to become an American citizen. Christian taught
Lin some Swahali…..ask her about it!
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Stewardship In-gathering breakfast
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