Sunday is the Day of Pentecost!
Clarification of email sent yesterday: My email about
Communion for Sunday may have been confusing. Those who have not signed up to
be at in-person worship have two options for receiving Communion:
- You may pick up Communion kits between now and Saturday if you’d like to take Communion at home at the same time as those in church. The kits are outside in a cooler at the top of the ramp to the office entrance.
- Or you may pick up Communion immediately following the service on Sunday morning. We will be in the parking lot to distribute the kits for about 30 minutes. If you will be late arriving, please call or text me at 603-553-9254.
This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, and, as was true at the first Pentecost, we may have a little chaos at our service on Sunday. We will have parts of the Gospel read in foreign tongues – Spanish, French and German – and some of the readers will be at home on Zoom and some will be in the church.
Do you know a
foreign language? I’d love to add one or two more languages to our reading!
We will be using our new camera equipment for the first
time, and though we have rehearsed there could be a few glitches. Its the first
service we’ve had in the church since I had foot surgery, so I will be on my scooter
– sometimes I look a little out of control, though I never feel that I am. 😊
This will be our first service that is truly hybrid. We’ll
have about 20 people in the sanctuary, which is the max with physical distancing.
With that many in the sanctuary, we’ll try having those present make the people’s
responses. And those in the sanctuary may sing along softly (with masks) to the
recorded music. We’ll mute the computer at the church so you won't hear that on Zoom. Please expect the
unexpected, and try to go with the flow – as you always do!
The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM
This Sunday-May 23rd
at 10:00 a.m.
Pentecost Sunday
via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/
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The Collect
Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
First Lesson: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm 1
The Second Lesson: 1 John 5:9-13
The Gospel: John 17:6-19
For all those who working with COVID patients, vaccinations and vaccines.
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.
"LET EVENING COME," BY JANE KENYON
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.
Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.
Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.
To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.
Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.
Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program
Benefiting Month: May 2021
7 Elaine South
15 Betty Faella
17 Kit Morgan
18 Tim Huckman
20 Tom Forbes
28 Bob Luz
28 David Gartrell
20 Jonathan & Lois Brady
26 Grete & George Plender
30 Bob & Gabriele Wallace
