August 19, 2021


FROM THE RECTOR

Carpet Installation Is Complete!!  And it looks beautiful!! Thank you to Lin Frank for meeting with the installers and touching base with them all week while they worked!




Clean Up Day is Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m.: come and help! Bring your dusting and cleaning supplies, especially dusters, Windex, paper towels, step ladders, etc. We’ll be cleaning all surfaces, walls, windows and the kitchen. Once we finish we’ll set a date to move everything from the MiBox container back into the building. We’ve decided to do it ourselves so that we can sort in the parking lot and decide what needs to go to the thrift store or dump. And we may get a head start on moving tomorrow.

We have some new computer and camera operators for Zooming Sunday services. Thanks to Pat Adams, Jen Huckman and Kaitlyn Marshall for joining the team, and welcome! They join existing team members Christi Humphrey, Tina Quinn, Patti Rau and Sammie Wakefield. If this is something that interests you, please let me know. The more people we have the less frequently everyone needs to serve.

Masks are required at St. Andrew’s again – please wear a mask whenever you enter the building. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation, and stay healthy! 

Blessings,  Caroline

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP
JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
The 1st Sunday of the month at 9:00 AM
The remaining Sundays at 8:00 and 10:00 AM

This Sunday-August 19th

13th Sunday after Pentecost

at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.

Join us for the service
 via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)
or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/

READINGS FOR SUNDAY                
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Pentecost 13, Proper 16, Year B

The Collect                              

Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

First Lesson                              1 Kings 8:22-30, 41-43

In the Hebrew scripture lesson Solomon offers praise to the Lord and prays that the newly built temple may be a house for the Lord’s gracious presence.  King Solomon and the elders have just given the ark of the covenant a home, placing it in the temple they are now dedicating.  Solomon recognizes that God transcends all human buildings, but asks the Lord to be present to those who call upon God in this temple–not only the people of Israel, but also foreigners who come to worship in Jerusalem.

Psalm 84

A song of the pilgrims’ happiness as they come to worship in the temple of the Lord.

The Second Lesson                             Ephesians 6:10-20

In this New Testament lesson Christians are instructed to put on the whole armor of God in order to defend themselves from the powers of evil, which are beyond any human control.  The passage recognizes that it is God who will take the active role against these superhuman forces.  In this battle it is the Christian’s primary task to stand and resist.  The language and imagery may once have been used in an address to newly baptized disciples.  Finally, they are urged to be constant in prayer, remembering Paul who is now in prison.

The Gospel                              John 6:56-69

In the gospel we hear of different responses to Jesus’ claim that he is the heavenly bread that gives the life of the eternal age to those who eat it.  His are words of spirit and life, but many can understand them only in a materialistic sense and are life the Israelites who did not trust God in the wilderness.  Yet, if this saying is hard for them to believe, more difficult still will be Jesus’ ascent into heaven as the Son of Man.  As Jesus knew would happen, many disciples now turn away, but Peter confesses him to be God’s holy one who has the words of eternal life.





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 PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER
One thing we can always do while we stay at home is to pray for each other! We would like to keep our prayer list up to date and publish it each week in the Thursday Memo. Please email Deb at office@standrewsinthevalley.org with any updates.


This Week We Pray for

Health and Wholeness for:  Megan Adams, Angela B, Gary Cole, Sue Huckman, Carolyn Jarvis, Jack Lamberti, John McGowan, Peg Patenaude, Sharon Sousa, Bunny Thompson, Steve Thompson, Gabriele & Bob Wallace.

For those who are home: Audrey Berry, Carolyn Boldt, Marilyn Cloran, Joyce Gendron, Judy Grace, Marge Hagerup, Joan Marshall, Elizabeth Pease, Elizabeth Wiesner.

For those who have died: Ron Thompson, Margaret Cleveland, David Brown

Updating the Prayer List

Please let Deb know if you need someone added to the prayer list. Thank you.

FROM THE OFFICE

OFFICE HOUR CHANGES

Please note that the office will now be open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

Church Office (603) 323-8515

Hours

 Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Debra


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Put on the whole armor of God.
                   —Ephesians 6.11


You can't wear two suits of armor at once.
Wear either the armor of defensiveness,
the armor of being right, of superior power;
or the armor of God: the armor of love.

Dare to walk into this world
unshielded from hurt and disappointment,
unprotected except by your faith in grace
and your trust in the Love at the heart of all things.
Be willing to be wrong, to be humiliated,
to be powerless, to suffer for love.
Let there be no armor, no barrier
between you and life.

Love is vulnerability,
which is receptiveness to life.
Therein lies its power.
It's the armor of God.

You will be wounded; but you will live.
You will not be safe, but you will be saved.

From:

Steve Garnaas-Holmes
August 17, 2021

www.unfoldinglight.net


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
6   Kathy Bunker
8   Marty Cloran, Elizabeth Wiesner
15   Bernice Thompson
16   Susan Luz
28   Grete Plender
30   Patti Rau

Anniversaries
15  Dale & Dave Appleton
25  Dwight & Barbara Baldwin
27  Sammie & Dick Wakefield, Bruce & Claudia Kennedy

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