The Third Sunday of Advent


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Annual Outreach Meeting

We will have our annual outreach meeting this Sunday immediately following the 10:00 service. A printed list of recipients from last year will be available on Sunday morning and a copy will be emailed on Saturday for those of you who will attend via Zoom. Thank you to Marty Cloran for leading our meeting. Please plan to stay for about 30 minutes after the service to help decide who this year’s recipients will be.

Christmas Services Schedule

A Blue Christmas service will be held at 5:30 on Tuesday, December 21 at 5:30 pm. This is a quiet, contemplative service designed to offer comfort and consolation to those who have lost loved ones. Everyone is welcome – spread the word!

Christmas Eve services will be held at 5:00 and 10:00 pm on December 24. The 5:00 service is a family service and will be livestreamed on Zoom and Facebook Live for those who cannot attend in person. The 10:00 service is a quieter, more contemplative service, and will be in person only.

A Christmas Day service will be held at 10:00 am

On Sunday, December 26 there will be services at 8:00 and 10:00 as usual.

On Sunday, January 2 there will be a Service of Lessons and Carols at 9:00 am led by our lay Worship Leaders

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-December 12

The Third Sunday of Advent

at 9:00 a.m.

Join us for the service
 via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)

READINGS FOR SUNDAY                
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Third Sunday of Advent, Year C

The Collect

Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory now and for ever.  Amen.

First Reading                            Zephaniah 3:14-20

Canticle 9       The First Song of Isaiah       Isaiah 12:2-6

Second Reading                     Philippians 4:4-7

The Gospel                               Luke 3:7-18






Click below to see the readings: 


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: Melody, Cordelia Adams, Megan Adams, Clementine Adams, John Appleton, Angela B, Carolyn Boldt, Jennifer Brady, Marilyn Cloran, Gary Cole, Grace Dick, Ellen, Tracy Forde, Bev Hammond, Josh Hammond, Zac Hammond, Sue Huckman, Carolyn Jarvis,  Jack Lamberti, Chris Mains, Margaret, Joan Marshall, John McGowan, Pam, Mackenzie Paine,  Peg Patenaude, Curt R., Sage, Sharon Sousa, Steve Thompson, Carol Tubman, Gabriele & Bob Wallace, Johnathon Walty.

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

For those who have died: 

Updating the Prayer List

Please let Deb know if you would like to add someone to the prayer list. Thank you.



COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
Food pantry continues to serve the communities needs with new hours.
Alternating Wednesdays

December 22nd
January 5th and 19th

Any questions please call 603-960-4067.


FOOD FOR THOUGHT



    First Snow, by Mary Oliver

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever! flowing
past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles; nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creekbed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain - not a single
answer has been found -
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one

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        Carolyn Seston
12      Hettie Buck
13      Suzanne Morgan
27      Debra Hoyt
30      Gretchen Behr-Svendsen

     Anniversaries
8        Bob & Carolyn Seston
21      Chris & Carolyn Boldt

FROM Deb in THE OFFICE

May the Light of Season
brighten your path to the New Year!