October 20, 2022

  

FROM THE RECTOR                                                                                                                                   

UPDATED SCHEDULE FOR BOOK STUDY: Our next book study will meet on Sunday, October 30, not October 23.  Please read Chapters 3-4 for this meeting. We will then meet on November 13 for our final meeting and discuss Chapters 5-6. 

It's not too late to join us in this important book study as we prepare for the possibility of a part-time Rector or Priest-in-Charge. This is only a possibility, not definitive, but we need to be prepared just in case.

The transition team is hard at work. Questions for the two parish profiles are nearly complete. Our website will be changed over to a new template that will be easier to keep updated during November. Plans for topics relating to the transition are underway for several upcoming Sundays. Stay tuned - more information will follow.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will preach at the Eucharist and join Bishop Rob in a Panel Discussion on Saturday, November 5, at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Please register for the November 5 event at this link: https://conta.cc/3C8ci2B

NOTE: Registration closes on Friday, October 21. 

For more on the Presiding Bishop's visit to New Hampshire, visit this link: https://www.nhepiscopal.org/pbvisit

We are collecting funds for the United Thank Offering (UTO) and Children of Incarcerated Persons (ChIPs) through October 30. Scroll down for more information about both organizations.

NEW! PARISH CALENDAR                                                                             

Mon. Oct. 24	6:30 pm	Vestry
Wed. Oct. 26	1:00 pm	Transition Team
Wed. Oct. 26	11:00 am	Food Pantry
Sat. Oct. 29	9:30 am	Mindfulness Meditation Workshop
Sun. Oct. 30	11:15 am	Book Study, chapters 3-4
Wed. Nov 2	10:15 am	Prayer Shawl Ministry
Wed. Nov 2	1:00 pm	Transition Team
	Every Week
Tuesday	9:00 am	Contemplative Meditation
Tuesday	8:00 pm	AA Meeting
Wednesday	9:00 am	Morning Prayer
Saturday	8:00 pm	AA and Al Anon Meetings

CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE                                                                   

Contemplative Practice Continues

First and Third Tuesdays from 9:00-10:00am

Teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Psalm 90:12

 The pace with which we move through our days can cause our hearts to be weary and distracted. We can feel disconnected from our lives. Making room in our life to pause, sit in silence, and simply be can help us reconnect and strengthen our hearts.

Each Tuesday morning our session will draw upon the Christian contemplative tradition, monastic spirituality, mindfulness meditation, and self-compassion practices. Our time together will include prayer, guided meditation, contemplative sharing from the heart, conversation, and fellowship. Newcomers are welcome at each session.

We will gather via Zoom.

If you would like to learn more or have questions, contact Christi Humphrey at cchumphrey@comcast.net.

Christi offers a Tuesday evening contemplative practice, virtually, through Bethany House of Prayer, Arlington, MA. If you are interest in this offering visit https://www.bethanyhousearlington.org/contemplative or contact Christi.

 MINDFULNESS MEDITATION WORKSHOP                                        

Bringing Compassion to these Complex Times 

               Saturday, October 29, 2022                  

                    9:30am – 3:30pm                              

                Saint Andrew’s in-the-Valley              

A retreat for those interested in learning mindfulness meditations and practices which support bringing compassion to the difficulties of being human in these times. How might we offer loving-kindness to ourselves and those around us? Topics covered will include: 

• Mindfulness of breath and body 

• Mindfulness of emotions 

• RAIN- recognize, allow, investigate and nurture 

• Loving Kindness 

• Compassion for Self and Others 

**Registration Required** For more information or to register, contact Christi by phone (508) 633-7466 or email cchumphrey1@gmail.com.

Facilitator - Christianne Humphrey, MDiv, is a student within the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Certification program offered by Sounds True, in association with The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Christi has supported others in practices of the heart for over 20 years.

    SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP                                                            

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP 

This Sunday - October 23, 2022

 Services at 8:00 and 10:00 AM 

Both services will be in person and the 10:00 service will be livestreamed via Zoom and Facebook Live.

Email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom meeting information or
visit Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/

AND...
JOIN US FOLLOWING THE SERVICE FOR

READINGS FOR SUNDAY                                                                            

Sunday October 23, 2022

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost 

The Collect of the Day

Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    The First Reading          Sirach 35:12-17

In our opening lesson from the Wisdom of Jesus, Ben Sirach (also called Ecclesiasticus), generous giving to God Most High is extolled: God will honor the one who gives gladly with no attempt to bribe or manipulate.  The Lord is a fair and honest judge, showing no partiality.  The prayers of all come before God, including the supplications of orphans and widows and any who may not otherwise have an advocate.

    Psalm                             Psalm 84:1-6

The song of the pilgrims' happiness as they come to worship in the house of the Lord.  In the desolate valleys they will find springs of water.     

    The Second Reading      2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18  

In this epistle passage, Paul, believing that his death is near, closes his letter to Timothy and looks forward with great faith to the heavenly kingdom.  Paul is in prison in Rome, having already been put on trial once and barely escaping the lion's jaws. Although he may only be speaking figuratively, some form of martyrdom appears close at hand. Even his friends have deserted him. Still, he proclaims the gospel and is ready to be sacrificed, trusting that the Lord will soon appear. His perseverance becomes a pillar for the continuing faith of the church.

The Holy Gospel           Luke 18:9-14

Our gospel lesson is the story of the Pharisee who trusts in his righteousness and the sinful tax collector.  The parable illustrates repeated themes of the gospels: God's ways frequently reverse human expectations. It is God's acceptance and not human merit which opens the gift of the kingdom.

  Click below to see all the readings: 

LECTIONARY PAGE  

              

LAY MINISTRY SCHEDULE                                                                       

	October 23	October 30
Acolyte	Kathy	Ann Cady
LEM	Tina	Nancy Spencer-Smith
1st Reader	Kaitlyn	Tina
2nd Reader	Valerie	James
Prayers	Preston	Patty Rau
Camera	Sammie	Sammie
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 UNITED THANK OFFERING (UTO)                                                     

The United Thank Offering (UTO) is a ministry of The Episcopal Church for the mission of the whole church.  UTO invites us to embrace and deepen a personal daily spiritual discipline of gratitude. UTO encourages people to notice the good things that happen each day, give thanks to God for those blessings and make an offering for each blessing. UTO is entrusted to receive the offerings, and to distribute the 100% of what is collected to support innovative mission and ministry throughout The Episcopal Church and Provinces of the Anglican Communion. If you would like to make a donation in gratitude for your blessings, checks may be written to St. Andrew's with UTO in the Memo line, and placed in the offering plate on Sunday or mailed to the church office. Deadline for donations is Sunday, October 30.

 CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PERSONS (ChIPS)                       

Christmas comes to the children of incarcerated persons every year. You and sponsors like you who donate gifts and funds help make it happen! Both the families of and the parents who are incarcerated are deeply grateful for the opportunity that ChIPs affords them. Children of prison inmates can live lonely lives. It’s easy to believe that a parent you never see just doesn’t care. Persons who are incarcerated also find themselves feeling isolated and abandoned, unable to provide for or to be a part of their families. 

Being able to offer their children a gift during the Christmas visit gives the inmates an opportunity for connection, for a sliver of normalcy in their family relations. Studies have shown that parolees are significantly more likely to integrate back into society if they are able to maintain relationships with their families. The ChIPs program creates positive experiences on which to build a foundation for those relationships. Usually, the inmate is a parent. Sometimes a grandparent. Sometimes even a big brother or sister. Covid isolation has hit this population especially hard, but now the ChIPs program has been given the green light to come back. 

Your help is urgently needed to brighten the lives of all these people! If you would like to make a monetary donation to ChIPS, please write a check to St. Andrew's with ChIPS in the Memo line, and put it in the offering plate on Sunday or mail it to the church office. Deadline for donations is Sunday, October 30.

PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER                                                                        

This Week We Pray for:

Health and Wholeness:

   Parish: Carolyn, Judy, Grace, Tim, Sue, Joan, Elizabeth, Grete, Steve, Gabriele and Bob

Family and Friends: Megan, Alec, John, Angela, Gary, Grace, Dick, Tracy, Jan & George, Carolyn, Jack, Laurie, Alexa, Chris, Lyse, Margaret, Melody, Peg, Curt, Sharon, Mary, Janet Calley & family.

   Birthdays:  10/20 - Lois Brady

Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to add or remove someone 

on the prayer list. Thank you.

COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER                                                                       

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

11am-3pm 

                                                                                                                                                                                  October 26 & November 9

                           Any questions please call 603-960-4067.   

FOOD FOR THOUGHT                                                                                     

Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of God that you are sent into the world.

~ Henri Nowen, from You Are the Beloved

 PHOTOS  FROM THE PIE SALE