FROM THE RECTOR
The CDC website places Carroll County in the medium range for Covid community spread, after a week in the high range. At our Vestry meeting on Monday evening we decided to cancel coffee hour until further notice, and the Stewardship Brunch on November 6 will be postponed. Masks are required for worship and meetings at St. Andrew's.
Knowing that large group gatherings are where many of us have caught Covid, the Vestry members who were planning to attend the Presiding Bishop's sermon and panel discussion on November 5 have decided to attend online instead. Others are invited to consider this option.
The link to view online is here: YouTube page.
We also ask that you attend church online instead of in person if you have been in a large gathering in the prior week.
For more on the Presiding Bishop's visit to New Hampshire, visit this link: https://www.nhepiscopal.org/pbvisit
This event will also be live streamed on the diocesan YouTube page.
UPDATED SCHEDULE FOR BOOK STUDY: Our next book study will meet after the 10:00 service this Sunday, October 30. Please read Chapters 3-4 for this meeting. We will then meet on November 13 and discuss Chapters 5-6 at our final meeting .
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.
FALL CLEAN UP DAY
This year's fall clean up day will be on Sunday, November 6 following coffee hour.
Please come to church dressed to work, and bring your rakes, clippers and other handy tools to spruce up our grounds. Inside work also available.
LET US DREAM OF A CHURCH... JOIN US THIS SUNDAY
Recently, I
shared a poem with the transition committee, titled, Let us Dream of a Church. It is a collection of the words and
thoughts of The Rt. Rev. Wes Frensdorf, Episcopal bishop of Nevada from 1972-1985. Bishop
Frensdorf was a leader in the Total Ministry movement, “a strategy for living
out our Baptismal Covenant in community. In the 1970’s Bishop Frensdorf wrote
that every congregation has gifts sufficient to fulfill its ministry. For him,
and many others, the typical hierarchical model of leadership in the church
does not properly reflect the community that is described in scripture. Instead
of a triangle with ordained leaders at the top and lay leaders at the bottom,
Total Ministry understands a more relational model depicted by a circle. Within
the circle, the ministry of all members of a community are supported and
encouraged, both in the church and in the world.
A portion of
the poem is shared below. The transition committee invites you to have a look
and begin to ponder the ideas presented. What is your dream for the church?
During the sermon on Sunday, October 30, we will have time for conversation
about Bishop Frensdorf’s vision and also the church community you dream of.
~ Christi Humphrey, member Transition
Team
Let us dream of a church
in which all
members know surely and simply God's great love, and each is certain that in
the divine heart we are all known by name.
In which
Jesus
is very Word,
our window into the Father's heart;
the sign of God's hope and his design for all
humankind.
In which the
Spirit is not a party symbol,
but wind and
fire in everyone;
gracing the
church with a kaleidoscope of gifts and constant renewal for all.
A church in
which
worship is
lively and fun as well as reverent and holy;
and we might be moved to dance and laugh;
to be solemn, cry or beat the
breast.
People know
how
to pray and
enjoy it—frequently and regularly, privately and corporately, in silence and in
word and song.
The Eucharist
is the center of life
and servanthood the center of
mission:
the servant Lord truly known in the breaking
of the bread.
With service
flowing from worship, and everyone understanding why a worship is called a
service.
Let us dream
of a church
in which the
sacraments,
free from captivity by a
professional elite,
are available
in every congregation regardless of size, culture, location or budget.
A church
affirming life over death as much as
life after death,
unafraid of change, able to
recognize God's hand in the revolutions,
affirming the
beauty of diversity,
abhorring the
imprisonment of uniformity,
as concerned
about love in all relationships as it is about chastity,
and affirming
the personal in all expressions of sexuality;
denying the
separation between secular and sacred,
world and
church, since it is the world Christ came to and died for.
PARISH CALENDAR
Sun. Oct.
30
11:15 am
Book Study,
chapters 3-4
Tue. Nov.
1
9:00 am
Contemplative
Practice
Wed. Nov 2
10:15 am
Prayer Shawl
Ministry
Wed. Nov 2
1:00 pm
Transition
Team
Fri. Nov.
4
6:00
Diocesan Convention
Sat. Nov.
5
10:00
Presiding
Bishop sermon and panel
Sun. Nov.
6
9:00
One service, clean up day
Wed. Nov.
7
10:15
Morning
Prayer meeting
Wed. Nov.
7
1:00
Transition
Team
Thur. Nov.
10
12:00
Lunch Bunch
Every Week
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 ContinuesTuesday, October 25th 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
The CDC website places Carroll County in the medium range for Covid community spread, after a week in the high range. At our Vestry meeting on Monday evening we decided to cancel coffee hour until further notice, and the Stewardship Brunch on November 6 will be postponed. Masks are required for worship and meetings at St. Andrew's.
Knowing that large group gatherings are where many of us have caught Covid, the Vestry members who were planning to attend the Presiding Bishop's sermon and panel discussion on November 5 have decided to attend online instead. Others are invited to consider this option.
The link to view online is here: YouTube page.
We also ask that you attend church online instead of in person if you have been in a large gathering in the prior week.
For more on the Presiding Bishop's visit to New Hampshire, visit this link: https://www.nhepiscopal.org/pbvisit
This event will also be live streamed on the diocesan YouTube page.
UPDATED SCHEDULE FOR BOOK STUDY: Our next book study will meet after the 10:00 service this Sunday, October 30. Please read Chapters 3-4 for this meeting. We will then meet on November 13 and discuss Chapters 5-6 at our final meeting .
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.
FALL CLEAN UP DAY
This year's fall clean up day will be on Sunday, November 6 following coffee hour.
Please come to church dressed to work, and bring your rakes, clippers and other handy tools to spruce up our grounds. Inside work also available.
LET US DREAM OF A CHURCH... JOIN US THIS SUNDAY
Recently, I
shared a poem with the transition committee, titled, Let us Dream of a Church. It is a collection of the words and
thoughts of The Rt. Rev. Wes Frensdorf, Episcopal bishop of Nevada from 1972-1985. Bishop
Frensdorf was a leader in the Total Ministry movement, “a strategy for living
out our Baptismal Covenant in community. In the 1970’s Bishop Frensdorf wrote
that every congregation has gifts sufficient to fulfill its ministry. For him,
and many others, the typical hierarchical model of leadership in the church
does not properly reflect the community that is described in scripture. Instead
of a triangle with ordained leaders at the top and lay leaders at the bottom,
Total Ministry understands a more relational model depicted by a circle. Within
the circle, the ministry of all members of a community are supported and
encouraged, both in the church and in the world.
A portion of the poem is shared below. The transition committee invites you to have a look and begin to ponder the ideas presented. What is your dream for the church? During the sermon on Sunday, October 30, we will have time for conversation about Bishop Frensdorf’s vision and also the church community you dream of.
~ Christi Humphrey, member Transition Team
Let us dream of a church
in which all members know surely and simply God's great love, and each is certain that in the divine heart we are all known by name.
is very Word,
our window into the Father's heart;
the sign of God's hope and his design for all humankind.
but wind and fire in everyone;
gracing the church with a kaleidoscope of gifts and constant renewal for all.
A church in which
worship is lively and fun as well as reverent and holy;
and we might be moved to dance and laugh;
to be solemn, cry or beat the breast.
People know how
to pray and enjoy it—frequently and regularly, privately and corporately, in silence and in word and song.
The Eucharist is the center of life
and servanthood the center of mission:
the servant Lord truly known in the breaking of the bread.
With service flowing from worship, and everyone understanding why a worship is called a service.
Let us dream of a church
in which the sacraments,
free from captivity by a professional elite,
are available in every congregation regardless of size, culture, location or budget.
A church
affirming life over death as much as life after death,
unafraid of change, able to recognize God's hand in the revolutions,
affirming the beauty of diversity,
abhorring the imprisonment of uniformity,
as concerned about love in all relationships as it is about chastity,
and affirming the personal in all expressions of sexuality;
denying the separation between secular and sacred,
world and church, since it is the world Christ came to and died for.
PARISH CALENDAR
|
Sun. Oct.
30 |
11:15 am |
Book Study,
chapters 3-4 |
|
Tue. Nov.
1 |
9:00 am |
Contemplative
Practice |
|
Wed. Nov 2 |
10:15 am |
Prayer Shawl
Ministry |
|
Wed. Nov 2 |
1:00 pm |
Transition
Team |
|
Fri. Nov.
4 |
6:00 |
Diocesan Convention |
|
Sat. Nov.
5 |
10:00 |
Presiding
Bishop sermon and panel |
|
|
|
|
|
Sun. Nov.
6 |
9:00 |
One service, clean up day |
|
Wed. Nov.
7 |
10:15 |
Morning
Prayer meeting |
|
Wed. Nov.
7 |
1:00 |
Transition
Team |
|
Thur. Nov.
10 |
12:00 |
Lunch Bunch |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Every Week |
|
|
Tuesday |
8:00 pm |
AA Meeting |
|
Wednesday |
9:00 am |
Morning
Prayer |
|
Saturday |
8:00 pm |
AA and Al
Anon Meetings |
Tuesday, October 25th 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.
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP
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
The First Reading Isaiah 1:10-18
Our opening lesson tells how the Lord cannot abide the offerings and solemn ceremonies of a people who are without compassion and bloody with injustice. Yet, if they turn from their ways and become obedient, God will wash them clean. Judah's rulers and people are so corrupt that they are compared to the notorious cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Psalm Psalm 32:1-8The Second Reading 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Together with Silvanus and Timothy, Paul greets the new disciples in Thessalonica. He offers thanks to God for the increase of their faith under persecution and assures them of his prayers. Paul is so proud of their growing faith and love that he boasts about them to others. He suggests that their present troubles may be God's way of proving them worthy of the reign of God.
| The Holy Gospel Luke 19:1-10 |
| October 30 | November 6 |
Acolyte | Ann | Kaitlyn |
LEM | Sammie | |
1st Reader | Tina | Carol |
2nd Reader | Sammie | |
Prayers | Patti Rau | Bob S |
Camera | Sammie | Jen |
8:00 | Bob I |
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, and Mary.
Birthdays:
Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to add or remove someone
on the prayer list. Thank you.
The people you love
are not just there by quirk.
They are God's love breathed upon you.
All those you meet are vessels of the Spirit.
Everything that exists—the trees, the mountains—
all are emanations of the Spirit of Love.
Nothing, no one, not even your enemies,
are devoid of that Spirit.
It may be denied, silenced, opposed, defied—
but it is still there.
Sit by the pond and behold its holiness.
Listen to the stranger and hear the divine breath.
Be still, and let the Spirit pour over you.
