FROM THE RECTOR
SUNDAY IS STEWARDSHIP INGATHERING DAY.
Please bring your pledge and gift cards to church on Sunday so they can be blessed and included in the pledge count as we begin to prepare the budget for 2023. Thank you to all who have already turned them in.
The Stewardship Committee is preparing goodie bags for coffee hour on Sunday, or you may take them home with you.
The CDC website and Covid Act Now place Carroll County in the medium range for Covid community spread.
UPDATE ON MASKING
Feedback from you at our services on Sunday indicated a slight majority in favor of optional masking when we are in the medium range, and required masking only in the high range. (The majority at 8:00 preferred to mask at the medium range; the majority at 10:00 preferred to mask only at the high range.)
The Vestry then voted to require masks only at the high level, consistent with CDC recommendations. Going forward we will thus follow CDC guidelines, and only require masking at the high level. A space will be reserved for those who wish to sit with others who are masked.
This also means that coffee hour can resume. While we're enjoying this beautiful weather those who are more comfortable taking refreshments outside can do so.
Knowing that large group gatherings are where many of us have caught Covid, we continue to ask that you attend church online instead of in person if you have been in a large gathering in the prior week.
This event will also be live streamed on the diocesan YouTube page. The link to view online is here: YouTube page.
BOOK STUDY
Our last book study will meet after the 10:00 service on Sunday, November 13 . Please read Chapters 5-6 for our final meeting.
SAVE THE DATE: SPIRITUAL GIFTS WORKSHOP ON DECEMBER 4
On Sunday, December 4 following the 9:00 service Christi Humphrey and I will lead a workshop on identifying our spiritual gifts. We will talk about our Baptismal vows, Baptismal ministry, fill out a Spiritual Gifts Inventory to help us identify our own gifts, and discuss what is needed as we move into having a part time rector.
Christi’s background
of study in Baptismal or Total Ministry, a way of collaborative church
leadership, is one of the gifts she brings to our community. Within the
workshop, we will have space to recognize and name all the gifts that are at
St. Andrew’s in abundance.
Please plan to join us for what is sure to be a good time and great discussion! The more parishioners who participate the greater the impact of this workshop.
LET US DREAM OF A CHURCH...
If you missed last Sunday or couldn't hear the sermon on Zoom, the poem that was read is attached to the email you received with the link to this Thursday Memo.
The questions posed for the discussion on the poem were:
What
dreams does the poem stir up for you about St. Andrew’s?
· How
do you see yourself involved in these dreams – how can you be a part of
these dreams?
FALL CLEAN UP DAY
FALL CLEAN-UP DAY
Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022
We need all hands on deck for our Fall Clean-Up Day to
get ready for winter and help our beloved church shine! For those who prefer outdoor work, we have
exterior windows to be washed (I believe I heard George say he was volunteering
to head this battalion up!), leaves to be raked and hauled away, and gardens to
be put to bed. If you would like to
attend to inside tasks, sanctuary windows need attention, lots of not-so-hidden
cobwebs lurking in corners of the woodwork require dusting, and glass light
fixtures to be cleaned.
As a “thank you” from the Building & Grounds
Committee (and friends) for all your help, we invite you to stay and share a
meal of chili and cornbread outside in our beautiful field. Please bring a lawn chair and we can space
them apart as need be. Hope to see you Sunday,
Lin
PARISH CALENDAR
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
Stewardship
Ingathering
Tues. Nov
8
10:15
Buildings
and Grounds meeting
Wed. Nov.
9
10:15
2:00
Morning
Prayer meeting
Transition
Team
Thur.
Nov. 10
12:00
Lunch
Bunch
Sun. Nov.
13
11:15
Book
Study, Ch. 5-6
Mon, Nov.
14
3:00
Liturgy
Committee
Tues.
Nov.15
9:00
Contemplative
Practice
Wed. Nov.
16
10:15
1:00
Prayer
Shawls
Transition
Team
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, November 15 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
SUNDAY IS STEWARDSHIP INGATHERING DAY.
Please bring your pledge and gift cards to church on Sunday so they can be blessed and included in the pledge count as we begin to prepare the budget for 2023. Thank you to all who have already turned them in.
The Stewardship Committee is preparing goodie bags for coffee hour on Sunday, or you may take them home with you.
The CDC website and Covid Act Now place Carroll County in the medium range for Covid community spread.
UPDATE ON MASKING
Feedback from you at our services on Sunday indicated a slight majority in favor of optional masking when we are in the medium range, and required masking only in the high range. (The majority at 8:00 preferred to mask at the medium range; the majority at 10:00 preferred to mask only at the high range.)
The Vestry then voted to require masks only at the high level, consistent with CDC recommendations. Going forward we will thus follow CDC guidelines, and only require masking at the high level. A space will be reserved for those who wish to sit with others who are masked.
This also means that coffee hour can resume. While we're enjoying this beautiful weather those who are more comfortable taking refreshments outside can do so.
Knowing that large group gatherings are where many of us have caught Covid, we continue to ask that you attend church online instead of in person if you have been in a large gathering in the prior week.
This event will also be live streamed on the diocesan YouTube page. The link to view online is here: YouTube page.
BOOK STUDY
Our last book study will meet after the 10:00 service on Sunday, November 13 . Please read Chapters 5-6 for our final meeting.
SAVE THE DATE: SPIRITUAL GIFTS WORKSHOP ON DECEMBER 4
On Sunday, December 4 following the 9:00 service Christi Humphrey and I will lead a workshop on identifying our spiritual gifts. We will talk about our Baptismal vows, Baptismal ministry, fill out a Spiritual Gifts Inventory to help us identify our own gifts, and discuss what is needed as we move into having a part time rector.
Christi’s background of study in Baptismal or Total Ministry, a way of collaborative church leadership, is one of the gifts she brings to our community. Within the workshop, we will have space to recognize and name all the gifts that are at St. Andrew’s in abundance.
Please plan to join us for what is sure to be a good time and great discussion! The more parishioners who participate the greater the impact of this workshop.
LET US DREAM OF A CHURCH...
If you missed last Sunday or couldn't hear the sermon on Zoom, the poem that was read is attached to the email you received with the link to this Thursday Memo.
The questions posed for the discussion on the poem were:
What dreams does the poem stir up for you about St. Andrew’s?
· How
do you see yourself involved in these dreams – how can you be a part of
these dreams?
FALL CLEAN UP DAY
Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022
As a “thank you” from the Building & Grounds Committee (and friends) for all your help, we invite you to stay and share a meal of chili and cornbread outside in our beautiful field. Please bring a lawn chair and we can space them apart as need be. Hope to see you Sunday,
Lin
PARISH CALENDAR
|
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 Stewardship
Ingathering |
|
Tues. Nov
8 |
10:15 |
Buildings
and Grounds meeting |
|
Wed. Nov.
9 |
10:15 2:00 |
Morning
Prayer meeting Transition
Team |
|
Thur.
Nov. 10 |
12:00 |
Lunch
Bunch |
|
|
|
|
|
Sun. Nov.
13 |
11:15 |
Book
Study, Ch. 5-6 |
|
Mon, Nov.
14 |
3:00 |
Liturgy
Committee |
|
Tues.
Nov.15 |
9:00 |
Contemplative
Practice |
|
Wed. Nov.
16 |
10:15 1:00 |
Prayer
Shawls Transition
Team |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Every
Week |
|
|
Tuesday |
8:00 pm |
AA
Meeting |
|
Wednesday |
9:00 am |
Morning
Prayer |
|
Saturday |
8:00 pm |
AA and Al
Anon Meetings |
Tuesday, November 15 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.
This service will be in person and 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 Job 19:23-27a
In our Hebrew Bible reading the deeply troubled Job continues to struggle with the injustices that affect his life. He trusts one day he will be vindicated. Job believes he has lived decently and honestly. Yet every misfortune imaginable has befallen him. Neither his friends nor God can give him a satisfactory reason for his troubles. That is why he wishes his plea to be lastingly engraved in stone and trusts that God will at last be his defender.
Psalm Psalm 17:1-9
The Second Reading 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
This epistle was written in part as a correction to a misunderstanding about the "day of the Lord," which some in the early Christian community feared had already arrived. The apostle seeks to lay to rest their fears, and to encourage them to a more mature faith, sure of God's grace and confident of their standing in the Lord. Many signs will precede the final day of judgement, and the Lord Jesus Christ will win a definitive and clear victory over all opposing forces. Prayer is offered for good hope and comfort that will strengthen the Thessalonian disciples in their every word and good work.
| The Holy Gospel Luke 20:27-38 |
| November 6 | November 13 |
Acolyte | Kaitlyn | Preston Mills |
LEM | Sammie | Pat Adams |
1st Reader | Carol | Dale A. |
2nd Reader | Sammie | Gretchen |
Prayers | Bob S | Pat Adams |
Camera | Jen | |
8:00 | Marty C. |
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, Jan & George, Carolyn, Jack, Laurie, Alexa, Chris, Lyse, Margaret, Melody, Peg, Curt, George Randall and Mary.
Birthdays:
Alys Walker - 11/9
George Rau - 11/10
Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to add or remove someone
on the prayer list. Thank you.
God of grace,
For all the saints who have made this world a better place
I give you my praise.
For the saints who have loved me, I give you thanks.
For those who blessed me without my knowing,
who loved me from behind the curtain, I bless you.
For the ones who forgave my selfishness,
who embraced my loneliness, who understood my fear,
I praise the mystery of your grace.
For the ones who blessed others, and the ones who blessed them,
by whom my world was improved, I thank you.
For the ones who never knew they blessed me,
who shone with light they themselves didn't see, I thank you.
And for those who tried and fell short, I give thanks.
For those whose unconquered struggles taught me,
whose courageous failures inspired me,
whose attempts at grace, despite their crudeness, achieved grace,
I thank you.
For the saints who picked my fruit and sewed my shirts,
who built my world without thanks or pay, I humbly praise.
Bless all the saints in whose blessing I live.
And now sanctify me, dear God,
that I may be a blessing to others.
Amen.
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