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This Week@All Saints'

1/31/2019

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Dear Friends in Christ,
This Friday and Saturday is our annual Diocesan Convention, with three lay deputies from every parish, as well as all the clergy. We’ll meet at the Meadowlands Hilton in East Rutherford (new site for us this year) and it will be Bishop Hughes first time presiding over convention. Some of the convention will be lives-streamed. You can get the information about it here: https://dioceseofnewark.org/convention . This page also has PDFs of all the documents that will be discussed at the meeting. Please prayer for our Bishop and our diocese as we takes this next step together as Bishop and the People of God.
Please see the rest of the announcements, especially:
  • Annual Parish Meeting (Annual Meeting)
  • Choral Benefit Concert (Music Events)
  • Rectory Changes (Buildings & Grounds)
  • Funeral Service for Martha Wyatt (Worship)
  • Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper (Prayer & a Party)
ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Parish Meeting of All Saints’ Church will be held on Sunday, February 10 at 11:15 am in the Parish Hall. This is an important time in our community life to hear from our leadership, to elect new Vestry members and diocesan convention deputies, and to gather for conversation with fellow parishioners. Please plan to be there. Childcare will be available during the meeting.
Those standing for election are:
  • Roger Kosempel, Warden (2nd 2-year term)
  • Anthony Saitta, Vestry (1st 3-year term)
  • Linda Kestler, Vestry (2nd 3-year term)
  • Barbara Barbeau, Vestry (1st 3-year term)
  • Randy Gaulke, Vestry (unexp 1-year term)
  • OPEN, Vestry (unexp 2-year term)                                                                   
  • anyone who might be interested in serving in this capacity in the OPEN position, please speak to Mother Vicki.

WORSHIP
Candlemas Procession This Sunday – The Feast of the Presentation (“Candlemas”) is Feb. 2, the fourtieth day after Christmas. It celebrates Mary and Joseph taking the infant Jesus to the Temple to be dedicated to God. At both services next week we’ll begin with a candle-lit procession, prayers, and hear the story from Luke.

Funeral Service for Martha Wyatt (1923-2019) is Sunday, February 3 at 12 noon. Martha was an active and dedicated member of All Saints’ Church for the majority of her life. Please keep Martha’s daughters Jeanne Wyatt and Kathy Conley and their family in your prayers. May Martha rest in the peace of Christ and rise in the glory of God.

MUSIC EVENTS
All Saints’ Choirs and Friends will present a benefit choral concert on Feb. 24 at 4:30 pm. Titled “Holy is the True Light”, the program will include music by Bach, William Harris, Howard Helvey, John Ferguson, Karen Marrolli, traditional South African, William Byrd, Bruce Neswick, Nicholas Palmer, and others, all based on the theme of light. There will be selections for full choir, men’s voices, women’s voices, and children. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall. Please sign up to contribute an appetizer, chese & crackers, or fruit.

All proceeds from the concert will go towards the start of a repair and restoration fund for our Resurrection altar window, which will be 100 years old at Christmas 2019. It was given by parishioner Thomas G. Clynes in memory of his wife Edith Seamon Clynes who died in February 1917, shortly after the birth of their second child. Admission to the concert is by free will offering; minimum suggested donation is $10. Please invite your friends and neighbors!

CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 am in the Rath House. We are reading and discussing the Gospel of Mark – this week, Chapter 10. We’d love to have you join us. Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.

Our Narnia Book Club for families, kids, and adults is continuing this winter/spring. We’ll be reading “The Magician’s Nephew” from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis starting February 24, with the first discussion after the 10 am service on March 3. Brochures with a reading schedule are on the book case in our Narnia Corner near the choir stalls. Copies of the book will be available soon for $5.

 And in the summer, our inter-generational Vacation Bible School will be Narnia-themed: Aslan On the Move (June 23-27, 6:00-8:30 pm).

Why Narnia? The Inklings was a Christian literary circle with ties to Oxford University from the early 1930s through the 1950s. It included C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, and Owen Barfield, among others. They were particularly interested in the way creativity, imagination, theology, and spirituality all worked together to reflect God’s truth and the Christian life. Their writings (fiction for adults and children, poetry, and non-fiction) are a treasure of the Anglican spiritual tradition and have much to offer us today.

FUNDRAISING
Sausage and Peppers on Sale Sunday in the Parish Hall freezer. Several sizes available. Vegetarian onions, peppers, & sauce, too. Add to your Super Bowl celebration!

ShopRite Cards– everyone needs groceries! You may purchase ShopRite cards as a gift or for yourself on Sundays during Coffee House or at the parish office. You pay face value and 5% goes to All Saints’ ministries. Please speak to Barbara Barbeau.

Rectory Changes, 37 Northfield Road: We are between tenants, and it is listed for rent with Weichert Relators. Tom Day, Steve Kowalik, Max Kosempel, and Roger Kosempel have been working on the house to make some minor repairs as well as having the interior freshly painted. Thank you to Tom, Roger, and Max for all their hard work! If you know someone who might be a good tenant, please contact our realtor, Beth Lohner at Weichert. And please pray that God brings us the right tenant at the right time!

PRAYER & A PARTY    
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on March 5, 5:30-7:30 pm. This year we’ll be inviting our Veteran friends and Seniors in our community, as well as parishioners. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday – traditionally a time for using up all the butter/oil/sweets in the house – hence the pancakes! $5 per person/$20 maxmum per husehold/kids under age 3 are free. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex so we know you are coming. And if you would like to help cook/set-up/serve, please also indicate that on the sign-up sheet.

Photos Welcome! Please help us by taking photos of parish events and Sunday services – with your camera phone or a regular digital camera, and then sharing the file with us. We use these photos for our website, Facebook page, and print communications. These pictures help us tell the story of All Saints’ in images. Questions? Speak to Parish Admin Susie Harris. And remember to check in at All Saints’ on Facebook and Instagram!

PARISH CALENDAR
2/3 Wyatt Funeral & Reception        Church & Parish Hall noon
2/6 Bible Study                                   Rath House 10:00 am
2/7 Communion & Healing Prayer Church 7:00 am
      Junior Choir                                  Choir Room 5:15 pm
      Adult Choir                                     Choir Room 7:30 pm
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES
The Christian Virtues
Since the earliest days of the faith, Christian teachers and writers have emphasized the Christian virtues. The virtues are not merely “doing good” or “being good”, but they are particular habits of mind and heart that both support us in our faith, and have outward and visible effects in human behavior and the life of the community.
We work to develop these virtues over time by engaging in Christian practices, such as those outlined in the Way of Love. The Christian virtues are:
  • Prudence – wisdom and discipline
  • Justice – in our behavior and attitude towards others; seeking the good of the other.
  • Fortitude – courage, patient persistence, brave endurance.
  • Temperance – moderation, humility, and meekness
  • Faith – trust in God; a divine gift
  • Hope – knowing that we are citizens of God’s kingdom; God will never abandon us
  • Love – divine, unselfinterested love; loving God, loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.
The Christian virtues mark us out as “Christ’s own forever;” different from the world. They are the shoots and fruit of what was planted in us at baptism, nurtured by prayer and reading the Scriptures, and strengthened in our worship and receiving of the Sacraments.
Which virtue comes most naturally to you? Which do you most need to work on – with God’s help?

Blessings, Vicki+

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This Week@All Saints'

1/24/2019

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Dear Friends in Christ,
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Snow Day Morning Prayer on Facebook Live last Sunday. We had twenty-two people praying and worshiping together. Then the video of our prayer time was seen by another six-hundred-and-seventy-four people! It’s always fun to experiment with different ways of gathering, worshiping, and sharing faith.
Please see the rest of the announcements, especially:
  • Annual Parish Meeting (Annual Meeting)
  • Family Promise (Helping Hands)
  • Choral Benefit Concert (Music Events)
  • Rectory Changes (Stewardship)
  • Funeral Service for Martha Wyatt (Worship)
  • Pancake Supper (Prayer & a Party)

ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Parish Meeting of All Saints’ Church will be held on Sunday, February 10 at 11:15 am in the Parish Hall. This is an important time in our community life to hear from our leadership, to elect new Vestry members and diocesan convention deputies, and to gather for conversation with fellow parishioners. Please plan to be there. Childcare will be available during the meeting.

WORSHIP
Funeral Service for Martha Wyatt (1923-2019) is Sunday, February 3 at 12 noon. Martha was an active and dedicated member of All Saints’ Church for the majority of her life. Please keep Martha’s daughters Jeanne Wyatt and Kathy Conley and their family in your prayers. May Martha rest in the peace of Christ and rise in the glory of God.

Candlemas Procession Next Sunday – The Feast of the Presentation (“Candlemas”) is Feb. 2, the fourtieth day after Christmas. It celebrates Mary and Joseph taking the infant Jesus to the Temple to be dedicated to God. At both services next week we’ll begin with a candle-lit procession, prayers, and hear the story from Luke.

MUSIC EVENTS
All Saints’ Choirs and Friends will present a benefit choral concert on Feb. 24 at 4:30 pm. Titled “Holy is the True Light”, the program will include music by Bach, William Harris, Howard Helvey, John Ferguson, Karen Marrolli, traditional South African, William Byrd, Bruce Neswick, Nicholas Palmer, and others, all based on the theme of light. There will be selections for full choir, men’s voices, women’s voices, and children. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall. Please sign up to contribute an appetizer, chese & crackers, or fruit.

All proceeds from the concert will go towards the start of a repair and restoration fund for our Resurrection altar window, which will be 100 years old at Christmas 2019. It was given by parishioner Thomas G. Clynes in memory of his wife Edith Seamon Clynes who died in February 1917, shortly after the birth of their second child. Admission to the concert is by free will offering; minimum suggested donation is $10. Please invite your friends and neighbors!

CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 am in the Rath House. We are reading and discussing the Gospel of Mark – this week, Chapter 10. We’d love to have you join us. Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.

Our Narnia Book Club for families, kids, and adults is continuing this winter/spring. We’ll be reading “The Magician’s Nephew” from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis starting February 24, with the first discussion after the 10 am service on March 3. Brochures with a reading schedule are on the book case in our Narnia Corner near the choir stalls. Copies of the book will be available soon for $5. And in the summer, our inter-generational Vacation Bible School will be Narnia-themed: Aslan On the Move (June 23-27, 6:00-8:30 pm).

Why Narnia? The Inklings were a Christian literary circle with ties to Oxford University from the early 1930s through the 1950s. It included C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, and Owen Barfield, among others. They were particularly interested in the way creativity, imagination, theology, and spirituality all worked together to reflect God’s truth and the Christian life. Their writings (fiction for adults and children, poetry, and non-fiction) are a treasure of the Anglican spiritual tradition and have much to offer us today.

STEWARDSHIP
Pledge Envelopes – if you requested envelopes for your pledge of donations, they are available on the table in the Narthex with your name on them. Please pick them up today. And if you would like information about making a pledge of financial support to the ministry of All Saints’, pledge packets are available in the Narthex.

ShopRite Cards– everyone needs groceries! You may purchase ShopRite cards on Sundays during Coffee House or at the parish office. You pay face value and 5% goes to All Saints’ ministries. Please speak to Barbara Barbeau.

Rectory Changes: Take Tour Sunday, 11:30-12:30 pm, 37 Northfield Road, Millington – assuming that the weather cooperates! This is an opportunity for you to visit the house that the parish owns. We are between tenants, and it is listed for rent with Weichert Realtors. Enter through the mud room/breezeway door next to the garage. Tom Day, Max Kosempel, and Roger Kosempel have been working on the house to make some minor repairs as well as having the interior freshly painted. Thank you to Tom, Roger, and Max for all their hard work! If you know someone who might be a good tenant, please contact our realtor, Beth Lohner at Weichert. And please pray that God brings us the right tenant at the right time!

PRAYER & A PARTY    
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on March 5, 5:30-7:30 pm. This year we’ll be inviting our Veteran friends and Seniors in our community, as well as parishioners. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday – traditionally a time for using up all the butter/oil/sweets in the house – hence the pancakes! $5 per person/$20 maxmum per husehold/kids under age 3 are free. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex so we know you are coming. And if you would like to help cook/set-up/serve, please also indicate that on the sign-up sheet.

HELPING HANDS
Family Promise – January 28 is our next date for  hosting homeless families with Family Promise at Trinity House in Stirling. Please keep the shelter famlies in your prayers, as well as our volunteers who cook, serve the meal, act as hosts to the shelter guests, and spend the night. Want to know more? Help out the next time? Speak to Afsaneh Thursfield or Kathy Pfeil.

PARISH CALENDAR
1/27 Confirmation Class                      Parish House 12:00 pm
1/30 Bible Study                                    Rath House 10:00 am
1/31Communion & Healing Prayer  Church 7:00 am
        Junior Choir                                   Choir Room 5:15 pm
        Adult Choir                                     Choir Room 7:30 pm
2/1-2/2 Diocesan Convention            Meadowlands Hilton
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES
Go (Way of Love practice) – Jan. 25 is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Paul (originally called Saul) was a highly proficient and intelligent student of Torah – the Hebrew Scriptures. He was zealous for the Jewish practice of faith in God, and for the traditions of the ancestors. He even held the cloaks of the religious authorities who stoned Stephen, the first martyr for Christ.
But while Saul was going – traveling to the town of Damascus to arrest and imprison Christians who were there – he had a profound encounter with the Risen Lord. It temporarily blinded hum, knocked him from his mount, and ultimately turned his life upside down....including changing his name to the more Gentile-friendly Paul.

After some years of further prayer and study and worship of Jesus as the Messiah, Paul was called by Christ to begin traveling through what is now Turkey and parts of Greece, in order to share with them what he had come to understand as Good News – that Jesus the Jewish Messiah was also the Savior and Redeemer of all people. His message was that God called everyone – Jew and Gentile alike – into God’s family, just as He had promised to Abraham long ago.

Paul met the Risen Lord while he was go-ing. He then epitomized the practice of go-ing as he travelled and preached and taught new groups of Gentile followers of Jesus.

Whenever we go beyond ourselves and our comfort zone for God, we will encounter Jesus in our own hearts and minds, and in the face and form of those we meet. To go is to risk, but it is also an opportunity to see Christ in new and different ways.

Blessings, Vicki+

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This Week@All Saints'

1/17/2019

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Dear Friends in Christ,
There is snow predicted for this weekend – Saturday evening well into Sunday day time. There is also ice predicted. As of this writing (Thursday afternoon) it’s still too early to make a determination about Sunday services. But it seems likely that the 8 am service may be cancelled, and possibly the 10 am service, also. If one or both services are cancelled, that information will be sent to you via e-mail before 7 am Sunday. It will also be posted on the home page of the website, and on Facebook. In any case, please always use your best judgment about travelling safely to Church.
Please see the rest of the announcements, especially:
  • Community Dinner Postponed (Helping Hands)
  • Annual Parish Meeting (Annual Meeting)
  • Choral Benefit Concert (Music Events)
  • Rectory Changes (Stewardship)
HELPING HANDS
Community Dinner for Vets and Friends: SNOW DAY POSTPONEMENT. This Saturday’s dinner will be postponed due to the expected Saturday night snowstorm. Speak to Kerrie Stepko with questions.            
What’s up next? Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on March 5. This year we’ll be inviting our Veteran friends and Seniors in our community, as well as parishioners. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday – traditionally a time for using up all the butter/oil/sweets in the house – hence the pancakes! More information to come, but save the date. 

Family Promise – Jan. 28 is our next date for hosting homeless families with Family Promise at Trinity House in Stirling. We need volunteers to cook, serve the meal, act as hosts to the shelter guests, and spend the night. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex to help out. Want to know more? Speak to Afsaneh Thursfield or Kathy Pfeil.

ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual Parish Meeting of All Saints’ Church will be held on Sunday, February 10 at 11:15 am in the Parish Hall. This is an important time in our community life to hear from our leadership, to elect new Vestry members and diocesan convention deputies, and to gather for conversation with fellow parishioners. Please plan to be there. Childcare will be available during the meeting.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 am in the Rath House. We are reading and discussing the Gospel of Mark – this week, Chapter 9. If you have been “cautiously curious” about Bible reading and would like to try it out, please know that you are invited. You don’t have to have any prior knowledge or experience. It’s a good way to start the New Year! Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.

Our Narnia Book Club for families, kids, and adults is continuing this winter/spring. We’ll be reading “The Magician’s Nephew” from The Chronicles of Narnia. Look for more details soon!
And in the summer, our inter-generational Vacation Bible School will be Narnia-themed: Aslan On the Move (June 23-27, 6:00-8:30 pm).

MUSIC EVENTS
All Saints’ Choirs and Friends will present a benefit choral concert on Feb. 24 at 4:30 pm. Titled “Holy is the True Light”, the program will include music by Bach, William Harris, Howard Helvey, John Ferguson, Karen Marrolli, traditional South African, William Byrd, Bruce Neswick, Nicholas Palmer, and others, all based on the theme of light. There will be selections for full choir, men’s voices, women’s voices, and children.

All proceeds from the concert will go towards the start of a repair and restoration fund for our Resurrection altar window, which will be 100 years old at Christmas 2019. It was given by parishioner Thomas G. Clynes in memory of his wife Edith Seamon Clynes who died in February 1917, shortly after the birth of their second child. Admission to the concert is by free will offering; minimum suggested donation is $10. Please invite your friends and neighbors!

STEWARDSHIP
Pledge Envelopes – if you requested envelopes for your pledge of donations, they are available on the table in the Narthex with your name on them. Please pick them up today. And if you would like information about making a pledge of financial support to the ministry of All Saints’, pledge packets are available in the Narthex.

ShopRite Cards– everyone needs groceries! You may purchase ShopRite cards on Sundays during Coffee House or at the parish office. You pay face value and 5% goes to All Saints’ ministries. Please speak to Barbara Barbeau.

Rectory Changes: Take Tour Sunday, 11:30-12:30 pm, 37 Northfield Road, Millington – assuming that the weather cooperates! This is an opportunity for you to visit the house that the parish owns. We are between tenants, and it is listed for rent with Weichert Realtors. Enter through the mud room/breezeway door next to the garage. Tom Day, Max Kosempel, and Roger Kosempel have been working on the house to make some minor repairs as well as having the interior freshly painted. Thank you to Tom, Roger, and Max for all their hard work! If you know someone who might be a good tenant, please contact our realtor, Beth Lohner at Weichert. And please pray that God brings us the right tenant at the right time!

PARISH CALENDAR
1/23 Bible Study                                   Rath House 10:00 am
1/24 Communion & Healing Prayer Church 7:00 am
         Junior Choir                                  Choir Room 5:15 pm
         Adult Choir                                    Choir Room 7:30 pm
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES

Rest (Way of Love practice) – aside from sleep, how do you find and practice rest? Is it a challenge for you, or is it something you easily embrace? Rest is that state where we intentionally unplug from work, from screens and devices, from requirements. It’s an opportunity to still the noise in our heads and be open to receiving God’s love and care for us. Even music notation has rests in it!

Rest is connected to the Fourth Commandment: Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. When we take time for rest we are acknowledging the fact that the world (including time) belongs to God, and that we are finite creatures who don’t run the world, but are dependent on God’s wisdom, guidance, and energy for life itself.

Practicing rest can take many forms: fishing, walking, gardening, having a conversation with a friend, reading, watching a sunset, doing a jigsaw puzzle, knitting or doing wood-working, singing or listening to music – anything that brings you restoration and wholeness.

Rest is a spiritual practice in the Christian Way of Love because it puts us in right relationship with God, with ourselves, and with others. How will you practice rest this week? And who will help you be accountable for it?

Blessings, Vicki+

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This Week@All Saints'

1/10/2019

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Dear Friends in Christ,
Thank you to everyone who hung in with the cold church last Sunday! The heat was back on Monday – a very simple connection that needed to be turned on. The food at our Epiphany Lunch was delicious, the soup and coffee hot (!), and the fellowship was fun and festive. The winners of the Fruitcake bake-off were neck and neck – Suzanne Kosempel and Mother Vicki. Congratulations, both!

This Sunday we will celebrate a baptism at 10 am (see Worship, below). Parish children will go to Sunday School classes, and then come into the church at the end of the sermon for the baptism.

Please see the rest of the announcements, especially:
  • Community Dinner (Helping Hands)
  • Choral Benefit Concert (Music Events)
  • Rectory Changes (Stewardship)

WORSHIP
Baptism and Baptismal Vows – this Sunday is the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, the day we commemorate Jesus’ own baptism in the Jordan River. At 8 am we will renew our own baptismal vows. At 10 am we will baptize the three-month old son of a parish family. At this joyous occasion, the congregation will renew our vows, as well. Please be on hand to welcome our newest Christian!

HELPING HANDS
Community Dinner for Vets and Friends: Jan. 19, 5:30 pm – we’ll be hosting a next dinner in the Lower Room of the Parish House for Vets from the V.A. in Lyons, those living in our communities, and their friends and families. If you can cook, set up, serve, clean up, or visit with our guets, please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex. Speak to Kerrie Stepko with questions.

Twelve Baskets Food Pantry – we have been blessed with an abundance of food from the Food Bank and need a little help with some organizing Sunday, Jan. 13 during coffee hour. Please stop by the Parish Hall and speak to Jane Hayden.

Family Promise – Jan. 28 is our next date for  hosting homeless families with Family Promise at Trinity House in Stirling. We need volunteers to cook, serve the meal, act as hosts to the shelter guests, and spend the night. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex to help out. Want to know more? Speak to Afsaneh Thursfield or Kathy Pfeil.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 am in the Rath House. We are reading and discussing the Gospel of Mark – this week, Chapter 9. If you have been “cautiously curious” about Bible reading and would like to try it out, please know that you are invited. You don’t have to have any prior knowledge or experience. It’s a good way to start the New Year! Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.

Sunday School Classes for children PreK through middle school will begin again on Jan. 13th. They meet in classrooms downstairs in the Church, starting at 10 am. The children then join their families in worship at the Peace.

Episcopal Church-wide Good Book Club reading of Romans - during the season after Epiphany people across the church are being invited to read Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome. There are daily passages (excluding Sundays) of Paul’s most mature thinking. The Good Book Club website has good background materials and discussion/reflection questions: http://www.goodbookclub.org/ . The readings in Forward Day by Day will also follow this schedule of reading Romans. To make it easy for you to participate, the text for each day will be e-mailed to you. Try to take some time each day to not only read the passage (a dozen verses at the most) but ponder and pray and “dwell” with the text, noticing what bubbles up for you, and how the Holy Spirit might be speaking to you. 

MUSIC EVENTS
Holy is the True Light: a Benefit Choral Concert, Sunday, February 24, 4:30 pm. The Choirs of All Saints' Episcopal Church will present a choral concert featuring  music by William Harris, Howard Helvey, John Ferguson, Karen Marrolli, William Byrd, and more. No tickets are needed, but a free will offering will be accepted. All the money raised will go towards repairs to our Resurrection-themed stained glass altar window, which is 100 years old in 2019.

STEWARDSHIP
Pledge Envelopes – if you requested envelopes for your pledge of donations, they are available on the table in the Narthex with your name on them. Please pick them up. And if you have not yet made a pledge of financial support for 2019, it’s not too late! Pledge cards are available in the Narthex or in the Parish Office. Thanks.

ShopRite Cards– everyone needs groceries! You may purchase ShopRite cards on Sundays during Coffee House or at the parish office. You pay face value and 5% goes to All Saints’ ministries. Please speak to Barbara Barbeau.

Rectory Changes – our tenants in 37 Northfield Road, Millington have purchased a home of their own and moved out on Dec. 31. They had been renting for seven years. We are getting the house ready to list for rental again: painting, minor repairs, cleaning. Thank you to Tom Day and Roger Kosempel for spear-heading this. We’ll also give the parish an opportunity to take a tour of the house and see this important parish asset. It will be listed through Weichert Realtors in Morristown. If you know someone who might be a good tenant, please let one of the Wardens Tom Hackett or Roger Kosempel or Mother Vicki know. And please pray that God brings us the right tenant at the right time!

PARISH CALENDAR
1/13  Confirmation Class                    PH Lower Room 1:30 pm
1/15  Vestry                                            Rath House 7:30 pm
1/16  Bible Study                                  Church 10:00 am
1/17 Communion & Healing Prayer Church 7:00 am
         Junior Choir                                  Choir Room 5:15 pm
         Adult Choir                                    Choir Room 7:30 pm
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES
Baptism is the rite of initiation into the Christian Church and the Body of Christ. It is the way one commits to following Jesus and living a Christian life. Baptism can take place at any age – as an infant, presented by parents and godparents on the strength of their faith; or as a teen or adult, proclaiming faith and making promises for themselves.
Whenever we are present at a baptism, or renew our baptismal vows, we remember that God is the giver of second chances, fresh starts, the One who sees us as God’s beloved children – called, blessed, and sent to be in partnership with God in the world.
And every morning when we wash our face or take a shower, as the water splashes over us, we can remember that we are baptized into Christ and have been made whole.

Blessings, Vicki+

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This Week@All Saints'

1/4/2019

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Dear Friends in Christ,
Happy New Year! Our first Sunday of 2019 is Epiphany, a great way to start the New Year. May this year bring you to a closer, deeper, more joyful relationship with God and with your neighbor. Please take a look at the announcements below.
  • Epiphany/Blessing of Chalk (in Worship)
  • Soup & Sandwich Lunch/Fruitcake Bake-off (in Events)
  • Community Dinner for Vets & Friends (in Helping Hands)
  • National Church Read of Romans (in Christian Formation)

EVENTS

SUNDAY: Epiphany Soup and Sandwich Lunch & Fruitcake Bake-off at 11:15 in the Parish Hall. Come share a relaxed meal with your fellow parishioners, pull a Christmas party “cracker,” and join in voting on the Christmas fruitcake bake-off – either as a baker or as a judge! The cost of the lunch is $5 per person; $20 maximum per household. Kids under age 3 are free. This is a fun way to close out the holiday season and start the New Year!

WORSHIP
Epiphany –  this Sunday, January 6, is the Feast of the Epiphany, the celebration of the manifestation of Christ to the Gentile world, represented by the Magi's arrival to worship the Christ Child in Bethlehem. Our 10 am service will be a Family Service appropriate for all ages.At both services we will bless and distribute chalk for you to take home (along with prayer instructions) so you can bless your homes for the coming year.

STEWARDSHIP
Pledge Envelopes – if you requested envelopes for your pledge of donations, they are available on the table in the Narthex with your name on them. Please pick them up. And if you have not yet made a pledge of financial support for 2019, it’s not too late! Pledge cards are available in the Narthex or in the Parish Office. Thanks.

ShopRite Cards– everyone needs groceries! You may purchase ShopRite cards on Sundays during Coffee House or at the parish office. You pay face value and 5% goes to All Saints’ ministries. Please speak to Barbara Barbeau.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 am in the Rath House. We are reading and discussing the Gospel of Mark – this week, Chapter 8. If you have been “cautiously curious” about Bible reading and would like to try it out, please know that you are invited. You don’t have to have any prior knowledge or experience. It’s a good way to start the New Year! Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.

Sunday School Classes for children PreK through middle school will begin again on Jan. 13th. They meet in classrooms downstairs in the Church, starting at 10 am. The children then join their families in worship at the Peace.

Episcopal Church-wide Good Book Club reading of Romans - during the season after Epiphany people across the church are being invited to read Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome. There are daily passages (excluding Sundays) of Paul’s most mature thinking. The Good Book Club website has good background materials and discussion/reflection questions: http://www.goodbookclub.org/ . The readings in Forward Day by Day will also follow this schedule of reading Romans. To make it easy for you to participate, the text for each day will be e-mailed to you. Try to take some time each day to not only read the passage (a dozen verses at the most) but ponder and pray and “dwell” with the text, noticing what bubbles up for you, and how the Holy Spirit might be speaking to you. 

HELPING HANDS
Community Dinner for Vets and Friends: Jan. 19, 5:30 pm – we’ll be hosting a next dinner in the Lower Room of the Parish House for Vets from the V.A. in Lyons, those living in our communities, and their friends and families. If you can cook, set up, serve, clean up, or visit with our guets, please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex. Speak to Kerrie Stepko with questions.

Family Promise – Jan. 28 is our next date for  hosting homeless families with Family Promise at Trinity House in Stirling. We need volunteers to cook, serve the meal, act as hosts to the shelter guests, and spend the night. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex to help out. Want to know more? Speak to Afsaneh Thursfield or Kathy Pfeil.

PARISH CALENDAR
1/8   Finance Committee                 Rath House 7:30 pm
1/9   Bible Study                            Church 10:00 am
1/10 Communion & Healing Prayer  Church 7:00 am
       Junior Choir                            Choir Room 5:15 pm
       Adult Choir                             Choir Room 7:30 pm
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES
"Epiphany" by Malcolm Guite

It might have been just someone else’s story,
Some chosen people get a special king.
We leave them to their own peculiar glory,
We don’t belong, it doesn’t mean a thing.
But when these three arrive they bring us with them,
Gentiles like us, their wisdom might be ours;
A steady step that finds an inner rhythm,
A  pilgrim’s eye that sees beyond the stars.
They did not know his name but still they sought him,
They came from otherwhere but still they found;
In temples they found those who sold and bought him,
But in the filthy stable, hallowed ground.
Their courage gives our questing hearts a voice
To seek, to find, to worship, to rejoice.

Blessings, Vicki+

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