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September 13-23, 2012

News & Notes 



Dear Faithful People
of Saint Peter's Church:

Last week we began at the beginning, inaugurating our 151st  Program year.  This week we are gathered at the very center of our life together -- to the cross of Jesus Christ.  This Sunday we celebrate Holy Cross Day and rejoice that, through Christ's cross, diverse people and communities and all creation are being gathered into the loving embrace of God and publicly nourished by Christ.

 

On this day, we are hoping to receive all 2012-2013 Stewardship Fund commitments to the 150th Anniversary Challenge. Drop yours in the mail or an offering basin, and place your anniversary cross on the display in the Narthex. 

 

At the 10:00 Forum in the Living Room, I'll continue surveying the ways in which Saint Peter's has addressed communal and societal needs over the past 150 years, picking up where we left off, with the year 1919.  The series is called "Songs of our Forebears." 

 

At the 11:00 mass, we will introduce our new vicar, Dustin Wright and induct him into our ministry together.  Like all his predecessors', Dustin's primary internship assignment is with Dennis Frado at the Lutheran Office for World Community at the United Nations.  Saint Peter's provides the parish ministry counterpoint to that advocacy-centered task. 

 

JAZZ 4 ALL, a new family-centered program with a special emphasis on children and families begins the first of four events this Sunday at 4:00 p.m. See below for more information. 

 

MEALS 4 ALL  will always accompany JAZZ 4 ALL, providing brunch after the 11:00 a.m. mass, lunch after our 1:30 p.m. misa and supper after 5:00 p.m. Jazz Vespers.    We are thankful to our own Christopher Vergara who organized the members of our Spanish-speaking community and those of Sion Lutheran Church who together will provide all of our meals all day, hence, MEALS 4 ALL. Servers are needed. 

 

Finally, we  welcome the members of Sion Lutheran Church to our 1:30 misa this Sunday as they, together with our misa community, our Metropolitan New York Synod and all of us at Saint Peter's  seek to discern the future of Latino ministry in Manhattan.

 

All in all, this is going to be a great and very full day, a fitting prelude to another great and full day, our inaugural celebration of our 150th anniversary on September 23 which Bishop Rimbo will lead.

 

WE COULD USE SOME HELP to prepare for our September 23 liturgies.  Our albs (the white robes our liturgical ministers wear) need to be laundered here at the church (we have a washer and dryer) and our silver needs to be polished this week.  Any volunteers?  Please contact Pastor Derr ([email protected])  or Pastor Stahler ([email protected].) or call us at 212-935-2200.

 

Deeply Rooted through the cross of Christ,  Always Growing  as we seek to embrace one another.   The liturgies, meals and programs of Sunday, September 23 will illustrate perfectly our anniversary's motto and our sesquicentennial goal.

 

The best is yet to come!   See you Sunday!

  

Peace and Joy,

 

Amandus J. Derr
Senior Pastor

 

JAZZ FOR ALL

  September 16 at 4:00 p.m.

An improvisatory immersion into the sounds of Syria for people of all ages, especially children.

 

  

IN THIS ISSUE
Dear Faithful People
Jazz for All
Stewardship 2012-2013
This Sunday
Education and Enrichment
Block Party!
150th Anniversary Festival
Community and Fellowship
Moravian Open Door
Music and Art
Opportunities to Serve
Sabbatical Pictures
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STEWARDSHIP COMMITMENT 2012-2013

A magnetic board in the Narthex gives you a sense of how far we are with meeting the 150th Anniversary Challenge. One side is DEEPLY ROOTED, the other is ALWAYS GROWING. Place a 150th Anniversary Cross under the Challenge you met.  To date, 61 people have committed $194,759.25 to the 2012-2013 Stewardship Fund, just under half way to the $420,000 goal.   

 

All Members and Contributors should have received a mailing regarding the 2012-2013 Stewardship Fund. Included in the mailing were a wonderful brochure about stewardship in our sesquicentennial year and your personalized 150th Anniversary Challenge.  We hope everyone will respond by September 17, either by using the envelope enclosed in the mailing or by following this link.

 

And, if you've always thought about setting up a recurring gift online, we've just made that very simple to do.  Here's a "How to..." Manual.

   

 

 

THIS SUNDAY
September 16, 2012
Holy Cross Day

Numbers 21:4b-9; Psalm 98:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:18-24; Saint John 3:13-17

 

Coffee and Fellowship are available all day beginning at 8:00 a.m.

 

Everyone is welcome to attend any or all of the following: 

 

8:45

Mass

Chapel

9:30

Forum led by Pastor Derr

Living Room

11:00

Mass

Sanctuary

12:30

Meals for All

Living Room

12:30

Book Discussion

Plaza Room

1:30

Misa en espa�ol

Chapel

2:30

Comida para todos

Living Room

4:00

Jazz for All

Living Room

5:00

Jazz Vespers - Ike Sturm Ensemble

Sanctuary

6:00

Meals for All

Living Room

  

EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT

  

September 16 at the 10:00 a.m. Forum

Pastor Derr continues presenting on the topic of:

"At the Intersection: Saint Peter's responds to community crises (1862-2012)"

Throughout our 150 years of history, Saint Peter's Church has responded to numerous city and national crises.   Throughout this anniversary  year, Pastor Derr will help us explore some of our historic responses as we consider our congregation's current and future ministries.  We'll discuss as many of these as possible in these first two weeks.

 

2012-2013 Wednesday Study begins on September 12, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Plaza Room immediately following the 6:00 mass.  A light supper is served.

 

This year's series  "Formation and Re-Formation:  The Holy Spirit and the People of God," is a study of biblical texts and historic Christian theological writing on the work of the Holy Spirit in creating and reforming faithful communities and some informed speculation about the possible shape and structure of Christian communities in the next fifty years.

 

Confirmation Instruction begins on Saturday, September 29 at 10:00 a.m.

 

BLOCK PARTY ON 54TH

Friday, September 21 beginning at 11:00 a.m.

 

Sponsored throughout the day for the Midtown community on 54th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues.

 

 

150TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23   

Saint Peter's Church is 150 this year! We begin the year-long celebration with a day-long festival on Sunday, September 23, 2012. 

 

11:00 a.m.     Festive Bi-Lingual Mass 

Bishop Robert A. Rimbo will preside and preach. 

1:00 p.m.      150th Anniversary Banquet

A catered meal will be shared in the Atrium. Free of charge.  

 

3:00 p.m.      Historical Hymn Sing

5:00 p.m.       Jazz Vespers
Bishop Robert A. Rimbo will preside and preach.

6:30 p.m.       Toast
A sparkling wine and sparkling water toast on the Plaza. 

There will be no 8:45 mass or 1:30 misa this day.
 
 

COMMUNITY AND FELLOWSHIP

 

Sunday, September 16 at 12:30 p.m.

Come to the Plaza Room to join in a discussion of the non-fiction book The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. 

 

Sunday, October 14 at 12:30 p.m.

The Fiction Book Group will meet on in the Plaza Room after brunch to discuss Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark.  Everyone is welcome!

 

Sunday, October 21, at 2:00 p.m.

Movie viewing and discussion in the Plaza Room:  Departures, winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

 
MORAVIAN OPEN DOOR

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Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Moravian Open Door on Sunday, September 30, beginning at 2:30 p.m. with a Service of Thanksgiving at First Moravian Church, 154 Lexington Ave. (at 30th St), followed by a reception from 4:00-5:30 in the Citigroup Atrium.  If you plan to attend, RSVP by September 1 at www.moravianhouse.org or call the Moravian Open Door office at 212-995-5810.

 

MUSIC AND ART

 

MUSIC

ART

 

 

Wedneday, September 12

1:00 p.m. - Midtown Jazz

Sandy Stewart & Bill Charlap

 

7:00 p.m. - Memorial

 for Joan Uttal Anderson


Thursday, September 13

12:30 p.m. - Jazz on the Plaza

Winard Harper & the Jeli Posse

 


Sunday, September 16

5:00 p.m. - Jazz Vespers

Ike Sturm Ensemble

  


Tuesday, September 18

8:00 p.m. - Classical Concert Series

Eric Siepkes, piano

 


Wednesday, September 19

1:00 p.m. - Midtown Jazz

Ralph Hamperian's Tuba D'Amore 

 


Sunday, September 23

5:00 p.m. - Jazz Vespers

Aaron Diehl Trio 

 

  

  

Jackie Weisberg

Showing in the Living Room Gallery

September 20 to November 5

Opening Reception:  September 20

 


   

Janie Millstein

Showing in the Narthex Gallery

September 22 to November 5

Opening Reception: September 28

 

 

 
OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

THE MOMENTUM PROJECT

The Momentum Project continues to serve all those with food security issues:  the disabled, the unemployed, the homeless, seniors, families with children, and those enduring serious illnesses.  Due to severe budget cuts, volunteers are needed for the lunch and dinner program on Tuesdays at Saint Peter's Church:

 

Mondays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for dinner.

Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for lunch.

Tuesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for dinner.

 

If you would like to help with the catering staff and make a difference in your community, please call the Momentum Volunteer Manager, Charles Vaccaro, at 212-691-8100 extension 2104.

   


 

 

SAINT PETER'S BREAKFAST PROGRAM 

On Tuesday 142 guests were served this past Tuesday.  To date, we've served 5,747 guests in 2012. 7,643 guests were served in 2011.

 

To volunteer, come to the front desk between 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday mornings.

 

PASTOR DERR'S SABBATICAL PICTURES

View 627 pictures of Pastor Derr's travels by clickling here.