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Sunday, December 7
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Holy Communion
10:45 A Church School
11:15 A Coffee Hour
11:30 A Junior Choir Rehearsal
11:30 A Outreach Committee Meeting
5:30 P St. Peter's Rocks! Weston
Monday , December 8
7:30 P Communications Comm.
8:00 P AA
Tuesday, December 9
11:00 A Staff Meeting
7:30 P Vestry Meeting
Thursday, December 11
9-3 Diocesan Meeting
7:30 P Adult Choir Rehearsal
Saturday, December 13
9-12:30 Advent Quiet Day
Sunday, December 14
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Holy Communion
10:45 A Church School
11:15 A Coffee Hour
11:30 A Junior Choir Rehearsal
2:00 P Youth to Black Nativity
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Nominations:
In keeping with the theme of the upcoming week, it is almost "election" time at St. Peter's. While we do not elect our parish leadership like this week's event, the parish does vote for a single slate of leadership to begin after our Annual Meeting in late January. The Nominating Committee will soon begin considering future leadership. Years ago, I was asked to volunteer for a minor task for St. Peter's. Over extended and too busy was my response. The leader that called thanked me graciously and empathized with being overextended, and then asked, and I quote," but it's time for you to step up to the plate for the parish." Is it time for you to step up to the "St. Peter's plate"? Can you offer your time to serve on the vestry or become a committee co- chair?
Speaking for myself, I have received far more than I have given to our parish over the years. I hope everyone will prayerfully consider this possibility, and then contact your wardens or any member of the Nominations Committee with the good news of your contribution to the future of St. Peter's.
Janice Corley and Marshall Bartlett- Wardens for St. Peter's
Nominations Committee:
Ned Rossiter
Marion Packs
Marshall Bartlett
Janice Corley
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 From the Rector's Desk:GIFTSHe's not one of the "red letter" saints, and what we know about him is almost certainly a mixture of fact and legend. He was a bishop sometime in the 5th century, serving in Myra, an ancient city located in what is now southern Turkey. Myra was a seaport town and had been visited by St. Paul on one of his journeys. As with any seaport, sailors came and went without ever having any real stake in the community. As the story goes, the good bishop tried to minister to these journeying folks by offering services of prayer for their safety on the sea and by giving them things they might need for the journey.His name was Nicholas, and as stories of his gift-giving kindness continued long after his death, he was honored in other countries and his name was pronounced in various ways. Centuries later, in Holland, it sounded something like "Santa Klaus." The rest of the story? Well, you know that part very well indeed!
As we come to December 6th, the day the church calendar remembers Nicholas of Myra, let us be thankful for all the gifts which God gives us each and every hour of each and every day - seen and unseen, as the Creed puts it. And let us reflect on how we can become "gifts" for others by the decisions we make in our journey of life, as Nicholas did in his. The boat in which we travel includes us all.
-- Stephen
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Announcements
Please welcome Sunday's preacher the Rev. Kathy McAdams, Executive Director of Ecclesia Ministries. She served for five years at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto and was a member of the Board of Directors of Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. After graduation from seminary, she served as Interim Director of Homeless Ministry at Old First Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. As a seminarian, she founded the Task Force on Homelessness at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. Kathy entered seminary with a background in Not-for-profit Administration and Elementary Education, and came to Ecclesia in 2006.
Adult Bible Study meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room. On December 14, the Rector will lead a conversation on Luke 1:26-38.
ATTENTON ST PETERS ROCKS! We are having a GATHERING on Sunday afternoon, December 7th, from 5:30 to 7:30 to continue our conversations with Nancy DiGiovanni! We hope you can make it, as we also plan to distribute our ROCKS to each of you and to bless them as we head into the New Year and the start of our projects! Hall
Outreach Committee Meeting Sunday, 12/7, following the 10 a.m. service. All are invited to participate in this important ministry!
Vestry Meeting on Tuesday, 12/9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bidwell Room. Meetings are open to all members of St. Peter's Church.
Christmas Music - Music envelopes are available in the Pews if you wish to make a memorial donation toward special Christmas music. Please fill out the envelope and put it in the offering plate, or send it to the church office NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 16.
ADULT CHOIR REHEARSALS are
every Thursday 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. in the third floor music room and new
members are most welcome. For questions, please see Beverly Scheibert
after the service or call her at 617-739-1751
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FLOWER GUILD - Christmas Flowers
Flower Envelopes are in the Pews!
 For our three worship services on Christmas Eve, the church will be decorated with beautiful flowers and greens.
If you would like to make a memorial donation for Christmas flowers, please send your check (payable to St. Peter's Church with "Christmas flowers" noted in the memo line) with the names of those you would like to remember, and your name as you would like it printed in the bulletin, to the Parish Office NO LATER than December 16. Questions? Mercer Riis in the Parish Office 781 891-3200 or Carolyn Ellis 781-899-5880. Thank you for your gift.
If you would like to join the Flower Guild team to decorate the church on December 24, 9-11 AM, contact Carolyn Ellis.
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Middle Schoolers
of St Peters Church!!
Black
Nativity, 3:30pm Sunday,
December 14th,
the holiday musical by Langston
Hughes... Presented by the National Center of Afro-American Artists.
 Based on the Gospel
of St. Luke, combined with the poetry of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston
Hughes, Black Nativity is a celebration that tells the original story
of the Nativity in scripture, verse, music and dance.
A joyous company of
160 singers, actors, dancers and musicians delivers its powerful message
of joy, hope, victory and liberation.
Boston's production is the longest running performance of this song-play
in the world. The December 1st opening marks its 39th consecutive season
of 12 exhilarating performances.
This season's performances are dedicated to the memory of John Andrew
Ross (1940-2006) for his 36 years of service as Musical Director of
Black Nativity.
"If you've
never seen the gospel-infused 'Black Nativity,' clear your calendar
for a performance...The chorus has children as young as five performing
alongside parents and grandparents, and many of the singers debuted
in the production decades earlier as infants in the role of baby Jesus."
Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company
We will
gather at St Peter's at 2:00pm, drive downtown to catch the 3:30pm
show, and then have time for discussion and dinner. Our hope
is to have folks ready for pick-up at the Parish Hall by 8:00pm afterward.
Questions?
Contact
The Reverend
Hall Kirkham (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org)
Beth Graham,
Church School Director (elizabethlgraham@gmail.com)
Margaret Randle
(bestillmlr@comcast.net)
Peggy Batchelder
(rdbatchelder@comcast.net)
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Ground of Your Own Choosing: Winning Strategies for Finding & Creating Work
 SAVE the DATE! January 31, 2009
A Workshop with Beverly Ryle, author of an acclaimed new book based on her more than 25 years of experience as a leading career counselor and coach.
January 31, 2009, Saturday, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM, St. Peter's Parish Hall.
This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone who is rethinking their plans because of a job loss, or sharp drop in the value of their investments. Open to the parish and the community. Mark your calendars and invite your friends.
For info or to reserve your place, contact the Parish Office 781-891-3200; Bill Symonds, 781-899-7697; or Carolyn Ellis, 781-899-5880
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Outreach
Volunteers needed for tutoring. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in the Boston South End runs a highly successful after school program for inner city children of all ages. One of the programs, called Academic Nights, helps tutor teens in various subjects (biology, math, pre-calculus, Spanish, English, history, physics, statistics) and needs additional tutors. Academic nights meets Wednesdays, 6:00 - 7:30 PM. If you would like to help, or want more information, contact Ron Corley. You will enjoy doing this!
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Musical Notes ~
For the second Sunday in Advent, the choir will sing Claude Goudimel's setting (1565) of Psalm 42 - "Comfort, comfort ye my people" - and a contemporary setting by Boris Ord of an anonymous 15th century text:
Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond; Four thousand winter thought he not too long.
And all was for an apple, An apple that he took, As clerkes finden written in their book.
Ne had the apple taken been, the apple taken been, Ne had never our lady A been heavné queen.
Blessed be the time that apple taken was, Therefore we moun singen, Deo gracias!
During communion, Jonathan Cole will sing the bass aria "Quia fecit mihi magna" from the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach. This text from Mary is translated as follows: "For he that is mighty hath magnified me, and holy is his Name."
The prelude will be Bach's moving setting of the chorale "Savior of the nations, come!" (BWV 659) and the postlude, Samuel Sebastian Wesley's "Choral Song." Wesley (1810-1876) has been called "possibly the greatest [English] church musician between Purcell and Stanford."
Looking ahead to Christmas Eve at 10:00 pm, the choir, together with the Copley Chamber Players, and soloists Meredeth Kelly, Catherine Hedberg, and Jonathan Cole, will present portions of Handel's Messiah. Music during the service will include works by Charpentier, Holst, and Berlioz.
Beverly Scheibert
Interim Music Director
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