The Week Ahead:
Sunday, September 19
8:00a Holy Communion
8:30a Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00a Bible Study
9:00a Outreach Meeting
9:45a Church School
10:00a Holy Communion
11:15a Coffee Hour
11:15a Sermon Discussion
12 noon St. Peter's ROCKS Kayaking
Monday, September 20
8:00p AA
Tuesday,September 21
7:30p Vestry Meeting
Saturday, September 25
9:00a Samaritans Meeting
Sunday, September 26
8:00a Holy Communion
8:30a Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00a Bible Study
9:45a Church School
10:00a Holy Communion
11:15a Coffee Hour
2:00p El Hogar Walk/Bike-a-thon
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From the Rector's Desk...
CELEBRATION
As a new school year begins, I nearly always have an anxiety
dream. I am vested and ready to
process into church for the 10:00 AM service, and when I open to door to enter,
there is not a single person in the pews!
God being good, I've been spared ever having that experience
in real life. Once again this
year, I opened the door at St. Peter's and was greeted by parishioners young
and old. Some long-time members,
and some quite new to our parish community. Some visitors who happened to be visiting this Sunday and
whose impressions of who we are
will go with them when they return to their home. Each with a story, each with gifts, each with concerns and
cares, each with joys.
I am grateful for the privilege of serving as rector of this
remarkable parish community, and I feel a good spirit was at work among us at worship and
at the fellowship we enjoyed following the service. I am grateful for the strong lay leadership which is
striving to guide and engage us all to strengthen our parish life. I am grateful for each of you who
choose to bear witness to God's love as you live out your daily lives.
And I'm grateful that my anxiety dream is not the dream
which comes true!
-- Stephen
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St. Peter's ROCKS!
 Yes ROCKS can float, and will be rolling on the river this Sunday!
Join us, all of you St Peter's ROCKS, and bring a friend, as we caravan over to Charles River Canoe and Kayak (http://www.paddleboston.com/newton.php) for an early afternoon of rolling on the amazing Charles River!
Bring a brown bag lunch to the church by 11:30am, which we can eat here, then be ready to leave the church by 12 noon. We'll try to be on the river by 12:30 and off by 2:30 for a drop off back at the church at 3:00pm!
If you are interested in coming along, let me know how many to expect by Friday, and be sure to have the release form completed for yourself and any friends you might bring (you can download the release form HERE). Adults are welcome too!
Questions? More information....... contact Pastor Hall
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Worship
Join the Ushering Team!
We are looking for ushers and would love your help. This is a once a month (with training) commitment. Please consider this important ministry. If you are able to help, please be in touch with Scott Westvold (cell: 617-921-4876) Thanks!
Adult Bible Study
Adult
Bible Study meets each Sunday morning at 9 in the Bidwell Room. On
September 26, the clergy will lead a discussion of Luke 17:5-10.
Sermon Discussion Group meets today in the Bidwell Room following the 10 a.m. service.
 Audio Sermons - New! Online!
Click here to listen to sermons recorded over the past several Sundays.
Note: This will open a new webpage where the audio will play automatically.
Also, this Sermon Audio is also available on the Home Page of our website: www.stpetersweston.org.
 Prayer GroupThe Prayer Group meets in the Bidwell Room on Thursday afternoons at 4:00 pm and lasts about one hour. We read aloud the Order for Evening Prayer, Compline, or a Service for Worship in the Evening, and have 10-15 minutes of quiet reflection. Anyone who would like to join us is welcome. Call the Office for more information.
Prayers for and from the Community
Your clergy pray for members of the parish community, and all whose lives fall particularly on our hearts, each day and - in particular - at our noonday gatherings during the week. Please let either of us know if we can include you in our confidential prayers.
Stephen and Hall, 781 891 3200.
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Ministries
Outreach News
The Outreach Committee will meet this Sunday, September 19 at 9:00 AM in the Bidwell Room. New members are welcome to join us.
There are two ways you can help El Hogar, the residential school in Honduras, which St. Peter's has been involved with for 30 years:
- Walk/Bike for El Hogar on Sunday, September 26. The This year there is a 5K walk and a 30K bike route. Both start at Winchester Common at 2 PM. St. Peter's has a team registered. You may pledge or join our team to walk/bike. See Rosanne Iacono or visit the website www.elhogar.org
- Shop at Amazon.com! El Hogar has formed a partnership with Amazon.com. Enter Amazon's site from the link at www.elhogar.org El Hogar will automatically receive 4% of each shopper's purchase price. This is an easy way to make a donation - at no extra cost to you! Please forward this to anyone you know who may shop at Amazon.com
Any questions, please get in touch!
Rosanne Iocono
STEPHEN MINISTRY TRAININGHave you wanted or felt
called to help others in crisis or during particular life challenges? Perhaps you would be interested in becoming a
Stephen Minister. Stephen Ministry is a
caring ministry where lay caregivers (called Stephen Ministers) provide
one-to-one Christian care to the bereaved, hospitalized, terminally ill,
separated, divorced, unemployed, relocated, and others facing a crisis or life
challenge. Stephen Ministry helps
pastors and congregations provide quality caring ministry for as long as people
need it. St Anne's in-the-Fields in
Lincoln will host a half day workshop from 9am to 1pm this Saturday, September 18th
to receive hands-on caring ministry training, and to learn more about Stephen
Ministry and how we at St Peter's can become involved! For more information on
Stephen Ministry, visit their website at http://www.stephenministries.org/ or for
more information on the training opportunity contact either Pastor Voysey or
Pastor Kirkham.
Flower Guild
We
welcome anyone with an interest in the flowers that grace our weekly
worship and festival holidays, whether you are a skilled arranger or
beginner seeking training, or want to know about donating flowers for
worship. Contact me if you would like to learn more or visit the Flower Guild page of St. Peter's website.
"Flower Power: Making the Most of Flower Guild Ministry" On Saturday, September 25 at 11:30 AM, I will offer this workshop with Betsy
Madsen of Church of the Advent Flower Guild and our own Laura Keery at
the Congregational Resource Day offered by the Episcopal Diocese of
Massachusetts at Bently University in Waltham. Laura
will demonstrate how to make an arrangement for Sunday worship. Betsy
Madsen, who is president of Mass Horticultural Society, and I will talk
about the many ways that Flower Guild ministry serves the parish,
through fellowship and pastoral care, and goes beyond putting flowers
in a vase. Here is the link for more info and to register. Please join us!
Carolyn Ellis, Chair, St. Peter's Flower Guild
St. Peter's Newcomers Community
Join us and be a part of growing St. Peter's! The St. Peter's Newcomers Committee is looking for volunteers! Help us welcome new parishioners and inform them of all St. Peter's has to offer. Serve as a greeter at the 10 a.m. service on occasional Sundays. Please contact Kate MacDonald or Eileen Fava for more information on this very important ministry
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Parish Life
Flower Guild
We welcome anyone with an interest in the flowers that grace our weekly worship and festival holidays, whether you are a skilled arranger or beginner seeking training, or want to know about donating flowers for worship. Contact me if you would like to learn more or visit the Flower Guild page of St. Peter's website.
"Flower Power: Making the Most of Flower Guild Ministry"
On Saturday, September 25 at 11:30 AM, I will offer this workshop with Betsy Madsen of Church of the Advent Flower Guild and our own Laura Keery at the Congregational Resource Day offered by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts at Bently University in Waltham. Laura will demonstrate how to make an arrangement for Sunday worship. Betsy Madsen, who is president of Mass Horticultural Society, and I will talk about the many ways that Flower Guild ministry serves the parish, through fellowship and pastoral care, and goes beyond putting flowers in a vase. Here is the link for more info and to register. Please join us!
Carolyn Ellis, Chair, St. Peter's Flower Guild
Blessing of the Backpacks!!!!
This Sunday we will be doing our first (in a while, anyway) "Blessing of the Backpacks"! If your child has returned to school this fall, and wants to bring into her or his school year ahead the best that St Peter's community can offer from the pews, then have them bring their backpack - or whatever they carry to hold their books and papers for school! - to church on Sunday, September 19th!
We will bless all backpacks and book bags, and those who carry them, during the 10am service, as the Church School enters the service at announcements. Students all need to know that they enter the school year armed with the love and support of their congregation behind them, and that their growth as loving and compassionate human beings is a vital part of any student's life. Come along and be part of this great (and ancient) event!
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Who Does What At St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493 | www.stpetersweston.org | 781-891-3200
(Click on any name that is underlined to send an email.)
Rector: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Assistant Rector: Hall Kirkham (891-3200)
Parish Secretary: Mercer Riis, (891-3200)
Acolytes: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
50th Anniversary Committee: Tom and
Michelle King, Rip and Suzie Reeves
Church School: Teresa Swanson (891-3200)
Choirs: Adult Choir:Andrew Shenton, (891-3200); Junior Choir: Kristen Dirmeier
Coffee Hour: Lynn Maruskin (899- 6290)
Communications: Communications Team
Finance: Maria Kussmaul (899-8379)
Flowers: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Keys Newsletter: John Marchiony, Meg Pierce & Keith Ward
Lay Eucharistic Ministries: Bill Symonds
Men's Group: John Bulbrook, John Marchiony Rob Rodgers
Music: Andrew Shenton, (891-3200)
Newcomer: Kate Macdonald,Eileen Fava
Outreach: Rosanne Iacono
Lay Pastoral Care: Flora Booth (899 -2006) and Mary Pughe (894-5961)
Property: Mike Iacono
Stewardship: Tom King
Ushers: Ed Vydra (894-7131)
Web Site: John Bulbrook
Youth: Hall Kirkham
Members of the Vestry:
Marshall Bartlett, Senior Warden; Peggy Batchelder, Junior Warden, Maria Kussmaul, Treasurer; Anne Ruggles, Clerk; Members: Sarah Ardila, John Jacobs, Tom Keery, Tom King, Ann Lombard, Jim McDaniel and Chris Phaneuf |
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