St. Peter's Church Keys, October 17, 2010

Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group
Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group and Parmenter's Wayside Hospice present How Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Hospice program deal with the end of life and its effects on those we love. First Session today 7-9 p.m. at the Islamic Center of Boston, 126 Boston Post Road, Wayland. Second Session: October 24, 7-9 p.m. at First Parish Church, Weston. Outreach Committee meets this Sunday in the Bidwell Room after the 10 a.m. service. All are invited to join this important ministry.

Outreach Committee to Meet
The next meeting of the Outreach Committee will be held on Sunday, October 17th, after the 10am service. Stay tuned for the meeting location. Any questions, contackt Karen Montague. Thanks!

October 17th - Diaper Sunday
Please join us in support of Waltham's Christ Church "Diaper Ministry". Many people do not realize that government programs like WIC or food stamps do not cover diapers. Diapers can cost up to .50 cents each depending upon size and where purchased. The average newborn uses up to 8 per day. Many poor families do not have the transportation needed to get to big box stores and instead, rely on local drug stores with much higher prices. Diapers are required to be provided by parents for children attending day care centers. Without an adequate supply of diapers, a parent cannot go to work. If a family doesn't have clean diapers to provide for their children, a child could spend days at a time in the same dirty diaper. A CRYING BABY IS MORE LIKELY TO BE A VICTIM OF CHILD ABUSE.

Christ Church distributes 30 diapers per month to low income Waltham families. Not surprisingly, the demand for diapers has been steadily increasing over the past year since the inception of the program. You can help in the following ways:

·      Pick up a package (or two) of diapers next time you are at the store and bring to DIAPER SUNDAY on October 17th. They are especially in need of larger sizes (4,5,6). Coincidentally that is the Sunday that we have two very important baptisms to celebrate: Edmond Kirkham and Sam Bartlett. Consider it a baptismal gift on their behalf! This will be a kick off to an on-going diaper collection.
·      Volunteer to help package diapers the 1st Saturday of every month from 10:00 AM - 12 Noon at Christ Church in Waltham.
·      Participate in the Amazon diaper registry that benefits the Diaper Depot at Christ Church.

On behalf of the Outreach Committee, thank you! For more information please contact Karen Montague

MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH have an exciting event planned for Sunday, October 24 at common cathedral!

ecclesia

On Sunday, October 24 the young folks of our parish will offer their hospitality to the parishioners of common cathedral (http://www.ecclesia-ministries.org/common_cathedral.html) downtown by providing and serving lunch, and providing conversation and their holy presence, on Boston Common near Park Street. We will then worship together and join with common cathedral parishioners in Holy Communion, and reflect afterwards on the experience. common cathedral is run by Ecclesia Ministries and serves as an important community not only for people experiencing homelessness but also for suburban parishes who want to be involved with unhoused people. About one-fourth of Sunday worshippers are from housed congregations.

Our convoy will leave St Peter's at 11:30am and return by 3:30pm. Please let us know if you plan on joining us!!

We also welcome your prayers on that day and as we prepare for the outing, and we also invite you to help us gather badly needed program supplies for the common art and common cinema programs that Ecclesia Ministries offers men and woman who are struggling with homelessness:

Program Supplies Needed (list provided by Ecclesia Ministry):

· Gift certificates to Dick Blick Art Supplies (www.dickblick.com)Carolyn Ellis, Chair, St. Peter's Flower Guild

or Utrecht Art supplies (www.utrechtart.com)

· Acrylic Paints (all colors welcome)

· Canvas boards or stretched canvases (all sizes)

· Old paintings that we can paint over

· Sketch books

· Extra hot and cold cups for common art and common cinema
· Extra powdered drink mix for common art
· 2 L bottles of soda for common cinema
· Coffee for common art
· Sugar and sugar-substitute for common art
· White socks (warm weather) or warm wool socks (cold weather) for Street Ministry

· Costume jewelry and beaded Jewelry (that we take apart and make into new jewelry)

· Pencil sharpeners, masking tape, rulers, & other assorted art-making supplies (used OK)

· Model-making kits (kits for making miniature cars, planes, trains...)

We will have bins and boxes available in the Parish Hall downstairs starting this Sunday, and will continue to collect items until we leave on the 24th. Please consider donating what items you can, and call any of us if you have questions or offerings to help in other ways!

Peggy Batchelder (rdbatchelder@comcast.net), Joan Parrish (joanparrish@comcast.net), Margaret Randle (margaretrandle@gmail.com) and Pastor Kirkham (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org)

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

Music
Welcome Beverly Scheibert
We welcome Beverly Scheibert back to St. Peter's. She will be filling in for Andrew Shenton, our Music Director, who is an exchange professor in Amsterdam through December 12th