Does anyone have storage space that the church could use, barn, garage or  anything else? If so, please speak to Ted or call the church office. Thank you.

Sunday March 17th will be a special day at All Saints parish...and not just for the Irish. On that day we will be joined at the 10:00 am service by Sayon Camara, an African drummer. Sayon, who is from Guinea, is an extremely talented djembefola with an intimate knowledge of the music for all the drums of the Malinke culture. He has led a number of drumming workshops in our undercroft. 

Sayon and some of his students will offer the music for the prelude and postludes, four pieces during the service, and will accompany some of the hymns.  They will also lead a workshop on African drumming open to the entire Wolfeboro community from 12:30 to 4:00 pm.  The day will be capped off by a concert that evening from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in our sanctuary where Sayon will be joined by many of his students and compatriots.  

Please mark your calendars, get the word out to your friends and neighbors.  Plan to join us.  For further information see:  http://sayoncamaradrumming.com/  

The Thursday 10am service of Holy Eucharist has been moved to the Children's Chapel to save on energy costs and for a more intimate setting appropriate to the few that gather. More importantly, our hope is to determine what form of worship might more adequately serve God and the people in our community. We often hear that people are concerned about the "disease", lack of wellness, brokenness of our culture and political system. We know that there are many dealing with loss, physical illness and relationships that are not working as they might. All these situations need healing and the Episcopal Church has a service which, in numerous ways, including prayer, readings, oils for healing and the laying on of hands opens us and those we pray for to the Holy Spirit's work of healing. If these concerns are part of your life, please join us for our exploration and prayer for healing.

The lessons read at this service are from the Episcopal Church's new book entitled, Holy Women, Holy Men. Readings are suggested along with the biographies of women and men whose lives point to how the brokenness, disease of this world might be healed. 

Please join us.

New Committees - opportunities to ministry and learn together

It is often said that "people do not join a church just to be on another committee". True enough.  On the other hand, many parish members want to serve God and God's children and this often takes the gifts, minds, hearts and good will of more than one person. 

The interim rector and vestry have been working on forming a number of committees so that more parishioners can be involved in doing ministry, serving our community and sharing leadership. At the annual meeting, we voted to amend our by-laws to specify who might serve annually on the committee to nominate vestry members and officers, representatives to Diocesan councils and how this committee might best go about their work.

The vestry passed a resolution calling for the formation of a worship committee to advise the rector on matters related to worship. That resolution is printed below. Those who serve will include representatives of those already involved in the leadership of worship like the Lay Eucharistic Ministers, altar guild and choir. Membership will also include others who feel called to and wish to contribute in this way. Please read the committee's charge and let us know if you wish to serve.

We are also working on a similar description of a buildings and grounds committee - this is too large a responsibility for one person, the junior warden.  We will be forming a group to both reach out to newcomers and nurture the lives of those already members of our parish. We have many forms by which we communicate to parishioners, printed and electronic ones. This important ministry needs re-thinking as we search for a new editor to the Visitor and aim to be as effective as we can be in communicating our message and inviting members to be involved in ministry and service. This parish is involved in extensive and multiple efforts to serve our community and address national and global concerns. If you are interested in coordinating, building and strengthen this work, let us know you wish to be part of an outreach committee. We obviously need a group to assist in the search for a new organist/minister of music.

We will keep you informed as this process unfolds. please let us know how you wish to serve.

Evening Prayer Weekday Evenings in Lent 

Daily thru March 22nd, 5:15 p.m.

Evening Prayer was one of the new services designed and published in the first Anglican Prayer Book. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1546) took ancient monastic services and combined them to form Morning and Evening Prayer services. Each parish church received a bible and the clergy were required to lead these services in a language the people could understand reading through the whole of the Old and New Testament each year. It is a service of the Word, the biblical Word, giving the people a chance to hear, be inspired, led, understand the bible for themselves without Church directed interpretation.

Lenten Suppers and Study

Monday evenings during Lent at 6:00 p.m.(soup and sandwich)

6:30 p.m. (study) beginning Monday February 25th, undercroft. 

The themes of Lent: prayer, penitence, fasting and the giving of alms are, to some large degree, foreign to our culture so many Episcopal parishes set time aside during Lent for the exploration and experiencing of them. A "lite supper" - soup and bread, cheese and fruit are ways of experiencing fasting. Study and discussion gives us a chance to explore these themes so unfamiliar to contemporary parlance. The Rev Rob Hirschfeld, our new Bishop, has asked those preparing for the annual retreat of the Commission on Ministry to read, The Mystic Way of Evangelism. Though most Episcopalians are into neither mysticism nor evangelism, this is an excellent book and the subjects are very important to our new Bishop who will be visiting and leading our parish for worship on Palm Sunday, March 24th, 2013. The book also lays out one way Episcopal parishes, members and leaders can go about discovering a new and powerful way to be Church in the future. Since none of us know the future into which we are moving but do know that there is a keen interest in spirituality, meditation and service on the part of many who are not yet members of our parishes, we thought that studying this book would be a good way to prepare for the Bishop's visit, get to know something about core issues to him and traditional Lenten themes, we hope you will join us for these discussions. Presentations summarizing the book will make it easier for those not able to read it to be part of our explorations. Please volunteer to make a pot of soup for one of the suppers if you can. All are asked to bring bread or cheese or fruit to share which makes it easier for those coming straight from work to participate. If you prefer to have a sandwich - the All Saints' tradition, bring one.

Thank you for remembering Life Ministries Food Pantry. We welcome donations of non-perishable items. Please place them in the basket in the narthex. Other items needed are supplies for babies and mothers (diapers size 3-5, wipes, toothbrushes/paste, personal hygiene items, shampoo and clothing for children).

Sunday

2:00 p.m. AA Meeting

6:00 p.m. AA Meeting

Monday

10:00 a.m. Friends of Music

6:00 p.m. Soup/Sandwich/Study

7:00 p.m. Photo Club

Mon.- Fri.

9-12 Preschool

5:15 p.m. Evening Prayer

Mon/Wed/Fri

10-2 Wolfeboro Senior Meals & Activities

Mon. & Thurs.

4:00 p.m. All Saints Strength Training Group

Tues. & Fri.

7:45 a.m. Step Aerobics

Tuesday

ALL DAY - ECW Bake Sale

6:30 a.m. Women's Worship

10:00 a.m. Meditation Class-Library

1:30 p.m. Scrabble Club

5:00 p.m. Weight Watchers

Wednesday

10:00 a.m. ECW Meeting - Library

1:00 p.m. Knitting Club

6:00 p.m. Table Tennis

7:00 p.m. Meditation Class - Library

Thursday

7:30 a.m. Men's Bible Study

10-3 Lord & Tailor

10-3 Lord & Tailor

4:30 p.m. Search Committee-Library

5:00 p.m. Dinner Bell

7:00 p.m. Dist 16 AA Mtg.

Fri. & Sat.

8:00 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous

Saturday

10-1:00 Lord & Tailor Shop

10:00 a.m. AA Meeting

8:00 p.m AA Meeting