Thank you for another tremendous Summer Fair!


 
July 22-ish, 2016 - Vol 9, Issue 30
In This Issue
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Sunday Ministry Assignments
Sunday Services
Rector's Reflections
Office Hours
Fair News
Summer Photos by Phil
Mind, Body and Tea Event
Seeking Lay Deputies
ASSTG Summer Break
The Lord's Prayer this Sunday
How to become a member
Volunteers Needed
Music Corner
Wolfeboro Reads
Life Ministries Fundraiser
Food Pantry
Weekly Activity Schedule
Birthdays & Anniversaries  
25 Derrie Saunders, Doris Munroe
26 Dianne and Phil Wasmuth
27 Ann Beckett
28 Kit Peterson, Jessica Wachsmuth
29 Susan Olson, Susan Adams
30 Robert Parker II
Sunday Ministry Assignments
Altar Guild
Linda Pacheco/Lorraine Holley/Hollie Smith
Ushers
Available
Lectors
8 am Jane Milligan
10 am Dot Hyde-Williams
Presenters
Georgia & Dick Mosher
Eucharistic Ministers
8 am Jay Wyman
10 am Cate McMahon/ Linda Pacheco
Greeters
Sarah Day
Flower Guild
Jacqueline & Elizabeth McLaughlin
Altar Flower Delivery
Sandy McBeth
Coffee
8 am Prue Fitts
10 am Joanne Crowe, Paul Dostie, Georgia Mosher
Links to Sunday Services
Quick Links
Join Our Mailing List!
Three cheers for Fair co-chairs Lynne Moughty and Charlie Kellogg!

Sunday Services
8 a.m. Holy Eucharist (spoken)
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist (w choir/hymns)
Sincere Apologies
The tardiness of this week's edition of the eNews is entirely my fault. Many thanks for the kind and gentle reminder on Saturday evening from a parishioner who was looking for information. Thank you, one and all, for your patience! My brain is due back from vacation any day now, I promise.

PV-G 
Rector's Reflections
Our Persistent, Negotiating Prayer Life
Sunday's readings incorporate several themes: negotiation, commands, persistence, and expectation. And surrounding all these themes is a bigger theme: boldness. Abraham is bold in speaking with God, so bold in fact that he not only negotiates with the Almighty, the Almighty willingly grants his request. Abraham had no fear in speaking in such a way to God, because he knew that God was listening and appreciating his concern. The disciples, too, speak with boldness. They don't ask Jesus to teach them how to pray, they tell him to teach them how to pray. Their imperative sets up a pattern of imperatives as Jesus teaches them the prayer that has been prayed unceasingly in the church catholic. These themes continue in boldness as persistence is encouraged, even to the extent of being able to ask, search, and knock, knowing that the Lord says we will receive what we ask for. And God wants to give to those who ask God. We are to ask in boldness, which comes from being "rooted and built up in [Christ]" (Col. 2:7). Strengthened by the Lord's Supper, we are filled with God's Spirit to speak boldly and to be persistent in our prayers, and to be ready to receive the things for which we ask. The question becomes, then, what is it we want and need? [Sundays & Seasons, 2016]

When we pray, there are millions of Christian people all around the world also praying. Prayer can be woven into everyday life with others or quietly by yourself, at any time or place. Prayer is living life in a relationship with God. While you may not hear all of the prayers lifted daily in churches, in their homes, cars, at work, you are not alone. There's no such thing as private prayer because when we pray we are caught up in something much bigger than ourselves. There's no "my" prayer because like The Lord's Prayer begins, "our". The hardest thing about prayer is beginning, so I invite you to just start.

Holding you in my prayers,
Bill+
Office Hours
Mon, Wed, Thur: 9 a,m. - Noon
Tue: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Fri: Closed
Summer Fair
The fair is not quite over. We are happy to announce that the Jewelry and Book items are still available but will close Sunday. There are still great values waiting for you. We will welcome comments on the good and not so good features of the fair so that we make it better in the future. By all measures, the fair was a great success. The weather was totally cooperative as were the crowds of people who seemed to truly enjoy the fair. This was all the result of a truly dedicated group of parishioners as well as some non members of the church.

The estimated net income of $ 17,500.00 augmented by additional $ 5,000.00 plus of non cash contributions makes the financial result of the fair very significant (for lack of a better word). Speaking for ourselves, a far greater success resulting from the fair was the positive spiritual and emotional effect experienced by so many persons who volunteered their time and resources. The cooperation, hard work, and respect of the volunteers for each other with a common purpose for good has had a truly emotional effect upon us. Although we all may have different views on issues facing us, it was heart warming to experience the unanimity of purpose in achieving our goal of producing this event. We are humbled by the thanks given to us for the work that everyone has contributed. Our far greater reward is the joy we feel in seeing people act as Christians with love.
 
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your chairpersons.

Charlie Kellogg & Lynne Moughty

The Jewelry Room
will be open in between services and after the 10:00 o'clock service. Please have small bills or pay by check. Thank you.
 
 
Phil's Summer Fair Pics 
Young shoppers in jewelry. 

Spending wisely at the fair! 

Pastor Bill and Linda Pacheco 


 
Harry Liedtke and Michelle Coffey work the toys and games booth.
Mind, Body and Tea Event to Highlight Human Trafficking 
The Rev. Becca Stevens of Thistle Farms in Nashville is back in New Hampshire. This special event, highlighting her unique and successful response to human trafficking and the exploitation and abuse of women (one of the Episcopal Church of NH's priority areas) will be held at the First United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31 at 4:30 pm, 129 Miller Avenue in Portsmouth. St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea, Rye Beach, is hosting the event. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Please register at www.standrews-by-the-sea.org.  
Seeking Lay Deputies to General Convention
Our Diocesan Nominations Committee is still accepting nominations for election as a Lay Deputy to General Convention. General Convention next takes place July 5-13, 2018, in Austin, TX. Deputies are elected by the Diocesan Delegates at this year's Annual Convention. Deputies' travel expenses to General Convention in 2018 are paid by the Diocese. Contact Tina Pickering at [email protected]  or (603)224-1914 ext. 111 with any questions. 
ASSTG Summer Break
All Saints Strength Training Group (ASSTG) will not meet for the remainder of the summer. The group will resume in September.
The Lord's Prayer this Sunday
Matthew's longer version of The Lord's Prayer has become the primary prayer of Christians. However, a personal application of its petitions has largely replaced the prayer's original eschatological (concerning the last, the final end and meaning of all things) intent. "Save us from the time of trial," from the 1988 English translation of the Lord's Prayer, is far truer to the original meaning than is the alternate idea that God leads us into temptation. Today we use the version from A New Zealand Prayer Book--He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, from The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. There is something powerful in expressing The Lord's Prayer in new language because it moves us to think more deeply about what we're reciting and the deeper meaning behind it all.
A Prayer for Electing Leaders
Give us, O God, leaders whose hearts are large enough to match the breadth of our own souls and give us souls strong enough to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.

In seeking a leader, let us seek more than development for ourselves-though development we hope for-more than security for our own land-though security we need-more than satisfaction for our wants-though many things we desire.

Give us the hearts to choose the leader who will work with other leaders to bring safety to the whole world.

Give us leaders who lead this nation to virtue without seeking to impose our kind of virtue on the virtue of others.

Give us a government that provides for the advancement of this country without taking resources from others to achieve it.

Give us insight enough ourselves to choose as leaders those who can tell strength from power, growth from greed, leadership from dominance, and real greatness from the trappings of grandiosity.

We trust you, Great God, to open our hearts to learn from those to whom you speak in different tongues and to respect the life and words of those to whom you entrusted the good of other parts of this globe.

We beg you, Great God, give us the vision as a people to know where global leadership truly lies, to pursue it diligently, to require it to protect human rights for everyone everywhere.

We ask these things, Great God, with minds open to your word and hearts that trust in your eternal care. Amen.

Sister Joan Chittister, OSB 
Volunteers Needed
Huggins Hospital Adult Day Program is in need of volunteers. Please contact Monika O'Clair, Sr. Director of Communication & Community Relations at 603-515-2088 or [email protected].
Music Corner
Thank you to Kit Peterson, who will be the guest organist for Sunday's 10AM service.
 
Please welcome our guest soloist Janet Patterson. Janet has always had a great love for singing ever since she was a young child. While growing up in Rochester, NY, Janet studied voice for four years at Nazareth Academy. After moving to New Hampshire, Janet sang with the Nashua Symphony chorus for several years. Now a resident of Sarasota, FL, Janet has continued to sing. She has sung with Florida Voices, an auditioned a capella chorus of sixteen voices. While singing in this chorus she had an opportunity to go on tour with them to Ireland and Scotland. She is a section leader and soloist for The Village Singers in Sarasota, Florida. Janet spends her summer at Merrymeeting Lake in New Durham, NH with her husband and visiting children and grandchildren. While here in the summer Janet has done solo work at Mirror Lake Community Church in Tuftonboro, First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro and the Christian Science Church in Laconia.
Wolfeboro Reads
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Starting on Tuesday, September 13th, join Pastor Gina and Pastor Bill for discussion and sharing around a common read. We will meet each week (with some exceptions), from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in the Gathering Space at FCCW, 115 S. Main Street. We will spend a few weeks on each book that we read. To start, we have a chosen an award-winning book, also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by a journalist for the The Atlantic. It is written in memoir style, as letters to his teen-aged son, reflecting on the issues of race in America. All are welcome! 
Life Ministries Food Pantry Summer Fundraiser
L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry is having a fundraiser for families in need in the Wolfeboro area on July 29, 30, and 31, 2016. From July 25 to 31 there will be donation containers in various stores in the Wolfeboro area. A 50/50 raffle will be held July 29 to 31 with raffle tickets being sold outside Harvest Market and Hunter's Save and Shop by food pantry volunteers. On Sunday, July 31, 2016, a musical variety concert will be held at First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro, 256 S. Main Street at 7pm. Tickets for the concert are $20 at the door. Several local and regional musicians will be performing including Natalie Hebden, Mark Dearborn, First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro Hand Bell Choir, and others.
 
Seven area churches will have special offerings for the Food Pantry taken at services on Sunday, July 31, 2016. These churches include All Saints Episcopal, First Baptist, First Christian, First Congregational, Melvin Village Community, Saint Katherine Drexel and Tuftonboro Methodist.
 
All of the money raised for the families in need will be used to purchase food from local groceries and the New Hampshire Food Bank. In the first five months of 2016 the L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry has distributed 56, 216 meals to families in need. In 2015 the Food Pantry served over 14,000 individuals with much needed food. The people served by the Food Pantry are from Wolfeboro, Tuftonboro, Ossipee, Melvin Village, Alton, Wakefield, Effingham, Chocorua, Farmington, Gilford, Middleton, Moultonborough, New Durham, Rochester, Sanbornville, Tamworth, Center Ossipee, West Ossipee, and Milton.
Life Ministries
 
We welcome any and all donations of non-perishable items. July item is spaghetti sauce. Please place donations in the basket in the narthex. Thank you for all donations!
Activity Schedule for the Week
Calendar FOR THE WEEK OF July 24
 
 
Lord & Tailor Shop
Thurs & Fri 10a-4p ~ Sat 10a-1p
 
Food Pantry
Wed 10a-1p ~ 5p-7p
 
Sunday
2:00 p.m. AA Meeting - Parish Hall
6:00 p.m. AA Meeting - Parish Hall
 
Monday
8:00 a.m. Vestry-Library
1:00 p.m. Adult Bridge - Library
                               
Tuesday
6:30 a.m. Women's Worship -(Sanc)
1:30 p.m. Scrabble Club - Library
                               
Wednesday
1:30 p.m. Knitting Club -Library
                               
Thursday
7:30 a.m. Men's Bible Study
3:00 p.m. Bible Study - Library
7:00 p.m. TRACS- Library
 
Friday
8:00 p.m. AA Meeting - Parish Hall
 
Saturday
10:00 a.m. AA Meeting - Library
8:00 p.m. AA Meeting - Parish Hall
   
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