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Thursday Reminder for February 19, 2015
An Online Ezine
Lent 2015


This is an experimental new format as we move to doing a lot more with the email Reminder and consider phasing out the digital "Courier newsletter". We will continue to snail-mail a shorter version to those who request. All other updates (such as monthly events and invitations), notices (such as the Schedule) and inspiration (First Take, Musings) will be here.
In This Reminder
This Weekend
Items for Consideration
Coming Up
Housekeeping
Our Mission
This Weekend













Saturday, February 21st: 
9:30 a.m. to noon
Workshop #2 Spirituality & Health... Note that all the workshops have moved out two weeks! The original information flyer (session content the same, schedule is different) can be found Here

First Sunday of Lent: February 22nd
Services:
8 a.m. H.E. Rite 1; Coffee Hour; 9:00 Choir Rehearsal; 9:15 Service with Dave and Nine6teen; 10:15 Family Eucharist, Coffee Hour with the White Team

Leaflet can be found...... Here
Announcements can be found... Here

Coffee Hour Team Schedule from February 1st to June 2015 can be found Here

Pastoral Emergencies... please call the office.. 860-928-7026 or Dave's Cell Phone, 860-608-7632. You can also call the office to place a person on our Prayer Chain. The current Prayer Chain List for Crisis Intercessions is found Here 

In the Church School:
It's Scout Sunday! Cub/Boy Scouts, Daisy/Brownie/Girl Scouts, and their Leaders are encouraged to wear uniforms to church, gather to process into church, and sit up front to be honored for your commitment and service to scouting! Also this Sunday, we begin our Heifer International unit. Children in grades 1-4 will have Art and Storytelling workshops downstairs immediately following the service. Godly Play will contemplate the parable of "The Mustard Seed". All Church School children will be given mite boxes to collect monetary gifts for Heifer, and an accompanying calendar to help the "count their blessings" throughout Lent, while learning more about what heifer does to help people and the environment. (Next Sunday, March 1st, Rev. Dave will be visiting with us for the first half hour)

Teen Program Notes:
Rite-13 & J2A meet on Sundays regularly

YAC meets as scheduled.

Corned Beef Dinner: March 7, 2015
Rummage Sale: May 2, 2015
Pilgrimage 2015, August 6-12th

Dee Dee Markes
Pomfret Healing Center & Spa
79 Mashamoquet Road
Pomfret Center, CT 06259
860.963.0846 860.617.7996
deedeespa@charter.net
 
Items for Consideration
The Labyrinth
 










First Take
This Sunday, Lent 1, there will be a homily at the 8 and 9:15 services but not at the 10:15 when the Grooms will be providing our "message" in the Adult Forum. The readings will be the Genesis passage about Noah, his family and God's Covenant with him (and all humankind for that matter), Psalm 25 and then Mark 1:9-15. 

The word "lent" is related to the word "slow" but Mark is the shortest and the "fastest" read of the 4 Gospels. This account of Jesus' baptism and more importantly his temptation includes few details. Perhaps we might imagine them? Out in the wilderness: empty, dry and filled with (from a human standpoint) useless scrub. Yet the stars shine with extraordinary light. You can see the luminous Milky Way and the constellations in ways we have forgotten. The ancients felt they could perceive both the past and the future in the heavens (remember the Magi in Matthew). There is a lot to consider out there.

A Poem by Merrill Ann Gonzalez (a parishioner)


Special Mission Outreach: 
There are three current possibilities: 
1) Having a one day/morning/evening "meal packaging" event for Stop Hunger Now (which could be repeated). Proposed by Nicole Nichols/Church School 
2) Doing a Habitat for Humanity weekend or week "locally" (something to drive to). Proposed by Kirsten Rigney  
3) Joining an 8 day trip with PID (Partners in Development) who work in Haiti, Guatemala & Mississippi. Proposed by Mitzi Davis

Please speak with the "proposers" or Dave on Sundays during Coffee Hour. Are you interested? Would you participate? Can you help?

Got Lenten Study? Living Islam with Krista Tippett.... is a 5-part series on what it means to be a practicing Muslim based on conversations with Krista (from her series "On Being"). Anyone interested in starting a group? Dave can download the series and we can invent a time to get together, maybe Sunday after church, Tuesday evenings, Saturday mornings? Or work on your own (but you'd have to pay for the download) Let us know via email. Here's a link to look at the materials: Click Here

Some Music
Shed a little light
Shed a little light


Coming Up











March in a nutshell:
Lent 2, Sunday, March 1st,
All services and programs (Bruce Phillips & Steve Adams, preaching; Dave with the Church School). Vestry Planning Meeting starting with lunch at noon in the Library

Thursday, March 5th... Spring Mid-week service begins again at 7:30 a.m. weather permitting! (Thursdays going forward)

Saturday, March 7th, Spirituality Workshop in the morning & the Corned Beef Dinner in the evening

Lent 3, Sunday, March 8th... 8 and 10:15 services

Lent 4, Sunday, March 15th.. the same

Saturday, March 21st, Spirituality Workshop

Lent 5, Sunday, March 22nd... 8 a.m. and 10:15 Services. Contemporary Service at 10:15, Hymns at 8

Palm Sunday, March 29th! and the start of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Saturday Eggstravaganza and Rectory Easter, Easter Sunday)

Link to the Readers/Acolyte Schedule includes 3/1

Link to the Google Calendar 
Housekeeping












Flowers
Sign Up Master List is posted to the left of the office door. You can sign up there, call the office (928-7026) or respond to this email to Make a Memorial or a Thanksgiving for a loved one ($30/Sunday). Easter Flower donation time is around the corner (no flowers on the altar in Lent, thanks).

Stewardship: Visions and Ventures
Your pledge remains the most important source of income for us to continue our ministries, by far. Thanks! See to the right, both pledge materials and a pledge card download.

How about Pledging and Donating by eCheck, Credit Card, etc.? And more, keeping track of your own donations in the same secure way? You now can with our direct on-line option:

(Note: when you wish to access the Christ Church easytithe donation site you will need to go through this button, here on the Reminder, or on the website. It will not work on the easytithe site directly. That log in is for account managers.)

Amazon Smile: Amazon.com will donate .5 percent of eligible purchases to Christ Church. Amazon pays these donations. You can still shop through your own account but Christ Church will benefit. Link is through smile.amazon.com Thanks! 

Vestry Notes
The Vestry planning meeting is now scheduled for March 1st after church. 

Buildings and Grounds
We're investigating the floor in the kitchen around the dishwasher which seems to have sustained a great deal of water damage. John Murphy is in the midst of the Library Door project. 

Spirituality & Health Workshops 
Saturday mornings: 9:30 to 11:30 am.
Feb. 21: How does your image of God affect your spirituality?
Mar. 7: Explore the connections among physical, mental, & spiritual health
Mar 21: Discover the benefits of having spiritual companions
Original Flyer is found: HERE

Shawl Ministry:
 Blessed shawls on the back table in church (fill out the log book). Shawls can be blessed by request. Contact the Rector (christchurchpomfret@gmail.com) Rebecca Patenaude is the Contact and Organizer for this ministry.

Sunday Donations for Access.. Suggested Sunday morning donations: canned vegetables, canned protein (chicken, tuna, ham, beans and etc.), pasta, deodorant and 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner. List? Click Here

Outreach....  Our next cooking for Community Kitchen will be on March 23rd and we will be going to the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee recommended and the Vestry approved the first of our 2015 Grants

 
Dave Carter
Christ Church Pomfret
(Box 21) 527 Pomfret Street 
Pomfret, Ct. 06258

Feel free to contact us: christchurchpomfret@gmail.com

 
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