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Holy Week-Easter Reminder 2015
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Easter 2015


Greetings from your church! 
In This Reminder
This Week
Items for Consideration
Coming Up
Housekeeping
Extras!
This Week


Maundy Thursday, April 2nd
Healing Eucharist and the Stripping of the Altar at 7:30 a.m. in the Church. Followed by Breakfast at the Bean.

Special Potluck dinner at the Carter's starting at 6 p.m. (Carter's are doing a big soup) which will include a Eucharistic meal, a reading, some Taize' chant, in the manner of Jesus' last night with his disciples. All ages are invited. We have a fun attic space for any young people who need to stretch their legs. (6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.)

Good Friday, April 3rd
Walking the Chartres Labyrinth all day in the Great Hall with soft meditational music. There will be materials available to do the Stations of the Cross OR your own reflections. Or just come and walk to the center and out again, allowing the experience it's own reality. The Labyrinth fills the whole space and is a beautiful work of art (painted by the Rev. John Burton of St. Paul's, Windham. Thanks to him it is available for us).

Good Friday Liturgy and Reflection at 7 p.m. in the choir stalls of the church. Dennis will be there to lead us in appropriate hymns. The building will also be open before and after for private reflection.

Holy Saturday, April 4th
Eggstravaganza and the Passion Narrative
for young people at 10 a.m. Come for fun! Hat and boat making, Easter Bonnet parade, cookie and muffin decorating, projects and stations, egg-hunt. A time for the story with Christine Carter.

Rectory School Easter Service at 3:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 5th, 2015
8 a.m. H.E. Rite 1
9:00 Choir Rehearsal 
10:15 Festival Eucharist with the Choir
Nursery-2nd Grade Care in the Classroom area 

Announcements can be found Here
Leaflet can be found Here

The April Courier can be found Here
May Courier deadline is April 20th 

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. 


In the Church School:

No Church School Easter Sunday.... all are encouraged to participate in the Easter Services. Rev. Dave will be wearing his special Easter Hat (now with all it's heifer feathers!). Carrie will be downstairs for nursery and younger children care K-2. All the children will come upstairs for communion at a Children's Entrance Song.


 

Thanks for everyone's support at last Sunday's Heifer Living Market during coffee hour! We are still collecting Bottles and Cans for Heifer. They can also be left in the Rectory Garage (left hand bay) or the collection box located in Great Hall.

 

Here are our needs for the April 4th Easter Eggstravaganza which relies on parent support (Flyer can be found Here) and here is the information for the Heifer Overlook Farm Fieldtrip (May 24). Thanks.

Photos from the Communion Class last Saturday featuring our "graduates" Luke Landis, Owen Rigney, Jack Archambault & Becca Hague:




Christ Church School Co-directors, Amy Landis & Nicole Nichols
 
Teen Program Notes:

We will have our last Rite 13 Ceremony for the season on Sunday April 12. The rehearsal will be on Saturday April 11 at 5 pm. Celebrants are Natalie Paul, Paloma Flath, Yvie Bessette, Meg Ritzau, Tristan Monahan, Melissa Wishart, Blake Zahansky & Charlotte Nichols

We are having our 30 Famine starting Friday April 24th. The kids will spend the night at church that night and we will end our fast around 6 pm, Saturday April 25th with 

dinner at church.  This is a fundraiser for World Vision, and we are asking each participate to ask at least 5 sponsors, to donate.

Looking ahead, on May 31st, the Rite 13 will run the service at church, so please have your children come as often as they can between now and then.

 

To all J2A parents, you should be paid in full at this time and your child's release form should be turned in to me or the church office, for our Pilgrimage.

One last fundraiser, our biggest, 10th Annual Rummage sale, May 2nd, all hands on board! 

We will start taking Rummage sale items on Sunday April 19th for smaller items, and Sunday April 26 for larger items.


 

Rite-13 & J2A meet on Sundays regularly (though not on Easter Sunday)

YAC meets as scheduled.

Pilgrimage 2015, August 6-12th: The Leaders continue to receive updates from our trip providers, Wonder Voyage. It's shaping up to be a fabulous event!

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

 








First Take
Easter Sunday, there will be homilies at both the 8 and the 10:15 services.

The readings are Isaiah 25:6-9 (in which the prophet promises a "salvation" that includes the "end" of death for all peoples not just Israelites), 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (in which Paul summarizes the Good News as he experienced and shares it) and our Gospel is Mark's narrative of the Resurrection.
The full text of the readings can be found Here at the Lectionary Website.

There is more than one conclusion to Mark's Gospel. Many of the ancient manuscripts have the somewhat puzzling, truncated version of the Resurrection which ends with the angel sitting on the empty tomb talking to the women who grow silent and awe-struck, so silent that they tell "no one" of what has happened. This will be the one we use on Sunday. I tend to believe that there was a reason for this. Perhaps Mark assumes we know the rest of the story because we are already living it! Dave

Poems by Merrill Ann Gonzalez

Special Mission Outreach 
Watch here for updates!

It's that time again: Relay for Life (Woodstock)
The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at the Woodstock Fairgrounds is 11am on 5/16 to 11am on 5/17.
Registration is free but if participants raise $100 in donations by 4/5  they will get a t-shirt. 
Here is the link to Register. Our team name is
Christ Church Family and Friends. 
Contact Ginger Lusa with questions: gingerlusa@gmail.com or 860-428-5351.
 
Do you want to go deeper in your spiritual life? One way is to work with a trained/ or in-training Spiritual Director. There are a number locally (Northeast CT). Respond to Dave via this email and we can start a conversation and possible match up".
Coming Up









April:

See Holy Week above!

April 5, Easter Sunday, 8 a.m. and 10:15 Services (no Church School or Teen Program... Childcare for younger kids downstairs)

Wednesday, April 8th, 7 p.m. Vestry Meeting

Thursday, April 9th, 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist

Saturday, April 11th, 5 p.m. Rite-13 Rehearsal

Sunday, April 12th, 8 a.m.(Hymns with Dennis and Jim), 9:15 Rectory Sunday Chapel and 10:15 Service, Rite-13 Ceremony and Contemporary Music

Sunday, April 19th, 
8, 9:15 and 10:15 Services

Wednesday, April 22-27,
Dave away at a CREDO Conference in North Carolina

Sunday, April 26, All Services, the Rev. Jim Kellaway, guest preacher and celebrant. Start bringing in the Rummage Sale items.

Saturday, May 2, Rummage Sale starts early!

Link to the Readers/Acolyte Schedule

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). We are in the Easter Season: Flower donations are welcome. There are always applications for flowers in the back of the church ($30).

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. Right now our Pledged Income is $190,000. Thank you!

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(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 Here Thanks! 

Vestry Notes
Next Vestry meeting is April 9th! 

Buildings and Grounds
Our current plan is to repair the floor in the kitchen around the dishwasher over the summer as a volunteer initiative (Rich DiBonaventura). 

Spirituality & Health Workshops 
There is a conversation going on with the Rev. Oscar Brockmeyer and several of the participants to provide an on-going forum for spirituality and health with small group work, possibly at the church. More to come in mid-April.
Original Flyer is found: 

Shawl Ministry:
 Blessed shawls on the back table in church (fill out the log book). We have had a number of folks respond with thanks after receiving one of the shawls. Rebecca Patenaude, Coordinator
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....  Next cooking for Community Kitchen on April 27th at the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee will be meeting soon to look at the next of our 2015 Grants. Craig Tiffany is the new Vestry Liaison for CSO.
Extras!
Some Youtube Videos/Music: The first is another video from the ecumenical protestant community at Taize' in France (we'll be doing Taize chants at our MThurs. Table Eucharist). The second is a John Rutter, profound and beautiful.

The Lord Is My Light
The Lord Is My Light


The Lord Is My Shepherd - John Rutter
The Lord Is My Shepherd - John Rutter
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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