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Thursday Reminder May 7, 2015
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Easter 2015


Greetings from your church! We have three special "events" this Sunday. We're hoping you can come out to support Liliana Moran in her baptism AND welcome Bishop Ian Douglas, the Bishop of Connecticut. Bishop Douglas will join us at the Mother's Day Breakfast starting at 9 a.m., lead the baptism service and meet with the Vestry in the Library at about 11:30.
In This Reminder
This Week
Items for Consideration
Coming Up
Your Stewardship
Housekeeping
Extras!
This Week



 

Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 10th, 2015
8 a.m. H.E. Rite 1
9:00 Choir Rehearsal
9:00 Mother's Day Breakfast; Bishop Ian Douglas begins his visit
No Rectory School Chapel
10:15 Family Eucharist & Baptism (Lilliana Erin Moran); No Coffee Hour; Church School and Teen Programs as scheduled. 
11:30 a.m. Vestry Meeting with the Bishop

Leaflet can be found here
Announcements can be found here

May Courier 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. 


In the Church School:

This week, our Holy High Five goes out to Jack Archambault!  He ended up being the "solo student" in his workshop last weekend, but that didn't cause him to lose heart... even though he missed his buddies.  Way to go, Jack!


 

Regular workshops (Lego and Storytelling) continue this Sunday after the Mother's Day Breakfast.  Godly Play explores "The Good Shepherd and World Communion".  As Youth Sunday approaches, we will use chapel time to practice music for that service.  Please support our efforts by having your grade-schooler join us as often as possible this month.


 

If you and your child are attending the Heifer Field Trip and have not signed your permission slips and waivers, please see us at breakfast or immediately after church this week. We also have information if you are interested in chaperoning.   There is space available for a few pre-K through grade 6 children, at no cost to you!


 

here is the flyer for the Heifer Fieldtrip (May 24). Thanks.


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



Rite-13ers: 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. (This is also the final Contemporary Service for the season)

 

J2Aers: One last fundraiser, 10th Annual Rummage sale, was last Saturday... we made about $3300! On to San Francisco!


 

YACers: Active Graduating Seniors: It's that time for making an application for the Von Conta-Koerner Scholarship. DEADLINE: May 24th!

Remember that applying for a scholarship includes a commitment to address the church by giving a Credo Statement on a Sunday in June. App can be found here


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
Sixth Sunday of Easter, there will be a homily at the 8 service by Dave & Bishop Ian Douglas will preach at the 10:15.

The readings are Acts of the Apostles 10:44-48 (Peter's experience of the holy spirit at a baptism), Psalm 98, I John 5:1-6 (We are children of God) and our Gospel is John 15:9-17 (becoming God's friends)
The full text of the readings can be found here at the Lectionary Website.

This passage is one of my favorites in John as Jesus tells the disciples that they are not simply servants but friends of God. The "servant" is not brought "into" the counsels of the "master" but a "friend" is. We are "brought into" the counsels of God, everyday. It's at the heart of our prayer lives. Dave

Adult Forum Experiments!
Thanks so much to the Busse's for sharing their "pilgrimage" experience to Peru. John Busse also said that one of the key reasons he takes these trips is to go to the "thin places" of the world where we are closer to what may lie beyond.
Do we want more conversation on the readings, or on current national or international issues and how they relate to who were are as Christians, or local issues? Guest speakers? Anyone interested in helping? :>) 4-5 sessions next year starting in September or October.

Special Mission Outreach
Mitzi Davis has reserved 8 spots in a PID trip to Guatemala leaving on January 2nd or 3rd of 2016. There are two folks already signed up, Mitzi herself and Hannah Flath. It costs about $1300 (includes airfare from Boston, accommodations, food, etc.). We're thinking of $600 a person subsidy from the church from the Special Mission. Can you do $700? Are you available? This is a medical and building project mission trip. (Rev. Dave is planning to go as well).  Here is the website! Here is a PDF about the base price before airfare and some general instructions. You will need inoculations for Guatemala as well. Check site. Our trip is not yet posted. We will update you.

Spirituality Workshop Experiments.... 
The Rev. Oscar Brockmeyer has begun offering Group Spiritual Direction as well as One on One work to anyone in the community within and beyond the church. Once a month he will also do a Saturday morning presentation with plenty of time for sharing.  Here is an overview. Looks exciting. Next one May 16th. He is also starting a Tuesday evening group.

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.

Vine and Branches "Directory" Project
The fifth grade wants to put up a wonderful vine and branches art-piece with the support of Judy Busse and Cyndi Sturni (our artists). It's right in the hallway on the way to the church. We'd put up household photos all along the painted vine. Here's a mock-up:

Coming Up










May-June:

Saturday, May 9th, Spirituality & Health with Quiet Corner Community Health Care @ 9:30 a.m.

Sunday, May 10th, 8, 9:15 and 10:15 services (Liliana Moran's Baptism at 10:15), Mother's Day Breakfast starts at 9 a.m.; Vestry Meeting for May with Bishop Ian Douglas at 11:30 a.m. in the Library.

Thursday, May 14th, 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist

Saturday-Sunday, May 16-17th Relay for Life

Saturday, May 16th, Spirituality with the Rev. Oscar Brockmeyer in the Great Hall

Sunday, May 17th, All Services, Ellsworth Baptism at the 10:15 service

Thursday, May 21st, 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist

Sunday, May 24th, All Services, Tyler Baptism at the 10:15. It is also Choir Sunday!

Thursday, May 28th, 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist

Sunday, May 31st, All Services, Contemporary Eucharist at the 10:15 (last of the season). The Rite-13ers are helping run the service! (final Rectory Sunday Chapel of the season as well)

Thursday, June 4th, Healing Eucharist... last of the season until September

Saturday, June 6th, Spiritual Practice with the Rev. Oscar Brockmeyer in the Great Hall

Sunday, June 7th, 8 and 10:15 Services, Youth Sunday at the later service. Parish Picnic at 11:30!

Saturday, June 13th... Nine6teen at the Bean, 8 p.m., Fundraiser for the Deary Fund sponsored by Longmeadow Automotive!

Sunday, June 14th... 8 a.m. and 10:15 services


Google Calendar 
Your Stewardship!











How your gifts are "invested"!
It costs about $80,000 a year for the upkeep, heating and general repairs of our buildings (includes the salary for the part-time sexton, Jerry O'Brien). It cost about $18,000 alone to heat the Office, Great Hall, Classrooms, Church and Rectory for the whole year. This is a little below 25% of the overall cost of running the church for a year. 
Thank you for your generosity!

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!

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 Here Thanks! 
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 encouraged. There are always applications for flowers in the back of the church ($30).

Vestry Notes
Next Vestry meeting is May 10th with Bishop Ian Douglas after the 10:15 in the Library. We'll try to include some snack items from the Mom's Day Breakfast as well as Coffee for the meeting time.

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). We have some roofing work to do where there was winter damage on the church roof outside the Sacristy (hopefully the Roofing Store). The organ will also need some attention as the seasons change; Dennis Patton is helping assess this with the Foley Baker company.

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 Gifts 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 June 21st (no CK in May) at the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee meets periodically to recommend grants.
Extras!
Youtube: the first is Nine6teen at the Rite-13 Ceremony the week after Easter at CCPomfret; the second is something I ran into from the Diocese of Texas about "thin places" and fly-fishing that's also worth a few minutes:

I Hope You Dance
I Hope You Dance


Bert Baetz: In Search of Thin Places
Bert Baetz: In Search of Thin Places
Dave Carter
Christ Church Pomfret
(Box 21) 527 Pomfret Street 
Pomfret, Ct. 06258

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