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Thursday Reminder June 11, 2015
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Pentecost 2015


Greetings from your church! 
Our main phone is down, possibly until the middle of June (part of the issue of switching to Charter). Use the Rectory: 860-928-7025 OR Dave's Cell: 860-608-7632. OR Email. Sorry about this! 

Since we have increasing use of the internet for all church business please use better Email protocol. For instance, try NOT to use old emails as responses or to initiate changes or conversations as the old "subject" remains on the email and can be overlooked! Never put personal data or photos in group or personal emails. Every email has the potential to be public! Scrutinize every email to see whether it really is sent by a friend or a business you know AND never click on attachments unless you're sure!

Teen Leadership: We are making great progress. We are still hoping to find a couple perhaps another individual (male preferably) to work with the new Rite-13. Kim Bergandahl will be a leader. Christine Carter is also willing to help with the fall start up of this group. Thanks. This LINK will allow you to explore further. 
In This Reminder
This Week
Items for Consideration
Coming Up
Your Stewardship
Housekeeping
Extras! Nine6teen at the Bean
This Week


 

Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 14, 2015
8 a.m. H.E. Rite 1
9:00 Pick-up Choir Rehearsal 
10:15 Family Eucharist
Church School and Teen Programs resume in the fall. Coffee Hour with the Silver Team! 

Leaflet can be found here
Announcements are found here

June Courier can be found here
June Schedule and Calendar are found here

Coffee Hour Team Schedule to June 2015 can be found Here 

Pastoral Emergencies or to put someone on the Prayer Chain please call the office.. 860-928-7026 or Dave's Cell Phone, 860-608-7632. 


In the Church School:


 

Thanks all for a great season!

Starting in the fall Nicole Nichols will be the Director of the Church School. Congratulations and Thanks!


 
Teen Program Notes:


 

J2Aers: On to San Francisco! Dedication Sunday is August 2nd. At that 9:15 service we expect all our Pilgrims and leaders to be present. Jane Hale will be our preacher.

There are still a few families that need to complete their payments for the Pilgrimage. Please be in touch with Dee Dee asap. thanks


 

YACers:  Von Conta-Koerner Scholarships Candidates: 

Katie Wedegis did an inspiring job with her Credo on Youth Sunday... thanks Katie.

Scheduled for Credos this coming Sunday are Grayson McCarthy, Megan Bastow, Hannah Archambault and Anna Fagan  

Scheduled for early August: Christian Adams


TeenLeaders
Teen Program starting in September: We are looking for folks who have a special sense of engagement with teens and are willing to do a lot of listening..... Kim Bergandahl has volunteered as one leader for Rite-13 (grades 6-7). But we need a few more. Christine Carter will continue as a "point person" to participate in the work and prep new leaders. The upcoming Rite-13ers may very well need more support to become active.


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

 














First Take
Third Sunday after Pentecost, homilies at 8 and 10:15 services.

The readings are from Ezekiel 17:22-24 (God makes the lowly great and the dry tree to flourish, one of the great themes of this prophet), Psalm 92:1-4, 12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 (in which Paul declares his confidence in his relationship with God, a relationship that is not easily perceived) and our Gospel is Mark 4:26-34 (Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed, the smallest of all shrubs)
The full text of the readings can be found  at the Lectionary Website here

Many of the testament writers were well aware of how our eyes can deceive us... someone looks trustworthy, something looks like a good product, an event looks like it is filled with promise. Besides the basic (and difficult) fact that our expectations have a natural way of being bigger than reality there are, at times, harder realities. We miss the signs that would warn us that things are not as they seem, that someone is just here for what they can gain, a plan is too good to be true. Our readings ask us to "look" deeper, with "inward, God" eyes, indeed, in a way to look "with God" that involves listening and discernment whether we are considering a friendship, a new house or a vacation! And strangely, sometimes things that "look" poorly or have little promise from the "outside", can surprise us in many good ways. Take a look at the story of Seabiscuit here

An Extraordinary Article on PTSD and how it relates to our culture by Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) can be found here
or a hard copy downloaded here

Special Mission Outreach
PID trip to Guatemala leaving on January 2nd or 3rd of 2016. 5 folks already signed up. It costs about $1300 (includes airfare from Boston, etc.). We're thinking of $600 a person church subsidy from the Special Mission. Can you do $700? This is a medical and building project mission trip. Here is the website! Here is a PDF about the base price before airfare and some general instructions. You will need inoculations for Guatemala. Our trip is not yet posted on the Partners in Development website. 

Spirituality Experiments.... with Oscar Brockmeyer.
Group Spiritual Guidance for those within and beyond the church. Here is an overview. His updated schedule for June can be found here 860-942 2934 orobbrockmeyer@snet.net for more information.

Vine and Branches "Directory" Project
The fifth grade has started a 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'll put up household photos all along the painted vine. Here's the original mock-up:

Coming Up














May-July:

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

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

Thursday, June 18th, 7:15 a.m. Healing Eucharist

Saturday, June 20th, 10 a.m. Oscar Brockmeyer workshop in the Great Hall; 11 a.m. Ranhoff-Salo Wedding in the Church

Sunday, June 21st, 8 a.m. and 10:15 services. 

Monday, June 22nd, Cooking for Community Kitchen

Wednesday, June 24th at 4 p.m. Finance Committee (and any Vestry) meet with Bank of America Endowment managers in the Library

Thursday, June 25, 7:15 Last Healing Eucharist of season.

Sunday, June 28th, 8 a.m. and 10:15 services. Bryce Hesler Baptism at the later service!

Tuesday, June 30th.... 7 p.m., Spiritual Practice with Oscar Brockmeyer

Wednesday, July 1st: Dave's Vacation Begins.

Saturday, July 4th, Paige Billings Wedding at 4:30 p.m.! The Rev. Virginia Army, Celebrant

Sunday, July 5th.... ONE SERVICE at 9:15 a.m. the Rev. Jim Kellaway, Celebrant; NOTE, the one service at 9:15 continues through Labor Day weekend!

Christ Church Online Google Calendar 
Your Stewardship!

















How your gifts are "invested"!
It costs about $25,000 a year for our education programs that include the salaries of our Teen Coordinator, Church School Directors and the Nursery person, their program supplies and administration. 
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! 
Pledging and Donating Online:

(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 season after Pentecost: Flower donations are encouraged. There are always applications for flowers in the back of the church ($30).

Vestry Notes
Dave's vacation starts on July 1st. No July Vestry meeting. August meeting will be chaired by available wardens as Dave will be on the J2A Pilgrimage. 

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 (the Roofing Store). The Roofing Store is also checking re-newed leaking in one of the Rectory chimneys. We have received some quotes for work on the organ which we are currently sorting through; Dennis Patton is helping assess this with the Foley Baker company. We're switching over to Charter for internet and phone but this is taking a while.

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 22nd at the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee meets periodically to recommend grants.
Extras! 

Nine6teen

Come join us.... great cause, lot's of fun! Andre, Donna, Greg, Patrick, Brian and Dave!
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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To seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbors as ourselves, welcoming all who come through our doors to participate in worship, education, service and fellowship on a journey in Christ, a journey that we believe not only has power to heal and change us but also has potential to transform the world.

(Vestry 2003)


 

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