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Thursday Reminder June 25, 2015
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Pentecost 2015


Greetings from your church! 
Hopefully our main phone is going by tomorrow! 

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 and possibly another has volunteered. 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! YMCA
This Week


 

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, June 28, 2015
8 a.m. H.E. Rite 1
9:00 a.m. Summer Choir 
10:15 Family Eucharist and the Baptism of Bryce James Hesler
Nursery continues through June 28th and resumes late August!
Last Team Coffee Hour with the Red Team! 

Leaflet can be found here
Announcements are found here

June Courier can be found here
June Schedule and Calendar are 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 July call the main office number as Dave will be out of town.

Warden on Duty, July 1-14, Steve Adams
Warden on Duty, July 15-31, Peter Lusa


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:


Potluck Meeting at the Sturni's for the new J2A Leaders is Friday, June 26th! 

 

 

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: 

Grayson McCarthy, Megan Bastow, Hannah Archambault and Anna Fagan all presented inspiring and real Credos about their varied and fascinating "faith" journeys. Thanks to all!

Scheduled for early August: Christian Adams and possibly Hunter Malboeuf.


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). 
And we are currently talking to another potential. 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
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, homilies at 8 and 10:15 services.

The readings will be from "Track 2", Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 (a reflection on the goodness of creation as understood in the pre-Christian era), a selection from Psalm 30, 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (in which Paul asks the church in Corinth to share out of their abundance in same way that Jesus shared from his, becoming poor so others might be "rich" in a special way) and the Gospel is Mark 5:21-43 (the story of two healings, one inadvertant, one intended!)
The full text of the readings can be found  at the Lectionary Website here

How can Jesus be caught "unawares" in this Markan passage? It's easy to miss but we can catch many glimpses of Jesus' humanity embedded in a world we know. The Gospel writers tend to celebrate the wonder-fillled side of the story, the healings, the fore-tellings, the calming of the storm (last week), the well-laid plan. Yet here and many places chance and choice play a role that engage us, reminding us of the unpredictability and complexity of our lives that are also wonder-filled but in another, subtler way.

Special Mission Outreach
PID trip to Guatemala leaving in early January. It costs about $1300 (includes airfare). We're thinking of $600 a person church subsidy. 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.  

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-sixth grade (Christine & Philippa) 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. Jim Goodwin will be informally taking photos but feel free to send in a Selfie with your family to this email address! Here's the progress:


Coming Up

















June- early August:

Sunday, June 28th, 8 a.m. and 10:15 services. Bryce James 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!

Week of July 6th-10th: Extra AA meetings in the church at noon time (the group at the South Baptist Church in Woodstock has to move for that week only)

Sunday, July 12th: ONE SERVICE at 9:15 a.m. the Rev. Jim Kellaway, Celebrant

Sunday, July 19th: 9:15 Service with the Rev. Joan Phelps, Celebrant & Preacher

Sunday, July 26th: 9:15 Service with the Rev. Joan Phelps, Celebrant and Preacher

Saturday, August 1st: Dave back from Vac

Sunday, August 2nd: 9:15 Service with Dave; Jane Hale, guest preacher; J2A Pilgrims Blessing Sunday!

Thursday, August 6th: Pilgrimage Departure

Sunday, August 9th: Morning Prayer with Bruce Phillips and Peter Mann (Dave is on the Pilgrimage: Peter Lusa on Duty)

Wednesday, August 12th; Pilgrimage Returns

Christ Church Online Google Calendar 
Your Stewardship!














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. Next Vestry meeting: August 19th!

Buildings and Grounds
Our current plan is to repair the floor in the kitchen around the dishwasher over the summer as a volunteer & professional 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). 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. Some rotted window sills in the office building may require extensive work. We're also developing a new plexi-glass church foyer with John Murphy.

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

Outreach....  Next cooking for Community Kitchen on July 27th at the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee meets periodically to recommend grants.
Extras! 

YMCA in Putnam is coming along!
YMCA in Putnam is coming along!
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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(Vestry 2003)


 

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