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Thursday Reminder October 15, 2015
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Pentecost 2015


Greetings from your church! 

We celebrated the life of Jean Elizabeth Sheldon this morning. Here is a copy of her memorial leaflet. Thanks to all who were able to participate and come to the service but especially to Virginia Army who was able to be here as the Homilist.

In This Reminder
This Week
Items for Consideration or Prayer
Coming Up
Your Stewardship
Housekeeping
Extras!
This Week
 
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, 
October 18, 2015
 
8 a.m. Holy Communion 
9:00 a.m. Choir rehearsal
9:15 a.m. Rectory School Chapel with Nine6teen and Chaplain Drew Sciesio
10:15 a.m. Family Eucharist (using the BCP); Jane, Worship Leader; Dave, Preacher & Celebrant; Blue Team (Maggie Eichorn, et all)
Church School 
Teen Program

Draft Leaflet with Announcements can be found here
 
A blessing for our Church School teachers and teen leaders with the "laying on of hands" can be found Here.
 
Deadline for November Courier is October 23rd!
 
Readings are Track One a link can be found here
 
October Courier can be found here
 
October Calendar and Schedule is found here
 
The September '15 to January '16 Coffee Hour Team Schedule can be found here
 
Pastoral Emergencies or to put someone on the Prayer Chain please call the office: 860-315-7780 or Dave's Cell Phone, 860-608-7632. 
 
Eucharistic Visitors see under Teen Program for Safe Church Training.
 
 
Church School Notes


 
   
This Sunday, October 18 we welcome back Amy Landis as our 'guest' celebrant in Children's Chapel!  (Nicole will return next week.)  Make sure to come down and say hello to her!
Plans are underway for an exciting month of Saint Celebrations in the Church School at the conclusion of the "Daniel" workshops!  Nicole and Fr. Dave have found some great ideas for exploring "Everyday Sainthood" with our grade-schoolers, but we need some helpers (especially needed on November 15 and 22).  Anyone want to bake Soul Cakes?  Make Family Shields? Create a Cloud of Witnesses banner? Explore our church burial grounds?  Create a Sidewalk Chalk Memorial?  Anyone interested in learning more about these or other fun possibilities should contact Nicole ASAP!
Reminder:   Please sign your child in each Sunday so that we know who is in attendance each week.  A sheet for each grade level is located on the credenza at the top the stairs by our bulletin board. Thank you!
 
Mark your calendars for the next Church School Meeting:  Nov. 1st.  All parents, volunteers, and folks with a heart for youth are encouraged to attend!
 
Parents are reminded to complete and return one Church School Registration for each child attending Church School or Nursery.  Please also review our Behavior Management Protocol letter and return one acknowledgement per family.  Both of these documents can also be obtained from our bulletin board area at the top of the stairs leading down to Church School, or from Nicole directly.  This is also where student sign-in sheets will be located each Sunday morning for parents to sign their child/ren in. 
 
We collect non-perishable foods and household items in our offering basket during chapel time each Sunday, so please work with your child to remember the needs of others each Sunday by bringing in something for our local food banks.
 
Nicole Nichols, Church School Director
 
Here is a copy of the fall Workshop Schedule, Sunday by Sunday. My contact is 860-928-2155, or by email:  ccchurchschoolpomfret@gmail.com 
 
The Donations list for IRIS can also be found here 
 
 
Teen Program Updates:
 
 
Rite-13 6 and 7th grades! We are planning to get together on Friday, Oct. 23rd, 6 - 9 p.m., at Church, for a Movie, Pumpkin Carving and Flashlight Tag Night!
Please bring a pumpkin and a flashlight.  We will have Pizza for dinner. Please let us know if you can not attend.  Thank you. Leaders: Kim Bergandahl and Greg Nichols (Christine Carter will be advising). The Rite-13ers are working on the Vine and Branches photo directory project and having fun on meeting and other projects!
 
J2Aers:  See you on Sunday. Leaders: Amy Nunes, Ginger Lusa & Adam Squires (more part-time leaders: Brian Smith, Steve Adams & Cyndi Sturni).
 
YACers:  Jen Ritzau more info: 
(Leaders also include Peter Mann and Donna Bessette, advising)

Teen Coordinator Position
As some already know Dee Dee and the Markes family are heading back to California, their home. She will be winding up her duties as Teen Coordinator sometime this fall and would like to hand on the duty and salary ($6000 a year) to another candidate.
Here is a current description of the position. Let Steve Adams, Peter Lusa or Dave know if you would like to discuss it. Thanks! 
 
Current Teen Leaders Materials: HERE is a link to find PDF copies of all the different group materials. Note that the main item for each group is the manual of lesson plans. Use as you see fit!
 
Safe Church Training is required for all Teen Leaders that have not had it. But here is a link to the Diocesan Schedule:
 
The Teen Program Registration Form is needed for each student so we can provide a consistent and safe environment for your young person. Thanks. 

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



First Take
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost The full text of the readings can be found at the Lectionary Website here 

The early Christians including Paul often struggled to fit Jesus' life, death and resurrection into the language and understandings of the Jewish (Old) Testament, the Torah. In Hebrews this week as well as in previous weeks Jesus is equated with a priest of the old temple who does not merely sacrifice (putting an animal to death as an offering to
God) but is himself the sacrifice. (Sacrifice for the ancients was a way of appeasing or pleasing God by giving of one's own wealth or property) It was a powerful insight of the time and helped show a path from the old to the new. The "Jesus Sacrifice" meant the end to all the old-style sacrifices and the beginning of a new way of relating to God--- through God. I've often felt that while this has elements of deep truth it was not complete. It might sound crass but some have asked why God needed to have his tortured and dying son "appease" or make expiation for human behavior. Current theologians are asking the same question. Is there another way or ways to understand Jesus' self-oblation so that we might not only appreciate it but also might imitate him as our Markan text suggests?

Something Different:  NYTimes article on Svetlana Alexievich who has just won the Noble Prize for Literature as a writer specializing in the voices of ordinary people.
            
Lay Eucharistic Visitors Updates
Safe Church Training opportunities can be found at the Diocesan website..... see link in Teen Program. Jane Hale is training and organizing as we move forward. She brings experience from her internship at St. John's in Vernon. Meeting now scheduled for Wed., October 21st at the church.

Outreach Nutsale  ends this Sunday! Catherine Bastow has done her magic again and here is our order form. All income above cost goes into our CSO budget and is granted out into the community. Thanks.

Special Mission Outreach
PID trip to Guatemala is scheduled for January 10th through the 17th of 2016. This is a medical and building project mission trip. Here is the website! We're making our flight arrangements now and are very excited! A number of us were very moved and excited by Chris George's comments on the Refugee situation (IRIS). He currently has 4 families from Syria that are being settled in New Haven so all our collected items will be well utilized! What more can we do? We've talked about helping to sponsor a family, perhaps with another church? Here is the IRIS website.

Spirituality with Oscar Brockmeyer.
Group Spiritual Guidance for those within and beyond the church. Oscar's schedule has begun this month and is found here. He is offering Spirituality Workshops on second Saturdays in the morning, a conversation entitled "Spirituality for the Second Half of Life" on third Thursdays in the afternoon, a "Spiritual Companions" Group on first Tuesdays in the evening (starting on October 6th). 860-942- 2934 orobbrockmeyer@snet.net for more information.

Spirituality with Jane Hale: The Women's Spiritual Growth Group. NOTE CHANGE: The Next Meeting is 7-8:30 pm on Tuesday, October 27th. A time of spiritual and faith exploration, story-sharing, and celebrating our Sisterhood!  No experience necessary, just bring yourselves.  (Plenty of laughter and snacks included!) Interested? Questions? Yes, folks from outside the church can join. Contact Jane Hale at jclhale@charter.net. 

Pastoral Notes/Prayers: Keep Elaine in your prayers, diagnosed with cancer (parent of member); Paul Humphreys, Bike accident. Here is the full Prayer Chain list as of October 14, 2015. 

From the Hospital: Addressing Teen Self-Harming
Please join us on
Thursday, November 5th for 
"Self-Harming Behaviors in our Youth: 
Identifying the Problem and Ways to Help"
presented by Dr. Andre Bessette. 
Day Kimball Hospital 
RHF Conference Rooms #2 & 3
Registration ~ 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Presentation and Discussion ~ 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Please RSVP by October 30th at 860-963-6458 or email jjohnson@daykimball.org
Sponsored by the DKH Pastoral Care Department

Vine and Branches "Directory" Project
The Rite-13ers are continuing this project and we're already taking photos at Coffee Hours. Thanks to Jim Goodwin and his help with photos. Thanks to Cyndi Sturni, Judy Busse and Rebecca Patenaude for finishing the artwork and the lettering!  


Coming Up

Saturday, Oct. 17th: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Clean out and Clean up. Final fall work around the church, raking, clearing out to coincide with Pomfret Bulky waste weekend. 

Sunday, Oct. 18th: 8, 9:15 & 10:15 services with Dave preaching and celebrating, Jane, Worship Leader; 2016 Budget Committee Meeting in the Library at 11:30; Visions and Ventures/Stewardship Committee Meeting in the Rector's Office at 11:30 a.m. 

Wednesday, Oct. 21st: 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist; B'fast at the Bean

Sunday, Oct. 25th: All Services, Jane Hale, preacher; Contemporary Service at 10:15 a.m.; Church First: tentative plan: Pilgrimage Presentation!

Monday, Oct. 26th: 8 a.m. Cooking for Community Kitchen

Tuesday, Oct. 27th: 7 p.m. Women's Spirituality with Jane Hale

Wednesday, Oct. 28th: 7:30 a.m. Healing Eucharist followed by B'fast at the Bean

All Saints Sunday, Nov. 1st: All Services and Programs; Dave is preacher; Jane is visiting in the Church School
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS


Christ Church Online Google Calendar 
Your Stewardship!

 
Nicely done video. A number of personal takes on sharing and giving, the stewardship of our lives from the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia
Nicely done video. Personal stories of sharing and giving, the stewardship of our lives,
from the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia


Thank you for your generosity!

It's time to plan next year's budget, next year's program & ministry. The Budget Committee will be meeting on Sunday, October 18 in the Library. The Vestry and Stewardship Committee have been thinking about how we want to do a little more to explore being good stewards, and more, how we can "grow" our program offerings and interests to benefit our community.

Stewardship: Visions and Ventures Committee
We will be meeting in the Rector's Office at 11:30 on Sunday, October 18th to keep working on the program for November; 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 (860-315-7780), or Lora's cell phone (above) or respond to this email to Make a Memorial or a Thanksgiving for a loved one ($30/Sunday).  Flower donations are encouraged. There are always applications for flowers in the back of the church ($30).

Vestry Notes
Next Meeting is November 11th at 7 p.m.

Buildings and Grounds John Murphy is pricing out the rotted window replacements around the Library, the downstairs chapel & in the hallway outside the Library; Other jobs pending: Roofing and Chimney items. We have a final Clean Out and Clean Up morning on Saturday, Oct. 17th from 9 to 11:30 to coincide with Pomfret Bulky Waste weekend.

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....  We had a warm thank you from Bob Kirk of the Hill Church at the 8 a.m. service for our Cooking crew and especially Pauline this past Sunday! Next cooking for Community Kitchen at 8 a.m. on October 26th here at CCPomfret to bring to the 1st Congregational Church of Woodstock (the Hill Church). Contact Pauline Phillips at Christ Church. CSO Committee meets periodically to recommend grants.
Extras!
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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