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Pentecost Season 2016

       Jane Hale's Ordination for the transitional Diaconate is scheduled at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford on Tuesday, June 14th at 6 p.m. The bus is leaving at 4:30 p.m.. There is still room today. 

        If you'd like to do Take-out Church over the summer, check the Church School section below!

       On Tuesday, June 21st, we will hold a Parish Life Potluck Dinner at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall... all are invited for an informal opportunity to celebrate Jane Hale's Ordination. The Women's Workshop will follow. 

       A second group is organizing to go to Guatemala on August 6th with PID. Click here to go to the announcement below. Contact person: Dr. Suzanne Powell. The group is still short on numbers so if interested, respond right away!

       Relay for Life Report: the Christ Church Team raised over $5500 and is a gold-level sponsor thanks to the Lusa and Flath families and all of your efforts. Thank you!

      See "Extras" for highlights of our Youth Sunday service. Owen Ritzau playing Adoration on his violin was the prelude & a video of Nathalie Bessette's Credo message.
In This Reminder
This Weekend
Items for Consideration
Coming Up
Your Stewardship
Housekeeping
Extras: Nine6teen
This Weekend


Sunday, June 12: The 4th Sunday after Pentecost

8 a.m. Communion (Jane, worship leader; Dave, celebrant & preacher) Nancy Cowley on coffee hour
9:00 a.m. Rehearsal (pick up choir)
10:15 a.m. Family Eucharist  (Jane, worship leader; Dave is celebrant and preacher) 
Silver Team for coffee hour 
Carrie is in the Nursery on June 12th and June 19th

Leaflet can be found here
Announcements can be found here
Readings link can be found here (Track 2 this Sunday)

Try this link to our Google Calendar

Deadline for July-August Courier is June 20th

June Calendar/Schedule is found here

February to June 2016 Coffee Team Schedule is 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.  
 
Church School Notes



Thanks all for your support all year!

A big THANK YOU to all the children and volunteers who participated in and helped out with Youth Sunday!  We had a good time singing and worshiping together. The "indoor picnic" was fun despite the rain, but we'll pray for a sunny event and return of the moon bounce next year... possibly for Welcome Home Sunday on September 11th.

Here is the flyer for Take Out Church, an opportunity to bring faith conversation and activities along with you on your summer travels.  I will provide a box with activity pages, prayers, apps for your devices, and the best part- "Flat Jesus" who can be mailed and/or pictured in social media posts! Activities are most appropriate for children in kindergarten through grade 5. I will accept "Take Out Orders" (one box per family- free!) through Father's Day,June 19th, and will have boxes "delivered" to church on June 26th (last 10:15 family service until September 11th).  Of course, you may "pick up" your box in the Church School area downstairs anytime after that as well!  Email me at ccchurchschoolpomfret@gmail.com to order yours today!

Wishing all families a safe and fun-filled summer vacation!
Nicole Nichols


Some of the "experiments" we are working on for next year:
1) Organize the year into terms and special events and post it
2) Continue a "one room school house" format with the Director providing most of the resource, the lessons available before-hand in the Reminder
3) A much-more "hand's on" chapel time and lessons; 2-3 running projects that cover a longer period for our very "active" group of young people.
3) Go to a "Team" approach?: 6 Teams of 3 adults each with one "Captain" to provide support for 2-3 Sundays in a row (About 5-7 Sundays for the whole year). Tweeking this might involve seasonal assignments: Team one-three do the fall, 4-6 do the winter, etc.
4) Simplify the Pageant (ideas forth-coming)
5) Train at least one person interested in Godly Play to rotate with existing teachers

Speak with Nicole or Dave asap and "weigh in" on all of this. We'll also be contacting parents and folks who've been involved for the past 2 years. Thanks!

A link to the Church School Registration form.
 
Nicole Nichols, Church School Director
   My contact is 860-928-2155, or by email:  ccchurchschoolpomfret@gmail.com 
 
 
Teen Program Updates:


Rite-13 Winding up for the season.
The Rite-13ers are also working on the Vine and Branches photo directory project! 

J2A: Winding up for the season. Pilgrimage choice will be announced very soon!

Parents and young people. Here is the link on the possible trips. It's an overview of the North American pilgrimages. Check it out. 

YAC: "Confirm not Conform" continues in the fall.... for info contact Jen Ritzau: 

Teen Pilgrimage Fundraisers... Hey... we're good for the season! Thanks again to everyone who helped so much. In all cases the weather cooperated!
 
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!
 
The Teen Program Registration Form is needed for each student so we can provide a consistent and safe environment for your young person. Thanks.  

Catherine Bastow
catherinebastow@sbcglobal.net
cbastow@rectoryschool.org
Items for Consideration



First Take
4th Sunday after Pentecost: The full text of the Track 2 readings can be found at the Lectionary Website here
        How can we understand this passage in Luke where the woman anoints Jesus' feet with the expensive perfume and then dries them with her hair? Is it possible that her overwhelming emotional response to being forgiven is not so unusual for her time? Actually it would be equally unusual today as then especially given the semi-public venue. Today the nature of this woman's profession, her marginal status in society and the kind of intrusion on everyone's "space" might produce similar scepticism, surprise, derision and suspicion. Yet one lens to allow us to appreciate her situation, her person and her emotional response, might be our awareness of the addictive journey. It is not so unusual for folks who have been delivered from any number of addictions through counseling, disciplined practice and the work of a "Higher Power" to feel somewhat or a lot like this woman: blessed, renewed, restored to themselves and given a "walk", a new life. We may not be seeing an "addicted" person here but the new freedom, the permission to be alive, the chance to begin again are comparable.
     
Further reflections on the readings:
                      here is the Textweek Page

Mission Trips with Partners in Development  GuatemalaThere is a second team who signing up for August 6th this coming summer. The contact person is Suzanne Powell, suzanne.p@sbcglobal.net or 860 944-1132. The church is offering subsidies for this trip as well, up to half the cost! Make your registration payment and we'll reimburse you. The group of Christ Church parishioners who went in January is planning to return about the same time in 2017. At last count they were still short of a full group (8 are needed) to have PID sponsorship. Any other folks out there?

ECCT Northeast Mission Area
No current news.

Relay for Life Report: the Christ Church Team
 raised over $5500 and is a gold-level sponsor with special thanks to the Lusa and Flath families and all of your efforts. Thank you!

Spirituality with Oscar Brockmeyer.
Group Spiritual Guidance for those within and beyond the church. Oscar's schedule has wound down. He will be announcing his offerings in the fall! 860-942- 2934 orobbrockmeyer@snet.net for more information. 

Spirituality with Jane Hale: Women's Workshop will begin with a Parish Life Potluck Dinner in honor of Jane Hale at 6 p.m. (everyone invited) followed by the Women's group at 7 p.m.-ish on Tuesday, June 21st, in the Great Hall (spiritual exploration and celebrating our Sisterhood!)  Jane Hale at jclhale@charter.net.  

Pastoral Notes/Prayers: Here is the Prayer Chain for June-August

Vine and Branches "Directory" Project
    


Coming Up

June Schedule includes:
Jackie Brown & Zach Putnam wedding, 2:30 on June 11th
Jane Hale's Ordination to the Diaconate at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14th at Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford
Paquette Baptism on June 19th
Women's Group/Potluck/all invited: 
                Tuesday 21st starting at 6 p.m.
Swenson Baptism on June 26th

July Schedule includes: Dave is away on vacation for the month of July unless there is pressing emergency and he can be contacted through the office or through the church email; July 3, 9:15 Eucharist with the Rev. Jim Kellaway, July 10 & 17, 9:15 Eucharist with the Rev. Joan Phelps, July 24 & 31st, the Rev. Don Parker.

Christ Church Online Google Calendar 
Your Stewardship!
Thank you for your generosity!

Stewardship: Visions and Ventures
The Pledge Materials are available HERE as a downloadable copy of the written brochure. And HERE is a pledge card for 2016. Thanks in advance.

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 on Wednesday, September 14th at 7 p.m. (if important business comes up over the summer we may try to call a meeting in August, thanks)

Buildings and Grounds  Replacing the Library windows & the Library hallway windows, replacing the door on Dave's office which has "sprung open". We need to build a utility closet around the furnace in the church to prevent any soot issues in the future. The front steps of the office building need either repair or a more extensive replacement. We're looking over the church trim for repair and painting. The insurance adjuster is reconciling the final bill for the church cleaning and we will know more soon. 

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 at 8 a.m. on June 27th 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: Youth Sunday

Adoration: Borowski performed by Owen Ritzau at CtCPomfret on June 5, 2016
Adoration: Borowski performed by Owen Ritzau at CtCPomfret on June 5, 2016

 
Nathalie Bessette's Credo Message
Nathalie Bessette's Credo Message
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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