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Service Schedule
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Sunday, December 30
8 AM -Holy Eucharist Rite I
10 AM - Holy Eucharist
Rite II
child care available
Sunday, January 6
EPIPHANY
8 AM-Holy Eucharist Rite I
10 AM - Holy Eucharist Rite II
presentation of
Giving Tree gifts
child care available
11:30 AM - Confirmation Class
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Please note ... during the weeks of 12/24 and 12/30, the church office will only be open
Friday 8 AM - Noon
ENEWS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED DURING WEEK OF 12/30
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Meetings and Events
Tuesday, January 15
7 PM - Vestry
all parishioners welcome
Sunday, January 27
ANNUAL MEETING following 10 AM Eucharist
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Outreach
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Bargain Box Thrift Shop
Hours of Operation:
Friday 10am - 3pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm
Items may be dropped off during regular hours of operation
or
Wednesday
9am - 11:45am
**please note: if you have items to donate, but cannot bring them during the hours listed here, please contact
Martha Wishart
to make other arrangements
jacksnana1@verizon.net
DO NOT LEAVE ITEMS AT THE CHURCH
and
PLEASE -- NO TVs, COMPUTERS OR OTHER LARGE ITEMS
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Bread of Life
Feeding Ministry
Next Date:
Friday, January 4
First Baptist Church
493 Main Street, Malden
Volunteers needed:
4pm for food prep
5pm for food service
5:30 - 7pm for clean-up
Bakers also needed
Contact Tony Lopes for details:
978 710 6927
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Sunday Service Participants
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Acolytes
December 30 - Holly Manzelli
January 6 - Sarah Ines
Ushers
December 30 - Paul Dustin and Tim McLaughlin January 6 - Dave and Edna McDonald Please watch for an email requesting volunteers for coffee hour in the new year! Coffee hour cannot happen without your help!
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Altar Flowers
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December 30
Given in loving memory of
Rose and Archie Pooton and Anna Margaret Nielson
by Shirley Woollacott
Given in loving memory of
Anthony Colosimo
by Joan and Doug Short
January 6
Given in loving memory of
Wayne Wooldrdge
by his family
Given in loving memory of
The Gibbs family
from Pauline and Nancy
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From the Book of Remembrance
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December 30
Emma Hopkins
Winnifred Langley
Natalie McGuire
Lucy Horton
Reginald Steeves
Raymond Strassell
Elizabeth Davis
Bessi Jeffrey
Ruth Woodside
Jeanette Dasho
January 6
Harriet Marr
Emma Bartlett
James Garfield
Harriette Orton
Marion Wiswall
Roger Blood
Nancy Middleton Crampton
James Palmer
Violet Bond
Leana Earle
Wayne Wooldridge
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Sunday School
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There is no Sunday School Sunday, December 30.
Please join us Sunday, January 6 as we see the cards and pictures sent to us from Chikumbuso, create additional letters for the students there and bring the gifts from the Advent-Epiphany giving tree to the altar.
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Good News
From the Church of the Good Shepherd
a welcoming and inclusive parish dedicated to growing in faith, spirit and community
December 30, 2012
January 6, 2013
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From the Rector:
 This is an abbreviated ENews, primarily featuring pictures from our beautiful Christmas pageant yesterday and pictures from Ben and Judy Sands mission trip to Guatemala. I hope to see you at one of our festival candlelight services tonight (5:00pm and 10:30pm) or at our contemplative service tomorrow (10:00am). ENews will be on Christmas hiatus until January 9. I wish each of you a happy and blessed Christmas! |
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Saints Alive!
 Thanks to the saints in our midst for the beautiful Christmas pageant yesterday: Randy Dunnell Kim Manzelli Trish Leyne Norah Daly Sue Geraghty Carol Abel Mary Ines Sharon Grosso |
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From Judy Sands...
 Our trip to Guatemala had a rocky start when we found out the night before that the AA woman in Florida would not send the 18 bags on that had been approved in Boston (thanks to Brad Jones). So we were up until midnight repacking and then repacking again, trying to fit as much as we could into 8. (two bags each allowed)
Our daughter and her son went with us. We had left 11 bags there last year so the distributions were fine although it broke our hearts to leave behind about 100 used soccer balls. The people in Boston said maybe they could help us after the holidays. There is a two bag embargo during the holidays but that has always been in place. The only difference this year is a new AA person in FL.
We had three different distributions and saw over 1,000 children. Some of them walk two hours just for a toy. We then went to Guatemala City to Mama Carmen's and took her for groceries. Thanks to the Bargain Box and a generous church member we were able to buy her $1,000 worth groceries. Ben handled the food, and my daughter and I bought the shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper, maxipads, raisins, nuts, lotion, soap, detergent and of course
 some Christmas treats. If anyone would like to see a video of last year's trip go to youtube and type in Vamos Adalante & Mama Carmen Guatemala. My daughter made it to show her middle school students who had a dance to raise money, so it is slanted toward them.
I came home to the 500 pounds of things we had to remove from the bags. Some how we need to go again and get it all there. Th
e people in Boston said they might be able to help. So I am still saving but only small things like Matchbox
sized cars and the dolls that are free in McDonalds Happy Meals.
Thank you to everyone who helped us on our way. We pay our own expenses and any money left from buying toys a nd candy was divided between Mama Carmen and Nina.
  
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Acts of Kindness
 Following the Newtown tragedy, NBC reporter Ann Curry sent the following message to her Twitter followers, "Imagine if we all committed to 20 acts of kindness for each child lost in Newtown?" That one message quickly became a worldwide movement to commit random acts of kindness. What a beautiful way to spread hope and to honor the victims of this senseless horror.
Of course, as faithful Christians, all of us are committed to helping others and do so on a regular basis. If the "26 random acts of kindness" movement has caught your interest and you are looking for something special to do, please consider supporting one of the three organizations featured on our Advent-Epiphany giving tree. The gift tags have all been taken, but you can still participate, and you have until Epiphany to donate.
If you would like to support Chikumbuso Widows and Orphans Project, you can place a check made out to Friends of Chikumbuso in the Chikumbuso box under the tree or mail the check to the church office.
If you would like to support Mystic Valley Elder Services, you can place Market Basket or Rite Aid gift cards in any amount in the Mystic Valley Elder Services box or mail a gift card to the church office.
If you would like to support Bread of Life, you can bring or mail gift Stop and Shop or CVS gift cards in any amount.
On Epiphany (Sunday, January 6), remembering the three kings' visit to the Christ Child, our children will carry the three gift boxes to the altar to be blessed and then sent on to the recipients.
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***PLEASE NOTE***
To receive tax credit for 2012,
pledge donations must be received in the office by noon on
Monday, 31 December
or postmarked in 2012.
Thank you for your support!
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For your prayers....
O God of compassion, at whose table all are welcome: draw near to homebound, hospitalized, or sick members of our parish family during the coming week, and to those who minister to them. May all our members always feel included at our table, strengthened in our friendship, renewed by bread and wine for their life's journey and always filled with your loving presence, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The following members of our parish community have asked for our prayers. Please remember them this week when you pray, and let us know if there is anyone whose name you would like to add.
Chuck and Ginny Barthel, Dorothy Brown, George Chace, Clive Eade, Joe Field, Betty Fraser, Grace Girardi, Bernice Herrick, Elaine and Bob Hodgson, Allan Johnson, Deborah Katt-Lloyd, Lisa Kimball, Robert Knoettner, Tony Lopes, Carole Lutton, Maureen Manzelli, Jim McCallum, Lynn McDonald, Rheta C. McKinley, Sara O'Brien, Rhonda O'Keefe, Carolyn Poor, Eleanor Schott, Kevin Smith, Ron Smith, and Ashley Westerman.
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Contact Information
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