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Worship Schedule
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8am and 10am Holy Eucharist 9:45am Nursery
Wednesday
7am service with Holy Eucharist
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FYI
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Coffee Hour Hosts needed on Sunday, January 5th, 2014. if you can help fill this need please call the office.
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Save the Date: Annual Meeting and Lunch Sunday, January 26th, 2014
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'Participants in Worship'
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Click here for 'Participants in Worship' names now on our website.
The date link for each week will take you to the Lectionary page to show you your readings.
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Holiday Season
'Thrifty Goose' Hours
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Closed in
January: 1/4, 1/5
Reopens:
January 8, 2014!
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Volunteer!
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To volunteer please contact:
(John Lawlor) |
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We need...
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a CD player, an iPod dock or a blue tooth speaker for the
Would someone like to donate one, either new or used?
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All the latest news on the
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From the Rector
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Two thoughts for the price of one:
The day of prayer with a sister from the Society of St. Margaret that I noted recently is being changed from January 11. It will become part of our Lenten program here at St. Martin's, with a tentative date of March 22. Stay tuned for more details.
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On Monday, January 6, we will observe the Feast of the Epiphany with a celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 7:00 pm in the chapel. Epiphany, one of the principal feasts of the Church (right up there with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost...), brings to a close the twelve days of Christmas with a burst of light and a wonderful proclamation. This child who has been born, so closely tied to the prophecies of God's presence and work with the nation of Israel, is in fact a gift for the entire world. Gentile astrologers, probably from Persia, have followed the star to Judea in order to pay homage to the newborn King. What began so small - Mary and Joseph gathered around the manger - has now expanded to illuminate the world. May that light illuminate and guide each of us, and St. Martin's as a community, as we enter into this new year.
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Church Closing Information
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Please
log into your favorite radio or television station website for an immediate up-to-date list of closings, delays or for emergency information.
** The church office will be closed tomorrow/Friday January 3rd.
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(Creche outside of Fr. Bill's office)
Click here for this Sunday's readings: Jeremiah 31:7-14
Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a
Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23
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Healing Prayers this Sunday in the Chapel after the
10am service
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If you requested pledge envelopes, your box is at the back of the church.
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*Photo courtesy of Gordon Partington
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Girl Scout Cookie Sale!
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Calling all cookie-selling St. Martin's Girl Scouts!
We will have a collective Cookie Sale table on Sunday, January 19 during 8 and 10am coffee hours.
If you would like to sell cookies to fellow parishioners this year please contact Susan Kostas to join in at susankostas1@gmail.com or phone 401-487-4781 to talk or text. January 19th is the (only) designated day to sell (or take orders) at St. Martin's.
Thanks in advance to all who support Girls Scouts of RI
by buying cookies!
Susan Kostas
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Report from the Nominating Committee
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The Nominating Committee is pleased to propose the following parishioners for:
Senior Warden
Elizabeth Welshman
Junior Warden
Sean Mulholland
Vestry
Thomas Calhoun
John Lawlor
Jennifer Potter
Joseleyne Slade
The Committee also proposes the following parishioners as Diocesan Convention delegates: Kate Chute, Meg LoPresti, and Arline Walker as well as Diocesan Convention alternate delegate - John Staniunas.
The Nominating Committee consists of the 3 outgoing Vestry members: David Whitman (chair), Rosalind Ditson, and Kurt Loell, as well as 4 non-Vestry members: Charlie Bodell; Peter Dennehy; Beth Ellis; and Melissa Hughes.
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Backpacks Project Update
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After the generous outpouring of resources from St. Martin's last year, we are again in partnership with Sodexo, food service provider for Providence Public Schools, in order to provide weekend food to some of our neighborhood's neediest students. This year, St. Martin's will be filling backpacks for three special needs students every week at Hope High School, allowing us to support these students and their families when they would otherwise go hungry each weekend. Our very own church school students will be assisting with packing the backpacks whenever church school is in session! Want to help support this unique community project? Please click here to find out how you can help! Thank you, St. Martin's, for helping feed hungry children! |
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