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Reflection

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

7:30pm GraceMusic Cabaret

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19

Tag Sale to benefit Family Connections program (Memorial Hall) 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

8:45am - 12:30pm  "CYSM" Pancake Breakfast (Memorial Hall) 

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist

10:10am Church School classes/refreshments

10:10am Stewardship Committee 

11:00am  Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)

followed by coffee hour in Memorial Hall

12:30pm Program Council (Patterson Hall)

6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)

MONDAY - FRIDAY  8:30am Nursery School of the Nyacks (Classrooms)

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY  4:30pm AGC! CircusSchool

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

7:00pm Boy Scouts (Memorial Hall)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)

7:30pm Choir rehearsal & Open House (Choir Room)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

Haunted House (after Nyack Halloween Parade)

(benefits Church Youth Service Mission trip)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist

10:10amChurchSchool classes/refreshments

11:00am  Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)

followed by coffee hour in Memorial Hall

2:00pm Parish Hike (meet at St. John's in the Wilderness)

GRACEMUSIC KICKS OFF 2013-14 SEASON WITH A CABARET:

IT'S A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING!    

Tonight at 7:30pm, GraceMusic presents It's a Grand Night for Singing! - a lively cabaret-style evening featuring favorite local entertainers and musicians (plus a unique opportunity to conduct the "Hallelujah Chorus" at our annual Messiah Sing on Dec 8!).  $20 admission includes a variety of finger foods and 2 complimentary glasses of wine. Advance tickets strongly encouraged. Call 845-358-1297 X16, or check  www.gracemusic.info  for details on this event and all of our 44^th season of "Great Music in a Great Space."

The Senior Youth Group will be in back in Memorial Hall on selected Sundays throughout the year, serving up great breakfasts with all the fixings for a suggested donation of $5/person. A variety of fair trade items will also be available for purchase.  Proceeds go to benefit this year's service trip to Nicaragua.  Watch for the first breakfast on Sunday, October 20 (8:45am-12:30pm) Come Hungry!

CHOIR OPEN HOUSE

Don't miss the choir's second annual Open House this Thursday, October 24 at 7:30pm.  For those interested in the choir long term or just for an evening, this is perfect chance to see and hear what it's about! Open House guests will be invited to sing with the choir on Sunday, October 27 at the 11:00am service.  Refreshments and mingling after rehearsal are an added bonus!  

Our annual Harvest Celebration will be held on Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm. Join us in fellowship with live music, dancing, a silent auction, raffles, great food. and drink!  Tickets may be purchased for $45 prior to the event or for $50 at the door. Available after the 9:30 and 11:00am

To place ad in the Journal: Contact Kim Cross at kim.cross@nyackcenter.org

A great opportunity to advertise your business or to express your best wishes for Thanksgiving and the Holidays. Space in the Harvest Festival Journal will be available according to the following schedule: Full Page Ads - $40.00; Half Page Ads - $25.00; Inside Front Cover - $100.00; Inside Back Cover - $100.00; Back Cover - $150.00. Ad forms will be available in the back of the church. The journal will be coordinated by Kim Cross at kim.cross@nyackcenter.org

Please consider making a donation for the silent auction - Some ideas:

Gift certificates to restaurants or local stores; vacation rentals; Gift baskets; tickets to shows, music, lectures or sporting events; Services - haircuts, massages, design consultations;  museum memberships; jewelry; activities - sailing, kayaking, hot air balloon rides; Art  For info or to submit a donation, contact Claudia at uccell@yahoo.com and include a brief description of the donation along with its estimated value. Please submit no later than Sunday, October 20. Thank you for your generosity!

Free Baby sitting Available - Contact Moriah Olsen at moriahso@yahoo.com. 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27: ANNUAL PARISH HIKE

Plan to bring the whole family - even sociable canines - for our 47^th annual parish hike, led by Win & Tom Perry.  We'll meet at 2:00pm at the barn at St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, take a short drive to a trailhead, and enjoy an easy walk through the woods of HarrimanPark. We'll return to the cozy barn for a potluck supper in front of the big stone fireplace -- this year we'll even have running water and working facilities.  Plan to bring something to share for supper.  Directions to St. John's will soon be available in narthex.  If you have questions, call Win at 845-358-0552.

CLOTHING DONATIONS NEEDED

The Senior Youth Group is going on a Midnight Run on November 9 and they are looking for the following items to distribute: men's jeans and/or heavyweight pants, mens sweaters and sweatshirts (hoodies especially), men's coats, T-shirts, shoes and blankets. If anyone would like to purchase new socks or underwear that would be greatly appreciated and we are also looking for small (hotel) sized toiletries. Please bring donations to the narthex (entrance of the church). If you have questions, call Tom Burns (845) 729-3544.

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Parting Thought 

Live in Layers

I have walked through many lives,

some of them my own,

and I am not who I was,

though some principle of being

abides, from which I struggle

not to stray.

When I look behind,

as I am compelled to look

before I can gather strength

to proceed on my journey,

I see the milestones dwindling

toward the horizon

and the slow fires trailing

from the abandoned camp-sites,

over which scavenger angels

wheel on heavy wings.

Oh, I have made myself a tribe

out of my true affections,

and my tribe is scattered!

How shall the heart be reconciled

to its feast of losses?

In a rising wind

the manic dust of my friends,

those who fell along the way,

bitterly stings my face.

Yet I turn, I turn,

exulting somewhat,

with my will intact to go

wherever I need to go,

and every stone on the road

precious to me.

In my darkest night,

when the moon was covered

and I roamed through wreckage,

a nimbus-clouded voice

directed me:

"Live in the layers,

not on the litter."

Though I lack the art

to decipher it,

no doubt the next chapter

in my book of transformations

is already written.

I am not done with my changes.

Live in Layers by Stanley Kunitz