Sunday e-Bulletin

All Saints' Church e-bulletin for July 31, 2016

Week Ahead

Readings

Last Week's

Sermon
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Table of Contents

Music this Sunday

Prayer 1st Resort

Living Stones

Choirs Want You

My Father's House

Yard Sale

8:00 AM Servers

Acolytes

Crucifer

Chalice

Camille O'Brien

Litanist/Paten

Liz Hryniewich

9:30 AM Servers

Acolytes

Crucifer

Elizabeth Meinhardt
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Server

Nate Psilopoulos

Assistants

Pre & Post Servers

Altar Guild

Carol Douglas
Karen Kowalski
Diane Olbert

Greeters

Bruce Bray
Linda Cahill

Counters

Laura Geary
Bob Camacho
Steve Sullivan

This Week's Meetings

SUNDAY

8:00 AM

Holy Eucharist

9:30 AM

Holy Eucharist

WEDNESDAY

12:00 PM
Holy Eucharist

This Week's Readings

First Lesson

Hosea 11:1-11

Psalm

107:1-9,43

Second Lesson

Colossians 3:1-11

Gospel

Luke 12:13-21

Photo Credits:
Steve Grillo
Matt Hickcox
Ed Haynes
Paul Krenitsky
Harry Taplin

Music this Sunday

This Sunday's music features Al Graceffa as soloist, with Valerie Cowart accompanying him. Al will sing Aaron Copland's version of "Shall we gather at the river" and a version of "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" by another American composer, Moses Hogan. Organ voluntaries are also American in feel, but composed in the early 1800's.

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Prayer as First Resort
will meet on Tuesday, August 9th from 7:30-8:45 PM in the Blue and Cranberry Rooms for compline. If you would like to learn more about Prayer as First Resort, please contact Deb Dutton (debdutton@hotmail.com) or Lynne Grillo (lynne@odic.com).

Father Above, make each of us a sanctuary for Christ in the world. Direct the works of our hands, the words from our lips, and the prayers that we pray. Bless our Living Stones campaign as we repair our roof, install new lighting, and re-point our bell tower. May these physical repairs inspire our own spiritual renewal so that with thankful hearts we'll be a living sanctuary for you, Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

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OUR CHOIRS WANT YOU!

In these "Dog Days" of summer, I have been enjoying the air conditioning and doing a ton of music planning. I am enjoying the different pace of summer, but am also looking forward to having all of the choirs resume in the fall.

All vocal choirs will resume rehearsals on Thursday, September 15, although the Parish Choir will start its season with a 9/10 vocal workshop from 9a.m. - 1p.m.

In the coming weeks, I will be looking at different reasons why joining a choir might be good for you. This week's incentive to join a choir cites improved mental health and is from a 12/4/2013 article in the "British Psychological Study":

Singing in a choir can be good for our psychological well-being. That is the conclusion of research being presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) in York by Nick Stewart from Oxford Brookes University.

Nick Stewart set up an online study asking 375 people who sang in choirs, sang alone or were members of sports teams about their experience of these activities.

All three leisure activities yielded high levels of well-being, but Nick Stewart's analysis of the results revealed statistically significant, evidence of higher reported well-being in people who sang with a choir compared to those who sang alone.

Choral singers reported seeing their choirs as more coherent or 'meaningful' social groups than the sportsmen and women saw their sports teams.

Nick Stewart says: "Research has already suggested that joining a choir could be a cost-effective way to improve people's well-being. Yet we know surprisingly little about how the well-being effects of choral singing are brought about.

"These findings suggest that the experience of using your voice to make music may be enhanced when you feel part of a cohesive social group. Further research could look at how moving and breathing in synchrony with others might be responsible for creating a unique well-being effect."

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My Father's House,

a home for pregnant and parenting teenage girls and their children, has an immediate opening for permanent part-time staff. Hours are: Saturday 4 PM to 12 Midnight.

If interested, please contact Cathie Coffey at ccoffey@mfhouse.net.

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