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Christ the King
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Next Sunday
1st Advent
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Psalm 25:1-9
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Luke 21:25-36
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Upcoming Events
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Saturday, December 1
Advent Workday
for the buildings. Bring your furniture polish and join us as we polish the pews in Chapel and Church. We'll wash windows, dust, clean bathrooms, kitchen, etc.
Sunday, December 2 Vestry meeting in Roberta's Hall after the 10:30 am service
Pageant narrators' rehearsal - Church
Children's Choir rehearsal - Choir Room
Wednesday, December 5 Taize Service 6:30 pm in the Chapel
Sunday, December 9 Pageant narrators' rehearsal - Children's Choir rehearsal - Choir Rm
Wednesday, December 12 Taize Service 6:30 pm in the Chapel
Sunday, December 16 Pageant narrators' rehearsal - Church
Silent Nativity rehearsal - Church
Children's Choir rehearsal - Choir Rm
Wednesday, December 19 Taize Service 6:30 pm in the Chapel
Saturday, December 22 - 10:00 am
Pageant Dress Rehearsal - Church
Childrens Choir Rehearsal - Church
Sunday, December 23 Greening of the Church and Chapel
after the 10:30 am service
Monday, December 24 Christmas Eve Family Service with Pageant and Childrens Choir 5:00 pm in the Church
Feast of the Holy Nativity - with carols and incense in the Church
10:30 pm Musical Medley
11:00 pm Midnight Mass
Tuesday, December 25 Christmas Day Feast of the Holy Nativity - Holy Eucharist, Rite 1 in the Chapel at 9:30 am
DIOCESAN NEWS
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Weekdays
Monday thru Friday
Food Bank
open
10:00 am - noon
Wednesdays
Tabitha's Treasures
10:30 am
in Roberta's Hall
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Noonday Prayer
at noon in Roberta's Hall on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Wednesdays of the month
Holy Eucharist
at noon in Roberta's Hall on the 1st Wednesdays
Thursdays
Choir Practice 7:00 pm in the Choir Room
Weekends
Saturdays
Holy Eucharist
5:00 p.m.
(Chapel)
Sundays
Holy Eucharist
8:00 a.m.
(Chapel)
Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
(Parish Hall)
Christian Formation
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Adult program
in Roberta's Hall
Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m.
(Church)
Order of St Luke
1st and 3rd Sundays at 12:00 noon in the Prayer Ministry Room
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"Pilate asked him 'Are you the King of the Jews?' ... Jesus answered 'My kingdom is not from this world.' Pilate asked him 'So you are a king?' Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.'" John 18:33-37
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Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Make no mistake Jesus IS King and he presently has a kingdom. It is not from this world, it does not find its origins in this world, but its destination is this world ""the kingdom of God is among you." Luke 17:21.
This King is unlike the world's kings who make much of pomp and power. His enthronement as King did not take place on a throne of gold studded with precious gems. His enthronement took place on a wooden cross and his crown was a circlet of plaited thorn branches. But the title that Pilate had placed above his head contained the truest words Pilate ever had written: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. And not of the Jews only but of the whole world.
His kingdom is amongst us for the King brought his rule with him and commissioned his disciples to extend his rule by proclaiming good news to the poor and liberty to the captives, by healing the sick and casting out demons. The kingdoms of this world - kingdoms of power and manipulation, of avarice and injustice, kingdoms of racism and sexism, kingdoms of violence and evil - these kingdoms resist the kingdom of God, but ultimately they will not prevail.
Through baptism we have been transferred from the kingdoms of darkness to the kingdom of light. And we, like the disciples, have been commissioned to extend that kingdom, by proclaiming good news to the poor, by proclaiming liberty from sin to those who are held captive by it, and by praying for the Lord's healing of his wounded and sick people. May we not only pray that his kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, may we be the ones to help accomplish it. We have been commissioned to do so.
In the Peace, Grace, and Love of our Lord,
Rev'd Sarah+
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ADVENT CHURCH CLEANING WORKDAY  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1
FROM 8:30 AM - NOON
Bring rags, furniture polish, window cleaner, bathroom scourers and let's get the inside of the Church, Chapel, bathrooms, Parish Hall and Roberta's Hall sparkling!
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ADVENT ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Images of Christ: Doorways to Devotion
 Sundays in Advent
Dec 2, Dec 9, Dec 16, Dec 23
9:30 am - 10:15 am in Roberta's Hall
Jim Sutton will present a class on images of Christ and how these images over the centuries have been the means by which Christians have entered deeper into relationship with and devotion to our Lord.
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MINISTRY APPRECIATION CHRISTMAS PARTY
at The Burgess' Sunday, December 9, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Jim and Irene have once again graciously offered to host a Christmas Party for everyone involved in a ministry at Good Shepherd - that's a lot of people! This is not an exhaustive list: Breakfast Teams, Food Bank, OSL/Prayer Ministry, Music Ministry, Landscape Committee/Workdays, Fundraisers, Hospitality, Vestry, Christian Formation, Pastoral Care, Flower Guild, Altar Guild, LEMs, Ushers, etc...
PLEASE LET TERRI IN THE PARISH OFFICE KNOW IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING - 407 644-5350 or terri@goodshepherd-maitland.com
Bring a Dish to Share
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ANGEL TREE MINISTRY
 Angel Trees have been set up in the Chapel and Church with the names of needy children in local schools. Over the next couple of weeks you are invited to take one or two names from the tree, purchase an age and gender appropriate gift and return it by December 2nd with the "angel" tag attached. Please do not wrap the gifts.
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CHILDREN'S PAGEANT & CHOIR REHEARSALS
 Sign up for the Christmas Eve Children's Pageant and Children's Choir will take place after the 10:30 am service on Sunday, November 25
Rehearsals will take place on Sundays after the 10:30 am service as follows:
Dec 2: Narrators (Church), Children's Choir (Choir Room)
Dec 9: Narrators (Church), Children's Choir (Choir Room)
Dec 16: Narrators, Silent Nativity participants, Children's Choir (Church)
DRESS REHEARSAL - ALL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 at 10:00 am in the Church
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ADVENT TAIZE SERVICES
 Join us for these beautifully contemplative 30 minute services at 6:30 pm on Wednesday evenings in Advent (December 5, December 12, December 19) as we quiet our hearts in the peace-filled, candlelit Chapel in preparation for the celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace.
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Pledge cards and Pledge envelopes
 Many thanks to those who have completed and handed in their pledge cards. Just a reminder that in order to be assigned a pledge envelope a pledge card needs to be completed each year so that the Parish Administrator can enter the required information into the parish database.
You can download a pledge card here: Pledge Card
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 PARISHIONER PRAYER NEEDS
George, Mary Jo, Deacon Mary Ellen, Deacon Judith, Katiana and Family, The Edmund Family, Danny
LONG TERM PARISHIONER PRAYER NEEDS
Walter, Rufus, Marion, Stan, Suzee, George, Brenda, Mary Jo, Elizabeth, Roy, Millie, Pete, Sue, Marnay, Abbei, Gloria, Althea, Trena, Terri, Sallie, Donna, Lillian, Keisha, Jeanie, Frances, Meg, Joan, Sandy, Ramona, Becky, Ron, Brian, Jakob, Gabe, Kaitlyn, Jim, and Irene
FRIENDS AND FAMILY PRAYER NEEDS
Michale, Lauretta, John, TJ, Jane, Dan, Horace, Brett, Jeffrey, Lacey, Clarissa, Jay, Beverly
LONG TERM FRIENDS AND FAMILY PRAYER NEEDS
John, Kathy, George, Melina, Billy, Lowell, Charla, Wendy, Shari, Richie, Sonia, Brian, Adam, Deborah, Jennean, Barbara, Daniel, Robert, Tasos, Jason, Kyle, Fr. Dick Grant, Lew, Paul, Duncan, Alan, Debra, Eden
MILITARY PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMLIES
Kevin Waters, Geoffrey Noplis, Zachary Adam Copes, Christopher and Brigitt Kincaid, Justin Moye, Danny Graham, Ronnie Robison, Chuck Gitschlag, Rory Patrick Coleman, Dennis Glasgow, Duncan Hanton, William Underhill, and Taylor Lee
COLLEGE STUDENTS AND SEMINARIAN
Isaac John Copes, Michael and Ryan Guerdan, Lindsey Nicolle, Robert Borr, Matthew and Sarah Pierce, David Bumsted
THOSE CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS
Jon Anderson, Delaney Kreidler
THOSE CELEBRATING ANNIVERSARIES
Bill and Carolyn Clark, David and Beka Bumsted
SAFE TRAVEL
Charlotte Everbach, Jim and Irene Burgess, Betty and Betsy Campbell
REST IN PEACE
Elizabeth Jean Wadill
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"And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another" Hebrews 10:24-25
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