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November 22, 2012
Worship & Music
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Would you like to enjoy a more relaxed holiday season? Can you picture Christmas as a time of deepening your spirituality, not just scrambling to find gifts? Take three hours on Saturday, December 1, to gather with other parishioners and reflect on the scriptures that take us through Advent to Christmas Eve. From 9:00 a.m. to noon, Margaret Boettcher and Buff Grace+ will guide a time of personal meditation with music, silence and scripture readings. There is no cost, but please sign up so that they can plan appropriately. You may sign up by calling or emailing the church office: 651-439-2609 or office@aechurch.org. |
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Yogadevotion
A new eight week of Yogadevotion will begin
Tuesday, November 27th and run through
Tuesday, January 29th.
Classes are held in the Ascension Parish Hall from 7-8 pm
Child care will be available for $3.00 per child
or $7.00 a family on a drop in basis.
Cost is $55.00 for the eight weeks.
Payment can be addressed to Ascension Episcopal Church, please write Yogadevotion in the memo line of your check.
Payment is due by Sunday, November 25th.
You can give your check to Laura Weston,
drop it off at the church office,
or put it in the church collection plate on Sunday.
For questions please call Laura Weston @651-430-9028
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November, 2012 
Dear Members of Ascension,
Every year we are called to reflect on and offer up our thanks with a donation to the United Thank Offering. The origins of the UTO date back to 1886 with an offering of $87. In these early years the Women's Auxiliary collected United Offering monies at General Conventions with a focus on expanding the mission of the church. The United Offering became the United Thank Offering in 1919, that year offerings surpassed the million dollar mark totaling $1,371,537. Over the years the offering has continued to grow reaching annual amounts of over $2,000,000. The symbol for UTO became the "blue box".
UTO receives 100's of grant requests, and usually approves about 70 per year. Through these grant projects, the United Thank Offering addresses compelling human need, both domestically and internationally, within the Anglican provinces, dioceses, and companion dioceses. In 2011 our very own diocese benefited from your offerings. A ministry of All Saints' Episcopal Mission, Minneapolis was granted $15725.00 for First Nations' Kitchen Renovation & Community Garden Project. These funds will allow them to purchase a much needed water heater, chairs, tables, lamps, space heaters and raised bed garden equipment.
Sunday, November 25  you will have the opportunity to "offer up your thanks to God" at our UTO Fall Ingathering. Through the UTO we are encouraged to establish the habit of giving daily thanks to God by placing coins in the Blue Box. When we recognize our daily blessings, generosity tends to grow in our hearts. St. Paul says, "be a joyful giver." Any amount is welcomed. Our joined offerings help those less fortunate than us.
Yours in Christ,
Amy Krumenacker
UTO Prayer
Gracious God, source of all creation,
all love, all true joy: accept, we pray,
these outward signs of our profound and
continuing thankfulness for all of life.
Bless those who will benefit from these
gifts through the outreach of the
United Thank Offering;
and keep each of us ever thankful for all the
blessings of joy and challenge that come our
way; through Him who is the
greatest gift and blessing of all,
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Amen
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 Last Sunday Supper
November 2012
Ascension will be preparing the supper on November 25, the weekend after Thanksgiving. If you would like to assist that Sunday afternoon, contact Linda Amrein at 651-439-7670. I guarantee you a meaningful experience! |
Our Community Kitchen will be closed on Thanksgiving and on Christmas.
Please note our new hours! We will now be open from 8 - 10 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday's.
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 The 28th Annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Sunday, December 9, 2012
5:00 pm Prelude
Come one, come all! Invite your family, friends and neighbors to Ascension for this much-loved Advent tradition featuring a renown line-up of guest musicians including Manny Laureano, principal trumpet of the Minnesota Orchestra, Kathrine Handford, university organist and lecturer in music at Lawrence University's Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, and Jon Lewis, principal percussionist of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra accompanied by the choirs of Ascension. Arrive early for the best seating. The Service of Nine Lessons & Carols will begin at 5:30 p.m. A free-will offering will be taken. Complimentary child care available.
Manny Laureano Kathrine Handford |
Headstart Clothing Wishes Drive Started
Our generous Ascension donors provide much needed and appreciated clothes for children participating in the Ascension Headstart program, and for their siblings.
Here's how:
1. Write your name and phone number by your child's Family Number on the donor list
2. Give a gift card or clothing
3. You needn't purchase all items on the child's list
4. Limit your gift to $20 to $30 per child - that way, all children get equivalent gifts
5. Leave your gift unwrapped
6. Attach the Clothing Wishes list to your gift
7. Mark the bag containing your gift with the child's Family Number
8. Place your gift by the tree in the parish hall
by December 9
9. Questions? Call me, Lorna Rupp, 651-228-7129
New! Headstart Wish List Drive Started
The Headstart Wish List is new. Headstart will keep these clothes at Headstart and give them to children as needed from the classroom - like an ATM machine for clothes.
* Girl - underwear* sizes 4-5
* Boy - underwear* sizes 4-5
* Girl - socks
* Boy - socks
* Socks for either boys or girls
* Mittens
* Boy - sweatpants** or sweatshirts sizes 3T, 4T, 5T
* Girl - sweatpants** or sweatshirts sizes 3T, 4T, 5T
* Underwear: low need
** Sweatpants: high need
 It's easy to donate - place your unwrapped Wish List donations in the "Wish List" box next to the Headstart Clothing Wishes tree. Donations needed by December 9. Add your name to the list of donors.
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Help Ascension decorate the Church
It is time once again to decorate Ascension for the festive Holiday season. If you would like to help offset the cost of greenery and wreaths, please consider a donation to Ascension Altar Guild for this purpose. Please contact the office with your choice of donation. 651-439-2609 or office@aechurch.org. |
Guatemalan Coffee and Chocolate...........
Did you miss the sales at church? Need more for Thanksgiving, Christmas or hostess gifts?
Call Frank or Sue Langer @ 439-5766. Profits support July 2013 mission trip to Guatemala.
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Have you been thinking about replacing your full size mattress?
Now is the time as the 12 year old boy of the family that recently moved from homelessness to a permanent home is still waiting to have a mattress on the full-size captain's bed frame that was donated on the day they moved. A full-size air mattress would also be appreciated if camping days are over and one sits in your garage or closet!
There is also still a need for a freezer for a Supportive Housing Family. The freezer would allow them to freeze the perishable items that they get once a month from Valley Outreach Food Shelf.
Please call me about donations that you may have for our families. In-kind donation forms are available. Your donations are always appreciated!
Many thanks, Cindy (651-439-2641) |
Volunteers and Food donations needed
at Valley Outreach Food Shelf.
Valley Outreach relies heavily upon generous and dedicated volunteers to sort and stock donations and serve clients at the Food Shelf. Four times a year, Ascension Church is asked to provide volunteers to help with this important work. Please become a welcome food shelf volunteer.
We have 3 opportunities to assist our neighbors over the Thanksgiving holiday.
1st: Ascension Church will be providing volunteers to work at the food shelf on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, November 26, 28 and 30 from 9:30 am. - 12:30 pm. This is the week following Thanksgiving.
Help one day, or all three. Stay for the whole shift or just an hour or two. Bring a friend! Please consider joining this very important and rewarding mission.
2nd: In conjunction with our volunteer opportunity at Valley Outreach, we will be holding a food drive at Ascension. This allows all parishioners a chance to contribute their support to Valley Outreach. Please bring your food donations to church during the month of November and we'll deliver them on Monday November 26th.
3rd: "Unseen Angels" organization in Hudson Wi. is preparing 6000 meals to deliver around the area on Thanksgiving Day, November 22. There are looking for drivers to deliver 3 meals on Thanksgiving Day.
Time slots are 9-11 a.m. and 10-12 a.m.
*Cash donations are also always welcome. Please make checks to Ascension and mark 'food shelf' on memo line.
Thank you for your willingness to assist in this important local mission. Contact Frank Langer at 651-439-5766 or email: fslanvel@hotmail.com |
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RUMMAGE SALE COLLECTION BEGINS:
Ascension will begin to take collections for the rummage sale with all proceeds going to help with our Global Mission work. You can bring your items to Manwaring and we will store them in our garage. The rummage sale will be the 1st weekend in June.
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Personal Computer Upkeep Notice
for the Congregation
When we made the change from our web address and email addresses with a hyphen (ae-church.org) to the one without (aechurch.org) we paid to keep the ae-church.org for a year to avoid losing connections. That year is drawing to a close, and we are not renewing the ae-church.org address/domain. In 60 days, ae-church.org addresses will no longer work. Please update your files, address books, and notify contacts and friends that operable web address and email addresses are aechurch.org (no hyphen).
Thank you,
Buff+
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There will be no Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry from 9 - 11 am on Saturday, December 8th due to the rehearsal for Lessons and Carols.
We look forward to seeing you in January.
Be Well,
Mary Jo
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There will be no Thich Naht Hanh meeting on the Thursday of
Thanksgiving, 11/22/12.
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The Church Office will be closed on Thanksgiving and the Friday after: 11/22 and 11/23.
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KING KAMEHAMEHA AND QUEEN EMMA OF HAWAII
(28 NOV 1864) 
King Kamehameha IV and his wife Emma were Christian rulers who encouraged the building of Christian schools and hospitals, and who contributed greatly to the spread of Christianity among the Hawaiian people. The King was worried by the growth of American political influence, directly connected with the work of American missionaries, many of whom openly favored annexation of the islands by the United States. He accordingly invited the Church of England to send missionaries and to establish a presence in Hawaii. (While touring England as a prince, he had attended worship services, and had been favorably impressed.) But, although the King's support of the Church of England was perhaps politically motivated, his support of Christianity was not. He and his wife were earnest in their devotion to both the material and the spiritual welfare of their people. The King personally translated the Book of Common Prayer and much of the Hymnal into Hawaiian. Their only son died in 1863, and the King died, apparently of grief, on 30 November 1864. The Queen devoted the remainder of her life to charitable endeavors (Queen's Hospital, the largest civilian hospital in Hawaii, is largely her doing). She died in 1885.
To Read More about the King and Queen of Hawaii.
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Altar Flowers
If you are interested in sponsoring altar flowers for 2012, please contact Barb Smolik at 651-275-3533 or the office at 651-439-2609 for sign-up. Get your names on the dates you wish before they fill up.
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Ongoing Events
Please note New Hours for:
Our Community KitchenTuesday and Thursday mornings
8- 10 am @ Ascension's Kitchen and Fellowship Hall.
Come and meet your community and have a delicious breakfast!
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Ongoing Groups:
Scripture Reflection and Prayer GroupFirst & Third Thursdays from 9 - 10:30 am in the Library
Thich Naht Hanh study/meditation group
Thursday nights at 7 pm in Parish Hall
Zen style Meditation group
Saturday mornings at 7 am in Small Chapel
Healing Touch
2nd Saturday every month in the Sanctuary at 9 am
Youth Choir Wednesday nights at 4:45 pmfor more info contact Nancy Whipkey @ 651-439-2609
Adult Choir
Wednesday nights at 7:15 pmfor more info contact Nancy Whipkey @ 651-439-2609
YogaDevotion & Tai Chi
Yoga began 9/25, Tuesdays at 7 pm
Tai Chi was cancelled for the Fall, to be rescheduled at a later date.
There will be no more Tai Chi Practice at Washington Park, Saturday mornings at 8 a.m.
Contact Laura Weston if interested in Yogadevotion at 651-430-9028
Centering Prayer Groupfor more information on meeting times contact Lois Welshons @jonlos@aol.com |
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Ascension Episcopal Church
E-Newsletter CommunicationsLynn Raarup To submit an article or question please e-mail me at: enews@aechurch.org 651-439-2609 |
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