| This Weekend's Readings | The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
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This Weekend's Preacher
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The Reverend Canon Jonathan Sams
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8/6 Thursday
| 8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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8/7 Friday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:30 AM - Al-Anon Meeting
11:00 AM - Women's Spirituality
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8/8 Saturday
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5:00 PM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
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8/9 Sunday
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8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite I
9:00 AM - Rector's Forum
10:00 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
10:00 AM - Summer Sunday School
11:30 AM - Docent Tour
4:00 PM - Summer Carillon Series 6:00 PM - Sunday at Six Evensong
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8/10 Monday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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8/11 Tuesday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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8/12 Wednesday
| 7:00 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
7:30 AM - Bible Study
8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:30 AM - Adult Children of Alcoholics Meeting
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8/13 Thursday
| 8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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| Getting to Know Christopher Wells | |  What interested you in Christ Church Cranbrook?
I'll never forget the first time I walked into Christ Church Cranbrook - over 15 years ago. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of heaven on earth. I was fortunate to have been on staff many years ago, as Assistant Organist, and during that tenure I always treasured the foretaste of heaven that IS Christ Church Cranbrook. In 2002, I moved to New York to pursue full-time work in church music, but I'm not sure I ever lost my interest in CCC. Honor of all honors, your Rector, Fr. Danaher allowed me the opportunity to discern if that continued interest was also God's call for me to return at the Director of Music. The answer was a resounding, YES.
Who is your favorite composer?
That's a tough one for a musician to answer. But, hands down, Johann Sebastian Bach stands above all the rest. There are composer's whose music has changed my life in small ways or profoundly, Johann Sebastian's music has substantively changed my life. I would be a very different person, and maybe even a lesser person, had I not encounter's his music.
Where you ever in a "garage band"?
What is a "garage band"? As an amateur woodworker, I find a band saw in a garage to be very useful. Does that count?
What is your favorite color?
Green. Green trees. Green vestments. Green eyes. Green grass in the spring. Kermit the Frog. "Green" initiatives.
Other than making music, what are your favorite activities?
Three things come to mind: woodworking, hiking, sailing.
Over the last 15 years, I have accumulated an arsenal of saws, drills, sanders, planers, and hand tools that allow me to explore the art of woodworking. I'm particularly drawn to recreating and producing furniture in the Arts & Crafts style, using techniques made famous by Gustav Stickley. I work mainly in quarter-sawn oak - recent projects include a side table, bookshelves, kitchen cabinets, and several organ consoles. I plan to start a new dining room table shortly.
I have hiked much of the Appalachian Trail between Virginia and New Hampshire, several mountains in Colorado and New Mexico, and most of the High Peaks in the Adirondacks. I'm looking forward to exploring the terrain in Michigan next summer.
When you grow up in Annapolis, Maryland, sailing becomes a second language. In recent years, I've chartered boats out of Newport (RI) and the Virgin Islands. Plans are in the works to skipper a boat for a week in the British Virgin Islands this coming January. Sailing around Greece is on my bucket list.
What sound do you love?
The human voice. Particularly congregations singing the hymns they love at full-throttle. Can that be the topic of a future article in The Communicant? |
| Rector's Forums | | Bowing to popular demand, the Sunday morning Rector's Forum will continue at 9:00 AM in the Hospitality Center throughout the summer. The preacher for each Sunday will discuss that day's Scripture readings as they connect with current events and Christian practice.
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| Crossroads of Michigan Lunch | | Join fellow parishioners on Sunday, August 30th as we prepare and serve a hot lunch to almost 700 guests of the Crossroads of Michigan Soup Kitchen. Crossroads provides the only meal available in Metro Detroit on Sundays to those who are hungry. Thirty- four people are needed for two shifts: 8 AM - 12 PM and 12 PM - 4 PM. Open to adults and high school students. All volunteers will be commissioned at the 5 PM Saturday, August 29th service. Sign up at www.cccrsvp.org/feed or contact Pastor Manisha or Michael Andrews at m.andrews@yahoo.com
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87th Annual Summer Carillon Series - Final Concert!
| |  The 2015 Summer Carillon Series closes this Sunday with a final concert performed by John Gouwens (Culver, Indiana). All are welcome!
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Cedar Point Trip For All Ages
| |  Join us Wednesday, August 19 for a day of fun, fellowship and roller coasters! We will gather bright and early at 6.45 AM and leave the church parking lot promptly at 7 AM, getting home around 9 PM.
Elementary aged children (entering up to fifth grade) are to be accompanied by an adult. All unaccompanied youth will fill out a permission slip for the trip. The cost of non-refundable tickets, transportation, and t-shirt is $60 per person (all ages). You may give the check made out to Christ Church Cranbrook (memo "Cedar Point") to Pastor Manisha or Jill Bednas. Get ready to ride! To register, please click HERE For any questions, please contact the Reverend Dostert at 248.644.5210, Ext. 30 or mdostert@christchurchcranbrook.org
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| Save The Date! CCC goes to the Tiger Game! | | Friday, September 18 - Detroit Tigers vs. the Kansas City Royals, 7:00 game.
Tickets are $40 and bus transportation will be provided by Cranbrook Schools. The seats are on the third base line and are in section 141, rows 32-35 and section 142, rows 26-29. They are across the aisle from each other. Tickets are for sale at Coffee Hour and in the Church Office.
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| One Bread Ministry | |  How would you like to be an ambassador... for Christ, and for Christ Church Cranbrook? We invite you to do this with a simple commitment.
HERE'S HOW:
You make contact by phone with a first-time visitor to ask if you might deliver a gift of welcome from the church. The visitor's name, address and phone number will be supplied to you. Once successful, you would then deliver a pre-packaged artisan loaf of bread to the visitor's home, at a time that is convenient. There will be a supply of loaves stored in the church kitchen.
This kind gesture would be accompanied by your invitation for them to return to Christ Church Cranbrook and to contact you for any information they would like to have. You do not have to know the answer to every question asked - just point them in the right direction to someone who can, like a member of clergy or staff.
"Yes, sign me up"... Please contact J. J. Benkert at bbjjb3@gmail.com or 248.642.7790 to become an ambassador for this warm and welcoming new ministry.
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| Do You Need a Ride to Church? | |  Do you or someone you know need a ride to the 10:00 AM service on Sundays? We now have a shuttle running from Fox Run retirement community in Novi to CCC every Sunday for the 10:00 AM service. The shuttle leaves Fox Run at 9:15 AM and will make stops between there and Christ Church Cranbrook. If you or someone you know lives in Farmington Hills, W. Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills or Birmingham and would like a ride to church, please contact Mr. Don Canavesio at 586.747.6587.
If a ride is needed, you need to contact Don by Saturday at Noon for a ride for the next day. Seating is limited so rides are on a first come-first served basis. There is no charge for this service. |
| Item of the Month | |
Collecting PEANUT BUTTER in August! All brand and kinds of peanut butter are welcome. These items will be donated to the Open Hands Food Pantry located at St. John's Episcopal Church, Royal Oak, MI. This organization provides emergency food to residents of Oakland County. Please place your items in the bins located in the Narthex and South entrance of the church. Thank you for your generosity.
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| Sunday at Six - Evensong | |  MOST OF THE TIME, Christ Church Cranbrook is a busy place, with meetings, classes, concerts, tours, and worship services filling every available space with wholesome noise and blessed activity. THERE ARE TIMES, however, when a stillness descends, and, as the Book of Common Prayer says, "...the shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done." ONE SUCH TIME occurs "Sundays at 6", when a (usually) small congregation gathers in the choir pews for the traditional Anglican service of Evensong. Sundays at 6 is not a carefully rehearsed choral effort, but rather a "do-it-yourself" offering of psalms, readings from scripture, and prayers, lasting about 25 minutes. The service is chanted, using repetitive melodies that have been sung in monastic communities for more than a thousand years. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO SING WELL, or be musically inclined, to participate meaningfully in such worship. In a semi-darkened church, in the company of other spiritual pilgrims like ourselves, the ancient words emerge from silence almost of their own volition, and the wordless intervals between phrases point to God as eloquently as the sacred writings and chanted prayers. CONSIDER ATTENDING SUNDAYS AT 6. And, even if you don't, consider making space in your life when you can sit quietly and pray along with Psalm 62 which says, "For God alone my soul in silence waits." |
| Hospitality Hour after 5:00 PM Service on Saturdays | | | Our Hospitality Hour after the 5:00 PM service on Saturdays is a huge hit! Your help is needed to continue this welcoming ministry. Come about 20 minutes before the service to set everything up and then clean up afterward. If you are willing to help out, please contact Deb Vincent at dvincent45@yahoo.com or 248.862.6336. |
Summer Sunday School
| | It is time for Summer, praise God! Summer means fun and relaxation, same with our Summer Sunday School! Children, preschool - 6th grade, meet in rooms 201-202 at 10:00 AM for Christian formation, fun and prizes.
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| Can you run a Video Camera? | |  We are going to begin live streaming the 10 AM service every Sunday and need to recruit a team of people to work the video camera. It's quite simple and training will be provided. Depending on the number of people who volunteer, the commitment will be no more than one Sunday a month. Please contact Peggy Dahlberg at pdahlberg@christchurchcranbrook.org or 248.644.5210, Ext. 12 to volunteer or for more information. |
| Women's Spirituality Group | | Women's Spirituality Group meets on Fridays for a sack lunch at 11:30 AM and a one hour program at 12:00 PM in Rooms 201-202. This lively, conversational group addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Christian women today. For example, we have discussed Celtic Christianity, the Books of Common Prayer across the Anglican Communion, Spiritual Gifts, Lenten hymns, Interfaith Understanding and more. Come when you can!
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| Help Wanted! | | Christ Church Cranbrook needs help answering phones three mornings a week. If you are able to help out on Monday, Wednesday or Friday mornings, please contact Kathy Doyle at kdoyle@christchurchcranbrook.org or 248.644.5210, Ext. 11.
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| Fact and Fiction Fun | | |
 Fact and Fiction Fun will not meet in July and August. A new season will begin again on Monday, September 28, 2015 from 7:30 to 9:00 PM in the Conference Room. The selection for September is The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa. Please join us.
In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: "Some huge irrational disaster is in the making." All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses the ruin of the class and inheritance that already disgust him. His favorite nephew, Tancredi, proffers the paradox, "If we want things to stay as they are, they will have to change," but Don Fabrizio would rather take refuge in skepticism or astronomy, "the sublime routine of the skies."
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain. The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable. |
| Interfaith Question of the Week | | |
As a way of learning about our neighbors of different faith traditions, we will be providing a link to the Question of the Week on the InterFaith Leadership Council (IFLC) of Metro Detroit's website. Please feel free to submit our own questions to IFLC for consideration to be featured.
This week's question is: Who is Brahman?
The InterFaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit is a faith-based civic organization made up of visionary religious and lay leaders of many faiths whose shared values compel them to work toward a community that lives together in harmony.
Our Goals:
BRING TOGETHER, encourage and nurture interfaith groups and networks
SUPPORT CONCILIATION between and among religious groups as well as the community at large through active conflict resolution
PROMOTE INTERFAITH EDUCATION so that the metropolitan Detroit community can benefit from the synergies and creative benefits that knowledge and understanding can provide. |
| Magnificat in Selma | | | Christ Church Grosse Pointe invites you to Magnificat in Selma remembering Jonathan Myrick Daniels in Eucharist, Video and Sacred Conversation. Thursday, August 20; Eucharist at 5:30 PM, Meal at 6:00 PM video followed by sacred conversation from 6:45 to 8:30 PM No charge but free will offering gladly accepted. For information and registration contact Ron Spann at 313.885.4841, Ext. 113 or rspann@christchurchgp.org |
| CCC Services Live Streamed | | Christ Church Cranbrook is now live streaming our 10:00 AM Sunday service! No matter where you are you don't have to miss a service. To view services, please click HERE. Videos of previous services are archived on this page as well.
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| Online and Text Giving - It's Easy! | | |
 Contributions can now be made online and by text messaging. Please click HERE and see how quick and easy it is.
We invite you to consider our new electronic "Online Giving" program as a way to automate your donations to Christ Church Cranbrook. Read more
We encourage you to consider these new giving opportunities.
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