| This Weekend's Readings | The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Click HERE to view this weekends readings.
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This Weekend's Preacher
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The Reverend Manisha Dostert
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8/20 Thursday
| 8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
11:00 AM - Funeral Service for Michael Shiflet
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8/21 Friday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:30 AM - Al-Anon Meeting
11:00 AM - Funeral Service for William MacAdam
12:00 PM - Women's Spirituality (Lunch at 11:30 AM)
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8/22 Saturday
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5:00 PM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
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8/23 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 6:00 PM - Sunday at Six Evensong
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8/24 Monday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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8/25 Tuesday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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8/26 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
6:00 PM - Stewardship Committee Meeting
7:00 PM - Buildings & Grounds Committee Meeting
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8/27 Thursday
| 8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
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| Hammers, Nails and... Laptops | | Keep It 100! was an epic outreach event, with a cast of thousands. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America sent over 10,000 youth volunteers for a collaborative project with Focus: HOPE. Over a period of three days in July, they cleaned up, nailed up and rejuvenated more than 100 blocks of one of Detroit's most distressed neighborhoods. Members of Christ Church Cranbrook played a critical role in making the project a great success. You can read about it and see photos at https://outreachdiaries.wordpress.com/needs-opportunites/
This was a traditional hammer & nails outreach project. There are two more projects getting underway which call for a wider mix of talents:
Science at Glazer Elementary School
Four years ago, Glazer was cited for deficiencies in the performance of their students in science. They came to CCC for help in setting up a science classroom. Last year we helped them launch a program in robotics. This year they have asked for help in science education itself. This will include science field trips, presentations for career days, and maybe after school enrichment. We are looking for volunteers who are enthusiastic about education. Specific training in science is not needed. Please join us on the planning committee that will meet several times a year or as volunteers who might help with after hours programs.
Community Health in the HOPE Village Initiative
After years of planning and development, a fully integrated, comprehensive health care clinic is opening in the HOPE Village Initiative. Parallel with that, the Ross School of Business has developed a comprehensive set of recommendations to enhance health and safety in the neighborhood. We are hoping to find individuals interested in public health activities, including the development of a health news letter, a website of resources for citizens, support of community health workers, and health promotion. We need individuals with training in healthcare and volunteers with skills in communication, promotion or community organization.
We would love to have your help! Please contact Pastor Manisha Dostert (mdostert@christchurchcranbrook.org) or Felix Rogers (fjrogers@aol.com) for more information or to volunteer.
- Felix Rogers
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| This Week's Intercessions | | |
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| 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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Thank God for Your Summer!
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If your summer has been a gift from God, we have a wonderful way to thank God for your blessings! Donate four hours on Sunday, August 30 to feed seven hundred people at Crossroads of Michigan. CCC will providing sloppy joes and sandwiches-to-go at the only Detroit Soup Kitchen open on Sundays. Since it is the fifth Sunday of the month, we expect a larger than normal turnout from those on fixed incomes.
Shifts are from 8 AM -12 PM (six more volunteers needed) and 12 PM - 4 PM (ten more volunteers needed).
Sign up at www.cccrsvp.org/feed or contact Pastor Manisha or Michael Andrews at m.andrews@yahoo.com
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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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| 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. |
Summer Sunday School
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| 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 debv0419@gmail.com or 248.862.6336. |
| 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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| CCC Ladies Night Out | | |
Ladies of Christ Church Cranbrook: let's spend a night out at a paint party! We'll paint, share stories, and strengthen the bonds of community. This gathering is for all women in all stages of life, but we extend a special invitation to moms who have kids just starting in college or their post-high school life. Invite your friends, too.
When: Saturday, October 10, 2015 from 6.30-9.30 PM.
Bring to the party: $40, and beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and snacks to share. Questions? Ask Pastor ManishaClick HERE to sign up. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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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| 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.
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. |
| 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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