| This Weekend's Readings | The Fourth Sunday of Advent
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This Weekend's Preacher
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The Reverend Canon Dr. William J. Danaher, Jr.
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12/17 Thursday
| 8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
5:00 PM - Cranbrook Choristers Rehearsal
7:30 PM - Christ Church Choir Rehearsal
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12/18 Friday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:30 AM - Al-Anon Meeting
11:30 AM - Women's Spirituality
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12/19 Saturday
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10:00 AM - Baldwin Soup Kitchen (off-site)
5:00 PM - Sanctuary with Holy Eucharist: Rite II and Holy Baptism
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12/20 Sunday
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8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite I
9:00 AM - Rector's Forum
9:00 AM - Middle School Sunday School
10:00 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
11:15 AM - High School Hangout
11:30 AM - Youth Christmas Party
11:30 AM - God and Me
11:30 AM - Docent Tour
11:30 AM - Healing Ministry (Order of St. Luke)
11:30 AM - Saint Francis Choir Rehearsal
4:00 PM - Blue Christmas Service 6:00 PM - Congregational Evensong
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12/21 Monday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
7:00 PM - Vestry Meeting
7:00 PM - Cranbrook Choristers Rehearsal
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12/22 Tuesday
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8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
4:30 PM - God and Family
7:30 PM - Christ Church Choir Rehearsal
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12/23 Wednesday
| 7:30 AM - Bible Study
8:30 AM - Holy Eucharist: Rite II
9:30 AM - Adult Children of Alcoholics Meeting
11:00 AM - College Christmas Brunch
5:30 PM - Rehearsal for Children/Youth Lectors for Christmas Eve
6:00 PM - Rehearsal for Christmas Eve
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12/24 Thursday
| 1:00 PM - Jazz Mass
4:00 PM - Children's Christmas Eve Service
7:00 PM - Festival Holy Eucharist
10:00 PM - Festival Holy Eucharist
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| Upcoming Healing Services | | |
Blue Christmas Service
Sunday December 20, 2015 at 4:00 PM
This service offers comfort, hope, and healing for all who are challenged by this year's holiday season. The holidays have a way of focusing and heightening our sorrows, sadness and fears. We can feel "out of step" with the celebration going on everywhere around us. We are missing our loved ones, worrying about money, and obtaining suitable employment, wondering what's true. At the Blue Christmas service, we will have a chance to address the sad, dark things that are weighing us down and ask God's help to endure them, pray for their healing, and reach for hope. The Service will include: Prayer & Song, Comforting scripture and words of encouragement, Holy Eucharist, Healing station for very specific and private prayer, and Pastoral counsel light refreshment & friendly companionship.
Healing Services
Weekend of December 26 and 27
Holy Scripture teaches us that Jesus healed many people and that he sent his disciples out to continue the work of healing in his name. The Episcopal Church substantiated anointing and laying on of hands hundreds of years ago and it continues in today's times. Healing prayer and anointing with oil offers strength, comfort and healing. You may ask for healing for physical, emotional or spiritual needs for yourself or someone else. Healing prayer and anointing are offered every Sunday during the 10:00 AM Eucharist in the Baptistry and on December 26 and 27, all of the services will offer healing to the entire congregation.
Healing Ministers to be Inducted into the
International Order of St. Luke The Physician
Our Healing Ministry Team has been reading books on healing and have completed a Bible Study Project which consist of studying 26 scripture passages that reference healing. Several members feel called to join the International Order of St. Luke The Physician an Ecumenical Christian Ministry dedicated to the Christian Healing Ministry. The Order of St. Luke is an organization of faith, prayer, and service with Chapters throughout the world. Our Regional Director, The Very Rev. Tony Begonia, will be at Christ Church Cranbrook on December 27 to induct several parishioners along with pastor Joyce Matthews into the OSL and Pastor Joyce will be admitted into the Chaplaincy Order as well.
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| This Week's Intercessions | | |
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| Christmas Services | | Please join us for Christmas Eve services on Thursday, December 24th. This year we will be offering four services:
Jazz Mass, 1:00 PM
Family Service, 4:00 PM
Festival Holy Eucharist, 7:00 PM, featuring brass and choir
Festival Holy Eucharist, 10:00 PM, featuring brass and choir
On Christmas Day, we will have celebrate Holy Eucharist at 10:00 AM, followed by the Christmas Brunch (for more details on the brunch, see below).
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| Christmas Day Brunch | |  Join us on December 25th at 11:00 AM for a traditional Christmas Day feast with turkey, ham, and all the trimmings. You will also enjoy appetizers, festive music and warm-hearted conversation with others in the community. Please RSVP by December 22 to Shirley Green at 248.253.1316 or the church office at 248-644-5210. Transportation can be arranged if needed. All are welcome! |
| New Children and Youth Liturgical Drama | | Mark your calendars for the new play to be performed on Saturday February 6 at 5:00 PM. The theme of the play is Transfiguration. Casting call is Sunday January 10 after the 10:00 AM worship.
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| Item of the Month | | |
In keeping with the Spirit of Christmas and celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, we will be collecting BABY ITEMS this month. These donations will be delivered to the Center for Children, a division of Focus:HOPE and Crossroads of Michigan. Some suggestions are layette sets, baby toiletries, crib sheets and blankets, children clothing 0 - 4T, diapers newborn to 4T and bottle sets. Please place your donations in the bins located in the Narthex and at the South Entrance. Thank you for helping these precious children.
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| The Rector's Forum | | |
Living Religion(s)
Sundays at 9:00 AM in the Hospitality Center
We live, as the saying goes, in interesting times. Religion, once considered a spent force in society, continues to figure in world events as a source of conflict and compassion, of violence and peace, of wounding and healing. Join us for an informative and interesting look at some of the world's religions as we look for the overlaps that exist between them as well as their different claims about God and humanity.
The Rector's forums are recorded and can be viewed by clicking HERE.
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| Serve a Meal at Baldwin Center | | In 2016, consider making it part of your walk with Christ to do an act of service to others once a month or quarter. Serving lunch at Baldwin Center is an easy and fun way to fulfill this resolution! Dates are available all year, but we need helpers now for Wednesday, January 6 and Saturday, January 16.
Sign up HERE or contact Pastor Manisha (mdostert@christchurchcranbrook.org).
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| Trinity Institute comes to Cranbrook! | |
Sponsored by Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopal parish in New York City, the 45th Annual Trinity Institute is a theological conference that equips lay and ordained Christians for imaginative and catalytic discipleship. TI2016: Listen for a Change - Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice- is being webcasted live at Christ Church Cranbrook on Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23. Participants from all faith perspectives are welcomed. Tickets for the events and lunch are $15 per day and more information is available HERE.
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| Sunday School Outreach | |  Pennies for Piggies
In November and December we will collect a special offering during Sunday School for the Episcopal Relief and Development organization to help impoverished families make a living by raising pigs. Go "Hog Wild" and help the Sunday School with your spare change.
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| High School Hang Out | | An opportunity for High Schoolers to hang out and connect with their peers and make a connection. If you are in 9th - 12th grade come check it out, come to the parlor immediately following church service. Youth Leaders will be there to greet you: Pastor Manisha, Jill Bednas, David & Joan Jensen,or Michael & Maryilyn Roche. This is sort of High School coffee hour with guided conversation.
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| Women's Spirituality Group | | Women's Spirituality Group (WSG) on Fridays from noon to 1 PM. WSG is a way for women to develop a rhythm to their spiritual life by living in "seasons." We are in the season of the Scriptures. Pastor Manisha is leading a study on Galatians, a book in the Bible with a razor-sharp focus on Christ's work of setting humans free. Come for any or all sessions through December 18. Brown bag lunch and fellowship begins at 11:30 AM in Room 201-202. All are welcome!
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| Healing Ministry | |  Are you interested in joining our Healing Ministry? Members of Christ Church Cranbrook Healing Ministry are embarking on a new study for induction into the Order of St. Luke. The International Order of St. Luke the Physician is made up of clergy, health professionals, and lay people who feel called to make Jesus' ministry of healing a ministry they will engage in at their respective churches. Our brown bag studies will take place on Sunday from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM on January 17, January 24, and February 7. We welcome those from other Christian churches who want to discern their call to healing ministry. Please contact the Reverend Joyce Matthews if you are interested at jmatthews@christchurchcranbrook.org or 248.644.5210, Ext. 15. |
| Saint Francis Children's Choir | | St. Francis Choir meets on Sundays following the 10 AM Service! All children, 4 years old to second grade, are welcome and encouraged to join the St. Francis Choir and experience the joy of choral singing. Kate Bublitz will direct the choir again this year. Rehearsals are held in the Choir Room immediately following Sunday's 10:00 AM service. For more information contact Kate at kate.bublitz@hotmail.com.
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| Member Directory Advertising | | Cathedral Directories is publishing our annual member directory and is looking for advertisers in support of this publication. If you would be interested in advertising this year or would like more information please contact Cathy Hunley at Cathedral Directories, 248.545.1415, Ext. 110. The deadline for ads is February 15, 2016.
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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. |
| Cub Scouts / Boy Scouts / Venturers | | A religious education program is being offered at Christ Church Cranbrook to encourage the spiritual growth of youth. This Religious Emblem Program is recognized by the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the USA. The programs offered are: God & Me (grades 1 - 3), God & Family (grades 4 - 5), God & Church (grades 6 - 8) and God & Life (grades 9 - 12). Upon completing the program, a scout is awarded the religious emblem medal suitable for uniform wear. For registration and additional information, contact Scott Bednas at 313.686.1020, or email: sbednas@umich.edu
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| Old Rectory Resale Shop at All Saints', Pontiac | |
The Old Rectory Resale Shop at All Saints' Pontiac has new hours and all new stock. Fridays & Saturdays 10-2. All new, but gently used, fall and winter clothes, kitchen and decorating items, plus a huge stock of Christmas decorating items, at fabulous prices. The Produce Market is right next door, open Saturdays 10-2, with fresh fruits and vegetables at near wholesale prices. Our Book Nook has thousands of gently read titles for adults and children, Saturdays 10-12. Come by to shop or to volunteer. New help is always welcome for these major ministries of All Saints'. Pike & Exchange Sts., west of Woodward, between Orchard Lake and M-59. Check out our new website www.allsaintspontiac.org or Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/oldrectoryresaleshop.
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| Interfaith Question of the Week |
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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. |
| 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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