| Welcome to Christ Church |
 As you know, Christ Church is participating in the diocese's Indaba process. Indaba is a Zulu word indicating listening and intentional conversations. In the Indaba process, three parishes, each from a different region of the diocese and with different demographics, are grouped together. The Indaba groups spend a weekend at each parishes, participating in their parish life and sharing ideas. Our partner parishes are Christ the King, Stone Ridge, and St. Augustine's, Manhattan. Our Indaba team -- Eva-Marie Black, Mark Gherzo, Alleida Mitchell, and me -- along with the team from St. Augustine's, spent the weekend of October 19 -20 at Christ the King. On the weekend of January 11 - 12, it will be our turn to host the teams from Christ the King and St. Augustine's at Christ Church. We're putting together and fun and informative weekend for them, but right now our urgent need is to arrange housing. As many eight people will need housing, and we can take one or two in the rectory, so we will still need housing for six or seven. None of the guests are couples, so each would need his/her own room. Here's what hosting would involve:
Overnight accommodations on Saturday, January 11;
Providing a bedroom, towels, and linens;
Having the bedroom available on for a few hours in the late afternoon on Saturday, January 11 for quiet time;
Breakfast on Sunday morning, January 12;
Possibly transporting to and from church on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
When we were in Stone Ridge, our hosts treated us like long lost friends so, naturally, we want to reciprocate. Hosting doesn't have to be fancy -- warmly welcoming someone into your home will be more than enough. Hosting is a lot of fun, and it is a great way to get to know someone well from another part of our diocese.
If you are able to host, or if you have any questions about hosting, please speak to me as soon as possible.
Fr. Chuck |
| In a couple of weeks we will be celebrating our Annual St. Nick's Fair. New this year will be breakfast with Santa. It would be lovely if we could all plan to have breakfast with the "Jolly Fella", starting at 8:30 a.m. Breakfast is a free will offering and he will be giving out gifts to all the children in attendance. Stephen Gross, John Gerney and Sam Williams will be the chefs on duty. There will be a repeat of our traditional features, vendors, raffles, books, home baked goods, fresh pine wreaths, white elephant, gift table and much, much more.
Volunteers are needed to help at various sections on the day of the fair, Saturday December 7, as well as decorating and setting up prior to the event starting Friday, November 29, and cleaning up after the event. Please use the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board to indicate your availability.
Donations to help defray Santa's gift giving cost, i.e. cash, new or unused toys for boys or girls (toddlers to 15 yrs) as well as items for the raffle baskets would be appreciated.
Due to prior commitment, Nick Lettiere will not be at the fair. He however is taking orders for fresh pine wreaths and they would be available for pick-up at the fair. Cost is $15 each. Orders can be given to Alleida Mitchell or by calling the office - 718-727-6100. |
 Miriam and Kjeristi selling Advent Calendars
Photo: Lisa Rhoades |
| Christ Church's annual meeting will be held on Sunday, January 26, following the 10:00 a.m. service. One of the most important jobs of the annual meeting is to elect new vestry members. This year we will elect one warden for a two-year term; four vestry persons for three-year terms; and one vestry persons for a two-year term to complete an unexpired term.
If you have someone you would like to be considered for nomination, please fill out one of the forms, which are placed at both entrances to the church or speak to a member of the nominating committee. The committee members are:
Willie Black, Jr., chair
Eva-Marie Black
John Gerney
Andrea McIntosh
Nancy Reiersen-Scromo
Richard Whaley. |
| If you have pledged for the year 2014 your envelopes are in the back of the church. If you have not pledged you will not receive envelopes. So, please make an effort to hand in your pledge card. If you did not receive a pledge card, see Beth McLean. This Sunday, December 8, is our stewardship ingathering. Please bring your completed stewardship card to church. |
| This Saturday we will be celebrating our Annual St. Nick's Fair. New this year will be breakfast with Santa. It would be lovely if we could all plan to have breakfast with the "Jolly Fella", starting at 8:30 a.m. Breakfast is a free will offering and he will be giving out gifts to all the children in attendance. Stephen Gross, John Gerney and Sam Williams will be the chefs on duty. There will be a repeat of our traditional features, vendors, raffles, books, home baked goods, fresh pine wreaths, white elephant, gift table and much, much more.
Volunteers are needed to help at various sections on the day of the fair, Saturday December 7, as well as decorating and setting up prior to the event starting Friday, November 29, and cleaning up after the event. Please use the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board to indicate your availability.
Donations to help defray Santa's gift giving cost, i.e. cash, new or unused toys for boys or girls (toddlers to 15 yrs) as well as items for the raffle baskets would be appreciated.
Due to prior commitment, Nick Lettiere will not be at the fair. He however is taking orders for fresh pine wreaths and they would be available for pick-up at the fair. Cost is $15 each. Orders can be given to Alleida Mitchell or by calling the office - 718-727-6100. |
| Katie McGough is collecting NEW socks for our community to keep them warm this winter. Katie is working towards achieving her Gold Award for Girl Scouts and she is asking for everyone's help. The goal is to collect 400 pairs of socks -- men's, women's, children's - crew or high socks (no ankle socks please).
Drop your donation off at church or the parish office by December 15th. All socks will be delivered to the Trinity Lutheran Soup Kitchen.
If you have any questions, Katie can be reached at mcgoughnda@msn.com. |
| The Fundraising Committee will meet in the Auditorium on Sunday, December 8th following coffee hour. We will be planning our 2014 calendar and setting dates for all our events. |
 Did you know that over one million New Yorkers face hunger every year? This year City Harvest, New York City's private response to hunger, is running a special food drive to keep food panty and soup kitchen shelves stocked in some 400 community food programs for the duration of the holidays.
From now until January 10, the food we collect on Sunday morning will be directed to City Harvest. The food we collect will stay on Staten Island.
The most helpful food items are:
canned fruit
canned vegetables
peanut butter (plastic jars)
macaroni and cheese (packaged)
hot & cold cereal (packaged, family-sized). |
| Find out what it takes to be a City Harvest volunteer on Staten Island Meet Vikki Campos from City Harvest on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 from 4-5 pm at the new Stapleton NY Public Library, 132 Canal St., near Tappen Park. City Harvest needs your help with healthy cooking demonstrations, supermarket tours, and fruit and vegetable distribution at our Mobile Markets. No experience necessary: We'll train you. For more information, contact Vikki at vcampos@cityharvest.org, 646.412.0931, or Susan Fowler, sfowler@cityharvest.org, 646.412.0721. |
| The following individuals have requested our prayers: Robin Beveridge, Shirley Black, Willie Black, Jr., Audrey Brown, Colin Brown, Garrick Brown, Gavin Brown, Gregory Brown, Noella Brown, Patricia Brown-Prestia, Stephen Carlotti, Inez Colborne, Scott Crabbe, Dolly Denaro, Anne Devlin, Michael Devlin, Barbara Dusold, Marlene Elia, Barbara Finnerty, Tina Grosick, Alexandra Hanly, James Hanly, Damian Harasiuk, Marcos Hidalgo, Michelle Lane, Peter MacKauer, Jack Maisch, William Marcus, Donna Marlak, Andrea McIntosh, Hugo McIntosh, Sr., Anthony Mobilia, Maria Mobilia, Lynne Morishita, Juan Negron, Cecily Nordstrom, Linda Oppenheimer, Janice Pattison, Ryan Perrotta, Sam Pirozzolo, Loretta Prisco, Victor Rao, Hal Reiersen, Joyce Rowan, Meg Rowan, Caspar Schneider,Hassan Sharif, Ann Sohm, Peter Swanson, Evelyn Tuthill, Sophia Vazquez Pazos, and Elise Weiser. We give thanks to God for the following individuals who are celebrating their Birthdays this week: Sarah McLean (9), Ginny Spadaro (14). We give thanks to God for those celebrating their Wedding Anniversaries this week: David & Laraine Holt (9), Ronald & Sunitha Massety (9), Karen & Paul Smith (13), Joseph & Theresa Gilman (13).
We pray for the repose of the souls of Isabel Baker Gaylord, Paul Childs Gaylord, Leslie Janet Gaylord, William Gaylord, Clarissa Shepherd Gaylord, Arthur Thompson, Jr., Isabel Gaylord Thompson, Albert D. Thompson, Adelaide E. Thompson, Joseph C. Thompson in whose loving memory the Altar Flowers are presented to the glory of God.
For the people of the Philippines.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Episcopal Church of Western North Carolina, The Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor.
In the Diocese of New York, we pray for Katharine our Presiding Bishop, Andrew and Chilton, our bishops and The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Manhattan.
We pray for the continued growth of the Carpenter's Kids Program. |
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