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October 20, 2016
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The Annual Campaign Dinner Tuesday Night ...
Raised $2758 towards
Fr. Ikenye's last year of expenses as a missionary in Kenya.
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This Sunday at Christ Church
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Sunday Faith & Practice
10:45 in the Church
This Sunday, Faith & Practice will focus on our parish finances. We will look at the state of the Operating Budget, our Investments, and offer an anonymous breakdown of our giving patterns. In addition, we will explain where your pledge money is allocated in our budget and what our various costs are for our major initiatives like Youth, Choir, Rummage, Education, Outreach, Administration, and Maintenance. This will also serve as our mid year 'check in' about how we are doing financially. Your questions are welcome.
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Recognize: All 7th-12th Graders
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All youth in grades 7-12 are invited to the McClain Room where we will be making posters and door signs to welcome our Family Promise guests. After we make our signs, Mr.Clemmitt will give us a tour of the bell tower! All youth who are able are encouraged to stay ten minutes past 11:30 to help carry in the supplies for Family Promise.
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Please join us for our Compline service. Held entirely by candlelight, this forty-minute liturgy offers pause from the hectic pace of our lives.
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REACH OUT, REACH IN, REACH GOD
Please return your pledge card to the church by mail or placing it on the offering plate.
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Original Prayers by Our Youth
Last Sunday our youth partnered with adults in our congregation to write prayers about something they all held in common. They decided on Brothers and Our Parents are Our Heroes. Their prayers are below. Please feel free to use them in your daily lives.
A Prayer for Brothers...
Dear God, please help us to be good sisters to our brothers. Guide them and help us set good examples for them and have empathy and patience toward them. Thank you for helping them to be fun and loving and for bringing out the best in us. Amen.
--by Frances DeBlasio, Kate Keller, Anna Meyer, Anna Mills
A Prayer for Our Parents...
Dear God, thank you for our parents who help us and guide us. They are kind. Please help our parents be less stressed and more peaceful and continue to raise us. Thank you for our parents who are great. Thank you for their wisdom. They are our heroes. Amen.
--by Alexis Boe, Aline Crankshaw, Sherry Gormanous, Leah Romanelli
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Choir Christmas Wreath Sale
Our Youth Choir once again is sponsoring a wreath sale to help support its tour fund. In
August of 2017 our choristers will travel to England to sing at beautiful, historic Winchester Cathedral. You can decorate your home for the Christmas season by purchasing a wreath identical to the ones hung at our church at Christmas. The following sizes are available:
12" @ $24.00 a good size for a candle ring or small door
18" @ $30.00
22" @ $35.00
26" @ $40.00 the size on the church doors
Note: We are now transitioning to charging a 3% transaction fee for using a credit card to purchase items from the Church. This does not apply to purchases using checks or electronic checks. To order online click here or print out the following and return it to the office. Christmas Wreath Sale pdf.
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Join us at our 9:30 S
ervice on All Saints' Sunday Morning
N
 ovember 6
when we will feature some beautiful choral music accompanied by brass and organ.
You are invited to support our music program by offering a gift as a memorial or in thanksgiving. Your text will be listed in the All Saints' Sunday bulletin, November 6.
You can send a check with "All Saints Music" written on the memo line to the parish office with your memorial or thanksgiving information on the:
All-saints-music-donation-form-2016
or submit the memorial or thanksgiving below and pay
online.
Thank you for supporting our Music Program, and especially our special music on All Saints' Sunday, November 6, 2016.
November 6, 2016 - 2:00AM SUNDAY,
SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR!!
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All Saints Evensong
Please join us a
t 6:00PM on All Saints' Sunday, November 6 for Evensong featuring our Youth and Adult Choirs. Music for this lovely, peaceful service will include choral anthems by Murrill, Clausen, and Byrd and organ music by Bonnet and Widor.
During the service, we will pray aloud for departed friends and loved ones whose names you have submitted to us.
After Evensong, all are invited to participate in a delicious, festive dinner in the McClain Room. We'd love to have you with us!
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Keyboard Extravaganza II
A concert to benefit Family Promise Chicago North Shore
and Interfaith Action
Enjoy the keyboard performances of Richard Clemmitt, Jay Peterson, Kingsley Day, David Lornson, Aaron Stampfl, Paul Vander Weele, Sheran Fiedler and special guests
Andrew Nelson, clarinet and Margaret Philbrick, trumpet.
Sunday, November 6, 3:00PM.
First Congregational Church
of Evanston, UCC, 1445 Hinman Ave.,Evanston, IL
Tickets available at the door:
$25 Adults
$10 Students
For more info call: (847)475-4267
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Episcopal Charities Bishop's Ball
November 4, 2016
57th Annual Episcopal Charities Gala. Now is the time to come together and make great things happen! For tickets and information
CLICK HERE.
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Diocesan Convention
We are looking for volunteers to work Diocesan Convention, November 18-19. Volunteers do things like work at registration, help collect ballots, help with liturgy or support the workshops or collect ballots. There are perks! You get to meet people from congregations all over the diocese. You get to attend the Convention for free... You get free lunches!
We can NOT do Diocesan Convention without the help of volunteers. We LOVE volunteers. People who are interested can email Shay Craig or Anna Stefaniak.
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179th Annual Convention, November 18 - 19, 2016
The 179th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Chicago will take place on Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 18 at the
Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard.
Bishop Yvette Flunder, presiding bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, a multi-denominational coalition of over 56 churches and faith-based organizations from all over the world, will be the keynote speaker at this year's diocesan convention.
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CCD: Coffee, Christ, and Donuts Returns! High schoolers are invited to join
Frances DeBlasio & Leah Romanelli at 480 Elder Ln, Winnetka, IL (the DeBlasio home) from 7-8AM every Wednesday that New Trier is in session. We eat breakfast, talk about life, and pet dogs. Friends are welcome! Rides are provided to school (including Northfield campus).
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Inspiration Café
All high schoolers and their friends are invited to make and serve dinner together for the patrons at Inspiration Café in Uptown on
Saturday, October 29. We w
 ill meet in the Oak St. parking lot at 470 Maple St. and carpool to Inspiration Café at 3:00PM. After making and serving dinner, we will eat with the people we've met and then drive home, getting back around 9:00PM. As sophomore Lucy Kreisa said, "That was the most meaningful experience of my life." We can take 10 people, so please RSVP to
Leah Romanelli to reserve a seat.
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Service in the City
 In September of this year, the playground at Good News Partners in Rogers Park was burned to the ground during a gang initiation. It also damaged some of GNP's offices. On Sunday, October 30, all high schoolers and interested adults (skilled labor needed!) are encouraged to join us immediately after church as we grab lunch on the road and then head down to Rogers Park to make repairs on one of the only safe spaces the kids in the neighborhood have to play. We will return to Winnetka between 3:00-4:00PM.
We are partnering with our friends at St. Augustine's, First Presbyterian, and Trinity UMC of Wilmette on this project.
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Youth Ministry Save the Dates
Saturday, October 22-Confirmation Students serve at A Just Harvest (4:00 -7:00PM)
Saturday, October 29-High Schoolers make and serve dinner at Inspiration Café (3:00-9:00PM)
Sunday, October 30-High Schoolers make repairs at the Good News Partners playground in Rogers Park (11:45-4:00PM)
Thursday, November 10-High Schoolers serve at Bernie's Book Bank (11:00-3:30 PM)
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Why Do Episcopalians Read Their Prayers?
Episcopalians, like many Christians, believe that when we write our prayers down we carry forward an ancient tradition of order and structure suggested in Jesus' instructions to the disciples in the Lord's Prayer. Sure, there's the danger of written prayers becoming nothing more than hollow words and empty phrases, which is something Jesus warned against. However, written prayers have a lot to offer.
Episcopalians find that written prayers allow for common prayer. Our prayers allow us to partake more deeply in a shared experience offering up something we agree on. Most of our prayers are pretty old and have stood the test of time regarding the beliefs they express and the clarity with which they state them. When we pray them we are uniting with generations of believers through time who have prayed the same prayers.
Think of a written prayer as the refrain to your favorite song. That song may be several years old and you may have sung it hundreds of times. But that doesn't make it any less touching or enjoyable. Good songs age well, and so do good prayers.
--The Episcopal Handbook, p 40
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- October 22: Terry C. Butler Memorial Service 3PM
- October 22: Gwenyth B. Warton Memorial Service 11AM
- October 23-29: Family Promise
- October 28:John Beebe Memorial Service 12PM
- November 4: 57th Annual Episcopal Charities Gala
- November 6: 2:00AM Day light Savings Time (Clock Backward)
- November 18-19: 2016 Diocesan Convention
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We Need Your Family's Help To
Fulfill Our Family Promise
We need your help!
Join the over 40 Christ Church Families
Offering Housing, Food, Companionship and Respect
October 23-30, Church On The Hill
Volunteer Today For Remaining Activities
We are offering a safe place to sleep, a healthy meal,
fellowship and hospitality, and to act as the hands and
feet of Christ in our world.
- Setup - Sunday 10/23 - 11:30AM-1:30PM
- Greeters - Saturday 10/29 - 5:30-8PM
- Cleanup - Sunday 10/30 - 7-8:30AM
Questions?:Email Robin Anstaett
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Volunteer Center - Make A Difference Day
Each year the Volunteer Center hosts its Make A Difference Day for the entire North Shore and the N.E. Metropolitan Chicago - a one day collection drive that benefits 15 nonprofit organizations and their clients facing critical need. The event will be h
eld on October 22, at the Indian Hill Train Station in Winnetka from 9am to noon. The nonprofit representatives will be on hand to accept items ranging from food, clothing, infant formula, sports equipment, eyeglasses, household goods, warm weather wear, toys and games and many more.
Residents are invited to drop off their gently used goods Saturday morning and the nonprofits will put them in their vans and trucks and deliver them directly to their clients. This is recycling with an immediate impact! Please consider cleaning out your closets, cabinets and garages and donating your gently used items at Last year was a record breaking drive as residents contributed over 22,000 items! We hope to make just as great an impact this year.
We are also looking for volunteers to help distribute the items from the cars to the nonprofits. Anyone interested in helping (from pre-teens through adults), we would welcome their time Saturday morning. Please contact Barb Tubekis at barb@volunteercenterhelps.org if you can help.
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Pastoral Care is
funda
mental to our faith and a ministry of Christ Church. If you are facing illness, a life transition or challenging circumstances, please contact one of our clergy. We are available when you nee
d us for a hospital, home, or office visit. Christ Church has many lay volunteers who are readily available to provide meals and rides as needed. Please reach out to the clergy through the office at (847) 446-2850, or on their cell phones:
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