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"...we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members
one of another."
from Paul's letter to the church in Rome
which we'll hear this Sunday.
This Sunday
Summ
er Youth Group
will meet this Sunday after the 10am service in the library for conversation and refreshments (of course). See you then! And as always, if you have questions, contact Madi, [email protected]
Seeking: Sunday School Storytellers
(aka Teachers).
We are looking for Sunday School teachers---storytellers and anyone who has gifts to share with our youngest parishioners, from PreK through Fifth Grade. Our
Living the Good News
curriculum makes it easy to explore with elementary students the very same Gospel reading you hear on Sunday morning. Our
Godly Play
curriculum guides Bible storytelling for our PreK/K learners. Together, teachers and students figure out ways to live the Good News throughout the coming week. If you would like to make a difference in the lives of our children, please reach out to Ann Enkiri at
[email protected]
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**Sunday School begins September 17th!**
Backpack Sunday was a grand success!
CCPK children were amazing in their energy and eagerness in filling the pencil pouches and then moving on to stuff all 66 of the backpacks for Arcola Elementary students! The only 'complaints' heard were from parish members who came down following the 10 am service to join the assembly line only to find that the kids had finished everything! All the backpacks were loaded into Arcola Community School Coordinator Jessica Port's car by noon.
Thank you one and all for your generous support of this meaningful
project.
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Labor Day Weekend
celebrate
with an evening of beautiful organ music...
This Friday, September 1 at 7:30pm
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CCPK Organist Dr. Theodore Guerrant will play a recital entitled "A Gallic Sampler: French Organ Music Across Four Centuries" including works by de Grigny, Balbastre, Lefebure-Wely, Franck, Saint-Saens, Widor, Vierne, Mulet, Dupre, Langlais, and Durufle. A light reception with les petits douceurs and champagne will follow.
Invite your friends to this extraordinary musical experience!
...then have a blast 'marching' in
the annual Kensington
Labor Day Parade.
Monday morning, September 4th. Take some time out on the holiday to walk with Christ Church and get the word out in Kensington that we are "Alive with Joy" and we welcome everyone. Questions? contact CCPK Sr. Warden and fearless Parade Marshall, Doug Smith ([email protected]).
SIGN UP FOR THE PARADE BY CLICKING HERE
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Book Sale at CCPK !
Saturday, Sept 30 - Oct 1. Drop your books of every shape, size and topic from at the church on Sunday morning or during business hours. Now through Sept 15th. Shannon Finn will pick up donations if you are unable to bring the books to church. Questions? Want to help? Contact Book Sale Coordinator Shannon Finn, at 757-650-7617.
Our choir
, now on summer break, will resume rehearsals on Wed.,Sept. 6, at 7:30pm in the choir room. All are most welcome to come and try us out! We also rehearse on Sunday mornings at 9am before our 10:00am Eucharist. Our worship is made what it is because of your participation, so please consider coming to sing with us. Singers for all four voice parts are needed and wanted.
The Prime Timers
will meet in the church undercroft on September 7th from 11:30 - 1:30 for social time and lunch, and to enjoy a speaker. The cost of the lunch is $10.00. Please RSVP to Nora Buckley at [email protected] or 301-564-0689 by September 4th if you wish to order a lunch.
Sept. 7th: Louisa May Alcott: Civil War Nurse, Famous Writer and More;
Oct. 5th: The Healing Power of Laughter (no joke)
The Bishop is coming and we're having a picnic!
The young adult group
(20 & 30 somethings)
will meet at the Wallace Home, 3016 Fayette Road Kensington, MD 20895, for a cook out on September 17th at 6PM! For more info, e-mail Katie Wallace at
[email protected]
. Hope to see you there!
The Planned Giving and Endowment Committee
invite you to submit a Mission & Ministry Grant application for 2017. Contact Kurt Ellison (when he gets back!) for the form and instructions. Applications accepted from Sunday, September 10, 2017, through Wednesday, September 27, 2017. Awards announced in October.
Kurt Ellison is on vacation this week and next, returning on September 5th. Nora Buckley will be in the office while Kurt is away.
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This Week
at Christ Church
Sunday, August 27
8:00 AM Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Holy Eucharist
11:15 AM Popsicles on the Lawn
4:00 PM Bible Study in library
5:00 PM Holy Eucharist
Wednesday, August 30
11:00 AM Staff Meeting
6:30 PM Evening Prayer with Holy Eucharist
Friday, September 1
7:30 PM Organ Recital and Reception!!!
Saturday, September 2
9:30 AM Flower Guild
Sunday, September 3
8:00 AM Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Holy Eucharist
11:15 AM Popsicles on the Lawn
4:00 PM Bible Study in the library
5:00 PM Holy Eucharist
Monday, September 4
9ish AM Kensington Labor Day Parade (exact meeting time tba)
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We raise to God those who are on our hearts and in need of prayer.
From Christ Church
Gerry and
Lin McKiernan
David Robbins
Chlaila Haynie
Eddie Daniels
Andrew Lee
Henry Rutsch
Yvonne Jackson
Barbara Pierson
Madge Darneille
Betsy Robbins
Greg and Ann Gagarin
Calvin Smith
Nancy Maxwell
D.J. Kanapa
Thomas Quinn
Carl Keith
Karen Bruce
Dorothy Clarke
Bob Mand
Armelia Chaponda
Friends and Family of our Community
Cynthia Jones (sister of Carol Jones)
Madalyn Hoffeditz (Steve Hoffeditz's Mother)
Eleanor McIntire (Steve Hoffeditz's Aunt &
a friend of Teddy's and many of our choir members)
Karen Sechrist (friend of Virginia Sheard)
Sister Mary Joan (friend of Leslie Everheart)
Sister Mary David Totah (friend of Susan Atkinson)
Bob Lehrman (brother of Lin McKiernan)
Rev. Deborah Fox (friend of Gabby Robbins)
Helen Wheeler (mother of Nancy Gagne)
Naneita Smith (daughter of Calvin Smith)
Oong Choi (father of Deb Bartlett)
Miranda Kramer (friend of Virginia Blackman)
Reverend Sylvia Ball (cousin of Cynthia Mitchell)
James Casey (father of Mari Casey)
Erika Auchterlonie (daughter of Brenda Rupli)
Marian Fryer (friend of Virginia Sheard)
Shari Magno (mother of Roma Hart)
Henry McGlone (friend of Katie Wallace)
Matthew Chase (cousin of Madison Chase)
Richard Duchelle (father of Kate Duchelle)
Please pray for all who mourn,
including the Shaw and Parrish families, and the Cerulli-Thomas
family and friends (18 yr old Owen Thomas died suddenly in August.)
We remember those serving our country
Steven Holbrooke,
Dallas Sheard,
Alex Cox,
Andrew Coe, and
Caleb Daisley
For those celebrating birthdays this week,
a heartfelt Happy Birthday!
Betsy Robbins 08/27
Beyer Bullard 09/01
Jo Crozier 09/02
Sasha Gottlieb 09/02
Welcome
Maeve Amelia Kelly, new granddaughter of Ann Enkiri,
born 8/18/17!
For the Departed
Sandra Shaw (stepmother of Frank Shaw)
Pete Parrish (longtime friend of the parish)
Owen Thomas (friend of the Christmas-Flynn family)
The Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
St. Augustine's Church, Washington
St. Albans School for Boys
The National Cathedral School for Girls
Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School
Washington Episcopal School
The Bishop John T. Walker School
Anglican Cycle of Prayer
Diocese of Ruvuma - Church of Tanzania
For the World
- For all impacted by the hurricane in Texas and the Gulf Coast.
- For the people of Barcelona, Charlottesville, Chechnya, South Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and people suffering everywhere.
- For an end to famine and violence.
Flowers on the Altar
are given to the Glory of God in
loving memory of Gwen Luttrell, by Emily and Raymond Barry.
If you would like to add or remove someone on the prayer list, please notify Kurt Ellison in the office at [email protected]. Please notify the office of updates to this list.
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Readings
for Sunday, August 27, 2017
Exodus 1:8-2:10 - The Birth of Moses
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live." But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?" The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them." So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live."
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, "This must be one of the Hebrews' children," she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, "because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."
Psalm 124
1 If the Lord had not been on our side, *
let Israel now say;
2 If the Lord had not been on our side, *
when enemies rose up against us;
3 Then would they have swallowed us up alive *
in their fierce anger toward us;
4 Then would the waters have overwhelmed us *
and the torrent gone over us;
5 Then would the raging waters *
have gone right over us.
6 Blessed be the Lord! *
who has not given us over to be a prey for their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; *
the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the Name of the Lord, *
the maker of heaven and earth.
Romans 12:1-8
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God-- what is good and acceptable and perfect.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
Matthew 16: 13-20
When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
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Christ Church Parish
4001 Franklin St, Kensington, MD 20895
Rector
Children's Christian Formation
Dr. Theodore Guerrant
Organist/Choir Master
Ms. Madison Chase
Youth Minister
Mr. Lenord Hawkins
Sexton
Ms. Nora Buckley
Head Verger
Mr. Tony Coe
Verger
Office Hours
Monday-Thursday
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am - Noon
Telephone: 301.942.4673
Service Schedule
Sundays:
8:00am, 10:00am, 5:00pm
Wednesdays: 6:30 pm
VESTRY
Sr. Warden
Treasurer-
Bonnie Douglas
Clerk - Peter Bartram
Barbara Ferry
(Outreach)
Robin Atkinson
(Budget & Finance)
Frank Shaw
(Property)
Brad Christmas
(Stewardship)
Brian Woodward
(Education)
Yvonne Bryan
(Inreach)
Lance Kilpatrick
(Membership)
Virginia Blackman
(Worship)
Gail Marks
(Parish Life)
Ken Amaditz
(Communications)
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