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Forum,
December 4
:
I Will Come to You in the Silence
Marie Michele Donnelly, RSM, will help us deepen our Advent prayer through the practice of Holy Silence.
Forum,
December 11
:
O Antiphons!
Barb Ballenger will lead us in an exploration of the names of Jesus that enter the prayer of the church in the last days before Christmas.
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Advent at St. Martin's
Looking for resources for this season of preparation, watching, and waiting?
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CANCELLED:
Spiritual Gifts for Simple Giving
Spirituality of Aging
Wednesday, December 7, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Hilary House
All are invited to learn where God may be and how God is acting as we move in the second half of life.
No registration required.
Listening Lessons: Compassionate Listening
Wednesday, December 7, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Hilary House
International conflict transformation mediator, Bill Jacobsen, will introduce techniques to equip you with deep listening skills.
Sunday Evening Mindfulness Discussion
Sunday, December 11, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Hilary House
Join Mindfulness practitioner Deborah Cooper for a discussion of Tara Brach's book Radical Acceptance, Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha.
Register Here!
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We need YOU for our Christmas Pageant!
Auditions for Speaking Parts: December 14th after SUPPER
Calling all angels, shepherds and sheep! Christmas pageant preparation gets under way in December! We have have 9 speaking parts for older elementary and Junior High students. We also need older elementary students to shepherd sheep, and angels to help them participate fully in the pageant. Parents are also needed to help with costumes, crowd control, etc. The pageant is a beloved congregational tradition and serves as the sermon at the 5 p.m. Christmas Eve service.
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SUPPER at St. Martin's:
December Holiday Schedule
Our Final SUPPER of 2016 will take place on Wednesday, December 14.
Then, join us again on
January 11, 2017
for the return of our 2nd and 4th Wednesdays schedule in the new year. T
ell your friends to join our SUPPER-only mailing list by
here
. They will receive the SUPPER menu on the Monday before the meal.
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FUSE Senior High - Save the Date!
Nightwatch: Crossroads
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
February 10-11, 2017
Cost: $85
This year we're inviting all senior high students to join us for an overnight retreat called Nightwatch: Crossroads at the incredible Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. Every year St. John the Divine hosts youth from across the country in this amazing retreats. Tickets need to be purchased soon, so parents
please RSVP to Ellen Doster at [email protected] or 215-247-7466 by December 19th!
Nightwatch has created a safe, spirit-centered program of joyful fellowship, contemplative-contemporary spiritual direction, devotional singing, and lots of fun activities.
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FUSE Movie Night: Simon Birch
Wednesday, December 14th, 7 p.m.
In the Library after SUPPER
Simon Birch believes that God made him for a special, heroic purpose. Simon and his best friend Joe Wenteworth are both outcasts in their tiny New England town: Joe is the illegitimate son of the town beauty, and Simon, at age 12, is so small that he still plays the infant Jesus in the church Christmas pageant. Together, they try to find out who Joe's father is. Just as they succeed, the time comes for Simon to fulfill the destiny he believes in. A situation arises that demands a hero - a very small hero.
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Christmas in the Middle East
Saturday, December 17th,
7 p.m.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill
Since 2003, with the rise of sectarian violence and ISIS in Iraq, o
ver 120,000 Iraqi Christians under persecution have fled Iraqi cities for the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the north, where they are protected by the Kurdish authorities and Peshmerga fighting forces. Come meet the Archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Cypress and the Gulph to learn more about what is happening on the ground. For more information contact The Rev. Cliff Cutler (215) 242-2055.
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FUSE Service Trip to St. Barnabas Mission
Sunday, December 18th, 12:30 p.m.
After church on Sunday the 18th, FUSE junior and senior high will be going to St. Barnabas Mission, part of Episcopal Community Services, to help package meals to give away this month.
ECS St. Barnabas Mission provides safe, decent shelter, healthy meals and supportive services to homeless families headed by a single mother. Located at 6006 W. Girard Avenue, the program's immediate goal is to give families a safe place to stay. The long-term goal is to help mothers and children become self-sufficient. St. Barnabas is critical to ECS' mission of empowering vulnerable individuals and families and directly addresses the agency's long-term outcomes of safety, well-being and self-sufficiency for all clients.
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New Refugee Family to Be Hosted by St. Martin's!
As it is with supporting refugees, arrangements have changed. We will no longer be hosting the 13-member Lubanda family from the Congo, and have now opened ourselves to hosting a new family! The Sharif family, Sameer and Majidah along with their son Ayman and daughter Iman, are expected to join us from Syria on
December 14.
Thousands of Syrians, like members of the Sharif family flee their country every day. They often decide to finally escape after seeing their neighborhoods bombed or family members killed. The risks on the journey to the border can be as high as staying: Families walk for miles through the night to avoid being shot at by snipers or being caught by warring parties who will kidnap young men to fight for their cause.
According to the U.N., about 11 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes - enough people to fill roughly 200 Yankee Stadiums. This includes about 4.8 million refugees who have been forced to seek safety in neighboring countries.
We thank everyone who has worked very hard toward the anticipated arrival of the Lubandas. We appreciate that so much is now in place for this new family because of those efforts. Please stay tuned for more information from St. Martin's Refugee Resettlement Committee about how you can help the Sharifs.
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Christmas Flowers to Decorate the Church
You are invited to give Christmas flowers in thanksgiving for or in memory of someone you love. The deadline for your information is Monday, December 12
. Please contact
Connie Haggard at 215.247.7466 x116 or [email protected].
Or you may mail your request, attention "Connie," along with your check made payable to "Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields" with "Christmas flowers" on the memo line. The amount you give is discretionary - and we thank you!
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Successful #GivingTuesday with Beyond Borders
On Tuesday, St. Martin's members and friends raised $1,374 to give the gift of freedom & education to girls & boys trapped in slavery through Beyond Borders' #SchoolsNotSlavery campaign. This was a portion of the $26,000+ that Beyond Borders raised in the one-day campaign. Thank you to those who supported this program! You can still contribute to Schools Not Slavery and help to continue to fund
St. Philip and St. Jacques School in Chenkontan on the island of La Gonav, Haiti. Of course, people can still give, as the Schools Not Slavery campaign continues until Dec. 31, and anyone who gives on the St. Martin's page will still get their gift matched at 100% since all gifts in support of a partnership like yours qualify for matching funds from a foundation supporter of Beyond Borders.
Your support helps families find and free children they've sent away, bring them home and enroll them in school, AND keeps so many more children from ever becoming enslaved, by helping communities to organize themselves to stop the flow of children into slavery.
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Help us reach our Goal: Get your Pledges In!
Our Goals:
1) Minimum of $600,000 pledged for 2017
2) Every Household Pledges (we're halfway there!)
3) Raise Household Median gift to $3,700
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Volunteers Needed for the Creating Change Conference
January 18-22, 2017
Creating Change is an annual conference hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force for social justice leadership and skills building. Scheduled to be at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in January, this conference needs hundreds of justice-minded volunteers to run smoothly and offers free workshop attendance in exchange for volunteer shifts.
Contact conference host committee member Angelique Gravely (
[email protected]
) with any questions.
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UPCOMING
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Books and Banter:
Death Comes for the Archbishop -
Monday, Dec. 12th at
7:30 p.m. in the Houston Room
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Men for Others: Saturday, Dec. 17th at 7:30 a.m. in the Houston Room
- New Year's Eve Kirtan with
Mandala
: Saturday, Dec. 31st 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Church
ONGOING
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Weekday Worship:
Morning Prayer:
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs at 7:30 a.m.
Morning Meditation:
Weekdays at 8:15 a.m.
Mid-Week Eucharist:
Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m.
Compline:
2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7 p.m. after SUPPER at St. Martin's
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Quick Info & Links
Our Mission
Welcome all seekers
Worship God in liturgy, music and prayer
Equip all baptized persons for ministry
Engage as agents of Christ's love in the world.
Our Core Values
Learning Leads to God
In giving and receiving care we encounter Christ
Life in the Holy Spirit is beautiful
Our Aspirational Values
Community Engagement and Social Justice
Unconditional Welcome and Inclusion
A community that calls forth the gifts of its entire people
Becoming a Racism-Free and Diverse Community that reflects the City where we worship
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Field Notes is the weekly parish e-newsletter for the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. Read about our events, programs, and other opportunities.
To submit news or articles, please send typed blurbs (75 words or less!) to Natalee Hill, Associate for Communications & Administration at
[email protected]
by Tuesday. Feedback is always welcome!
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Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
StMartinEC.org
| 215.247.7466
8000 St. Martin's Lane | Philadelphia | PA | 19118
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