Sunday, December 4, 2016  

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

              

Sermon:   8:00 a.m.  The Rev. Melanie McCarley    

 

               534   "God is working his purpose out"    

               67     "Comfort, comfort ye my people"
               61     "Sleepers, wake! A voice astounds us"
               542   "Christ is the world's true light"

                 

            

   

 

Children will have church school this Sunday.
Block 2 church school dates are: 12/4,12/11, 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, and 2/12.

K-2 teachers are Noelle Hendrixson and Rachel Miller. Grades 3-5 teacher is Chelsea Barbercheck.
Middle School teacher is JoeLavalley.

 

If you have questions, please contact St. Paul's church school coordinator, Amy Christie, at amybchristie@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

  7:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 7th at The Rectory 

 

The November selection for St. Paul's Book Group is
The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.

During the time of the birth of Jesus, a fourth Wise Man,

Artaban, sells all his possessions to buy three precious jewels which he hopes to present to the newborn Christ Child. Although he planned to journey with the other three Magi to Bethlehem, he is delayed and fails to rendezvous with them. Artaban spends his whole life searching for the Christ, and in his search he gives away one, then two, and finally all three of his jewels to help others, but in the end his quest is fulfilled in unexpected ways. Although written more than a century ago, this is still a topical Christmas story for young and old that captures the true spirit of Christmas.

 

We will have a Yankee Swap of books that night. We encourage everyone to bring a new or gently used, wrapped book to be a part of the swap. In addition, we will discuss your favorite Christmas themed book and enjoy some seasonal games. The discussion of The Story of the Other Wise Man will be brief, so please come  for the other activities in the festively decorated rectory even if you don't read the book.   We look forward to seeing you there.

 

 

A Special Program for Carols, Readings,
and Music for Christmas

 

 

Carols and Candlelight will combine the choral and instrumental resources of St. Paul's to create a program that features many of the season's favorite Christmas Carols for everyone to sing. The carols will be interspersed with anthems from the adult and children's choir and both sacred and secular Christmas readings. The event is free and is open to everyone of all denominations.

 

                                

 

  Envelopes for the 2016 offering will be available in the church throughout December.  All proceeds will benefit the
Episcopal Relief & Development Fund.

Please make out checks to St. Paul's and note "ERDF" or "Christmas offering" in the memo.

 

Dear St. Paul's Church School Families,

It's Pageant time again!

   Please mark your December calendars now -

The Christmas Pageant will be held on December 18 th at

the 10:00am service.

For those of you who are new to St. Paul's and Church School, all children are invited to participate in the pageant. The older classes of 5 th , and 6 th graders have the main roles; the 3rd and 4th graders are shepherds; the 1st and 2nd graders are angels and the Nursery School/Kindergarten classes are the sheep.

We encourage all the children to participate because it is such a fun way to learn the Christmas story, but of course, participation is never mandatory!

Costumes : will be provided; please have your child wear:

Sheep (grade Pre-K & K) - White turtlenecks with dark pants, socks or tights

Angels (grade 1 & 2) - White turtlenecks, white socks or tights

Shepherds (grade 3 & 4) - Dark shirts and dark pants, socks or tights and hockey sticks

 

Rehearsals will be as follows:

Sunday, November 27 th : Upper grades grade speaking parts only . We will begin to assign speaking parts during church school. No official rehearsal on this day.

December 4th : Upper grades speaking parts only - After Church from 11:15 AM to 1:30 PM (Choir kids join after choir rehearsal).

December 11th : All Pageant Kids - After Church from 11:15 AM to 1:00 PM (Choir kids join after choir rehearsal).

December 18th - Dress Rehearsal: everyone meets for a run-through before the 10 am service.

Grades 3 and up - arrive at 8:30am for dress rehearsal

PreK/K, grades 1,2 - arrive at 9:00am for dress rehearsal

Pageant at the 10am service

Please let us know if you can help! We always need help on the morningof the pageant to outfit and encourage our cast. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or if you would like to help.

 

Joe Lavalley   580.380.0567 cell or jlav2323@yahoo.com &

Noelle Hendrixson  617.388.9228 cell or n oelle_hawley@hotmail.com

 

 

Concert and Champagne

Sunday, January 29 at 3:00 pm 

 

 

Noble and Greenough School thanks St Paul's very much for the donations a number of parishioners added to the efforts to fill a container with supplies for Haitians hit by Hurricane Matthew.

If you missed it, there are 2 more opportunities to drop off donations on Friday and Saturday of this week.

Bring them to:

Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI-USA)
c/o Tabernacle Baptist Congregation
575 American Legion Highway
Roslindale, MA 02131

Necessary items:
* gently used clothes (children & adults), shoes/sneakers (children & adults), sheets & sleeping bags, backpacks
* school supplies
* mosquito repellent
* Immodium (for diarrhea)
* 1% hydrocortisone cream (for skin rashes)
* Aquatabs water purification tabs (available on Amazon)

Parishioners: 

Mary Lee Culver
Bill Dole
Chris Grant

Nellie Hooe
John Lamb
Harry McCracken 

Putty McDowell     

   

Friends and family of parishioners:

Hildegarde Baird, Friend of the Parish
Ben Bardeen, Friend of Sarah & Bill Ducas
Olivia Bruce, Mother of Olivia Hurlock
Jerri Chestnut, Friend of Andrea O'Connell
Nancy Crowell, Friend of Pen & Sally Jones
Michelle Curly, Friend of those at Fox Hill
Janet Dolan, Sister of Tim Duncan
Scott Foster, Brother of Nini Colmore
Jonathan Gengras, Friend of Jennifer Breslin
Carol Golubock, Relative of Nancy Blackett & Rosita Watson
Karen Gray, Sister of Andrea O'Connell
Amy Hanson, Niece of Andrea O'Connell

Elaine Leblanc, Friend of Barry & Gillian Burlingham
Gladys Njubi, Sister of Amy Ranji
Timmy Palthey, Grandson of John & Regina Adams

Clare Pritchett, Cousin of Andrea O'Connell
Belinda Rankins-Swire, Friend of Julie Tittler

Deirdre Spada, Niece of Nick Spada
Frank and Betty Stern, Friends of Mike & Karen Gorton

 

Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated.