Saturday E-news November 14, 2020 |
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You can now find the most recent live-stream sermon right on our web page! Prior videos and audio only recordings can be found under the tab "services."
Both Zoom and YouTube offer the opportunity to type in comments and prayers during the worship service.
The front page of the website will always have a link to join the Sunday Worship via Zoom or via YouTube, or you can continue to click the links here in the newsletter.
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The passcode is faithec
To join by phone:
iPhone one-tap
US: +16699006833,,86417722967#,,,,,,0#,,8218115#
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1 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 864 1772 2967
Passcode: 8218115
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Coffee Hour
Thanksgiving Memories
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Please join us right after the Sunday service for a special coffee hour. Several members of our Senior Lunch bunch will share their favorite memory of Thanksgiving and then we will have breakout groups as normal.
Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID: 860 0669 2414
Passcode: faithec
One tap mobile
+16699006833,,86006692414#,,,,,,0#,,0765500#
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Dial 1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 860 0669 2414
Passcode: 0765500
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Life Looks Good On You
As I write, I look out my office window and see the brilliant orange and yellow leaves on my neighbor’s trees and feel the crispness in the air, telling me the seasons are indeed changing despite the warm weather we’ve so recently experienced. In our liturgical calendar, I can also feel the changing seasons. I can feel the approach of Advent, not just from the Christmas commercials on TV, but also in our lessons for this week. They just feel Advent-y. Maybe it’s the weeping and gnashing of teeth! In a uniquely Scriptural way, they signal that we are about to enter a season of preparation for change. And it’s not just the Christian church that enters Advent. Our whole country and our whole world enter a kind of Advent together. What we are experiencing in our political life, in our grappling with justice, in how we deal with the very present threat of the coronavirus…all of this and more is changing us. It is changing us whether or not we want to be changed. We will never be the same. As we accept this truth of never again being the same, we may wonder with some trepidation: will we be better?
That is, in large part, up to us, as our challenging lessons for this week remind us. We can “bury our treasure,” recoiling in fear-filled self-protection, or we can “invest” in ways that create more abundance from the abundance God has already given us.
This afternoon Katrina and I went for a walk along the American River. There is a rack that holds life jackets people can borrow. A sign on the rack reads: “Life looks good on you. Don’t lose it in the river.”
Life looks good on YOU!
This aching world desperately needs you, the you that is fully alive. When we bury our spiritual treasure, when we recoil in fear, when we retreat and shrink in self-protection, we create a kind of spiritual poverty for ourselves. We may think we are keeping ourselves safe, but in reality, we are keeping ourselves from being fully alive. It is those who take risks and “invest” extravagantly that also grow extravagantly, increasing their own spiritual riches and those of everyone around them.
This Sunday Rev Tom and I will be tag team preaching! We will both be exploring this Sunday’s lessons with you. There are some hard questions that come from this week’s lessons. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. But we do promise to be in the dark of the questions with you, trusting that we will emerge into the Light. That’s the Advent experience…staying together faithfully in the dark, knowing the Light is coming.
Rev. Sonya Reichel
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Faith Episcopal Church
PO Box 966
Shingle Springs, CA 95682
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Senior Lunch Bunch
Special Guest Leon Malmed
"Surviving the Holocaust"
Wednesday, November 18th 12-1:30 p.m.
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Please join us for a very special Senior Lunch Bunch on Wednesday, November 18th, at noon, via Zoom. Our guest is author Leon Malmed who will speak about his experiences during the Holocaust. Malmed and his sister were young children in occupied France during World War II when their parents were taken by the Nazis and they never saw them again. The children were taken-in by kind neighbors and sheltered through the War years. He didn’t talk about his experiences for over 60 years, then wrote a book entitled “We Survived… At Last I Speak.” Proceeds from the sales of the book go to help two Holocaust survivor families in the Bay Area.
Be sure to forward this email to your friends and family. Everyone is welcome, not just seniors or those who attend Faith Church!
We will begin the fellowship by enjoying lunch virtually with friends in small break- out sessions with plenty of time to catch up with the latest, then rejoin the main group for a this very moving personal recollection from Mr. Malmed. In the meantime, please call or text Fred Campbell-Craven at 530.409.7734 with any questions or for further information.
Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID: 825 7086 8525
Passcode: faithec
One tap mobile
+16699006833,,82570868525#,,,,,,0#,,6165938#
Join by phone
+1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 825 7086 8525
Passcode: 6165938
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Thanksgiving Service
Tuesday, November 24th at 6:30 p.m.
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Mark your calendar and be sure to join us for the Thanksgiving Worship Service on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. This virtual service will include music by the Youth Band! The Zoom link will be on our webpage or join in via YouTube. |
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Each year the youth of Faith Church raise funds for the Community Gift Tree project, providing Christmas gifts for local children in need. This year is no exception, despite the coronavirus, the youth are accepting donations and selling mandarins which will be delivered to your doorstep! The Mandarins are from Magnolia Hill Orchard in Newcastle, CA so we are supporting a local business. Orders are due by Friday, December 4th. Delivery will be the second week of December. Donations can be made via our website and orders can be placed using the link above.
You also have the option of personally buying gifts for a child. There are individual gifts to buy or adopt a child and buy all of their requested gifts. Gifts need to be wrapped, marked with the child's name and number and delivered to Faith no later than Sunday, December 8th.
Direct any questions to Monica Ness via email at monica@faithec.org.
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This retreat is open to all men who are interested! Deacon Steve Shortes is coordinating the event and can be contact with any questions: stephenshortes@gmail.com or (530) 957-3516. There is a requested donation of $20. The retreat will be led via Zoom by The Rev. Daniel London. Click here to view a flyer and schedule.
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The women of Faith Episcopal Church invite women of any faith community to join in a virtual Advent retreat. The focus will be to prepare the mangers of our hearts as we wait in hope for the Christmas promise of new life.
The day will be filled with a variety of activities including presentation, discussion, prayer, music by young adult women, small group sharing, and creative expression with time for lunch and small breaks. You are invited to join us for all or any part of the day.
Please register by November 27th so that a retreat packet can be mailed.
A $5 donation is requested to benefit Powerhouse Ministries Folsom, a shelter for women & children. A donation can be made at the time of registration using our Realm system.
For questions contact:
Sarah Goodness (916) 390-8835 Email: sarahgoodness@gmail.com
Susan Wahlstrom Cell: (209) 304-8321 Email: wahlstrom@volcano.net
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Resources and Other Information |
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You can view a Liturgical Calendar for upcoming weeks with links to the lessons for Sundays and major Holy Days from the Revised Common Lectionary (as adapted for use in Episcopal worship) at the following link:
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OFFICE HOURS
There are no established office hours during this time. The best way to reach the Admin team is to email the church at faithec@faithec.org.
PRAYER REQUESTS
If you or someone you know is in need of prayer, please email prayer requests to faithec@faithec.org.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
Reverend Tom Gartin
Reverend Sonya Reichel
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