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Sunday 10:30 AM service streamed on Facebook Live or YouTube 

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In-Person services on Sunday at 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM (masks required)

In-Person service on Wednesday at 12:00 PM (masks required)

Throughout the fall, we will use the Bible Project to lead us as we dig deeper into God’s Word. Each week, we will read a book of the New Testament. Click here for the readings and links.

Zoom link here

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Scripture verses here

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As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

Our neighbors without homes are in great need of bug spray, new or used summer clothes (especially men’s), toiletries including bars of soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, disposable razors, hand sanitizer, wash cloths, socks, and hand cream. Donations can be left in the boxes labeled 'Bridging the Gap' in the back hallway of the church offices. Please click here for more information on how to help.

As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

The Circle of Care flower ministry uses altar flowers to make four or more flower arrangements. Members of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew then deliver these arrangements to church family members in order to offer comfort or honor a celebration. Though the arranger may not know the people to whom the arrangements are prepared, this activity allows the opportunity to focus on God's love for us, and pray for the well-being of the recipient. We encourage experts and amateurs to participate, as every arrangement is a thing of beauty.  Arrangements are normally created on Mondays (Tuesdays if the church is closed for Monday holidays). For more information, please sign up here or contact Rev. Katie.

Ladies of Christ Church, we are moving forward and planning for ECW to meet on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. It will be a “Meet & Greet” with no program so that we can visit and “catch up” with one another.  We will also have the installation of officers for 2021-2022. Finger foods will be served in order to keep things simple. You may sign up on the signup sheet on the information table in the Parish Office if you are at church, or by emailing or calling Kelly Heindl at the Parish Office, 432-5115, so you will be “counted”! The deadline to let us know you will be there is Wednesday, September 29.

Ladies, we need your baked goods for our upcoming Bake Sale! Cakes, cookies, breads, muffins, candy, or any other special homemade goodies you create! You may sign up at the October and November ECW meetings where the signup sheet will be available, or contact Allison Mitchell. The Bake Sale will be held on Sundays, December 12 & 19. Let's do some holiday baking!

The Epic Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 3:00 PM in the Parlor. The October book discussion will be The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. Please click here to be added to the email list for updates, and/or join our Facebook group (EPIC Bookclub of Christ Episcopal Church).

Parents Night Out (PNO) is a once-a-month program offered by the Children & Family Ministry of Christ Church. Parents are invited to bring their children, ages infant through 5th grade, to our church's nursery/childcare rooms where they will be cared for by Christ Church's wonderful childcare staff. Our first Parents Night Out is this month – Friday, October 15 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM. Cost is $20 per child for the entire evening with a $50 maximum per family. To appropriately staff PNO, families must register online here. Questions? Contact Victoria Wright, Director of Children and Family Ministry.

Parents: This Sunday please walk your children to the Christian Education Building. Enter by the church courtyard and go through the green door marked for your entry. You will follow the footsteps along the hallways to the Christian Education Building. The nursery is on the first floor and Sunday School rooms are upstairs on the second floor. This will be an opportunity for you to see this newly refurbished area of the church. You can pick your children up from their classrooms or nursery following the 10:30 service.

8:00 AM – The Nursery is available for children ages infant through 3-years-old.

9:30 AM – At this time, the Sunday School program is paused. Please join us during the 10:30 AM service for Godly Play for younger children and Journey Through the Bible for our older children.

10:30 AM – During the 10:30 AM service, the Nursery is available for children ages infant through 3 years old, located on the first floor of the Christian Education building.

Godly Play is offered for children in Pre-K 4 through 3rd grade. Children learn the stories of our faith while playing, crafting, and exploring. A snack is offered. The lesson this Sunday will be "The Ark and the Flood". Having heard the creation story, we now move with the People of God to the renewal of creation and God’s promise to Noah and Noah’s descendants, and to us. This is always a favorite story, and we paint lots of rainbows. Each week our circle grows, and we are blessed to welcome new families. 

Journey Through the Bible is a new curriculum for our 4th and 5th graders. They will journey through the entire Bible the two years of this class, starting with the New Testament this year.

Children and Family Ministry (CFM) has two new ways to keep our families connected with Christ Church during the week. CFM is on Instagram, @cckidspensacola, and shares what is happening on Sunday mornings and ideas for how to keep faithful conversations happening during the week. CFM also has a bite-sized weekly email with the "5 Things" our families need to know for the week – Sunday reminders, save the dates, and more. Would you like to be added? Email Victoria to be added to the list!

In the fourth and fifth chapters of this book by Henri Nouwen, he writes about an insight that he might be more like the elder son than the younger son in Jesus' parable of the Prodigal. This is the son who considered himself an outstanding child who followed all the rules and requests of his father. However, Nouwen thinks the elder son is just as much a prodigal as the younger son. Our conversation this Sunday considers how the elder son might also be prodigal. The discussion begins begins at 9:15 AM in the Christian Education building, Room 31, with Dick Hooper and David Starling facilitating. 

Each week our worship service is enhanced with beautiful fresh flowers. After the Sunday services, the altar flower arrangements are reworked into smaller arrangements. These arrangements are delivered to members of our parish family that are unable to attend a Sunday service. The altar flowers are a memorial, a thanksgiving for an anniversary, a birthday, a new birth, or a thanksgiving for God's blessings. The donation is listed in the weekly bulletin. Forms to participate in this ministry are available here and on the information table in the Parish Office.

Christ Church is here for you. There are many ministries to love and support the people who are the church. We continue to support one another, especially during this pandemic. If you are interested in assisting with staying connected to our church family, please email Rev. Katie or call her at the Parish Office, 850-432-5115. It is easy to feel alone or disconnected right now, so reach out to one of the priests or someone at the church to say hello. Contact Rev. Katie if you or anyone you know has any needs. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call our pastoral care emergency line to speak directly with one of the priests: (850) 462-5137.

We would like to give thanks for these special days and to add your name to the published prayer list in the Chronicle. Please print your name on the calendar on the information table in the Parish Office foyer. The calendar is checked weekly before the prayer list goes to print.

I. For Those in Need. Including the poor, the unemployed, the lonely, the hungry, the homeless, the abused, the sick and dying, and those who grieve. For those suffering in body, mind, or spirit—including Members: Madeleine Orbik, Dick Pace, Nancy Stafford, Bruce & Meg Melvin, Laura Wolfersperger, Dee Whisenhunt Family & Friends: Beth & family, JoAnn, Lavone, Rusty, Rob Wilmer, Kelly, Trisha Bothwell, Nicole Keating. 

II. For Those in the Armed Forces, especially—Erik Barton, Stewart Bova, Danica Roark Domokos, Sam Gaston, Robert Geiger, William Harper, Harry B. Harris, Benjamin Jensen, Joshua Justin, Art Lantigua, Hillary Leonard, Ben Mathis, Kathryn Martin, Sean McAbee, Julie McGill, Kyle Roberson, Peter Shelton, Evan Valdyke, Wesley Valdyke; and all those who serve this nation in harm’s way.

III. For All who have Died. May their souls and the souls of all the departed rest in peace—Jane Graves, Mary Thompson.

IV. In Thanksgiving. For those in our parish celebrating birthdays—Roger Sherman—and anniversaries.

To submit a prayer request, email prayer-request@christ-church.net and let us know if this is for the public prayer list or for our confidential intercessory prayer list. You may also fill out the prayer request form online at our website (found on the Pastoral Care page under “Ministries”). All published prayer requests on this list also go on the confidential intercessory prayer list. Please note that names remain on the prayer list for 4 weeks and on our confidential intercessory prayer list until you ask to be removed. Please resubmit your request if you or a loved one needs to remain on the list. This helps keep our prayers current. Names in bold print indicate new additions to the prayer list.

We welcome

and Tom & Betsey Sullivan who visited with us on 19 September, 2021.

We welcome to Christ Church

We wish Godspeed to