Alien Fun Fest... Another Year
Sadly, with a number of complicating factors, including Covid concerns and a jam packed fall schedule, we've decided to cancel the Alien Fun Fest for this year and wait for another year when we can try out that new idea without so many obstacles in the way. A HUGE thank you to all the people who have done so much of the dreaming and scheming behind the scenes. Your work has not been abducted, never to be seen again! It will reappear in the future, slightly rearranged, and maybe in a slightly different spot than this idea started, but I know it will be back!
But we have plenty still going on:
September 24th at 1:00 Women's Bible Study
See the article below
September 25th 10:00 Sheffield Crop Walk
10:00 am Meet at the Town Green in front of Old Parish
This year, we will continue to fight against the challenges of disease, disaster, and displacement that leave people hungry in our own neighborhood and around the world. Christ Trinity Church will partner with Old Parish Church as a team representing Sheffield in the Northwest Connecticut Crop Hunger Walk. See more below.
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September 28th 7:00
Pastor Erik leads a study of Tattoos on the Heart
One of the good things to come out of this past year was our three congregations coming together for a time of study and support each week. Something well worth continuing, pandemic or not! So after a summer off, it is good to be back! Join us beginning September 28th at 7 p.m. via Zoom as we look at Gregory Boyle S.J.’s best selling book, Tattoos on the Heart.
For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he distills his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith.
For our first meeting, please read the introduction and chapter one. For each of the four following weeks we’ll discuss two chapters per week. This zoom link will be good for all five weeks of this series.
Saturday, October 16th Beer & Hymns
This is a new date for Oktoberfest which is moving to
the Sheffield Town Park Pavilion, where we will celebrate Oktoberfest with food, beer, and hymns, and raise funds for our Appalachian Trail Ministry 2022.
Co-presented with Old Parish Church.
November 20th Silent Film Night
Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1927 silent film, “The Lodger,” a story of the London fog, with live music by acclaimed film music pianist Donald Sosin and soprano Joanna Seaton. “The top of the line of film pianists!” - Leonard Maltin, film critic. Dewey Hall on the Sheffield Green. $12 admission
December 4th Broadway Cabaret
We’ve rented Dewey Hall once again to present A Broadway Cabaret Night filled with songs from the Great White Way! This night is packed with local talent who have literally performed on Broadway! It is certain to be a night to remember!
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Those in EfM studying the Old Testament read Jeremiah and Ezekiel this week which led to a spirited discussion about prophesy. Those studying the New Testament read Ephesians, of which, the commentary from our textbook said, it is probably not a letter, probably not by Paul and probably not written to the believers in Ephesus. And yet, included in the canon, Ephesians has important messages for Christians. The image above, of a soccer player helping up a member of an opposing team led us to undertake a theological reflection on Ephesians 4:25 “… for we are members of one another.”
Collect
Reconciling God, you call us all to you
We confess that we don't always listen
We deny that we are one with one another
We place our hope in the power of the example of Christ's love
Forgive us when we do not love others as ourselves
Through your love, we are transformed
In your spirit, let us walk in love, open our hearts, and become better versions of ourselves
AMEN.
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“Ecological conversion means falling in love with earth as an inherently valuable, living community in which we participate, and bending every effort to be creatively faithful to its well-being, in tune with the living God who brought it into being and cherishes it with unconditional love.”
– Elizabeth Johnson
Ecological Conversion: Falling in Love with Earth
Saturday, Oct. 2 9:30 a.m.–Noon (on Zoom)
Led by the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
As we approach the end of Creation Season and prepare for the feast day of St. Francis on Oct. 4, what is our next step in eco-conversion? How does God want to meet us through the natural world? This half-day online retreat will include silence and guided meditation, presentations and small group conversation, and free time for solitary prayer and a contemplative walk outdoors. (Please bring a natural object to this retreat, e.g., a few autumn leaves, a rock, shell, feather or house plant.)
There is no charge for this retreat which is sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?
After a long hiatus, we will resume Women’s Bible Study group. We will meet at the church parish hall on Friday, September 24 at 1pm. This gives us a larger space to practice social distancing, and to allow air circulation. We will need to wear masks, following the current guidelines set by the diocese. Please let Imelda know if you are coming, so she can plan accordingly.
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Can I be honest with you? Hunger and poverty don’t always look like the infomercials we see on late-night television.
Sometimes it’s the family standing in the grocery store checkout line silently debating whether there’s enough money to purchase the milk and bread in the cart.
Sometimes it’s the child who can’t wait to get to school to have a hot meal to eat.
Sometimes it’s a new mother who doesn’t have nutritious food to feed herself and her baby.
These people have one thing in common... they lack access to a very basic human right – food. You can do something to help:
Join with us as we raise funds to help neighbors near and far get the meals they need for today and sustainable food security for tomorrow!
Walk on Saturday, September 25, 10am
in front of Old Parish Church on the Town Green.
Or, send us a check with CropWalk in the memo.
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Christ Trinity Church 413-229-8811
180 Main Street
PO Box 127
Sheffield, MA 01257
In-person worship has resumed: Sundays at 8:00 & 10:00
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If you have a loved one who you would like us to remember in our Sunday prayers, please email us Monday morning before 11:00.
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