WEEKLY E-NEWS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

HELPFUL LINKS

Bulletin for Advent IV Sunday, December 24 at 10:00

Prayers of the Parish

Emmanuel on Facebook

Emmanuel on YouTube

If you have a name tag, please wear it!

If you need a name tag, let an usher know!

Click here for the email sent December 19 listing all the Christmas services with bulletin links and music supplements.

All the Christmas bulletins are also on our website.

CALENDAR

DECEMBER 22

5:00 Youth Group Reunion and gingerbread house decorating.

DECEMBER 24

10:00 Advent IV Holy Eucharist

3:00 Children's Christmas Nativity service

5:00 Festival Eucharist with organ, trumpets and soloists

10:00 Festival Eucharist with organ, Clarion Brass, Emmanuel choir & soloists

DECEMBER 25

10:00 Christmas Holy Eucharist

DECEMBER 27

No Fellowship Dinner, no choirs, no Taizé

DECEMBER 31

10:00 Lessons and Carols with Holy Eucharist

DECEMBER 25-JANUARY 1

Office closed. We will re-open Tuesday, January 2

JANUARY 3

No Fellowship Dinner, no choirs, no Taizé

Note: There will be no Weekly E-mail December 28. We will resume January 4.

Emmanuel Calendar Link

WHAT'S UP @ EEC?

Calling all current AND past youth group members!! Please join us on Friday, December 22 from 5:00 pm until about 6:30 pm. All current AND alum youth group members are invited, so please spread the word! We're hoping this will be a time to reminisce and catch up with each other. We'll order pizzas and decorate gingerbread houses. No need to bring anything - dinner and snacks are on us!

Please RSVP to Katie.

Thank you to Molly Wilson for the idea, and to Amy Ryan and Molly & Matthew Wilson for chaperoning!

Peace,

Katie

CHRISTMAS OFFERING

The Christmas Offering is a special monetary gift that may be given during Christmas, and includes all loose offerings contributed at the Christmas services.

The vestry approved sending all Christmas Offerings to LifeWise StL Mothers Mental Health Program. This program supports new mothers and immigrant mothers.

Donations may be made through January 8, 2024 using an envelope found in the pews or donating online.

Click here to donate electronically.

MORE NEWS @EMMANUEL

Thank you to all who shared lunch and/or donated to the Diocesan JustFood truck. Special thanks to Tim Randall who cooked and served inside due to a power problem! Tim raises funds for World Central Kitchen by selling soup each week. To order soup or know the menu, go to the Soup to support World Central Kitchen Facebook page. Food is picked up on Sunday afternoons at Rogers produce.

Thank you to all who helped hang wreaths, put up roping and attach bows!

Check out this article in the Webster Kirkwood Times about parishioner, Mike McGuire. You've probably seen Mike at Emmanuel as an usher or reader!

You can see and support Mike at ComedySportz an interactive improvisational game and show touted as good clean fun for the whole family. They perform every Friday night at 8 p.m. at The Old Orchard Gallery, 39 S. Old Orchard Ave.

Mike is hosting a special Christmas Comedy Show & Clothing Drive. The show will be at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23, at the restored St. Andrews Cinema, 2025 Golfway St. in St. Charles. The show will feature clean Christmas comedy for the whole family, and McGuire will perform along with other local comedians. Tickets are $25, or $20 and a donation to the clothing drive. Tickets can be purchased online at standrewscine3.com or at the door.

FYI...Women of Emmanuel will be raffling off a quilt from Harvest Wind LLC.

That's right! We purchased a Lakota Star quilt from Harvest Wind LLC to raffle off starting in January. To learn more about Harvest Wind LLC and our relationship with them click here to download a PDF.

Raffle tickets will be $5/each and the proceeds will go to Harvest Wind LLC. The next Women of Emmanuel event, Window Glow, is Sunday, January 14 at 4 pm. We have snacks and tell stories of Emmanuel's windows.

DIOCESAN NEWS

The Bishop's Christmas Message 2023

Bishop Deon Johnson shares a Christmas reflection and greetings to everyone in the Diocese.

Click the arrow in the image below to view his message.

Friends, as is well known by now, the Northview Nursing home on Kingshighway was shut down suddenly last Friday, leaving staff unpaid for two weeks work and displacing 175 senior citizens. The residents of Northview were forced to leave Friday night without notice and without letting family members know where they were going. The senior citizens were also forced to leave all their possessions at the nursing home as there was not enough room in the vehicles driving them to their new living arrangements.

Displaced Workers Fund for Workers at Northview Village Nursing Home will be held at the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.

The direct link and text-giving instructions are below. Donors will receive a tax acknowledgment from the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. All funds collected will go to assist workers displaced by the sudden closure of Northview Village Nursing Home.

https://secure.accessacs.com/access/oglogin.aspx?sn=96035&f=32

Taizé on New Year's Eve

You are invited to attend a very special candlelit service on New Year's Eve at 5 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis.

Join Confluence: A Center for Spirituality for prayers, scripture reading, and chants in the style of Taizé. And this year Deacon Jerre will be the cantor!

Stay for refreshments and a toast to the new year after the service. All are welcome!

Our building is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm.

Please call or email us for more information about any of our offerings.

314-961-2393 or www.emmanuelepiscopal.org

mshipp@emmanuelepiscopal.org