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Scroll down for info on packing Thanksgiving food bags this Sunday for Arcola community, New Date for Race & the Episcopal Church presentation, Stewardship 2023, and more...

Sunday at Christ Church

November 13, 2022

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite 1

9:30 a.m. Children's Faith Formation PK3 - Grade 5

In person in the Parish Hall

Nursery care available for ages 0-3



10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist

In Person and Live Streaming on YouTube

4:00 p.m. Bible Study

In person in the church Library and Live on Zoom 

5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer

In person and Live on Zoom 

(password = 20895)

Weaving God's Beloved Community

Learning  Worship  Service

November 13, 23rd Pentecost

Weaving Beloved Community: Join the Neighborhood Feast

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving with our familes, friends, and neighbors, we will learn that Holy Eucharist is The Great Thanksgiving. At the Lord's Table, there is plentiful abundance for all.

This Sunday -- A Service Project for All Ages!

We come together this Sunday, after the 10 a.m. service, to pack Thanksgiving grocery bags and to make accompanying cards for our friends at Arcola Elementary School.

Christ Church Outreach:

Supporting Neighbors in our Community and Around the World

HELP A NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING!

Join us to pack the bags for our neighbors with food and love: this Sunday, Nov. 13 in the Parish Hall

Thank you to everyone who generously donated food, gift cards, and funds to support the thanksgiving food project for families at Arcola Elementary in Wheaton. This Sunday after the 10am service, everyone is invited to help prepare the bags for delivery to the school. There are opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to participate!

• Sort food
• Pack bags
• Draw and write Thanksgiving cards to include in the bags
• Prepare completed bags for delivery to Arcola later this week
• Nursery will be open for ages 0-3

For questions, contact Liz Quinn at 301-775-2545 or webethemom@aol.com.

Please make a financial pledge so that we can continue our work of building a loving, liberating, and life-giving relationship with God, with each other, and with the earth.

With your support and partnership, we will continue to see God doing new things in our community!

2023 Pledge update, week 4:

Total pledges received = 58

Total amount pledged = $238,195

Goal = $400,000

Thank you to all who have already pledged!

Ways to Pray

The Faith & Spiritual Growth team encourages you to join the discussion series for the fall: "Looking & Listening Deeply: Exploring 5 Ways to Pray". We invite you to focus on deepening your relationship with God through learning about and trying various types of prayer. It will be on Mondays at 7pm on Zoom. Upcoming sessions are:



• Nov 14 - Psalm 23 (led by Andrea McGray)
• Nov 21 – Ignatian Examen Prayer (led by Ramzi Nemo)

The Montgomery County Commission on Reconciliation will hold events throughout the month to raise awareness of the County's history with race. Click here to see the flyer describing all of the events scheduled this month.  

This month Commission on Reconciliation will honor three men who were lynched in Montgomery County in the late 1800s.

After the Civil War more than 4,000 African American men, women, and children were lynched (between 1877 and 1950). In Montgomery County 3 Black men were lynched; two in Rockvillle: John Diggs Dorsey (1880) and Sidney Randolph (1896) and one in Poolesville: George Peck (1880). Working with Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) the county will commemorate the three locations in the county where racial terror lynchings occurred.  

Conversations on Race and the Episcopal Church

****NEW DATE****

Final session of History of Race in the Episcopal Church

Sunday, November 20

The Christ Church Racial & Social Justice Team invites you downstairs after the 10:00 a.m. service on November 20 for the last of our four-part series on the History of Race in the Episcopal Church.  This final session will cover the post civil rights years through the modern era, i.e. 1980 through today.  We will look at major racial and social justice issues during this period and examine how the Church responded at the national, diocesan and local levels with particular focus on our actions locally as a faith community.  We will end with a discussion of moving from understanding our history to actively participating in the repair, restoration and healing of the systems and institutions that bear the signs of racial injustice.

Thank you to all who participated in our first 3 sessions. We hope to see you again on November 20 and encourage you to bring a fellow congregant or friend to join in these important conversations.  If you missed one of the earlier sessions, a link to the slides from each of the earlier presentations is below and copies of all presentations will be available on the 20th.

SAVE THE DATE:

The Annual Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Service

Tuesday, Nov 22, 7:30pm

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 

10000 Stoneybrook Dr.

Kensington, MD

in person and online

Bible Study, Sunday Afternoons at 4:00 p.m.

Current Topic:  The Book of Numbers

Join the Sunday 4 pm Bible study as we continue to explore the Book of Numbers. Come and discuss - no preparation is needed. If you have questions contact Lee Puricelli at leepuricelli@yahoo.com.

*** Zoom Link : Click HERE***

Prayers for Peace, Thursdays at Noon

There is a short prayer service every Thursday at noon, in person as well as on Zoom (password = 20895). We hope you will join us to pray for a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, an end to violence here, and everywhere there is violent conflict. The service is approximately 15 minutes in length.

Mask Policy

In line with Montgomery County recommendations, masks are not required at Christ Church. Please know we respect each person’s decision about whether or not to wear a mask. 

Worship Services & Events at Christ Church Next Week:

Monday, November 14, 2022 - Office Closed

7:00 p.m. Ways to pray: Psalm 23- on Zoom

8:30 p.m. Compline - a beautiful short service to end the day

Live on Zoom

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

5:30 p.m. Lectio Divina

Live on Zoom

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

6:30 p.m. Evening Prayer

Live on Zoom

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Noon - Prayers for Peace - in person and on Zoom

8:30 p.m. Compline - a beautiful short service to end the day

Live on Zoom

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Holy Eucharist Services at 8:00, 10:00, and 5:00

Final Session: Race in the Episcopal Church, following 10:00 service

Looking ahead...- 

November 22 at 7:30pm - Kensington Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

November 24 - Thanksgiving Day (service at 10:00)

November 25 - Church Office Closed

November 27 - First Sunday of Advent

December 4 - Holy Eucharist with Baptism at 10:00 service, Feast of St. Nicholas

December 10 - Celebration of the Life of Tina Cleland (2:00 p.m.)

Christ Episcopal Church Kensington

4001 Franklin Street

Kensington MD 20895

301-942-4673

administrator@ccpk.org

what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God...

~Micah 6:8