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In this Edition:
- This Sunday - Newcomer Brunch
- Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering at Bet Shalom - Nov 20
- Wednesday Night Dinner - Dec. 14
- Amplify
- Book Club
- Serve at coffee hour!
- Turkey Time with ICA!
- ECMN Convention Report
- Feed My Starving Children - Dec 1
- Bake and Craft Sale - Dec 11
- Bridge Lessons
- Sign up for the Posada!
- ICA Update
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8:00 and 9:30 Holy Eucharist
Children's Time will take place during the 9:30 service for children age 3 through grade 5. We'll also introduce newcomers and offer a blessing at the second service.
We will continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube to accommodate for those who choose to stay home.
Newcomer Welcome Brunch
Community Forum, 10:45-11:30
The time has come to celebrate the many newcomers who have graced our parish doors, and internet pathways, during these last few years of COVID and beyond. We invite the entire congregation to share a meal together, namely brunch, after the 9:30 a.m. service on Sunday November 20th.
Please come on down to the undercroft, pull up a chair, enjoy some food, and together let us spend some time getting to know one another better.
How blessed St David's is.......hope to see you there!
Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering
Bet Shalom Congregation, 7:00pm
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St. David's joins the communities of Bet Shalom Congregation, The Mills Church, and the Spirit of Peace Church, in inviting you to join together in celebration of Thanksgiving with music, prayer, poetry, sacred scripture, opportunities for reflection, community building and the sharing of food. In divisive times, we know we are stronger together.
Date/Time: Sunday, November 20th, 7pm
Location: Bet Shalom Congregation, 13613 Orchard Road, Minnetonka, 55345
For anyone who likes to sing, we’re forming an interfaith choir for the event, made up of members of these four communities. Singers will meet before the service, 5:30 at Bet Shalom, for a brief rehearsal. If you’re interested in singing, contact Roger Stratton at [email protected].
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We are so excited to be bringing back Wednesday night community dinners! The first one will be December 14th. Stay tuned for more details! | | |
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Sunday, November 27th at 7:00pm.
Amplify is a worship service lead by youth, for youth, and everyone is welcome. Come as you are for this laid back and contemporary Service of Light in the Sanctuary, and enjoy fresh popcorn and hot cocoa.
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St David’s Book Club News
by Cathy Schwichtenberg
St. David’s Book Club will meet on Tuesday, 12/6 from 6:00 pm to 7:55 pm via Zoom. We will be discussing Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray. From 6:00 – 6:30 we will be discussing book selections for 2023. The book discussion will begin at 6:30 and we will finish in time for those who wish to join Compline at 8:00 pm.
First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history. ~Amazon.com
Pauli Murray lived one of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century. S/he was the first Black person to earn a JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law) degree from Yale Law School, a founder of the National Organization for Women and the first Black person perceived as a woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest.
Pauli Murray’s legal arguments and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution were winning strategies for public school desegregation, women’s rights in the workplace, and an extension of rights to LGBTQ+ people based on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Pauli Murray crafted a broad vision of justice, equity, and human rights using words as her primary tool in the fight for liberation. Their vision for a just and equitable world is a beacon of hope during troubled times. Their social justice tactics, legal strategies, speeches, letters, books, sermons, and poetry are models for our ongoing activism aimed at dismantling the oppression s/he faced and we continue to face because of white supremacy.
~https://www.paulimurraycenter.com
Join Zoom Meeting: St. David's Book Club - December 6 Meeting
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Sign up to serve coffee! Check out the new signup sheet for coffee host volunteers in the Undercroft. There are some snacks in the freezer now to augment what you bring. Or you can always donate new snacks for the freezer and others can do the serving. Any way you choose to help is very much appreciated. | |
It's Turkey Time with ICA! | | |
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Your ICA team will be selling turkey certificates once again this Sunday after both services in the narthex. If you missed buying a certificate last Sunday, you have one more opportunity. Each $25 certificate will provide a turkey and all the fixings for a holiday meal for a local family in need. | |
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The 165th Convention of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota (ECMN) was held on October 28-29 in Rochester, Minnesota. St. David's Clergy Delegates in attendance were Guy Drake, Len Freeman, Lindsay Freeman, and Katherine Lewis. Lay delegates were Nan Drake, Julia Handley, and David Niles.
After a brief morning worship, the Bishop gave his address. Most of this address was played in church on Sunday, but for those who missed it, Bishop Loya started by reading the first part of Genesis, Chapter 11, the Tower of Babel story. In reflection, he observed that diversity is God's design, and uniformity is human regression. We were called to be gardeners, not builders, both back then and today.
The Bishop remarked that we are trying to build a reimagined church tower, but the tower we thought we used to be as a church has been toppled down. We are exhausted from trying to rebuild it.
He calls on Minnesota Episcopalians to mark this as a turning point to set aside our desire to be builders and take up our calling to be gardeners. He outlined three possible ways forward for ECMN. 1. We could keep doing what we've been doing (trying to rebuild the church). 2. We could retreat and walk away, or 3. We could just stay here but let go (but not give up), just play in the dirt together and stop keeping God at arm's length with building. He urges us to garden God's church for God's world.
Bishop Loya gave us three things to consider for what this might look like: 1. We need to spend time tending to the root system - apprenticing ourselves to Jesus. We can do this through small discipleship groups. 2. Try to relearn together to let God consciously and intentionally lead our lives and stop living as functional atheists. Let God use us - lay down our burden of it being our job to force fruit to grow. 3. Help God cultivate a diverse church ecology. Get rid of the notion that bigger is better and focus on small communities. What if our future is more, smaller faith gatherings?
At convention we also elected clergy and lay candidates to a number of diocesan committees and positions. We elected deputies to the 2024 General Convention of the Episcopal Church. We heard stories from several faith communities across ECMN, including a church in Old Frontenac that created a beautiful outdoor worship space and the merging of Saints Luke and James to form one faith community. We adopted the 2023 financial statement of mission (budget). We recognized Good Courage Farm as an Episcopal-affiliated organization. We adopted a resolution expressing support for bodily rights and reproductive autonomy, and we adopted a resolution urging ECMN faith communities to pray for creation.
We engaged in four worship services with beautiful music led by our own Roger Stratton. Roger and Katherine also hosted a jazz compline on Friday night attended by approximately 85 people in person, plus seven of our St. David's compline group via Zoom.
On Saturday we heard from the Rev. Canon Blair Pogue - ECMN's new Canon for Vitality and Innovation. Both she and the Bishop shared their "Jesus stories," and we discussed ways in which we can center discipleship in our congregations. One quote from the morning: "We can't do the what until we address the why."
Next year's convention will be held November 9-11, 2023, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The Presiding Bishop will be in attendance.
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An Opportunity to 'Garden' | |
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Join me as we garden at Feed My Starving Children. Looking for volunteers for Thursday December 1st from 7 to 8:45 at their Chanhassen location. I've reserved 10 spots but could add more if there's more interest.
Contact Sue Owen at 612-716-1945 to sign up.
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Attention Bakers and Crafters!
The annual Bake and Craft Sale will be Sunday, December 11th, after the service.
Time to work on those craft items and start stocking up on baking supplies.
Questions? Contact Sara Leigh at [email protected]
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We have enough people interested in Bridge lessons that we will be offering a class this Fall. If you are interested in learning or relearning to play bridge please join us. We welcome both youth and adults. Bridge is a fascinating game. If you have ever played Hearts or Spades or Whist, then you already have a head start. The lessons will be at church on Friday nights from 6:30 to 9:00 on the following dates:
November 18
Contact Susan Taylor ([email protected]) or David Niles ([email protected]) for more information.
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Advent is coming soon, meaning it’s almost time for the Posada! In Spanish-speaking regions, “la posada” refers to an inn or a hotel. In many Hispanic traditions, “las posadas” is a term for a type of re-enactment of Mary and Joseph's search for lodging in Bethlehem and is performed just before Christmas. St. David’s honors this tradition by having a set of beautiful felted wool figures of Mary and Joseph travel to our homes for a few nights, affording those who participate the opportunity to be innkeepers. It is a chance for us to extend warm, safe and welcoming hospitality to our “guests” for a few days during Advent.
Each household interested in being an innkeeper should sign up via email. A schedule of overnights for Mary and Joseph is made and provided to the innkeepers who have signed up. Our Mary and Joseph will make their first overnight at a St. David’s home on the first Sunday of Advent (November 27). Then they travel to different homes in the St. David’s community, according to the schedule, and stay for about 2 nights. Each innkeeper is responsible for contacting the next host on the schedule, arranging to drop-off of Mary and Joseph at a time and place that is mutually convenient, and providing a small holiday treat for the receiving innkeepers to enjoy. On Saturday, Dec. 24, the last innkeeper on the schedule brings Mary and Joseph to St. David’s for the Christmas Eve Service, marking the end of their long journey.
If you are interested in hosting Mary and Joseph during Advent, contact Patti Jurkovich at [email protected] to sign up.
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It’s Turkey Time!
Many, many thanks to all of you who so generously purchased turkey certificates after church last weekend or who have already done so online! For over 20 years, ICA’s Holiday Food Program has given away turkeys with all the fixings to many families in our community. This year the need is greater than ever. The staff predicts more than 1000 turkeys will be distributed (up from 800 last year!) via the mobile food shelf, home deliveries, regular food appointments as well as at the turkey giveaway at the K-Tel location this Saturday.
How can you help?
1. Stop in the narthex after either service this Sunday and purchase a turkey certificate from St. David’s ICA team. Either cash or a check made out to ICA ($25 for each meal purchased) will be welcomed.
2. You can also donate online at www.icafoodshelf.org/turkey. In the donor information section, be sure to select “St. David’s” in the congregation section.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to help families in need here in the west metro.
ICA Day at Maynard’s - Monday, November 28
Mark your calendars for Monday, November 28. ICA Day at Maynard’s in Excelsior is back. First started in 2007, Maynard’s Restaurant of Excelsior will again be hosting ICA Day. 100% of all gross proceeds that day will benefit ICA. Call 952-470-1800 for reservations.
Egg cartons needed
ICA is currently in need of egg cartons - the kind that is paper and holds one dozen eggs. They are unable to accept plastic or styrofoam cartons. If you have any to donate, just drop them off in an ICA basket by one of the church entrances.
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