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Weekly news & announcements
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Thank you to those serving this weekend!
Lector: Duncan Allen
Ushers: Phil Bergen and Amy Sweeney
Digital Verger: Parker Fiset
Coffee Hour: Barbara Brailey and Rosemarie Rappold-Davis
Altar Guild: Nancy Stern, Debby Rempis, and Tedi Eaton
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Sign up to help with worship here. |
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MANNA Needs Volunteers for February and March |
MANNA/Monday Lunch moves forward to February and March. We need:
February 12: 2 casseroles
March 12: 2 casseroles & 2 baked goods
Click on the picture to enlarge it.
L to R: Ron Dennenberg, Nancy Stern and Amy Sweeney help driver Rich Gatto load food for MANNA to be delivered to cathedral on January 8.
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HELP SUPPORT OUR COLLEGE VALENTINE'S DAY CARE PACKAGES!!! |
We have about 30 college-age students and military men and women to whom we will send care packages for Valentine's Day.
It's a wonderful tradition at Christ Church, and we are happy to continue showing our grads and military that our church community is thinking about them.
We are looking for monetary donations and food donations. Donations are accepted THROUGH FEBRUARY 5.
- MONETARY DONATION!!!
- This will help pay for postage.
- Venmo: Kim-Rutherford-9
- Mail a check to: Kim Rutherford, 28 Lincoln St., Dedham, MA 02026
- FOOD!!
- Gum, mints, chips, popcorn, cookies, Valentine's candy or regular candy, small containers of pringles, fruit snacks, microwave popcorn, pretzels, etc.
- Homemade baked goods: Please pack them individually (and label the ingredients for allergies).
- We will need about 30 of each item to fill the boxes.
Donations can be dropped off at Church or we can make arrangements to meet
Let us know if you have any questions and THANKS!
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Child Care During Annual Meeting on February 5 |
Bird Treacy, our Children's Programming Coordinator, will offer children's programming during the Annual Meeting on Sunday, February 5. Please email her with any questions.
Also on February 5: Valentine's Box Construction! Ginny Yerardi and Kim Rutherford are assembling Valentine's Boxes for our students and military members, and we need our young people to make cards, and a few older children & youth to help with packing. We'll have space and supplies for making cards at church, but if you're unable to make it in, consider crafting some simple cards at home and dropping them in Bird's mailbox in the main office!
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Compline at CCN on Friday, February 3 at 7:30pm |
Join our Mary Jodice, our new Minister of Music, for Compline in the Main Sanctuary following a choral conducting workshop. |
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Our Annual Meeting is
Next Sunday, February 5
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Parish Elections: YOU ARE NEEDED!!
The Election Committee is seeking candidates for the 2023 Vestry elections. See position descriptions and submit your nominees on our ballot. If you are interested in serving or would like to know more please ask! Catch Ginny Yerardi at coffee hour or email her.
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Vestry Class of '26 Candidates: Amy Sweeney and Mike Niden
Click on the picture to learn more about each candidate.
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Warrant
The Christ Church Annual Meeting is on Sunday, February 5 at 11:30am in Upper Parish Hall. There will only be one service at 10am that Sunday. Below is the warrant. Please click here to view the warrant. |
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Amendment to Our By-Laws to be Presented at Annual Meeting
Our Vestry, with the consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, has approved and recommends to the Annual Meeting an amendment to our by-laws.
This change will reduce the size of our Vestry classes in keeping with the current size of the active membership, ease the recruiting of parishioners to serve om Vestry members, and simplify the election process.
The text and explanation of that amendment is here, with pertinent phrases highlighted in yellow. The Amendment will be voted on at Annual Meeting. Please email Vestry Member Jim Black, who crafted the amendment, with questions.
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10am Service Only on Annual Meeting Sunday
The Christ Church Annual Meeting is on Sunday, February 5 at 11:30am in Upper Parish Hall. There will not be an 8:15am service, only one service at 10am.
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You are Invited to a Film and Discussion on Race: Sunday, Feb 12, 1 to 3:30pm |
Our Racial Justice Initiative invites the parish community – including friends and family – to the first event in a series of films and discussion about race in America.
We will watch the film American Creed, a PBS documentary that features Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy in conversation with young people at Stanford. Through interviews and discussion with a range of Americans, the film tries to answer the basic questions: what does it mean to be American, and what holds us together in turbulent times?
Following the film, we will have a discussion to explore reactions and meaning for us individually and collectively as a church community. Popcorn and beverages will be served.
Please join us! And invite your family and friends. Sunday, February 12, 1:00 to 3:30 PM, Upper Parish Hall.
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Continue to Support the Haiti Music on February 5 and 12 |
Valentine’s Day Chocolate and Hand-embroidered card sale on February 5 and February 12 after 8:15 and 10:00 AM services and at the Annual Meeting.
Sea salt chocolate, plain chocolate, toffee chocolate. $6/bar.
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Anyone who would like to explore the choir is invited to come to a rehearsal. This means rising 7th graders, people who sing in the shower, people who used to sing, and people who want to learn to sing. Everyone is welcome. The Choir is not an exclusive club. Singing is for everyone, and Mary will teach you to match pitch and read music. We will have four section leaders that you can rely upon, and we can also start at different levels. Start by singing hymns with us, and once you are comfortable, we will add you in on the Anthems. You can also start by making a small commitment by liturgical season. Sing for Epiphany, or Lent or Easter, or join us for an Evensong. Rehearsals are on Thursdays 7:30pm-9pm. Email Mary if you would like to join.
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Music Events at CCN this Winter |
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CHORAL CONDUCTING WORKSHOP AT CCN WITH NICHOLAS WHITE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 |
Singers, choral conductors, keyboard players and observers welcome! All are welcome! This should be a fun way to gather, chase away the winter blues and learn some new things or refresh your skills.
Please feel free to share this information. We have a large Sanctuary for lots of participants, and plenty of parking.
Friday, February 3 at 3pm
Coffee and Greeting; followed by Workshop featuring Marian Antiphons, useful Canticles and Responses, Tudor Anthems; then we will have supper. At 7:30pm, we will Sing Compline using what we learned in the workshop for a congregation in the Main Sanctuary.
A $20 offering will be taken for supper.
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A BRAVE BARREL OF OYSTERS: MUSIC OF SAMUAL PEPYS' LONDON ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 |
Perhaps the English language’s most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and bon vivant in Restoration London. The diaries he kept from 1660-1668 provide a fascinating glimpse of life during the reign of the “merry monarch” Charles II. An enthusiastic amateur musician who sang and the lute, viola da gamba, and flageolet, Pepys chronicled his experiences making music with the best (and the worst) musicians in town. STS brings this bustling, bewigged, and bawdy London to life with readings from Pepys’ diaries along with music by his many friends including Blagrave, Young, Locke, and others.
Corey Dalton Hart, tenor, recorder
Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, voice
Daniel Meyers, recorders, flute, bagpipes, voice
David H. Miller, bass viol, voice
Matthew Wright, archlute, voice
with Alastair Thompson as Samuel Pepys
Sunday, February 26 at 4pm
The Chapel at Christ Episcopal Church
1132 Highland Ave. Needham, MA
$20 general seating. Masks required.
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HELP UKRAINIAN FAMILIES
Your immediate support will help Episcopal Relief & Development and other Anglican partners provide humanitarian assistance to people fleeing the violence in Ukraine. Donate here today.
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If you or someone in your family is in the hospital or in need of pastoral care, please call the church office so that our clergy or the Pastoral Response Ministry team may be notified and tend to the need.
The office number is (781) 444-1469, and you can reach Nick at ext. 113.
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