Dear Christ Church Family,
In our email to you on Tuesday, we gave you a lot of information! We wanted to remind you of our virtual services this Sunday, introduce a virtual musical meditation offered by our beloved John Sheridan, and give you some additional resources for prayer and connection with God! Please see all of this information below.
Virtual Noonday Prayer:
We will host virtual noonday prayer on
Wednesdays at 12pm.
Instead of Facebook, we will be using a platform called Zoom which will allow for people to either call in or video chat in. Noonday prayers take about 10 minutes. If you are using your phone or computer to video chat, you will want to download the free Zoom app
here
.
You do not need to download anything if you plan to call in
. The call-in phone number, as well as the video link for Zoom can be found at the end of this email.
Sunday Services
: 8am Morning Prayer on Zoom and 10:30am Morning Prayer on Facebook Live. The call-in phone number, as well as the video link for Zoom can be found at the end of this email. Find the Facebook page
here.
A musical offering from John Sheridan
At Christ Church, we have a century-plus long tradition of great liturgical worship with inspiring music. During our current moment, when we must refrain from gathering together and public worship has been suspended, I suspect many are missing the music that informs and inspires our worship. So, we will be offering a weekly "virtual musical meditation," structured as a worship service, with prelude, postlude, hymns, anthems, and a mass setting all provided via internet-based performances. You are invited to follow this series of musical numbers and texts as a meditation, at your own pace. The hymns are printed so that you may sing (or play!) along if you like; and the appointed lessons are printed so that you can read and ponder them. We hope you find this helpful during this time of social distance. Be well! You can find this musical offering
here.
Taking Faith Home:
Normally, you would find the weekly
Taking Faith Home
handout in our Parish Notes, but we will send it out to you weekly. This week’s is
here
. I encourage you to use this as a resource for your own spiritual grounding and health during this challenging time.
Additional Resources from Rev. Joanna: Y
esterday, this fun, free resource came to me through Illustrated Ministry - the company where we get our weekly children's bulletins. It's called "Prayers for When You are Feeling Anxious," and you can find it
here.
In it, you will find three beautiful prayers in the form of coloring pages that remind us of God's never-ending presence in our lives. As you know, coloring pages are not just for children, but are for all! I hope that you enjoy this resource by yourself or with your children! Feel free to send it to your friends!
Here
you'll find the weekly Children's Worship bulletin that you'd normally find in the rear of the church.
The Episcopal Church has a virtual prayer wall where you can submit intercessions so that people worldwide can pray with and for you! You will find it
here.
Ministry Updates
Food Pantry:
Unless there is some unforeseen event, the
Food Pantry will remain open.
Volunteers will be needed as the Rutgers students, whom the Food Pantry relies heavily upon during distribution, are no longer on campus. If you are interested in helping out, please contact
Judith Kuldinow
Laundry Love
is suspended pending determinations as to how to serve the population while maintaining measures to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Pledging:
The Vestry encourages you to continue to pledge to the parish during this time. You will find the PayPal link for Christ Church donations at the bottom of our website (at the bottom of the page). Click
here
to go directly to the parish website.
Thank you for your patience as we navigate this new way of being community. Please do not hesitate to contact me or
Terry Ann
with any further questions you may have! At this time all calls to the church office (between 8am and 8pm) are being routed to Terry Ann at home. Should you have any challenges emailing the parish office, please call Terry Ann at 732-233-6685.
Blessings,
Joanna+
Summary of Zoom events this week:
Noonday Prayer, Wednesdays at Noon
Parish Conversation, Wednesday, March 18th at 8pm
Morning Prayer, Sunday (8am)
Facebook Live (Sunday 10;30am only)
Morning Prayer, Sunday (10:30am)
Click
here
to reach the Christ Church Facebook page
If you are calling in, please call the following number: 1 929 205 6099. Then when prompted, please enter the following code: 417 531 024. You will then be connected to the Zoom group. If you choose to video chat, please use the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/417531024
. You will want to click on “join using computer audio” if you are on the computer. Deacon Pete Cornell wrote up a wonderful explanation on using Zoom which you can find
here
.
If you have technical problems and need assistance, Deacon Pete is happy to help. Please call him at home at 732-516-9661.
