for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies.
Christ, our Lord, to you we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
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Give the Gift of Life for Christmas tThis Year!
Red Cross Blood Drive at St. David's
When: December 3rd 2021
Time: 2:00pm - 7:00pm
There is still a severe shortage of blood in our area. What better gift to give a person and their family than helping to save a life. It only takes a short time to do.
Please sign up, spread the word through social media and word of mouth. The links are below, send them to everyone. We want to blow this drive out and help this be a most joyous season of love and healing.
Every donor will get a $10 gift card from Amazon (right in time for gift shopping), and be entered into a drawing for a private screening of the new Matrix movie with 50 friends
Contact Cherie to help or if you have questions.
Please pass this message to all your friends, family and contacts and ask them to do the same!
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Welcoming everyone to walk through our doors on the journey to Christ |
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.8 Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
~ Philippians 4: 4 - 9 NIV
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Worship at St. David's Services:
Sunday Services
In - Person
8am and 10 am
as well as streaming
online at 10 am
Please find the service at the following links
Registration for the
8:00 In-Person Service
Registration for the
10:00 In-Person Service
Password is advent1
Sunday 10:00 Service on Facebook Live:
Please see link below
in Participation Quick Links
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Readings for Thanksgiving day
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Thanksgiving.
The history of the food fest we will celebrate tomorrow (I am writing this on Wednesday evening) is, of course, complicated. The Native American tribes on whose land we are celebrating the holiday might have a different perspective on it from ours. But, we can also see that a harvest festival has a long history. In Deuteronomy, the people are commanded annually to take the first fruits of their produce of their fields to the place where God’s name resides, and offer it there to God, and celebrate with a feast (to which they were to invite the orphan, the widow, and the resident alien). In this way, they “redeemed” or bought back the rest of the harvest for their own use. In this way, they acknowledged their utter dependence on God’s bounty for their very livelihoods.
The eucharist is meant for us to serve the same purpose. Eucharist is a Greek word that simply means thanksgiving – the prefix, “eu” means good or beautiful, and the root “charis” means grace or gift. So eucharist is what you do in response to a beautiful gift. It’s what Deuteronomy commanded in response to a bountiful harvest. In a sense, then, as Christians, we celebrate Thanksgiving every Sunday, giving God thanks for God’s bountiful gift of God’s Son to us. We return a little portion of our livelihoods, in bread, wine, and money, in order to “redeem” the rest of what we have for our use.
We are saying “thanks” for the gift of our very lives.
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Particapation Quick Links
Getting involved in our services is making this darn pandemic tolerable,
at least on Sundays and a few other moments.
We invite everyone to help us in making our community stronger than ever through prayer. As you may know we have become acquainted with Zoom and Facebook Live to help bring us together to commune with each other. Please use these links to sign up to participate in our different prayer services and gatherings.
To sign up for Sunday Service click on the links above
If there are questions on how to sign up for Sunday participation or daily prayers please contact either Cherie or Dave
If you are already pre-registered for every Sunday,
or are a lay participant,
please don't register again to lessen the confusion of redundant reservations..
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November 28, 2021
Advent I
in person
8 am & 10 am
online service at 10am
See link below
To get The Book of Common Prayer:
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Keep in your prayers:
Jean Ellison
Glenda Crenshaw
Crystal Waterman
Robert Galliher
Steven McNamara
Diane Tsibulsky
Robert Northrup
Ginny Frey
Judy McCumber
Josh Echols
Frank Beadel
Daniel Healey
Hall Orcutt
Frank Cinque
James McDermott
Françoise Boulanger
Lois Shaffer
Rose Demagio
Tim Orcutt
Yvonne Shaw
Diana Smith
Judy Finlayson
Colleen Bain
Miggs Coleman
Lisa Smith
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Contact St. David's
Contact information for, Parish Office
St. David's Episcopal Church-14 Jamar Drive DeWitt, NY 13214
Office hours Monday -Thursdays 9:00am-1:00pm or by appointment
Email:
Website:
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Dan's Blog:
St. Davids Dewitt:
CNY Episcopal Diocese:
Episcopal Church:
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Episcopal and Lutheran bishops in Georgia respond to the verdict in the McMichaels-Bryan trial
The jury charged with handing down a verdict in the case of three men accused of murder for their roles in the death of Ahmaud Arbery issued its decision today finding Travis McMichael guilty of malice murder and other charges, Gregory McMichael guilty of felony murder and other charges, and Roddie Bryan guilty of felony murder and other charges. We give thanks for the dedicated work of the judge and jurors who served in a charged atmosphere with intense public scrutiny. Any verdict arrives too late to offer true justice in this case. Ahmaud Arbery is dead, and the court cannot return him to his family. Nonetheless, this moment is an important one.
We prayed for the court to bring earthly justice and the court has acted. But it took a public outcry and the release of video of the incident to force the system into action. The three men who are now convicted of crimes were initially shielded from facing their accusers in court. Until we can bring equity to the system that initially protected them, the rest of us will not have done what we can to create the just society for which we long. Our country has not dealt with the racism built into the system at its founding and perpetuated until this day. Living into our faith means addressing directly any sin we see in our lives and in our communities. Divisions around the human-made concept of race are an offense against our faith which teaches that all people are made in God’s image and likeness. Jesus taught us to love God and love our neighbor as ourselves. Through his parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus made it clear that all are our neighbors. Any racial divide breaks the heart of God...
Written By John Chilton
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Virtual Bible Study
Tuesday, November 30th Bible Study this week
Please join us Tuesdays at 7pm. Our normal Bible Study continues this week by virtual meeting because of the limitations the Covid-19 virus has put on all of us.
A zoom link with be emailed to anyone who has expressed an interest.
Join by Zoom:
Meeting ID: 393 321 833
Call the Church Office to request a Zoom invitation to our weekly Bible Study, which is held on Tuesday's at 7 pm.
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Prayer List
We are trying to be sure that our prayer list is as updated as possible and certainly don't want to remove someone that should be on it. If you know of someone who should be removed please let the office know. Thank you.
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Everyone is invited to participate in bringing our newsletter to life. If you have an opinion, article, idea, event, organization or any other relevant topic of interest, please let us know. This is everyone's newsletter, we welcome your participation.
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Good Morning Everyone,
As of June 6th we have returned to In-Person Coffee Hour, which will be either in the Air-Conditioned Parish Hall . Hosts are needed and can be signed up on the lay participation link or by contacting David Burgess at (315) 875-3572.
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November
Calendar
November 25 ~
Thanksgiving Parish/Rector Office Closed
November 28 ~
First Sunday of Advent
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Pastoral Care:
* If you or a family member is sick or in the hospital.
* You are planning a meeting or scheduling an event so it can be placed on the church calendar.
* A baby is expected in your family.
* You want to arrange a baptism, affirmation of baptism, wedding or house blessing.
* When a family member has died.
* Your telephone, email or address is changed or if you are planning to move locally or out of town.
* You feel the church can help you in any way.
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codFISH
(Community of DeWitt Friends in Service Here)
Is a volunteer transport service to medical and dental appointments at no cost for residents of the Town of DeWitt. For more information please visit our website
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Altar Guild
If you'd like to have flowers on the altar in memory of a loved one or to celebrate a special occasion please contact the office (315-446-2112).
Plants at St. David's
Our plants at St. David's are on a set watering and feeding schedule. The flower guild asks that ONLY guild members attend the plants.
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
11/28-12/4
No Birthdays
Anniversaries
Kurt and Cherie Finkbeiner
Departed
Corinne Drury, Cousin of Linda Williams (4)
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Office Hours
Rector Office
M,TH 9-2
Parish Office
M-Th 9-1
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Samaritan Update
During this time of pandemic, St. David’s has continued to support the Samaritan Center. Since we haven’t been able to be together to make sandwiches, we have supported them with a monthly cash donation. They have been extremely grateful for our support, and we would like to continue it until such time as we can make sandwiches again. If you would like to help St. David’s with that effort, you can write a check and put “Samaritan Center” on the memo line, and we will use that to support our monthly donation.
The Samaritan Center can our help in other ways:
Donations are needed to service for our Samaritan Center clients
$100 seems to be the average
Any amount would be accepted
Pre-packaged cookies are needed and can be
dropped off at the church while Kristen is there
The Samaritan Center is also in need of these items:
- Prepackaged cookies
- To go containers
- Plastic forks & spoons
- Bottled water
- Bottled juices
- Sandwiches or any kind on any bread
- And the "bad" plastic bags if anyone cares to give them up
If you are dropping off something to be picked up please contact Linda ahead of time so she knows whether to stop to pick up items.
Thank you for all you have done so far. Please be safe yourselves.
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Making a Reservation for Sundays is easy!
You can:
- On or after 5 PM on Sunday, you can go to St. David’s website, www.stdavidscny.org and click on the time you wish to attend on the next Sunday. It will take you to a Google document for you to complete.
- In the ‟ Monday Mailer ”, you can click on the time you wish to attend and complete the Google document to make your reservation.
- In the ‟ Friday Newsletter ” you can also click the time and complete the Google document.
- If at any time you have a problem or question; or if you are interested in being on the ‟ Automatic ” reservation system, contact David Burgess. Phone: (315) 875-3572 E-Mail: dpburgess13032@gmail.com
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November 28, 2021
Jeremiah 33:14-16
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this is the name by which it will be called: "The Lord is our righteousness."
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you? Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Luke 21:25-36
Jesus said, "There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see 'the Son of Man coming in a cloud' with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
Then he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
"Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, like a trap. For it will come upon all who live on the face of the whole earth. Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."
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