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Sunday 10:30 AM service streamed on Facebook Live or YouTube 

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In-Person services on Sunday at 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM (masks welcome)

In-Person service on Wednesday at 12:00 PM (masks welcome)

Throughout the fall, we will use the Bible Project to lead us as we dig deeper into God’s Word. Each week, we will read a book of the New Testament. Click here for the readings and links.

Starting October 20th at 5:30 PM, Christ Church and Temple Beth-El will be coming together for a special class, ‘"One Text, Two Faiths." Rabbi Joel Fleekop and Father Michael will be looking at passages from the Torah/Old Testament highlighting how those scriptures have traditionally been understood in Judaism and Christianity respectively. This class will be a hybrid class held in Christ Church’s sanctuary as well as Zoom (link here).

As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

Our neighbors without homes are in great need of bug spray, new or used summer clothes (especially men’s), toiletries including bars of soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, disposable razors, hand sanitizer, wash cloths, socks, and hand cream. Donations can be left in the boxes labeled 'Bridging the Gap' in the back hallway of the church offices. Please click here for more information on how to help.

As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

Starting October 20th at 5:30 PM, Christ Church and Temple Beth-El will be coming together for a special class, ‘"One Text, Two Faiths." Rabbi Joel Fleekop and Father Michael will be looking at passages from the Torah/Old Testament highlighting how those scriptures have traditionally been understood in Judaism and Christianity respectively. This class will be a hybrid class held in Christ Church’s sanctuary as well as Zoom (link here).

Parents Night Out (PNO) is a once-a-month program offered by the Children & Family Ministry of Christ Church. Parents are invited to bring their children, ages infant through 5th grade, to our church's nursery/childcare rooms where they will be cared for by Christ Church's wonderful childcare staff. Our first Parents Night Out is this month – Friday, October 15 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM. Cost is $20 per child for the entire evening with a $50 maximum per family. To appropriately staff PNO, families must register online here. Questions? Contact Victoria Wright, Director of Children and Family Ministry.

J.U.S.T. Pensacola (Justice United Seeking Transformation) is beginning its third year of working together to improve our community.  As in previous years, Christ Church members along with those from many congregations gather in small groups to share their hopes and concerns for our community. This is the first step in the annual process to determine areas of concern, doing the research, and coming together at a Nehemiah event to make requests to community leaders for improvement. With a large number of people representing diverse faith groups in attendance, our leaders do listen.

All Christ Church members are invited to participate. Additional meetings will be scheduled as needed. If you are interested in participating in this process, please contact Honey Harris.

Christ Church and EDS are teaming up for a Trunk or Treat on Friday, October 29, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Come and trick or treat at our community cars on the gated, outdoor lot of EDS's south campus. Pizza will be available from Christ Church's EYC. Anyone wanting to have a "trunk", please contact Victoria Wright. Cars can begin setting up at 5:00 PM on the 29th. Bring the kids out in their costumes, walk through the car line to get treats, and have a spookily fun time!

As we continue the gradual expansion of our liturgy, our sung Fraction Anthem returns. The fraction anthem, (Lat., confractorium) is a short anthem sung after the Celebrant breaks the consecrated Host prior to distributing it during communion. In the Roman Mass, this anthem is the Agnus Dei (“Lamb of God”), which was included by Thomas Cranmer in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), but as a Communion Anthem (Lat. transitorium) as opposed to a Fraction Anthem. The 1979 BCP includes the Pascha nostrum (“Christ our Passover”) and allows the use of the Agnus Dei, along with other suitable anthems. Our current Pascha nostrum is derived from that included in the 1549 BCP. This 1549 Fraction Anthem echoes the Agnus Dei at the same time that it incorporates the then-and-now timelessness of the moment:

This week, we will be singing S 155, “Alleluia. Christ our Passover” in a setting by American composer Gerald Near (b. 1942). This anthem was composed in 1974 to be included in the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW), then in production. The Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship elected not to include this fraction anthem in the LBW, and it was first published in The Hymnal 1982.

Ladies, we need your baked goods for our upcoming Bake Sale! Cakes, cookies, breads, muffins, candy, or any other special homemade goodies you create! You may sign up at the November ECW meeting where the signup sheet will be available, sign up here, or contact Allison Mitchell. The Bake Sale will be held on Sundays, December 12 & 19. Let's do some holiday baking!

Please contact Kelly Heindl at the Parish Office to make preparations.

Parents: Please walk your children to the Christian Education Building. Enter by the church courtyard and go through the green door marked for your entry. You will follow the footsteps along the hallways to the Christian Education Building. The nursery is on the first floor and Sunday School rooms are upstairs on the second floor. This will be an opportunity for you to see this newly refurbished area of the church. You can pick your children up from their classrooms or nursery following the 10:30 service.

8:00 AM – The Nursery is available for children ages infant through 3-years-old.

9:30 AM – At this time, the Sunday School program is paused. Please join us during the 10:30 AM service for Godly Play for younger children and Journey Through the Bible for our older children.

10:30 AM – During the 10:30 AM service, the Nursery is available for children ages infant through 3 years old, located on the first floor of the Christian Education building.

Godly Play is offered for children in Pre-K 4 through 3rd grade. Children learn the stories of our faith while playing, crafting, and exploring. A snack is offered. This week’s story features “Superhero” Moses and the story of God’s people being led out of captivity from Egypt. The story will be told with the desert box and will give the children a visual concept of the people as they flee while being chased by Pharoah’s men. This is an exciting story with lots of moving parts and so it is a favorite of the children. We welcome new and returning children each Sunday.

Journey Through the Bible is a new curriculum for our 4th and 5th graders. They will journey through the entire Bible the two years of this class, starting with the New Testament this year.

Children and Family Ministry (CFM) has two new ways to keep our families connected with Christ Church during the week. CFM is on Instagram, @cckidspensacola, and shares what is happening on Sunday mornings and ideas for how to keep faithful conversations happening during the week. CFM also has a bite-sized weekly email with the "5 Things" our families need to know for the week – Sunday reminders, save the dates, and more. Would you like to be added? Email Victoria to be added to the list!

An online Zoom interactive conversation presented by the Commission on Racial Justice of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast. For more information, please click here.

Youth Night In is an event we are doing in correlation with Parents Night Out from 5:30 to 9:30 PM on Friday October 15 for 6-12th graders. It will be an opportunity for food, fun and fellowship in the undercroft. Please let Sarah know if you have any questions and/or are planning on attending!

Happening #58 will be November 12-14 at Beckwith; this year is only for 12th graders. If you are in 12th grade and are interested in a safe, fun weekend at Beckwith, you can register here. If you have any questions, please let Sarah know.  Happening #59 will move back to 10th-12th graders.

Each week our worship service is enhanced with beautiful fresh flowers. After the Sunday services, the altar flower arrangements are reworked into smaller arrangements. These arrangements are delivered to members of our parish family that are unable to attend a Sunday service. The altar flowers are a memorial, a thanksgiving for an anniversary, a birthday, a new birth, or a thanksgiving for God's blessings. The donation is listed in the weekly bulletin. Forms to participate in this ministry are available here and on the information table in the Parish Office.

Christ Church is here for you. There are many ministries to love and support the people who are the church. We continue to support one another, especially during this pandemic. If you are interested in assisting with staying connected to our church family, please email Rev. Katie or call her at the Parish Office, 850-432-5115. It is easy to feel alone or disconnected right now, so reach out to one of the priests or someone at the church to say hello. Contact Rev. Katie if you or anyone you know has any needs. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call our pastoral care emergency line to speak directly with one of the priests: (850) 462-5137.

We would like to give thanks for these special days and to add your name to the published prayer list in the Chronicle. Please print your name on the calendar on the information table in the Parish Office foyer. The calendar is checked weekly before the prayer list goes to print.

I. For Those in Need. Including the poor, the unemployed, the lonely, the hungry, the homeless, the abused, the sick and dying, and those who grieve. For those suffering in body, mind, or spirit—including Members: Madeleine Orbik, Dick Pace, Nancy Stafford, Bruce & Meg Melvin, Laura Wolfersperger, Dee Whisenhunt Family & Friends: Ada Joan McElroy, Josie Rasmussen, Lucas Rasmussen, Rob Wilmer, Kelly, Trisha Bothwell, Nicole Keating. 

II. For Those in the Armed Forces, especially—Erik Barton, Stewart Bova, Danica Roark Domokos, Sam Gaston, Robert Geiger, William Harper, Harry B. Harris, Benjamin Jensen, Joshua Justin, Art Lantigua, Hillary Leonard, Ben Mathis, Kathryn Martin, Sean McAbee, Julie McGill, Kyle Roberson, Peter Shelton, Evan Valdyke, Wesley Valdyke; and all those who serve this nation in harm’s way.

III. For All who have Died. May their souls and the souls of all the departed rest in peace—Barbara Berry, Diana Weeks.

IV. In Thanksgiving. For those in our parish celebrating birthdays—Davis Sherman, Mary Stitt—and anniversaries—Ceil & Greg Reese.

To submit a prayer request, email prayer-request@christ-church.net and let us know if this is for the public prayer list or for our confidential intercessory prayer list. You may also fill out the prayer request form online at our website (found on the Pastoral Care page under “Ministries”). All published prayer requests on this list also go on the confidential intercessory prayer list. Please note that names remain on the prayer list for 4 weeks and on our confidential intercessory prayer list until you ask to be removed. Please resubmit your request if you or a loved one needs to remain on the list. This helps keep our prayers current. Names in bold print indicate new additions to the prayer list.

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