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WEEKLY E-NEWS
DECEMBER 8, 2023
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It's an ADVENT CELEBRATION this Second Sunday of the Month!
At 9am there will be kids crafts, fire pits, cookie decorating, "snowball" toss and more!
Click this Flyer Link for a listing of all the activities at 9 am this Sunday!
At 2:00 pm, join us for a special Clarion Brass Concert. Flyer Link
Pick up a poinsettia to deliver to a parishioner after the 10 am service. More details below.
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DECEMBER 10
8:00 Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00 Advent Celebration
9:00 Join together today!
10:00 Holy Eucharist Rite II
11:15 Poinsettia delivery
2:00 Clarion Brass + Percussion concert
DECEMBER 13
6:00 Combined Fellowship dinner (students & EEC)
6:30 Children's Choir
6:30 Earth Love meeting
6:45 NO Taizé
7:00 Churches Together for Justice
7:30 Adult choir
Emmanuel Calendar Link
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All Emmanuel parishioners are invited to the Cathedral Saturday morning at 11:00 to support fellow parishioner Bethann Rohlfing as she is ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons. Bethann’s ordination comes after several years of discernment and formation, including attendance at the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry in Topeka, KS and field education. Bethann will be a transitional deacon for six months (required by our church canons) before her anticipated ordination fulfilling her call to the priesthood in June 2024. A reception honoring Bethann and the other ordinands will follow. This service will be live streamed. Click here and scroll down for media links. Congratulations Bethann!
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Gun Violence Awareness Sunday, December 10.
The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri has asked all churches to help with the effort for gun violence awareness by asking each parish to write to Missouri House Speaker Plocher and State Senator Rowden. There are packets in the parish hall on the "alcove" shelf. If anyone is willing to join in the letter writing, please sign the form and take a packet. The packets contain preprinted letters, envelopes, labels, stamps and instructions. The letters are to be mailed a few at a time over the next two weeks.
Additionally, the Diocese of Missouri is hosting a prayer vigil of lament and remembrance on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Louis and via livestream. This is a joint effort with the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis and the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and clergy from various faith traditions will participate. The prayer service will be led by The Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri; the Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis; and a representative of ELCA Bishop Susan Candea. The Very Rev. Kathie Adams-Shepherd, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, will offer words of reflection
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And in Webster, Webster Groves Presbyterian Church is hosting a "Guns to Gardens" event Sunday, December 10 10:30-1:30.
If you are not familiar with Guns to Gardens, click the link. Sunday's event is a Safe Surrender event. All guns should be unloaded and in the trunk of the vehicle. Guns will be dismantled on site while you wait. Click here for a flyer about the Safe Surrender Event. For more information contact Julie Burchett at Webster Groves Presbyterian Church.
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FESTIVAL FLOWER & MUSIC
Each Christmas we provide special brass and organ music and poinsettias and greens to adorn the church in celebration of Christ's birth.
You may contribute to the Festival Flower & Music fund in thanksgiving for someone or something or in memory of someone. Remembrances and thanksgivings will be listed in the Christmas Eve bulletins. There will be envelopes in the pews this week for contributing and adding names or you may use this link to contribute electronically.
We ask you provide names to Ann Marie Ruhlin by Monday, December 18.
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CHRISTMAS OFFERING
Not to be confused with Festival Flower & Music, the Christmas Offering is a special monetary gift that may be given during Christmas. The Christmas Offering includes all loose offerings contributed at the Christmas services.
The vestry approved sending all Christmas Offerings to LifeWise StL Mothers Mental Health Program. This program supports new mothers and immigrant mothers. Donations may be made through January 8, 2024
Click here to donate electronically.
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This Sunday, we will have poinsettias to deliver to parishioners who are unable to attend, who had a death in the family this past year or those who may be ill.
We need your help to do that! This is great thing to do as a family too. After the 10 am service this week there will be tables in the chapel and the corridor.
OR you can come to the Clarion Brass concert at 2 pm and pick up a poinsettia! Someone will be here to assist you from 2-4!
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Women of Emmanuel fun!
On Saturday, December 16 we will meet up at MoMo's Coffee Champagne Kitchen, 9500 Manchester Rd. for brunch!
Come grab a bite and then go finish your shopping chores! Bring a friend, a sister, a daughter or just you! No RSVP needed. But, the holiday spirit is required!
As you enter MoMo's order & pay first, then come sit with us.
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The Giving Tree is now up and we are accepting gifts. No wrapping, not fuss!
In the Christmas Packet there is a listing of the gifts/gift cards we are collecting from Dec. 3 through Dec. 17.
We will distribute the gifts to Episcopal City Mission, Grace Hill, LifewiseStL and Webster-Rock Hill Ministries.
Gifts may be left in the blue bins or if a gift card, please deposit in the mailbox on the piano in the parish hall!
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Enjoy a free Christmas concert by the Clarion Brass + Percussion on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m.
Clarion Brass + Percussion will play some of your favorite songs and carols for the holidays! Joined by special guest, William Lenihan, on guitar for a special treat.
FREE admission. A free will offering to benefit Suzuki Harmony STL. Families welcome!
Suzuki Harmony STL is a non-profit that serves youth in under-resourced neighborhoods of the St. Louis region by providing high-quality private music instruction.
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Wednesday night dinner Dec. 13 will be hosted by Valori† and the international students. The cuisine will be similar to what is typical in India and Nepal. Not to worry, there will be something for an American palate! | | |
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Episcopal City Mission (ECM) is a unique ministry in the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Missouri. ECM raises funds to support the ministry of chaplains in the Juvenile Detention Centers in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. Four chaplains run all the programs with grace and good humor letting the kids know that they are loved by God and are worthy of love. This year some of the ornaments on the Giving Tree will be going to ECM. On Monday, December 18 folks from across the diocese will gather in Emmanuel's dining room to wrap all the gifts that are going to ECM. Please join
us from 10am to 1:30 pm including lunch.
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EMMANUEL PRAYS
A new prayer ministry!
January 2024 we will begin to pray for each other and our loved ones in a different way. The parish intercessory prayer list with the names of all for whom prayers are requested will continue to be maintained and published in the weekly E-News. First, we will continue to name aloud parishioners and their immediate families in the Sunday intercessions but for two weeks only. During services, at the prayers of the people there is a pause for you add your own intercessions and we encourage you to name aloud anyone you are praying for at that time.
The new Emmanuel Pray Ministry ensures that everyone on the intercessory list is prayed for every day by their Emmanuel family. That is a way we can love and honor all those who need prayers for as long as they need our prayers. We intend to have four different groups of people praying the intercessory list (groups divided by A, B, C, D). The intercessory prayer list will be divided into four sections (red, green, purple and blue). Every week each group will pray for a different part of the intercessory list. So, the groups remain the same, but each group will rotate through the intercessory list by week.
If you would like to be a part of this special way of praying for Emmanuel, please let Rev. Sujanna know. The intercessory list will be in the E-news each week and divided into four sections. Anyone is welcome to pray that list at any time whether part of an Emmanuel Prays group or just as an individual. Being intentional about holding someone in prayer or even just saying their name aloud can be powerful for both those for whom we pray as well as those who are praying.
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OTHER NEWS CLIPS!
BIG news on name tags!! Our wonderful red doors that hold our name tags are in need of repairs. Thank you Rick Kuhn for working on them for us! These needed repairs necessitate a new plan for our name tags. Beginning Sunday, you won’t see the red doors in the narthex. Instead, there will be tables on either side of the door. On top of the tables will be wooden trays that hold our name tags. Please find your name tag (organized alphabetically) before the service. Following the service, please drop your name tag into one of the navy, wooden boxes. The navy, wooden boxes will be labeled “nametags”.
The nametags will be alphabetized into trays on Mondays, in preparation for the next Sunday service. Please let an usher know if you need any help with our new nametag routine. Also, as always, please email Ann Marie Ruhlin or Mimi Shipp if you need a nametag created for you. Thank you! !
Next Sunday, Dec. 17 is Hanging of the Greens after the 10 am service. Join us after service to hang a wreath or bow or add roping outside!
AND we will welcome the new diocesan JustFood truck. The food truck will offer lunch of soup and sandwiches. The food truck will be going to low poverty neighborhoods each week to provide free food. We'll have similar food and we are asked to donate as we are able.
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GIVING UPDATE
We are making progress! Pledges to date are at 77% of our goal for the number of pledges and at 90% of our financial goal. Let's make both of these happen by December 15!
If you wish to pledge online, you may use this link for an online pledge card. We will also have a QR code in the bulletins linked to the online pledge card. We, of course, will accept a pledge at any time during the year, but at this time, pledging allows us to budget for 2024.
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