Have you completed your online Pledge Certificate for 2024? You will find the link HERE

Thank you to those who have pledged $242,185 to date.

Mark McMahon

The Pullaro Family

Penelope Lattimer

H. Arthur Phills

John Ager

Meegan Adames

Barry Qualls

Nancy Lown

Monica Williams & Jeremiah Weston Kevin Stansbury

David Bell

Wendy Benjamin

Jo Duhr

Margaret Caroline Brown-Stansbury Mr. Ronald Stansbury

Gerri Callahan

Debra Lowe

Sandra Smithson

Jean Houvener

Renis and Mervis Johnson

Peggy Smith

David G, Briggs & Beverly B. Briggs

Beth Binde

Sheila Cooper

Penelope Gordon

The Rev. Joan E. Fleming

Towanda Stovall

Barbara Patricia (Pat) Lowe

Sarah Braun

Joan S Borden

Kenreic and Marva VanLoo

Jonathan Gloster

The Rev. Joanna Hollis

Jean Zimmerman

Margaret Hall

Zida & Allen Abbott, Sr.

Barry & Dawn Johnson

Elizabeth & Jonathan Clark

Paul & Catherine Ambos

Dale and Patricia Buckendahl

Tanya Penman-Sterling

Eugene Lisnay

 Ashlinn Stansbury-Fields & Jeffrey Fields, Jr. Gordon Arsenoff

Rozanne Jhamb

Lori Covery and James Nichols

Gloria Peroune

Kelly-Jane Cotter & Stacy Bruden

Karen Bemis & Doug Bonar

John and Leticia Egekeze

Edna Pozo

Barbara Chludzinski

Louise F. Deis

Fernanda Perrone

Melbourne & Alice Garber

Nancy Walworth and Bob Chant

Robin Stephenson

Stephanie Elson

Bruce Anderson

Our work TOGETHER depends on your support.

We are looking for Advent Readers and Advent candles lighters starting next Sunday, December 3! We encourage individuals, families, friends, folks from various ministries to sign up! Please sign up HERE

The Interfaith Rotating Shelter will host professional trainers from Prepare, Inc. to give us skills for de-escalation, defusing dangerous situations, and hands-on physical strategies to use when someone's safety is at risk. Anyone who plans to be involved in homeless ministries can sign up (regardless of church affiliation), but if the seats fill up (max. 20 participants) then preference will be given to shelter volunteers for the coming winter.

Foundational skills & verbal de-escalation, December 3 & 11

(same content; sign up for either day)

Sunday, December 3, 2PM, First Reformed Church fellowship hall

Monday, December 11, 6PM, Catholic Center (84 Somerset St)

Physical and advanced verbal skills, December 10

Sunday, December 10, 2PM, location TBD

You MUST be signed up for the Dec 3 or 11 session to join on December 10

Please RSVP to interfaithrotatingshelter@gmail.com or to Jason Kaelber (508 439 2806; jtk52@cornell.edu).

NBPAC presents 

Jesus Christ Superstar: 50th Anniversary

December 6, 2023 7:00PM

New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

Cost: $15

Visit the website: https://secure.nbpac.org/jesuschristsuperstar

Join members of Christ Church attending the show for a quick dinner beforehand, contact Sheila Cooper  sheilajcooper@comcast.net

Christmas 2023 Flower Memorials and Gifts

Each Christmas our Church is beautified with flowers memorializing departed loved ones, commemorating anniversaries or representing thank offerings. Flower memorials and gifts may also be provided throughout the year. The cost for each Christmas donation or a single date in 2023 is $50. A perpetual memorial may be established with a one-time contribution of $500.

To be included in the printed Christmas leaflets, we must receive your request no later than Tuesday, December 19.

Christmas Music 2023

        Support our special music during the 9:00pm Festive Eucharist on Christmas Eve. We will have delightful musical offerings, and your favorite Christmas music. Just as flowers, plants, and other decorations adorn our worship space on festive occasions, special music also add to the beauty of our Christmas liturgies.



        Will you consider a donation to our Christmas music? Donations may be given as memorials or thanksgivings. Please make checks payable to Christ Church, and mark the memo line “Christmas Music.” Gifts may be mailed to the Parish Office or put in the collection plate. To be included in the printed Christmas leaflets, we must receive your request no later than Tuesday, December 19.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ANNUAL MEETING COMMITTEE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the following parishioners have been

appointed to the Annual Meeting Committee of Christ Church for the

February 4, 2024 Annual Meeting of the parish:

Meegan Adames, Chair

Paul Ambos, Parliamentarian

Arnold Bruce Anderson

Margaret Brown-Stansbury

H. Arthur Phills

Shannon Pullaro

The offices to be filled at the meeting are:

People's Warden (one-year term) (one to be elected)

Vestrymember (three-year term) (two to be elected)

Diocesan Convention Deputies (one-year term) (three to be elected) (1 meeting + associated costs)

Diocesan Convention Alternate Deputies (one-year term) (three to be elected) (1 meeting + associated costs)

Delegate to Northern Convocation (one-year term) (six to be

elected)

Nominations for the offices to be voted on should be made through the Committee by completing and signing a nomination form and submitting it to the parish office or giving it in person to any member of the

Committee. 

Would you like to join the Vestry or become a Diocesan Convention Deputy or Alternate? Know someone who may be great for the

position?

If yes, please fill out the nomination form HERE or

in-person

on the table in the back of the church.

Vestry Corner:

Key Topics from the November 2023

Vestry Meeting

1)  The Vestry spent much of our meeting discussing the results of the parishioners listening sessions about the future of our music ministry. The focus, so far, has been on inclusivity and creativity.

2 )  The Vestry had a robust conversation about the finances in preparation for the December budget meeting and the Annual Meeting in January.

 3) The Annual Meeting Planning Committee has held its first meeting. They are seeking candidates for the next Vestry members chairing Finance & Stewardship, among other roles. Please reach out to Meegan Adames if you are interested, have questions or wish to nominate someone.

Minutes of the October 2023 meeting can be found HERE.

Prayers requested for:

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Arnold, Christine, Dale, Danielle, Doreen, Dorothy, Eleanor, Isobel, Jacqueline, Jim, Joy, Karl, Lenora, Larry, Mary, Matthew, Sarah, Shawn, Tabby, Timothy, Vivian, and Winston.

Christ Church Ministry: Ushers

Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)

Diocesan Cycle Prayer: Christ Church in Bordentown, Magnolia, Middletown, Millville, New Brunswick, Palmyra, Riverton, Shrewsbury, Somers Point, South Amboy, Toms River, Trenton, and Woodbury, Christ the King Church in Willingboro, Church of the Redeemer in Longport, The Rev. Andre David Kruger

Birthdays this week: Beatrice Costello, Wayne Zdanowicz, Paul Ambos, Isabella Caldwell, Sheila Cooper, Anne Dillon, Hansford David Kilkenny, Karl Manger

Memorial Flowers: are given by Ruth V. Harris in loving memory of Joseph M. Harris, and J. Michael Harris, Marion E. Boyce in loving memory of Marion and James Walker, the late Mrs. William Johnson Kenyon, Sr., in memory of William Johnson Kenyon, Sr.