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New Vestry Members Elected

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:11:00 GMT

At the parish Annual Meeting on January 29, six new Vestry members were elected:

One Year Term Ending January 2013

Greg Schumacher
Anne Mellinger

Three Year Term Ending January 2015

Raymond Cox
Don Laconi
Howard Parr
Kathy Schaefer

Rebecca Wilson

Presiding Bishop's Christmas Message 2011

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:46:00 GMT

In her Christmas message, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, writes that "Jesus comes among us to remind us of a world living together in peace, to reclaim and make real that vision of creation for all humanity and all God’s creatures." Read the entire message.

Rebecca Wilson

A Christmas Message by Oscar Romero

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:39:00 GMT

No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas without being truly poor. The self-sufficient, the proud, those who, because they have everything, look down on others, those who have no need even of God--for them there will be no Christmas. Only the poor, the hungry, those who need someone to come on their behalf, will have that someone. That someone is God. Emmanuel. God-with-us. Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God.

--Father Oscar Romero in his 1978 Christmas Eve homily

Rebecca Wilson

Outreach News

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:30:00 GMT

November brought some poignant moments that I’d like to share with you, as I once again gratefully remember your generosity in my prayers. This outreach ministry is successful because of the efforts of all those who support it.

Eric Kugler, Anne Mellinger and I packed 100 bags of groceries in preparation for our Community Thanksgiving Dinner. One day, while we were packing, a gaunt looking woman came to the door and asked if we had any food for her, she said she was “so hungry.” We gave her a bag of groceries and invited her to come back on Wednesday to have Thanksgiving dinner with us.
During our Thanksgiving celebration, two of our parish neighbors happily told us that they had landed retail jobs for the holiday season. They were delighted to find clothes nice enough to wear to work in our Friendly Closet.
On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a man with two small children walked into the church at the beginning of Children’s Chapel. He asked if we had any food for him, he had just moved into the neighborhood and the paperwork for his food stamps hadn’t cleared yet. Our children helped me pack a bag with what was left in the pantry, and we were also able to give another bag that someone had forgotten to take home from our Thanksgiving dinner. He was even able to use the children’s clothing that had been put into the left-behind bag!

Thank you for supporting the Friendly Pantry through your prayers, donations, shopping, and help with packing and distributing groceries throughout the year.

-Anne Schwan

Rebecca Wilson

Christmas Eve Services

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:31:00 GMT

Please join us on December 24, Christmas Eve:

4 pm: Family Service and Christmas Pageant

11 pm: Holy Eucharist (communion). The Rev. Kay Rackley, preaching and presiding.

10:30 pm: Christmas Music with Jane Berkner on flute and Jody Guinn on harp, including "Coventry Carol," "Christ the Babe is Lord of All," "Your Little Ones, O Lord," and "Candlelight Carol."

At Church of Our Saviour, everyone is welcome at God's table.

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