Bulletin Board


Regular Sunday Services

and Week Day Services are listed in

Times of Services


                                                            Upcoming Events

Sat & Sun, Aug 28 & 29                   Elmwood Arts Festival

Wed, Sept 1              1 pm               Stained Glass Window Tour – here

Sat, Sept 4                 9 am               Healing Team Meeting

 

      See below for more information on many of these events and more

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As our Diocese progresses towards the election of the next Bishop in April 2011, you are invited to follow the process via www.wnybishop.org

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Family Album Pictures

will be taken after church on First Sunday of each month:

9/5/2010

If your picture is not yet posted on the Family Album wall outside the Walter Lord Room - See Lynn Williams to get yours added there.

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Gentle Moves

Movement for the Mind, Body and Soul

a gentle dance, yoga and pilates class

taught by Suzanne Evans

Class will resume September 14

Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.

$8.00 per session

Enjoy moving, dancing, and stretching in a calm atmosphere and at your own pace.  This recreational exercise program incorporates gentle ballet and modern dance movements to improve balance strength, and flexibility without stress and strain!  For more information call 574-5503. 

Have Fun! Feel Better! Call Today!

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Thursday Adult Bible Study

Will resume in the autumn

Thursdays 10 a.m.

Walter Lord Room

(Lower level of Parish Hall)

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CHOIR

REHEARSALS

Thursdays

Will resume in the autumn

7:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Talk to David Mathewson, Organist/Choir Director for more details

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PRAYER CHAIN

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

6:30 p.m.

In the Scaife Dining Room

And the 4th Tuesday of each month thereafter

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Salt Shakers

Groups of 5 or 6 are encouraged to meet for Dinner at one another’s homes or in the Church dining room for an informal chance to get to know one another.  These groups are encouraged to meet about once a month.

Dinner is arranged by a host who assigns which dishes the participants might bring to the meal. These groups of 5 or 6 are also encouraged to invite additional members of the congregation to dinner thereby enlarging the number of members “getting to know” one another. 

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Sunday Adult Bible Study

Sundays 9:30 a.m.

Bishop Spong Classroom

(Bishop Scaife Dining Room off the Parish Hall Upper Level)

Read and discuss lessons used at Sunday Services. This is a relatively informal group. You may join it any Sunday

Bring the Sunday Bulletin with you to this discussion group.

 

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Sunday Morning

Adult Education & Discussion

Sundays

12:00 noon to 12:45 p.m.

Current Offering

Adult Study Groups 12:00 noon to 12:45 p.m.

        A New Christianity: Bishop John Shelby Spong is a best selling author and major spokesperson for reframing Christianity for the 21st Century. Discuss the challenging issues raised in Bishop Spong’s weekly internet question and answer series. Facilitated by Carol Brothers and Rob Petersen. Meets: Bishop Scaife Dining Room Upstairs in Parish Hall off the Kitchen.

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ST. JOHN’S-GRACE Book Study

ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP
First and Third Sundays of each month at 7:30 p.m.

Next Meeting date is September 5

The Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault

8/1       Jesus as a Recognition Event and Jesus in Context

8/15    The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You and Path of Metanoia

9/5       A Gospel of Thomas Sampler, Kenosis:Path of Self-Emptying and Jesus as Tantric Master

9/19    The Incarnation and The Passion

10/3    Crucifixion and Its Aftermath and The Great Easter Fast

10/17  Centering Prayer Meditation, Lectio Divina and Chanting and Psalmody

11/7    Welcoming and Eucharist

One may purchase the book

at the Church Office

Or see Rob Petersen

The adult discussion group has also read

o        The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

o        The Third Jesus:  The Christ We Cannot Ignore by Deepak Chopra

o        The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle

o        The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus by Peter J. Gomes

o        Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice by Curtiss Paul DeYoung

o        The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur

o        The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

o        The Kingdom of God Is within You by Leo Tolstoy

o        Living Buddha, Living Christ  by Thich Nhat Hanh

o        The Left Hand of God by Michael Learner

o        The I of the Storm by Gary Simmons

o        A People Called Episcopalians, A Brief Introduction to Our Peculiar Way of Life by The Rev. Dr. John H. Westerhoff

o        Original Blessing by Matthew Fox

o        The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg

o        A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying and How a New Faith is Being Born by Bishop John Shelby Spong

o        Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels

o        Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon

o        Why Christianity Must Change or Die by Bishop John Shelby Spong

 

The conversation has been stimulating, revealing, wide-ranged, unorthodox, deeply personal, challenging, reassuring, and very rewarding.

The group will continue to meet on the first and third Sundays of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Lord Room (downstairs in parish hall).

Please read at least the chapter(s) of the book according to the schedule above.

Come and join us for any or all of these sessions. The rules for discussion allow each to present her or his own ideas without criticism from the other participants. We crave a wide range of views, so come and tell us yours! For more information contact Carol Brothers (carolbros@adelphia.net) or John Schimminger (johnwschimminger@hotmail.com).

 

NEXT BOOK: to be announced

 

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Stewardship Campaign

 

Pledges for 2010

Letters went out in December 2009

As of 2/21/10

59 pledges received pledging $103,423 for 2010

6 “new” pledges

21 increases

$10,569 annually in new and increased

25 no change

5 decreases for ($1,360)

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Books available for sale

The following are available for purchase from the church office. 

      Anglican Prayer Beads & Instructions                                          $16  (1 set)

      Beyond Smells and Bells                                                                $12.50  (3 copies)

      Dreams and Healing                                                                       $12  (1 copy)

      Dreamwork                                                                                       $14  (2 copies)

      The Healing Labyrinth                                                                    $14  (1 copy)

      Jesus for the Non Religious                                                           $20 (2 copies)

      Lent with Evelyn Underhill                                                           $12  (9 copies)

      Listening Hearts                                                                               $12 (6 copies)

      Living with Contradiction                                                              $14 (4 copies)

      Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationships    $12  (1 copy)

      Open Mind, Open Heart                                                                $12  (1 copy)

      A People Called Episcopalians                                                     $8.75  (4 copies)

      Seven Songs of Creation                                                                 $28  (3 copies)

      Traveling Mercies                                                                            $12  (4 copies)

      Wounded Healer                                                                             $12  (2 copies)

      Writing the Sacred                                                                           $20  (4 copies)

 

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