This Week at Epiphany - December 3 - 10, 2006
Joanne At Epiphany
THIS WEEK AT EPIPHANY
For December 3 - 10, 2006
CALENDAR
Sunday December 3- St. Nicholas Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Adult Forum
10:00 am Holy Eucharist
11:30 am Personal Finance Seminar-rm. 108
11:30 am Outreach Commission mtg - Library
7-9 pm Sr. Seekers Youth Group
December 3’s Liturgical Ministers
Acolytes –Lucy Olson, Peter Morrow, Catherine Luckenbach, Justin Grodem, Angela Rae
Acolyte Parent – Liz Olson
Altar Guild – Diane Roberts, Barbara Richards
Readers-(8) Jim Schuyler (10) John Curtis, Nancy Grandfield
LEMS – Dave de Simone, Pat Pimsner, Charlotte Ziems
Family Oblation Bearers – The Stevens family
Ushers – (8) Dick Tingey (10) Judy Harris, Jack Marquis
Greeter – Mary Birss
Coffee Hour Hosts – Jessica and Bob Stafford
Monday December 4
3:30 pm Prayer service at Bay View Villa
7:00 pm Alcoholics Anonymous
Tuesday December 5
9:30 am Staff Meeting
7:00 pm Spaghetti Again – Men’s dinner
Wednesday December 6
7:30 am Men’s Group
10:00 am Holy Eucharist & Healing Service
7-8:30 pm Jr. Seekers
7:00 pm Advent Series - Chapel
Thursday December 7
3:30-4pm Joyful Noise choir
4-5 pm Good News choir
6:30-7:15pm Hand bell choir
7:30 pm Adult choir
8:00 pm Alcoholics Anonymous
Saturday December 9
10-12noon Lessons and Carols rehearsal
Sunday December 10
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Adult Forum
10:00 am Holy Eucharist
11:30 am Human Rights letter signing
12:00 Pastoral Care Brunch at Hailey’s house
4-8pm Sr. Seekers at Ardeo Aura – St. Aidan’s
December 10’s Liturgical Ministers
Acolytes –John Wilson, Rebecca Mulready, Katie Hirsch, Angela Rae, Lauren Racioppi
Acolyte Parent – Nancy Wilson
Altar Guild – Claire Dikas, Deb Dei Rossi
Readers-(8) David Attwood (10) Annette Bender, Chris Wood
LEMS – Mary Wagner, Kent Holubar, Nancy Winningham
Family Oblation Bearers – The Pederson family
Ushers – (8) Jim Schuyler (10) DaNett DeBrine, Bruce Erickson
Greeter – Jane Grodem
Coffee Hour Hosts – Dwight Hill and Priscilla Lu
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWEST NOTES—Reminders and Important Information
First Friday Dinner December 1st @ 6:30 P.M.
Newer members and long-time members are invited to attend a casual adults-only simple dinner providing a wonderful time to get to know each other. A great article by Nancy Grandfield about the last dinner was in November's Beacon. You can read it online at http://www.churchoftheepiphany.org/beaconJD/main.htm#First . We'll gather at the house of Sue and Jack Marquis, 730 Cordilleras Ave, San Carlos. If you'd like to attend, contact Mary Birss at 598-9206 or mary...@comcast.net
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE REV. AMBER STANCLIFFE EVANS AND THE REV. HORACE GREELEY. Saturday, December 2 at 11:00 AM at Grace Cathedral.
DECEMBER 24TH SERVICES –The fourth Sunday of Advent is December 24 and we will have one service at 9:00AM. We will celebrate Christmas Eve with the children’s Christmas Pageant at 4:00PM and Holy Eucharist at 10:00PM.
On january 5, 2007 Come Celebrate Epiphany's 60th Anniversary with an Evensong Service at 6:30PM and a candlelight dinner hosted by the Senior Seekers. Tickets for the dinner will be on sale Sundays after church at the Seekers Fundraising Table for $20 a person and $50 for a family of 3 or more. For on-line reservations please send an email to am...@churchoftheepiphany.org and mail a check to the office with "Epiphany dinner" in the memo.
DECEMBER 10 IS LESSONS AND CAROLS AT 4 PM. WITH CAROL SINGING AT 3:30 PM --- This is the perfect opportunity to invite friends to Epiphany. Singing together, hearing wonderful choral music accompanied by Harp and piano, hearing the great texts of the advent season and seeing and hearing children proclaim the coming of Christ. Don’t leave without having cookies and coffee or tea and enjoying the company of those in attendance.
If you are involved in Pastoral Care you Are Invited to the Pastoral Care Ministry Brunch and Meeting!!
Date: Sunday, December 10
Time: 12:00 noon 2:00 p.m.
Place: Home of Hailey and Sven Delmas
28 Cobblestone Lane
Belmont, CA 94002
Agenda: Food and fellowship (We want to celebrate your work this year by taking care of you!), as well as a look back at 2006 and a look forward at 2007
All those involved in pastoral care are invited, including: Healing Ministry Team, Prayer Chain Coordinators and Pray-ers, Lay Eucharistic Visitors, Emergency Meal Coordinators and Providers, Sunshine Cards Coordinators, Nursing Home Outreach Volunteers, Stanford Episcopal Chaplaincy Volunteers and anyone invited in joining in on any of these ministries.
Please R.S.V.P to Hailey (hai...@cyberdeacon.com) or Nancy (nwin...@stanford.edu) no later than Wednesday, December 6.
A FESTIVE CONCERT OF SECULAR AND SACRED CAROLS will be played by Todd Troutman on Dec. 17th at 3 PM. He will make our Organ sound like a grand theater organ. The program will have many favorites of the season and musical assists from Lisa Thompson, Joe Dorocak and Cort Bender.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH NEWS
CHILDREN’S SOCIAL MINISTRY PROJECT: At our leftovers party, the children began their social ministry project of decorating bags for cookies that will go with The Rev. Carol Bowen to the San Mateo County Jails this Christmas. We will continue this project at our Church School Worship service The Feast on Dec 10th.
MISSION TRIP INFO
The Senior Seekers will be going to Bay St. Louis Mississippi in June for our Mission Trip. For more details about our trip, please read December's Beacon. High-School Mission Trip Info Meeting Dec 10 after church, Dec 15 deadline to sign-up. Contact Amber for more info.
GIVING OUT OF ABUNDANCE – Sharing the wealth
TODAY - ST. NICOLAS IS COMING TO TOWN! St. Nicholas will be coming for his annual visit TODAY after the 10 AM service. We will gather in the sanctuary so that the children can meet and greet the beloved Saint. Bring a new and unwrapped toy or teen gift to give to St. Nick… all donations will go to help the children of those incarcerated at the San Mateo County Jails. Epiphany has traditionally been a huge supporter of this important ministry and we pray the tradition will continue again this year! Questions? Call Hailey at 650-596-5714 or email hai...@cyberdeacon.com or Carol Bowen at cb4he...@comcast.net.
TODAY - “Help One Child” – If you took one of the gift ornaments please return the wrapped gift to the box in the parish hall by December 3. Contact Deborah Grace with any questions, 650-364-6306.
Human Rights letter signing is on December 10
The next Human Rights letter-signing activity will be on December 10. Also this month we will be signing a petition for “Torture is a Moral Issue” - the Statement of Conscience of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT). The goal of this nation-wide effort is to have 50,000 signatures by January 15. Please stop by the table and sign letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience and victims of torture. Thanks for your support!
ADVENT MISSION TRIP FUNDRAISERS:
The Senior Seekers will be going to Bay St. Louis Mississippi in June for our Mission Trip. For more details about our trip, please read December's Beacon. You can support our Mission by purchasing goodies at our advent bake sales or an Advent Wreath Making Kit. Stay tuned for information about our major fundraiser in the spring.
CHRISTMAS INGATHERING: Don't forget that Sunday, December 17 is our food Ingathering for our Christmas families! There are still a number of opportunities for sign up.
Contact Bob French, 650-363-1188 or bc2...@gmail.com if you can deliver food!! Takes about 30-40 minutes and usually to St. Peter's church or local Redwood City homes. Take the children; it's a great experience!
COOKIES FOR CHRISTMAS--The annual cookie drive for donations of cookies for the San Mateo County Jail in Redwood City will be December 17th and 18th. The cookies will be delivered with other goodies to the inmates on Christmas morning. Last year Epiphany donated 143 dozen cookies. I hope to increase that amount this year but only with your help. As we get closer to the date, I will tell you more about types of cookies and how to package them. If you have any questions at this time, give me a call--Frances Hart (650)854-4909 or email me at fri...@aol.com. I do appreciate all the help in making this project a success.
last chance, tupperware and chaplaincy! This is the last week to place your order. Tupperware has a special fundraising catalog that provides many Tupperware favorites to customers and then takes forty percent and gives it the sponsoring charity. Your purchase of Tupperware will go to support the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. This is one of the organizations that our Outreach efforts support—and this catalog sale provides one more opportunity to support his important ministry.
Here’s how the Tupperware sale works—pick up a catalog in the parish hall. When you have made your selections, please bring the form and a check or cash (sorry, no credit cards) to Susan Munn or Hailey McKeefry Delmas. You will not be charged any shipping fees—and your order will be delivered to the church for pickup. Feel free to share the catalog with friends and family members—every sale supports the chaplaincy! Questions? Call or email Susan Munn at (650) 594-1509 or sbm...@comcast.net or Hailey at 650-596-5714 or hai...@cyberdeacon.com. Thank you for you continued support!
ADULT FORMATION OPPORTUNITIES-Within Epiphany and Beyond
An Advent Series for Epiphany adults: Thinking about Resources in a Spiritual Way: An Advent into Epiphany Exploration - In the midst of the whirlwind of the holiday season, Epiphany’s Adult Spiritual Formation Committee and Outreach Commission invite you to slow down and carve out time for theological study and reflection. Join Nina Brooks in exploring a parish study guide developed by the School of Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina that examines God’s mission on earth, God’s call to us to fulfill that mission and how this call supports the Episcopal Church’s recent declaration of unprecedented support for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the One Campaign to eradicate extreme global poverty. We will meet in the chapel on December 6 and 13 and January 3 and 10 (Wednesdays) from 7-8:30 pm.
Deanery Representatives Wanted!
The Diocese of California is comprised of six "deaneries", which are the link between our congregation and the diocese. The Peninsula Deanery develops and implements plans and policies for the Diocese through input to the diocesan budget and resolutions for the annual convention, it shares information and provides feedback, it participates in education by sponsoring workshops, and it develops programs and participates in creative ministries. The Peninsula Deanery meets quarterly for two hours at a parish around the peninsula. The next meeting will be 10:00 AM, Saturday, December 9th, at St. Bede's. You'll be welcome in the Deanery's activities nurturing relationships between Epiphany and other Episcopal congregations in the Diocese.
For more information, contact Bob Birss at bobb...@comcast.net or (650) 274-1191 or Gail Greenwell.
Walking With Others in the Path of Peace
Eucharist in Remembrance of All the Dead in Iraq
December 7th, San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue
Join Bishop Marc and members of the American Friends Service Committee, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and other peaceful people of faith as we commemorate all who have died as a result of U.S. led hostilities in Iraq. A procession will leave Grace Cathedral at 12:30 p.m., and the Eucharist will begin at 1:00. The Holy Communion portion of the service will be held in front of the Federal Building's main entrance as an act of civil disobedience. Watch EpiscopalBayArea.org for more information, or contact Sean McConnell at se...@diocal.org.
Mark your Calendars for the first Regional Faith Formation Event of 2007
Eucharistic Minister Training, Safeguarding God's Children, practices of discernment, equipping for youth ministry and timely teaching materials for Lent and Easter are just a few of the workshops that will be available to you. Look for complete information and registration online (in the calendar section of the diocesan website) in December.
When: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Where: St. James Episcopal Church, San Francisco
Contact: Julia McCray-Goldsmith (jul...@diocal.org) 415.869.7826
Tree of Hope - SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Rainbow World Fund (RWF) have invited our participation in an exciting art project creating a Tree of Hope in San Francisco's City Hall this holiday season. This is a project by Jeff Cotter, friend of St. Aidan's and director of the RWF. A tree will be decorated with origami cranes inscribed with our wishes for the future of the world.
Wishes will be printed, folded into a crane and placed on the Tree of Hope. Send RWF your wish today, as there a lot of origami cranes to be folded before the tree goes up in early December.
When: Light of the Tree, Tuesday, December 5th at 5-6; followed by a party from 6-8 p.m.
Where: San Francisco City Hall
Contact: To send RWF your wish, go to http://www.rainbowfund.org/wish/ index.htm
Advent Home Retreat
Home Retreats are designed to help people grow right in the midst of their daily lives by taking on a short-term commitment to daily prayer, scripture reading, and reflection. The Advent Retreat (beginning First Sunday of Advent and concluding Dec. 31) explores Advent themes of Incarnation, God's promise, our human longing, and the Christmas story from the Gospels. There is a suggested donation of $5 for the Advent Home Retreat booklet. You may also make arrangements to see the Retreat Director for spiritual direction during the retreat. Contact: Sr. Pamela Clare, CSF at CSF...@aol.com or 415.824.0288.
FREE Diocese of California Children's Artwork Greeting Cards
Attractive greeting cards—featuring artwork by the children of the Diocese of California and images designed by Paul Fromberg—are available to you for holiday sales, gift-giving, or thank-you's. They are packaged in sets of six, with envelopes, and you may order as many sets of these cards as you want—for free!—simply by letting us know how you or your congregation will use the proceeds from their sale to support Millennium Development Goal #2 "Achieve Universal Primary Education." For more information or to order cards contact Julia McCray-Goldsmith, jul...@diocal.org
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