Readings, News & Announcements Oct 30

News and Announcements:

Sun     Oct 30                Early Quiet Service – 7:45am

                                    Celebration service – 9:00pm

                                    St Lukes -Traditional Service – 11:00am

Mon    Oct 31               Halloween – No Bible Study                 

Tues    Nov 1                Daughters of the King Meeting – 7:30pm

                                    Executive Leadership 1^st Tuesday Meeting – 7:00pm

Wed    Nov 2                Bible Study 4:00pm

                                    Mid Week Eucharist 5:00-6:00pm

                                    Celebration Band 6:30-7:15pm

Thur    Nov 3                Choir practice 7:00pm

Sun      Nov 6                Faith Sunday Service – Combined 10:00am

                                                                 

 
The flowers on the altar & columbarium are given to the 
Glory of God by Bill Reed in loving memory of his wife Margo
  
  
  
  
    
  
   
  
 
 
 

The flowers in the narthex are given to the Glory of God by Daiga Young in loving memory of her dear friend Margo Reed

Faith Sunday is set for November 6
You will be receiving a Faith Pledge Card in the mail soon asking you to consider your grateful gift to God for the coming year, 2012.   We will receive these cards and bless them at a joint November 6 service. 

Are you called to be a bread maker for our church?  If so, please contact Molly Lundie at 357-7483 or t.lake@charter.net.

Finances at Christ Church
Pledges and plate at Christ Church have been very low in recent months, so that -- although we have continued to tighten our belt on expenses -- we have a negative budget income verses expense of nearly $20,000 for the year as of September 1.   If you have pledged and not been able to keep up on your promise, please try to catch up.  If you have pledged and plan to give a larger gift near the end of the year, please let our treasurer, Bob Amato, know that.   If you did not pledge this year, please consider giving more for the ministry of Christ at Christ Church.  If you are able, consider an extra gift.   Thank you.   

AUGUST

BUDGET                ACTUALS            VARIANCE  

13,925.00                  6,717.00                  (7,208.00)      

YEAR TO DATE

BUDGET      ACTUALS       VARIANCE       

 111,400.00     92,182.54         (19,217.46)

Sep 18 -- SUNDAY OFFERINGS

BUDGET      ACTUALS       VARIANCE       

3481.25           2338.00              -1143.24

Readings October 30^th 9am

Reader:  A reading from 1 Thessalonians [2:9-13]

Paul recalls his tireless efforts to proclaim the gospel, and gives thanks that believers accepted his teaching as God’s word

Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.

People:  Open our ears to hear your Word.

You remember us in those days, friends, working our fingers to the bone, up half the night, moonlighting so you wouldn't have the burden of supporting us while we proclaimed God's Message to you. You saw with your own eyes how discreet and courteous we were among you, with keen sensitivity to you as fellow believers. And God knows we weren't freeloaders! You experienced it all firsthand. With each of you we were like a father with his child, holding your hand, whispering encouragement, showing you step-by-step how to live well before God, who called us into his own kingdom, into this delightful life.

And now we look back on all this and thank God, an artesian well of thanks! When you got the Message of God we preached, you didn't pass it off as just one more human opinion, but you took it to heart as God's true word to you, which it is, God himself at work in you believers!

Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.

People:  Open our ears to hear your Word.

Readings October 30^th 7.45 & 11am

+The First Lesson: Joshua instructs the people to follow the Lord’s command and cross into the Promised Land on dry land through the Jordan River.

A Reading from Joshua [3:7-17]

The LORD said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so that they may know that I will be with you as I was with Moses. You are the one who shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, `When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'" Joshua then said to the Israelites, "Draw near and hear the words of the LORD your God." Joshua said, "By this you shall know that among you is the living God who without fail will drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites: the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is going to pass before you into the Jordan. So now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing from above shall be cut off; they shall stand in a single heap."
When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water, the waters flowing from above stood still, rising up in a single heap far off at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while those flowing toward the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho. While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.

Reader: The Word of the Lord                                                                                           People: Thanks be to God  

Psalm 107:1-7, 33-43  Page 746 , BCP

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures for ever.

Let all those whom the LORD has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.

He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.

Some wandered in desert wastes; *
they found no way to a city where they might dwell.

They were hungry and thirsty; *
their spirits languished within them.

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.

He put their feet on a straight path *
to go to a city where they might dwell. 

The LORD changed rivers into deserts, *
and water-springs into thirsty ground,

A fruitful land into salt flats, *
because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

He changed deserts into pools of water *
and dry land into water-springs.

He settled the hungry there, *
and they founded a city to dwell in.

They sowed fields, and planted vineyards, *
and brought in a fruitful harvest.

+The Second Lesson: Paul recalls his tireless efforts to proclaim the gospel, and gives thanks that believers accepted his teaching as God’s word.

A Reading from 1 Thessalonians  [2:9-13]

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how pure, upright, and blameless our conduct was toward you believers. As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children, urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God's word, which is also at work in you believers.

Reader: The Word of the Lord                                                                                         

 People: Thanks be to God