The Episcopal Church offers untold opportunities for young adults to provide service and share their expertise worldwide through the Young Adult Service Corps.
Commonly known as YASC, applications are now being accepted for the Young Adult Service Corps from young adults between the ages of 21-30.
Click onto the link for further details and application form
http://episcopalyoungadults.blogspot.com/2011/08/scholarships-now-available-through.html
News and Announcements:
Sun Nov 20 Early Service –
Celebration Service –
Traditional Service –
Blessing of Operation Christmas Child
Mon Nov 21 Bible Study –
Thur Nov 24 Thanksgiving – Office closed
Sun Nov 27 Early Service –
Celebration Service –
The flowers on the altar are given to the glory of God by Harold & Lorena Lawrence in loving memory for their parents Bentley & Elise Baker and Maud & Lauren Beatty
Advent Wreaths
Well, its getting to be that time again. What time is that, you say? Advent! The time we wait with joyful anticipation for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, I say. And how do we mark the time, you say? With Advent wreaths, I say. I would once again like to gather all who are interested to make fresh Advent wreaths for your homes. I think it was a great success last year.
The cost this year to make a wreath will be $12.00/ea. Please bring cash, or make a check out to me, Ray Locke. If you wish to take part in this CEC tradition please let me know no later than November 20th. Call me at home, or see me at church, anytime between now and then.
Please note that on Saturday December 10th the day of the Christmas Parade when we will be promoting Christ Church Smithfield Center Christ Church Christ Church
Thank you.
Blessings,
Angie.
***Order forms can be found in our Church Hall under the poinsettia poster.
Completed forms can be placed in Judy Cutler’s box
December 10 at
Those interested in helping with float design, building, or assisting with the parade, please call: Michel Lujan, 757-279-0124 or Tammie and Roger Ash, 757-357-2718 or call our church office and leave your name and number.
ON PARADE DAY
Come and warm-up after the Christmas Parade and enjoy a fish fry lunch with Gene Lowery’s famous hush puppies, coleslaw, and a drink for $7.00. Baked goods available for purchase. Lunch and church tours begin at .
Those who would like to participate by helping with the Fish Fry set-up, assisting Gene with the cooking, and providing customer service to our guests, please call: Donna or Gene, 757-357-5879 or Mary Cole , 757-675-5777, or leave your name and number at the church office.
BAKERY GOODS TO BE SOLD ON PARADE DAY
Those who can donate bakery goods to be sold on parade day, please get in touch with: Deborah Webb at the church office: 757-357-2826 or Judy Cutler, 757-357-5133.
CHURCH TOURS & ART EXHIBITION
Those who would like to give, or assist with Church Tours and Church Beautification call: Pam Glanville, 757-773-2700
All proceeds after expenses will go towards the renovation and beautification of the remainder of the church interior – one room at a time.
Thank you for your participation and fellowship.
December 2nd & 3rd
CHURCH TOURS
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December 4 at
CELTIC EVENSONG SERVICE FOLLOWED BY CELTIC CONCERT AND RECEPTION
Sunday, December 4 at , Christ Church Scotland
The service will include the lighting of candles for prayer and the opportunity for the laying on of hands in healing. This is our third Celtic service which, no doubt, will continue to touch our hearts and souls as we behold the beauty around us and absorb the spoken word and music unique to such an experience.
CELTIC CONCERT TO FOLLOW SERVICE
9 Points of Roguery, a group of young Williamsburg
9 Points of Roguery, is an ensemble of the Williamsburg Youth Harp Society. The “Rogues” play harp, fiddle, mandolin, tin whistle, flute, piccolo, concertina, cello, accordion and bodhran (Irish drum).
The four harpists in the group played classical harp music together since they were in the 3rd grade. They decided to expand their range of musical experiences by playing the Celtic harp and music appropriate for this instrument. They then added friends (and a brother!) who played other traditional Celtic instruments, and the “Rogues” were born!
Reading November 20
Reader: A reading from Ephesians [-23]
Paul gives thanks for the faith and love which are demonstrated by disciples in Ephesus
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
That's why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!
20-23All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
+The First Lesson: The prophet reassures those in exile that the Lord will guide and protect his followers, just as a shepherd gathers his sheep.
.A Reading
Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel Israel Israel
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you pushed with
flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.
Reader: The Word of the Lord People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 100 Page 729, BCP
Be joyful in the LORD, all you lands; *
serve the LORD with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.
serve the LORD with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.
Know this: The LORD himself is God; *
he himself has made us, and we are his;
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
he himself has made us, and we are his;
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving;
go into his courts with praise; *
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.
go into his courts with praise; *
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.
For the LORD is good;
his mercy is everlasting; *
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.
his mercy is everlasting; *
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.
+The Second Lesson:
Paul gives thanks for the faith and love which are demonstrated by disciples in Ephesus
I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
