Tenth Sunday after Pentecost August 17, 2014 Sermon
The Rev. Kristin Schultz
Click here to listen to the audio version of, this sermon!
* Readings for this coming
Sunday, August 24th are:
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Weekly Calendar
Tuesday, August 19
* 8 am Morning Prayer
* 9 am Food Pantry Distribution
* 7 am Morning Yoga
* 8 am Morning Prayer
* 5:30 pm Evening Yoga
* 7 pm "11:15 Choir" Rehearsal
Thursday, August 21
* 8 am Morning Prayer
* 9:30 am Morning Eucharist
* 10 am Book Group
* 5:30 pm Search Committee
* 5:30 pm Discernment
* 7 pm "Loose at 9" Rehearsal
Friday, August 22
* 8 am Morning Prayer
Saturday, August 23
* 12 pm Music Recital
* 7:30 am, 9 am, 11:15 am
Holy Eucharist
* 5 pm Live at Five Holy Eucharist
Monday, August 25
* 8 am Morning Prayer
* 4 pm Worship Committee
* 7 pm Contemplative Prayer
Tuesday, August 26
* 8 am Morning Prayer
* 9 am Food Pantry Distribution
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Submissions
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Dear Parishioners and friends of St. Michael's,
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This Week at St. Michael's
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St. Michael's most significant spiritual gift is....
open attitudes
beautiful ministry
high level of spiritual education
These are responses of congregation members to questions printed on posters in the parish hall in preparation for our CLAD (Congregational Life and Development) retreat.
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Sundays at 10:15 am
August 24
Centering Prayer with The Discernment Guild
August 31
St Michael's Community Connections ministry
September 7
St. Michael's Search Profile
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The Reverend Doug Travis will begin serving as Priest and Pastor at St Michael and All Angels on Sunday, September 7. He will be here every Sunday and most Mondays throughout the fall. He will have office hours from 9:00 - 2:00 on Mondays and welcomes anyone who wants to talk to him to make an appointment during those hours - please call or email [email protected] after September 7 to make an appointment. |
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August 24
Another school year is beginning, and once again we will bless backpacks and pray for all children and youth, teachers and instructors and administrators, returning to school this fall. Bring your backpacks to receive a key chain reminder of God's love and the care of the community of St. Michael's.
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Red Carpet Premiere Potluck
Saturday, September 6 from
6:00 to 10:00 pm in the Parish Hall.
You are invited to the World Red Carpet Premiere of the St. Michael and All Angels Parish Profile video!
6:00 - Red Carpet Arrivals with paparazzi
6:30 - Potluck Dinner (Bring a tasty food item to share)
6:00 to 8:00 - Entourage Jazz Ensemble
8:00 to 10:00 - DJ Susan Emerson Corley will spin dance tunes.
The video will be shown several times throughout the evening so you can come for any part of the festivities that fits your schedule. Dress is casual...but if you'd like to pretend you're at a Hollywood premiere and get decked out, please feel free.
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Benefit Concert
Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Thanks to a super fast response from the people of St. Michael's, the 9/13 benefit concert is now sold out. People who have their names on the list and who have not yet paid, (which aren't that many) will have the opportunity to pay or call us at 768-1097 this week. If they haven't been accounted for by Tuesday, 8/26, we'll release them for others.
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Casa San Miguel
Prior to the start of the school year we asked for donations of school supplies to provide to the pantry children. The response from the parish was so very generous and greathearted. We gave supplies to our clients on five Tuesdays before school started and on Tuesday, August 12, we gave several boxes of leftover supplies to our sister ministry, Community Connections, to take to La Luz Elementary School.Recently, the food pantry was asked to assist Heading Home. Heading Home is an initiative involving the city and many private parties to assist homeless people to move into homes where they can be safe, secure, and out of the elements. At times, some of these people find that they need help putting food on their tables and Casa San Miguel was been asked to provide ten grocery bags with nonperishable foods each month for the Heading Home staff to have on hand to give out in emergencies. We provided the first ten bags in August and we will provide ten more each month.
All that is done is done in the name of St Michael and All Angels Church. It is our privilege to serve in this ministry and represent our parish to the Albuquerque community.
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Community Connections
Community Connections is collecting warm clothing such as light weight jackets, hoodies, thermal shirts, and sweat shirts during the month of September on all Sundays for our adopted schools, La Luz and MacArthur Elementary. Since this will serve as outer wear, the medium to large sizes will work best. Boys favor colors in black and grey, and the girls enjoy wearing purple, pink, white and yellow. Please no logos or pictures on the garment. Of course, any and all wear is needed, so if you have anything you would like to donate in September, it will be most appreciated. Also, if you prefer to give cash, we have a designated shopper ready to go.
Keep on knitting/crocheting hats and scarves as we will collect those items the last Sunday in September and the first Sunday in October.
We are also continuing to collect Box Tops for Education in the Parish Hall on the table beneath the bulletin boards. Box Tops are the bright pink symbols featuring a yellow pencil found on product packaging from brands such as Pillsbury, Kleenex, General Mills cereals, Betty Crocker, etc. For a complete list of participating products, visit the Box Tops for Education web site. Our adopted schools can cash these in to get library books and other supplies.
Any questions, please contact Kathy Poorbaugh at 884-3723
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All Angels Day School
All Angels has had a great school opening. We are approaching full enrollment but still have space available for 3-5 year old. Please call the school office at 344-5888 and I'll be glad to talk with you about our wonderful school.
We have some important upcoming events! On Sunday August 24th we will have our Scholastic Book Fair open for the Parish. On Thursday August 28th we will have Open Hours from 6 pm to 7pm. You are welcome to come by the school and find out more about our mission.
We thank all of you who have brought scrap paper for us to use for drawing. That paper and the newspaper inserts you save are greatly appreciated and used every day by the children. If you have a special interest or just general questions about All Angels Episcopal Day School, please call the school office at 344-5888 and I will be glad to talk with you.
On behalf of the children, the families and the faculty of All Angels, I thank you for allowing us to participate in this very special outreach ministry.
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Bible Study
Sundays, September 7 - 21 & October 5 - November 2 at 10:15 in the Library
Each session includes a 10-minute video followed by discussion on the day's verses from the letter. The videos are lively and the series concentrates on how Paul's words are relevant to us today. The Bible study will be held in the Galleria each Sunday morning, beginning September 7, at 10:15 following the 9:00 service.
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Bereavement Support Group
The Bereavement Support Group meets the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month in the Library at 10:15. This group is a safe place to explore feelings and all are welcome. You may be suffering from a recent loss or something that happened years ago. For the next 6 sessions, we will be reading and discussing a book by Joyce Rupp, "Praying Our Goodbyes." You may join in at any time. For questions, please contact Kay Veal at 899-0299/[email protected] or Mary Anne Flannagan at 266-9268/[email protected].
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Children's Chapel, Godly Play, and youth classes will resume September 7.
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Search Committee Progress
The all-parish Community Life and Development retreat, (CLAD) in early June marked the beginning of our work as a committee. Since then we have conducted surveys after all services on two Sundays to determine the preferences of the parish in a new rector. We have analyzed the information from both of these sources, composed a parish profile and a call for rector. The parish profile includes history, information on all of our services and staff, brief descriptions of our almost 25 ministries, and a reflection on our philosophy of parish life. After many iterations, it has been submitted to the vestry for their approval! We have also developed a brief video about St. Michael's, which will be posted online with the profile and will be unveiled to the parish September 6th with a celebration.
What happens next? Check our poster on the wall in the parish hall, and you will see that after obtaining vestry approval, the material is submitted to the diocese for approval, and then posted on the parish, diocesan, and Episcopal Church websites, hopefully in early September.
Questions about the search process? Check out the most commonly-asked questions online at
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This Sunday you received your United Thank Offering box. Please take it home and drop coins into it as a token of thanks for your many blessings. If you already have one, you may either keep it as a second box or drop it into the recycle basket as you leave the church. It will be used at a later date. The coins and bills that each of us place in the United Thank Offering Blue boxes will be combined with others from St. Michael and All Angels, the diocese of the Rio Grande and lastly with the entire Episcopal Church. Each year these gifts are distributed as grants for projects throughout the Anglican Communion. These grants continue to support and strengthen the mission and ministry of the Church throughout the world.
Our Fall United Thank Offering season will end on Michaelmas Sunday, Sept. 28. On that day we ask that you return your little blue box filled with the coins of your thanksgivings. They will be collected and presented at the altar. St. Michael and All Angels will begin our 2015 season of United Thank offerings next Spring. If you desire, you may keep a UTO box in your home all year. Just place it in the collection basket when it is full and pick up another one. A supply will be kept in the card rack at the back of the Narthex.
"Our change changes lives"
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St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
601 Montano Rd. NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107
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