As part of the ongoing series highlighting church leaders, we focus this week on Cate McMahon. Cate has been attending All Saints since 1982.  She was a member of the Vestry as Senior Warden, and is a former Church School Director. She is presently an Eucharistic Minister and Lector. Cate also leads the Women's Worship each Tues. morning. Cate has led Women's Worship for years, and writes a worship service for each Tues. morning session. The photo of Cate was taken Sunday, Dec. 4th, as she was making an announcement about the Kids4Peace project.  In speaking of her love for All Saints, Cate stated that, "they won't let you retire around here."

All of us are the beneficiaries of Cate's long and devoted ministry to All Saints.   

Kids4Peace is an international grassroots interfaith youth movement dedicated to ending conflict and inspiring hope in Jerusalem and other divided societies around the world.  This past Sunday members of the Vermont / New Hampshire Chapter visited All Saints to talk about their organization.  In the photo, Jen Ackerman and her daughter, Zelda are from Concord.  Next to Zelda is Kelly Gage and Todd Cartier who are group advisors from Lebanon.  Money collected from the Christmas offering will be used to support Kids4Peace.

The following comments were given by Zelda Ackerman to our congregation during announcements at the 10 AM service on Dec. 11th.

Phyllis and Ian are siblings.  Phyllis and her husband, Paul, are long time members who live in Melvin Village.  Phyllis and Paul and their 3 sons attended church in Melvin Village where friends of the boys also attended.  Now, that the boys are grown, they are back at All Saints.  Ian recently moved here from Canada, and successfully recruited his sister to join him as members of our outstanding choir.  Welcome home Phyllis and Paul, and thank-you Ian for choosing All Saints as your spiritual home.  

This year Bill and his wife Betsy moved here from Maine.  Their godson graduated from Brewster, and after attending his graduation, they decided to move to our beautiful town.  Bill has recently retired, and we are grateful to have Bill worship with us.

Sandi Johnson and Nancy Ghirardini led the Lord and Tailor board meeting that met in the library on Tues., Dec. 13th. 

All Saints is one of seven churches that have representatives on the L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry Board of Directors.  Our church is represented on the board by our Treasurer, Beth Smith, and Vestry member Dianne Wasmuth. This week the Wolfeboro Rotary Service Organization sponsored a 5 day fund raising drive for our L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry.  In the photo below, taken on Thurs., Dec. 8th at Spencer-Hughes Realty, L.I.F.E. Ministries board member Dianne Wasmuth appeals to the Wolfeboro community for food pantry items and funds.  Also in the photo are board member, Mike Turner, and WASR Station Manager, Jacob Quimby.  The fund raising effort will stay open the rest of December, and during the 5 day campaign our generous community contributed over $55,000.      

I'm writing to first confirm and THANK YOU for the $580 gift we received from the Women's Worship Group  (and members of the congregation) at All Saints. I spoke with the protection team and we've divvied up the funds for the following (receipts attached in Spanish):

We can't thank you all enough for making this possible. Holidays are often the hardest for families, celebrating a new year with an uncertain future. Anything we can do to create a sense of normalcy and security goes a very, very long way.

 

Best,
Hannah Perls, Development Director, Cristobal

   International Partner in El Salvador

 

  

END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER thanks you for your contributions to their box at the entrance of the Sanctuary.  Now that school has started the items that are particularly needed are those geared to children like peanut butter and mac n'cheese. Please take a pamphlet which provides helpful suggestions for items to donate.

The sign announces the Christmas and New Year's Day Services Services, as our church looks resplendent decked out in our first major snow storm of the late fall season. The photo taken on Tues., Dec. 13th.

FOOD PANTRY - w elcomes and is extremely thankful for any and all donations.  Items that are costly and cannot usually be purchased from the Food Bank are especially needed. These items are:  Beef Stew, Soup, Canned Fruit, Hash, Spam, Cereal.  Thank you for all your donations!