This Week at Chapel of Our Saviour

Many thanks to Christine O'Brien for welcoming everyone to Allen House at the most recent MPP workshop.

Mindfulness and Positivity Project (MPP)

If you attended Community Circle last spring or if you attend church or read this newsletter on a regular basis, you've probably heard about Mindfulness and Positivity Project (MPP). Also, you've probably heard about how Chapel of Our Saviour has been hosting MPP workshops and parent meetings in Allen House (our parish house). Mindfulness and Positivity Project, which offers workshops, retreats and courses for public school educators, support staff, and parents in Colorado Springs, provides the opportunity for attendees to learn and practice mindfulness and, as their website so beautifully states, to cultivate lives that are full, healthy and happy.


For the past year, MPP groups have been meeting in Casey Hall (and on the south terrace of Allen House when the weather is nice) for half-day workshops as well as weekly one-hour parent meetings. We have been providing them with meeting space and serving them coffee, breakfast, and lunch. On Friday August 4, we had Susanna's Comfort Cuisine, a gourmet food truck, serving lunch for MPP's support staff workshop (see pic above)! So much fun and we are looking forward to more lunches like this...


Hosting MPP's events has been made possible by a generous grant from the Creel-Harison Foundation in Atlanta, GA. This grant is also funding our Community Cafe’ (see below for more info).

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Community Café

Wednesdays this Fall


Beginning September 6, all are warmly invited to join us for lunch (provided by a local gourmet food truck) every Wednesday from 11:00am—1:00pm on the south terrace of Allen House and in Casey Hall. Lunch is free! Bring a friend or three!


Please see the new Allen House calendar on the Chapel of our Saviour website (click the "calendars" tab and scroll down mid page) for more details about each event. We will post in advance the names of the food trucks scheduled each week (and menus, when available).


All are very welcome, and we warmly invite you to come have lunch with us and bring your friends and colleagues and neighbors and children. Lunch is always free. And delicious: Williams Soul Food and Susanna's Comfort Cuisine are already on the calendar!

Allen House Calendar

D2 Pantry

Chapel of Our Saviour’s July Food Drive was a great success! Thanks to all your generous donations, we exceeded our goal of 500 grocery items and collected 545 items to donate to D2 Pantry. Many thanks to all who participated!


We received word from D2 Pantry that one of the middle schools in District 2 discovered asbestos in their building and is required to move all operations out of that school until it can be mitigated. Aspire Academy, where D2 Pantry operates, is the chosen relocation for that school in the meantime and they need the pantry space to accommodate students. Therefore, D2 Pantry is taking a hiatus until January of 2024. Chapel will disburse pantry donations to Westside Cares until then as well as contribute to other area pantries—our neighbors still need us!


Thank you for bringing your donations on Sunday!

Pantry Shopping List

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost

August 27, 2023


8am Holy Eucharist

in the Nave


10am Holy Eucharist

in the Nave



All are very welcome!

The Zoom link for online Sunday services is

https://zoom.us/j/9673219751?pwd=MURpRmFwalBOcWIyb0pYcHF3bFlJQT09

Password: 866351

You can also connect to this time of prayer with a regular phone line by calling 

+1 253 215 8782 and entering the Meeting ID: 967 321 9751

Godly Play

Children’s Ministry every Sunday, 9:50a


Our children gather in the Loft upstairs from the narthex (church lobby) or in the courtyard (weather-permitting) for a time of exploration and wonder called “Godly Play.” Parents and guardians are invited to sign in upstairs and children rejoin their families during the Offertory. 


If your children haven’t joined us yet, they are most welcome, and we look forward to meeting and getting to know them. 


Contact DeSha Thomas: desha@chapelcos.org


Nursery


For children 0 - 3 years.

9:30am - 11:30am Sundays

Upstairs in the Nave, across the hall from the Loft. 

Contact DeSha

Our Shared Stewardship

Pledging for 2023

We invite you to make a pledge to Chapel of Our Saviour for 2023. The operating budget that makes possible the mission and ministry of this community of faith is derived entirely from your generous giving throughout the year. Pledge forms are available in the narthex (back of the church). For more information about pledging and membership at Chapel of Our Saviour contact our Senior Warden, Susan Garsoe sgarsoe@msn.com

Contact Susan

CA Recovery Meeting

Thursdays at 12pm, St. Mary Chapel

For more information contact DeSha Thomas desha@chapelcos.org


What is CA?

FEAST OF SAINT ARNOLD



Many thanks to all who volunteered for FOSA and worked so hard to make it such a success! Proceeds were donated to Westside Cares.

Missing something?



Check our Lost & Found in the Allen House foyer.