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NORTHEAST REGION ENEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2019
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You Don't Want To Miss These: Upcoming Events
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Community Fellowship And Crafting Day
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Join the NE Region for another crafting day on
Saturday, November 9, 2019
. This event will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, Stafford Springs from 9:30-2:30. Come for the whole time, or just a little while. Bring your lunch, a project to work on, & something for the swap table! Special guest speaker, Janet Bristow from "The Prayer Shawl Ministry" will be with us. Also, if you are engaged in crafting for outreach please bring a project and share with us what your outreach ministry is!
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Faithful Futures: Ministry Networks
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Join us for our annual gathering of Ministry Networks, to celebrate and share stories about how we’ve joined Jesus in our neighborhoods in the work of God’s reign.
Come with an artifact that represents your Ministry Network, which will be placed on the altar as a symbol of who you are as a multi-parish collaborative. We’ll share light desserts and each Ministry Network will have the opportunity to highlight your story in 2019 — from the joys and blessings to the opportunities and growing edges.
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The Season of Racial Healing, Justice & Reconcillation:
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Opportunity in the SC Region: Undoing Racism Workshops - New Haven:
The
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
has been offering workshops for the dismantling of racism in the United States since its founding in 1980. They are "a national and international collective anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation."
This year there will be a series of opportunities through the
Elm City Undoing Racism Organizing Collective
, which is a collaborator with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, to participate in these three day workshops. All community leaders are invited to participate (if you're reading this you are a community leader!). A workshop will be offered on:
November 8-10
. This workshop will provide one opportunity to lean into the two year focus of Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation...and there are many others being offered across ECCT! Please contact The Rev. Kyle Pedersen
(
kyle.pedersen@yale.edu
)
with questions about the workshops through Elm City UROC and check out their
website
for more information and for an application.
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Biblical Aromatherapy at St. Mark's
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Come and learn about Essential Oils of the Bible with Dr. Kate Johnson. Experience aromas that will remind of biblical times and Jesus Christ on
Saturday, November 16, from 10AM-12PM.
Event is free but registration is required. Please email St. Mark's parish admin by Wednesday, Nov 13th.
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Northeast Region Lay Preachers - A Community of Learning
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[October 22, 2019]
The initial request for the NE CT Lay Preaching Class came soon after the New Year from Ann Lovejoy Johnson. Within a month she had gathered a group of interested clergy and our Regional Missionary, Maggie Breen, and we worked together from there. All of us were motivated by a desire to have lay voices proclaiming the Word in our parishes. Fresh voices, different perspectives, and new ideas all seemed like something that would benefit each parish in particular and positive ways. Maggie invited Eliza Marth, the NW CT Missionary, to come talk with us about the experience the NW Region had had with two rounds of Lay Preaching classes. Eliza was enormously helpful and gave us many concrete tips to pursue. We tossed around many possibilities and ideas and eventually settled on a plan that we all felt comfortable with. We shared the organizational and teaching components among the group and I don't believe anyone felt overburdened.
This week will be our sixth and final celebration class of the six week long commitment. We have learned a lot and already have thoughts about how to improve the experience come the spring. We will also be soliciting input from the class members when we gather this week. A “reunion” to share stories and experiences is already being planned for next year. Sixteen lay people representing eight parishes have participated. We worked through three classes together, discussing resources, the elements of a good sermon, how to get started, the centrality of stories and connection, speaking style, and delving into the lectionary. Each student had an opportunity to prepare, preach, and receive feedback on a sermon that they will give in their home parish in the next few months. I was blown away by the eight lay sermons I had the privilege of hearing! I was deeply impressed by the honesty, vulnerability, insight, and wisdom I heard in those sermons. I admired the risks class members took for the sake of the Gospel and the story they were provoked by the Holy Spirit to tell.
I loved the third class we did. Participants were asked to bring a personal icon (either visual or a piece of writing) to talk about for three minutes. I was deeply moved by the stories people told. Some provoked laughter and some provoked tears. Every story was heartfelt, honest, brave, and authentic. The Holy Spirit was with us!! I was inspired by the courage and the insight of the storytellers that night. After hearing eight sermons over two weeks, I know that the best is yet to come, for our new lay preachers, and for the parishes they love and serve. The goal of introducing fresh voices and more varying perspectives will be met in these parishes, as the Good News is preached with faith and hope, courage and conviction, dedication and enthusiasm. Thanks be to God!!
A note from Maggie, your Region Missionary: a Spring class will be starting around the 4th week of April. If you are interested, please talk with your parish priest and then
email me
so I can get your contact information and keep you in the loop!
Article by Rev. Virginia Army, St. John's, Vernon, and picture by Maggie Breen, NE Region Missionary of the final Lay Preaching Class Celebration!
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From Maggie, your Region Missionary
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Fall in New England is just about my favorite thing to experience, and I'm never lacking for beautiful scenary as I drive around the NE Region and beyond. October was quite a busy month: Convention in Hartford and all of the beauty and wonder that is held within those spaces, a trip to visit a colleague in beautiful Warren, CT (NW Region) to experience the Fall Festival there and talk about how Jesus might be showing up in community events, and planning for our upcoming Crafting Day in the NE Corner (
register here)! I also had many wonderful meetings with parishoners from around the NE and joined in a few community events I found out were happening thanks to The Last Green Valley and their Walktober series (
and don't forget about the contest). The NE Region Lay Preaching class wrapped up in October, and I was really delighted to be able to be a part of that community - 15 folks from around the NE Region that dedicated 6 Thursday evenings to traveling to different parishes, learning, and practicing skills and techniques for preaching.
How has the Fall been treating you? Does the chill in the morning air stir up motivation to do yard work? Have you swept out your fireplace with a feeling of anticipation for cozy nights with a book or maybe a board game? Or are you feeling a little overwhelmed by the calendar? Maybe that's a both/and statement - I know that I seem to alternate between basking in the beauty and vigor that is Fall, while also feeling like I'd really love time to crawl so that I can check off the items on my "to-do" list.
Friends - basking in Fall is so much more pleasant than being worried. Resting in Jesus is exactly what our frazzled minds and hearts crave and need, and so I want to encourage you to step away from your "to-do" list and go take a walk, read a book, or (holy of holies) go take a nap! The list will remain there, and you will be better for having taken a break. Hop in the car and visit a friend who you haven't seen in a long time. Enjoy the brilliance of our Earth as she prepares for her Winters' rest. Remember, for a brief moment here or there, that we were not created to be single units going about our lives but as creatures who crave intimacy with each other and with The One Who Created All Things.
What is one thing that you would like to do this Fall that you don't feel like you have time to do? I would encourage you to do it - make the time; and if that means the leaves don't get raked until next week then you can enjoy their crunching under your feet when you come home for a little while longer.
Photo by Maggie Breen
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Icon of the (next) Month - Saint John Damascene
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The two mayor saints days in November are All Saints on the first day of the month and Saint Andrew on the last day. Instead of talking about either of these, I intend to skip ahead, to December 4
th
and talk about my own personal Saint, John Damascene also know as John of Damascus or John Chrysorrhoas, (i.e., the golden speaker). In this way, I can continue to discuss the history of icons. How icons relate to this saint will be seen eventually
Although Saint Luke is said to have written the first images of Saints Mary, Peter, and Paul, no images from the first century are known to exist. During this time, Christians were being persecuted. Most of the time they used secret symbols to help recognise each other. Primary among these were [1] the chi-rho (
⳩
), being the first two letters of
Χριστὸς,
the Greek word for Christ; [2] the ichthys (
ἰχθύς
— the Greek word for fish) being the made from the first letter of the Greek words
Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ (Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour). This was ofter written as a fish pictograph, being made from two arcs; and [3] the tau-rho (
⳨
) where the tau (ⲧ) stands for the cross and the rho (ⲣ) represents Jesus on the cross. It is thought that that this is how His crucifixion was represented for the first three centuries.
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During this time, Christianity was truly an underground movement, the catacombs being the chief example. The above symbols have been found on these subterranean walls. The earliest examples of actual drawings of Christ found so far date to the third century (shown to the right). Worship was held in these same catacombs. When Christianity became legal, things moved above ground and worship was held in churches. These churches became filled with icons. Since the illiterate population couldn’t read words, the stories of their faith were ‘written’ in ic
ons. Icons became a core part of the religion.
Saint John Damascene (Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was born about the year 680 in Damascus, Syria. Although Christian, he occupied a high ministerial post at court of the Muslim Caliph and became the city prefect. At that time, far away in Byzantine Constantinople, the heresy of Iconoclasm had arisen. Iconoclasm is the rejection of all images and especially the veneration of icons. This heresy was supported by emperor Leo III, who ordered the removal of icons from all churches. Rising up in defence of the Orthodox veneration of icons, John Damascene wrote three treatises entitled, “
Against Those who Revile the Holy Icons
.” He pointed out that although one couldn’t portray the invisible God, Christ’s incarnation changed everything. He said, “You, who refuse to worship images, should not worship the Son of God, the Living Image of the invisible God” and “I worship the image of Christ as the Incarnate God; that of Our Lady…, as the Mother of God’s Son; that of the saints as the friends of God.” He also pointed out that Saint Basil had said, “Honouring the image leads to the prototype.” Saint John’s writings played an important role during the Second Council of Nicaea (787), which convened to settle the icon dispute. For this reason, I feel Saint John Damascene occupies a major place in the story of icons.
Saint John Damascene was a theologian and a zealous defender of Orthodoxy. His most important book is the “
Fount of Knowledge”
. The third section of this work, “On the Orthodox Faith,” is a summary of Orthodox doctrine and a refutation of heresy. As previously hinted, Saint John Damascene’ feast day is celebrated on December 4
th.
Since he was known as a hymnographer, we pray to Saint John for help in the study of church singing. Since he zealously defended icons, he is my patron saint, and the fact that his feast day just happens to be my birthday only confirms it in my mind.
Article and icon by David Clarke, member of St. John's, Vernon
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The Joy of Feast Days - Saint John of Damascus (and friends)
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There are a lot of Feast Days in our Episcopal Liturgical Calendar. When I began my
Eating Liturgically
discipline, I anticipated Feast days to be few and far between and thought the hardship of saving my treats for them would be a valiant act of willpower. Even with the every-Sunday-is-a-Feast-Day reprieve, I figured my days of having pie for breakfast (my favorite and decadent breakfast choice on special days) were pretty much behind me.
Ha.
There are so many Feast Days!
First, as discussed, every Sunday is a Feast Day, as we remember and celebrate the Resurrection of Christ our Lord. Hooray!
Next, the Principal Feasts: Easter (a moveable Feast), Ascension (40 days after Easter), Christmas (Dec 25), Epiphany (Jan 6), Pentecost (8
th
Sunday after Easter), Trinity Sunday (the 9
th
Sunday after Easter), and All Saints (Nov 1). The non-Sunday Principal Feasts as are important as Sundays, and the Principal Feasts elevate their Sundays to extra-Feasty-status.
Now, the Feasts of Our Lord: The Feast of the Holy Name (Jan 1), the Presentation (Feb 2), the Annunciation (Mar 25), the Visitation (May 31), St. John the Baptist (June 24), the Transfiguration (Aug 6), and Holy Cross Day (Sept 14).
But wait! There’s more! (No – you don’t need to keep track – this is all in the Book of Common Prayer. Thank you, God for the Book of Common Prayer.)
Other Major Feasts include the Feasts of the Apostles and of the Evangelists, as well as St. Stephen (Dec 26), The Holy Innocents (Dec 28), St. Joseph (Mar 19), St. Mary Magdalene (July 22), St. Mary the Virgin (Aug 15), St. Michael and All Angels (Sept 29), St. James of Jerusalem (Oct 23). Independence Day (July 4) and Thanksgiving are also Major Feasts on our Episcopal liturgical calendar.
So, of the 365 days in the year, a minimum of 74, and sometimes more, will be Feast Days. 20% of your days are to be spent enjoying God’s creation, your family, the delicious food and drink God has given us in this life. Bring on the breakfast pie!
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There are other lesser feast days of optional observance, for those lesser saints such as martyrs, missionaries, pastors, theologians and teachers, or monastics. These are saints with named days on our shared liturgical calendar, but they are not major feast days.
There are some of these lesser saints whose witness and words have had such a personal impact on me and my faith – C.S. Lewis (Nov 22), Philander Chase (Sept 22), Hildegard of Bingen (Sept 17), St. Lucia (Dec 13), to name a few – that on their lesser feast day, I do try to honor them in some way. The Book of Lesser Fasts and Feasts has collects and prayers for these lesser saints, and as I eat liturgically, I try to remain focused on which type of “day” it is while perhaps adding a small treat or evocative recipe to the day.
For example, the lesser feast of St. John of Damascus is Dec 4. This is a Wednesday this year, so a day I try to “not Feast” – to eat healthily and well to fuel myself to go out and do God’s work in the world. But if I wanted to honor this day in my eating, here’s what I’d do: St. John (675-749 CE), a Byzantime monk and priest and one of the fathers of the Eastern Orthodox church, was called the Golden Orator – literally, this his words “streamed with Gold”. I found a recipe for Golden Milk on Epicurious.com, described as a “lightly spiced drink (which is similar in flavor to chai), packed with
anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties
, thanks to a dose of peppery turmeric.” So still a healthy and non-Feasty meal plan for a typical Wednesday in Advent, but also a special extra Golden nod to St. John on his lesser feast day.
If you want to join me, here’s the recipe:
GOLDEN MILK
(Epicurious.com)
INGREDIENTS
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1 cup unsweetened non-dairy milk, preferably coconut milk beverage or almond milk
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1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
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1 (1-inch) piece turmeric, unpeeled, thinly sliced, or 1/2 teaspoon dried turmeric
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1 (1/2-inch) piece ginger, unpeeled, thinly sliced
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1 tablespoon honey
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1 tablespoon virgin coconut oil
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1/4 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
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Ground cinnamon (for serving)
PREPARATION
Whisk coconut milk, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, honey, coconut oil, peppercorns, and 1 cup water in a small saucepan; bring to a low boil. Reduce heat and simmer until flavors have melded, about 10 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into mugs and top with a dash of cinnamon.
Golden milk can be made 5 days ahead. Store in an airtight container and chill. Warm before serving.
Article by Erika Plank Hagan, member of St. Stephen's, Ridgefield
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Pumpkins And Partners: St. Peter's, Hebron
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A few weeks before the annual St. Peter’s, Hebron, Harvest Festival, Father Ron, their PIC, asked a trivia question at Sunday morning announcements: What two things are coming to St. Peter’s from Waitsville, VT? Well, a few weeks before the Harvest Festival, the only two words on the minds of most parishioners were “terrified” and “nightmare.”
They knew the amount of work and planning it took to make the festival of pumpkins, gourds, squash, apples, cider, country store, hay rides, face painting, and games, a success and to make the larger community feel grace and hospitality when they came through our doors. But they had done it before and had the logistics pretty well in place.
However, months before, the plans were also in place for Elizabeth Von Trapp, granddaughter of Baron and Maria Von Trapp, of Sound of Music fame, to give a concert at St. Peter’s. When she phoned to inform the date of her availability, it fell on the evening of a full day of Harvest Festival. Anxiety settled in… but then the Holy Spirit prevailed!
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Amazing partnerships began to form! Students from RHAM (Regional Hebron, Andover and Marlborough) High School seeking community service hours, volunteered with us, bringing youthful energy and enthusiasm while supervising games, washing dirt off pumpkins, helping patrons to their cars with purchases.
At the powerful and moving concert, many guests connected with a song from a past memory providing comfort and joy. A portion of the proceeds went to a non-profit in the community (the routine at St Peter’s following any of their fund raisers). A basket of mini pumpkins was gifted to the local assisted living facility residents to decorate their apartments. The Festival impacted and touched the community! It was a great success!
Answer to the trivia question: the pumpkins came from a farm in Waitsville, VT and Elisabeth Von Trapp hails from there too….We all know where the Holy Spirit came from!
Article and photos by Cathie Litwin, member of St. Peter's, Hebron
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My soul cries out with a joyful shout that the God of my heart is great, And my spirit sings of the wondrous things that you bring to the ones who wait. You fixed your sight on your servant's plight, and my weakness you did not spurn, So from east to west shall my name be blest. Could the world be about to turn? My heart shall sing of the day you bring. Let the fires of your justice burn. Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near, and the world is about to turn!
"Canticle of the Turning" by Rory Cooney, verse 1
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Episcopal Service Corps - From The National Church
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Episcopal Church Young Adult Service Corps:
Applications accepted for 2020-2021 placements
Deadline: January 10, 2020
[October 8, 2019] Applications are now available for 2020-2021 placements with the Young Adult Service Corps (YASC), the international missionary program of The Episcopal Church. YASC offers Episcopalians ages 21-30 the opportunity to follow the Way of Love into deeper relationship with God and the global Anglican Church while spending a year living and working with communities around the world. From Guatemala to Oman, the Philippines to England, El Salvador to South Africa, and dozens of countries in between, YASC volunteers are building relationships that transform their lives and their faith.
These young adults serve as teachers in church-run schools, work alongside development professionals who seek to empower their local communities, and participate in the daily life and ministry of churches and cathedrals around the Anglican Communion.
“We see this ministry as a way to support young adult leadership while also offering them opportunities to explore their faith in new ways. They truly cross boundaries, engage with diverse viewpoints, listen deeply, and live like Jesus in new ways and new places,” said Elizabeth Boe, Episcopal Church mission personnel officer, and former YASC volunteer in Tanzania from 2008-2010. “As Presiding Bishop Curry shared with YASC and Episcopal Volunteers in Mission members earlier this year, ‘relationships really are the key to everything.’”
Madeline Roberts, who recently finished her YASC year in the Diocese of Liverpool, said, “I chose to serve because I wanted a year to grow not only as a young woman, but to also grow in my faith. I knew that choosing a job that would require me to live in a completely different country, in a different corner of the world would be challenging, but after finishing university, I wanted to challenge myself. I was interested to see how the church can function not just as a place of worship, but also as a place of community, and a place of work.”
Potential placements for 2020-2021 include (but are not limited to) Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Oman, Panama, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Tanzania. Additional information, as well as the application form and instructions, for a 2020-2021 placement is available
here
. The application deadline is Friday, January 10, 2020.
Lydia Pendleton reflects on her YASC year in the Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico, “YASC has given me the opportunity to continue God’s work in the world, furthering the work of the church that has always been an important part of my life, expanding my own faith community and family. I will always be grateful for this experience YASC has given me to truly be a part of the Jesus Movement.”
The Rev. David Copley, director of Global Partnerships and Mission Personnel, and a former missionary in Liberia and Bolivia, noted, "YASC offers young adults the opportunity to build on the foundation of faith, knowledge, education, and experience that they bring with them when they serve. Living with, working alongside, and being fully present in a community in another part of God’s world creates space for personal transformation and deep relationship building. Missionary service is first and foremost an act of faith and a way of being Church.”
This article was taken from The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs Media Release sent via email dated Oct 8,
2019.
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Survey on Climate Change - ECCT
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The Episcopal Church is participating in a survey to understand the views church members have about climate change. The survey, which was also done last year, is being conducted by EcoAmerica/Blessed Tomorrow. This information will be helpful in developing future efforts for the church around climate change, perhaps including an expansion of the creation care pledge.
Below (in bold print) is a brief introduction from Blessed Tomorrow and the link to the survey.
We are reaching out today to invite your participation in a few topics that impact The Episcopal Church members and programming. To help shape
TEC's
next steps, we want to better understand your attitudes and awareness on various issues and what we can do as faith leaders. As a valued member of
TEC
, we want to make sure that we count your voice in this research, which is conducted by our partner
ecoAmerica
. Below you will find a link to complete this valuable 15 minute survey, which must be done in one sitting, as you are unable to save and go back. Your individual answers are confidential and will be aggregated for analysis by
ecoAmerica
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The Episcopal Church is participating in a survey to understand the views church members have about climate change. The survey, which was also done last year, is being conducted by EcoAmerica/Blessed Tomorrow. This information will be helpful in developing future efforts for the church around climate change, perhaps including an expansion of the creation care pledge.
Below (in bold print) is a brief introduction from Blessed Tomorrow and the link to the survey.
We are reaching out today to invite your participation in a few topics that impact The Episcopal Church members and programming. To help shape
TEC's
next steps, we want to better understand your attitudes and awareness on various issues and what we can do as faith leaders. As a valued member of
TEC
, we want to make sure that we count your voice in this research, which is conducted by our partner
ecoAmerica
. Below you will find a link to complete this valuable 15 minute survey, which must be done in one sitting, as you are unable to save and go back. Your individual answers are confidential and will be aggregated for analysis by
ecoAmerica
.
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ICYMI: ECCT RM's In The News
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In Case You Missed It: The Episcopal News Service ran a front page article about the ECCT Region Missionaries the week of 10 October. The article can be found
here.
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November:
11/01 - NE Region Men's Breakfast, Vernon Diner,
6:30AM
11/01 - Balance Class, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM - $5
11/01 - First Friday Organ Recitals featuring Charles Houmard, St. Mark's, Storrs, 12PM - bring your lunch & a friend to enjoy this free 30 minute concert
11/03 - Concert Series with "The Jolly Beggars", St. John's, Vernon, 4PM, $15 suggested donation
11/05 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
11/06 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
11/06 - Book Discussion, Part 2: The Challenge of the Apocalypse by Laurin Wenig, St. Mark's, Storrs, 6:30PM
11/07 - NE Region Leadership Team Meeting, St. John's, Vernon, 6PM
11/08 - Balance Class, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM - $5
11/08 - Organ Concert Series, St. Mark's, Storrs, 7PM, $20 donation
11/12 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
11/13 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
11/13 - Ted Talks at St. Mark's, Storrs, 6:30PM - "The political power of being a good neighbor"
11/14 - Book talk with author Diane Sheehan on "Deceit", St. James, Glastonbury, 7PM, $30 for tickets -
click here to register
11/15 - Balance Class, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM - $5
11/16 - Pulled Pork Dinner, St. Peter's, Hebron, 4:30-6:30PM
11/16 - Biblical Aromatheraphy, St. Mark's, Storrs, 10AM-12PM
11/19 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
11/20 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
11/20 - Choral Evenson, St. Mark's, Storrs, 7PM
11/22 - Balance Class, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM - $5
11/23 - NAACP Committee for Community Conversations on Race Fall Film Series: "The Hurricane", Westfield Congregational Church in Danielson, 1PM
11/23 - Craft Fair, Grace, Stafford Springs, 9-11AM
11/23 - ECCT Clergy Day
11/24 - Healing Service, Trinity, Brooklyn, 2PM
11/24 - Turkey & $30 Food Share Drive, St. George's, Bolton, 9AM-12PM
11/24 - Non-Denominational Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service, St. Peter's, Hebron, 7PM
11/26 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
11/27 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
11/29 - Balance Class, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM - $5
December:
12/03 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
12/04 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
12/06 - NE Region Men's Breakfast, Vernon Diner,
6:30AM
12/07 - St. Nicholas Christmas Bazaar, St. John's, Vernon
12/07 - St. Nicholas Fair with luncheon, St. Peter's, Hebron, 9AM-4PM
12/07 - Christmas Auction & Pot Luck Dinner, St. George's, Bolton, 5PM
12/07 - Christmas Far, All Saints, East Hartford, 9AM-2PM
12/08 - Blue Christmas in recognition of grief, St. Peter's, Hebron, 8AM and 10AM
12/08 - St. Nicholas Christmas Bazaar, St. John's, Vernon, 9AM-2PM
12/10 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
12/11 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
12/17 - Evening Prayer, St. Mary's, Manchester, 7PM
12/18 - Healing Prayer & Eucharist, St. Mary's, Manchester, 10AM
January 2020:
01/03 - NE Region Men's Breakfast, Vernon Diner,
6:30AM
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STAY CONNECTED WITH NE REGION
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You can reach Maggie Breen, NE Region Missionary, the following ways:
MAIL:
Maggie Breen, NE Region Missionary, St. John's Episcopal Church, 523 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT 06066
PHONE:
203-639-3501 x154
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From Occupare Faenum Farm:
Brrrr....there is a crispness to the air that is making we sheep very happy for our wooly pajamas! We have been keeping an eye on the humans, as they run about storring nuts for the winter. Wait...squirrels. Squirrels do that, not humans. Humans make sure generators work and store up lots and lots of hay for the lean months of winter! Henrietta the barn spider is making preparations too, though as of yet she doesn't seem to be into spelling. We are eagerly waiting for a web to appear that says "Those Are Some Sheep"...
Photo by: Maggie Breen
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