8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist Rite I

10:15 AM - Godly Play

The Story of Ark & the Temple

Storyteller - Lauren DeMatteo

10:15 AM - Holy Eucharist Rite II with Music & Full Choir

with 3rd Sunday Healing Prayers during Communion

As we prepare to enter the beautiful season of Advent, we would like to invite your children to participate in a special Advent wreath-making activity on Sunday, November 29, during the 10:15 a.m. service.

Each family will make one Advent wreath to take home and enjoy during the four Sundays of Advent.

To make this activity possible, we will be purchasing floral foam rings (Oasis), candles, and candle holders for each participating family. Because these materials must be purchased in advance, we kindly ask that you RSVP only if your family plans to participate.

An accurate count ensures that we have enough supplies while avoiding unnecessary expenses and waste.

We are also asking all parish families to contribute fresh evergreen branches by Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26. Leave your greens by the parish hall double doors. Volunteers at church will trim and prepare the greenery ahead of time so that the children can easily insert the cuttings into their wreaths.

Please RSVP at lizmuller95@gmail.com by November 18 to let us know whether your children will be participating.

We look forward to sharing this meaningful activity with your children as we begin the season of joyful anticipation.

With warm wishes and Advent blessings,

Liz Muller

Petty Officer Don MacGowan

US Navy 1967-73

Don served as a member of the Integrated Operational Intelligence Center aboard the USS Forrestal the first US Carrier to accommodate the jet aircraft of the atomic age.

Lt. Jim Ferguson

US Navy 1963-1966

Jim served in The Atlantic on the USS Yancey, an attack cargo ship and volunteered for a special assignment as an Officer in Charge of a Swift Boat patrolling the waterways of the Mekong delta.

Radioman III Jerry Watkins

US Navy 1955-1958

Jerry served as a submariner on the USS Grampus and is a member of the US Navy's Royal Order of the Blue Nose having spent over 28 days north of the Arctice Circle.

Lt Colonel Walter Nickens

US AirForce 1956-1976

Walt served as a pilot and instructor flying KC-135 Stratotankers on refueling missions over war zones and with test flights of experimental aircraft.

What a wonderful evening we had on Tuesday with the MHA Social Club. It was a happy room, full of good food (who doesn't like Italian?), chatter, and laughter. It was pleasing to see that people hung around after dinner and dessert to keep the conversations going. It's exactly what we hope will happen.

This may have been a record-setting gathering. There were some 47 MHA clients, 12 staff/drivers, and 18 from St. Peter's. That's 77 people. As they say over and over, the folks enjoy visiting St. Peter's, and it looks like tonight was no exception.

Thanks to all who brought things -- salad makings, desserts, tablecloths -- and who helped prepare salads and organize the serving line. Anthony & Sons donated the dinner rolls, and Laura Lee's nephew's restaurant catered the main dish.

Set-up and clean-up were true cases of many hands make light work. Everything was done quickly and we were cleaned up and done just after 7:00.

Outreach is an important part of what we do at St. Peter's, and the MHA Social Club dinners are a living, in-person form of outreach.  Thank you all for helping make it happen.

Don MacGowan

From the Bishop

Bishop's Address for the 152nd Convention

This year, instead of giving her annual address at Convention, Bishop Hughes is publishing it in written form to be read in advance of Convention.

What does it mean to become the church of the future? Perhaps the answer begins with noticing how God is shaping us and the church right now.

Bishop Hughes invites us to recognize the transformation already unfolding across our diocese and to consider how, together, we can help bring about a world transformed by God's life-changing love.

Read the address, or download it as a PDF.