Red Cross Blood Drive at St. David's

There is still a severe shortage of blood in our area. What better gift to give a person and their family than helping to save a life. It only takes a short time to do.

Please sign up, spread the word through social media and word of mouth. The links are below, send them to everyone. We want to blow this drive out and help this be a most joyous season of love and healing.

Contact Cherie to help or if you have questions.

To Sign up to give blood: Click Here

To Sign up for Rapid Pass; Click Here

15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” 16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. 18 But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” 19 Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says, “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”

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Here we are almost at Advent again. Every year, it sneaks up on me. Between Diocesan Convention, Thanksgiving, and getting the cars ready for winter, it always surprises me that we are this close to Christmas, and that winter is almost upon us. I have had the snow tires put on yet!

A couple of dates to put on your calendar. St. David’s is sponsoring a Red Cross blood drive on Friday, December 3. You can sign up to give blood here.

That means that December’s First Friday will happen on the second Friday, 10 December 2021.

Thinking ahead to Christmas: I have had several people ask me if we might have our Christmas Eve service earlier this year (none of us like driving at night), and I have no objection. I think 8:00 pm would work well, with the music beforehand starting at 7:30. If that seems good, we’ll plan on that.

The past week or so, I have been really busy, and will be for the next few days. Nearly two years ago now, I learned that a book some friends of mine and I had been writing was accepted for publication. And then the pandemic hit. Many of the editors at the publishing company were furloughed, and production work slowed to a crawl. We found out two weeks ago that our page proofs were finally ready for review.

And, the publisher gave us two weeks to review and correct them, and produce an index!! The deadline is November 26, the Friday after Thanksgiving. Sheesh. The book turns out to be over 400 pages long, so that’s a lot of reading and reviewing to do. Fortunately, we had already compiled our index entries, so it’s just a matter of finding them (thank goodness for global search functions in most word processing software). The name of the book is A Eucharist-Shaped Church, and it explores the wide variety of Anglican eucharistic theologies and their historical settings as well as looking at the process of prayer book revision. It should be in production by January.

Like many of you, I am watching with some trepidation the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who pursued and shot Ahmaud Arbery. It seems that for several years now, as a nation, we have been watching a simmering cauldron of racial unease, that now and then boils over into violence. Since the death of Michael Brown, I have been trying to educate myself about race in this country. Just recently, I read a book entitled Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War, by Howard French. I can’t recommend it enough.

French confirms for me a growing suspicion that capitalism and slavery go hand in hand. Most of the gold (the literal gold) that began to fill the treasuries of European nations in the sixteenth century, and continued to flow through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (think of Adam Smith, and The Wealth of Nations) came from Africa. There’s a reason the West Coast of Africa is called the Gold Coast. And with that gold came slaves to the New World, for the production of sugar. French makes that case that the economic revolution that hit Europe (and its New World colonies) in the eighteenth century would not have been possible without sugar, which would not have been possible without slaves. I was never taught these things in school. Better late than never, I guess.

Getting involved in our services is making this darn pandemic tolerable,

at least on Sundays and a few other moments.

We invite everyone to help us in making our community stronger than ever through prayer. As you may know we have become acquainted with Zoom and Facebook Live to help bring us together to commune with each other. Please use these links to sign up to participate in our different prayer services and gatherings.

Sunday Service Participation for: NOVEMBER DECEMBER

Bible Study: Click Here

If there are questions on how to sign up for Sunday participation or daily prayers please contact either Cherie or Dave

online service at 10am

See link below

 https://www.facebook.com/StDavids

Dan's Blog:  

http://www.stdavidscny.org/;

https://episcopalchurch.org/

Jean Ellison

Glenda Crenshaw

Crystal Waterman

Robert Galliher

Steven McNamara

Diane Tsibulsky

Robert Northrup

Ginny Frey

Judy McCumber

Josh Echols

Frank Beadel

Daniel Healey

Hall Orcutt

Frank Cinque

James McDermott

Françoise Boulanger

Lois Shaffer

Rose Demagio

Tim Orcutt

Yvonne Shaw

Diana Smith

Judy Finlayson

Colleen Bain 

Miggs Coleman

Lisa Smith

Msr. Robert Yeazel

Email either Kristen, Dan, or Cherie if there is something you would like to see posted.

We are trying to be sure that our prayer list is as updated as possible and certainly don't want to remove someone that should be on it. If you know of someone who should be removed please let the office know. Thank you.

Jesus’s kingdom, however, is not geographically limited to a certain place, or even a certain people, which may be why he refuses to call himself the “King of the Jews.” As Jesus repeatedly reminds us, especially in John’s gospel, the commandments or laws of Jesus’s kingdom are not based on keeping order or expanding power, but instead on love (see John 13:34-35; John 14:15-31; John 15:9-19). And not just on loving God, but on loving each other...

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Written By Leslie Scoopmire

Please join us Tuesdays at 7pm. Our normal Bible Study continues this week by virtual meeting because of the limitations the Covid-19 virus has put on all of us.

A zoom link with be emailed to anyone who has expressed an interest.

Call the Church Office to request a Zoom invitation to our weekly Bible Study, which is held on Tuesday's at 7 pm.

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These are the last words of David:

Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”