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Epiphany - Sunday, January 7
One Service at 9:30 am
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Join us as we celebrate the Epiphany with a special Jazz Eucharist and a visit from the Magi and Holy Family. We invite you to bring a gift for our baby shower, which will be donated to the local nonprofit, Reach and Restore. Reach and Restore Executive Director, Ronda Oliver, will speak at the community forum following worship, 10:45-11:30.
We continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube.
The St. David's baby shower is aimed at families or single mothers who are in need, often experiencing homelessness and transitioning to more stable housing.
Needed items include:
Diapers, wipes, onesies, footies, socks. winter snowsuits, crib-sized mattress pads, sheets, baby blankets, baby bibs, feminine hygiene products, car seat covers, blankets, toys, especially learning, board books.
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Two dates, to be exact!
First Date: Sunday, January 21, Community Forum
10:45 am in the Undercroft
Annual Meeting Prep
We'll gather to prepare for the following week's Annual Meeting, focusing specifically on our proposed 2024 Financial Plan and updates to our Vision Statements, along with other items.
Second Date: Sunday January 28
10:45 am in the Undercroft
St David’s Annual Meeting
We will celebrate the life of the church this past year, and look ahead to St. David’s 2024. Look for future emails with links to various items that will be reviewed, discussed, and voted on at this most important congregational meeting. Weather cooperating, Anna will also be outdoors on the north hill, heading up the annual youth sledding extravaganza.
Please come to both meetings to be better informed. We especially encourage newcomers' participation! As always, it is not only about business………yummy treats, hot chocolate, and coffee will be at the table too! Hope to see all there!
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Send it to office@stdavidsparish.org before 9:00AM on Tuesday to be featured.
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We celebrated together on Christmas Eve and captured the true spirit of Silent Night and Christmas blessings.
Thank you for your Christmas generosity: We raised almost $2500 to send to the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. See link for more information.
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This Sunday: Epiphany
On Christmas Eve, we passed out take home craft kits to make your own Epiphany Crown! Decorate your crown and wear it to church this Sunday, January 7 as all of us will play the role of the Magi, bringing gifts to baby Jesus. If you did not receive a kit, feel free to make a crown of your own! Princess tiaras and burger king crowns included!
There is no children’s time this Sunday. Children are invited to remain in worship, use the nursery, the Narthex Nursery, or the Play Rug.
Nursery
The nursery is open for little children during the 9:30 service, and staffed through coffee hour/forum time.
New Class on Wednesday nights! These are our Bodies is a faith and sexuality course for children and youth grades 4-12. We start on Wednesday, January 17. At 6:00pm we will offer dinner in the Jones Room of the ICA building, and at 6:30 split into age groups and move to the classrooms, for activities, games, and important discussion.
Intermediate: Grades 4-6
Middle School: Grades 7-8
High School: Grades 9-12
We have some fabulous adult facilitators for each age group, and I highly recommend registering your child for these classes. The lessons are
well-informed, developmentally appropriate, shame-free, and inclusive – the sexuality education we all maybe wish we would have received, and something we are privileged to offer these young people in our midst. Please email Anna abrock@stdavidsparish.org if you are interested in enrolling your child, as well as any dietary restrictions if you plan to come for dinner. Feel free to share within your networks if you know someone who may be interested.
Youth Group
LIFT Youth Group will meet on Wednesday, January 10 at Trinity, 6:30-8:30 pm. Dinner included! All are welcome!
See the program calendar here.
Please email abrock@stdavidsparish.org with any questions.
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Educational and Spiritual Formation | |
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The Truth at the Heart of the Lie
How the Catholic Church Lost its Soul
James Carroll
On January 30, 2024, Rector Katherine Lewis and Scott Clark, via Zoom, will co-lead an educational and spiritual formation discussion on Carroll’s riveting book about faith and institutions. This is not a replacement for the St. David’s book club but an opportunity to explore faith and the Church institutions that have been designed to support a Christian-based theology. Carroll’s website summation of this book follows:
“I am a Catholic. I was crushed to learn about priests sexually abusing children, and bishops protecting predators instead of victims. As a former priest and longtime commentator on Catholic issues, I grasped that the problem involved basic systems of church governance, tied to an unapologetic culture of male supremacy. But this crisis of faith prompted my fresh examination of historic turning points, when the church chose power over service, from the ancient world to the Middle Ages, to recent years. But I was forced into a deep personal examination of conscience, confronting ways in which my own life involved me in the structures of male supremacy, personal deceit, and distorted notions of God.
Yet in the writing of this book, I realized that I am still Catholic to the core, resolved to advance church reform, with an anti-clericalism from within. Even in my place of internal exile, the faith remains my permanent connection to the living presence of Jesus Christ.”
In many ways, this book is universal in perspective, although the title denotes somewhat of a singular calling out. It is both deep and wide in discussion points, such as whether war can ever be moral, so that the reader will find something to challenge current faith and perspectives on the Church in the broadest definition. Join us for a very challenge-filled session.
For more information or questions, please contact Scott Clark at scottakafourcrows@gmail.com. If your local library doesn’t have this book immediately available, a good source to purchase a used book is AbeBooks at abebooks.com.
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ICA Sunday is this Sunday, January 7! More folks are using the Food Shelf now more than ever before. ICA is currently running out of the following items:
Food:
- Plain oatmeal
- Shelf stable milk
- Crackers
- Boxed noodles/spaghetti
- Canned fruit
- Boxed cereal
Non-food:
- Tissues
- Toilet paper
- Lotion
- Feminine hygiene items
- Wet & dry pet food
The above items are suggestions. Anything you would like to donate is always appreciated! In addition, your brown bags and egg cartons are put to good use. If you will not be in church this Sunday, you can drop off your donations at your convenience in the ICA baskets at each of the three church entrances.
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January-February
Four Volunteers are needed for each date. Two for cooking with the Loaves and Fishes coordinator from 3:00-5:00 pm, and two to package and serve from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
Upcoming dates:
- January 9
- January 22
- January 30
- February 13
- February 26
Please contact Sue or Basil Owen to sign up. Sue’s cell is 612-716-1945. Basil’s cell is 612-716-0683 or email at bowen3@fastmail.com, clicking on Donate section. Many thanks for however you choose to support ICA.
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St. David's is participating in a new outreach activity this winter, collecting hats and mittens for children and young adults, for a non-profit organizations call Hats & Mittens. The goal of this all-volunteer organization is to ensure that the children of our community have access to warm hats and mittens. Over 900,000 hats and mittens have been collected and distributed over the past 29 years to over 200 organizations in the Twin Cities seven county metro area! It looks like winter and cold weather have finally arrived!
Please consider helping us collect hats, mittens, and scarves to keep infants to young adults warm.
We are collecting all sizes of hats, mittens, and scarves to keep infants to young adults warm.
- New or gently used, clean items, including knitted or crocheted items
- Biggest need: waterproof mittens & gloves for elementary-age children
- Scarves and/or neck warmers
There are Hats & Mittens collection boxes at the two south church entrances. Think of what having warm mittens, a had and/or scarf will mean to a child or young adult who has none.
Thank you for helping to keep our Minnesota community warm this winter season!
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Facilities Manager Position open at St. David's!
Part-time, flexible working hours, 15-20 hours per week.
Must be available to attend weekly staff meetings on Mondays.
Find a full job description HERE
If interested, send resume to: staffing@stdavidsparish.org
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Please join us to watch a film
about a remarkable true story!
Friday, January 12
5:30 to 8:45 pm
(Film will begin at 6:00)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka
2030 Wayzata Blvd E, Wayzata, MN 55391
The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, street musician and recovering drug addict, struggles with his housing situation and has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.
Based on the international best selling book.
Pizza, Popcorn, and Beverages will be served.
Following the film, we will have a discussion on homelessness and housing.
Please RSVP here.
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