St. Alban's Episcopal Church
The Weekly Red Door
Sunday, October 31, 2021
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Our vision for St. Alban's is to be a spiritual home
to share God's grace through worship, service, faith, and love.
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We welcome all and strive to promote justice, peace, and love in our communities
by following Jesus.
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Come! Worship, Learn, Care, Connect with us |
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In This Issue
Worship this Sunday
Studying the Scriptures & Link to Readings
Sunday's Bulletins & Children's Resources
Turkey Trot-2021
Stewardship
Schmidt's Sausage Truck--November 7th!
New Office Hours for November & December
Caring & Sharing for October
Caring & Sharing for November
Healing Service-November 3rd
2 Cents a Meal-Next Collection 10/31/21
Link to Ministry Scheduler
Weekly Services--Morning Prayer is on Sabbatical
Prayer List
Pastoral Care
Visit our Website
Pay on your pledge to St. Alban's
Donate to St. Alban's
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Sunday Worship
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
October 31, 2021
8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist-Rite I
In Person
The Rev. Marjorie Menaul, Presiding & Preaching
10:15 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
In Person & On Line Worship
The Rev. Marjorie Menaul, Presiding & Preaching
We are wearing masks again &
offering Communion of One Kind
3:33 p.m.
The 3:33 Service
This service will be held in person in
the Memorial Garden or Education Building
Two Cents a Meal Collection is Today-bring your coins
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Studying the Scriptures
Our Lessons this week are:
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Yes
We ARE having the Turkey Trot in 2021!!!
Feel free to share this information with family, friends, co-workers & acquaintances. Look for an announcement on our Facebook page and share it with friends. Since this is a virtual event, folks from across the country can participate.
You may sign up to run and/or you can make a donation to support the event.
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Time, Talent, Treasure
These are three components of Stewardship.
Each year at this time we focus directly on Treasure.
As you may already be aware, our parish, while blessed with many resources, has operated on deficit budgets for the past several years. This year we are beginning to move toward a balanced budget. This process will not occur within one Stewardship cycle but we can begin the process this year. While the Vestry is charged with the financial oversight of the parish, each of us as parishioners should be aware of our overall financial picture. If we are to move away from a deficit budget, each of us must participate. Hopefully, with care and increased attention to our financial health we can move into a non-deficit "picture" within 2-3 years.
We are fortunate this year to have Lain & Robert Howarth overseeing our Stewardship Campaign. The annual mailing was posted late this week and you should see these letters (with pledge cards included) in your mailboxes within the next few days.
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November 7th
after the 10:15 am service
Schmidt's Sausage Truck
Get your Bahama Mama & Cream Puff right on Drexel Avenue.
The Feature Cream Puff flavor is Pecan Pie!
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Office Hours
November 1st-December 24th
Monday-Thursday: 9:30 am --12:30 pm
Friday: Office Closed
The Office will be closed during the entire week of December 27th-December 31st.
Volunteers will be here to answer the phone and provide information during the above hours.
Janet Lewis, Parish Administrator, is out of the office during these times because of knee replacement surgery & recovery.
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Caring and Sharing
October's partner is
Community Refugee & Immigration Services (C.R.IS.)
CRIS works to support immigrants, refugees, and asylees from many parts of the world, and it is one of two agencies in Columbus who are now welcoming people from Afghanistan. Needs we’re hoping to help them with:
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- Funds to offset rent, utilities, food, other essentials.
Follow the link below to donate funds for these purposes.
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- Affordable apartments or homes to rent. If you are a landlord or know of someone willing to work with CRIS, email [email protected]
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- A Welcome Kit containing new items on a list CRIS has provided for us.
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- And later, a Welcome Team who will assist new arrivals for 6 months with transportation and adaptation to life in Columbus.
In addition to the month’s Caring & Sharing gifts, we are beginning by putting together a Welcome Kit. A shopping list was available at church on the 17th, and every item has been signed up for. (Wahoo!) If you have made a commitment to provide some thing(s), please bring your item(s) to the church no earlier than Oct 24 and no later than Oct 31. Leave them in the corner of the Living Room.
Sign-ups for another kit will begin on October 31.
For further info, or for pick-up of items you are unable to bring to St. Alban’s yourself, contact Marjorie Menaul (email at [email protected] or text to 570-441-7311).
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November:
CARING AND SHARING
will be
HOME for FAMILIES (HFF)
St. Alban’s Social Concerns Committee selects an organization to receive the loose plate offering each month on Caring and Sharing Sunday. Contributions can also be made at any time during the month.
The mission of Home for Families (previously The Homeless Families Foundation) is to educate and nurture children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
More information will be available each week in November & donations to Caring/Sharing will go to Home for Families beginning November 1st.
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Healing Service
A CHANGE
YOU ARE ALL INVITED to the IN-PERSON HEALING SERVICE
The next Healing Service will be held in-person on
Wednesday, November 3 at 10:30 AM.
This is a change from our usual fourth Wednesday of the month. We will return to our usual fourth Wednesday on November 24.
THE NEXT SERVICE is Wednesday, November 3 at 10:30 am
We will have the service using A Public Service of Healing. Deacon Craig Foster will lead this service.
Following the service, we will have a time for fellowship and discussion, sharing experiences, thanksgivings, questions, concerns, and ideas or just come to offer and/or receive support. You do not have to have a problem or need. You may find this a meaningful mid-week service.
Please join us when you can.
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2 Cents-a-Meal
Now that we are back in church in greater numbers, we will again collect our savings for the 2 Cents-a-Meal Program.
The 2 Cents-a-Meal Program is designed to remind us of the poor and needy at mealtimes. Parishioners put two pennies per person per meal in a container for hunger ministries as we give thanks for our own food. On a designated Sunday, four times per year, each household brings their 2 Cents-a-Meal offering. One half is given to a local
food pantry and the other half is given to the Hunger Network in Ohio to further its efforts to end hunger.
THE NEXT COLLECTION is Sunday, October 31. Please bring your money to church and put it in the collection jar.
Please help support this ministry. Hunger is a significant problem in our community.
Call the church (614) 253-8549 or Eileen Becknell (614) 512-6335 if you have any questions.
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Weekly Services
Worship Schedule
Sunday
8:00 am Rite I
(in the church)
Please wear your mask
10:15 am Holy Eucharist
Rite II & Enriching our Worship
In the church (masks requested)
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Live Streamed on
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3:33 Service
3:33 pm --interactive; informal service
(in the Memorial Garden or ED Bldg)
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Monday:
e-Compline 8:00 pm
live-stream Facebook page HERE
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Wednesday:
Morning Prayer
On Sabbatical
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Healing Service
Wednesday, November 3rd at 10:30 AM.
If you would like the Anointing of the Sick,
please let Eileen Becknell or
Ernestine Ujah
know.
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Other Opportunities for Worship
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Pastoral Care
Contact Information
Fr. Devin can be reached by Phone/Text at 330-831-4815 or by email at [email protected]
You may also contact Janet Lewis at the church office.
Telephone at office: 614-253-8549
Anyone in the parish may use this email if they or someone they know has a pastoral care concern. All calls and emails are confidential.
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