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Sunday, September 5, 2010
— Pentecost XIV |
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| The Rev. Mark Kinghan presiding Mr. Jordan Wellington preaching |
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Readings |
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| Jeremiah 18:1-11 | Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 | Philemon 1-21 | Luke 14:25-33 |
| Saint Mary's extends a standing invitation and a
warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers to join us after the Sunday, 10:30 AM., service for fellowship and regular or decaf. coffee or tea. |
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| Weather for Sunday Other Sunday and Weekday Services Schedule of Services and Readings |
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In th Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for the Episcopal Church of the Sudan.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer we pray for the Bridge Prison Ministry (Faithworks).
In the Diocesan Social Justice and Advocacy Cycle we pray for St. Michael and All Angels, Toronto, its Beeton Cupboard, and its Sunday hot lunch program for the homeless and others in need; and St. Nicholas, Birch Cliff, its participation in a community Christmas dinner program, and its sponsorship of an art project through the Keiskamma Trust in Hamburg, in our companion diocese of Grahamstown, South Africa.
In the Deanery Cycle of Prayer we pray for the parish of Emmanuel Church, Richvale, the Rev. Dr Peter Robinson, Incumbent, the Rev. Brian Parker, Honorary Assistant.
We pray for unity in the Church.
In our Parish Cycle of Prayer we remember Ruth, Danny & Pam, Margaret, Paul & Penelope, and Diane. We pray for our Altar Guild, and for our restoration project.
We pray for health & wellness: Pat, Caspar, Margaret, Elton, Glenys, Gwen, Sharon, Larry, David, Kathy, Sister Thelma-Ann, and Sister Margaret.
Prayer Support Group — supports parish and parishioners in prayer. Confidential. Barb Mann.
The Lord taught is to pray, not only in words, but also in actions. —St. Cyprian of Carthage
If you have a request or concern, we will be pleased to pray for you. Our purpose is to support the parish and each other in prayer. We will need a name, and the need, request, or thanksgiving. This is a confidential list. Each week we will review the prayer list and revise it. Please call me.
Barb Mann
The Prayer Corner is open every Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. service for those who need to take a moment of quiet prayer. While prayer and meditative material is available there will be no one to assist in prayer through the Spring and Summer months. St. Mary’s Prayer Support Team expects to be able to provide such assistance again beginning in September. The Prayer Support Team will remain active through this time. If you have need of prayer on behalf of yourself or someone else, please bring that need to my attention in confidence.
Barb Mann
The Welcome Table is a place of information for those new to our community. It is located outside the church office door. If you meet someone new please give them one of our welcome bags and introduce them to one of the staff. Every parishioner is a vital part of this ministry.
Ruthanne Ward
You might notice that the Health and Wellness prayer list has been pruned. Our practice from now on will be to keep requested names on the list for one month. Please feel free to resubmit names as necessary. If the name can be removed sooner, please advise the office.
Mark Kinghan
St. Mary's occasionally promotes festivals and special events on ONRichmondHill, a community promotions web site. We encourage parishioners to subscribe to their e-mail letter. The sign-up page is http://www.onrichmondhill.com/newsletter.php.
Mark Kinghan
A new 10:30 a.m. Schedule is available in hard copy and online. For notification of updates, please subscribe to the e-mail list by sending an empty (no subject, no body) message to:
schedule-list-subscribe at saintmaryschurch dot ca*
and respond to the confirmation message. Thanks.
John Martin
* In a possibly futile attempt to defeat spammers this needs editing for use as a canonical e-mail address—remove spaces, change 'at' and 'dot' to '@' and '.' (period). —jm
Beginning this Sunday, September 5 we will revert to our usual second service time of 10:30 a.m.
Tickets will be on sale from this Sunday, September 5 in the Memorial Lounge. Please purchase your tickets as soon as possible. For more information please contact one of us. The event is Saturday, October 23.
The Committee—Karl Lashley, Rick Sulker, Elizabeth Lane, David Stockall, Trevor Kimpton, Alice Pegg (Silent Auction)
Friday, September 10 is Folding Day for the new issue of The Message. We start around 9:30 a.m. Tea coffee, cheese, crackers, cookies will be provided. The more, the merrier. Thanks.
John Martin, Printer and Post-Printing Production Manager
If you are looking for the screening information you need to complete as a volunteer for the Sunday school, please check the ‘Church School’ mail cubby found directly across from Mark’s office door (there are now a few sets of forms). Please complete and return your forms to the office at your earliest convenience.
Please note also the Saturday morning, September 18 Sexual Misconduct Policy Training event with Don Downer and Ruthanne Ward, and the Sunday, September 19 Sunday School Orientation and Training event that is mandatory for all new teachers. Thanks.
John Martin for Ruthanne Ward and Rhelda Stockall
Jordan Wellington has become an integral part of the ministry team. As part of his formation as a postulant for the diocese of Toronto he will be working as part of the team at Trinity, Aurora. His last Sunday at St. Mary’s will be September 12. We pray God’s blessing on his continued ministry.
Our parish deacon, the Rev. Derek Davidson is retiring from his ministry at St. Mary’s. His last Sunday with us will be September 19 at which time we will celebrate and give thanks for his ministry and pray for God’s continued blessing upon him. If you would like to contribute to a parish gift for Derek, please place it on the offering plate give it to Rick Sulker. Envelopes are available.
Mark Kinghan
Our next food bank collection day is Sunday, September 12. As with other activities here, there seems to be a tendency for food bank donations to drop off in the summer. Just a reminder that demand does not, and the food bank is coping with increased numbers nowadays. When I dropped off last Sunday’s collection I asked what the current need was. It’s canned fruit, juice, and cereal. Canadian Tire money is also appreciated. The Richmond Hill Community Food Bank asks me to pass on their thanks.
The food bank is located at 55 Newkirk Road in Richmond Hill, telephone 905-508-4761. Hours of operation are Monday–Friday, 9:00–11:30 a.m.
John Martin
On Sunday, September 12 we celebrate Gear Up Sunday/St. Mary the Virgin with services of Holy Communion at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., the Rev. Mark Kinghan presiding, the Rev. Ruthanne Ward preaching. Year C, Proper 23, Proper for St. Mary, BAS p. 419. The readings appointed for this Sunday are: Isaiah 7:10-15; Psalm 132:6-10, 13-14; Galatians 4:4-7; and Luke 1:46-55.
The regular monthly schedule of 10:30 a.m. worship services at Saint Mary’s is:
1st Sunday - Eucharist (BAS 1962)
2nd Sunday - Eucharist (BAS)
3rd Sunday - Morning Prayer and Anointing
4th Sunday - Eucharist (BAS)
5th Sunday - Eucharist (BAS)
A reminder that we are asked not to dip the wafer (intinction) into the wine at communion. Intinction is unhealthy: it transmits germs on the fingers. It is acceptable and valid to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist in one kind, bread only, and to place one’s hand on the chalice as it is offered to you, without drinking. Thank you for keeping to this rule.
Mark Kinghan
This year’s Back to Church Sunday is September 26. The bishops of the diocese have asked all parishes to enthusiastically participate in this ministry of evangelism. On Sunday, September 12, each person will receive an invitation which they are in turn to pass on to someone they would like to invite to church on September 26. I encourage you to start thinking now about who you’d like to invite.
Mark Kinghan
Thank you for your prayers and support over the past few weeks. I am home safely from a successful trip to Barahona, Dominican Repuplic. This year I did double duty—on construction and at the VBS and it was wonderful working with the children. I will have photos and my story for presentation sometime in late September or early October.
Trevor Kimpton
Friday-Saturday, October 22 & 23 at St John’s Anglican Church York Mills, 19 Don Ridge Drive. Come to the 2010 prayer conference where you will enjoy three inspiring theme talks from the Rev. Mike Flynn. Along with uplifting music provided by Trinity Streetsville, you will have the opportunity to attend two of fourteen workshops. This year’s conference is designed to give you a new awareness of God's outrageous love for you. Registrars: John & Carol-Anne Foty, 71 Riverview Gardens, Toronto M6S 4E6, 416-767-0253, cafoty at rogers dot com*. Details, registration forms from the church office, speak with Barb Mann or me, or go to:
http://www.toronto.anglican.ca/prayerconference
Sharon Hanns
* In a possibly futile attempt to defeat spammers this needs editing for use as a canonical e-mail address—remove spaces, change 'at' and 'dot' to '@' and '.' (period). —jm
A young man with engineering qualifications is looking for connections and opportunities. If you may be able to help in any way, please speak with me. Thanks.
Ruthanne Ward
A young woman with office admin. skills is looking for connections and opportunities. If you may be able to help in any way, please call 905-883-3518. Thanks.
Last call this year. As ‘back to school’ is upon us and knowing that Windows 7 is making obsolete another swath of hardware that would run just fine under something else, I’m again putting it out that we’ll accept donations of old computers**. We know there’s a demand—we gave away four to our Christmas Families last year—and we know how to refurbish them. And if anything comes in that betters what staff already have so much the better. Thank you to the three or four people who have already responded.
John Martin, for Outreach
* ‘Any old iron?’, traditional rag-and-bone man call. ‘Iron’, IT jargon for computer hardware.
** St. Mary’s wipes donated computers using techniques recommended by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Technical Security Standards for Information Technology in Appendix Ops-II: Media Sanitation. Your data are guaranteed irrecoverably erased—we get to reuse the drive. —jm
Must be young, warm blooded or own decent parka, sure footed, and creative with English—we don’t always have the letters we need. Twenty minutes now and again, more often around major festivals. Apply at the church office.
John Martin—Sign Changer, Retired
Since early in the year, the leadership of St. Mary’s has been discerning a future plan for the mission and ministry of St. Mary’s. It was shared in its initial form with the parish in February and received support and encouragement. Now, further details and priorities to accomplish our goals have been filled in. Please take the time to read the document that will be distributed at the end of the service; talk to member of the committee about your questions, concerns or issues; ask yourself where and how you fit it. There is a place for everyone! We need everyone’s support, involvement and prayers!
Trevor Kimpton
Whenever possible announcements should go in the bulletin and should arrive at the church office preferably by e-mail by midday of the Wednesday before the Sunday on which they are to appear. When announcements miss the bulletin or require amplification, they may be made at announcement time provided they meet the Worship Committee’s guidelines: with notice to and permission from the Incumbent the previous Friday, thirty (30) seconds, three (3) sentences maximum, to include only what, when, where, and whom to contact.
John Martin
A reminder that you can bring used batteries to St. Mary’s for safe disposal. Look for the beige container in the narthex.
Don Halliday
An electronic spreadsheet version of the Proportionate Giving Worksheet printed in the current issue of The Message, Vol.17, No.3, is available on this web site as proportionategiving.xls (Microsoft Excel) and as proportionategiving.ods (OpenOffice 2.0).
This worksheet tested virus-free with McAfee VirusScan using virus definition file no. 4834, dated August 21, 2006 prior to upload to our server. This worksheet does not send data back to the church or to the church's web server. This worksheet is offered "as is" and is without warranty of any kind. Windows systems may recognize the Open Office file as a Zip file and change its name upon download. This is annoying but not disastrous. Just lop off the extra extension!
The Stewardship Committee
Our Pastoral Visiting Team will bring communion, anointing, or simply visit with anyone who wishes it. Please call—or have someone call for you—if you desire a visit. This ministry continues through the summer months though fewer visitors are available.
Susan Rodgers, Parish Nurse
“We, as part of the community of St. Mary’s, are called at the present time to provide leadership and support by offering our diverse gifts and experience as discerned through prayer and reflection. As a mutually supportive team, we nurture the spiritual well-being and growth of the whole community of St. Mary’s, the wider church, and the community that surrounds us through worship, teaching, pastoral care, and outreach.”
Mark Kinghan, Ruthanne Ward, Don Downer, Wendy Lywood, Derek Davidson, Susan Rodgers, Jordan Wellington, Murray Baer, John Martin
Richmond Hill Public Library has an online archive of photographs of historic churches and graveyards in the area. Their photographer was at Saint Mary's in August of 2003. The entry for Saint Mary's is here.
They also have an archive of historical photographs available on its web site including one of Saint Mary's from the 1930s.
Hand of Hope is a small non-profit organization founded (and originally funded) by the Anita and Gregory Giagnocavo Family whose goal is to help the rural poor of Guatemala improve their lives. For them, that means, providing medical care and medicine to those who are sick and do not have access to health care. Anita is the sister of one of St. Mary's parishioners. The November 2008 Hands of Hope Newsletter provides details of their activities. Hands of Hope is a registered charity in the USA but not in Canada.
December 2008
In response to requests from friends who have moved away from Richmond Hill and Saint Mary's, here is a photograph of our renovated sanctuary. Thanks to Joan Connolly and Owen Pegg.
The Anglican Diocese of Toronto’s web site has a Diocesan Event Calendar.
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