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This Week
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Wednesday, December 6th
8:30 am Morning Prayer Healing Service
6:30 pm Supper
7:30 pm Conversation with Rebecca Gifford
Thursday, December 7th
9:00 am Women's Bible Study
Saturday, December 9th
10:00 am - 12:00 noon Quiet Retreat
4:00 pm Parish Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, December 10th
Advent II
8:00 am Holy Eucharist (Morning Chapel)
9:00 am Parish Choir Rehearsal
9:30 am Youth Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am Holy Eucharist (Nave), the Rev. Hurman Hamilton
10:30 am Church School/Childcare Provided
11:30 am Coffee Hour
11:45 am Forum with the Rev. Hurman Hamilton
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Confirmation Class
Monday, December 11th
7:00 am Men's Bible Study at the Rectory
Tuesday, December 12th
9:30 am Church School Committee
11:00 am Staff Meeting
11:30 am Worship Committee
1:00 pm Staff Lunch
7:30 pm Vestry
REMINDER: ANNUAL REPORTS DUE - JANUARY 8TH
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down for more announcements.
Please see our
website
for more about upcoming events.
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Please welcome our Guest Preacher,
the Rev. Hurman Hamilton,
Sr. Pastor, Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Sunday, December 10th
At 11:45 am, following the 10:30 am
service, there will be a forum with the Rev. Hurman Hamilton
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Christmas Pageant
December 10
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Angel,
Shepherd & animal sign-up (must be 4 years old and able to come to rehearsal
Saturday 9:30-11:30 am.
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Rehearsal for Speakers and Readers
Saturday, December 16
(please note change of time)
8:30 am
Speakers/Readers Rehearsal
9:00 –
11:00 am Everyone in Pageant Rehearsal
Sunday, December 17
Children gather in the undercroft at
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Stewardship 2007
If you have not yet made your pledge to the
church in support of the 2007 Annual Operating Budget, please do so at your
earliest convenience. Your pledge card can be put in the mail, you can
call the church financial office, you can hand deliver your pledge, or you
can pledge on-line at
www.redeemerchestnuthill.org. Your timely pledge will allow the
Vestry, at its December 12th meeting, to set a realistic budget for the coming year. Thank you in
advance for your prayerful consideration.
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A Quiet Retreat from the Busy
Season: Meditations on God's Word
Saturday, December 9
10:00 AM until 12:00 Noon
Nancy Avery and Betsy McConnell
Church of the Redeemer Morning Chapel
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Annual Christmas Book
Collection for St. Stephen's Afterschool Program is well underway!
See the
display in the parish hall for the next three
weeks to learn about the collection and select a child. It's easy to
participate: Simply choose an
envelope, read about a child and
their interests on
the enclosed form,
purchase a quality hard cover book for him or her (or several
paperbacks), and returned your gift-wrapped book(s) to the church
office by Friday, December
15th. Books will be presented at the Afterschool
Program Christmas party on Thursday, December 21st, which is hosted
by Redeemer. For more information,
contact Pam Mathews at 617-527-0496 or psmathews@comcast.net
. To learn more about St. Stephen's afterschool program, check out www.ststephensbos.org.
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Rebecca
Gifford
Greater
Boston Interfaith Organization
December
6th at 7:30 pm
On
December 6th at 7:30
we will welcome
Rebecca
Gifford, community organizer for
the
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization.
Rebecca will lead us in a conversation
around ways we might become a stronger
community and have greater impact in the
world. Rebecca has already contributed a
great deal to the Redeemer by introducing us
to the model of “house meetings”, which we
undertook last spring and again this fall,
to explore significant questions in our own
lives and in our hopes for our church, and
she helped train the facilitators for those
gatherings. This evening is open to the
whole parish. Whether you participated in
any of the house meetings and would like a
chance to reflect on that experience, or you
wanted to come but just couldn’t make it, or
whether you are simply curious about GBIO
and its work, we promise you a rewarding
evening. Rebecca will also give us a taste
of how this process has been used in other
congregations and some idea of the great
results! Join us for a
light supper
at 6:30,
followed by our time with Rebecca. Please
call the parish office if you plan to come
for dinner, or sign up on the sheet outside
Dorsey’s office.
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Please Help Those In
Need
We have some families
who have appealed to us for help during the Christmas
season. Below is a list of the requests we have
received to date. If you are able to help provide any
of these items, please contact the
office to let us know which gift you would like to
choose (so that we don't have duplicates). We would
appreciate your bringing your wrapped present to the church
by December 18th. If you would prefer to contribute
funds, we would be most appreciative of that as well since
we will probably receive more requests before December 25th.
Many thanks in advance for your generous help and may the
blessings of Christmas be with you and your family.
| Isaace |
19 year old boy |
clothes in size 3X Men's |
| Lakieka |
21 year old girl |
clothes in size 11-12 |
| Shania
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17 year old girl
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radio |
| Zachary |
15 year old boy |
XBox games |
| Michael |
9 year old boy |
Trucks, race cars |
| Shanika |
14 year old girl |
Music CD's, clothes |
| Tamara |
6 year old girl |
Cabbage patch doll |
| Jamike |
4 year old girl |
Baby doll |
| DaQuani
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5 year old boy
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Trucks, race cars |
| Deshanna
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20 year old girl |
clothes in 2X big size |
| Maria |
44 year old woman |
clothes in 4X big size, 2
twin beds, 2 double beds, 2 bureaus |
| Christina
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18 year old girl
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size 8 clothes, size 9 shoes,
medium or large top, socks, gloves, jewelry |
| Erica |
16 year old girl |
medium or large top, jewelry,
size 11 shoes, socks, gloves, gift card from
Kmart or Target |
| Judy
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mother |
turkey (food gift card) |
| Rashawn |
18 year old boy |
black Ipod, weight bench with
weight bar, gift card to Dick's Sporting Goods,
Playstation 2 game: NBA Live 2007, black Ihome
for Ipod, black backpack, gift card for clothes |
| Shakayla |
girl |
pink Ipod, sewing machine,
gigi pet or little pet shop digi, Ihome for Ipod,
Digi Makeover (TV game), Playstation 2,
Playstation 2 game: Avatar, the Last Airbender,
kid's cookbook, Jeans junior size 5, gift card
for CD's |
| Mother |
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black toaster, digital camera |
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Festival
of Nine
Lessons
and Carols
by
candlelight,
in the tradition of
King’s College, Cambridge, England.
Thursday, December 14
at
7:30 in the Evening
The
Parish and Chamber Choirs
of the
Church of the Redeemer will sing works by:
Poston,
Handel, Near, Carter, Mathias, Pilkington,
with
traditional carols arranged by Sir David Willcocks
The
Parish & Chamber Choirs
of the
Church of the Redeemer
Michael S.
Murray, choirmaster
stuart
forster, organ
robert
schulz, tympani
karen
bliznik & kevin maloney, trumpet
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Service Assistants for this spring!
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If you are
interested in serving as a Lay Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Acolyte,
Server, Usher or Greeter, please contact the
office.
If you have
any questions about the responsibilities of these positions, please feel
free to contact an active service assistant, a member of the clergy, or
Suzy Westcott.
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This
Sunday's Service Assistants
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Server: |
L. Gangemi |
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Acolytes: |
J. Forse, B. Mills |
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Lectors: |
(I) T. Contos, (II) K. McEachern |
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LEM's |
S. Westcott, J. Napier |
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Ushers: |
R. Schmalensee (Head Usher), P. Coffin, C. Sampson, D. Schmalensee |
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Greeters: |
D. Mills, G. Mills |
If you are
available to serve in any of the positions marked ‘TBD’,
please contact the office!!
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If you have recently moved, changed phone numbers or any other contact
information, please call or e-mail the church
office so that we may update the Parish
Directory |
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Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
617-566-7679
www.redeemerchestnuthill.org
office(at)redeemerchestnuthill.org
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