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3:00 pm Youth Choir Rehearsal
10:30 pm Christmas Eve
Festal Eucharist (Nave)
Office Closed 10:30 am Morning Prayer
10:30 am No Church School/ No
Childcare Provided |
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Service Assistants Please don't forget to return your cards to the office by January 8th so that the schedule can be set for the rest of the year. Many thanks. |
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All Committee Meeting Rescheduled 7:30 pm January 9th A blue-sky roundtable in which, building on a previous conversation, we will finalize program offerings between now and June in fellowship, family ministry, adult formation and other areas. Committee chairs are especially encouraged to come, and the meeting is open to anyone in the parish who wants to claim their voice in helping to shape the future direction of the Redeemer. |
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Christmas Offering Recipient Al Ahli Hospital, Gaza Based on the recommendation of the Outreach Committee, the Vestry has chosen Al Ahli Hospital, Gaza as the recipient of our 2006 Christmas Offering. The Al Ahli Arab Hospital was founded by the Christian Mission Society in 1882. It is located in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. It operates as a service ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. The vast majority of this small hospital’s patients cannot afford to pay for the medical care received. Its list of services include: general hospital, general curative medication, outpatient clinic, pediatric, urology, and community preventative program. The hospital has 80 beds for general surgery. The hospital serves the general population in Gaza City and also has a mobile outreach program to smaller villages in the Gaza. The hospital is run by a Christian Palestinian woman named Suhaila Tarazai. According to The World Health Organization, the United Nations and Doctors without Borders, the people in the Palestinian Territories are living in a state of crisis. Sixty percent of the Palestinian population lives in refugee camps. Serious food, water, fuel, and power shortages are having devastating consequences for Palestinian families in the Gaza strip. More than half of the 1.4 million people living in the Gaza strip are living in extreme poverty and are now dependent on food aid, according to the World Food Program. The continuing violence, the worsening of security conditions and the closure of borders has halted the economies of the Palestinian Territories. According to UNICEF some 838,000 Palestinian children living in Gaza are bearing the brunt of these problems. Not only does the Al Ahli Hospital provide free medical care to those who come to the hospital, it also organizes monthly medical outreach clinics to the poorest villages in the Gaza Strip, where inhabitants are unable to travel outside the village due to border closures and check points. A team of volunteer doctors and nurses treat patients, giving them desperately needed medical treatment for the first time in months. This is a wonderful hospital doing good work in a war-torn part of the world which presently sees no end to turmoil and conflict. We will have more information on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital on the bulletin board across from the parish office if you are interested in learning more. |
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Stewardship 2007If 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. Thank you in advance for your prayerful consideration.
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CHRISTMAS SERVICE ASSISTANTS NEEDED We still need four ushers for the 10:30 pm Christmas Eve service which has a choral prelude beginning at 10:00 pm. We also need three ushers for the 10:30 am service that day. In addition, we need one more acolyte for the 10:00 pm prelude/ 10:30 pm Christmas Eve service. We also need one more LEM for both the 4:00 pm and 10:30 pm services. If you are able to help in any of these positions, please let the office know. Many thanks |
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Annual Christmas Party for St. Stephen's After School
Program!
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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 Week's Service Assistants
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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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