A Message from our Seminary Intern:
Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory to God from generation to generation, in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)
As we enter fall, pumpkins on porches, sweaters coming out of storage, I am struck by the beauty of the changing leaves. On my commute into Greencastle on Sunday mornings, the sumac bushes burn red, the trees blaze gold, the grasses sway in fawn-colored stretches. As the summer’s abundance slows down, all of nature seems to put on one last show.
Even as I enjoy the autumn’s beauty, I know that the changing season also heralds the entrance of winter. The days become shorter, the weather turns cold. The world begins to slow down and die back.
In the bright transformation from one season into another, it is easy to forget that nature gets ready for a rest with a huge burst of hope.
Parker Palmer writes in his book Let Your Life Speak, “What does nature do in autumn? It scatters the seeds that will bring new growth in the spring—and scatters them with amazing abandon.” Even as things are being drawn down, we as perennial Easter people know that the hope of resurrection and rebirth is within God’s promise to us always.
Where is God wrapping you in hope for new things to come?
What are you spreading with wild abandon into God’s creation?
Where do you need a rest so that new things can come into your life?
How are you the seed itself that God has sown with wild abandon into this world?
There is a kernel of God’s love and trust wrapped up in you. You are a gift that has been sown in this world with joy, scattered abundantly, like confetti. Let us carry this knowledge together, and share it generously, so that hope and love may take root wherever we are planted. And let us rest when we need rest, trusting in the promise of resurrection, and ready to blossom when God calls us into new life.
Meghan McConnell
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Rector’s Office Drop-In Time
Rev. Jen has set her office drop-in day as Wednesday of each week from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. for anyone who would like to stop in and visit. You are always invited to make an appointment for a time convenient for you. Mondays are her Sabbath day. NOTE: No drop-in hours Wednesday, November 5 and Wednesday, November 12.
The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost/All Saints’ Day/Proper 26
In-Person Sunday Morning Worship Service, November 2, All Saints’, led by the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore,10:15 a.m.
You can stream the service via St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Greencastle, Indiana Facebook Page. Click on this link to view the Live Stream. We will start the Live Stream 5 minutes prior to the start of the service.
Click here for the service booklet for November 2.
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The Latest Updates
REMEMBER TO FALL BACK SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1!
Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, November 2 at 2:00 a.m. Please remember to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday evening!
GETTING AHEAD PROGRAM DINNERS
The ecumenical outreach program needs dinners prepared November 13 and November 20. They ask that you prepare a simple, filling meal for 15 which will be eaten by parents attending the Getting Ahead at Gobin, and by the children who are babysat while the program is on. Lori Miller, the pastor who leads the program, has been very positive about this cohort – their consistency, the topics they want to learn about, and the personal successes they have with finance, education, and jobs. If you can help out, please let Jen+ know!
HEALING PRAYER
Most Sundays our intern Meghan will be offering anointing and healing prayer at Sunday services during communion. Meghan will set up a station in the narthex; meet there for general or specific prayers for healing.
TUESDAY BIBLE STUDY
The Book and Bible Group has begun again, meeting at 4:30 p.m. most Tuesday afternoons with Evening Prayer celebrated at 4:00 p.m. The next one will be Tuesday, November 4 at 4:30 p.m. You will find the Gospel passages and links to these commentaries on the St. Andrew’s website, last selection under the Connect tab entitled “Book and Bible Group”. All are welcome. NOTE: No Book Group on Tuesday, November 18.
ALTAR FLOWER CALENDAR
An altar flower calendar is posted in Hamilton Hall. Sign up to sponsor the altar flowers to commemorate a birthday or anniversary, remember a loved one, or in thanksgiving for an important event. We ask a donation to help offset the cost of the altar flowers and other worship expenses. Be sure to tell the office your dedication so that it can be printed in the bulletin. Please make checks payable to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and in the memo field please put this information: Altar Flowers, person’s name, occasion, Sunday date you’d like for the flowers to be on the altar.
VESTRY MEETING MINUTES
If any of you are interested in what your Vestry is doing, there are two copies of each month’s minutes on the music stand in Hamilton Hall. Feel free to read and return!
SHOPPING LIST FOR NON-FOOD PANTRY
Please add razors, shaving cream, laundry detergent, spray cleaner, and toilet bowl cleaner to your shopping list for the NFP for the month of November. Meals and conversation in Hamilton Hall are going well. Patrons are now able to pick out items they most need. Your contributions help our budget go farther in helping meet the needs of those in Putnam County. The next Non-Food Pantry will be Saturday, November 22 from noon – 2:00 p.m. If you can help with this ministry in any way, please contact Harriet Moore or Carl Huffman.
KROGER COUPONS
If you have any unwanted Kroger coupons, please bring them to Hamilton Hall and place in the window ledge near the “Little Library”. We would like to make them available to our Non-Food Pantry recipients so that they might be able to take advantage of them to help extend their food budget. Thanks in advance!
FREE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
We have some large print Day by Day daily devotionals in the sanctuary that you are free to take home for your personal devotions–and if we know that people would like copies, we can order the right amount. Many of you may also appreciate the on-line version of Day to Day. Click here.
ON-GOING COVID PROTOCOL
We continue to respond to both our county’s current CDC designation and to the current variant. Masking is optional. Decisions on COVID policy have moved from the Reconvening Committee to Rev. Jen and the Wardens.
Prayers and Reflections for This Week
We have heard that the daily reflections and scripture readings provided during Lent were appreciated. The meditations are written by persons from Gobin UMC and Beech Grove UMC. They will be in the newsletter each week. Whether you enjoy these every day or as the Spirit moves you, may this resource continue to bring you spiritual food for the journey. Blessings!
Click here to view the readings and accompanying links.
Non-Food Pantry Latest
Saturday, November 22
• Noon to 2:00 p.m.
There will be a distribution in Hamilton Hall and light lunches will be served inside. We are grateful for all those who have worked so hard to obtain supplies for the Non-Food Pantry. Items are having to be purchased from a variety of sources making it much more expensive. Donations to help offset this extra cost will be gratefully accepted!
Top 3 Needed Items
Your prayers are asked for:
Haile Bane, grandson of Joanne Haymaker
Beth Benedix, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Jennifer Clarke, friend of Patti Harmless
Lynda, friend of Sarah Finlay-Black
Katie Gleichman, relative of Jim & Cathryn Ensley
Joanne Haymaker
Tom Kaiser, friend of Jen+ & Chris
Hansford Mann, friend of Joanne Haymaker
Teresa Masten, friend of Karen & Jim Mannon
Mickeal
Sally Motsch, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Mary Mountz
Tom Mullen, father of Patti Harmless
Elizabeth & Natalie Sheffler, daughter & granddaughter of Page & Narda Cotton
Deloris Smith, friend of Emily Knuth
Skip Sutton
Sydney, friend of Joanne Haymaker
Larry Taylor, former member of St. Andrew’s
Donald Voermans, father of Nick Voermans
Dwight Ziegler, uncle of Stephanie Gurnon
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: The Bishop and staff of the Diocese of Indianapolis: The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Canon Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale, The Rev. Canon Giulianna Cappalletti Gray, Ms. Janet Brinkworth, Jackson Chamberlain, Ms. Kim Christopher, Ms. Julie Eledah, Ms. Lauren Hacker, Ms. Heather Campbell, Ms. Kelly Nickson, Ms. Elise Shrock, The Rev. Mary Taflinger, Ms. Erinna Vandever.
Our companion dioceses: The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil: The Most Rev. Mauricio Jose Araujo De Andrade, Primate of Brazil and Bishop of Brasilia. The people and Diocese of Haiti and Saint Andre’s Parish and school in Mithon.
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Church of the Province of West Africa.
Birthdays: Otto Berry, November 3; Cyrus Gurnon, November 5; Jubilee Majors, November 6.
Anniversaries: None.
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