Parish Happenings & Updates (Page 17)
Advent and Christmastide Booklet
Slow down. Quiet. It’s Advent. Advent is here. We joyfully await the fulfillment of God in the birth of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us for these 27 days to make room for Jesus in your heart. It’s time to slow down and to watch for miracles. It’s time to take some time for quiet and wait for the birth of the Messiah. It’s time to wonder at the unfailing light and love of God. This booklet lists or…
11/25/21 Beckford Connection
HAPPY THANKSGIVING For Thanksgiving this year, Mother Kathy who like to share the booklet of devotions, prayers, poems and a music playlist from last year. It was adapted from a St. Thomas in Whitemarsh, PA, publication. We hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to share it with your friends and family. 2021 Giving Tree We’re undertaking a special project for the Giving Tree this year! W.W. Robinson Elementary has a few programs that aren’t widely advertised and are in need…
2021 Emmanuel Giving Tree
2021 EMMANUEL TREE We’re undertaking a special project for the Giving Tree this year! W.W. Robinson Elementary has a few programs that aren’t widely advertised and are in need of support — Admin, counselors and the nurses keep clothes, outerwear, socks and undergarments on hand to quietly give to students who they notice may not have weather-appropriate clothing, no outerwear, have a need for clothing due to personal reasons, or to students who become ill or have accidents so that…
Thanksgiving Prayer Booklet
For Thanksgiving this year, Mother Kathy who like to share the booklet of devotions, prayers, poems and a music playlist from last year. It was adapted from a St. Thomas in Whitemarsh, PA, publication. We hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to share it with your friends and family.
11/18/21 The Beckford Connection
COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING SERVICE You’re invited this Sunday, Nov. 21, to St. Mary’s Pine Lutheran Church on 7103 S. Middle Road in Mt. Jackson at 7 p.m. for a Community Thanksgiving Service hosted by the Mt. Jackson Ministerium. COMMUNITY ADVENT SERVICES Wednesdays throughout Advent the Woodstock Ministerium is hosting Community Advent Services at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Woodstock at 12 p.m. Mother Kathy is leading the Dec. 1 service. Dec. 8, 15 and 22 are the other service dates. As long as…
11/11/21 The Beckford Connection
LIGHT UP WOODSTOCK: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We’re taking part in Light Up Woodstock this year by setting out individually wrapped cookies on tables at the sidewalk out front of Emmanuel. We won’t be doing hot chocolate this year due to COVID. VOLUNTEERS FOR SET UP/TEAR DOWN We’re in need of some volunteers to set up the table, set out the cookies then bring everything in after. BAKERS/COOKIE BAGGERS We also need folks to bake cookies then place each in an individual snack…
Saints: “I mean to be one too”
Bishop Porter Taylor’s Meditation for All Saints Day Saints: “I mean to be one too” Who are the people who saved your life? When you think of the turns your life has taken – the times when you could have gone one way or another – who helped you find your way? Let me ask this in another way. When you think of situations that you don’t think you can handle, when you need to ask for help, what faces come…
11/4/21 The Beckford Connection
LIGHT UP WOODSTOCK: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We’re taking part in Light Up Woodstock this year by setting out individually wrapped cookies on tables at the sidewalk out front of Emmanuel. We won’t be doing hot chocolate this year due to COVID. VOLUNTEERS FOR SET UP/TEAR DOWN We’re in need of some volunteers to set up the table, set out the cookies then bring everything in after. BAKERS/COOKIE BAGGERS We also need folks to bake cookies then place each in an individual snack…
10/28/21 The Beckford Connection
NAMES DUE MONDAY MORNING FOR ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY SERVICE NOV. 7 If you have a friend or loved one who has died who you would like to have remembered on All Saints’ Sunday, please send their name via email to Melissa or drop the name(s) into the offering plate by the morning of Mon., Nov. 1, for the Sun., Nov. 7 services. LIGHT UP WOODSTOCK: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We’re taking part in Light Up Woodstock this year by setting out individually…
Light Up Woodstock: Volunteers Needed
LIGHT UP WOODSTOCK: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We’re taking part in Light Up Woodstock this year by setting out individually wrapped cookies on tables at the sidewalk out front of Emmanuel. We won’t be doing hot chocolate this year due to COVID. VOLUNTEERS FOR SET UP/TEAR DOWN We’re in need of some volunteers to set up the table, set out the cookies then bring everything in after. BAKERS/COOKIE BAGGERS We also need folks to bake cookies then place each in an individual snack…
10/21/21 The Beckford Connection
“As Christians, we are commanded to embrace Sabbath. Walter Brueggemann, the Hebrew Bible scholar, writes “the observance [of the Sabbath] is an act of resistance against having one’s life defined by one’s productivity…. Sabbath is not merely rest from work, but a day to renounce autonomy and self-sufficiency.” ~ Bishop Porter Taylor SERVICE AT SHRINE MONT Thank you to everyone who attended the service at Shrine Mont last Sunday. Here are a couple photos, the first two are by Rod Shepherd and the…
10/14/21 The Beckford Connection
“However, this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. I fear becoming a Miniver Cheevy (remember your high school English) who mourned over the life he could not live as a medieval knight instead of living the life given to him in the present moment. I am trying not to lament what didn’t happen during COVID nor fear what might happen in the future. Instead, I am praying to be like the voice of…