Parish Happenings & Updates (Page 24)

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! All Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services stream live to Zoom and Facebook. Everyone is welcome! Please invite your friends and family to join us using their choice of Zoom or Facebook. Bulletins are at the end of the email. Please be sure you’ve updated Zoom to the latest version. Christmas Eve 5 p.m. Children’s Service — a shorter service, including carols and Christmas Bible stories 9 p.m. Traditional Spiritual Communion Service, including carols Please have a candle…

Merry Christmas, Beckford Parish! We’ve put together a digital Christmas magazine for you, filled with holiday messages, memories, traditions, favorite carols, recipes, photos of Christmas past and even a publication put together by the women of Emmanuel back in the 1980s. Thank you to everyone who contributed.  We hope you enjoy the magazine, which you can read here!

Clergy in Woodstock have come together to create this special community service video. Mother Kathy hopes you enjoy it. Watch the video.

WOODSTOCK LONGEST NIGHT WORSHIP SERVICE Watch for an email coming Monday morning with a  video of this special service put together by the clergy of Woodstock.  A SPECIAL GIFT Parishioners should keep an eye on your mail box for a special red envelope to arrive (if it hasn’t already)! CHRISTMAS EVE AND DAY SERVICES All services stream live to Zoom and Facebook. Everyone is welcome! Please invite your friends and family to join us using their choice of Zoom or Facebook. Christmas Eve 5…

CHRISTMAS COLORING BOOKLET The booklet has 40 Advent and Christmas images to color as you get ready to celebrate the holiday. From wreaths, candles, trees and Christmas scenes to the nativity, Bible verses and cute kitties, there’s plenty to choose from (or color them all if you’d like). You can print the entire booklet, or pick and choose your favorites. Feel free to share the booklet with anyone you think may enjoy some relaxing coloring time. FACEBOOK HOLIDAY FUN Every day…

Experience Christmas with Historic Beckford Parish  All services stream live to Zoom and Facebook. Everyone is welcome! Please invite your friends and family to join us using their choice of Zoom or Facebook. Christmas Eve 5 p.m. Children’s Service — a shorter service, including carols and Christmas Bible stories 9 p.m. Traditional Spiritual Communion Service, including carols Please have a candle handy and ready to light for both services when we sing Silent Night together. Christmas Day 10 a.m. Spiritual…

We have an early Christmas gift for you: A Christmas Coloring Pages booklet compiled especially for children and adults! The booklet has 40 Advent and Christmas images to color as you get ready to celebrate the holiday. From wreaths, candles, trees and Christmas scenes to the nativity, Bible verses and cute kitties, there’s plenty to choose from (or color them all if you’d like). You can print the entire booklet, or pick and choose your favorites. Feel free to share…

Elizabeth Cottrell recently came across this book of recipes. It was created as a fundraiser by the women of Emmanuel back in the 1980’s. Elizabeth and Trudy Pence have estimated it to be from the mid-to-late 80s. It’s filled with delicious cookies, breads and more that were favorites of the women who shared them. Hopefully, reading through it brings back fond memories of Christmases past, those who are no longer with us and time spent enjoying good food with family…

FACEBOOK HOLIDAY FUN Every day from now until January 1, Melissa is sharing fun Advent and Christmas content to our Facebook page. You’ll find music, videos, stories, crafts, recipes, special publications and more. We hope it brings some holiday cheer to your days! Likes and comments on the posts are appreciated, so that Facebook shares it on more folks’ timelines. ADVENT AT HOME: A COMPANION BOOKLET We have adapted the booklet above to provide opportunities to worship at home, either…

Dear friend, Thank you for joining us for these holy weeks of Advent. We adapted this booklet above to provide opportunities to worship at home, either by yourself or with your friends and family with whom you are sheltering in place. We invite you to prepare a space in your home to mark these days and celebrate the coming of Jesus. You will see this booklet is comprised of 5 stations, taking us weekly from the first Sunday of Advent…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING For Thanksgiving this year, Mother Kathy shares a booklet of devotions, prayers, poems and a music playlist. It is 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. You can download the booklet on our website. DECEMBER VESTRY MEETINGS St. Andrew’s is meeting Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 6:30 p.m. on Zoom. Emmanuel is meeting Monday, Dec. 14, at 6:30 p.m. on Zoom. Melissa…

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 226th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE DIOCESE OF VIRGINIA (Copied directly from an email from the Diocese) For the first time in 226 years, the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia gathered not in person, but online. More than 450 delegates attended the November 14 Convention via Zoom. The Convention was also broadcast simultaneously in Spanish and Korean allowing our Spanish- and Korean-speaking delegates to participate more fully.   Delegates to Convention have several responsibilities including the…