Parish Happenings & Updates (Page 25)
A Parish Christmas Project
A Historic Beckford Parish Christmas Advent and Christmas are going to look a bit different this year. To make the season more festive and to bring us all together, we’re launching the Historic Beckford Parish Christmas Project. A Historic Beckford Parish Christmas Booklet What makes Christmas special for you that you’d like to share with the church family? Maybe you have a delicious cookie recipe or a side that simply must be made for Christmas dinner every year. Is…
11/12 Weekly Update
SUNDAY SERVICE For Nov. 15, Bishop Goff is asking that everyone join in a Diocesan-wide service. Historic Beckford Parish is watching together on Zoom and Facebook at our usual time of 10:15 a.m. You can log in as usual. The bulletin is available on the Diocese’s website. GIVING TREE 2020 The annual Giving Tree is a bit different this year to accommodate safety precautions and challenges that Covid presents. With how hard this year has been, there are many families…
11/5 Weekly Update
GIVING TREE 2020 The annual Giving Tree is a bit different this year to accommodate safety precautions and challenges that Covid presents. With how hard this year has been, there are many families who need support in making sure the children have something under the Christmas tree to bring a smile to their faces. Instead of collecting specific gifts, we’re asking for anyone who would like to participate to send a monetary donation to Emmanuel (122 E. Court St., Woodstock…
Christmas Thank You Letter From GAP
Click the link below to read or download: GAP CHRISTMAS THANK YOU LETTER 2020 The summary at the end: “What I want to convey is that every penny goes to these GAP families in a variety of ways too numerous to mention. People share many, many different items and God is leading this group in ways I can’t even explain to you. But, we ARE doing the Lord’s business and we are helping those in magnificent need. I am working…
Meditation for the 22nd Week after Pentecost
Who Will We Be On Wednesday? from Bishop Jennifer Brooke-Davidson Today is All Souls Day, Dia de los Muertos, a moment spent between the worlds, which feels eerily fitting, because Election Day is tomorrow. This week feels like we are careening from an unnerving present into an unknown and frightening future — whatever the outcome of the election. There are dire predictions everywhere — again, whatever the outcome. And there’s the distinct possibility that we will be stuck for a time in another,…
10/29 Weekly Update
IT’S TIME TO FALL BACK: TIME CHANGE SUNDAY Remember to set your clocks back an hour before you go to bed Saturday night so you’re not wondering why Mother Kathy is starting the Sunday service an hour late. ALL SAINTS’ DAY SERVICE NOV. 1 This Sunday is a special service, featuring parish kids as our readers and remembering the friends and loved ones who have died. EMMANUEL 2021 PLEDGES A quick reminder to send in your 2021 pledges for the…
10/22 Weekly Update
ALL SAINTS’ DAY SERVICE NOV. 1 If you have a digital photo and/or name of a loved one who has passed that you would like included in the service, please send them to Melissa by this Sunday, Oct. 25. The photos and names are going to be shared publicly, in case that impacts your decision of what to share. Parish kids are going to be our readers for the service. EMMANUEL 2021 PLEDGES A quick reminder to send in your …
Meditation for the 20th Week after Pentecost
Resetting a Body of Broken Bones from The Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor, Assisting Bishop In New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton writes: “As long as we are on earth the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a Body of broken bones….There are two things which [people]…can do about the pain of disunion with other [people]. They can love or they can hate.” Our country is…
All Saints’ Day Service: Remembering Those Who Have Died
For the Sunday, Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day service we are creating a list of names along with digital photos of those who have died. Please send all digital photos and/or names to Melissa by this Sunday, Oct. 25, if you’d like them to be included. Photos and names are going to be shared publicly, in case that impacts your choice of whether to include them. Children of the parish are reading for the service.
Emmanuel’s Table Food Pantry Wins Grant
Monday, October 12, we were blessed with a delivery from Food Lion. Their team delivered and unloaded two pallets of food, plus gave the pantry $800 in gift cards. The delivery was the result of our being awarded the Food Lion Feeds Great Pantry Makeover Restock after being nominated by the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank coordinator. We are thankful for the food, which allowed us to give our clients access to foods we might not usually have. We’ll be…
10/15 Weekly Update
REMINDER: FALL SHRINE MONT SERVICE We’re at Shrine Mont this Sunday for a special outdoor fall service, including Holy Eucharist and a marriage vow renewal. Since the won’t be a live streamed service, you’re invited to participate with the National Cathedral. For those coming for lunch: We need to pay ahead of time so ask that on that Sunday you bring a check in the amount of $14.75 per person made out to Emmanuel with “discretionary” in the memo. Checks…
Meditation for the 20th Week after Pentecost
Pinecones and Mushrooms from Bishop Jennifer Brooke-Davidson After the first couple of months of confinement, I started walking the length of the long drive at Roslyn a couple of times a day. You’d think that it would get boring, but the flora and fauna have drawn me in with Beatrix Potter-like glimpses into their habits and habitats. I peer into doorways in the hollows of tree trunks, and tiptoe past grand earthen entrances to underground cities surrounded by garlands of moss and violets that…