snow removal next week! ugly or not! · christmas sweater weekend 10am christmas cantata &...
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The Christmas Pageant!
This Sunday we enjoy The Glorious Impossible, our Christmas pageant! After church, after another wonderful lunch, we receive this Christmas gift from our kids.
It is a glorious Christmas tradition repeated and enjoyed just because it is repeated every year. Who will be Mary? Who will be Joseph? Will they remember their lines? Maybe they’ll come up with new ones?!? The Christmas Pageant is never about perfection. It is about the joy of anticipation. How do we wait for the birth of Jesus? Jesus the great. Jesus the glorious. Jesus the child. Jesus the infant. Jesus our friend. Which Jesus do you wait for? Remember the wonderful anticipation you felt as a child? Remember hoping for snow? Did any of us ask what it meant?
"I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something won-derful to happen. A child who is impractical, un-realistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy."
–Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Proudly wear your most Fun Christmas Sweater next week! Ugly or not!
Worshipping With Us
Welcome! Episcopal worship is participatory. We stand, we kneel, we speak, sometimes we sing! Please join in at your level of comfort. If you’d like to learn more about what we as Episcopalians believe or if you have any questions, please fill out one of the yellow cards in the pew and give it to Mother Susan or one of our ushers. We hope you feel welcome here and that you will come back often to feed your faith.
A Word About Receiving Communion in the Episcopal Church
All are invited to the Altar to receive. If you would like a blessing, just cross your arms over your chest. If you decide to receive only the bread, extend your hand for the wafer and cross your arms over your chest to decline the wine. For the wine or grape juice you may guide the chalice to your lips by placing your hand gently on the chalice’s base and guiding it. Or you can dip your host (wafer) into the wine. Or you can give the host to the Lay Eucharistic Minister, who will dip the host into the wine and place it in your mouth.
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ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
December 15th - Advent 3
10am Holy Eucharist &
Christmas Pageant/Luncheon
December 22nd – Advent 4
Christmas Sweater Weekend
10am Christmas Cantata &
Greening of the Church
December 24th –Christmas Eve
7pm – Our Family Eucharist celebrating
the Birth of our Lord Jesus
10pm – Festival Eucharist with special
music
December 25th - Christmas Day
10am – Holy Eucharist with Carols
December 28th & 29th – Christmas 1
Saturday, 5:30pm – Holy Eucharist
Sunday, 10am – Holy Eucharist
ADVENT DEVOTIONALS
It is that special time of preparation for the
Glorious celebration of our Lord’s birth. At
the back of the Church you will find special
Advent pamphlets of Prayers, Scripture
Readings, and Meditations. Please help
yourself.
SNOW REMOVAL
We are quickly approaching SNOW sea-
son and we will need your help with
snow removal. There is a sign-up sheet
in the Parish Hall. We have a snow
blower & shovels or you can use your
own. Thank you in advance!
Remember you can find out what is going on at Good Shepherd by reading The Crook, the Trifold or checking the Website!
T h i s W e e k a t G o o d S h e p h e r d
December 14th to 20th Advent 3 December 14 & 15
Saturday 12/14 - 4:30 PM Open for Prayer!
5:30 PM Holy Eucharist
Sunday 12/15 - 9 AM Open for Prayer!
10 AM Holy Eucharist
10 AM Sunday School
11:30 AM Lunch & Christmas
Pageant
Tuesday 12/17 - 9 AM Morning Prayer
Wednesday 12/18 - Contemplative Prayer
Thursday 12/19 - 8:45 AM Camden Christmas
9 AM Morning Prayer
No Thursday Study Group
6 PM Bell Choir Practice
7:15 PM Choir Practice
Advent 4 December 21 & 22
Christmas Sweater Weekend!
Saturday 12/21 - 4:30 PM Open for Prayer!
5:30 PM Holly Eucharist
Sunday 12/22 - 9 AM Open for Prayer!
10 AM Holy Eucharist /Cantata
10 AM Sunday School
11:30 AM Children’s Choir
Greening of the Church
Tuesday 12/24 - Christmas Eve
7 & 10 PM Holy Eucharist
Wednesday 12/25 - Christmas Day
10 AM Holy Eucharist
Thursday 12/26 - 9 AM Morning Prayer
6 PM Bell Choir Practice
7:15 PM Choir Practice
FOOD PANTRY
Next week, Dec. 21st & 22nd we are collect-ing Cereal for the Pitman Food Pantry. All donations are greatly appreciated and ac-
cepted.
T h e E p i s c o p a l C h u r c h o f t h e
G o o d S h e p h e r d
The Rev. Susan Osborne-Mott, Rector 732-759-4358
The Rev. Carl Dunn, Deacon 609-868-7102
Parish Office 315 Highland Terrace
Pitman, New Jersey 08071
Phone: 856-589-8209 / Fax: 856-582-2306
Email: [email protected]
Http://www.goodshepherdpitman.org
Sunday School led by Brad & Jaclyn Davies
VESTRY
Len Clark - Sr. Warden
Beth Portocalis - Jr. Warden
Chuck Lezenby - Clerk of the Vestry
Mel Caron – Assistant Clerk of the Vestry
Gail Morton, Jim Wynkoop, Frank Jackson
(Class of 2019)
Steve Mackay, Lauren Kaltwasser, Amanda McNally
(Class of 2020)
Diane Wall, Len Fedullo, Aimee Burgin
(Class of 2021)
Lee Braidwood - Treasurer
George Funk - Asst. Treasurer
ADVENT 3
December 14 & 15, 2019
Pastoral Emergencies
If a Pastoral Emergency should come up for you, hospitali-
zation, death in the family, please call the Church Office
856-589-8209 or after Office hours please call Mother
Susan at 732-759-4358.
Parish Office Hours
Monday through Thursday 8:30AM to 2:30PM. Friday - 8:30AM to 1:30PM