What's up this week (12/24/09)

What's up this week

Thursday, December 24: Christmas Eve
4 PM Family Service
10 PM Candlelight Service

Friday, December 25: Christmas Day
10 AM Eucharist

Sunday, December 27: 1st Sunday after Christmas
8:00 and 10:00: Holy Eucharist, Rite II (Communion service)
9:15 Choir Rehearsal
Coffee Hour follows

Wednesday, December 30:
9:30 Wednesday morning group

Sunday, January 3: 2nd Sunday after Christmas
(with lessons anticipating Epiphany (3 Kings))
8:00 and 10:00: Holy Eucharist, Rite II (Communion service)
9:15 Choir Rehearsal
Coffee Hour follows

• Please mail in your pledges to help the Vestry plan
  the 2010 budget.
  
  
• A "Ministry Exploration Team" composed of
  eight representatives (4 from CHI, 4 from Holy
  Trinity) are in conversation about the possibility
  of sharing a priest. Please keep them - and this
  conversation - in your prayers.
  

A super quote from John Shea, in The Hour of the Unexpected

"She was five, sure of the facts, and recited them with slow solemnity, convinced every word was revelation. She said, "They were so poor they had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to eat and they went a long way from home without getting lost. The lady rode a donkey, the man walked, and the baby was inside the lady. They had to stay in a stable with an ox and an ass (hee-hee), but the Three Rich Men found them because a star lighted the roof. Shepherds came and you could pet the sheep but not feed them. Then the baby was borned. And do you know who he was?" Her quarter eyes inflated to silver dollars. "The baby was God." And she jumped in the air, whirled around, dove into the sofa and buried her head under the cushion, which is the only proper response to the Good News of the Incarnation."