Weekly HigHligHts of ParisH life august 12 - 19, 2018

WELCOMEA gracious and warm welcome to everyone. We come together on this Sunday to worship God

and to discover what it means to be a person of faith in this world. We encourage you to participate fully in this service of Word and Sacrament. If you are new to Christ Church, please know that you have a place among us. If you are looking for a spiritual home, we hope that you will consider making Christ Church that home. We are here to answer any questions and to be of assistance in any way possible.

This WEEk AT ChrisT ChurCh

SUNDAY, AUG. 12

8 am Holy Eucharist (N) 9 am Holy Eucharist (N)** 10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL) 10:10 am Summer Starters (RG)

MONDAY, AUG. 13

Offices Closed

TUESDAY, AUG. 14

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 9:30 am Staff Meeting (B217) 4 pm Buildings and Grounds (B213) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC) 5:30 pm Daughters of the King (FR) 6:30 pm Annual Giving Committee (B213) 6:30 pm Outreach Commission (MH) 6:30 pm DA (BL)

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 1 pm Blood Drive (U) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC) 5:30 pm Holy Eucharist (SMC)** 8:30 pm AA (LL)

THURSDAY, AUG. 16

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 10:30 am High School Pizza Lunch (LL) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

FRIDAY, AUG. 17

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

SATURDAY, AUG. 18

Offices Closed 7:30 am Mariner’s Inn Service Day (Offsite) 8:30 am Worship Coordination (U) 8:30 pm AA (LL)

SUNDAY, AUG. 19

8 am Holy Eucharist (N) 9 am Holy Eucharist (N)** 10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL) 10:10 am Summer Starters (RG)

**Childcare is provided in B113/Nursery

Location Abbreviations: BL - Bicknell Library CC - Children’s ChapelEdW - 2nd fl. Ed. Wing FL - Front LawnFR - Family Room LL - Lower Level MH - Miller Hall N - Nave RG - Rose Garden SMC - ChapelU - Undercroft

All Children are Welcome! Children gather at the Children’s Cross for the Collect of the Day and Dismissal to Children’s Chapel to hear the story of Jesus and engage in a meaningful reflection of the lessons for that Sunday, before returning to join in our Prayers and to share in the Peace and Holy Communion.

Church School for children has concluded for the year and will resume in the fall.

Magnificat in Memphis:Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. in Eucharist, Agapé/Love Meal, Video, and Sacred Conversation.

Tuesday, August 145:30-8:30 pm in the Undercroft

Eucharist: 5:30 pm | Meal: 6 pm | Video/Sacred Conversation: 6:45-8:30 pm

In the 50th anniversary year of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death we commemorate him as Martyr and Apostle of Nonviolence. The Rev. Bill Wylie-Kellerman, a witness to Gospel nonviolence, theologian and writer, will lead us in our Sacred Conversation: How can we respond today to King’s challenge to choose nonviolence or non-existence? Freewill offering.For more information contact the Rev’d Canon Ronald Spann at rspann@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 113.

To register go to:www.christchurchgp.org/memphis

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

Parish & Community Events

Every Summer Sunday following the 9 am Service

June 24 - August 26

Every year many Detroit children start their summer days hungry. Throughout the summer when children who rely on school breakfast programs go without, Christ Church volunteers gather to make difference.PREPARATION: (Fridays for 1 hour) Count supplies to organize for packing on Sunday. ASSEMBLE: (After 9 am Service) Every summer Sunday we’ll fill breakfast bags each with 7 breakfast meals for low income children through Crossroads’ Summer Lunch program. Everyone is invited to participate. We need Shepherds to guide the assembling process. DELIVER: (Sundays from 11 am - 12 pm) Anyone with a van/truck who is able and willing to deliver the “Summer Starters” bags to Crossroads on Sunday after they are assembled.

To sign up for Preparation, Shepherding or Delivery go to www.christchurchgp.org/summerstarters

We invite you to join us any Sunday this summer to make a difference and help other know the good news of Jesus Christ!

For more information contact Susanna Muzzin at smuzzin@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 104.

SERVE

Opportunities to Serve

Serve at Christ Church or in the Community!

We have many wonderful and dedicated volunteers who serve in our various ministries at Christ Church. Are you ready to get involved? Put your gifts and passions to work with friends new and old. Please call the Rector’s Admin in the Church Office at 313-885-4841 x 107.

CONNECT

Connection Cards

Welcome to Christ Church!If you are new please fill out a “Connection Card” so that we may get to know you. Complete a card and place it in the offering plate or hand it to any clergy person.

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Name(s): ________________________________________ Today’s Date: ___________Address: _______________________________________________________________City/State/Zip: ___________________________________________________________Phone: __________________________ Email: ________________________________Number of Children and Ages: _____________________________________________How did you learn about us? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I am a First-time Guest Returning Guest New ResidentPlease add me to: Weekly Email Family eNewsletter

(Please complete back of card as well)

The blood of Jesus Christ gives US eternal life. YOUR blood can give life to others.

Please donate.

BLOOD DRIVE AT CHRIST CHURCH

Wednesday, August 151-7 PM • Undercroft

Appointments at www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code gpbloodcouncil.

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

We Pray together:Please leave your written prayer request at our Reception Desk or contact Fr. Drew at dvanculin@christchurchgp.org. In order to keep all our prayers for healing meaningful and current, we will keep names on the Prayer List for two weeks.

Assisting at Services:

In the Diocese of Michigan Cycle of Prayer: Grace Church, Southgate; Holy Name, Carreton, DR; and Church of the Messiah, Detroit.

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for: Church of the Province of South East Asia; The Most Rev’d Ng Moon Hing, Archbishop

In our Parish Cycle of Prayer this week we pray for: Richard Gibson; Phillip and Judy Gilbert, and children Catherine, Michael and David; Lawrence and Kathleen Gotfredson, III; Edward and Patsy Gotfredson, and children Edward and George; Carol Gove, and son Stephen.

We pray for those in active military service for our country: Nathan Gaggin, Ryan Worrell, George H. Zinn IV.

We offer prayers for: Al, Alfredo, Allen, Arlene, Benjamin, Bernice, Bob, Brian, Carole, Carolyn, Constance, David, Deni, Derek, Donald, Elizabeth, Jacqui, Julie, Khadijah, Lori, Margaret, Mary, Rob, Shiloh, Sophie, Tom.

We pray for the repose of the souls of: John Bohl, Crit Leibbrand.

In celebration for the birthdays and anniversaries of: Kitty Swickard; John Benson; Matt Hurley; Gerald Cannon; Thom Nealssohn; Heather Dickson; Phyllis Walker; Kerry Crenshaw; Jim Grabowski; Bruce Bradley; Judy Kling; Ted & Nancy McConnell; Butch & Chris Wardwell, II.

Altar Guild:

8 am Mary Bamford, Sandra Walters

9 am Lynnette Iannace, Lisa Baruah

Eucharistic Ministers:

8 am Frank Stellingwerf

9 am Polly Ledyard, Wendy Niven

Lectors:

9 am Karyn Weir

Prayers:

9 am Thom Nealssohn

Verger:

9 am Deb Miller

Acolytes:

9 am Joelle Reich, Emma Reich, Graham Romer

Ushers:

9 am Steve Fehniger, Ian Jones, Marshall Irby, Tim Whims

PARISH DIRECTORY UPDATE FORMHas any of your contact information changed in the past year? Have you gotten rid of your land line phone? Updated your email address? Moved? Gotten married, changed your last name Changed your mobile phone number? Please tell us!! We are updating the Parish Directory and need your help! Please use the form below to share your current contact information.

Forms can be turned in to the Church Office. Thank you!

Name: ____________________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________________________

City: _________________________________ State:______ Zip Code: _________________

Phone Home: ______________ Mobile 1: ________________ Mobile 2: ________________

Email 1: ___________________________________________________________________

Email 2: ___________________________________________________________________

LEssOns fOr ThE TWELfTh sundAy AfTEr PEnTECOsT,PrOPEr 14

1 Kings 19:4-8Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Psalm 34:1-81 I will bless the Lord at all times; *

his praise shall ever be in my mouth.

2 I will glory in the Lord; * let the humble hear and rejoice.

3 Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; * let us exalt his Name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me * and delivered me out of all my terror.

5 Look upon him and be radiant, * and let not your faces be ashamed.

6 I called in my affliction and the Lord heard me * and saved me from all my troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encompasses those who fear him, * and he will deliver them.

8 Taste and see that the Lord is good; * happy are they who trust in him!

Ephesians 4:25-5:2Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

John 6:35, 41-51Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Lessons for next week: Proper 15Proverbs 9:1-6Psalm 34:9-14Ephesians 5:15-20John 6:51-58

Christ Church Grosse Pointe61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313.885.4841 • christchurchgp.org

The Rev. Andrew Van Culin, Rector • The Rev. Canon Ron Spann, Director, Spirituality Center The Rev. Walter Brownridge, Associate for Parish Life and Christian Formation • Scott Hanoian, Director of Music and Organist

Dexter Kennedy, Assistant Organist • Susanna Muzzin, Director of Children and Family MinistriesDiane Ward, Associate for Finance and Administration