PARISH OF RICHMOND

5 September 2024

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
September 8, 2024
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Alter Colors:  Green

• 9:00 AM - Holy Communion Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB

• 10:30 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

• 11:00 AM - Holy Communion Service at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB

• Find Sunday Bible readings at [link]

Services This Wednesday
September 11, 2024

• 7:00 PM - Celtic Communion Service at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

On most days the rector offers a brief morning prayer time live at 8:30 AM (and viewable at any time later). See Parish of Richmond and Woodstock - YouTube

Among those we uphold in prayer:  Alice, Allen, Betty, Cecil, Christine, Cole, Connie, Debbie, Doris, Frankie, George, Græme, Helen, Ivan, Joyce, Lawrence, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Murray, Nadine, Nicole, Peggy, Phyllis, Ronald, Shawn, Sheldon, Shelley, Shirley, Steven, Tara

Please advise Pat Margison (506-328-8146) of name deletions as well as name additions.

Whom do you know in hospital?  There’s a convenient way to get a cheery greeting to the hospitalized.  The hospital delivers it.  Parishioners receiving these notes have mentioned how important they are.  Check out:  [Link]

Kindly remember the Food Bank when you shop.

This coming week’s birthdays: Kenneth Tompkins, Ronda Foster, Karen Parkinson, Wesley Margison

Have you checked the parish’s Facebook page lately?  [link to Facebook].

The fall’s Talking Tuesday initiative is running at both St. Luke’s hall (evenings) and the Richmond Parish Centre (afternoons).  A leaflet detailing the first nine sessions is in the churches.  Anyone in our broader communities is welcome.

Next Saturday 14 September, Rob and Becky English, missionaries on leave from their work with prisoners in the Philippines, will offer a slide presentation on their ministry.  Woodstock’s Filipino Worship Band will lead the music.  The presentation is at St. John’s, 7:00 PM.  There will be an opportunity for a free will offering to help with their ministry.  They return to the Philippines in January.  See attached poster.

Next Sunday 15 September is the date of the St. John’s Memorial service, 10:30 AM.

The Atlantic School of Theology offers several encouraging internet-based offerings. Instructors are first rate. Parishioners who have taken these courses rate them as memorable.

• Look especially at the course around eight everyday challenges of modern discipleship:  The Atlantic School of Discipleship at AST | Atlantic School of Theology (astheology.ns.ca)

• Note also the AST course on themes and variations in the history of Anglicanism offered by the distinguished rector of St Paul’s Halifax: Roots and Branches: Anglican Tickets, Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

The Compassion Fund’s ministry to purchase backpacks for children in need continues for the approaching school year.  Congregants are invited to supply the materials to fill them -- notebooks/scribblers, pens/pencils, coloured pencils/markers, highlighters, pencil cases, erasers, rulers, glue sticks, binders, water bottles and anything else that students might need.

The familiar blue Seafarers' Mission boxes are appearing in our churches.  They solicit donations for seafarers from distant parts who arrive at the port of Saint John.  Donations are unwrapped.  With each box is a list of suggestions, such as toiletries, warm items (esp gloves, scarves), playing cards, game books, individually-wrapped candy, and all such.  Financial donations are also accepted.  Bev from the Mission is amazed each year that our landlocked parish supports this outreach to welcome strangers to NB.

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer at Holy Trinity
• 10:30 AM - Communion Service at St. John's (Memorial Service) (10:30 AM)
• 11:00 AM - Morning Prayer at St. Luke's

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

• 7:00 PM - Harvest Service at St. Mark's

Parish Outreach:

Used eye-glasses?  There is a depository at Progressive Credit Union, Richmond Street, Woodstock.

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