PARISH OF RICHMOND

24 October 2024

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Week
October 19-26, 2024
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
Alter Colors:  Green

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB [view the bulletin]

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

• 9:30 AM - Communion Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

• 9:30 AM - Sunday School at the Parish Centre, located at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

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

• Find Sunday Bible readings at [link]

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, 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]

This week’s birthdays:  Jeffrey Martin, Allyson Cummings, Jennie Carpenter, Quinton Carpenter

Food Bank  Let’s fill those boxes and show gratitude to God by sharing with our neighbour the blessings we have been given.

Have you checked the parish’s Facebook page lately? The Anglican Parish of Richmond, Diocese of Fredericton | Facebook

Next Talking Tuesday discussion (which is this coming Tuesday 29 October) will be on the conundrum of Bad Things Happening to Good People:  2:00 PM at the Parish Centre & 7:00 PM at St. Luke’s.

Next Thursday (31 October), being the eve of All Saints Day, Maria and Philip are hosting kids, parishioners and friends at the Rectory. Afternoon tea will be served 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM and Evening refreshments 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM.  COSTUMES OPTIONAL but prizes for the best!  Will YOU dare to be there?

Vestry have appointed Marilyn Wilson as parish treasurer in place of Max Hutchison.  We are grateful to Max for putting parish bookkeeping on a coherent footing.

Vestry have created written sales contracts for use in selling cemetery lots (unsold lots are few) and set the lot price in both cemeteries at $350.

Cindy Derksen, parish envelope secretary, reminds us that while we can use Richmond envelopes at any point in the parish, we should not use them at Woodstock services, and vice versa.

Next Saturday (2 November), the 139^th meeting of the Diocesan Synod takes place at the Cathedral. Parish delegates/alternates are Jesse Smith, Pat Margison, Judy Clark, Bonnie Sparks and Cindy Derksen.

The Synod Office is organizing an overnight Advent retreat. It will be held in Rothesay Friday/Saturday 13-14 December. Leader will be the gifted Bishop Sandra Fyfe of Nova Scotia/PEI. Register via Advent Retreat | Discipleship Resources | Anglican Diocese of Fredericton

For another month parishioners are asked to participate in Operation Christmas Child by filling the familiar shoe boxes with small items useful or interesting to a girl, boy or either.

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.

This week’s Diocesan e-News carries an encouraging story of the impact of the mobile medical clinic in our companion diocese of Ho in Ghana. The clinic was established with financial support from our Vestry and from individual parishioners: Ho mobile medical clinic project eyed as a prototype for similar projects under Rotary | Anglican Diocese of Fredericton

It was good to see several folk of the Rich/Wood parishes taking part in administering the recent provincial election. Unlike the neighbouring republic, we were spared rioting, ballot “theft” and police snipers posted on the roof.

Worshippers at Holy Trinity are treated occasionally to Sunday bulletins prepared by Ken Tompkins. From the parish website here is last Sunday’s beautiful effort:  {view bulletin}

Parish Outreach:

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

To join the 1000+ people who already subscribed to the diocese’s Tuesday evening e-newsletter, visit the eNews section of http://anglican.nb.ca/news.

KEEPING INFORMED