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This Sunday we will offer the Sacrament of Unction/Healing at the 10 a.m. service.
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This Sunday is a Youth Sunday - our older children will read the lessons, usher and help lead the liturgy. Normally the Children’s choirs would sing, but we have decided to postpone their singing until December 20 because thay have not had enough time to rehearse and feel confident about their songs. Godly Play and Communion Class will go to Church School and Godly Dialogue (grades 3-6) will be in church with their parents - the sermon this week will be geared toward them!
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Throughout out the month of November we will welcome parishioners and others to speak about meaningful experiences here at Christ Church. Missed church last week? Click here to read Moments from the Lecterns featuring Alleigh Thoms.
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Thank You from Deacon Ella - Kairos Outside Weekend
Kairos Outside New York City (KONYC) is a national and international program for women whose lives have been impacted by incarceration. KONYC held a retreat weekend for 30 guests on November 13 – 15, 2015 at Bishop Molloy Retreat House in Jamaica Estates located in Queens, New York. KONYC gives a warm thank you filled with love to the people of Christ Church Bronxville for their support in helping to make this weekend successful. We especially would like to give a big thank you to; Joseph K. Philips, John O’Neil, Steve Palfrey, and Bill Sprague for volunteering their time at Bishop Molloy in Queens and at Christ Church Pelham. Your help was invaluable.
If you would like to volunteer and/or donate to KONYC, another retreat is scheduled for May 2016. More information for this weekend will be forthcoming during the spring. May God’s blessings continue to be upon each of you. - Deacon Ella
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Donate $20 and help put a turkey on the table! Christ Church is seeking donations to the fill the San Andres Food Pantry in Yonkers. This pantry feeds parishioners from San Andres and local families in the community.
Click here to donate online or write a check with San Andres in the memo line.
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Afya, a global health NGO based in Yonkers, NY, needs our help with a desperately important donation drive. Afya collects and delivers critically needed surplus medical supplies, hospital equipment, and humanitarian provisions for acute and ongoing health crises worldwide. Currently, Afya has a relief project underway to help the refugee children in Lesvos, Greece. They are collecting children’s rain boots, socks, hand and foot warmers, and mylar thermal blankets to send with doctors traveling to these camps in the near term. If you are interested in donating to this drive, please drop off supplies in the box in the Narthex or bring your donations to the church offices. Thank you for considering helping these children in need!
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St. John's Larchmont Annual Christmas Bazaar: Nov 21st 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
On Saturday, November 21st, St. John's Episcopal Church in Larchmont will be holding it's annual Christmas Bazaar, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This is the biggest Episcopal Church Women group fundraising event of the year at St. John's and all the proceeds go to ECW Outreach grants. Young at Arts has received grants from St. John's Episcopal Church Women - we encourage you to support their event if you can! Click here for more information.
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The next Evensong will be on Sunday, November 22 at 5:00 p.m.
Music for the day:
The Responses - Philip Radcliffe
Evening Service in D Major - Charles Wood
Let all the world in every corner sing - Vaughan Williams
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"By Himself God won't, and by ourselves, we can't. Together we will." - Tutu
Your pledge to Christ Church supports the many programs and ministries that are at the heart of our growing parish community. It’s up to each of us to support our ministries at CCBNY. Please take a moment to read this letter from Fr. Bird as he reflects on partnerships within and around Christ Church.
Our request is that you take some time to give thanks for all that God has given you, and then reflect on what Christ Church means in your life now and what it could mean to you in the future. We hope that you will make a commitment that is personally meaningful to you.
So far, we have received 57 pledges totaling in over $336,000. Help us reach our goal for $850,000 by pledging online or drop your pledge card in the mail. Please contact Katie if you have not received your stewardship materials.
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Sunday Short Series - Composers and the Music that Shape our World
Join us for our upcoming Sunday Short Series led by composers in our community! The series will take place in the Crispell Lounge following the 10 a.m. service on the following dates:
 November 22nd - Philip Stopford
Composer in Residence Philip Stopford will present a short interactive session on his sacred choral compositions as published by Hal Leonard and MorningStar Music. Philip has 70 choral anthems and settings published and has sold over 300,000 copies of his music. Join us to discover and discuss how music can bring new meaning and understanding to familiar and famous biblical passages, and how the use of melody, harmony, tempo and rhythm can affect our worship experience. Philip will have copies of his CD of choral music titles Do Not Be Afraid available, priced $20. See the recording being made here
December 6th - Charles & Annbritt duChateau
Annbritt and Charles duChateau have been collaborating together, musically and otherwise, since June of 1997 when they met as conductors of the Second National Tour of Miss Saigon. Prior to that they had both conducted other well known Broadway tours of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. These tours (and marriage) eventually lead them to landing in Tuckahoe, NY to continue their musical and life pursuits together. Annbritt went on to work extensively with Paul Gemignani (music director for Stephen Sondheim) for whom she conducted 3 Sondheim shows and played piano for Sondheim's Company with the New York Philharmonic. Annbritt has conducted 9 Broadway shows to date, is currently music directing/conducting Disney's Aladdin.
Charles is not only an exceptional conductor on Broadway (8 shows to date), but is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has played piano, cello, accordion and erhu on (or near) Broadway for the last 15 years. He is currently conducting and playing cello for “The King and I†at Lincoln Center, while other credits include Spiderman, South Pacific, The Color Purple, The Threepenny Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, and Flower Drum Song. As a cellist, he has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Live with Regis and Kelly, and the Conan O’Brian Show. Charles also conducted a string section for the singer, Beck, on Saturday Night Live.
Annbritt and Charles discovered Christ Church when they enrolled their boys in the Young at Arts program years ago. Having really embraced the YAA message of music and arts building community and having no boundaries, they volunteered their services for the annual YAA spring benefit. This ultimately lead to Charles being asked to become the Music Director of Young at Arts last year.
Join Britt & Charles in a discussion about how collaboration and creativity can serve as a metaphor living one's life in general.
December 13th - Jason Thoms
Dr. Jason Thoms is the Director of Choral Activities and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Concordia College-New York, and the Associate Conductor at Christ Church Bronxville. Jason comes from a musical family. He is a 5th generation professional musician and a 2nd generation composer. Jason’s compositional output is primarily sacred or liturgical music for choir, both accompanied and unaccompanied. He has written a number of compositions especially for Christ Church Bronxville including a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, a Preces and Responses, a congregational mass setting, and a number of Gospel fanfares for brass and organ. Jason also does a lot of orchestrating, arranging and transcribing music.
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Advent Lessons and Carols:
Sunday, December 6th at 5 p.m.
The annual service of Advent Lessons and Carols at Christ Church celebrates the coming of the Messiah with beautiful anthems, readings, prayers and hymn-singing. The Christ Church Choir and Young at Arts ensembles will combine for this long standing CCBNY tradition and will be accompanied by organ, brass and timpani with all-new arrangements by Composer in Residence Philip Stopford. All are welcome to join us for this festive service.
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Please remember in your prayers
Layton, Mary Beth Blom, Dave, Toni, Matthew Groban, Kris, Tom Ruhm, Amanda, Tami Cassill, Trishon, Charlie, Ella Tosch, Corky, Anne Rooney, Dianne, Don, Helen Church, Grace, Tom O’Donogue, Brenda Alkins, Linda, Gaylord, Lynne, Renae, Myrtle, Robert, Veronica and Aubrey Simmonds, Jing, Beverly
Names remain on the prayer list for three weeks unless otherwise requested.
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