ANNOUNCEMENTS
MORE THAN ENOUGH - Stewardship Reflection for October 23, 2022
Link: About Humility
Questions for reflection:
- Imagine looking in the mirror and seeing a reflection of your relationship with God. How would you describe it?
- How might generosity be connected to one’s trusting relationship with God?
- In serving others we often find humility. How has service to others helped deepen your relationship with God?
Vital + Thriving Listening Campaign Launches
Our next activity in the Vital + Thriving process is a listening campaign. Our Listening Team (Betty Carmack, Will Crockett, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Mileva Lewis, Kathy O’Loughlin, George Slaiman) will be conducting 25 interviews with members and friends of the congregation as well as community members engaged in ministry with us. If one of them contacts you for an interview, please say yes!
New Jim Crow Anti-Racist Book Group – Oct. 23, 4-5:30 pm
We are meeting on Oct. 23 – we’re reading Kindred by Octavia Butler. All are welcome! Please contact deacon Margaret (mdyerc@stanford.edu) if you need the link.
Diocesan Convention. The annual convention of the Diocese will be held October 28 & 29. Like last year, it will be all virtual, coming to you live from Grace Cathedral. The convention will pass a budget for 2023 and will act on several resolutions: Disability Sensitivity Training; Florence Li Tim-Oi Project; Task Force on Truth-Telling, Reckoning, and Healing; Task Force on Young Adult Ministries; Listening to Lambeth 2022; and Addressing the Need for Clergy Housing in the Diocese of California. It will also elect deputies to The Episcopal Church General Convention to be held in 2024. Cameron is running for General Convention Deputy again. The 2024 General Convention will elect a new Presiding Bishop to replace the Most Rev. Michael Curry, whose term will end then. Our delegates to Diocesan Convention are Peter Fairfield and Dave Frangquist. You can find out more about Diocesan Convention at the convention web site: www.diocalconvention.org, including the full text of all resolutions, names & bios for nominees, and budget details.
Halloween Cookies for the Food Pantry: You are invited to make 3 dozen cookies for the Food Pantry. We would like to have the cookies by Wednesday October 26. We will be bagging the cookies on the 27th and distributing them on the 28th. You can start bringing the cookies on Sunday Oct 23. Thank you for helping the shoppers at the food pantry celebrate Halloween.
St. Aidan’s Gourmet Book Group - Next Date: Monday, October 24, 7pm
We will continue to meet via zoom with LeeAnn DeSalles serving as our zoom master. She has set up a zoom link that will serve for all our meetings. If you would like help with zoom, please contact LeeAnn at leeanndesalles@comcast.net. If you would like to join the Book Group, please contact elaine@mannon.com.
- Monday, October 24, 2022 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
- Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (416 pages) A quirky satire with laser-sharp observations about cultural identity and the ugly truth of tokenism and racism in the world of academia.
- Monday, November 28, 2022 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
- Fierce Attachments – Vivian Gormick (181 pages) An unsparing, deeply courageous memoir about the author’s lifelong battle with her widowed mother for independence.
Cameron is on Sabbatical
Cameron is on a long-planned sabbatical (August 1st – November 27th). While he is away, the Reverend Scot Sherman is serving in his stead, on a half-time basis.
This is a time of growth and opportunity for all of us-- for Cameron in this time of sabbatical, for St. Aidan’s as we make our way into to Vital + Thriving program, and for Scot as he walks more closely with St. Aidan’s on this journey.
Hybrid In-Person/Zoom Worship Continues This Week
This week our worship will continue to be hybrid, with both in person and Zoom platforms available. We encourage you to connect to with worship in whatever way is comfortable and feels safest for you.
As mask mandates increasingly lift in the Bay Area, and as COVID-19 moves in an endemic direction, we look forward to making masks optional for gatherings here at St. Aidan’s. While we are not yet ready to take this step for everyone, we are moving in that direction by inviting worship leaders who are fully vaccinated and boosted, and who feel comfortable doing so, to remove their masks when exercising that leadership in order to be more clearly heard. One exception to this shift is that worship leaders will remain masked while consecrating the elements at the altar. This modest step beyond our practice of the last several months is in accordance with diocesan guidance, the latest version of which can be found at: COVID-19 Health Guideline
Wrestling with the scriptures: You are invited to join the wrestling with the scriptures group on Nov 1, 10:30–11:30 on zoom. The link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/996366325. We will be looking at John: 11:45-54. See you there.
Good News Gardens – next date: November 5 at 12:30 pm
The upcoming dates until the end of 2022 are: November 5 and December 3. Please join us! Question? Contact Deacon Margaret (Mdyerc@stanford.edu)
Natalie Lloyd
A memorial/celebration of life service will take place on December 4 at 2:30 pm at St. Aidan's.
Music on the Hill: Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 7:30 PM: Town Quartet with guest composer/ violinist Alisa Rose
Details to follow.
Cards for Barbara Purcell
With the support of her children, our beloved long-time St. Aidanite Barbara Purcell has recently moved to the Sacramento area. Let’s send our love to her and her family in the form of cards. They can be addressed to her
c/o Bill Purcell
4341 Galewood Way
Carmichael, CA 95608
Thank you in advance for your support!
Financial Summary: For the period January thru September 2022, total operating income was $199,667 and total expenses were $213,994, for a budget deficit of $14,327. Pledge payments totaled $133,272 compared to a budget of $142,139, for a shortfall of $8,867. There was a net operating loss for the period of $135,484 after including year-to-date declines in market value of investments. The endowment fund had lost $68,715 in value for the year. Although investment losses are significant, they are mainly paper losses so far, and do not become real until we need to sell investments. Keeping pledge payments up to date helps us avoid selling investments at a loss. Dave Frangquist treasurer@staidansf.org
Resources for Engaging in Anti-Racism, from Elena Wong
Thank you to Elena Wong for sharing this list of resources that were in turn shared with her through her membership in the Western Association for College Counseling:
Please send in your recipes for the COVID Connect Cookbook!
As shared in previous weeks, Peter Fairfield and Linnea Sweet are putting together the COVID Connect Cookbook. He's received several recipes thus far but would very much like more. He writes:
We are living through a time that will change our world in ways that we cannot yet begin to understand. We can hope that our shared vulnerability to this virus worldwide will help us see that all humanity is connected and that we must all work together. As we shelter in place, many of us are concerned with food. If we are not working, how will we afford it? If we cannot go out, how will we get it?
In our community of Saint Aidan’s, many are able to feed themselves and to help others get fed. More than that, we appreciate the food that we get and are finding new ways of making the sharing of food as enjoyable as possible.
The soup recipes that Cameron has been sharing have made our diet much more enjoyable and have given Linnea and I the inspiration to collect recipes from all the congregation and share them. We ask that everyone with a favorite recipe email it to us at peterlinnea@earthlink.net. We will collect and edit them into a cookbook which will be a lasting reminder of this strange and special time in all our lives.
We hope to be able to publish this cookbook in printed form and sell it to raise funds in support of Saint Aidan’s food ministries. We know you have been sharing food. Now please share your recipes!
Contemplative Prayer continues: Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday from 9-10 AM via Zoom
Contemplative prayer continues during this time of sheltering in place, via Zoom. Contemplative Prayer is silent with the beginning and ending marked by a bell. You can practice meditation, silent prayer, journal, or otherwise enjoy the collective quiet. Thank you to Susan Spencer for offering to anchor this practice once again, especially the Saturday, during this time. Please feel free to reach out to the office for the Zoom access information: office@staidansf.org.
Morning Prayer continues: Mon, Wed, Fri at 7:30 AM via Zoom
We also continue to have Morning Prayer to help sustain and ground us, online/over the phone! Please feel free to reach out to the office for the Zoom access information: office@staidansf.org.
Evening Prayer resumes: Wednesdays at 6:30 PM via Zoom
Our in-coming CDSP Seminarian Weston Morris has resumed the service. Evening Prayer usually lasts a half hour. Readings for the day often feature commemorations from the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints, and the service includes a brief reflection time on the readings. Please feel free to reach out to the office for the Zoom access information: office@staidansf.org
To add an announcement to the weekly bulletin of the Flame, please send your edited text no later than 11:00 am Wednesday to office@staidansf.org
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St. Aidan's Vestry
Elena Wong, Senior Warden
Nicole Miller, Junior Warden
Dave Frangquist, Clerk & Treasurer
Christine Powell, Anne Edwards,
Michael Jennings, Jim Oerther
Anne Benninger, Kate Fritz, Elaina LeGault
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
October 23, 2022
8AM Communion (Hybrid)
The Rev. Scot Sherman, Presider
Dr. Lisa da Silva, Preacher
Jackie Buckley, Altar Guild
10 AM Communion (Hybrid)
The Rev. Scot Sherman, Presider
Dr. Lisa da Silva, Preacher
David Austin, Guest Music Minister
Anne Benninger, Lee Hammack, Michael Jennings, Jackie Lewey, Janet Lohr, Jim Oerther, Kateri Paul, George Slaiman, Barbara Stevenson, Jill Tollefson, & Rolf Tollefson, and perhaps you!, Choir
Paul Nocero, David Mealy, Lectors
Lee Hammack, Intercessor
Betty Carmack, In-Person Greeter
Elena Wong, Zoom Greeter
David Mealy, Sound/Liturgical DJ
CoCo Lin, Child Care
Christine Powell, Altar Guild
JoEllen Brothers, Bread Baker
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I shared some reflections from C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) this past Sunday, and I thought I’d share a bit more from him today. His feast day in the Episcopal Church is on November 22nd. That’s the day he died in 1963, the exact same day as John F. Kennedy. Lewis was a brilliant scholar of literary history and criticism at Oxford University, an effective Christian apologist, and a popular author of fantasy fiction (I read The Chronicles of Narnia aloud with my sons when they were children all the way through 2 times)!
