ANNOUNCEMENTS
MORE THAN ENOUGH - Stewardship Reflection for November 6, 2022
Link: Blessed are the Poor
Reflect upon a time where you made a judgment on a person or place when you had limited or incomplete information.
Questions for reflection:
• Discuss your experience with explanations for poverty. What are your own explanations?
• Do they need investigating?
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
HALLOWEEN COOKIES FOR THE SHOPPERS AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE FOOD PANTRY
I would like to thank everyone who provided Halloween cookies for the Food Pantry: Kat Fritz, Catherine Sherman, Gary and Michael, Patricia Brown, Betty Carmack, Barbara Stevenson, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Patricia Busk, Ann Edwards, Joellen Brothers, and Judy Bley. I would also like to thanks those who helped bag the cookies: Barbara Stevenson, Patricia Brown, Ann Edwards, Joellen Brothers, and Judy Bley. We packed 150 bags in 60 minutes. Great work! It was so great to see both services step up to the plate in true Saint Aidan’s style.
The shoppers and volunteers were so surprised to get the cookies. There were giggles and joy and laughter.
I invite you to stop by any Friday to meet the volunteers and shoppers. The morning crew is here from 7:30-10:00 and the afternoon crew is here from 12:30-2:00. The shoppers shop from 1:00-2:00. See what Saint Aidan’s food pantry is doing. You might get inspired to volunteer once a month.
Rejoicing in God's Saints: A Daily Prayer Calendar for November
All Saints' Day falls on November 1 of each year. On that date or on the first Sunday in November, many churches memorialize members and loved ones who have died the year prior. In keeping with the spirit of All Saints' Day and of Thanksgiving, below you will find daily prompts to express gratitude to God for a now-departed saint who has influenced your life.
Calendar
Good News Gardens – next date: November 5 at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (note earlier time, just for Nov 5)
The upcoming dates until the end of 2022 are: December 3. Please join us! Question? Contact Deacon Margaret (Mdyerc@stanford.edu)
Festive Welcome Café for All Saints' Day / Advent 1, November 6
St. Aidan's will have a festive Welcome Café (aka Coffee Hour) following the 10:00 AM service on November 6 when we will be celebrating All Saints' Day / Advent 1. If you are able to attend in person, please plan to stay and join with other St. Aidanites as we celebrate together. This special event will be held outdoors (weather permitting) to ensure adequate air circulation and reasonable social distancing as we doff our masks to enjoy the coffee and food.
Men's Group - Saturday, November 12, 9-10:30 am, via Zoom. We will connect for prayer, study and fellowship. All men are cordially invited. If you haven’t received connection information by November 10, contact Dave Frangquist (frangquist@acm.org). Please note that the Men’s Group has switched to the second Saturday of the month this year.
St. Aidan's Women's Spirituality Group will meet via zoom Saturday, November 12th, at 10:30. As before, we will have time for both checking in and personal sharing as well as time for spiritual growth. We are certainly open to formats and approaches such as reflections on a poem, scripture, narrative passage or another focus for our growth. We want our group to meet the needs and desires of those who participate. If you want to join us, and we hope you will, please contact Elaine Mannon at elaine@mannon. com to get the information for signing into our meeting.
St. Aidan’s Gourmet Book Group - Next Date: Monday, November 28, 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, 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.
Marjorie Wilkins Jones passed away on Monday, October 24, 2022. Her memorial service will be on November 16, 2022 at 11 am.
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
All Saints' Day / Advent 1
November 6, 2022
8AM Communion (Hybrid)
The Rev. Scot Sherman, Presider
The Rev. Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Preacher
Kate Fritz, Altar Guild
10 AM Communion (Hybrid)
The Rev. Scot Sherman, Presider
The Rev. Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, 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
Peter Fairfield, Elaine Mannon, Lectors
N/A, Intercessor
Betty Carmack, In-Person Greeter
JoEllen Brothers, Zoom Greeter
Dave Frangquist, Sound/Liturgical DJ
CoCo Lin, Child Care
Janice Tichner-Leonard, Altar Guild
Barbara Stevenson, Bread Baker
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