SAINTS Alive!

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PARISH

All Saints’ Church

Chelmsford, MA                                                                 February 2008

 


 


From the Rector

What can one person do?

At the start of the new millennium, the United Nations, including the United States, agreed on a plan to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015.  Together, they created the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  They are:

1.       Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2.       Achieve universal primary education

3.       Promote gender equality and empower women

4.       Reduce child mortality

5.       Improve maternal health

6.       Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7.       Ensure environmental sustainability

8.       Develop global partnership for development

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has adopted the MDGs as the Episcopal Church’s top mission priority for 2007-2009.  A part of this goal is the challenge for diocese, parishes and individuals to give 0.7% of their income to help meet the MDGs.

In 2000 at Diocesan Convention the Diocese of Massachusetts dedicated 0.7% of the diocesan budget to fight AIDS/HIV in Africa.  This was about $50,000 and began Jubilee Ministries (JM).  Since then, JM has raised an additional $80-100K a year.  Through JM, the Diocese has supported programs in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya to help feed, educate and provide health care for AIDS orphans.  In Kenya, JM has been supporting the Mothers’ Union (MU) Orphan Feeding Program in the Diocese of Maseno North of the Anglican Church of Kenya.  Through this link, All Saints’ Church has become involved with Nyahela Parish in Kenya.

In the summer of 2006 the women at Nyahela Parish began providing meals on Saturdays for the orphans and needy children in and around their parish.  Very quickly they were serving 200 to 300 children every week.  They also organized volunteers to provide supplemental classes for the children, who often miss school because of hunger, caring for siblings or having to work.  At the time, 15 other parishes were providing similar feeding programs.  It was during this summer that I was privileged to visit Nyahela Parish and meet and pray with some of their leaders.

In 2007, All Saints’ Church agreed to financially support the Nyahela Parish Orphan Feeding program through JM.  We have agreed to raise and send at least $4,000.00, the approximate yearly cost of the food for the program.  The money is sent to JM at the Diocese.  They send it to Episcopal Missionary Nancy Hardison in Maseno, Kenya, who then distributes it every week to the MU so they can purchase food.  There are currently over 30 parishes hosting orphan feeding programs in the Diocese of Maseno North.  About half of them are being funded by Episcopalians in the United States. 

I realize this has been a long explanation but it comes back to what one person can do.  Your support of our Parish Partnership, through prayers, letters, money or simply showing some interest, is how one way one person can join in this world wide effort.

The web site for Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation sums it up this way:

God's dreams are always big dreams ... like ending extreme poverty. But God's dreams are also dreams that every One has a call to participate in. That's why EGR's motto is "What One Can Do" – because God's mission will be realized as we work together One by One – One Person, One Congregation, One Diocese, One Church, One World.  

Peace,

Tom.


Millennium Development Goals

For more information about the MDGs see the following web sites.

Diocese of Massachusetts Jubilee Ministries:  diomass.org/mission/AIDS_in_Africa

The Episcopal Relief and Development:  www.er-d.org/mdg

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation:  www.e4gr.org/index.html

The United Nations site on MDGs:  www.un.org/millenniumgoals

MDG cross

Outreach Opportunity

Offer a Ride:

We have some parishioners who need rides in order to participate in worship and programs.  Would you be willing to participate in this ministry within your parish community?  If so, contact Amy Hunter at fifimom@juno.com or 978-256-5673 ext. 14.  She will put drivers and passengers in touch with one another.


Calendar Notes February 2008

Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) Pancake Supper

Tuesday, February 5, 2008.  For details, please contact the office at 978-256-5673.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.  

ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES

February 6, 2006

7:00 AM Imposition of Ashes – Chapel

Noon Holy Eucharist and imposition of Ashes – Chapel

7:00 PM Joint Service with Trinity Lutheran Church – at All Saints’

 

WOW!!  LENT STARTS EARLY THIS YEAR

The Book of Common Prayer explains why with the following:

Easter Day is always the Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox on March 21, a date which is fixed in accordance with ancient ecclesiastical computations…..This full moon may happen on any date between March 21 and April 18 inclusive.  If the full moon falls on a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday following.  But Easter Day cannot be earlier than March 22 or later than April 25.  (p. 880)

This year, Easter is on March 23, 2008.  For more information about the date of Easter and a chart of when Easter falls through to the year 2089 can be found on pages 880-885 in the Book of Common Prayer.  The last time Easter was this early was in 1913.

 

WiFi at All Saints’ Church

 

All Saints' now has WiFi wireless Internet available to parishioners.  See Tom Barrington or Matt Hickcox for the key that is needed for access to the wireless network.

 

Mariatou’s Musical Welcome

A Mission of Refugee Immigration Ministry…

Chelmsford/Lowell Cluster of RIM is sponsoring Mariatou, young woman from Sierra Leone who is seeking asylum.  She is currently living with a couple who members of Christ Church United in Lowell.  There are opportunities to help by providing rides, helping her improve her English and to acclimate to living here. 

Churches involved in sponsoring Mariatou are Trinity Lutheran Church, First Baptist Church of Chelmsford, Christ Church United, Lowell and All Saints’ Church.

On Saturday, May 17, 2008, All Saints’ will be hosting a benefit concert for RIM featuring the Fiddle and guitar of Sacred Fiddle.  We are looking for a few individuals who will work with Tom Barrington and members of the other cluster churches in organizing the concert.

For more information, please speak to the Rector, the Rev. Tom Barrington.

 

Dear Friends,

I want to thank everyone for their support after my recent heart surgery.  I appreciate your prayers, cards, phone calls, and the delicious meals that arrived at our house.  I also want to thank the people who filled in for me in church, the Thrift Shop, and the feeding program.  Last, but not least, thank you Tom for all your visits.  All Saints’ is truly a caring community.

Peace,

Ann Kirk

 

Accountant Needed

All Saints’ is looking to hire an accountant for part time consulting work with the treasurer, bookkeeper and Finance Committee.  Please contact Melanie Hickcox at 978-448-0931 or email her at mel@odic.com for more information.

 

Greater Lowell Episcopal

Lenten Series

To Love and Serve the Lord: a Progressive Lenten program with a simple meal, speaker and prayer

Tuesdays in Lent 6:30 – 8:00 PM

February 12th at St. Anne’s Church, 14 Treble Cove Rd, North Billerica

The Rev Ted Gaiser speaking on Global Missions

February 19th at St John’s Church, 260 Gorham St., Lowell

The Rev Maggie Gheller speaking on Jubilee Ministries and AIDS orphans in Africa,

February 26th at All Saints’ Church, 10 Billerica Rd., Chelmsford

Paul Psowski, speaking on having a Sister Church in El Salvador

March 4th at St. James’ Church, 119 Washington St., Groveland

Deanery Assembly on organizing and participating in mission trips

March 11th at St Mark's Church, 75 Cold Spring Rd., Westford

Diane Smith speaking on Medical Mission to Maseno Hospital in Kenya

March 18th at St. Anne’s Church, 8 Kirk St., Lowell

Passover Seder and reflections on Refugee Ministry

All Are Welcome

 

New Yoga Class

On Monday nights from 6:00 – 7:15 pm, Beverly Gorden is leading a Hatha Yoga Class here at All Saints.  Beverly has over 30 years experience teaching yoga.  The sessions run for six weeks for $60.  You may contact her at 978-486-3251 to register or for more information.


Spend February 29th With Us!

Are you having trouble finding an appropriate Leap Day activity?  If so, I'm hoping that you will put the evening of 2/29 aside for a very special musical remembrance and celebration of the life of Wayne Ashford, former co-minister of music at All Saints'.  As many of you may know, Wayne spent many active years at All Saints', not only as my musical colleague and friend, but also as the Treasurer and in many other capacities.  He was the impetus behind both the tracker organ in the chapel, which he obtained and rebuilt with the help of Shep Shephardson and Bud Flumerfelt and the beautiful Letourneau pipe organ which we have in our sanctuary.  Wayne's vision and drive and countless hours of volunteering for our parish have left us richer in many ways.

Wayne died on February 29, 2004, so it was Amy Hunter's observation and idea to observe the “first” anniversary of his death on this Leap Day.

We will begin this evening of remembrance with a service of Choral Evensong at 6:30p.m.  I will be joined by my organ teacher/colleague/friend, Mark Engelhardt, who played the dedicatory recital for our new organ and also played for my dad's memorial service.  Mark recently composed a “Magnificat” and “Nunc dimittis” that we will use for this service, and I will happily relinquish the organ bench to Mark.  The Senior and Junior Choirs will sing for this service.

After a very brief break, we will have an organ concert, which will not only showcase the organ, but will also showcase some other instruments.  David Shochat will be playing the flute, Kevin Meyers the bagpipes, our brass trio of Steve Grillo, Scott Bempkins, and Leah Cole will make its debut, and the handbells will also play.  Don't worry – they won't all play at once!  Mark Engelhardt will play, as will Wayne's former organ teacher/friend, Robin Dinda, who played the dedicatory recital of the chapel organ and is known to many.

There will be a reception after, and I would love to have someone volunteer to coordinate this event, and for donations of finger food appetizers and desserts.  I have a lot of notes to learn before February 29, and also want to be able to focus on the music that evening.

Please tell your friends about this unusual event.  It will be an evening of wonderful music in honor of a wonderful man, and is meant to be enjoyed by many.  There will be a free will offering to benefit the Organ Maintenance Fund.

In Christ,

Maggie Marshall

Minister of Music

 

Bottle and Can Reminder

Over the last 15 or so years our parish has been collecting bottles and cans for redemption of the deposit.  This is a continuation of a service begun in 1998 by Serena Taplin. 

While a nickel a can doesn't seem like much, it adds up.  Here’s how it works:

Just put your empties in plastic bags and bring them to the church with you on Sunday or any other time.  Put them in the closet just outside the kitchen in the Parish Hall.  Carol Douglas checks every week to see if there are any cans or bottles there so it doesn't back up. 

Please check to be sure the cans and bottles aren't from New Hampshire (no deposit) and please don't leave them outside the kitchen door.  If you must leave them there because of your schedule, please call Carol at 978-256-7982 to let her know they are there.

Thanks to all of you for your support.

Carol Douglas

 

Lower Church School Plans

Outreach Month  February 2008

The Lower Church School has declared February OUTREACH MONTH.  We will be asking for toiletry donations for the Chelsea Soldiers' home.  This home for veterans is a residential, long term care facility and an outpatient hospital.  We will also be collecting bags of food for the food pantry.

Please join us in helping our children with this very important outreach mission.  Keep watching the Sunday Bulletins for details!

Cindy Dussault

 

Adult Christian Formation

Upcoming Formation Dates and Events

FEB

OUTREACH MONTH

Lower Church, Sundays

Feb 1-3

Winter Weekend – Year #30

New Hampshire

Feb

4

Connect? Session 3

7- 8:30PM Cranberry Room

Feb 5

Shrove Tuesday – pancakes

5-7PM Parish Hall

Feb 6

Ash Wednesday – the season of Lent begins

 

 

Morning Prayer with Distribution of Ashes

7AM Chapel

 

Eucharist with Distribution of Ashes

Noon Chapel

 

Eucharist with Distribution of Ashes

7:30PM  Main Church

Feb 9

Building Transformational Communities

EDS 9AM- 2PM

Feb 12

Prayer as First Resort

7:30- 8:45P M Blue Room

 

To Love and Serve the Lord Lenten Program

6:30 – 8:00 PM

St. Anne’s , N. Billerica

Feb 13

Lenten Bible Study

10:15- 11:45AM Blue Room

Feb 19

To Love and Serve the Lord Lenten Program

6:30 – 8:00 PM

St John’s, Lowell

Feb 20

Lenten Bible Study

10:15- 11:45AM Blue Room

Feb 26

To Love and Serve the Lord Lenten Program

6:30 – 8:00 PM ASC hosting

Feb 27

Lenten Bible Study

10:15- 11:45AM Blue Room

Feb 29

Evensong and Concert for

The First* Anniversary of

Wayne Ashford’s Death

6:30PM Main Church

Wayne Ashford died on February 29, 2004.  While 4 years have gone by, this is the first “anniversary” because Wayne died on this day that comes around every four years – editor.

I hope you didn’t blink, because you would have missed the season of Epiphany!  February is just starting, and here we are, already at beginning of the season of Lent.

Each Ash Wednesday we hear these words: “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self‑examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self‑denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.”  I hope that you will take advantage of the resources offered to you this Lent, not for drudgery, but for spiritual nurture.  First and foremost, I urge you to take part in the special services on Ash Wednesday and throughout Holy Week.  Journeying through remembering Christ’s passion deepens one’s experience of Easter.

Beyond the worship opportunities are many formation events (details about each program can be found in this newsletter):

·         Join an ongoing program: Come to Sunday morning discussion of the gospel reading for the day in the Blue Room at 9:00AM or join us for Prayer as First Resort any second Tuesday evening at 7:30, also in the Blue Room.

·         Wednesday mornings, beginning Feb 13 and running for 5 weeks, we will offer a Lenten Bible study, 10:15- 11:45AM in the Blue Room (the timing is to make it easy for folks to stay for Wednesday noon Eucharist).

·         For an evening Lenten program, All Saints’ is joining the five Lowell area parishes for a program about Mission on Tuesday evenings 6:30- 8:00PM beginning February 12.  Our parish will be hosting on February 26.  In addition to these programs, I also have books and other resources for your personal devotions during Lent.  Please contact me for ideas.

Wishing you a holy and nourishing Lent.

 in peace,

Amy Hunter

Associate for Adult Christian Formation

Prayer as First Resort: Spiritual Wellness:

Are you spiritually fit?  No, not “are you good enough?” but “how are you caring for your spiritual health?”  On January 8 as we began a new series in Prayer as First Resort, “Creating and Maintaining Spiritual Wellness.”  Join us on Feb 12 as we continue this theme, which will run for the next several months.

Each session can stand alone, so we urge folks to come when they can.  The sessions also (hopefully) build upon one another, so you will be enriched and (hopefully) not bored if you come to all of them.

What:  Prayer as First Resort: Practicing our Faith

When: Second Tuesday evenings of each month, 7:30- 9:00PM

Where: Blue Room

Check the bulletins for further information, or talk with Lynne Grillo or Amy Hunter to learn more.

“Connect?” Continues to Continue!

 “Connect?” returned in January, but one of the sessions was not held because of inclement weather.  The final installment of Part Two will therefore be on Monday February 4 at 7:00 – 9:00.  The focus of Connect has been on the Eucharist in order to help participants to make sense of their experience of worship.  Participants have been building relationships in small groups that provide support, encouragement to grow, and a sense of connection with the parish.

The final session will be:

Feb 4  Connect with the Parish: Celebration and Next Steps How can you continue to find more meaning and connection in your life?  This parish is an Episcopal community that follows Jesus as we balance our mission priorities.  Are there steps you wish to take in becoming more connected at this parish?  Jesus’ invitation and ours is to join the feast!

Speak with Amy Hunter to learn more.  Come and Connect!

Lenten Bible Study Wednesday Mornings

Wednesday mornings in Lent, All Saints’ will offer a Lenten Bible Study of the stories about healing in the Gospel of Mark.  The group will use Dr. David Urion’s book, Compassion as a Subversive Activity, as a resource.  Urion’s book “…contemplates the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that restore the wholeness of the community.  The kingdom of God that is at hand is just this: the poor, the sick, the outcast.  Their integration into the community restores creation to the radical inclusiveness with which it began and that heals us all.”  (from Amazon)  Reading the stories in Scripture and looking at the reflections in Compassion as a Subversive Activity, the group will seek to learn more about the gospel of Mark, as well as asking what Jesus’ teachings might mean for us today.

Join us in the Blue Room, 10:15- 11:45AM, Feb 13, 20 & 27, and Mar 5 & 12.  Contact Amy Hunter for more information, 978-256-5673, ext. 14 or fifimom@juno.com.

"Sharing Jesus: Talking the Talk" - Diocesan Spring Learning Event with Marcus J. Borg

 

Mar 15 2008  9:00 am- 1:00pm

Sherman Union, Boston University

The Episcopal Diocese of MA will host its 2008 Spring Learning Event, which will take place on Saturday, March 15, 2008, at Sherman Union at Boston UniversityThe special guest speaker will be Marcus J. Borg, Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University.  Often cited as one of the leading historical Jesus scholars of his generation, Borg is the author of numerous books, including the bestsellers Jesus: a New Vision and Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time.  This event is an occasion for reflection and refreshment in community with others who have a desire to listen, learn and explore together themes of deepening personal Christian belief and ways to speak about Jesus and faith in public life and local settings.

As preparation for the event, the organizers recommend reading some of Borg's work.  Suggested titles, available from the Massachusetts Bible Society (1-800-445-4018, 20% off for churches), www.episcopalbookstore.org, www.episcopalbookstore.com, www.powells.com, www.amazon.com: Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary, The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus’ Birth and The  Last Week: What the Gospels Really teach about Jesus’’ Final Days in Jerusalem (both with John Dominic Crossan), and The meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (with N.T. Wright).

To register, go to www.diomass.org

For more information, contact Amy Cook at the Diocesan Resource Center, (617-482-4826, ext. 645), acook@diomass.org

Workshops on Transformational Leadership at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS)

EDS will offer three workshops for building up parishes this spring.  Amy Hunter, Associate for Adult Christian Formation and Fiona Vidal-White, Youth Missioner plan to attend and welcome parishioners to join them.  Pre-registration is required.  If you wish to attend, please contact Amy and she will include you in a group register (which gives us a price break).

Building Transformational Communities
Facilitated by Arrington Chambliss and Tulaine Shabazz Marshall

February 9, 2008 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Building Transformational Communities will attempt to illustrate how to use a model integrating inner and outer work as a tool for transformation.  Furthermore, the workshop will guide participants through the steps of leading and facilitating transformational groups.

Creating Radically Welcoming Communities
Facilitated by Stephanie Spellers and Arrington Chambliss

March 8, 2008  9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Creating Radically Welcoming Communities explores the practice of “radical welcome” for individuals and communities, which is embracing the transforming power and presence of “The Other.”  This workshop will also guide participants through the practices of preparing communities for change, especially reckoning with the fear of change.

Leading Reconciling Communities

Facilitated by Judith Oleson and Tulaine Shabazz Marshall

April 5, 2008  9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Leading Reconciling Communities engages participants in the nature of conflict and healing in organizational systems.  Participants are encouraged to learn specific facilitation skills for healing historical wounds and embedding reconciling practices in parish and other organizational settings.


Prayer List February 2008

In the Sunday Bulletin under the section on “those in our parish in need of healing,” we list those with more acute needs.  Saints Alive carries a list of more “on-going” concerns to bring to God in prayer.

We will keep the description you provide as general or specific as you indicate.  Please let us know what you would like included.  We also encourage you to clip out these names and keep them in your prayers.

If you would like your name to be added or removed from any of the prayer lists, please contact Darlene in the Church Office.

Those who are at home, in nursing homes or living with chronic illnesses

·         Gladys Stephens, Palm Manor Nursing Home

·         Eleanor Ferreira at home

·         Millie Adams at home

·         Mary Buote at home

·         Grace Wardell, Sunny Acres Nursing and Rehab Center

·         Dora Smith, Betsy Eisenmann’s mother

·         Priscilla Smith at home

·         Doug Grant at home, chronic back pain

·         Chaz Freeman, transition to new home

·         Debbie Anderton, Dora Carr’s daughter

·         Dorothy Eaton, Willow Manor

 

Ministering at Nyahela Sub-Parish in Kenya:

Paul Onyoyo, Dorcus Esilaba, Shem Bwonya, Elizabeth Osiolo.

Nyahela sub-parish currently receives SaintsAlive.  A more Nyahela-focused letter-writing program is being planned.  If you would like to write directly to them, please note their address:

ACK: Anglican Church of Kenya

ACK NYAHELA PARISH

P.O. BOX 201

LUANDA  - KENYA

CODE: -50307.  

 

February is Outreach Month

Remember: Bring in toiletries and food for Outreach Month to help the Lower Church School this month, as they help veterans and the food pantry.

 

Mission Focus

This month's Mission focus is on our partnership with Nyahela sub-parish in Kenya.  This partnership started as a result of Rev. Tom’s sabbatical in

Kenya in 2006.  After he came back from sabbatical, the parish decided to financially support the Mothers Union orphan feeding program at one parish

in Kenya and we chose Nyahela.  Last year, we raised over $5000 to support this program through donations from parishioners. 

 

On March 2, during and after the service, we will celebrate our Nyahela parish partnership.  We will also be stressing how this partnership is part of the diocesan Jubilee Ministries and how it fits in the framework of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  Since our rector has a unique personal perspective on the parish partnership, the Mission/Outreach Team has asked him to write on it this month.  Please see the rector's letter at the beginning of Saints Alive for more details on the parish partnership and the March 2 celebration.

 

The Mission/Outreach Team

All Saints’ Church Mission Prayer

Lord,

Help All Saints’ Church to do Your will in the wider world around us.  Strengthen us in Your efforts to help those who are poor or vulnerable and to remember that “Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for Me.”  We ask that You give this parish the wisdom and courage to discern, define and act upon our mission to be Christ’s representatives to all nations.  We ask this in Christ’s name. Amen.

 

Treasuring Youth

An exercise during the 2007 Annual Meeting on January 27, 2008 was to gather in small groups to list 5 ways in which All Saints’ might serve the youth of All Saints’ Church.  Dialogue was one recurring response, fleshed out in one list to include the simple act of thanking them when they help us.

It was suggested that we might help get the youth to their events, or attend the events ourselves, or simply take the “Safe Church” training.

The meeting occurred on the second Sunday of the Godspell viewings; and while “shows like Godspell” seemed a good idea, and masses like the U2-charist seemed to have potential for great energy and potential inspiration, these ideas have already been taken one, and then two, steps further, as follows:

1:  In Boston last year, a service was held to rap music.  A short video from that service was shown during the diocesan convention.  This may even be something we could repeat at All Saints’.

2:  It was suggested that our youth might create a cable-television show of their own: the interest and energy surrounding the project would almost certainly sustain the youth, and possibly lead to new ideas as spin-offs.

For younger children, and arising from a similar “small-group” exercise during the Safe Church training on January 19th, came a realization that the Safe Church policy, already posted in various places around the parish, needs to be simplified for early readers, or possibly even retold in pictures.

The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd syllabus, which we adopted a couple of years ago, has for years been without a robust model of the City of Jerusalem.  This is where David the King created a capital and arranged for the temple to be built by his son, Solomon.  Inside the city, Jesus debated teachers on Jewish Law.  Outside, on the east side, He prayed at the Garden of Gethsemane.  Outside, on the west side, He died.

The one remaining wall from Solomon’s temple is greatly revered even today.  While our smaller children gather artwork for Nyahela, perhaps we could gather the cost of a “model Jerusalem” for them (see Laura Marshall for details!)

Patrick Blumeris

 

For our Communities

The city shall be filled with men and cattle, full, like the villages without walls.  I will be a wall to her, says the Lord, I will be a wall of fire to her, and I will be the glory within the city.

This is the message of God: “I have come back to Zion, and I will make my dwelling in Jerusalem.  She shall be called the city of truth; and the mountains of the Lord shall be called holy mountain.

Old men and old women shall once again go about in the streets of Jerusalem: people so old that they lean upon a stick shall walk there in safety.  And the city shall be full of boys and girls at play in the streets.”

from Zechariah Chapter 2

 

The prophet was telling of God’s plans for Jerusalem, but it should be remembered that Jerusalem has often been disputed territory, from before the days of Christ until today.  The “wall” of today keeps those inside from the truth of the struggles outside, and keeps those outside from livelihoods.  While we pray for peace in that place, let us also remember our own communities, and seek redress for the inequities we see around us, too.

 

O loving Father, help us to make our own town a place of beauty and dignity and hospitality, that it may become a place worthy of Thee.

We ask it for Christ’s sake, Amen.

Current Vestry Members:

Diane Coles                        Carl Clark                           Tom Decker

Deb Dutton                         Omar Hernandez                 Derick Gates

Liz Landers                         Edith Parekh                       Harry Taplin

 

Lois Freeman, Senior Warden

Dave Cahill, Junior Warden 

Melanie Hickcox, Treasurer

Scott Bempkins, Clerk

 

Parish Contact List

Church Office................. 978-256-5673

Senior Warden....... Lois Freeman

Junior Warden........ Dave Cahill

Treasurer............... Melanie Hickcox

Clerk..................... Scott Bempkins

Acolyte Director.... Clem Cole

Adult Education...... Amy Hunter

Altar Guild............. Liz Landers

Buildings and…….. to be filled

Grounds                 

Christian School..... Laura Marshall

                              Michelle Thomas

                              Elizabeth Danieli

Coffee Hour.......... Cindy Dussault

Endowment ........... Oliver Chamberlain

Environmental Stewardship

Committee............. Liz Marshall

Fellowship.............. to be filled

Finance.................. Mike Brodeur

Music Minister....... Maggie Marshall

Outreach............... Dave Kuzara

Pastoral Care......... Joy Chadwick

Saints Alive............ Patrick Blumeris

SaintsAlive e-mail:.. ........  saintsalive@yahoo.com

Stewardship........... Steve Grillo

Thrift Shop............. Carol Cannistraro

Youth Group.......... to be filled

Webmaster............ Richard Coles

Web site................ www.allsaintschelmsford.org

Submission 

… for the March 2008 Saints Alive! is

February 16th, 2008

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