Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - Church of the Redeemer

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904. Hummingbirds with Nest, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of
the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Original source: Wikimedia Commons.

All are welcome to attend our 10:00am indoor
service Sunday, August 22nd.

Join Family Ministries August 29th at Larz
Anderson Park for a Eucharist Service at Noon

Save the date: August 29th
  Larz Anderson Park

  Join us for our final special outdoor family Eucharist service at Larz
  Anderson on the last Sunday of August. We will meet from 12-2pm
  on August 29th. We will have the service and then transition to
  outdoor activities (football, frisbee etc.) Please bring any food and
  drinks your family would like to have to snack on after the Eucharist
  service.

Flower donations for the High Altar during the 2021-
2022 program year.
Please consider donating flowers for the high altar starting September
12th, the beginning of the program year.

The form is available here or you can pick one up near the office or in
the Narthex. Either put the completed form and check in Suzy Westcott's
box, or mail your check with the form to the church.

Becoming Beloved Community
    While we are taking a pause from meeting for the summer, we
    do recommend the following SUMMER READING
    LIST (optional) for your pleasure:

         "Complicity: How the North Promoted,
         Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery" by Farrow,
         Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank (New
         York: Ballantine Books, 2005)

         "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the
         History of Slavery Across America" Clint Smith
         (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2021)

         "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel
         Wilkerson (New York: Random House, 2020)

         "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone
         and How We can Prosper Together" by Heather
         McGhee (New York: One World, 2021)

         “After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging
         (Theological Education Between the Times)” by
         Willie Jennings (Eerdmans, September 15, 2020)

Many thanks!

Debby

Lectors and Ushers: We are putting together the fall
schedule on August 23rd.
We will resume our full complement of worship services in person on
September 12th, and we need service assistants (lectors and ushers)
for our 10am and 5pm services. To create a fall schedule of service
assistants we need you to send in your form within the next week. Please
consider serving this fall. Click here for the form or pick one up at the
church.

For Those in Need of Prayer

                                                      Photo: Barbara S. MacDonald

Juliette Cobian, Sarah Crown and her family, Sara Katz, Carolyn Snyder,
Ginny Troutman, Ernesto Vega Jr., Brent Wakefield, Bill,. Daniel, Don,
Eve, Fanny, Frederick, Fung, George, Henry, Jack, Jane, Jessica, John,
Karen, Ken, Louisa, Margo, Medora, Tom, Victor, Wai Ling, Will

More Opportunities for Parish Involvement

Lay Readers Needed for Morning and Evening Prayer Broadcasts

We are looking for a few interested lay leaders who would like to officiate
at our Facebook Live broadcasts of Morning and Evening Prayer. If you
are interested, please contact Lucinda Doran at (617)901-6083
or lucinda.doran@gmail.com.

Joint Drop-in Prayer Tuesdays and Thursdays On Zoom

Please join us as we pray for our own needs and those of others. Drop in
Tuesday and/or Thursday for ten minutes at noon to pray together with
parishioners from St. Stephen's and Redeemer. Contact Leslie

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Williams with questions, or for the zoom link. Contact Leslie Williams
with questions, or for the zoom link.

Weekday Morning and Evening Prayer Services

Morning Prayer, M-S 9:30 - 10:00am

Evening Prayer, M-S 4:30 - 5:00pm

Morning and Evening Prayer are very short services. A perfect spiritual
practice to start or end your day!

 Morning & Evening Prayer on Facebook Live >

We will be continuing our monthly Blood Donation Drive at the Redeemer
this fall. Look for upcoming donation dates soon!

Strategic Ministries

Thank you to those who regularly send cotton socks
and underwear for commoncathedral. Your
donations are very much appreciated, and we hope
you will continue.
Commoncathedral is still in need of multi-packs of cotton socks and
cotton underwear briefs for both Men and Women S, M, L & XL.

These items can be ordered online and shipped to the Redeemer,
379 Hammond St. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

We have also put a donation bin at the exterior office door for those
that wish to pick them up at a store and drop them off at the
church.

Please keep these requests, all our mission partners and the
communities they serve in your prayers. Thank you for your
generosity!

 Redeemer Calendar

For the most up-to-date calendar listings at the Redeemer, click
here.

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                    www.redeemerchestnuthill.org

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