Newsletters
All of our Newsletters will be posted here for your easy reference.
July 2008
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Fall Adult Education - Great Personalities of Church History, at 9:35 a.m. in the Parish Hall, every Sunday beginning on September 7.
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June 2008
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Let us celebrate with you!
E-mail or phone in your or your loved ones’ wedding anniversary, graduation, retirement, birth of a child or grandchild—any major event that you would like to share. Lois 302.378.2401
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May 2008
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It’s not too late to pledge!
If you have not pledged for 2008, please consider contacting the parish office at 378-2401 to get a pledge form to fill in for the remainder of the year. We’d be happy to provide you with the form and with envelopes. Anne Nutter
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April 2008
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Discernment Survey
Please place your completed survey in the offering plate or in the box provided in the Café Area or you may bring it into the office during working hours. If you need an additional copy, click here!
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March 2008
Excerpt- Discernment Kickoff! The Discernment Team, which is charged with searching for a new rector for St. Anne’s, met Feb. 9 with our consultants to prepare for tasks ahead.
If you have any questions, ask any member of the team: Charlie Dunham, Chelsea Frederick, Ed Masterson, Kathy Means, Amanda Shepard, Janet Schreppler, and Jesse Ventura
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February 2008
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Lenten Suppers - Thursdays, February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 6 and 13 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Father George Karney will be the speaker.
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January 2008
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January 27 - Bishop Wright will celebrate the Holy Eucharist at 9:00 a.m. and will baptize and confirm candidates at the 10:30 a.m. service. He will preach at both services. Between services, he will meet with members of FACT. Following the 10:30 service, he will greet members of the congregation during the coffee hour.
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December 2007
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Photo Directory
If you were unable to attend the previously scheduled sessions to have your picture taken for the Member Directory, please contact Karin Cooney Newton at 378-1309 or at kjnewton@verizon.net to arrange a time for your photo op!
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November 2007
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Food Pantry Outreach - We at St. Anne's Church collect non-perishable food and paper goods that we deliver to Neighborhood House each week. Please remember to take a food slip from one of the baskets located at the back of the Sanctuary and on the organ.
Just as a reminder, on November 11, the food slips will support the Thanksgiving Dinner.
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October 2007
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On Saturday, November 3,
The St Anne's Pastoral Care team is hosting a unique opportunity for the parish to learn of a new program called Five Wishes. Debra Lewis, of the Delaware Ecumenical Council, will present the benefits of the Five Wishes program, review the document, and answer questions. This program is designed for people at all stages in life, and you are encouraged to invite your family and friends to this beneficial program.
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September 2007
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On Saturday, October 20, St. Anne's will present a Day of Quiet Reflection. Please reserve this day. It is a day just for you, when you can relax, relieve your anxieties, and rebuild your hopes, dreams and beliefs.
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Summer 2007
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Farewell! Thank you for being God's people with me! Your future is bright and full of excitement, and my regret is that I will not experience it fully with you. Blessings my friends! With Love! Tony
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June 2007
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We’ve left our tropical island and are heading for outer space. We’re no longer relaxing in paradise, we’re on a Mission for God. Join us for SonForce Kids.
Agents, Leaders, and youth assistants needed for this Mission.
Contact Dan and Nancy Bennett at 376-9785 or e-mail.Dan Bennett
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May 2007
Excerpt- What would you like to learn more about next year? A study of women in the Bible? An introduction to Buddhism? An instructed Eucharist? Please contact Louise Howlett if you have ideas or suggestions or would like to offer your expertise to us.
April 2007
Excerpt- We are inviting persons to discern a call to leadership with our young people through our Youth Ministry.
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March 2007
Excerpt -Are you at the time in life when some of the dreams you have held for your life are in question? Are there questions you'd like to probe about the hopes you have for your life, your job, your family, your relationship with God? Have you considered that some old dreams may become stepping stones to new ones? Join us for:A Morning of Quiet Reflection based on Rabbi Kushner's book "Overcoming Life's Disappointments"
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February 2007
Excerpt -New Pastoral Care Ministry - 'When Job's three friends heard all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him Job 2:11
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January 2007
Excerpt - Won’t you bring your gifts to lay at his feet? Won’t you bring the gifts of yourself, your care, compassion, your very heart to lay at his feet? Won’t you bring your commitment to his values of servanthood to lay at his feet? Won’t you bring your heart to worship the gift that has been given to all of us? My turn!
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December 2006
Excerpt - The busy-ness of the season is upon us! You may have missed a couple of big events in the life of the Episcopal Church. Most of us live in the reality of the congregation we worship in, that is St. Anne's and can easily miss important things that occur on the national and international level that directly effect and challenge us in our daily living and our congregational mission.
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November 2006
Excerpt - We clearly are pregnant with possibility of hope and love. Yet we also clearly feel the birthing pangs. As we try to grow in Spirit and number we also deal with a changing understanding of who we are. Our birthing pangs include the pragmatic; old buildings in need of repair, strained resources human and financial to carry out our mission, faithful decisions to lead us into the future. We sometimes don't know the right prayers to pray, the right actions to take, yet Paul reminds us so much of this is not in our control! The Spirit sighs with us, groans with us as we give birth, not because what God does with us will always be comfortable but because in the end we are God's creation.
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October 2006
Excerpt - All of us in our Baptism are claimed by Jesus Christ. All of us in our Baptism claim Jesus Christ! We giggle sometimes with joy, we giggle sometimes with nervousness! We shake our heads to say YES to God, not even knowing really all of it, all of him, all of what he's about, all of what life's about, all of what we're supposed to be about as we follow him! But we nod our heads YES! And go on the road!
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September 2006
Excerpt - I am struck by the image of the disciples in the Gospel we read a few Sundays ago. The reading I am talking about has the disciples in a boat headed across the Sea of Galilee by themselves in the pitch dark. Jesus himself stays behind, the disciples are rowing furiously against a wind seemingly getting nowhere and certainly feeling lost, when Jesus walks across the water, calms their fears and the wind and gets in the boat. The disciples are said to be “amazed” and also at the same time we are reminded that they still don’t fully understand what they are in for by choosing to follow Jesus!
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August 2006
Excerpt - The mission of the Church is alive and dynamic. Summer days are hot and hazy and designed to help us slow down and as you can see ministry keeps on happening. Re-creation is important and essential to our health as children of God! What in God's name are we up to? Well, plenty, and the fruits of our labor is evident. But in it all, wherever you are, take it in, enjoy the summer and take some time to re-create! Give thanks for who we are and what we are becoming!
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June 2006
Excerpt - The word of the day that I shared in my sermon last week is 'peripatetic'. It means to wander, or itinerant. It is the word that describes the early followers of Jesus in the Hebrew church. They were good Jews who valued the teachings of the Jewish community, who knew the scriptures, who went to the synagogue to say their prayers and who journeyed to the temple to make their sacrifices. Now, after Jesus' death and resurrection, they more and more found themselves trying to discern who they would be as followers of Jesus and how they would reconcile their tradition.
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May 2006
Excerpt - I grew up in a family influenced by our Italian heritage. I remember fondly Sunday evenings gathering around my grandparents' kitchen table with my uncles and aunts, my parents and siblings, and of course my grandparents. There we listened to the adults catch up with one another, listened to the stories my grandparents had to tell, then went off to the rituals we had of playing with our cousins. There was always good food, good conversation, table fellowship!
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April 2006
Excerpt - What do you know of life and death? For some instances of life and death may be closer and more tangible than we care to embrace. For some instances of life and death may be relegated to the "distant" regions of our thoughts and being. For all of us if we follow the path of Jesus final journey, there is no denying that all of our lives in the end are a dance of life and death. Where do you need to embrace death? Where do you need to die? What parts of you need to be buried so that other parts may drink the warm drink of life and love?
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March 2006
Excerpt - Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a brave and devoted Christian who gave his life in his belief of justice and freedom. Bonhoeffer, a German national, who held a prestigious and comfortable teaching position in an American University, returned home to Germany in the midst of the Nazi movement to raise a voice of opposition to Hitler and the Nazi movement. It was out of his belief in Jesus Christ that he knew he could not stand idly by in America.
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February 2006
Excerpt - I recently attended the symphony in Philadelphia with my wife and few friends. We were seated in Verizon Hall in Philadelphia’s beautiful Kimmel Center. Our seats were located in what they call the “conductor’s circle”. I really didn’t understand when I purchased the tickets where these seats were, I just felt special because I’d be sitting in the “conductor’s circle” and I couldn’t quite figure out why they were the least expensive tickets available.
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December 2005
Excerpt - ASLAN IS ON THE MOVE! Such is the mantra said in C.S. Lewis' classic tale "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". It is the message of hope and expectation repeated by the inhabitants of that mystical land Narnia as they wait for the coming of the promised savior of all of Narnia. You'll remember the story that the White Witch has cast a spell over Narnia so that it is always winter and never Christmas. Narnia is a cold place with its inhabitants taught to fear and live in cold and despair. But, as the story goes, there is a deeper magic at work, and slowly the winter fades away as ASLAN IS ON THE MOVE!
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