St. Andrew’s Anglican Church

November 10, 2019

Today is the last day to sign up to volunteer or to provide food for our

next visit to the Common Ground Free Store in Delaware this coming Saturday, Nov. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. St. Andrew’s members will serve a meal to shoppers, staff the kitchen, check-in, hospitality, and check-out areas, and help with sorting clothes and stocking racks and shelves. Pictured, from left, are Hope Beverick, and Mary Ann and Joe Pate, who served at the store in September. See the back page for some exciting news from the Free Store.

We were blessed at the 9 a.m. service last

Sunday to welcome two children into the family of God through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism.

Baptism

The Daily LectionaryWeek of Pentecost 22 (Proper 27)

November 10-16Sunday, Nov. 10 — A.M.: Psalms 26, 28; 2 Kings 23:1-20,26-30; Acts 13:13-43 P.M.: Psalm 31; Isaiah 23; Mark 15

Monday, Nov. 11 — A.M.: Psalms 29, 30; 2 Kings 24; Acts 13:44—14:7 P.M.: Psalm 33; Isaiah 24; Mark 16

Tuesday, Nov. 12 — A.M.: Psalm 34; 2 Kings 25:1-22,25-30; Acts 14:8-28 P.M.: Psalm 35; Isaiah 25; Luke 1:1-23

Wednesday, Nov. 13 — A.M.: Psalms 32, 36; Judith 4; Acts 15:1-21 P.M.: Psalm 38; Isaiah 26; Luke 1:24-56

Thursday, Nov. 14 — A.M.: Psalm 37:1-17; Judith 8; Acts 15:22-35 P.M.: Psalm 37:18-41; Isaiah 27; Luke 1:57-80

Friday, Nov. 15 — A.M.: Psalm 40; Judith 9; Acts 15:36—16:5 P.M.: Psalms 39, 41; Isaiah 28; Luke 2:1-21

Saturday, Nov. 16 — A.M.: Psalms 42, 43; Judith 10; Acts 16:6-40 P.M.: Psalm 44; Isaiah 29; Luke 2:22-52

Next Sunday, Nov. 17 — A.M.: Psalm 45; Judith 11; Acts 17:1-15 P.M.: Psalm 46; Isaiah 30; Luke 3:1-22

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Next Sunday’s Lectionary, November 17 • Proper 28, Year CFirst Reading: Malachi 3:13-4:6 (5 p.m. & 9 a.m.) & 2 Thessalonians 3:6-16 (11:15 a.m.) Psalm 98 (5 p.m. & 9 a.m.)Second Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-16 (5 p.m. & 9 a.m.)Gospel: Luke 21:5-19

Three complete training to combat human traffickingSue McKeown, Karen Osmond, and Christy Tucker completed training with “Out of Darkness” on Nov. 2. Karen’s friend, Shannon Scheid, also joined in the training, which was said to be very intense. They learned valuable ways that we as a church can be involved with this anti-trafficking outreach and rescue organization in Columbus.

One way we would like to start is by collecting warm coats, blankets, sleeping bags, and other warm items, especially since many of the women sleep outside or on porches.

If you would like to be involved in this ministry, we can set up a meeting to discuss other options. Please contact or see Karen Osmond at the 9 a.m. service or Marty Scott at the 11:15 a.m. service. Most importantly, please pray for these children of God.

Prayers for the ChurchAnglican Church in North America: Bishop Steven Breedlove and his wife Sally; Bishop Quigg Lawrence and his wife Annette; and the clergy and people of the Diocese of Christ our Hope.

The Diocese of Christ our Hope is one of the newest dioceses in the ACNA and the history of its inception is a rather complicated one. Differences with The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada prompted the primates of both the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Anglican Church of Southeast Asia to provide oversight for conservative clergy, laity, and churches in North America. In 2000, the two primates consecrated two American bishops to oversee worship and evangelization in North America.

From 2000 to 2011, the Anglican Church in Rwanda provided canonical residence and episcopal oversight for the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA). AMiA was a founding member of the ACNA in 2009 but, in 2010, announced that it was changing its affiliation to “ministry partner.” Most of the AMiA bishops severed their relationship with the Rwandan Church at the end of 2011, after which the ACNA and the Rwandan Church worked together with the two remaining AMiA bishops to develop a group that would remain in full communion with both jurisdictions. That group—PEARUSA—was created in the 2012 as the missionary organization of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States and Canada, and was formally received as a sub-jurisdiction of the ACNA in June 2012.

In September 2015, the Rwandan Church transferred PEARUSA fully to the jurisdiction of the ACNA, with two of the three existing PEARUSA networks becoming full ACNA dioceses by June 2016. One of those dioceses was named Christ our Hope, which now has 34 parishes in 10 states (Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) as well as in Washington, D.C. One of the major missions is church planting. (Sources: Diocesan website and Wikipedia.)

Please pray especially for the ongoing health and growth of the church plants.

Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes: Fr. Terry Gatwood, Deacon Scott Gorbold, and the people of Saint Nicholas Anglican Fellowship, Galloway, Ohio; and the Rev. Greg Myers and St. Patrick’s Priory, Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Eric, Tally, Taylor, Baxter, Keever and Sommer Whitehead; Pete and Terri Wilkinson; the Brotherhood of St. Andrew; and the Food Ministry.

Encouragement for your prayer time with GodFormer U.S. Marine Victor Marx ministers in a loving way to the physical needs of wives and children of ISIS members in a camp in Syria. Through ministries like this, the Holy Spirit works to convert Muslims. Some have even had visions of Jesus and become believers. (Charisma Magazine, October 2019.) “He gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:25) — From the St. Andrew’s Prayer Ministries Team

Survey of the new ACNA prayer book begins this weekOur new copies of the Anglican Church in North America’s Book of Common Prayer 2019 have arrived! Beginning this Sunday and continuing through the end of the year, Fr. Ron Baird will lead a survey of the new prayer book during the Adult Forum on Sundays from 10:15 to 11 a.m.

Included will be a series of videos from the American Anglican Council with interviews by some of the key people involved with writing the prayer book. The series serves not only as an introduction to the new BCP but also as an introduction to the prayer book in general, which should be helpful and relevant to all Anglicans.

The Adult Forum will cover individual sections of the BCP 2019, including the Daily Office; the Great Litany and Decalogue; the Holy Eucharist; Baptism and Confirmation; Pastoral Rites; the Psalter; services including Ordination of Priests and Deacons and the Consecration of a Bishop; and Special Liturgies for Lent and Holy Week. We’ll also look at the Collects and Occasional Prayers and the Church Calendar and Lectionary, and will conclude with the BCP’s Documentary Foundations.

One of the special features of the new BCP is the New Coverdale Psalter, which St. Andrew’s has been using in our worship services since it’s introduction in one of the trial forms of the prayer book over a year ago. The Psalter is based on the Coverdale Psalter of 1535, which has been employed with every prayer book from the mid-16th to the mid-20th centuries. It has been renewed for contemporary use through efforts that included the labors of 20th century Anglicans T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis, and brought to final form in this newest iteration of the BCP.

The first edition of the Book of Common Prayer was written and compiled in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and a leader of the English Reformation. It has since been the hallmark of a Christian way of worship and believing that is both catholic and reformed.

The Preface of the BCP 2019 describes this newest iteration as “indisputably true to Cranmer’s originating vision of a form of prayers and praises that is thoroughly Biblical, catholic in the manner of the early centuries, highly participatory in delivery, peculiarly Anglican and English in its roots, culturally adaptive and missional.”

St. Andrew’s shirts available to orderSt. Andrew’s shirts are available to order until Sunday Nov. 24. Orders will be turned in on Monday, the 25th, so we cannot accept orders after the deadline. This ensures receipt before Christmas.

Available are the button down shirts for men and women in long sleeve ($29) and short sleeve ($27) styles. Polos can be ordered as well. Please see Julie Baldwin for details if you want a polo.

Order forms are in the Narthex with samples of the shirts. Payment is due at time of order. If you attend the 5 p.m. Saturday service, please leave the order form on the table and put your check in the offering with “Shirt” on the memo line. Julie will be in the Narthex on Sundays to answer questions and to collect orders and money.

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Have a prayer request? You may email your prayer requests to prayerchain@standrewspolaris.org, or fill out the online form on our website, standrewspolaris.org, under the “Scripture & Prayer” drop-down menu. Prayer requests may also be placed in the prayer box in the Narthex.

Pledge drive at $350,046 to dateSixty-seven families have responded to the 2020 General Fund stewardship drive, pledging $350,046 as of this past Friday.

Our goal is $457,939, which means we have $107,893 yet to raise. If you are among those who have not yet turned in your pledge card, please do so today so that the Vestry can finalize the 2020 budget.

Thanks to all of you who have contributed to Christ’s mission here at St. Andrew’s!

Welcome your new Vestry membersPlease welcome your new Vestry members, elected by the parish last Sunday. Chris Bryant, Karen Osmond, Steve Sattler, and Pat Schmitz will serve three-year terms beginning in January. Tony Gutierrez will fill the unexpired term of the late Christie Carter, serving now through the end of 2020. He will be eligible for re-election in next year’s election.

Both Pat and Tony are new to Vestry. Karen and Steve are incumbents returning for a second term, and Chris returns to Vestry following a one-year hiatus.

Thanksgiving Eucharist Nov. 28This Thanksgiving, take a few moments before the turkey-day rush to center yourself in Christ, from whom all blessings flow, by attending the annual Thanksgiving Day Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28. This will be a quiet service of about half an hour in length.

Mark your calendars for the Festival of Lessons & Carols The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be presented on Sunday, Dec. 22, at the 9 a.m. service. Families with children and youth should have already received an email with details about how they can participate. Additional details are available on our website, standrewspolaris.org.

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Common Ground extends hours;now accepting fall clothing, boots The Common Ground Free Store has extended its hours to better serve their shoppers, and to provide more times during the week to accept donations.

The store, located at 193 E. Central Ave., Delaware, is now open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., and Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The addition of Mondays to their schedule means more days for those in need to have a warm meal, shop for clothing and household goods, and enjoy the hospitable fellowship of friends they’ve made among their fellow shoppers and Free Store volunteers.

Donations are now being accepted on Mondays, from 6 to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 to 8:30 p.m.; and Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. With the weather turning cold, they are now welcoming donations of gently used fall and winter clothing, shoes, and boots.

The Free Store—whose mission statement is “Welcoming the Community to Share in God’s Love and Gifts”—provides free clothing, household goods, books, toys and more to all in need, regardless of their situation.

Please remember also that St. Andrew’s is always collecting items for Common Ground, including diapers, wipes, toilet paper, and full-size hygiene items; paper plates, cups, napkins, trash bags, paper towels, and masking tape; new socks and underwear; toys; and household goods.

Deadline for Christmas Child shoeboxes nearsEvery year, Samaritan’s Purse delivers millions of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to children in need around the world to share the love of Christ and the true meaning of Christmas.National Collection Week is Nov. 17-24. You may return your shoeboxes to the church on any of the next two Sundays, but please remember that we cannot accept any shoeboxes after Nov. 24.

Here’s how you can particpate:

• Pick up a box and a big rubber band in the Gathering Area.

• Decide if your box will be for a girl or boy, and in what age category.

• Select a quality “wow” item, such as a doll, soccer ball with pump, or a stuffed animal, then add other fun toys, hygiene items, and school supplies. Brochures with ideas are available in the Gathering Area, along with some small items that you may take to pack in your shoebox.

• Enclose a personal note, perhaps with a photo of yourself or your family. If you include your name and address, the child may be able to write you back.

• Donate $9 online and receive a tracking label to “Follow Your Box,” and discover the destination of your shoebox gift.

• Most importantly, pray for the child who will receive your gift.

For more information please call Marty Scott at 614-24-0182 or Cindy Veroff at 216-666-1304.

The toy shelves at the Common Ground Free Store in Delaware were almost bare when we visited there in September. We know some young shoppers who would be thrilled with your donation of clean, used toys in good, working condition!

Donation bins now located in the coat closet The donation bins for items for the Common Ground Free Store, as well for women’s personal care items for the Pregnancy Decision Health Center, are now located in the coat closet off the Gathering Area.

Want more information? Contact Diane Bobay at 614-846-6921 or bobayfamily@att.net, or Marty Scott at mscott@standrewspolaris.org or 614-284-0182 with questions about Common Ground, or go to commongroundfreestore.org.

Contact Jim or Jackie Menke at 614-895-0786 with questions about the Pregnancy Decision Health Center, a Christian not-for-profit pro-life organization that provides help to women who are pregnant at no cost, including pregnancy testing, prenatal ultrasounds, connections to community resources, and care beyond the pregnancy.

Today is the last day to sign up to volunteer to serve with us at Common Ground next Saturday, Nov. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you are unavailable in the morning, please consider coming from 1 to 3 p.m. to help prepare the store for the next shopping day the following Monday. Sign-up sheets to volunteer, or to provide food, are at the Information Desk in the Narthex.