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Download below some info on mission trips to Africa made by Diocese of Bethlehem representatives since 2000.
Download 080110.Mission Trips to Kajo Keji.pdf
Jo Trepagnier, Earl Trygar and Char Horst left Bethlehem, Monday, December 31, 2007, on a mission trip to Kajo Keji. They will return on Saturday, January 12, 2008. Download background on this trip and a photo below.St. Paul's expects that the total will wind up to be more than $1,000. Read the news release sent to their local newspapers below.
More than 25 volunteers from St. Paul's, Montrose, assisted with the annual Christmas Day dinner at the Montrose Senior Center. They welcomed 80 guests to a traditional dinner of roasted turkey and baked ham with all the trimmings, and a cornucopia of desserts.The free dinner began six years ago for Endless Mountains Health Systems clients who had no nearby relatives, or those who would be eating alone. Anonymous donors have made it possible to continue this event each year. Download the story and photos below.
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Here are the creations of Good Shepherd’s PR Committee. The print ad will run 12/22 and 12/23 in the Scranton Times and the other was the Christmas card sent to all parishioners and friends of Good Shepherd. Thought they deserved a tip of the hat, job well done. [From Warren Shotto, senior warden] Download the ad and the card below
Download 0712.Good Shepherd Christmas ad.pdf
Download 0712.Good Shepherd Christmas card.pdf
Download the Christmas ad from St. Paul's, Montrose, Christ Church, Susquehanna, and St. Mark's, New Milford. It appeared Friday on the front page of a local free paper.
I don’t have to be religious to achieve authenticity. I don’t have to be liberal or conservative. I can take the Bible literally or I can take it as metaphor, rich holy writ given for my attentive, intelligent, reasonable and responsible conversion. I don’t have to profess adherence to the teachings of any man or woman or institution. I don’t have to be a Democrat or a Republican. I don’t have to be Roman Catholic or Episcopalian. Along the way, however, because I’ll never have it all together, I do need to be open to conversion.
Download Saved by hope, wonder and trust below.
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"Whenever I can, I sit on the floor of the church for a few minutes and visit with little children. I have no illusion that I can teach them much or that they share my sense of humor. All that I want to happen is for them to experience that the person who is the identified leader of the community notices and cares about them. If they 'learn' something else, that a bonus, but the basic message is that they are accepted, that they are a valued part of who we are."
[Download Bishop Paul's sermon and a photo of the bishop with children below.]
Download 0712.On children, water and aquarium maintenance2.pdf
During last Saturday's Luminaria Night in Bethlehem, an estimated 55,000 candles burned in front of more than 2,200
homes and businesses. The annual event benefits New Bethany Ministries. This year's expectation is that some $46,000 will be raised. Download the Morning Call story below. Download 0712.Luminaria Night.pdf
Some 180 people from five participating Episcopal churches
in Berks County will be in costume for the Boar's Head Festival at Christ Church, Reading,
A new logo with a mango tree and star symbolizes the
companionship relationship between Bethlehem
Celebrate Epiphany at Trinity, Easton. Eucharist (La Santa Misa) with music, January 6, 5:00 p.m.
Download the op-ed written for the Church Times, London, Dec. 7, 2007, by Bishop Anthony Poggo of Kajo Keji.
Download 0712.ChurchTimes.Why not keep those promises.pdf
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Jenifer Gamber and Richard Woodyatt have put together a program for printing and distributing a series of seven seasonal welcome poster throughout the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter and Pentecost, There will be two posters for the Pentecost season – one sent out in May at the beginning of the season and one in late August to make the beginning of the school year activities. All posters are printed on a heavy 80# Gloss Cover Stock and have a finished size of 11x17 inches. They will be shipped flat via first class mail in a protective mailer and timed to arrive about a week before they are needed. There will also be a program of coordinating postcards for Christmas, Easter and the beginning of the school year, similar to last year's program. Pdf files describing all of this and how to participate may be downloaded below. All featured works of art are by Episcopal artists. The image on the Christmas poster is by Harvey Bonner, a member of the Church of the Mediator, Allentown.
Download poster.Advent 2007.pdf
Download poster.Christmas 2007.pdf
Download poster.Epiphany 2008.pdf
Download 20072008_poster_program_overview.pdf
Download 20072008_poster_order_form.pdf
Download christmas_2007_postcard_description.pdf
On Thanksgiving Day,
Holy Apostles Episcopal Church, St. Clair (North Parish) opened its doors to
people who were alone for the holiday.
Download the story by Bonnie Baker and photos by Liana Evans below.
Download thanksgiving_2007_in_st. Clair.pdf
Montrose, December 2 – It was a cold, snowy Sunday morning and the roads were slick, but the Bishop was on his way. Download the story, with pictures, below.
As the guests arrived, a joyful din began to fill the dining room. Hugs annd smiles, squeals of delight mixed with the smells of the feast. One-hundred and seventy-eight people shared the Thanksgiving meal at Trinity Soup Kitchen in Bethlehem. Download the story below.
Download 0712.Trinity's Table served 178.pdf
The Cathedral Church of the Nativity invites parishioners “to share a story (great or small) about being thankful for something that has been done by this church, its people or its ministries” for publication in the parish newsletter. Unless requested, all stories are printed anonymously. Not Fair appears in the December issue. Download it below.
At Trinity, Bethlehem, December 8-9. Download more info below.
Few people have shown me so unselfconsciously how what we believe looks like when it works. With the humility and genuine kindness that only truly beautiful souls can muster, she did many kinds of good where you get your hands dirty.
Born 1919 in Chile, she was educated there and in
Lala decoded the central truth of her religion: God became incarnate -- in Jesus, God got close to humanity, and people changed. When we choose to get closer to those who are in need, one-on-one, we and they are changed together.
[Download Bishop Paul Marshall's December column for daily newspapers below.]
