Come join us for worship this Sunday!
We will be joined by Dr. Francis Situma, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an environmental law specialist on faculty at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is an old friend of our faith community, and will be preaching on “Environmental Stewardship”. All are welcome to attend!!
Parking available on street (relaxed parking; no permit required) and at West Somerville Neighborhood School (Raymond Street entrance)
JOIN US FOR OUR FAMILY FRIENDLY CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE!!
4:00 P.M.
APPLE CIDER AND LOTS OF GOODIES FOLLOWING THE SERVICE
IN THE NAVE GALLERY
WRAP-AROUND SALE FOR SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION IN THE NAVE
(FOR THOSE “VERY” LAST MINUTE GIFTS!!)
CLARENDON HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A PROGRESSIVE AND WELCOMING CONGREGATION!!
COME WORSHIP WITH US!!
This Sunday our own Claire Roll will be our featured speaker/preacher during the morning worship service. As our Artist-in-Residence, and as a way of highlighting and supporting our congregation’s longstanding commitment to the arts, she will be giving our first annual Worship and the Arts Presentation for us.
It is also the Children’s Sabbath Day (begun by the national Children’s Defense Fund), so our children will be presenting an art project as part of our worship experience.
Please join us for worship on Sunday morning at 10:30 and for refreshments and fellowship after the service.
All our welcome to attend!!! God bless you!!!
10:30 a.m.
Special Music: John Adams (Music Director), Elke Jahns, Neil Parsons
Sermon: “Shaken and Stirred” Rev. Fairfax preaching
Matthew 28:1-10
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ This is my message for you.” So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
If you are feeling distraught about recent events, worried about your own future or the future of those you care about, and want to lift these concerns up to God and to one another, come join us for a time of prayer and discussion on:
Wednesday November 16th, 2016
7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Pre-service
6:30 p.m. Time for Quiet Meditation
Gathering
7:00 p.m. Prayers for the Vulnerable
7:30 p.m. Community Discussion: Our Concerns and Fears
Call 617-625-4823 for more information
Our next Fellowship event will be apple picking at Shelburne Farm (http://www.shelburnefarm.com/) in Stow, MA on Saturday, October 8th. We’ll meet at 1:00 p.m., near the store. Come pick apples, take a hayride, visit the animals, and munch on some yummy apple cider doughnuts or caramel apples. Please RSVP so we know to look for you! To RSVP, or if you need a ride, or if you have any questions, contact Ellen. (ellends1313@gmail.com)
Worship: Sunday, October 9, 2016
Sermon: “Where’s Your Passport?”
Scripture: Luke 17: 11-19
In this scripture, Jesus encounters a group of lepers, forced to live in a contained area outside of the city. They were required to yell out to passersby that they were “unclean” so that no one would accidentally come into contact with them. In essence, they did not have the “proper” papers to enter into “normal” society. One of them, a Samaritan, was doubly excluded, because he was of a different ethnic group, a hated ethnic group. What do you think it meant to the 10 lepers that they were “healed”? What did it mean for their lives? Especially, do you, or anyone you know, not have the “proper papers” to enter into normal society? What would it mean to receive “healing” from Jesus here and now?
Join us for worship at 10:30 a.m., and for coffee and fellowship after the service. All are welcome!
The next Congregational Care/Deacon’s meeting will be on Sunday, October 9th, after coffee hour.
Nave Gallery announces the “Wall to Wall: Art Builds Community” show, running from September 24 – October 30, Saturdays and Sundays, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Wall to Wall: Art Builds Community (W2W), is a gallery exhibition of street art and street-inspired studio art that represents the ways art helps to build community. W2W is held in conjunction with the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church‘s annual social justice program, “Learn to Talk”. W2W affirms that art can help to build a more positive, equitable community for all. For more info, see http://navegallery.org/wp/wall-to-wall-street-art-communities/. The Somerville Journal also had an article about the show, and the church. To see the article: http://somerville.wickedlocal.com/news/20161001/walls-build-community-in-local-art-show
Upcoming Events
The “Learn to Talk” 3rd Annual Social Justice Poetry Reading “Writing on the Wall”, with Neil Callender, will be Sunday October 16th from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. There will be a reading, followed by a question and answer session, then a community reception.
Neil Callender teaches at Roxbury Community College. In addition to his activities in student politics, he has worked in the airline industry and is a member of the International Association of Machinists. Neil holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College, and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. He is a member of the Liberation Poets Collective, and is published in their anthologies, “Poets Against the Killing Fields” and “Liberation Poetry: An Anthology”. Neil lives in Somerville, and is married to Somerville’s Poet Laureate Nicole Terez Dutton.
The date for the next Session meeting is Sunday, October 23rd, after church.
Deacons News
DO YOU HAVE A PRAYER REQUEST?
If you would like to have the Deacons and others in the congregation pray for you, you have two ways to ask for prayers: We now have an online prayer request list. You may email any prayer request, at any time, to prayers@clarendonhillchurch.org. This is a private list. If you’d like to help the Deacons pray for others, please send an email to Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
If don’t have email or you are visiting our congregation, but have an important prayer request you need to share, we have set up a prayer request box, with prayer request cards that you can fill out and leave in the box. The box is in the back of the sanctuary. The Deacons will monitor the box, and share those prayer requests also.
We hope you find these helpful. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to give us feedback, feel free to email the deacons at deacons@clarendonhillchurch.org. Thank you!
Need a Ride? The deacons would like to ensure that everyone who wants to worship with us can. If you need a ride for worship (just once or every week), please contact the deacons (deacons@clarendonhillchurch.org or find our phone numbers in the church directory). Please tell us your address and how often you need a ride. Then we will match you with someone nearby. If you need a ride for any other church event, please notify the contact person for that event.
Want to be a greeter or a reader? Eager to bring coffee hour treats or support the nursery? Please let Craig know how you would like to share your time and talents (craze@mit.edu).
Have an announcement for the bulletin? Send it to ellends1313@gmail.com by Friday for inclusion on Sunday.
Visit us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clarendon-Hill-Presbyterian-Church/373782233485
Sermon: “Time for Dinner”
Scripture: Luke 10:1-11
Join us for Worship at 10:30 a.m., and for coffee and fellowship after the service. All are welcome!
Pastor Allen Regular Office Hours
He will be in the church office during the following times unless called away:
Mondays and Thursdays: 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
1st and 3rd Monday evenings: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday afternoons: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Rev. Fairfax is generally available for pastoral concerns or other church business at most other times as well, so don’t hesitate to contact him outside of these office hours.
Please drop by the church or contact him in our Contact Page
Congregational Meeting
This is to announce that there will be a congregational meeting to vote on the extension of contract for Pastor Allen Fairfax. The meeting will be held directly after the worship service on Sunday, July 10 and will be moderated by Reverend Cindy Kohlmann. This announcement will also be made on Sunday, July 3.
Mission at the Eastward (MATE) 2016
There will be a young and enthusiastic group of folks from the Presbytery of Boston who will participate in MATE’s North Parish Housing Ministry work camp this summer, in and around Farmington, ME. If you have home improvement skills – wonderful! If you don’t, but are energetic and willing to get your hands dirty to help those whose homes need improvement, even better! This year’s camp will run from Sunday, July 31st through Friday, August 5th. You can come for a day, or a few days, or the whole week. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Do You Have a Prayer Request?
We, as a congregation, have always felt that our time during the service for sharing celebrations and concerns is one of the most important pieces of our community. But often, those celebrations and concerns come in the midst of our busy lives. We may really need to have someone praying for us on a Wednesday night- and maybe by the time Sunday morning comes, that prayer request is no longer on our minds. Or maybe, for whatever reason, we don’t feel comfortable announcing our prayer request aloud during the service. The Deacons begin to think about this a while ago, and we have decided to begin a try a few things to help with these issues.
If you would like to have the Deacons and others in the congregation pray for you, you have two ways to ask for prayers: We now have an online prayer request list. You may email any prayer request, at any time, to prayers@clarendonhillchurch.org. This is a private list. If you’d like to help the Deacons pray for others, please send an email to Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Perhaps you don’t have email. Or you are visiting our congregation, but have an important prayer request you need to share. So, in the back of the sanctuary, we have set up a prayer request box, with prayer request cards that you can fill out and leave in the box. The Deacons will monitor the box, and share those prayer requests also.
We hope you find these helpful. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to give us feedback, feel free to email the deacons at deacons@clarendonhillchurch.org. Thank you!
Guest Preacher: Kelsey Rice Bogdan
On this coming Sunday, June 26th, our guest preacher will be Kelsey Rice Bogdan. Kelsey Rice Bogdan was recently appointed as the new executive director of Life Together, a strategic ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts through which emerging young adult leaders reside together in intentional community while serving 10-month social justice fellowships in Boston, Lawrence and Fall River. The program is an affiliate of the national Episcopal Service Corps.
Kelsey is currently the moderator for the Presbytery of Boston and is a board member for Boston Food Justice Young Adult Volunteers, serving on its development committee. A ruling elder at First Presbyterian Church in Brookline, Kelsey is well-known to many of us, having served as a field education student at Clarendon Hill from 2008-2009 while studying at Harvard Divinity School.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English literature from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School. Kelsey is a good friend of our church and we welcome her to the pulpit.
Celebrations
This week we will be celebrating the graduation of two of our members during coffee hour. Please join the Deacons as we congratulate Corinne Auger and Claire Roll!
Pastor Allen Regular Office Hours
He will be in the church office during the following times unless called away:
Mondays and Thursdays: 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
1st and 3rd Monday evenings: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday afternoons: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Rev. Fairfax is generally available for pastoral concerns or other church business at most other times as well, so don’t hesitate to contact him outside of these office hours.
Please drop by the church or contact him in our Contact Page
Mission at the Eastward (MATE) 2016
There will be a young and enthusiastic group of folks from the Presbytery of Boston who will participate in MATE’s North Parish Housing Ministry work camp this summer, in and around Farmington, ME. If you have home improvement skills – wonderful! If you don’t, but are energetic and willing to get your hands dirty to help those whose homes need improvement, even better! This year’s camp will run from Sunday, July 31st through Friday, August 5th. You can come for a day, or a few days, or the whole week. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Do You Have a Prayer Request?
We, as a congregation, have always felt that our time during the service for sharing celebrations and concerns is one of the most important pieces of our community. But often, those celebrations and concerns come in the midst of our busy lives. We may really need to have someone praying for us on a Wednesday night- and maybe by the time Sunday morning comes, that prayer request is no longer on our minds. Or maybe, for whatever reason, we don’t feel comfortable announcing our prayer request aloud during the service. The Deacons begin to think about this a while ago, and we have decided to begin a try a few things to help with these issues.
If you would like to have the Deacons and others in the congregation pray for you, you have two ways to ask for prayers: We now have an online prayer request list. You may email any prayer request, at any time, to prayers@clarendonhillchurch.org. This is a private list. If you’d like to help the Deacons pray for others, please send an email to Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Perhaps you don’t have email. Or you are visiting our congregation, but have an important prayer request you need to share. So, in the back of the sanctuary, we have set up a prayer request box, with prayer request cards that you can fill out and leave in the box. The Deacons will monitor the box, and share those prayer requests also.
We hope you find these helpful. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to give us feedback, feel free to email the deacons at deacons@clarendonhillchurch.org. Thank you!
Sermon: “Oh Dear! What to Wear?”
Scripture: Galatians 3:22-29
Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,* heirs according to the promise.
Pastor Allen Regular Office Hours
He will be in the church office during the following times unless called away:
Mondays and Thursdays: 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
1st and 3rd Monday evenings: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday afternoons: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Rev. Fairfax is generally available for pastoral concerns or other church business at most other times as well, so don’t hesitate to contact him outside of these office hours.
Please drop by the church or contact him in our Contact Page
Guest Preacher
On next Sunday, June 26th, our guest preacher will be Kelsey Rice Bogdan. Kelsey is currently the moderator of the Presbytery of Boston, and a good friend of our church. We welcome her to the pulpit.
Celebrations
Next week we will be celebrating the graduation of two of our members during coffee hour. Please join the Deacons as we congratulate Corinne and Claire!
Mission at the Eastward (MATE) 2016
There will be a young and enthusiastic group of folks from the Presbytery of Boston who will participate in MATE’s North Parish Housing Ministry work camp this summer, in and around Farmington, ME. If you have home improvement skills – wonderful! If you don’t, but are energetic and willing to get your hands dirty to help those whose homes need improvement, even better! This year’s camp will run from Sunday, July 31st through Friday, August 5th. You can come for a day, or a few days, or the whole week. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Do You Have a Prayer Request?
We, as a congregation, have always felt that our time during the service for sharing celebrations and concerns is one of the most important pieces of our community. But often, those celebrations and concerns come in the midst of our busy lives. We may really need to have someone praying for us on a Wednesday night- and maybe by the time Sunday morning comes, that prayer request is no longer on our minds. Or maybe, for whatever reason, we don’t feel comfortable announcing our prayer request aloud during the service. The Deacons begin to think about this a while ago, and we have decided to begin a try a few things to help with these issues.
If you would like to have the Deacons and others in the congregation pray for you, you have two ways to ask for prayers: We now have an online prayer request list. You may email any prayer request, at any time, to prayers@clarendonhillchurch.org. This is a private list. If you’d like to help the Deacons pray for others, please send an email to Ellen (ellends1313@gmail.com).
Perhaps you don’t have email. Or you are visiting our congregation, but have an important prayer request you need to share. So, in the back of the sanctuary, we have set up a prayer request box, with prayer request cards that you can fill out and leave in the box. The Deacons will monitor the box, and share those prayer requests also.
We hope you find these helpful. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to give us feedback, feel free to email the deacons at deacons@clarendonhillchurch.org. Thank you!
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