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Sunday, December 1
8:00 am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
9:15 am – Christian Education
Adult Forum – Room 11
Sunday School – Room 13
10:30 am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
11:30 am – Caregiver Support Session, Library
Monday, December 2
8:00 am – Morning Prayer via Zoom
Tuesday, December 3
8:00 am – Morning Prayer via Zoom
9:00 am – Holy Eucharist w/ Healing Prayer
10:00 am – Chatting Fingers, Room 11
10:00 am – Bible Study, Library
Wednesday, December 4
8:00 am – Morning Prayer via Zoom
8:00 pm – Compline via Zoom
Thursday, December 5
8:00 am – Morning Prayer via Zoom
Friday, December 6
8:00 am – Morning Prayer via Zoom
Saturday, December 7
8:00 am – Yoga, Parish Hall
Sunday, December 1
8:00 am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
9:15 am – Christian Education
Adult Forum – Room 11
Sunday School – Room 13
10:30 am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
| | A Letter of Gratitude from the Bazaar Community | | |
We write this letter of thanks with love and gratitude for our St. Alban's community.
There is no way we could have succeeded without the help of so many, and it is almost impossible to thank everyone properly. Whether you served as chairperson, donated items, assisted with set up, decorated, greeted our patrons, baked treats, made beautiful crafts, or parked cars, you contributed to the success.
The Bazaar made $21,975.19 on Saturday for a total of $25,779.31, including Handmade pre-sales.
Some of our favorite 2024 memories include:
- Our many volunteers, including several of our youth who gave up their Saturday to help and did it with a smile.
- The smiles of children and their families left through our doors after getting their faces painted so beautifully, scoring a wonderfully wrapped gift for their parents, or buying a special toy in our toy room.
- Our wonderful Choir and Choristers' voices filling the Parish Hall with beautiful music.
- The spirit and joy of our Annandale community, who graciously waited for a parking spot or stood in line to enter our Bazaar.
On behalf of Poe Middle School, Belvedere Elementary, Bethany House, ACCA, Hypothermia Shelter, Samaritan Ministry, Second Story, and the numerous other community programs St Alban supports, we thank you.
Bethany and Nick
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St. Alban's Gift Wrapping Benefitting Outreach & Mission
Is Back!
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Each Sunday in Advent the Wrappers will be hard at work in Room 11, doing what we do best for you! Beginning at 7:45 am, bring in your Christmas gifts prior to a service, and pick them up afterwards. Wrapping is free, but please consider making a donation to help the many mission and outreach programs of St. Alban’s.
What? Santa can't get those packages to church without the little ones finding out? Email kdwettstein@gmail.com to make arrangements for mid-week wrapping!
| | Meal Assistance for the Keiper Family | | |
Our fellow parishioners, Adam and Caitrin Keiper, welcomed a new baby! They could use our assistance with meals over the next few weeks. I have set up a schedule for meals using the link below.
Here are the logistics - You would be preparing a meal for 2 adults and 3 children. Caitrin says everyone eats chicken. One person is sensitive to tree nuts and another one to dairy. Please let Caitrin know ahead of time about any dish one of those things was in.
Please email or text Caitrin on the day you are scheduled to coordinate a drop off time. Her telephone number is 217-898-1385 or email at caitrin.keiper@gmail.com.
The delivery address is: 4625 Columbia Road Annandale, VA 22003
Please use the link below to sign up.
www.TakeThemAMeal.com/EIQJ3694
If you have any questions, please email April Kreller at akreller@gmail.com. Thank you all so much for your help with this important ministry!
| | Adult Forum will resume on Sunday 12/8 at 9:15 in Room 11 | | Due to thanksgiving weekend, we will resume Adult Forums on Sunday, 12/8! Join us for a look at the Anglican Divines – the theologians and spiritual leaders who defined Anglicanism in an era of chaos and great change. On 12/15, Br. Alex will lead us on a forum about St. Nicholas – the man, the myth, the legend (but more importantly, an early church father!). All are welcome! | | |
Caregiver Support Session
Sunday, December 1
| | Do you have someone you care for, support, or otherwise take care of? Join us with fellow caregivers in the library after the 10:30am service for fellowship and support! Snacks are provided. | | | First Friday Lunch on December 6 | | We will meet at 12:00 pm at Clyde’s at Mark Center on Beauregard. Sign-up information to follow! Please tell Sheila Massey, 703 978 8973 or Joyce Aument, 703 534 4927 that you are coming by Dec. 4. Bring a friend! | | Advent Quiet Day on Saturday, December 7 | | From 8:00 am – 12:00 pm, Br. Alex will lead a quiet day. We will have ample space to practice contemplative prayer focused on lectio and visio divina. We will engage the themes of advent: the incarnation of our Lord, and His second coming. Email info@stalbansva.org or let Br. Alex know you’re intending to come. All are welcome! Light breakfast and lunch provided. | | |
Advent Arts & Crafts Event
Saturday, December 14 from 4-6 pm
| | Fun for the whole family! On Saturday, December 14 from 4-6 pm, all types of crafts, ornament making, and advent wreath laying will be available to members of the church and to friends and local families! Please join us. Pizza will be served! | | Can You Help Feed Our Shelter Guests? | | |
In winter the Bailey’s Crossroads Shelter sometimes doesn’t have enough room for all who need a warm place to sleep. Several churches and mosques in our area open their doors to the Shelter’s overflow. St. Alban’s will host people from the shelter in our Parish Hall for two separate weeks.
The first week will be from Dec. 15-20 (but not Dec. 21). The second week will be from Dec. 29-Jan.4. We plan to feed them a simple meal each night. We need cooks and servers and cleaner-uppers. I’m told there will be between 30-40 people each evening arriving at about 5:30.
If you would like to help, please check on the sign-up board in the narthex. Get some friends together or ask another family to help you and select a convenient evening to bring a cheerful welcome and a hot meal to our guests. For more info email deloresbaisden@gmail.com or call her at 703-533-9532.
| | Cookies for Samaritan Ministry | | |
Please help us to make Christmas a special time for participants in the Samaritan Ministry Next Step Program and their families. Samaritan participants have been working hard toward their life goals; we have a goal to meet as well!
ST ALBAN’S GOAL: 50 sandwich bags of home-made or bakery quality Christmas cookies – 5 or 6 cookies per bag
WHERE TO DELIVER COOKIES AND CARDS: to the Narthex
THE DEADLINE: December 10
Thank you for continuing this valued St. Alban’s tradition! It means a lot to the program participants. If you would like to be part of the Christmas celebration at Samaritan or would consider volunteering for Samaritan, please text or call:
Nancy Calvert (571)839-5068
Jo Hodgin (703)595-9314
| | Host Coffee Hour! There's a New Way To Sign Up... | | Annandale Christian Community for Action Updates | | |
You helped donate 35 lbs of food this past week, thank you!
Food donations are greatly needed! ACCA continues to be in need of canned chicken, canned meat, peanut butter and pasta sauces.
In addition, volunteer drivers have been working overtime to deliver food to people’s homes. If you have a spare hour once every week or two, try doing a delivery. It can be very rewarding. You don’t have to drive on a regular schedule, but just when you have time.
Please drop off food donations in the Narthex, so that Fran Walinsky can take donations to the pantry each week. Monetary donations to ACCA are also welcome! For info, click here.
Contact Gail Coleman, gv.coleman@verizon.net or Debbe Heiman at deborahsheiman3@gmail.com if you have any questions!
See the monthly ACCA newsletter by clicking here!
| | Serving Schedule for December 1 | | |
8:00 am
Crucifer: Marc Cheek
Torchbearer:
Torchbearer:
Intercessor: Barbara Cook
Usher: Al Avellino
Usher: Tom Tycz
Lector: Kit Ryan
Lector: Harry Baisden
LEM: Marc Cheek
LEM: Cathy Casey
Coffee Hour:
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10:30 am
Crucifer: Marc Cheek
Torchbearer:
Torchbearer:
Intercessor: Tim Jorgensen
Usher: Sana Kamara
Usher: Margaret Pendley
Lector: Kyle McKenzie
Lector: Pam Matthes
LEM: Debbe Heiman
LEM:
Coffee Hour: Trudy Ann Bennett-Reese, Barbara Hallman
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Altar Guild: Team I, Captain: Kate Wettstein, Bethany Bower, Nell Dillard, Diane Fulcher, Ellen Gerdes, Jane Gilbert, Wendy McClintock, Leneice Wu, Izanne Zorin.
Security: Michael Sinsabaugh
Counters: Robyn Leersnyder & Debbie Rosse
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Is God calling you to help make our worship together more beautiful?
Serving the church is one way to worship God, and also practically support your parish -- we need YOU to pitch in on Sunday mornings! We are always in need of Acolytes and Eucharistic Ministers to assist at the altar. Training is flexible! You can also be a Lector, Intercessor, and Usher with simple, on the job training. Sign up in the Narthex, or email Alex for more information.
| | Parish Prayers this Week: | | |
For the Sick and the Suffering in our Parish:
Gail Allison, Allison Blanchard, Nancy Calvert, John Clements, Liz Clements, Helen Cassidy, Evangeline Clark-Wiles, Mary Ann Daymont, Jane Edwards, David Hamnett, Nancy Harrell, Debbe Heiman, Trish Huheey, Joan Jurenas, Martha Kelley, Kay Lusk, Jack Martin, Sue Mairena, Duncan McBride, Elizabeth Ninde, Elayne O'Loughlin, Benny Robles, Allison Canales Romero, Jerry Sare, Sally Sare, Lynne Schrag, Ginger Shea, Cheryl Sinsabaugh, Bari St. Cyr, Evie Tanner, Tom Tycz, Ron Vogel, Fran Walinsky, Zinnah Wiles, Kenneth Youngert, Sara Zimmerman, Anne Zuvekas.
For the Sick and the Suffering — Family and Friends:
Debby Aune, Ann Bobeck, Stacey Bowalin, Tess Brody, Kathy Curran, Barbara Cook, Jean & Greg Cox, Winship Durrett, Sincerria Elliot, Cristabel Espinoza, Geri Falek, Kate Dora Games Thiel, M.H., Michael Hamanett, Frieda & Heather Higdon, Jax Hudson, Jim House, Pamela James, John, Rita Johnson, Richard Kinch, Wray Kinard, Fred Lusk, Liz Lybrand, Donell Mathews, George McCord, James and Janice McPhee, Lynn and Bob Nanney, Judy Pearson, Anita O'Dea, Evelyne Orlander, Maria Marta-Paredes, Margery Peck, the Premock Family, Glenn Reichenbach, Tricia Richardson, Regina Rockwell, Jim Schmidt, Jim Sharpe, Marjorie & William Taber, Justin Traum, Howard Tompkins, Maria Ana Velasquez, Chuck Woods, Janet Woods, Abby.
For Those Who Have Died
For Those in Military Service and Civilians Working Around the World
Bobby Dubas, Alison Dilworth
For Those Celebrating a Birthday
Hugo Perina (12/1), Tom Tsui (12/1), Elizabeth Maguzi (12/1), Margaret Pendley (12/1), Cindy Harpine (12/1), Nana Howton (12/1), Susan White (12/2), Christina Russel (12/5), Arthur Keiper (12/5), Barbara Hallman (12/6), Zinnah Wiles (12/6), Edmund Keiper (12/6), Tim Jorgensen (12/7)
For Our Parish
We give thanks for the Finance Committee who provide financial guidance and advice to the leadership of this church as they complete work on this year’s budget
For Our Diocese
God’s creation and those who care for it
For the Worldwide Anglican Communion
The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan
To place a name on the prayer list contact the parish office
at 703-256-2966 or email info@stalbansva.org
Updates regarding those on this list are greatly appreciated.
For pastoral emergencies please call (571) 383-6096.
| | Deadline for submitting announcements for Digital SAM is every Wednesday at 9:00am. | | | | |
