Weekly HigHligHts of ParisH life July 15 - 22, 2018

WELCOMEA gracious and warm welcome to everyone. We come together on this Sunday to worship God

and to discover what it means to be a person of faith in this world. We encourage you to participate fully in this service of Word and Sacrament. If you are new to Christ Church, please know that you have a place among us. If you are looking for a spiritual home, we hope that you will consider making Christ Church that home. We are here to answer any questions and to be of assistance in any way possible.

This WEEk AT ChrisT ChurCh

SUNDAY, JUL. 15

8 am Holy Eucharist (N)

9 am Holy Eucharist (N)**

10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL)

10:10 am Summer Starters (RG)

MONDAY, JUL. 16

Offices Closed

TUESDAY, JUL. 17

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

6:30 pm Fundraising Committee (B213)

6:30 pm Parish Life Commission (B217)

6:30 pm DA (BL)

WEDNESDAY, JUL. 18

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

5:30 pm Holy Eucharist (SMC)**

7 pm Bon Voyage Concert (N)**

8:30 pm AA (LL)

THURSDAY, JUL. 19

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

10:30 am High School Pizza Lunch (LL)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

FRIDAY, JUL. 20

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

SATURDAY, JUL. 21

Offices Closed

7:30 am Mariner’s Inn Service Day (Offsite)

8:30 pm AA (LL)

SUNDAY, JUL. 22

8 am Holy Eucharist (N)

9 am Holy Eucharist (N)**

10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL)

10:10 am Summer Starters (RG)

**Childcare is provided in B113/Nursery

Location Abbreviations:

BL - Bicknell Library CC - Children’s Chapel

EdW - 2nd fl. Ed. Wing FL - Front Lawn

FR - Family Room LL - Lower Level

MH - Miller Hall N - Nave

RG - Rose Garden SMC - Chapel

U - Undercroft

All Children are Welcome! Children gather at the Children’s Cross for the Collect of the Day and Dismissal to Children’s Chapel to hear the story of Jesus and engage in a meaningful reflection of the lessons for that Sunday, before returning to join in our Prayers and to share in the Peace and Holy Communion.

Church School for children has concluded for the year and will resume in the fall.

• New friends• Creative games

• Surprising adventures• Amazing experiments

• Tropical treats• Incredible music

Please join us as Christ Church Episcopal, First English Lutheran and St. Paul Lutheran, in collaborative ministry present:

Hosted by Christ Church Grosse Pointe

At Shipwrecked VBS, kids learn how to see evidence of God in everyday life. Shipwrecked is filled with incredible Bible-learning experiences for kids to see, hear, touch, and even taste! They’ll discover how Jesus rescues us through all of life’s storms!

Send your kids on an impacting island adventure!

REGISTRATION CLOSES JULY 16

Class size is limited! Cost is $45 per child. All children must be potty-trained.

Half Day (ages 3 -5)9 am - Noon

Full Day (Entering 1st-6th)9 am - 3 pm

July 30 - August 3

Register at www.christchurchgp.org/vbs

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

Parish & Community Events

GIVE

Every Summer Sunday following the 9 am Service

June 24 - August 26

Every year many Detroit children start their summer days hungry. Throughout the summer when children who rely on school breakfast programs go without, Christ Church volunteers gather to make difference.PREPARATION: (Fridays for 1 hour) Count supplies to organize for packing on Sunday. ASSEMBLE: (After 9 am Service) Every summer Sunday we’ll fill breakfast bags each with 7 breakfast meals for low income children through Crossroads’ Summer Lunch program. Everyone is invited to participate. We need Shepherds to guide the assembling process. DELIVER: (Sundays from 11 am - 12 pm) Anyone with a van/truck who is able and willing to deliver the “Summer Starters” bags to Crossroads on Sunday after they are assembled.

To sign up for Preparation, Shepherding or Delivery go to www.christchurchgp.org/summerstarters

We invite you to join us any Sunday this summer to make a difference and help other know the good news of Jesus Christ!

For more information contact the Rev’d Areeta Bridgemohan at abridgemohan@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 121.

SERVE

Opportunities to Serve

Welcome to Christ Church!

We have many wonderful and dedicated volunteers who serve in our various ministries at Christ Church. Are you ready to get involved? Put your gifts and passions to work with friends new and old. Opportunities to Serve volunteer sign up sheets are located at the Communications Board.

Please submit your form to the Rector’s Admin in the Church Office or call 313-885-4841 x 107.

Amazon Prime Day

Starts Monday, July 16, 3 pmruns through Tuesday, July 17Amazon’s Prime Day is almost here. Deals start July 16, 3pm ET and run through July 17. Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year and a great time to shop at smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate to Christ Church Grosse Pointe.

For more information contact Diane Ward at dward@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 111.

CONNECT

WORSHIPRev’d Areeta’s

Last Sunday at CCGPSunday, July 22Areeta has recently been called to serve as Associate to the Rector at Saint George’s Episcopal Church in Fredricksburg, Virginia. Areeta’s last Sunday with Christ Church will be Sunday, July 22 at which we will send her forth with our prayers and love, and formally thank her for her ministry among us as pastor and priest, teacher and friend.

I invite you, also, to join me to make a tangible sign of you appreciation for Areeta and her ministry at Christ Church! To make our appreciation and love concrete, we will fund Areeta’s on-going formation at the Shalem Institute. To participate in this gift, please make your contribution payable to Christ Church Grosse Pointe; Memo: Bridgemohan Appreciation.

Connection Cards

Welcome to Christ Church!If you are new please fill out a “Connection Card” so that we may get to know you. Complete a card and place it in the offering plate or hand it to any clergy person.

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Name(s): ________________________________________ Today’s Date: ___________Address: _______________________________________________________________City/State/Zip: ___________________________________________________________Phone: __________________________ Email: ________________________________Number of Children and Ages: _____________________________________________How did you learn about us? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I am a First-time Guest Returning Guest New ResidentPlease add me to: Weekly Email Family eNewsletter

(Please complete back of card as well)

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

We Pray together:Please leave your written prayer request at our Reception Desk or contact Fr. Drew at dvanculin@christchurchgp.org. In order to keep all our prayers for healing meaningful and current, we will keep names on the Prayer List for two weeks.

Assisting at Services:

In the Diocese of Michigan Cycle of Prayer: Saint Aidan’s, Ann Arbor; Holy

Cross, Novi; Saint Mary the Virgin, Montillano, DR; and Church of the Messiah,

Detroit

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for: The Anglican Church of Papua

New Guinea; The Most Rev’d Allan Migi, Archbishop.

In our Parish Cycle of Prayer this week we pray for: John Ford, Jr.; Shirley

Fortune; John and Biffy Fowler, and children Pierson and Catherine; Michael

and Jen Fozo, and children Stephen and Madison; Hadley French.

We pray for those in active military service for our country: Nathan

Gaggin, Ryan Worrell, George H. Zinn IV.

We offer prayers for: Al, Allen, Arlene, Benjamin, Bernice, Brian, Bob, Carole,

Carolyn, Constance, David, Deni, Derek, Donald, Ed, Elizabeth, Jacqui, Julie,

Kelly, Khadijah, Lori, Margaret, Marie, Mary, Meghan, Rob, Sara, Shiloh, Sophie,

Tom, and Victoria.

In celebration for the birthdays and anniversaries of: Amy Hermon;

Karyn Weir; Greg Grosfield; Jane Knaus; Geoffrey & Amber Everham; Susan

White.

Altar Guild:

8 am Mary Bamford

9 am Betsy Creedon, Susan Mills

Eucharistic Ministers:

8 am Frank Stellingwerf

9 am Susan Mills, Heather Jones

Lector:

9 am Thom Nealssohn

Prayers:

9 am Bruce Birgbauer

Verger:

9 am Deb Miller

Acolytes:

9 am Joelle Reich, Emma Reich, Lorelei Carr

Ushers:

9 am Hank Darlington, Eric Ash,

Blair Osborn, Steve Fehinger

Music at Christ Church Grosse Pointe

Bon Voyage Concert

Wednesday, July 18 • 7 pmChrist Church Choirs

The choir presents selections from their upcoming tour to England where they will be in residence at Durham Cathedral. Freewill Offering.

LEssOns fOr ThE EighTh sundAy AfTEr PEnTECOsT,PrOPEr 10

Amos 7:7-15This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by; the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.” Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very centre of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’ “ And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.” Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore trees, and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’”

Psalm 85:8-138 I will listen to what the Lord God is saying, *

for he is speaking peace to his faithful people and to those who turn their hearts to him.

9 Truly, his salvation is very near to those who fear him, *that his glory may dwell in our land.

10 Mercy and truth have met together; *righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth shall spring up from the earth, *and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

12 The Lord will indeed grant prosperity, *and our land will yield its increase.

13 Righteousness shall go before him, *and peace shall be a pathway for his feet.

Ephesians 1:3-14Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he

freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.

Mark 6:14-29King Herod heard of Jesus and his disciples, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; and for this reason these powers are at work in him.” But others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.” For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her. For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed; and yet he liked to listen to him. But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and for the leaders of Galilee. When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it.” And he solemnly swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.” She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the baptizer.” Immediately she rushed back to the king and requested, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” The king was deeply grieved; yet out of regard for his oaths and for the guests, he did not want to refuse her. Immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

Christ Church Grosse Pointe61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313.885.4841 • christchurchgp.org

The Rev. Andrew Van Culin, Rector • The Rev. Canon Ron Spann, Director, Spirituality Center The Rev. Walter Brownridge, Associate for Parish Life and Christian Formation • The Rev. Areeta Bridgemohan, Curate

Scott Hanoian, Director of Music and Organist • Dexter Kennedy, Assistant Organist Susanna Muzzin, Director of Children and Family Ministries • Diane Ward, Associate for Finance and Administration