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A Stitch in Time...
The Stitch-and-Pray prayer shawl group’s next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, at 6:30 P.M., at Marion Sachdeva’s home. We will plan what to include in a brief Sunday morning “blessing of the shawls,” for the shawls we have created and not yet given out—many of which will be given to the Grimes Center on Chapel Street where our church members have gone Christmas caroling, for residents there. Please see Marion for directions to the meeting.
Healthcare...
All aboard for health care that:
- keeps us healthy;
- offers quality choices for all of us
- gives us more for our money
- delivers peace of mind
Join your neighbors, faith leaders, doctors, small business owners and others to demand health care for everyone in the state!
Tuesday, January 13
5:30 P.M.
Union (Train) Station
1 Union Plaza
Hartford, Connecticut
Need a ride to Hartford? Buses from downtown New Haven meet at 425 College Street, 4:15 P.M.
For more info contact: Ricardo Henriquez, Connecticut Center for a New Economy, (203) 785-9494 ext. 264, ricardoph@ctneweconomy.org
Yale United Methodist Fellowship
Come join us for food and fellowship on Tuesdays at 7:30 P.M. in Epworth Parlor. A simple service of Taizé prayer and song will follow the fellowship time at 8:15 P.M. in the Sanctuary (we will be on winter break from December 10 through January 26). All are welcome. Contact John.Helmstadter@yale.edu for more information.
News about the Newsletter
The Communications Committee and the staff have been working hard to improve our church communications:
- Particularly in terms of the Church Calendar, the newsletter is out-of-date virtually the second it is printed. This is acute in July and August, which we traditionally combine into one.
- Our bulk mail permit means that our newsletter is delivered on a low-priority basis, which often delays its delivery by days, or even weeks.
- If our Office Manager is ill, or absent, or if we are short on cash, the newsletter can be delayed even more.
- It is expensive to create, expensive to send, expensive to print.
- Not only is it expensive to print, all that photocopying and paper use is not environmentally friendly.
- Finally, the Post Office is closing its New Haven bulk mail operation, which forces us to deliver our newsletter to the facility in Wallingford.
To address these issues, we will continue producing the newsletter as we have in the past. We will convert it to a .PDF file, and post it to this Web site, in addition to e-mailing it, as an attachment, to everyone on our e-mail list. This will benefit you in several ways:
- You will receive your newsletter much, much faster.
- You can't lose it (even if you delete your message, the current newsletter will always be available on the Web site).
- Indeed, we'll archive previous newsletters for your reference, which you can access any time from the Web site.
- You will be able to print out all of it, or just a page, or not at all, as you prefer.
- People who want the newsletter, but who do not have e-mail, will receive it in hard copy, via first-class mail — thus by making this change, they, too, will receive their newsletter much faster than before.
There are many benefits to the church:
- it saves on postage;
- it saves us a lot of staff-time (printing, collating, ordering new supplies, delivering to Wallingford);
- it saves us printing and paper expense; and,
- it's environmentally responsible, saving on paper and electricity.
As time goes on, we will continue to tweak the process. You can see our newsletters in the column to the right.
Meet Our New Intern, John HelmstadterI was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, a city celebrated round the globe for having the longest unbroken sidewalk in the world. There I found a spiritual home at Hyde Park UMC, where I later served as an intern in their youth program. I attended Dartmouth College from 2001-2005, studying comparative religion and falling in love with the wilderness. After graduation, I spent a year crammed onto tiny buses and tromping around in the Andes and the Himalayas with nothing but a backpack. The following year I worked at Community of Faith UMC in central Florida, leading the youth group and helping the church become more aware of and involved with the marginalized in the local community. This past year I have been a student at Yale Divinity School, working my way towards ordination in the UMC and worshipping at First & Summerfield. I find F&SUMC to be a community of very genuine, warm, diverse, spiritually devoted, socially conscious and active people. I’m very excited to be an intern here. 
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First & Summerfield United
Methodist Church
425 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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| For Your Calendar |
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6: EPIPHANY
5:30 P.M. Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, Parish House at Center Church, 311 Temple Street.
Taizé services and the Yale Methodist/Young Adult Fellowship will resume on January 27.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7
5:30 P.M. Trustees meeting, Epworth Parlor.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
7:15 P.M. Choir practice.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
10:00 A.M. Morning Worship.
10:15 A.M. Sunday School resumes.
11:00 A.M. Coffee Time in Trinity Hall after the worship service to greet our visitors and to share in light refreshments, provided by Sunday Morning Hospitality Group D-I.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12
Noon. Pray for Peace vigil on the steps of the church.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
5:30 P.M. Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen. Meals are served from the Parish House at Center Church, 311 Temple Street.
Taizé services and the Yale Methodist/Young Adult Fellowship will resume on January 27.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
7:00 P.M. Finance Committee meeting, Epworth Parlor.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15
7:15 P.M. Choir practice.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18
10:00 A.M. Morning Worship.
10:15 A.M. Sunday School.
11:00 A.M. Coffee Time in Trinity Hall after the worship service to greet our visitors and to share in light refreshments, provided by Sunday Morning Hospitality Group J-O.
MONDAY, JANUARY 19
Noon. Pray for Peace vigil on the steps of the church.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20
5:30 P.M. Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen. Meals are served from the Parish House at Center Church, 311 Temple Street.
Taizé services and the Yale Methodist/Young Adult Fellowship will resume on January 27.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
6:30 P.M. Church Council meeting, Epworth Parlor.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
7:15 P.M. Choir practice.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25
10:00 A.M. Morning Worship.
10:15 A.M. Sunday School.
11:00 A.M. Coffee Time in Trinity Hall after the worship service to greet our visitors and to share in light refreshments, provided by Sunday Morning Hospitality Group O-Z.
12:00 P.M. Membership and Evangelism Committee meeting, Epworth Parlor.
MONDAY, JANUARY 26
Noon. Pray for Peace vigil on the steps of the church.
7:00 P.M.Staff Pastor Parish Relations Committee, Epworth Parlor
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
5:30 P.M. Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen. Meals are served from the Parish House at Center Church, 311 Temple Street.
6:30 P.M. The Stitch-and-Pray prayer shawl group’s will meet at Marion Sachdeva’s home. Please see Marion for directions to the meeting.
7:30 P.M.Yale Methodist/Young Adult Fellowship, Epworth Parlor
8:15 P.M. A simple service of Taizé prayer and song will follow the fellowship time in the Sanctuary. All are welcome. Contact John.Helmstadter@yale.edu for more information.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29
7:15 P.M. Choir practice.
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