Announcements


August 31st - Announcements at Ascension

Ascension Nursery Care to Resume
In September, we would like to resume regular nursery care during the principal Eucharist. We would offer care from 10 am until noon. We are looking for someone to direct this program. It will be a paid position. If you or anyone you might know, are interested in this ministry, please contact the Rector.

Family Service and Sunday School Registration
Sunday, September 7, we return to our Winter Schedule of Services on Sunday at 8:30 am and 10:30 am. The choir returns this Sunday. The Service, as all first Sundays of the month, will be a Family Service. Following the Eucharist on September 7, we will have Sunday School registration. Classes begin Sunday September 14. We look forward to seeing all the families back in Church that day!

Coffee Hour Servers
After many years of dedicated service, Cynthia Young is passing the job of Coffee Hour scheduling to Nicole Passeggio. Nicole is presently working on a schedule of servers for the months of September through December, 2008. Coffee Hour service is a small commitment - approximately once or twice in a four-month period - and it is a great way to get to know your fellow parishioners! If you are interested in being part of this ministry, please contact Nicole at 516-295-3277 or click here.

Telephone Chain
Because the parish office sends emergency announcements to parishioners by email, we are organizing a telephone chain for those of you who do not have access to email. To be included on this chain, contact John Challice by dropping a note in the wardens’ mailbox in the sacristy hallway, by telephone at 593-8730, or call the parish office.

Summer Worship Schedule
The summer worship has begun at 5 pm with an informal Rite II Eucharist in the garden (weather permitting) or in the church. Please note: there will be a Saturday service no matter what the weather brings. We have begun celebrating the Eucharist at 9 am on Sunday mornings. We may take vacations in the summer: God does not!

Winter Worship Schedule
Beginning with Sunday September 7, we return to a worship schedule at 8 am and 10:30 pm. However, due to the popularity of the Saturday, 5 pm Service we will continue to hold those in the garden (weather permitting) or in the choir of the church.

Summer Pledges
Many of us are away from Ascension during the summer. The work of the church continues, however. We ask therefore, if at all possible, to keep your pledge account up to date. Thank you!

Bible Study - Help Wanted
Following the 10 am Tuesday morning Eucharist, the Rector is leading an informal Bible study on the lessons for the following Sunday. Come and have some fun with Holy Scripture. The Rector needs your help!

Friday Evening, September 26
On Friday evening, September 26, at 7:30, friends of the Rector, who attended the Oberlin Conservatory of music with him, Dr. Francois Clemmons (Officer Clemmons of “Mr. Roger’s” fame) and Professor John Russell of Wooster College, in Ohio, will offer a joint recital of Organ Music and Negro Spirituals. You are all invited!

Rector's Institution
The Institution of Father Tom Pellaton, as Rector of the Church of The Ascension, by Bishop Walker has been scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 2008, at 11 am. Please note this date in your calendar and plan to be part of the celebration.

New Friday Night Bible Study to Begin October 3rd
The Rector will be leading a new Bible Study, on the Gospel of Mark, beginning Friday October 3, at 7:30 at the Rectory, 98 Plymouth Rd. The study will last one hour, and be followed by a light supper. We hope to meet twice each month until we finish Mark’s Gospel. No special training is needed; just an open mind and the willingness to ask questions are required. Bring your own Bible, however. See the Rector if you are interested in this study.

Confirmation and Reception
Diocesan Confirmation and Receptions are scheduled for November 1, 2008. If you are over 16, and want to be confirmed, or you would like to be received into the Episcopal Church from another denomination, please see the Rector. Classes will begin in September, but summer reading is available in preparation for those classes.

Christmas Fair Returns Saturday, December 6th
The Fair Committee needs Christmas cookie tins, large wicker baskets and bottles of wine to fill gift baskets for the Fair. If you can help with these items, just leave them on the steps of the parish hall and the committee will pick them up! Thanks!

Food for the Hungry
In these challenging economic times your contributions to the Long Island Council of Church’s Food Bank are even more appreciated. Please place your donation of food in the basket at the entrance to the Parish Hall. Thank you!

Parishioners in Hospital or Nursing Homes
Our Parish Health Ministry coordinator, Ruth Dubas, reminds us that members of our parish family are in nursing homes, the hospital or are homebound. A visit or a phone call from another member of the parish family would make their day more cheerful and not so lonely. Please take a few minutes to keep these parishioners connected and let them know we care. A list of these parishioners and suggested actions to cheer them will be on the information table in the parish hall.

Altar Memorials
RoseMarie Martino will shepherd the altar memorials, by collecting payments and reorganizing and maintaining the records. TO MEMORIALIZE A LOVED ONE with altar memorials Flowers on the High Altar ($50), Flowers in the Chapel of the Resurrection ($20), or Sanctuary Candle ($15): please fill out a 2008 Altar Memorial Request Form and send it to Jane Eichmann through the parish office mailbox. Checks also should be sent to RoseMarie through the Parish Office mailbox. Request forms are on the information table in the parish hall.

Book of Remembrance
Claire Telecki will continue to handle the Book of Remembrance. Please leave your donations to the Book of Remembrance in the parish office mailbox in the Sacristy hallway. Include the name and date of death of the decedent, name and address of the donor, and the name and address of the family to be notified of your memorial. You may email Claire by clicking this link.

Shop Amazon.com
Don’t forget -- when you need to shop just go online, click first on www.ascensionrvc.org, then click on the Amazon.com logo. 10% of all purchases made through the church website will be donated back to the church by Amazon. You can buy much more than books at Amazon, which now carries an infinite variety of things. Can’t find something at the store? Try Amazon.com.

Lipstick Alert
Our communion linens are suffering from an excess of lip color. Ladies, please blot your lips before going to communion rail. Bless you!

Save Darfur & Chad
Church World Service (CWS)
, the ecumenical partner of the Long Island Council of Churches in relief and recovery work, reports that 3,000 people have fled their homes in South Darfur in recent days because of brutal attacks on their villages. This adds to the number of the more than 2.5 million others in Darfur that have already suffered the same fate. Additionally, thousands of people in neighboring Chad have been displaced by the genocide violence spilling over the border from Darfur.
CWS is helping to support efforts of the Action by Churches Together coalition to help these refugees. For more information on Darfur and how you can help, visit www.churchworldservice.org.

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