Redeemer News • November 2017

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The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer • 2944 Erie Avenue, Cincinnati, OH. 45208 • 513-321-6700

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You might want to sit down for this: We’ve decided to move to using the color

blue during Advent instead of the color purple. Your response to reading this may vary from, “Over my dead body!” to “We use purple during Advent?” to “When’s Advent again?” because you’re an Episcopalian, and we Episcopalians are notoriously all over the map on every issue, no matter how small. But I believe the color blue and the Season of Advent are about to matter to you, and I’d like to explain why right now.

Let’s talk about Advent irst. The word comes from the Latin for “coming.” Fittingly, during the Season of Advent, the Church prepares for the coming of Jesus. We do this in two distinct but connected ways: We use this time as a preparation for Christmas (the day on which we celebrate Jesus’ birth – His coming into the world). We also use this time to meditate on what’s become known as “The Second Coming” – or Jesus’ return, which inaugurates the end of

the world. We have a tendency to think of the end times as terrifying and awful. But Christian Scriptures point to the “end of the world as we know it” as the time when justice reigns, when things are made right, and when God’s reconciliation of all things through the redemption of Creation is fully and inally consummated.

In short – we as a religious community recognize that Jesus Advents, that He comes into our lives, and that this coming, this Adventing, is a total game-changer. The world is changed when we recognize God’s presence in it. The world is redeemed by Christ’s Advent.

We don’t just want to celebrate this on Christmas Day, any more than we just want to listen to Christmas songs on Christmas Day – we want to devote some time to preparing our hearts and minds for the joyful recognition that God has come into the world in a unique and powerful way in Jesus. Hence the Season of Advent: The season of preparation for the Coming of God in Jesus, the season where we as a Church get ready for Christmas and all that that means for us.

Now let’s talk about liturgical colors. Episcopalians, like other Christians, use speciic colors to mark speciic times in the life of our Church. We like aesthetics. We like when things are beautiful. We recognize that beauty draws us into a deeper awe of God. And we like symbolism. Our entire traditional worship experience is illed with symbolism. Everything means something – even when many of us don’t understand what something means, we like the idea that it means something. So it’s no surprise that we’d have different colors for different seasons, and that these different colors would come to symbolize for us larger truths about who God is and who we are in light of that.

For many churches in the Anglican tradition, the liturgical color for Advent is purple – the same as the color for Lent. In the life of the early church, purple dye was extracted from certain shellish, making it the costliest color to produce. Subsequently, it was reserved for royalty. The Church would break out the purple for Advent and Lent because these are two seasons where we prepare ourselves to recognize Jesus’ glory – in His birth and in His death & resurrection.

But, as you probably have realized by now, the traditions and practices of the Church over centuries are pretty varied and diverse. Since at least the 7th century, some Christians have been using blue as the liturgical color during Advent. Blue is often connected to Mary. And Mary, as the one who was pregnant with Jesus, has an obvious connection to Advent. Blue has been used to signify hope, expectation, and heaven. All these things considered, you can see why it could be a solid choice as an Advent color.

Purple, by the way, is a ine color, and is perfectly wonderful for both Lent and Advent. In the life of the Church, purple has come to signify repentance. In fact, it has so powerfully come to signify repentance that many Christians, after years of using purple for Advent, came to treat Advent as a “mini Lent.” Some churches even stopped saying “Alleluia” during Advent.

P A G E 3 I believe repentance – real, honest searching, self-inventory, and seeking of God – is an important aspect of Advent. I do. That being said, Advent and Lent are just plain different. There is a difference between preparing for the birth of Christ and preparing for the death of Christ. There is a difference between anticipating Jesus’ coming into the world and Jesus’ suffering in and for the world. These are different kinds of preparation, different kinds of repentance.

Episcopalians are an aesthetic people – a people who recognize the power of symbol, of color, and of beauty. Since we recognize that Advent and Lent are different, it is natural for us to want to make that distinction in an aesthetic, colorful, physically beautiful way.

And we are a people of tradition. So it’s important we don’t just make things up whole cloth. Lo and behold, for hundreds and hundreds of years, many Christians have made the physical and spiritual distinction between Advent and Lent. After much prayer and contemplation, after spending time in discernment and conversation with the Altar Guild, the Liturgy Board, the Sanctuary Worship Team, the Vestry, and the Admin Team, we have decided to move forward and embrace a new old way of living into the great expectation of Advent.

As one of my dear friends recently said to me, blue is like the night sky, just before dawn, and Advent is the dawn of a New Year. Blue connects us to Mary, and opens up space for us to welcome a more feminine type of waiting, a powerful, prayerful, anticipation and expectation for the coming of the God who makes all things new.

My hope for you this Advent is simple: I hope that you will be inspired to recognize the coming of Jesus Christ in your heart and in your life. I pray that you will breathe deep the spirit of joyful expectation. There is no question that God is doing beautiful things in your life and in the life of Redeemer. My prayer is that you see it.

I hope that the blue of Advent will help draw you into a beautiful, powerful meditation of all the ways in which you see God showing up; all the ways in which you wait for a newer, better, more just and merciful world. I hope this old new Advent blue will surround and support you as you dare to hope for a world in which Jesus is visible everywhere you look. I pray that you will dare to believe that the God who made you is in fact coming – and that there is healing in Her wings.

Bless you during this holy time of preparation.

Your friend and brother in Christ Jesus,

Philip Hart DeVaul †

R P Since the last publication of this column, we have recognized the following milestones in our parish life:

DEATHS BAPTISMS William R. Hardy, long-time member Carolina Paige Trucco, daughter of Christine & Matteo Delle Ernst Taylor, mother of Bill Taylor Mila Ann von Allmen, daughter of Anna & Douglas Joe Busken, brother of Linda Busken Jergens Nancy Tenney Coleman, mother of Pinky Laffoon WEDDING Lauren Kapuscinski and Dalton Hart

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On Thursday, November 2, The Rev. Philip DeVaul sat down with Ann Blemker and spoke with her about her life at Redeemer, and the extended family she found here. To hear the interview in its entirety, please visit the Redeemer website. Go to: Redeemer-cincy.org, click on “Welcome” > “Latest News.”

Are you able to say why it was hard for you? Yeah. Al felt that if people didn’t understand his sermons, that was their problem. He was very bright, but when he gave a sermon you couldn’t relate it to today and your own life. It was very intellectual. It was spiritual in some ways, but it was very dificult. I can tell you, as a person, he was a wonderful human being. My mother died suddenly while I was in Chicago. He met me at the airport with my father. You don’t forget stuff like that, at all. But I think when Jim came he attracted a different – well, irst of all, he was young. Every other rector had been older. So Jim naturally was going to attract more young people, and that changed the makeup of this church greatly. For the better. Today I’m honored to sit down with Ann Blemker. Ann, how long have you been a member of Church of What ministries are you involved with right now? the Redeemer? IHN. I still will do meals when they’re here. Home 70 years. Baptized, conirmed, and married here too. Comforts is my big one now.

I’m curious for someone who has known this church, What do you do with Home Comforts? what do you think has stayed the same? When you Make deliveries. It’s up and down. It can be a good think about Redeemer as you were growing up, as experience; it can be a marginal experience. you were getting married, being a young lady, and as you’ve been here throughout your life – do you see Most of the people will know, but can you describe a something that has been fundamentally Redeemer little bit about what Home Comforts is? the whole time? Home Comforts provides goods like kitchenware, I think it would be the service itself. The Sunday service. bathroom ware, and linens for families that were in IHN The biggest change has been the Banquet. That was like, and now have housing. When they come to inally get “What?” when it irst started. I enjoy both. Some people housing, they have nothing except the clothes on their are diehard Sanctuary. But there are times when the back for the most part. They need furniture – they need Banquet does it for me. It’s uplifting. I love the music in everything. So we team up with New Life, which provides there. I like both of them. But I think it’s the service that furniture, and then we bring everything else. It’s a has maintained all through the years no matter what. wonderful ministry. Most of the families are just so grateful and feel so blessed to be given all of this stuff. When would have been, in your mind, the period of biggest change? What’s it like for you to be able to do it? That’s a tough one. I enjoy it because you get, really I think, as much as the people that you’re giving to. Would it have been the transition from Al Vail to Jim Hanisian? Do you have a moment or a story of when you I think probably so. That was just a tough period. I hung realized that it was an important [ministry]? in. A lot of people left. It was because of my father who Well, previously in my work life, I was a social worker. was on the vestry (Senior Warden) during that period, I’ve seen a lot of downtrodden people with nothing. So it who said, “Hang on. You’ve got to.” And I said, “Dad, this kind of was a natural it for me to be involved with is hard.” something like Home Comforts. The last delivery that we made was wonderful. Three kids – and it was a couple,

P A G E 5 which is highly unusual. Usually it’s a single mom. They days of old, but Janice and I were co-chairs one year. And had been in their house for a week and had nothing. we had a blast. That was one of the best memories I have. There was a glitch, so they had no furniture until the day before we got there. And they had a baby, so the baby When you think about how Redeemer is now, and was sleeping in the car seat. They were just so having seen sort of the good, the bad, and the ugly. appreciative. She cried. He was also very grateful. He Having seen changes, having seen certain things be helped us, because that’s one of the issues. You’re consistent – where do you want to see this church lugging a lot of stuff up steps almost always. So it’s go? What do you want to see happen for the rest of always wonderful when somebody comes with a strong your life and after you’re gone? back. I would like to see the continuation of younger people coming in to keep it going. Because realistically, a lot of We generally think about ministry as things that you us have been here a long time, but you can’t just depend volunteer for. There are also things that you’re just a on us for the different volunteer opportunities, the part of in the life of the church. stewardship... everything. So So you’ve been coming to we’ve got to continue to get Bible Study for how long? young blood in here. That’s why Jim Hanisian started it and I was I think you’re good, because there the irst week. I actually you’re young. I think that’s one worked my job around Bible of the key things. Study, so I could come every Thursday. It’s been 40 years at We’ll get them in. But then we least. want to make sure that we’re able to both learn from the Are there other ministries new people but also teach that you have been really them what this place has deeply involved with? been for us. That’s my hope. Altar Guild. I did Altar Guild for I’m hoping that they’ll not years and was head of the Altar only show up, but that they’ll Guild for whatever the term is. I learn from Ann Blemker. That was on the vestry. they all know who Ann Blemker is, and that you will You’ve done kind of most of be able to connect with some the things, right? How would you describe, if you of these young families. Because, the things that you can, what this church has been for you and your mentioned in sickness and dark times – what family in your life? happened to your sister and your mother’s death, It’s been my extended family, and I don’t know what I and these things like that – there’s not a person in would do without this family. You do ind out in down this world who doesn’t go through those things, or times when things are not going well or there’s a crisis of know someone who has experienced those kinds of some kind, you do ind out what it means. things. It feels like less and less people realize that there’s a place for them where they can have that And you had that happen with you – with your support. And if we can help people know that this is granddaughter, right? one of those places, I think it could be huge. Yeah, with the brain surgery, when my mother died. My I only have wonderful things to say about that. sister was raped and that was extremely dificult. You know, you wrestle inside yourself about forgive/forget, Is there anything else that you just have to tell the so I came for counseling after that. Because I said, “How people? do I justify this? I need help.” We are totally blessed, I think, at this place. Through the dark times, through the good times, there is always So the church has been there for you in a lot of the hope. God is present and with us in all of those times. dark times. But it sounds like some of the joyous times as well. Obviously your wedding, and your Thank you so much, Ann. It is a pleasure and an children were baptized here. honor to be able to talk to you, and I’m grateful for Lots of fun times. A long time ago we did a rummage you being able to come in today. Bless you. sale, I don’t know if you’ve heard about that. Those were

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Redeemer’s Ministry Marketplace will be held on Sunday, November 19 after the 8:00 am and 10:00 am worship services. This annual event is an opportunity to highlight Redeemer ministries while making our holiday gifts more meaningful.

Included will be Lydia’s House, books from Forward Movement and the Book Shelf, handmade gifts from the Knittin' Kittens, floral designs by Ann Kuehn, jewelry and textiles from BeadforLife, and yummy treats for you and your holiday guests from the Goodie Guild and Bread Guild bakers. The Ministry Marketplace supports our stu- dents at El Hogar de Amor y Esperanza in Honduras.

If you are available to help set up, clean up, or volunteer at one of the tables, please contact Carolyn Martin ([email protected]).

As in past years, Redeemer’s Ministry Marketplace will include a selection of books and calendars for sale from Forward Movement Publications. Included in these will be For the Beauty of the Earth, a book of daily meditations focusing on Creation. Beautifully illustrated with watercolors by artist Kathrin Burleson, the book makes an excellent Christmas gift. It includes diverse voices from across The Episcopal Church, including Redeemer’s Associate Rector Nancy Hopkins-Greene, one of the contributing writers in this book. She will be available to sign books in the lobby.

Other items for sale from Forward Movement will be a 2018 wall calendar with Kathrin Burleson’s Creation – inspired watercolors, the old classic Episcocats 2018 calendar, and I Witness, a book of daily meditations for the season of Advent. 40% of all proceeds will be donated to El Hogar.

M Y C! L’ G CHRISTMAS CAROLING!

Join us for Christmas Caroling on Tuesday, Dec 19, at 5:45 pm! We’ll share an evening of spreading cheer to fellow parishioners who aren’t able to attend services as often as they might like. We’ll meet at Redeemer at 5:45 pm to join forces. Schedule and maps will be provided.

P A G E 7 A Q D, S, D 9 Redeemer’s annual Advent Quiet Day will take place on Saturday, December 9, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. This opportunity for silence, prayer, and reflection will be led by the Pastor Mary Laymon.

This fall, we have joined the rest of the diocese in exploring the theme of Exodus. In this quiet day, we will be taking this theme into our prayer and reflection for the season of Advent. Most of us have had times of wilderness in our lives: They can be seasons of deep loss or struggle, or more like quiet, fallow times where God’s work in us happens unseen, in holy silence. Advent is a time for exploring these wilderness experiences, as we await the coming of Christ into our world.

Our day will begin with a reflection on our Advent theme. Mary will then introduce the various prayer stations available for individual reflection. There will be prayer experiences for all spiritual styles… creativity, reading, journaling, lectio divina, etc. The rest of the day will be spent in shared silence throughout the building. Lunch will be provided. Our day will end with communion and bearing witness to how God made God’s presence known in our silence.

Pastor Mary is an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church. From 2012-2017, she served as Associate Pastor at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Terrace Park. She is a founder and now the full-time Executive Director of Tikkun Farm, a non-profit focused on healing people, repairing communities, and restoring creation in Mount Healthy. Mary is known to many of us here at Redeemer. She led the class “Living Whole-Hearted Lives” in 2016 and has led the annual women’s retreat on two occasions.

B C S, W, D 20 Nancy Hopkins-Greene On Wednesday December 20, Redeemer will be hosting our irst “Blue Christmas” service. In his article at the beginning of this issue of Redeemer News, Philip DeVaul writes about our using the color blue instead of purple at Redeemer this Advent. But this is a different kind of blue, not the color, but the mood. I think we all know the Christmas song Blue Christmas performed most famously by Elvis Presley!

What is a Blue Christmas service? Also known as a Service for the Longest Night, it is a place for those who feel “out of sync” with the joy and celebration of the holiday season. Some may have lost a loved one recently. For others, the holiday season brings up not only the loss of loved ones, but the loss of a relationship or lost dreams. Others carry the darkness of the world as a heavy burden. This will be an opportunity to gather with others, to pray, and light candles signifying the light that came – and still comes - into the world through the birth of Christ. It will be a reminder of the God of love who comes into the pain, loss, and the mess of our lives and our world.

All are welcome to this gentle, contemplative service. Beginning at 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary, it will include poetry, acoustic music, and prayers, ending with Holy Eucharist. (The regular Wednesday Eucharist will also take place in the Chapel at 6:30 pm.)

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The easiest way to donate stock to the church is to have the transfer handled by your broker or the company that holds the stock in safekeeping. Although this is a very simple procedure, many brokerage houses will be very busy with transfers of this sort at year end. Starting the process early will ensure that the transfer is completed by December 31, so that you may deduct the donation on this year's tax return. PNC suggests making the transfer before December 15.

It is our policy to sell any stock gifts as soon as possible and apply the actual cash proceeds, rather than the value of the stock when donated, to your pledge balance.

~ A Simple Thanksgiving ~ For gifts to fulill either your annual pledge or your Enliven Our She quietly begins to set the table, Vision commitment, you can instruct your broker or custodian to transfer the stock to: First covering the rich dark wood

With white and green damask, PNC Bank Next come the ine silver candlesticks, DTC #2616 Goblet and plate, wine lagon, The Church of the Redeemer Cash Flow Management Account The crystal water cruet, #21-70-001-0315342 And last the basket with its simple loaves Wrapped in linen of pure white. It is very important that your broker also notify Kevin Finished, she smiles and softly sings, McManamon, our account representative at PNC, that the stock is being transferred. Kevin's phone number is 216-222-5853, or

you can email him ([email protected]). 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be. If Computershare is holding your stock instead of a broker, you will be required to transfer the stock to an account in our name.

We will receive notiication of the transfer, but we will not How our minds ill with images, receive donor names, so please call me. This procedure will Friends and family, lost loved ones, signiicantly increase the time between your stock gift and the The homeless stranger, the alien, stock sale, and will potentially affect the cash proceeds.

All the saints remembered and forgotten, We can also accept donations of stock that you hold in Scenes of hard times and happy ones, certiicate form, although this is a more cumbersome process. Of other days, other Thanksgivings, You will need to have the shares reissued in the name of “The Yet none can surpass this one Church of the Redeemer" and deliver the certiicates to the church ofice. Please be aware that it may take up to three We are about to celebrate together, weeks to sell stock we receive in certiicate form, especially at For all are welcome at this table. the end of the year. There can be signiicant changes in the value of the stock during that time.

And when we find ourselves in the place just right, Please call me if you need any other information. 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight. Sincerely, Cathy L. Hunt Finance Oficer Jim Votaw, Redeemer Poet-in-Residence 513-321-6700 x208 [email protected]

P A G E 9 C K W, O 29 Psalm 19:14. “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord my Strength and my Redeemer.”

Good morning! My name is Carter Kemper and I am here to present my witness and support of inancial stewardship on this Ingathering Day. The theme of my talk today is full engagement. So what does this mean in relation to our spiritual life at CoR?

For full engagement we are asked to make a financial pledge, attend regularly, and join a ministry (or two, perhaps more). These acts build community, strengthen our church body, and follow our Baptismal Covenant.

So here is my story:

I joined CoR 24 years ago as a newlywed with a child on the way, living around the corner on Delta Ave with my wife Aimee and our dog Ginger. Soon Catherine was born, the irst of our four children – all of whom grew up in this church (Carter Jr. now 21, Helen 18, and William 17). My involvement here spans a wide range of participation: an original member of the 20-30 Something group, Vestry during the inal years of Jim Hanisian’s reign…. make that, leadership, and the interim period with The Reverend Martin Townsend, fund raising leadership positions in two campaigns: Cornerstone and Enliven our Vision, IHN, Children’s Ministries lay leadership, greeters and welcoming, and now Home Comforts - delivering much needed home goods to newly settled graduates of IHN and literally transforming their apartments into a livable home.

My children participated in the life of Redeemer through the years as well: Youth Group, Mountain T.O.P. , New Orleans with Bob McGonagle (great memories!), acolyting, the Christmas Pageant, the annual picnic, Blessing of the Animals… the list goes on and on.

One favorite memory is Helen’s Baptism (in a plastic pool in a parking lot!) oficiated by Bishop Thompson at REVIVAL. Who else remembers that special week? The Holy Spirit swept through that tent! From that day, she has always enjoyed great Spirit.

Helen led group prayer at Mountain T.O.P. and continues her IHN volunteering.

All of these memories create a special tapestry in my mind. The consistent theme through all these years: full engagement – Time, Talent, and Treasure.

Gentle reminder of our mission: Invite in, inspire, and reach out to those in need. In order to do so, we need funds to fuel this mission. Money for clergy, liturgy, music, pastoral care, mission outreach, and so much more. Your participation, your engagement, by giving treasure to the Church, is critical and vital to our sustained success.

So, in closing, I share relevant scripture from 2 Corinthians 9:6-7. “Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he or she has decided in their heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

I ask you to be a cheerful giver, fully engage, and reap the spiritual rewards. AMEN.

A A “W C!” It’s that time again to start thinking about your leaves and what to do with them. Simple wire compost bins will be available for purchase at cost ($10.00 per bin). To order a bin just contact Joan Burrow at [email protected] or 513-871-0805. Our goal, of course, is to be better stewards of the earth and to create beautiful compost for our gardens, not to mention, reducing the ever growing landills.

P A G E 1 0 M S O MEAC This is a wonderful time of year to focus on MEAC. Many folks from Redeemer have been illing MEAC Thanksgiving boxes this month, helping to provide about 250 families with all the ingredients for a delicious dinner. Soon we’ll be preparing for the MEAC Holiday Party on December 4 this year, with Redeemer volunteers bringing and serving food, offering music and a special visit from Santa. These are great times to celebrate the long and extensive relationship between Redeemer and MEAC.

WHAT IS MEAC AND WHAT DOES IT DO? MEAC stands for Madisonville Redeemer’s MEAC Thanksgiving Baskets organizers: (l-r) Lynne Lingrel- Partin, Education and Assistance Center and Christine Cho, and Elizabeth Coley. offers vital services to assist those in need in the Madisonville and neighboring communities. MEAC provides emergency assistance in terms of food, clothing, rent and utility assistance, while also helping individuals and families to become more self-suficient. MEAC collaborates with partners such as Cincinnati Works and Aspire to provide education (GED, college readiness) and access to family sustainable jobs. MEAC also offers literacy programs to improve children’s and adults’ reading skills.

MEAC, located at 4600 Erie Avenue, 45227. WHAT IS REDEEMER’S RELATIONSHIP WITH MEAC? Redeemer has worked with MEAC for over 12 years, providing financial support, in-kind donations and volunteers. Four years ago, Redeemer, MEAC, and Eastminster Presbyterian entered into a partnership that enabled Redeemer to provide special project funding for renovations of the facilities used by MEAC. Two years ago we celebrated the completion of that construction with the Redeemer Banquet Service going on the road for a shared worship service at Eastminster.

MEAC has been a frequent recipient of annual mission grants awarded by the Mission Funding Committee. Members of Redeemer volunteer at MEAC to support special events and on-going services.

WHAT CAN REDEEMER VOLUNTEERS DO TO SUPPORT MEAC? Many Redeemer families participate in illing and transporting Thanksgiving MEAC Holiday Party. boxes and in preparing food and serving at the Holiday Party. BEATS tweens hand-decorate the placemats used at the party, while other volunteers provide music and other festivities.

Year round, Redeemer volunteers assist with the MEAC Marketplace, that includes a food pantry, personal and home care items, and clothing. Others volunteer by transporting the items donated to MEAC in the bins in the Redeemer ofice reception area. Redeemer volunteers also work with children and adults in the literacy programs.

PERSONAL TESTIMONY FROM BARBARA BENNEWITZ, MEAC CHAMPION: “I have been involved with MEAC for about ive years. My personal experience has been through the children and their continued improvement in their reading skills. I love to see them grow to being proud and more self-assured. “

If you would like to learn more about how you can get involved with Madisonville Education and Assistance Center, please contact MEAC Champion, Barbara Bennewitz at 513-872-9906, or [email protected]. Wagon Item book donations.

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Bring your questions and ideas, and join us for a lively conversation on current and future mission/outreach ministries at Redeemer. We’ll be sending out a broad survey to the congregation this winter and need your input now to be sure we’re covering the topics of greatest interest. Sign up in the Lobby (or at tinyurl.com/y78zjafq) to attend any of the following gatherings:

Sat., Nov. 18, 9:00 - 10:30 am, Parlor Sun., Nov. 26, 11:30 - 12:15 pm, Great Hall (Adult Forum) Tue., Nov. 28, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Parlor.

All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served. If you have questions, please contact: Joyce Keeshin ([email protected]), Amy Harris ([email protected] ), or Larry Kissel ([email protected]).

A A R P Denise Hoeling

This year Halloween was on a Tuesday, which meant that 5 of the 6 classes had a party and trick or treated throughout the building. It was a busy day! The children had a great time. We kept the COR staff hopping! Many of the staff members wore funny hats and costumes this year! A great time was had by all! It is truly a fun day. The PK1 class played a donut eating game, where they could not use their hands. A donut hung by a string and they had to eat it. This is the irst year everyone ate the entire donut from the string! The kids love this game!

Our school pictures have arrived and they are beautiful! Please feel free to check them out on the main bulletin board in the hallway.

Now we are preparing for the Thanksgiving season. The preschool is providing six Thanksgiving meals for families of MEAC (Madisonville Education and Assistance Center).

Everyone is welcome to join us on Tuesday, November 22, at 9:30 am. We have a short service in the sanctuary with Thanksgiving crafts to follow in the Great Hall. We will also collect pantry items at our Thanksgiving Celebration to donate to a local food pantry. We all have so many things to be thankful for here at Redeemer Preschool.

On Thursday, December 14, at 11:00 am, we are having our 1st Annual Redeemer Preschool Christmas Sing-A-Long. We will begin with a Christmas story read by Father Phil, and then our music teacher, Linda Geers, will lead the children of the preschool in some traditional and new Christmas songs. We hope you can join us for what we hope is a wonderful celebration of the season, and a new Redeemer Preschool Christmas tradition!

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This Advent season, the Church of the Redeemer will The Lessons and Carols service was for many years a return to a wonderful Anglican tradition, the Festival of staple at Church of the Redeemer, and we hope that, as Nine Lessons and Carols. we return to this beautiful service, that it will be become once again an annual tradition for our entire parish and Though the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is most for the city of Cincinnati. The music will be performed closely associated with King’s College, by Redeemer’s Adult Choir, Jubilate Deo

Cambridge, and its storied chapel and Children’s Choir, and Ted Gibboney, choir, its origins lie further west in organist, under the direction of Brett Cornwall. In 1880, E. W. Benson, Bishop of Scott, Minister of Music, and Matthew Truro, designed a Festival of Nine Lessons Swanson, Assistant Choirmaster. The and Carols to be heard on Christmas Eve. readings will be given by several members In 1918, Eric Milner-White, dean of the of the parish, including clergy, vestry, chapel at King’s, adapted and enhanced staff, and lay people. As part of the service Benson's service, and the form has we will sing together several of the remained largely unchanged since. The wonderful Advent hymns found in our Festival heard at King’s each Christmas hymnal. Come join us for this new tradition, Eve is devoted to “hearing again the message of the celebrating the rich legacy of our Episcopal Tradition. The angels, and in heart and mind to go even unto service will be Sunday, December 10 (Advent 2), 5:00 pm, Bethlehem” to see the impending nativity. The service in the Sanctuary. There will be no Celtic Holy Eucharist in

offered at Redeemer this December is a further the Chapel this evening. adaptation, using the form of the Festival to explore the — Dr. Brett Scott, Minister of Music; season of Advent. Matthew Swanson, Assistant Choirmaster

Redeemer’s Wellbeing Enrichment Program – Caring for You So You Can Care for Others

You are asked to give so many things in your life. Mom, can I have $10? Grandpa, can I have a snack? Daughter, can you give me a ride to my hair appointment? Husband, can you pick up the dry-cleaning? Friend, can you give me some advice? Parishioner, can you volunteer next weekend? And so it goes… You have many roles that you play, and all of them require you to care for others.

Redeemer’s Family Ministry and Health and Wellness Ministries have partnered to create our new Wellbeing Enrichment Program. This program is designed to provide meaningful education to you - so that you can better connect with those with whom you are in relationship, be it as a parent, grandparent, child, spouse, friend, caregiver, or otherwise. This program is also designed to provide you connection with one another - as a community of people that share common experiences. Each event in the program is created with you in mind. So, come to one, come to some, or come to all of the events that apply to you and the ways that you need support in your many roles. Look for postcard surveys to be distributed soon so that you can provide us feedback as to what topics are closest to your heart.

We value and appreciate all of the ways you care for others and our Redeemer Community. Being able to give so much requires us to operate from a place of abundance. Without receiving the gifts that others have to share, we cannot fully give of our own. Please let us do some work to take care of you.

U W E E:

November 26 – Child in Bloom (Part II), 11:15 am in the Great Hall. Parenting coach Anne Jaroszewicz returns to share more strategies for forming young minds – for parents, grandparents, and caregivers. December 10 – Parenting coach Kerry McPhail presents: Creating Intention for Meaningful Holidays, 11:15 am in the Great Hall.

P A G E 1 3 N/D 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 23 24 25 26 16 17 18 6:15 am 8:30 pm 9:00 am 6:00 pm SUNDAY SCHEDULE 1:00 pm (except where noted) 7:00 pm 9:15 am Theology Circle Staff Meeting Turkey Pilgrimage Redeemer News Al-Anon AA Mission Ministries

7:00 pm Meeting collating 10:00 am Talk 8:00 am Holy Eucharist: Rite I (Sanctuary) Bible Study Demo Day at Lydia’s Steady Strides 9:30 am 6:00 pm House 8:45 am Coffee (Lobby), Rise and Shine (Parlor), Child care (infant7:30 pm Al-Anon -3 years) CLUB CoR and BEATS (Except 4th Sunday of the month) Yoga 9:30 am AA 12:00 noon 7:00 pm Thanksgiving Boxes 10:00 am Holy Eucharist: Rite II (Sanctuary) Downtown Bible Adult Choir Rehearsal to MEAC Banquet Holy Eucharist (Great Hall) Study 8:00 pm 10:00 am Godly Play (ages 3-6) 7:30 pm Al-Anon Ministry 11:15 am Adult Forum, Youth Formation, Children’s Activities, AA meeting Marketplace Setup ConnectFour (4th Sunday of the month) 1:00 pm 5:00 pm Celtic Holy Eucharist (Chapel) Spikenard Rehearsal

19 20 21 22 23 Thanksgiving 24 25 8:00 am 7:00 pm 9:30 am RPS Thanksgiving Parrish Ofice Closed Parrish Ofice Closed 1:00 pm Ministry Marketplace Musica Sacra RPS Thanksgiving Break RPS Thanksgiving RPS Thanksgiving Junior Spikenard 8:30 am 7:30 pm Program 12:00 pm Break Break Rehearsal Nominating AA 12:00 pm Downtown Bible 6:15 am 8:30 pm Committee Staff Meeting Study Al-Anon AA 9:20 am 6:30 pm 6:30 pm 8:00 pm Jubilate Deo Rehearsal BS Venture Crew Holy Eucharist Al-Anon 12:15 pm 7:30 pm Liturgy Board Camerata Rehearsal 8:00 pm AA

26 27 28 29 30 December 1 2 9:20 am 1:00 pm 11:00 am 9:30 am 6:15 am 8:30 pm 8:00 am Jubilate Deo Rehearsal Steady Strides Taylor Memorial Al-Anon Al-Anon AA FSH Giving Tree 10:00 am 7:00 pm Service 12:00 pm 10:00 am Setup Baptismal Service Musica Sacra 12:00 pm Downtown Bible Bible Study 9:30 am 11:15 am 7:30 pm Staff Meeting Study 5:30 pm Liturgical Renewal Child In Bloom AA 4:00 pm 6:30 pm Feast Day Potluck 1:00 pm 12:15 pm Mission Ministries Holy Eucharist Diner Spikenard Banquet Team Talk 6:00 pm Rehearsal 6:30 pm Yoga BS Venture Crew 7:00 pm 7:30 pm Adult Choir Camerata Rehearsal 8:00 pm 8:00 pm Al-Anon AA

3 First Sunday of 4 5 6 7 8 9 Advent 4:45 pm 9:30 am 9:30 am 6:15 am 8:30 pm 9:00 am 8:00 am MEAC Holiday Dinner Spiritual Directors Al-Anon Al-Anon AA Advent Quiet Day FSH Giving Tree Begins 5:30 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 10:00 am ACE Rehearsal 9:20 am Admin Meeting Staff Meeting Downtown Bible Bible Study 11:00 am Jubilate Deo Rehearsal 7:30 pm 6:30 pm Study 6:00 pm Junior Spikenard 11:15 am AA Altar Guild Party 6:30 pm Yoga Rehearsal Advent Wreath Boy Scout VC Holy Eucharist 7:00 pm Making 7:30 pm 7:00 pm Adult Choir 3:00 pm Camerata Rehearsal Book Group Holiday 8:00 pm Musica Sacra Concert 8:00 pm Event Al-Anon 5:00 pm AA BEATs Social

10 Second Sunday of 11 12 13 14 15 16 Advent 1:00 pm 10:00 am 9:30 am 6:15 am 8:30 pm 1:00 pm 9:20 am Steady Strides Knitting Group Redeemer News Al-Anon AA Spikenard Jubilate Deo Rehearsal 5:45 pm 12:00 pm Collating 10:00 am Rehearsal 11:15 am Stewardship Meeting Staff Meeting Al-Anon Bible Study Creating Intention for 7:00 pm 6:30 pm 12:00 pm 10:45 am Meaningful Holidays Vestry Meeting Boy Scout VC Downtown Bible RPS Sing-Along 12:15 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm Study 6:00 pm Intercessor Luncheon AA Camerata Rehearsal 6:30 pm Yoga 5:00 pm 8:00 pm Holy Eucharist 7:00 pm Music At Redeemer’s AA Adult Choir Lessons & Carols 8:00 pm (No Celtic Holy Al-Anon Eucharist)

This calendar includes parish events and community meetings scheduled in the building.

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S T S D!

M M Sunday, November 19, following the 8:00 am and 10:00 am services. Join us for this wonderful opportunity to make holiday gift giving more meaningful.

Sunday, December 3, following the 10:00 am services. Be sure to join us in A W M the Great Hall for this fun annual event and some great fellowship.

M S Sunday, December 3, 3:00 pm. Conducted by L. Brett Scott. The concert is C C free of charge, however, donations are gratefully accepted.

MEAC (M E Monday, December 4, from 4:45 - 7:15 pm at MEAC. Contact Barbara A C) H D Bennewitz (513-872-9906) if you can help with this annual outreach dinner.

Saturday, December 9, from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. Led by the Pastor Mary A Q D Laymon.

M A R Sunday, December 10, 5:00 pm in the Sanctuary. Once a staple at Church of S O L C the Redeemer, join us as we return to the tradition of this beautiful service.

Tuesday, December 19, from 5:45 - 8:00 pm. We will gather in the Redeemer C C parking lot. All are welcome to join in this joyful, annual tradition!