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2019 Summer Calendar and Graduates Calendar Summer 2019 Sunday, June 2 Thursday, June 20 Thursday, July 25 9am Coffee Hour for 8am Worshippers 11am Holy Eucharist at North Hill 7:30pm Stewardship Committee 9am Senior Choir Rehearsal Tuesday, June 25 Sunday, August 4 9:45am Kids’ Place, Church School, 5pm Dinner Volunteers at Pearl Street 10am Ecumenical Worship at Rite-13 Cupboard & Café St. Andrew’s 10am Holy Eucharist and Celebration 7:30pm Vestry Meeting Thursday, August 8 of Church School Teachers Thursday, June 27 5pm Holy Eucharist 7pm Book Circle 7:30pm Stewardship Committee Wednesday, June 5 Sunday, August 11 Thursday and Friday, July 4 & 5 7:30pm Men’s Book Club 10am Ecumenical Worship at Parish Office Closed the Hills Church Thursday, June 6 Tuesday, July 9 Sunday, August 18 9:45am Church School Committee 7:30pm Senior Choir Rehearsal 9:15am Pastoral Care Team Meeting 10am Ecumenical Worship at the Village Church Saturday, June 8 Thursday, July 11 Thursday, August 22 8am Men’s Bible Study 7pm Book Circle 7:30pm Stewardship Committee Sunday, June 9 Thursday, July 18 Sunday, September 8 9am Senior Choir Rehearsal 11am Holy Eucharist at North Hill 5pm Holy Eucharist Monday, July 22 Homecoming Sunday Tuesday, June 11 B-SAFE 20th anniversary week begins Saturday, September 14 9:15am Pastoral Care Team Meeting Tuesday, July 23 10:30am Deanery Confirmation 7:30pm Outreach Committee Meeting 5pm Dinner Volunteers at Pearl Street Sunday, September 15 Thursday, June 13 Cupboard & Café 11:30am Parish Picnic 7pm Book Circle The Sunday Holy Eucharist is celebrated at 8am, 10am and 5pm (except where noted). The Holy Eucharist is also celebrated every Wednesday at 7:30am. Silent Contemplative Prayer is offered Monday through Friday at 8:50am. All are welcome! Please note: the Sunday 5pm service will go on summer vacation for the summer months and will return the Sunday after Labor Day. Senior & Junior Choir do not meet in the summer, back in September. Parish office hours are Monday through Thursday 9am to 5pm and Fridays 9am to 12 noon. Parish office hours for June and July are Monday through Thursday, 9am to 3pm, and Fridays, 9am to 12pm, and for August, Monday through Friday 9am to 12pm. Photo: Rob Brandt St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Summer 2019 Calendar Congratulations to the Class of 2019 High School Nicole Beckett Abigail Greely Mason King Caroline Rogers Wellesley High School Dana Hall School Wellesley High School Wellesley High School Colin Braun Austin Greely Mason Klinck Scott Sawyer Belmont Hill School Lawrence Academy Noble & Greenough School Wellesley High School Karina Cowperthwaite Willie Griffin Lauren Lazaro Clementine Starck Noble & Greenough School Noble & Greenough School Wellesley High School Wellesley High School Ella Cushman Emma Hastings Andrew Mahlenkamp Ayla Stasiukevicius Beaver Country Day School Brimmer and May School Wellesley High School Walpole High School Alex Denomme Lindsay Hendrix Lucy Raeke Beaver Country Day School Dana Hall School Wellesley High School Maggie Donahue Carly Jones Elizabeth Robbins-Cole Wellesley High School Wellesley High School Wellesley High School John Frates Annie Kaplan Katherine Roer Roxbury Latin School Winsor School Dover-Sherborn High School College Claire Benning Luke Ehrlichman Kaitlyn Hill Ian McReynolds Brown University Emerson College University of Virginia Western New England University Lucy Boland Charlie Gordon Katie Livingston Sam Scott University of Vermont Middlebury College Wellesley College Bard College at Simon’s Rock Sally Dent Nathan Harper Andrew Lull Hobart & William Smith Colleges Lafayette College Furman University Jack Dwyer John Heher Philip Mahlenkamp St. Anselm College Tulane University American University Graduate School Sully Hart New England Conservatory Master of Music St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
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