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Give a Family Christmas

Share the holidays with PS 15 by giving gifts to students and their families. Expect to spend $30+ per person. We will have wish lists and book recommendations, so you will have guidance in your purchases. 

Information about when and how to drop off gifts will be forthcoming. If you are interested in participating in the gift drive this year please click here to fill out the form. 

So far folks at Holy Apostles have signed up to get gifts for 68 individuals. We are hoping to fill the needs of 60-70 MORE. Help share the joy of Christmas with our neighbors.

Pledge Update

We've completed our third week of our annual giving campaign at Holy Apostles with 50 pledges totaling $159,435—we are more than 60 % to our goal of $250,000! This is amazing and a real testament to the commitment of our community to make Holy Apostles a vibrant and welcoming neighborhood church. 

As we come upon Thanksgiving we are so grateful for the myriad of ways we come together as the church to support the ministries at Holy Apostles – through pledging, giving to the discretionary fund, volunteering to serve, offering your creative gifts and so much more.

Thank you to all who have pledged so far. For those of you who would like to pledge and help us reach our goal so that we can continue to offer the programming and worship that helps to make Holy Apostles so special, fill out your pledge card on Realm.

Outreach with PS 15

Bring in Food Gift Cards: Migrant families staying in the Brooklyn Motor Home do not have access to kitchens or cooking facilities. We would like to get families $25 dollar gift cars to fast food style restaurants (you can buy these type of gift cards at Walgreens). Restaurants to consider are places like Chipotle, Chik-fil-A, McDonalds, etc.

Reader Support: Read one on one with students at PS 15 during the school day. Provide these children this basic opportunity and get to spend some time connecting with others. Email Alyson Campbell here to express interest.

God’s Love We Deliver: Thanksgiving

Share Abundance this Thanksgiving: What better way to give thanks than by volunteering with God's Love We Deliver? The holiday may still be weeks away, but already GLWD is organizing volunteers: you can find all the info and sign up on this website. Peter Saghir will lead a brief time of prayer and reflection for Holy Apostles parishioners at 9:30 a.m. at the church before volunteers disperse for meal deliveries. If you are delivering meals and would like to join with others at Church at 9:30am please email Peter here. If you wish to volunteer, you must sign up on the GLWD website.

Looking ahead to Advent

Advent Crafts:

Szopka Thursdays at Church 11 am, November 30, December 7, 14

A Szopka is a traditional Polish nativity scene. Join Laura Tyszka to make one of your own!

Craft Day Saturday, December 2 at 10 am

Wreath Making Sunday December 3 at 11:15 am

Sign up for advent crafts here.

Advent Book Group: An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups on zoom

This four-week Advent study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story: Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. We will discuss weekly on Zoom. Mondays at 8:30 November 27, December 4, 11, 18. Sign up with Mother Sarah here.

Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons on Zoom

Join fellow parishioners in reading, discussing, and praying with Archbishop Rowan Williams’ slim devotional book, Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin Mary. Meetings on Zoom from 9-9:30 pm on December 5, 12, and 21. Email Max Thorn to sign up here.

Community Dinner & Evening Prayer

Community Dinner 5:30 pm

Evening Prayer 6:35 pm

December: 6, 13

Sign up to Read

Join in to our worship by signing up to be a reader. Read one of the Scriptures or the prayers of the people. Sign up here. 

Join Us at Church

8:30 am This Little Light

10:00 am Main Service

Request Zoom Link.

To sign up to host coffee hour, please click here.

Prayer List

To add your prayer to our prayer list, please email here.

Coming up

Christmas Concert

December 10 at 4 pm

Join us for a family friendly evening of song with the Holy Apostles choir and some special friends

Christmas Caroling

December 22 at 6 pm

Fourth Sunday of Advent

December 24

10 am 4 Sunday of Advent Service with Christmas Pageant

Christmas Eve

December 24

4 pm Choral Prelude

4:30 pm Service

Advent & Christmas at Holy Apostles
On the first Sunday in Advent, we pray to God to give us the grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. With the coming of shortest day of the year and the long winter nights, we feel the darkness around us. We can forget to ask God to help us see us through the darkness and point us to the light and the hope that we find in Jesus. Advent is a time in our church year that reminds us of God’s presence and the promise of new life, new hope in Jesus - and we remember to ask for God’s help.

Join us this Advent as we journey through the darkness and the wilderness to the light of Christ.

SUNDAY WORSHIP
8:30 AM: This Little Light. A service for 0-5 year olds and their families.
10 AM: Main Service

DAILY REFLECTIONS
Daily Advent reflections by members of Holy Apostles. Reflections are emailed out daily and can be listened to on Spotify or Apple Podcasts @ Holy Apostles Brooklyn Podcast, or off our website here.  Join our mailing list.

BOOK GROUP
An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups | Monday Evenings on Zoom 8PM

This four-week Advent study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story: Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. We will discuss weekly on Zoom. Sign up.

8 PM November 27, December 4, 11 & 18

PRAYING WITH ICONS
Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons on Zoom

Join fellow parishioners in reading, discussing, and praying with Archbishop Rowan Williams’ slim devotional book, Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin Mary. Meetings on Zoom. Email Max Thorn to Sign up.

9 PM December 5, 12, & 21

SZOPKA CRAFTING
A Szopka is a traditional Polish nativity scene. Join Laura Tyszka to make one of your own!

Thursdays at Church.  Sign up

11 AM November 30, December 7 & 14

CRAFTING SATURDAY
Craft Day Saturday at the Church.

10 AM December 2

WREATH MAKING
After the 10 AM Service. Materials fee $25.  Sign up.

11:15 AM December 3

CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Christmas Concert with the Holy Apostles Choir.  Suggested donation $25 a family

4 PM December 10

CHRISTMAS CAROLING
Spread cheer, joy, and music throughout our neighborhood.

5 PM December 22 (Rain Date December 21)

4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT
christmas Pageant During the Service   ONE SERVICE ONLY

10 AM December 24

CHRISTMAS EVE
Choir, Candles & Communion

4 PM December 24

LESSONS AND CAROLS
Scripture reading interspersed with singing. ONE SERVICE ONLY

10 AM December 31

Dear friends in Christ,

We are thrilled to announce that Kevin Devine will be our new music director at Holy Apostles. We received many applications for the position and feel that his musicianship, his open spirit of collaboration as well as the joy he expresses in making music in a faith community is the right fit for us. Our hope is that Kevin will build on the foundation that Saya has laid, bringing his own joy and love of making music in community.

Kevin will begin on Sunday, October 1st and overlap with Saya through her last Sunday which is November 19th. Kevin and Saya are excited about working together over these weeks. We are entering a very busy time of the liturgical year and this overlap time gives him the opportunity to get to know our community and begin to plan for Advent and Christmas seasons.

We feel that Kevin brings a wealth of gifts to us at Holy Apostles and are looking forward to collaborating with him to continue to create joyful worship.

Please join us in welcoming Kevin to Holy Apostles!

Faithfully yours,
The Mothers

Kevin has directed as a guest at many churches on the east and west coasts, as well as having served as the choir director and organist at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sunset Park. He has obtained degrees from Boston University, Stony Brook University, and the Juilliard School and has been invited to play solo recitals on several concert series, including Gotham Early Music Scene in Manhattan and Harpsichord Heaven at the Barn at Flintwoods . As an accompanist and teacher, Kevin works with Amherst Early Music Festival, American Bach Soloists and San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque Workshop.

Kevin is an artist and administrator performing engaging and unconventional programs across the United States. He has a passion for innovative projects that strive to engage a 21st century audience. In order for classical and early music to thrive, he believes that the diversity of the musicians on stage, the composers & the audiences should reflect the diversity of the communities in which we live.

An avid hurdy-gurdy player and organetto player, Kevin loves to explore the possibilities that medieval and renaissance sound palettes present in the 21st century, from recreating ancient music to composing new music for old instruments.