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Newsletter Blog 2024-01-06

Coming up at Holy Apostles

Annual Meeting

January 21 after the 10 am service

The Mothers will give their annual address during the 10am service; following the service in the undercroft will be the presentation of the approved 2024 budget, a review of the 2023 financials with a time for questions and answers. Two members of the Vestry will also be elected.

All are welcome and encouraged to participate – the vitality and growth of our parish are dependent on your engagement! If you have a question for the meeting you are invited to share it with our wardens, Peter Saghir and Ann Mellow.

Vestry Classes

2025

Karan Merry

Ann Mellow

James Topping

2026

Chelse Haynes

Zack Parkman

Peter Saghir

2027 - Class to be elected. Two positions.

Nominations:

Emily Hursh

Audrey Whitworth

Bios:

Emily Hursh has attended Holy Apostles for about six years now. She’s a doula, and an aerialist, and loves cooking, playing the ukulele and guitar, and learning more about birth. She was received into the Episcopal Church here at Holy Apostles in 2018.

Audrey Whitworth is a long-time parishioner at Holy Apostles, currently on the Vestry and formerly Co-warden. She splits her time between Windsor Terrace and Ulster Park, NY with her partner George and enjoys spending time with her son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Meredith and grandchildren Liam and Jane.

Pledge Update

2024 Annual Giving Campaign

Our 2024 annual giving campaign has reached new heights! We are currently at 60 pledges totaling $220,100 towards our $250,000 goal. To make your pledge today, click here.

Once you've set up your pledge, you can set up recurring payments here. Please make sure to update your giving if you haven't already done so.

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 to express interest.

1st Community Dinner & Evening Prayer 2024

In January: 10, 17, 31

Wednesday January 10

Dinner 5:30 Chicken parm, penne, garlic bread

Prayer 6:35

Click here to sign up for dinner.

Easter and Holy Week Choir

Starts Sunday, February 4

Join Music Director Kevin Devine starting February 4, Sundays after church from 11:30-1 pm to rehearse music for Holy Week and Easter. Easter is on March 31st this year.

Please email Kevin with any questions here.

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.

Sign up to Host Coffee Hours

We need hosts for coffee hour after the 8:30 and 10 am services. It’s easy: bring a baked good, some fruit, or even some savory bites. Feel like it will be overwhelming? Don’t worry, you can do this. Instructions are found on the signup genius page for both the 8:30 and and the 10 am service.

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

Prayer List

We pray for our January birthdays: Brenda Alleyne, Ellen Correa Golay, Gwendolyn Daring, Glenn Jussen, Isaac Miles, Carol Oliver, and Nikki Waller.

We pray for Ruth Klein suffering with arthritis in her neck and back making her daily activities difficult and painful.

We pray for our neighbors at PS 15

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

Newsletter Blog 2023-12-23

Coming up at Holy Apostles

Christmas is Coming!

Fourth Sunday of Advent 10 am service with Christmas Pageant

Christmas Eve Service begins with a choral prelude at 4 pm and a 4:30 start time to the service itself.

Lessons and Carols on December 31 at 10 am (only one service this day)

Pledge Update

There’s still time to pledge! To date we have received 59 pledges totaling $217,100 towards our goal of $250,000. This is amazing! Thank you to everyone who has pledged so far to our common ministry at Holy Apostles. If you haven’t yet pledged and would like to do so, you can pledge online on Realm: here.

Outreach with PS 15

Give a Family Christmas

By now you should have received your assignment for gifts. If you have not or if you have any questions you can contact Meredith Roberts here. Gifts are due December 10-17.

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.

Community Dinner & Evening Prayer

Resumes Wednesday January 10

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.

Prayer List

We pray for our December birthdays: Geddes Golay, John Golay, John Harvey, Billy Lopez, Olga Oliver, Max Thorn, and Audrey Whitworth.

We pray for the repose of the soul of Gail Ley, aunt of Ben Tyszka, and we pray for her family during this time of grief.

We pray for Kerri, Dennis and Luca Coucci, friends of Audrey Whitworth undergoing health issues.

We pray for Charlie Christ, friend of Emily Blair, in the hospital.

We pray for our neighbors at PS 15

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

Newsletter Blog 2023-12-09

Coming up at Holy Apostles

Advent

Advent is a church season of preparation and anticipation as we await the Incarnation. Often it is when are lives are most busy as they are during this season that we most need to take time to pause.

We hope you are reading or listening to our daily Advent Reflections. The daily reflections are done by fellow parishioners and you can listen to them as a podcast on our channel on Spotify, Apple Music: Holy Apostles Brooklyn Podcasts.

Christmas Concert

December 10 at 4 pm

The choir of the Church of Holy Apostles in Brooklyn is thrilled to invite you to our 2nd annual Christmas concert. We’re decking the halls and lighting the lights so please join us as we sing holiday favorites new and old.

The choir of the Church of the Holy Apostles will be joined by several musical guests, bringing the sounds of the season to our cozy and picturesque sanctuary on Greenwood Ave.

This is the perfect treat for families and music lovers alike. Enjoy an evening of holiday cheer and make sure to stick around after the concert for a chance to take some photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus!

Please spread the word with neighbors and friends!

Suggested donation $25 per family

Giving to Music, Greens and Flowers

Fill our church with the delights of the season. We take great joy in decorating the church with all of the festive greens, lights and flowers.

We also augment our choir with professional singers to enhance the sounds of the season.

Please consider contributing here.

Christmas is Coming!

Join us for community caroling on Friday, December 22 at 5 pm

Fourth Sunday of Advent 10 am service with Christmas Pageant

Christmas Eve Service begins with a choral prelude at 4 pm and a 4:30 start time to the service itself.

Lessons and Carols on December 31 at 10 am (only one service this day)

Pledge Update

We've completed our fifth week of our annual giving campaign at Holy Apostles with 53 pledges totaling $213,160—we are more than 80 % 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.

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: here.

Outreach with PS 15

Give a Family Christmas

By now you should have received your assignment for gifts. If you have not or if you have any questions you can contact Meredith Roberts here. Gifts are due December 10-17.

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.

Community Dinner & Evening Prayer

Community Dinner 5:30 pm

Evening Prayer 6:35 pm

Dinner Menu: Special Christmas Dinner

Signup here.

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.

Prayer List

We pray thanksgiving for the birth of Marlow, for their parents Emmett and Nicolette and their sibling Cyprus.

We pray for our December birthdays: Geddes Golay, John Golay, John Harvey, Billy Lopez, Olga Oliver, Max Thorn, and Audrey Whitworth.

For Lauren, friend of James Topping, who died tragically in the Bahamas.

We pray for our neighbors at PS 15

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