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COMING UP AT HOLY APOSTELS

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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 112 individuals. We are hoping to fill the needs of 40 MORE. Help share the joy of Christmas with our neighbors.

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Pledge Update

We've completed our fifth week of our annual giving campaign at Holy Apostles with 51 pledges totaling $205,160—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.

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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.

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP: 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.

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.

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World Aids Day

Join fellow Episcopalians at the World Aids Day Observance on Friday, December 1, 2023 from 12:30-1:30 pm at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church—the observance will be outdoors whether permitting or it will be in the parish hall at 157 Montague Street.

The event will include the sharing of testimonials, reflections, and music. Participants and passersby will be invited to hang AIDS ribbons as an act of remembrance on our fence above a vibrant original work created by local artist Katie Merz.

Please contact Erin at Church or via the Mothers.

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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. Contact Alyson Campbell at Church or via the Mothers.

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Community Dinner & Evening Prayer

Community Dinner 5:30 pm

Evening Prayer 6:35 pm

December: 6, 13

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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.

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Prayer List

 

We pray thanksgiving for the baby born to Emmett and Nicolette.

We pray for our November birthdays: Megan Arnold, Eric Landau, Harper Landau and Travis Smith.

We pray for our neighbors at PS 15

We pray for the repose of the soul of Cecilia Prieto Morehouse upon her death from Alzheimer’s disease, friend of Carol Normandin, and her family during their time of grief.

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

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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

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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.