Newsletter Blog 2021-12-02
Coming up at Holy Apostles
Advent
Advent is a church season of preparation and anticipation as we await the Incarnation. It is a good to time commit ourselves to a spiritual practice – daily prayer and reflection, reading the bible, joining a reading group, coming to evening prayers. Often it is when are lives are most busy as they are during this season that we most need to take time to pause. Join us this season for one of our many offerings.
Read or listening to our daily Advent Reflections. This Advent our focus is on the Book of Isaiah, which alongside Mary, Isaiah is one of the bookends of Advent Season. The daily reflections are done by fellow parishioners and will come to your email every day if you subscribe to our emails or you can sign up listen to them as a podcast on our channel on Spotify, Apple Music: Holy Apostles Brooklyn Podcasts.
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 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
Pledge Update
We've completed our fifth week of our annual giving campaign at Holy Apostles with 51 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.
Advent Book Group
Last Chance to Sign Up: Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons
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.
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.
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.
Meal Train for New Baby
Emmett, Nicolette and Cyprus welcomed a new baby to their family this past Friday, November 24. Her name is Marlow Emmeline Jupiter Findley.
As we all know, parenting is hard and it takes a village, particularly in the newborn stage. So please consider joining us on the Meal Train during this time of transition for them to a family of four.
Please click here to sign up to bring a meal to their family.
What is Meal Train?
There are times in our lives when friends and family ask, "What can I do to help out?" The answer is usually to help them with a meal. When many friends provide support through a meal, Meal Train keeps everyone organized.
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.
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.
We pray for our neighbors at PS 15
We pray for Elaine Spring, relation of Ruth Klein, undergoing cancer treatment
To add your prayer to the prayer list, please email here.