Newsletter Blog 2023-11-25
COMING UP AT HOLY APOSTELS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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