Dear friends,
There is an unusually high amount of activity going on at St. Dunstan’s today as we prepare for tomorrow’s annual Fly Pig BBQ. Even if you haven’t signed up please bring a side dish if you can and join us. Ticket are $15 for adults and $5 for children under 10. Lunch will be served immediately after the 10:45 service. Nothing else changes about tomorrow’s schedule. We will have both services AND Sunday School.
November is right around the corner. Every year to me time seems to accelerate as we head into the holidays. We start next week with All Saints’ Sunday, the day we remember those we love who are not part of what Paul calls “that great cloud of witnesses.” At the altar before the Eucharist we read the names of all who are interred in our Memorial Garden. If you have names of others who have died in the last year that you would like included please send them to Claudia.
Also next Sunday at 4 p.m. we invite you to come back to church to hear our amazing choir sing the Requiem — Messe Pour Les Morts — written in 1804 by French composer Theodore Debois. It will be a beautiful and appropriate way to spend part of All Saints’ afternoon.
Then we ask you to switch gears and begin thinking of Thanksgiving. As we have done in the past we will help provide the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner to people served by Emmaus House, an Episcopal ministry serving those who live in Peoplestown, the are around the old Turner Field. We have pledged to provide 50 bags of ingredients. The list of what is needed can be found on the SignUp Genius link below. We also need volunteers to help assemble the bags and deliver to Emmaus House.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4FACAA28AA8-66975886-thanksgiving#
Finally, I will be away next week. Monday morning I’m flying to Winnipeg, Canada, and then 1,000 miles north to Churchill, a remote area reachable only by air or train. In October and November this village with a population of 810 has the world’s largest concentration of polar bears. Churchill is on the Hudson Bay and the bears hang out there waiting for the bay to freeze so that they can spend the winter on the ice. My camera gear is all loaded up, and I have every bit of warm clothing you can imagine. I hope I’ll be back with lots of good pictures and stories to tell.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
With love,
Tricia