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ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 85 East Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York 10549 Telephone: 914-666-8058 Fax: 914-666-8068 E-mail: [email protected] web: www.stmarksmtkisco.org OCTOBER 2015 Dear Members and Friends of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, The Fall Church Season is underway. Many thanks are due to Fran Osborne and her many helpers for the splendid “Welcome Back” Sunday brunch on September 20th. Fran’s wonderful gi fts for organization, recruitment of food and assistance, and consistent hospitality and kindness are remarkable blessings to all of us. The choir has returned from its summer hiatus and is again producing wonderful music on Sunday mornings under the leadership of Geoff Smith, our Organist and Choirmaster. In addition, we will have an All Saints Day Concert, on Sunday, November 1st and a Service of Advent Lessons and Carols on Sunday, November 29 th . The preparations for the Parish Rummage Sale, which is this coming weekend, are going full tilt under the leadership of Grace Gibbons, Rosemary Valenti, and Bob and Mary Ann Niedzwiedz. An extraordinary group of people are making donations and working on the set-up. Still others will help with sales and the eventual clean-up. The Parish Rummage Sale will be Friday, October 2nd, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, October 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The preview sale for Parish Members is Thursday, October 1 st from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The following Saturday afternoon, October 10 th , at 4 p.m., we will have a Saint Francis Day Blessing of the Animals on the parish house lawn. This is a great event for you and your companion animals, as well as for neighbors, children, and irregular church-goers. Bring your friends and their pets along! There will be treats for people and animals! Our monthly Adult Forums will resume on the third Sunday of every month, beginning on Sunday, October 18th from 9:05 to 9:45 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Our next six forums will be devoted to Issues Related to the End of Life. This month’s topic is: “Advanced Healthcare Planning and Directives: Medical Proxies, Living Wills, DNRs, and Making Care Choices.” Please save the date for the Annual Parish Christmas Dinner and Bazaar on the evening of Saturday, December 5 th . I will be writing to each of you later this month about this year’s Stewardship Campaign. It will not involve visits to your homes. What it does and will ask is that you attend a catered lunch after church on Sunday, November 22 rd . I pray that you will make attending church and lunch on that day a VERY HIGH PRIORITY. Soon we will be talking about other plans for Advent and Christmas. I anticipate a memorable Christmas Pageant, and a glorious liturgical celebration of Christmas in keeping wi th St. Mark’s traditions and familiar schedules I continue to be very grateful for your prayers, your candor, your insights, and your support as we endeavor to move forward in our shared mission and ministries. If something is troubling you or if you need my assistance, please let me know. I answer e-mail promptly, I gladly take phone calls, including on my cell – 917-584-8601, and when I am in the Church – which is often and regularly – my door is almost always open! Remember, I am only able to visit people in the hospital if someone tells me they are there! I ask that each of us pray for St. Mark’s Church, for the leadership of the parish, for our ministry and mission, and most of all for one another. The Holy Spirit is among us, and by God’s grace, I do believe all things are possible. Bill Doubleday, Priest in Charge
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ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
85 East Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York 10549 Telephone: 914-666-8058 Fax: 914-666-8068 E-mail: [email protected] web: www.stmarksmtkisco.org
OCTOBER 2015
Dear Members and Friends of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church,
The Fall Church Season is underway. Many thanks are due to Fran Osborne and her many helpers for the splendid “Welcome Back” Sunday brunch on September 20th. Fran’s wonderful gifts for organization, recruitment of food and assistance, and consistent hospitality and kindness are remarkable blessings to all of us.
The choir has returned from its summer hiatus and is again producing wonderful music on Sunday mornings under the leadership of Geoff Smith, our Organist and Choirmaster. In addition, we will have an All Saints Day Concert, on Sunday, November 1st and a Service of Advent Lessons and Carols on Sunday, November 29
th.
The preparations for the Parish Rummage Sale, which is this coming weekend, are going full tilt under the leadership of Grace Gibbons, Rosemary Valenti, and Bob and Mary Ann Niedzwiedz. An extraordinary group of people are making donations and working on the set-up. Still others will help with sales and the eventual clean-up. The Parish Rummage Sale will be Friday, October 2nd, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, October 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The preview sale for Parish Members is Thursday, October 1
st from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The following Saturday afternoon, October 10th, at 4 p.m., we will have a Saint Francis Day Blessing of the Animals
on the parish house lawn. This is a great event for you and your companion animals, as well as for neighbors, children, and irregular church-goers. Bring your friends and their pets along! There will be treats for people and animals!
Our monthly Adult Forums will resume on the third Sunday of every month, beginning on Sunday, October 18th from 9:05 to 9:45 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Our next six forums will be devoted to Issues Related to the End of Life. This month’s topic is: “Advanced Healthcare Planning and Directives: Medical Proxies, Living Wills, DNRs, and Making Care Choices.”
Please save the date for the Annual Parish Christmas Dinner and Bazaar on the evening of Saturday, December 5th.
I will be writing to each of you later this month about this year’s Stewardship Campaign. It will not involve visits to your homes. What it does and will ask is that you attend a catered lunch after church on Sunday, November 22
rd. I
pray that you will make attending church and lunch on that day a VERY HIGH PRIORITY.
Soon we will be talking about other plans for Advent and Christmas. I anticipate a memorable Christmas Pageant, and a glorious liturgical celebration of Christmas in keeping with St. Mark’s traditions and familiar schedules
I continue to be very grateful for your prayers, your candor, your insights, and your support as we endeavor to move forward in our shared mission and ministries. If something is troubling you or if you need my assistance, please let me know. I answer e-mail promptly, I gladly take phone calls, including on my cell – 917-584-8601, and when I am in the Church – which is often and regularly – my door is almost always open! Remember, I am only able to visit people in the hospital if someone tells me they are there!
I ask that each of us pray for St. Mark’s Church, for the leadership of the parish, for our ministry and mission, and most of all for one another. The Holy Spirit is among us, and by God’s grace, I do believe all things are possible.
Bill Doubleday, Priest in Charge
RUMMAGE SALE Friday, October 2 from 9 am – 5 pm Saturday, October 3 from 9 am – 3 pm
Parish Preview Sale Thursday evening, October 1st. from 7 pm to 9 pm.
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: Saturday, October 10 at 4 pm
Held in the circle in front of the Parish Hall, a truly Ecumenical and Interfaith event. Please invite your neighbors and friends!
PRAYER CORNER…..from VERANN ENGLAND
Dear Lord, I need more energy and strength. Change my thoughts to be in harmony with Your divine power. Keep me in close contact with You, the source of energy that never runs down. I accept this great new energy now and give you thanks. AMEN
They will soar on wings as eagles; they will run and not grow weary. (Isaiah 40:31)
taken from A Prayer for Every Need, published by Guideposts
2015 - 2016 ADULT EDUCATION SERIES
“Issues Related to the End of Life”
SIX THIRD SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH SESSIONS, 9:05 A.M. to 9:45 A.M.
In the Parish Hall, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Led by Father Bill Doubleday
Assisted by a Number of Guest Speakers
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Advanced Healthcare Planning and Directives:
Medical Proxies, Living Wills, DNRs, and Making Care Choices
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Estate Planning:
How to Extend Resources, Protect Assets, and Provide Support for Heirs, Charities, and Your Church
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Dealing With Your Stuff:
Moving, Downsizing, Hoarding, Collecting and Sharing Your Bounty
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Coping With Serious Illness:
In Oneself, in a Partner, or in Frail Elderly Parents or Relatives
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Care for the Dying and the Bereaved:
Treatment Choices, Hospice and Palliative Care, and Praying for Miracles
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Pastoral and Ritual Resources for the End of Life:
Last Rites, Funeral Planning, Cremation, Memorial Services, Burials, Bereavement Care
WHO'S WHO IN THE PEW…
Please join us in welcoming three new members to St. Mark’s! We’re blessed to have them here and hope you’ll take the time to greet them and become acquainted with these amazing women!
Candace La Vigne Candace was born and raised in Watertown, CT. From 1967 until 2008 Candace had a career as an educator in private, public, and vocational schools both in Connecticut and in New York. During her career, Candace taught all grades, served as a High School Principal, a Special Education Director, and an Assistant Superintendent of schools. She was a researcher at UConn, an Early Childhood Consultant for the CT Department of Education and was an Associate Professor at Fordham. She relocated to NY in 1990. She’s also held part-time jobs in the areas of gardening, banquet, library, and a summer camp; and volunteers in hospital and nursing home pet therapy programs. She loves animals and lives in Mt. Kisco with her two cats and her poodle. Candace was raised Episcopalian and she and her family were very active in the church. She participated in Choir and Youth Peoples’ Fellowship. The Blessing of the Animals Service brought her to St. Mark’s two years ago and she’s become a regular attendee since Lent. She enjoys Bill’s sermons and teachings and feels that our members are warm and welcoming.
Kendall C. Atterbury Kendall was born in Illinois, but grew up in Geneva, Switzerland (until age 10) and in different regions of the country. She is a social worker in NYC, working as an advocate for people with serious mental illnesses. Past careers included being a rowing coach, running an outreach program for at-risk youth,
working in construction, and working with hospice patients in CT. She’s currently finishing her dissertation as a Doctoral Candidate in Social Work. Her hobbies include rowing, running, hiking, camping, reading, and spending time with her pups. Born and raised as an Episcopalian, she attended an Episcopal high school. She and her husband, Jason, were very attached to their previous parish in Boston, but decided it was time to attend a local parish since their move to Mt. Kisco three years ago. Kendall appreciates the sense of community and welcoming hospitality that she’s found at St. Mark’s.
Tania Reyes Hiller Growing up as military child, Tania was born at the Scott Air Force Base in Illinois and moved extensively as a youngster; living both in Germany and several states within the U.S. She attended high school and college in San Francisco and lived there until 8 years ago, when she married her current husband, Dean. While in California Tania worked as the head of admissions at a hospital, ran a medical corporation, and obtained her real estate license. Not working now, Tania enjoys light gardening, reading, and playing duplicate bridge. Dean works in computers and helps Tania who describes herself as “technologically challenged and geographically (GPS) hopeless!” (Many of us can relate to this!) She was born into the Russian Orthodox church, but raised her children as Episcopalians in California. During the construction of their new home in Bedford, she used to drive past St. Mark’s frequently (although she thought it was St. Matthew’s). Imagine her surprise when she discovered through the church bulletin that she was actually attending St. Marks! But despite her small error, she feels this is her new spiritual home. She enjoys Bill’s sermons and appreciates the kindness and welcoming that both she and her little black teacup poodle, Bepka, have received.
November Markings Deadline is Monday, October 26, 2015
VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE – OCTOBER 2015
OCTOBER 4 OCTOBER 11
OCTOBER 18 OCTOBER 25
Altar Guild
8 am
10 am
Ruann England
Karen Kelley
Deb Lun
Sue Hewitt
Jill Finch Ruann England Celeste Lynn
Elizabeth Schreiner
TBD
Celeste Lynn Elizabeth Schreiner
Chalice Bearers
10 am Mary Lynn Windsor
Zoher Saour Ted Raymond Mary Lynn Windsor
Lectors 8 am Ruann England
Mary Ann Niedzwiedz Robert Niedzwiedz James Cottingham
10 am Doug Catalanello Asako Saour Alex Antes Susan West
Ushers 8 am
Ruann England James Cottingham
Gary & Brendan Ford
Mary Ann & Robert Niedzwiedz
Gary & Brendan Ford
10 am Vinnie Tuccillo Dale Schweizer
Mary Ann & Robert Niedzwiedz
Shirley Russell Karen Kelley
Vincent Tuccillo Dale Schweizer
Acolytes 10 am Kathie Bannon Andrea Steiner TBD TBD
Flower Guild
Shelagh Bosch Gloria Kissell Anna Stone
Grace Gibbons Rosemary Valenti
Nancy Weeks Fran Osborne Joan Robinson
St. Ann’s Drivers
Alan Guthrie
Charlie Williams Andrea Steiner Alex Antes
Hospitality Amanda Allen Lynthia Romney
Grace & Robert Gibbons
Helen Williams
Susan West Patricia Staunton Ivette Figueroa
Ann Bakis Eileen Marks
ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PARISH LIFE CALENDAR ~ OCTOBER 2015
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Rummage Set up 7 pm – 9 pm Rummage Sale Preview
2 Rummage Sale
9 am – 5 pm
7:00-9:00 PM House of Prayer
3 Rummage Sale
9 am – 3 pm
4 Baptism: Elder Baby 12:30 – 2:30 pm House of Prayer
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6
7
8
9 7:00-9:00 PM House of Prayer
10
Blessing of the
Animals 4 pm
11 12:30 – 2:30 pm House of Prayer
12 Church office
closed for
Columbus Day
13
14
15
16 7:00-9:00 PM House of Prayer
17
18
9:05-9:45 am Adult Forum
12:30 – 2:30 pm House of Prayer
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20
21
22
23 7:00-9:00 PM House of Prayer
24 9 am – 5 pm Youth Conference Vestry Retreat at Rectory
25
12:30 – 2:30 pm House of Prayer
26
7:30 Vestry Meeting
27
28
29
30 7:00-9:00 PM House of Prayer
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ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PARISH LIFE CALENDAR ~ NOVEMBER 2015
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 House of Prayer 4:00-5:30 pm
4:00 Choir
Concert-Feast of All Saints
2
3
4
5
6 7 – 9 pm House of Prayer
7
8 12:30 - 2:30 pm House of Prayer
9
10
11 Veterans’
day observance
Church office closed
12
13 7 – 9 pm House of Prayer
14
11:00
Donnie Barrand Memorial Service
15 12:30 - 2:30 pm House of Prayer
16
17
18
19
20 7 – 9 pm House of Prayer
21
22 12:30 - 2:30 pm House of Prayer
Deliver Turkeys to St. Ann’s
11:15 am Stewardship Luncheon
23
Vestry Meeting
7:30 pm
24
25
26 Thanksgiving Day 10:00 am Service
w/music
27 7 – 9 pm House of Prayer
28
29 12:30 - 2:30
pm House of Prayer
4:00 Advent
Lessons & Carols
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CLERGY AND STAFF
The Reverend William A. Doubleday, Priest in Charge Geoffrey Smith, Music Director Misael Enamorado, Sexton
Jeanne Goldberg, Parish Secretary Charlotte Avallone, Bookkeeper
Our Parish website is: stmarksmtkisco.org Our parish Facebook Page is: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Mt. Kisco, NY
The Priest in Charge may be contacted at [email protected] The Parish Secretary may be contacted at [email protected]
The Director of Music may be contacted at [email protected] The Bookkeeper may be contacted at [email protected]
OUTSIDE GROUPS MEETING WEEKLY AT ST. MARK’S CHURCH ESL Classes: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9 am to 12 Noon
Al-Anon & Alateen: Thursdays: 7 pm
VESTRY MEMBERS
ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
85 EAST MAIN STREET MOUNT KISCO, NY 10549
914-666-8058
Karen Kelley, Churchwarden Fran Osborne, Churchwarden Kedrick Carr, Treasurer Vincent Tuccillo, Clerk of Vestry
Ann Bakis Robert Niedzwiedz Lisa (Fleck)Dondiego Elizabeth Schreiner
Grace Gibbons Rosemary Valenti
