Weekly HigHligHts of ParisH life June 16 - 23, 2019

This Week AT ChrisT ChurCh

SUNDAY, JUN. 16 – Trinity Sunday

8 am Holy Eucharist (N)

9 am Holy Eucharist (N)**

10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL)

MONDAY, JUN. 17

Offices Closed

TUESDAY, JUN. 18

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

4 pm Holy Eucharist @ The Rivers (Offsite)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

6:30 pm DA (MH)

7 pm Vestry (U)

WEDNESDAY, JUN. 19

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

5:30 pm Holy Eucharist (SMC)**

8:30 pm AA (LL)

THURSDAY, JUN. 20

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

FRIDAY, JUN. 21

8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC)

5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

SATURDAY, JUN. 22

Offices Closed

9:30 am Pride March (Offsite)

8:30 pm AA (LL)

SUNDAY, JUN. 23

8 am Holy Eucharist (N)

9 am Holy Eucharist (N)**

10:10 am Lemonade on the Lawn (FL)

10:10 am Summer Starters (RG)

**Childcare is provided in B113/Nursery

Location Abbreviations:

BL - Bicknell Library CC - Children’s Chapel

EdW - 2nd fl. Ed. Wing FL - Front Lawn

FR - Family Room LL - Lower Level

MH - Miller Hall N - Nave

RG - Rose Garden SMC - Chapel

U - Undercroft

WeLCOMeW elcome to all! We come together on today to worship God and to discover what it means to

be a person of faith in this world. We encourage you to participate fully in this service of Word and Sacrament. If you are new to Christ Church, please know that you have a place among us. If you are looking for a spiritual home, we hope that you will consider making Christ Church that home. We are better together and hope you will join us on our common journey to the heart of Christ.

All Children are Welcome! Children gather at the Children’s Cross for the Collect of the Day and Dismissal to Children’s Chapel to hear the story of Jesus and engage in a meaningful reflection of the lessons for that Sunday, before returning to join in our Prayers and to share in the Peace and Holy Communion.

Church School for children has concluded for the year and will resume in the fall.

A Prayer for FathersGracious God, Father of all,We thank you today for all the fathers in our lives,Our own fathers and grandfathers,And all who help to father children around the world.

Be with those just starting the adventure of parenthood, those parenting teens,those whose children are grown,and those whose children now care for them.

Be with those who take the place of fathers who are absent. Be with those who miss their fathers, and grant them the peace that only you can give. Be with those who struggle to make ends meet, those who must be away, and those who strive to become better at fatherhood.

May those for whom we pray grow in your strength and share your love and

wisdom with all under their care.

Amen.

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

Parish & Community Events

Every Summer Sunday following the 9 am Service

June 23 - September 1Every year many Detroit children start their summer days hungry. Throughout the summer when children who rely on school breakfast programs go without, Christ Church volunteers gather to make difference.PREPARATION: (Fridays for 1 hour) Count supplies to organize for packing on Sunday. ASSEMBLE: (After 9 am Service) Every summer Sunday we’ll fill breakfast bags each with 7 breakfast meals for low income children through Crossroads’ Summer Lunch program. Everyone is invited to participate. We need Shepherds to guide the assembling process. DELIVER: (Sundays from 11 am - 12 pm) Anyone with a van/truck who is able and willing to deliver the “Summer Starters” bags to Crossroads on Sunday after they are assembled.

To sign up for Preparation, Shepherding or Delivery go to www.christchurchgp.org/summerstarters

We invite you to join us any Sunday this summer to make a difference and help other know the good news of Jesus Christ!

For more information contact Joseph Daniel at rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4842.

Circle Summer BBQsCircle Groups help form and deepen the bonds of affection that we share, not just with our friends, but across our broad community. Circles are hosting Summer BBQs in member’s home. Each event is a casual potluck with guests bringing their favorite dish to share. If you need a reminder of your Circle Assignment, contact the Rector’s Office at rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4842.

• Circle 8 – June 22 Dan & Cathryn Skedel, 1214 Putnam Circle, Rochester

• Circle 7 – July 12 Heather Jones, 37 Beverly Rd, GPF

Are you interested in hosting an event? Contact Fr. Walter at wbrownridge@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 116.

Summer Starters Kickoff 2019 Friday, June 21Every year many Detroit children start their summer days hungry. Throughout the summer when children who rely on school breakfast programs go without, Christ Church volunteers gather to make difference. Join us as we kick off Summer Starters 2019!

PREPARATION: (Fridays for 1 hour) Count supplies to organize for packing on Sunday.

To sign up go to christchurchgp.org/summerstartersFor more information contact Joseph Daniel at rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4842.

3rd Annual Grosse Pointe Pride March Saturday, June 22, 9:30 am - Noon “Love Thy Neighbor”

Show your support for our LGBTQ+ friends and neighbors. Join us for our 3rd annual, family friendly Grosse Pointe Pride March! We will have face painting and a brief rally at 9:30 am at Grosse Pointe South High School. We will be marching to Maire where there are vendors, featuring the canvass signing, choir, and more!

For more information contact Joseph Daniel at 313-885-4842 or rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org.

Crossroads of Michigan: Loaves & Fishes Sunday, July 28Help us collect food to stock the emergency food pantry at Crossroads of Michigan. Look for the grocery bags with shopping lists attached next week in the Lobby and Narthex. Return your full grocery bag on Sunday, July 28 for delivery to Crossroads.

For more information contact Joseph Daniel at 313-885-4842 or rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org.

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

We Pray together:Please leave your written prayer request at our Reception Desk or contact Fr. Drew at dvanculin@christchurchgp.org. In order to keep all our prayers for healing meaningful and current, we will keep names on the Prayer List for two weeks.

Assisting at Services:

In the Diocese of Michigan Cycle of Prayer: Saint Andrew’s, Livonia; All Saints’, La Romana (DR); and Church of the Messiah, Detroit.

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for: The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion); The Most Rev’d Nicholas Okoh.

In our Parish Cycle of Prayer this week we pray for: Evan & Sarah Pile, and children, Samantha and Aiden; Cody & Erin Pittard, and son, Kincade; Todd & Bunny Platt, and children, Claire, Avery, and Lauren; Richard & Diane Platt.

We pray for those in active military service for our country: Nathan Gaggin, Winston Hughes, Patrick Moore, Ryan Worrell, George H. Zinn IV.

We offer prayers for: Barbara, Bill, Bob, Connie, Constance, Ed, Emily, Gianni, Helen, Herb, Jane, Jim, Joann, Joyce, Kate, Kathie, Louie, Mary, Osborn, Otto, Patrick, Peter, Rob, Shiloh, Tom.

In celebration for the birthdays and anniversaries of: Linda Carlson; Walter Jacques; James Williams; Marianne Grenier; Tim Bledsoe; Eric Lucander; Jack Williams; John Stroh; Bill Johnstone; Stan Dickson; Jean Wyatt; William Clay; Bob & Beth Alltop; Stan & Heather Dickson, Jr.; Bruce & Kit Greening; Geraldine Henkel; Al & Susan Mazur; Carol Mengden; Peter & Barbara Nickles; Jeff & Kathie vonSchwarz; Mary Anne Zinn.

Altar Guild: 8 am Mary Bamford, Nancy Ross 9 am Susan Mills, Joel Anyim

Eucharistic Ministers: 8 am Ed White 9 am Kate French, Michael Flores, Brendan Walsh

Lectors: 9 am Sean von Schwarz

Prayers: 9 am Sarah Teachey

Verger: 9 am John Van Osdol

Acolytes: 9 am Graham Romer, Emma Reich, Jane Van Osdol,

Ashlyn Johnson, Lorelei Carr, Sam Van Culin

Ushers: 9 am Mark Lorenger, Hank Darlington, Steve Fehniger,

Marshall Irby, Frank Niscoromni, Amie Sweeney

Flowers: Mike Fournier, Candy Sweeny

• New friends• Creative games• Surprising adventures

• Amazing experiments• Safari treats• Incredible music

Please join us as Christ Church Episcopal, First English Lutheran and St. Paul Lutheran, in collaborative ministry present:

Hosted by First English Lutheran Church

At Roar! VBS, kids explore God’s goodness and celebrate a ferocious faith through Bible stories, crafts, games, and more. They’ll discover that God is good no matter how wild life gets! For more information or to volunteer, please email Susanna Muzzin at smuzzin@christchurchgp.org.

Send your kids on an amazing wild adventure!

Registration Open Now - July 14

For more information and to register go to www.christchurchgp.org/vbsCost is $40 per child (family discounts and scholarships available.)

Half Day (ages 3 -5)9 am - Noon

Full Day (Entering 1st-6th)9 am - 3 pm

Roar! July 29 - August 2Help Us

Keep Our Gardens Looking Beautiful!

We’re looking for parishioners who will maintain a church garden bed for the growing season

(April-November). Responsibilities include weeding, dead-heading flowers, picking up litter or trimming

dead or broken branches at least twice a month during the season.

(Specific instructions and training provided after sign up.)

To sign up go to christchurchgp.org/garden

Christ Church Grosse Pointe61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313.885.4841 • christchurchgp.org

LessOns fOr The firsT sundAy AfTer PenTeCOsT:TriniTy sundAy

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: “To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth—when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.”

Psalm 81 O Lord our Governor, *

how exalted is your Name in all the world!

2 Out of the mouths of infants and children *your majesty is praised above the heavens.

3 You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *to quell the enemy and the avenger.

4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,

5 What is man that you should be mindful of him? *the son of man that you should seek him out?

6 You have made him but little lower than the angels; *you adorn him with glory and honor;

7 You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *you put all things under his feet:

8 All sheep and oxen, *even the wild beasts of the field,

9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

10 O Lord our Governor, *how exalted is your Name in all the world!

Romans 5:1-5Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

John 16:12-15Jesus said to the disciples, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”

Lessons for next week: Proper 7Isaiah 65:1-9Psalm 22:18-27Galatians 3:23-29Luke 8:26-39

The Rev’d Andrew Van Culin, Rector • The Rev’d Canon Ron Spann, Director, Spirituality Center The Rev’d Walter Brownridge, Associate for Parish Life and Christian Formation • Scott Hanoian, Director of Music and Organist

Dexter Kennedy, Assistant Organist • Susanna Muzzin, Director of Children and Family MinistriesDiane Ward, Associate for Finance and Administration