1. family and parenting
2. children

Saint Alban’s Message
Vol. 8 No. 47
November 16, 2014
Sunday - November 16—Proper 30
8:15 am
Holy Eucharist
9:15 am
Sunday School & Adult Forum
9:15 am
Warden’s Meeting
10:15 am Holy Eucharist
10:15 am Children’s Chapel
4:00 pm
Youth Group Meeting
Nave
Educational Wing
Fr. Jeff’s Office
Nave
Parish Hall
Youth Room
Monday - November 17
6:30 pm
Rented Event
6:30 pm
Women’s Boot Camp
7:00 pm
EfM Meeting
Room B-5
Parish Hall
Library
Tuesday - November 18
9:00 am
Holy Eucharist with prayers for healing
10:00 am Bible Study
10:00 am Chatting Fingers
3:30 pm
Miss Lisa’s Ballet Class
6:30 pm
Women’s Boot Camp
7:30 pm
Vestry Meeting
Nave
Library
Room 11
Parish Hall
Parish Hall
Room 11
Wednesday - November 19
9:00 am
EfM
11:45 am Centering Prayer & Bring your sack Lunch
Room 11
Chapel
Thursday - November 20
3:30 pm
Miss Lisa’s Ballet Class
6:30 pm
Bell Choir Rehearsal
7:00 pm
Women’s Boot Camp
7:30 pm
Choir Rehearsal
Parish Hall
Nave
Parish Hall
Choir Loft
Friday - November 21
6:30 pm
Women’s Boot Camp
Parish Hall
The Wired Word
Saturday– November 22
7:00 am
Women’s Boot Camp
6:00 pm
Piano Recital
Parish Hall
Parish Hall
Sunday - November 23—Christ the King
8:15 am
Holy Eucharist
9:15 am
Sunday School & Adult Forum
1:30 pm
Piano Recital
10:15 am Children’s Music Program
6:00 pm
Connections Family Game Night & Ping Pong
Nave
Educational Wing
Parish Hall
Chapel
Parish Hall
HOLY B APTISM
Next date for Baptisms is the Feast of The Epiphany, Sunday, January 4.
Adult Forum at 9:15 am
Room 11
25th Anniversary of Berlin Wall
Fall Marked
by Celebrations
WANTED
BREAD
OR A PIE
Or cakes, cookies, muffins, jams,
jellies, marmalades, pickles, and
other items for our
BAKE SALE
St. Alban’s Bazaar
November 15
Please bring your
contributions for the
bake sale to the
Parish Hall, preferably this Friday,
between 10 am & 7:30 pm, so that
we may begin pricing and placing
them on display. Please clearly mark
these items as being for the Bazaar.
We also welcome
Saturday morning
contributions.
T H A N K
YOU!!!!!!!!
There will be
only one service Sunday,
December 7
at 9:15 a.m.
Our Annual Meeting will follow
immediately after the service and
child care will be provided.
Volunteers to lead Children’s Chapel
are needed! Please contact Donna
Archer at [email protected] if you
would like to help.
Fairfax County is considered to be one of the
Mark your calendars!
wealthiest counties in the nation, but we have more
Epiphany Pageant
residents living in poverty than any other single jurisdiction in VirSunday, Jan. 4, 2015
ginia. According to the Fairfax County Department of Family Serduring 10:15am service
vices, how many people were estimated to be living in poverty in
ALL children are welcome and encouraged
2013? Do you know the answer?
to participate in our annual Epiphany PagFamily Game Night, Ping Pong
eant, and all costumes are provided. A few
Tournament, & Pizza!
older youth will be asked to play specific
All ages are welcome to join us for a fun-filled parts, but all other kids are important for the
Game Night and Ping Pong Tournament in pageant, too. Rehearsal is Saturday, Jan. 3
the Parish Hall on Sunday evening, Nov, 23 from 6 pm-8pm. at 10am in the Nave. Adults are needed for
Bring your favorite board game to play with your friends from rehearsal and during the pageant to help
Saint Alban’s and a side dish (last name A-L) or dessert (last with props, cue kids, etc. Any adult intername M-Z) We will provide the Pizza! Cameron Chilton and ested in taking over as pageant coordinator
Andy Lieberthal will be leading the Ping Pong Tournament so should contact Jane Cheek, so you can
dust off those paddles and bring on the competition!!
work with Jane this year and then be ready
to coordinate next year."
Many thanks to all of you who have turned in your Estimate of
Giving Cards as part of the Stewardship Campaign. We urge
We will collect for Bethany House
those of you who have not done so to turn in your pledge cards this
Christmas shop again this year.
Sunday or as soon as possible so that we can finalize work on our
Sunday, Nov 16 through Sunday
budget for 2015. Pledge cards are available on the table in the foyer
Nov 30.
and narthex of the church if you have misplaced yours. Call Fred Suggestions include: FOR KIDS: Legos, DVDs,
Chatelain at 703-256-3261 if you need envelopes mailed to you. DS games, Toy Laptops, Art supplies, Leapfrog
Thanks!
toys, V-tech learning toys and games, dolls and
accessories, footballs, basketballs, TransformAdvent Candles for you Advent Wreaths are ers, wristwatches, Jewelry and hair items. FOR
available in the narthex. A suggested contribu- MOMS: Slippers, robes, body lotion, body wash,
tion to cover costs of $5 is always appreciated.
winter coats, gift cards (Marshalls, Ross, TJ
By Sunday morning, the bazaar will be over, the Maxx, Target), pajamas, crock pots/rice cookers,
financial results tallied, the stalls taken down, and scarves, purses, hats, jewelry.
we can all relax. But first, a big thank you is due
ACCA is again collecting
to everyone who participated in the bazaar by planning, donating
useable outerwear garitems to, publicizing, inviting friends to, shopping at, cooking for,
ments, including winter jackdecorating, setting up and clearing up. We enjoyed working with all
ets, sweaters, hooded
of you and appreciate your efforts. Most of all, we appreciate being
sweatshirts, gloves and warm wool hats
part of such a vibrant community that works together to do good
that will be provided to day laborers, along
things in the service of Christ. —Betsy Anderson and Nancy Calvert
with other garments for the women and
men in our shelter at Bailey's Crossroads
St. Alban’s Youth Group Christmas
and the children at our Child Development
Gift Wrapping Fund Raiser!
Center. Please put the garments next to
Beginning Nov. 23 and every Sunday
the ACCA food totes in the vestibule of
until Dec. 21 during both services
Frizzell Hall. Garments received by Tuesbring your gifts to be wrapped to the
office next to Father Jeff’s office before or after each service. While day, Dec. 10 will be distributed on Decemyou're there please leave a donation to support the Youth Group's ber 12. (Please wait until after the Bazaar
on Nov. 15 to bring in garments.)
summer 2015 mission trip.
PRAYERS
For the Sick and the Suffering in our Parish: John Anderson, Laura Barker, Marilyn Bernard, Fred Chatelain, Virginia
Cousins, Dick Craig, Linda Craig, Mary Ann Daymont, Art Deverill, Linda Fraunfelder, Gay Haran, Nancy Harrell, Eleanor Irish,
Ann Johnson, Janice Keith, Ellen Kennedy, Becky Schrag Lane, Steve Lusk, Elayne O’Loughlin, Ginny Peters, Michael
Sinsabaugh, Debbie Schrag, Bari St. Cyr, Trudy Van Balen, Jutta Wood, Bob Zikowitz, Ann Zuvekas.
For the Sick and the Suffering — Family and Friends: Gale Alexander, Amy, Ann, Catherine Archer, Jonathan and Leslyn
Arnold, Frank Baden, John Banse, Doug Barkes, Ned Bailey, Sydney James Belsher, Bill, Ken Bickel, Jacques Bléry, Jared
Boger, Jack Bowersox, Pete Brawner, Willi Brooks, Diana Bull, Caty and Brooks, Jack Bowersox, Charles Campbell, Charles,
Thelma Cheek, Elizabeth Cleland, Priscilla Coughlin, Richard Coyle, Pam Damon Hardin, Ken Denlinger, Priscilla Dewey, Sue
Dillard, Alice Easton, Ted and Lucia Eldredge, Nancy Elliott, Bob Elton, Erin, Sidney Evans, Steve Falck, Dorothy Ferguson,
Lisa Filipy, Finn, Hank Fisher, Lee Fisher, Chuck Fromer, Vanessa Gilbert, Ann Glennon, Steve Golde, Myrtle Gomez, Henry
Hamill, Alice Hamnett, Mike Hart, Lynda Hatches, Dorothy and Edwin Hess, David Hodgin, Jed von Hofen, Carol Holmes, Jay
Irish, Jeff, Patricia Carroll Kaercher, James Karnes, Stephen Krumwiede, Clyde Jenkins, Kristina Larson, Art Lennon, Jerry
Lewandowski, Randall Mays, Rand McClaellan, Benjamin McDowell, Jim McIntosh, Alice McNutt, Hanno Mueller, Janie
O’Brien, Patricia O’Brien, Duffy P., Dudley Patteson, Donald Perry, Peter, Lyn Pewitt, Paul Poff, Charlotte Poole, Katherine
Przondo, Lee Raitz, Cory Randall, Marian Randall, Dawn Rehrig, Ann and Tom Rhoad, Marcia Richards, Catherine Robertson,
Roger Rorrer, Meg Rowe, Jo Ann Rudy, Monica Santiago, Anne Schumaker, Sheryl, Brigitta Scott, Cherie Shirk, Cooper Shirk,
Patti Skinner, Sandy Spear Redmond, Gerry Steene, Mike Strelka, Timothy Tildon, Brenda Travis, Diane Troxell, Ron Truitt,
Edwina Vauclain, Carlos Vazquez, Lawrence Vogel, Harold Walton, Bridget Warner, Vickie Wen, Ed Wheeler, Paul
Whitebread, Vicki Wyatt, Mary White, Peter, Kiran, Suri, Anneliese.
Faithful Departed: The Rt. Rev. J. Mark Dyer, Emily and Mary Barkes
New on the Prayer List: Margy Leeds, Susan Rogers
Prayers for the military and civilians, who serve their nation working for peace: Jed Andrews, Jennifer Boggs, Cory
Curran, Mike Fitzpatrick, Matthew Hanson, Ian Jarvis, Mason Lybrand, Annie Robinson, and Matthew Trollinger.
The Flowers on the Altar are given to the glory of God by Fran Walinsky in memory of Ed and in thanksgiving for her family.
Birthday Prayers: Beth Olkowski 11/16, Penny Barringer 11/19, Jessica Trollinger 11/19, Emily Gamber 11/19, Harold Dobesh
11/20, Resse McCoy 11/20, Ryan McCoy 11/20, Susan Wade-Conrod 11/22.In the Parish Cycle of Prayer: For the volunteers who give countless hours to ensure our parish bazaar is successful. We pray
that all who visit the bazaar may see St. Alban's as a Spirit-filled place of welcome and a place where Christ is active and alive.
The Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Congregations and clergy of Christ Church, Millwood; St. Luke’s, Remington; St. Mark’s,
Alexandria; St. Marcos, Alexandria; Little Fork, Rixeyville; Trinity, Upperville.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Lusitanian Church (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) (Portugal) —The
Rt. Rev. Jose Jorge De Pina Cabral
To place a name on the prayer list contact the parish office at 703-256-2966, or email [email protected].
Updates regarding those on this list are greatly appreciated.
Last week's trivia: Around $65,000
Readings for November 16
Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
Psalm 90:1-12
Matthew 25:14-30
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November 16
8:15 AM
10:15 AM
November 23
8:15 AM
10:15 AM
Acolytes
Chris Martin
Emily Chambers
Emma Cheek
Benjamin Hite
Eleanor Lauderdale
Camille Stern
Benjamin Hite
Kendall Huheey
Nick Russell
Zach Russell
LEMs
Fred Holmes
Donna Archer
Clarence Zuvekas
Fay Froh
Linda Cummings
Jeanne Foster
Lectors
Delores Baisden
Cathy Casey
Gail Coleman
Kate Lauderdale
Fred Holmes
Camille Stern
Susan Lavrakas
Laura DePasquale
Intercessor
Nancy Gamber
NOT FILLED
Kay Lusk
Casey Cummings
Ushers
Fred Chatelain
Tom Tycz
John Clements
David Hamnett
Fred Chatelain
Bob Zikowitz
Moe Fraunfelder
Linda Fraunfelder
Greeters
NOT FILLED
Jo Hodgin
Larry Hodgin
Jean Stonesifer
Steve Peck
Chris Peck
Coffee
Barbara Cook
Fay Froh
Nancy McSlarrow
Brenda Nakato
PJ Sottile
Dottie Ninde
Tom Tycz
Fritz Gilbert
Jane Gilbert
Ginger Caress
Altar Guild
Team I—Salome Metzger, Leneice Wu
Jane Gilbert, Marta Hyde, Gean Martin,
Nell Dillard, Ellen Gerdes, Virginia Jennings,
Kate Wettstein
Team II—Sally Hanlein, Captain
Joyce Aument, Melinda Patterson,
Sally Sare, Judy Snyder, Delores Baisden
Callers
Martha Kelley, Ralph Kelley
Salome Metzger, NOT ASSIGNED
Sleepy
Hollow
Weber Ivy, Cathy Knowles , Camille Stern
Delores Baisden, Cathy Knowles, Chris Martin
Counters
Nell Dillard, Moira Skinner
Steve Hershner, Bari St. Cyr
Security
Ed Caress
Michael Sinsabaugh