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OCTOBER 2014 The 8th Annual Art for Mission Aucon Sunday, October 19, 9:00am-12:30 pm If you have an art or cra that you would like to donate it would be very much appreciated. All proceeds will be donated to Project Feed as part of our whole church mission on hunger. Every member and friend of Woodfords is welcome to donate one piece of their own art or cra to be displayed and sold at our silent auc!on. Please call Charlo#e Cuzner at 775-1389 if you are willing to share your ar!s!c talent. It will be a beau!ful show, and it is always fun to see the results of the amazing talent of the members and friends of Woodfords that will be on display. To see one of the stunning items for sale and fmi, go to page 17. T+, A--./0 W22342536 C+.58+ DOWNEAST F AIR S a t u r d a y N o v. 8 9:00am—2:00pm Antiques Jewelry Books Bakery Crafts Decorations Hand Knits Lobster Rolls Snack Bar Silent Auction How will YOU help make our Fair a huge success? 2 The Woodfords Beacon H a p p y O c t o b e r B i r t h d a y To . . . Carol Chadbourne .................. 1st Elizabeth Sprague................... 2nd Judy Shields ........................... 3rd Jim Pringle ............................. 5th Susan Wooten ........................ 5th Jessica Keast .......................... 6th Shari Robinson ....................... 6th Meredith Tierney-Fife ............ 6th Meghan Graser ...................... 9th Brad Ronco ............................ 10th Russell Kenney ....................... 12th Colleen McKee ....................... 13th Carolyn Young ........................ 13th Mary Belanger ....................... 16th Billie Jo Wooten ..................... 16th Emma Cook ............................ 17th Ron Gagnon ........................... 18th Karin Kurry ............................. 19th Janet Peterson ....................... 20th Ronald Kellam ........................ 21st Leanne Walker……………………..22nd Charlo#e Merrill .................... 24th Tyra Pranger .......................... 25th Avon Oakes ............................ 28th Jim Fletcher…………………………..30th Teach Us to Pray A Workshop on Prayer for All Lay Ministers and Woodfords Folk Saturday, October 18, 9am-12pm 2nd Floor Conference Room What happens when an elderly person in your care asks you to pray with him/her? Do you no!ce your palms swea!ng? Change the subject? Rapidly find a ‘formula’ prayer that will serve the purpose? Call Rev. Carolyn or Rev. Jim? Why is casual, simple, responsive prayer so difficult for us? How and why do we develop prayer resources? Using journaling, role play, art, and scripture, our church’s Spiritual Life Director and Elder Chaplain have developed a workshop on prayer for all Woodfords folk who would like to hone their skills and increase their ‘comfort zone’ around praying for one another. There is no cost for this workshop– just your willingness to surrender your anxiety about prayer for those around you. The Woodfords Beacon 3 Happy October Anniversary To... Joanne & Gayton Bartle# ..................... 10/02/1976 Priscilla & Tom Hennessey ................... 10/01/1977 Lynn & James Marcro ........................ 10/19/1985 Jennifer Wriggins & Mary Bonauto ...... 10/03/1987 Jane & Glenn Dunne……………………………10/08/1988 Catherine & Ben Walter ....................... 10/26/1991 Leanne Walker & Dave Wasdahl .......... 10/07/1996 Alison Grey & Oliver Murray ................ 10/17/1999 Adrienne-Marie & Jeffrey Wilson ......... 10/18/2003 Stacey & Jim Dand ............................... 10/02/2004 Congratulaons on Your Wedding! The congrega!on of Woodfords Church sends its blessings and best wishes to Kelsey Shea and Jannik Nelson on the occasion of their wedding here at Woodfords Church on September 6. We wish Kelsey and Jannik all the very best. Be Sll: Advent Contemplave Prayer Prior to our worship services in Advent, Mary ZacheryLang will lead a !me for contempla!ve prayer in the Chapel. Come and be s!ll at this holy !me of Advent, filled with the an!cipa!on of Emanuel, God-with-us. Prayers begin on Nov. 30th and con!nue through December 21 from 9:15am to 9:45am. Only One Sunday a Year That’s all that the nursery needs from you. Just one Sunday a year to play with the community’s toddlers while you can s!ll hear the service which is piped in to the nursery from the sanctuary. You do not have to be a parent or a grandparent. You only need to feel willing with a sense of responsibility for our youngest members whose parents would love to have an hour in church to listen and sing and pray. Jo Wallace is our nursery staff and with our Safe Church Policy, there must be two people with our children at all !mes. So you won’t be alone. If this calls to your heart, please call me and pick a Sunday. Blessings to you. Mary Zachary-Lang, Director of Spiritual Growth 774-8243, mzachary [email protected], or see me at coffee hour. 4 The Woodfords Beacon lÉâËÜx \Çä|àxw àÉ tÇ TâàâÅÇ UtÄÄ GIVE YOUR JEANS A NIGHT OFF and dig out your party clothes! The Autumn Ball is coming right up. Join your church friends and those within your circle of friends for a fun night out on November 1st. Tickets are only $50 per person and they won't last long. The last day of !cket sales is October 22nd! YES! October 22nd. Get your !ckets early for a night of fantasy, fun, food, and fellowship– brought to you by the Ball Commi#ee. Tickets are for sale aer church or in the church office– call 774-8243 or [email protected]. Date: Time: November 1, 2014 6-10pm to include dancing to the Jim Ciampi Band Dress: Black Tie Optional Location: Woodfords Church Hall 202 Woodford St, Portland Menu: Apple-Marinated Turkey Baked Haddock Eggplant Rollatini Roast Potatoes, Salad Green Beans Amandine Chocolate Pecan Torte $50per person ; Cash Bar ; (Age 21 &older) Altrusa of Portland’s 6th Annual EMPTY BOWL MEAL Saturday, Oct. 11, 4:30pm-8:30pm Memorial Hall Guests choose a ceramic bowl to use for their meal and to keep as a reminder that there are always EMPTY BOWLS in the world. In exchange for a meal and the bowl, the guests make a $10 contribu!on. Meal includes choice of soups, bread, beverages, and dessert. All monies raised benefit PROJECT FEED. The Woodfords Beacon 5 Notes from our Organist and Choir Director Children's Choir is on the move! The Children's Choir began their Fall season with an ‘indoor picnic’ on Saturday, September 13. Parents and children shared their hopes and vision as we began working together to develop the children's music program for the coming church year. The choir rehearses every Sunday aer worship at 11:30 am in the Chapel and will be par!cipa!ng in worship on the fourth Sunday of each month. Woodfords children are encouraged to give choir a try. The skills learned and developed through par!cipa!on in choir are valuable, life long lessons. The Handbell Choir has openings for more ringers. New ringers are needed to fill empty posi!ons in our Handbell Choir. There is a one opening for a regular member so we can cover three octaves of bells. The church owns a complete four octave set so more posi!ons are available to expand the current choir membership. People who would like to learn more about bell ringing are invited to sign-up as subs!tutes to fill in during rehearsals when a regular member is unable to a#end. Middle school, and high school students are welcome as well as adults. Rehearsals are held on Thursdays from 6-7 pm and the choir rings during worship once a month and on Christmas Eve. Please consider joining us! Every note is needed! Chancel Choir! My how !me flies. Advent/Christmas will be here soon! We welcome singers who would like to join the Chancel Choir for the Advent/Christmas season even if you may not be able to commit to singing the rest of the year. This is a great way of enhancing your prepara!on for the coming of Christ during Advent and celebra!ng the joy of his birth on Christmas Eve. Rehearsals are held on Thursdays from 7- 8:30 pm in the music room (under the chancel). We will begin rehearsing Advent and Christmas music in November. We have also prepared a number of ‘guest’ folders for anyone who is curious about what singing in the choir is like and would like to visit on a Thursday evening. You just might have so much fun you'll want to return on a regular basis. All voices are welcome, but we especially need altos and basses! Please contact Rebecca or Paul Schnell with any ques!ons or comments about the music program. You can email them at: [email protected] or call them 207-727-6562. 6 The Woodfords Beacon October Soup and Study: Hunger and Food Insecurity in Maine Did you know that 15.5% of all Mainers are food insecure? That 14.1% of the residents in Cumberland County are food insecure? Did you know that one of the fastest growing at-risk popula!ons in Maine for food insecurity is our senior popula!on? Did you know that the following 5 factors are the major contributors to senior food insecurity in Maine: isola!on; physical decline; economic stress; level of educa!on; embarrassment? Since we decided as a congrega!on 3 years ago to address the concerns of hunger and food insecurity as a primary focus for Social Ac!on and Mission endeavors, we’ve had many opportuni!es to both learn about, and respond to, the issues of hunger in Maine— but there is s!ll much to learn and to do. In October, we’ll once again have the opportunity to engage in !mely conversa!ons as we host ‘Soup and Study’ gatherings aer worship. On each of the four Sundays in October (5, 12, 19, 26) we’ll gather in Seeley Hall to share a light meal of soup and bread and learn more about the reali!es of hunger and what we can do to address those reali!es. • • • • October 5th: Kathy Helming, a long-!me Woodfords member and staff person at Good Shepherd Food Bank, will address the causes, concerns and general needs of the at-risk popula!on in Maine. October 12: Ted Trainer will speak to us about the specific needs of the at-risk senior popula!on. Ted has spent his professional life working in communi!es around the world addressing health needs, and currently is on staff at SMAA. October 19: Brian Jones will provide informa!on and opportuni!es regarding various other aspects of hunger in our state. October 26: S!ll in the planning stage– watch this space FMI. It’s our hope that many of you will join us and then find ways to volunteer in order to address the hunger crisis. Mark your calendars now and look for a sign-up sheet in the cloister for soup and food contribu!ons! -Rev. Carolyn The Woodfords Beacon 7 Woodfords Church Congratulates Mary Bonauto Many of you know Mary Bonauto as a member of Woodfords Church and now you will know her also as the honored recipient of a ‘genius’ grant by the MacArthur Founda!on. Mary, who is a civil rights lawyer based in Boston, was recently one of 21 people awarded the no-strings-a#ached $625,000 grant. The MacArthur Founda!on, founded in 1978, annually awards their grants to people for their contribu!ons in fields ranging from interna!onal peace and human rights to modern media. Mary Bonauto was awarded for her extraordinary work with same-sex marriage and gay rights, “breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orienta!on.” Woodfords Church to Welcome New Mainers Woodfords members and friends will welcome New Mainers to our community with an Open House in Memorial Hall from 4:00pm-7:00pm on Saturday, October 25th, 2014. There will be African music and African-inspired light snacks. We will be offering informa!on about loca!ons for immigrant services, free meals, and clothing, holding out the hand of friendship, and conduc!ng a raffle for free “door prizes” of toiletries, cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products, many of which are not covered by General Assistance. It is our hope that some of our New Mainer guests will work with us to help us create programs at Woodfords for their benefit. Please plan to a#end this event and meet and greet our neighbors who are New Mainers. You can also help by dona!ng much needed toiletries, such as body lo!ons, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, deodorant- there is a basket in the Narthex for this purpose. These will be donated to our New Mainer guests at this October 25 ‘Welcome New Mainers’ event. Please contact Ann B. Smith at 699-9649 with any ques!ons or offers of help you might have. You can also email her at [email protected]. 8 The Woodfords Beacon The DownEast Fair Saturday November 9, 9:00am-2:00pm The countdown to the DownEast Fair has begun! Start planning how you will contribute to this major fund raising and FUN event for your church. There will be a Deacon’s Cookie Walk, Snack Bar, A\c An!ques, Books (yes– they’re back!), Jewelry, Cras, Kni\ng, Sewing, Silent Auc!on, Pantry (baked goods, candy, jams), and SERRV shop. How can you help? ♦ Look through your jewelry and an!ques– if you aren’t wearing it, using it, enjoying it, or are just plain !red of dus!ng it, etc.– why not donate it to the Fair? ♦ Are you making jams, jellies, sauces with the fruits of your harvest? Make a few extra jars for the Fair. ♦ Are you a kni#er? Sewer? Make some hats, mi#ens, sweaters for the Fair. Be#er yet- come to the Woodfords Kni#ers group that meets twice a month (2nd & 4th Tuesdays at 6:30pm in the Reading Room.) ♦ How about your books, CD’s, DVD’s? (Please– no textbooks, magazines, or encyclopedias). Laura Carten will be looking for help, ideas, and items for the Silent Auc!on. Do you have items that would fill a ’basket’ like a ’spa basket’, an ’Italian dinner’ basket, ’doggie delights’ basket, ‘garden basket’? What’s your idea? Do you have a skill to share such as teaching a foreign language, how to cook, bake or preserve, help with pain!ng, traveling planning, gardening, simple tax or will prepara!on- your !me could be worth a lot to the person buying your service and to Woodfords Church. Do you have a week at your summer co#age you could donate? Symphony/theatre/movie !ckets? Playing music for a wedding or birthday? Preparing a meal to share! What a great way to show off your cooking skills and make new friends! What are your ideas! FMI contact Laura Carten at 775-0479 or Pam Barrows at 8381229 about the Downeast Fair or Silent Auc!on. The Woodfords Beacon 9 “We are all connected to one another and to the mystery at the heart of the universe through our strange and marvelous ability to create words...Wring is talking. It is hunkering down around the cave fire at night and telling about the day...Our words, our truth, our imagining, our dreaming may be the best gi!s we have to give.” ~ Pat Schneider, Wring Alone and With Others “The Best GiMs We Have To Give” - 7-Week Wring Group Begins Friday, October 10, 9:30am-11:30am, Lounge In this 7 week program we will again put pens and pencils to paper and mine some of the gold of our lives. We will remember and tell some of the stories of our lives that we can’t and must not forget, our legacy for ourselves and those we love. What did we see? What did we say or wish we had said? What s!ll needs saying? What did we hear? What did we learn? What do we know? What do we s!ll want to create? This is an invita!on to be ourselves and express ourselves in our own words. Facilitators Sue Clark and Colleen Myers, both graduates of the Chaplaincy Ins!tute of Maine, subscribe to the theory that everyone has a strong, unique voice and everyone is a writer, always crea!ng story. They believe that wri!ng in groups offers encouragement and support to play with our imagina!on and memories and to discover new facets of our experience and wisdom. A crea!ve wri!ng background is not required or expected. The cost of the 7-week program will be $50. FMI and to register (no later than October 3), please call Sue at 774-4651 or 653-9227 cell or e-mail [email protected]. The Portland String Quartet Sunday, October 12, 2014 Woodfords Church Sanctuary The PSQ will be performing the first of the “Rasumovsky” quartets, Beethoven Quartet No. 7 in F major. The PSQ will also perform the Haydn ‘Lark’ String Quartet (1788-1790) and Henry Cowell’s ‘United Quartet’ (1936). Featuring guest cellist Jing Li originally from Beijing China. As always, !ckets are free for the asking at the door for Woodfords Church members and associate members. FMI www.larksociety.org. 10 The Woodfords Beacon Neighbors in Need : READING CHANGES LIVES Neighbors in Need (NIN) is a special mission offering of the UCC (one of the 5 for 5 mission offerings in which Woodfords par!cipates) that supports ministries of jus!ce and compassion throughout the United States. The NIN offering will be taken on October 5th. This year, NIN will use their funds to respond to the crippling literacy gap in the world with their program Reading Changes Lives. This gap con!nues to be a persistent problem in the United States and abroad. As a complicated and broad social jus!ce issue, literacy is an issue that touches (and addresses) other issues, including economic jus!ce, gender inequality, criminal jus!ce, public educa!on, and racial jus!ce, among others. But it affects very simple aspects of our lives, from being able to complete a job applica!on to reading the instruc!ons on a prescrip!on bo#le. In fact, limited literacy skills are a major contributor to poverty; illiteracy becomes a barrier for those marginalized by race and economic status. Reading Changes Lives acknowledges that literacy is essen!al to end the cycle of poverty, to close the school-to-prison pipeline, and to create inclusive, healthy communi!es where all can be ac!ve and advocate for themselves. Reading Changes Lives has begun with the inspira!onal book: Hotdogs and Hamburgers: Unlocking Life’s Potenal by Inspiring Literacy at Any Age, which the Grant Fund has already selected for Book Club. School Backpack Resupply Mission Project Many different organiza!ons are working to ensure that every incoming student in our local schools has his/her own backpack filled with school supplies. Once again the Sunday School has begun a mission to restock these school supplies when they run out! Our Sunday School students will assemble ‘school supplies restock bags’ that will be distributed as needed by school workers. We hope the congrega!on will help us out by buying pencils, notebooks, 8 -piece crayon boxes, glue s!cks, scissors, color pencils (12 pencil box). There will be boxes in the Narthex where school supplies can be dropped. We thank you in advance for your support! All supplies are due into church by October 6. The Woodfords Beacon 11 Learning About Labyrinths If you would like to learn about labyrinths, you are welcome to a#end an informa!onal and prayer-centered class on the labyrinth: its history, prac!ces, and purpose led by Mary Zachary-Lang, Director of Spiritual Growth. This class is in an!cipa!on of and prepara!on for the temporary Trinity Church Labyrinth installa!on here in the Woodford’s Gym on November 14, 15, and 16. There will be 3 sessions of learning about labyrinths: Sunday October 26, November 2, and November 9th from 8:30am to 9:45am in the 2nd floor Conference Room. You are welcome to come to one session or all three. On Sunday, November 16th, beginning at 8:30am, we’ll walk the Labyrinth together before the worship service. Everyone is welcome to come and learn about this ancient Chris!an prac!ce and experience walking the Labyrinth for yourself! We are also looking for volunteers to meet and greet walkers during the Labyrinth open mes on Friday, November 14, 12:00pm-9:00pm; Saturday, November 15, 10:00am-9:00pm; and Sunday November 16, 8:00am-5:00pm. If you are interested in volunteering and/or if you would like to learn more, please contact Mary Zachary-Lang at mzachary [email protected] or 774-8243 ext 102. Musica de Filia’s “Anything Goes Day Fall Fes!val” Musica de Filia (Daughter’s of Music) is a local, unique all-female choir founded in 1997. The proceeds from the “Anything Goes Fall Fes!val”, to be held here at Woodfords Church on October 4th, will go to funding the group’s trip to Carnegie Hall in 2015. From 9am-2pm there will be a tag sale, games, bounce house, face pain!ng, spa services and much more! Beginning at 5pm there will be a dinner and a musical show. To buy !ckets for the dinner: [email protected]. PCM’s Dimensions in Jazz The David Liebman Quintet, will be performing in the Woodfords Church Chapel on Friday, October 10, 8:00pm. Featuring NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman, tenor sax, soprano sax, and flutes. Tickets at door: $15. Tickets from Starbirds: Seniors & advance, $10; students $5. FMI call 828-1310. 12 The Woodfords Beacon The Grant Fund Acvies For Woodfords Church Seniors 65+ GRANT FUND YOGA- Thursdays, 10:00am-11:00am, in the Parlor. $3 a class or $20 for the 10-week session. Please contact Jennie at 774-8243 to register. LUNCH AND LEARN PRESENTATIONS– 1st Friday of the Month 11:30am-12:30 pm, 2nd Floor Conference Rm (formerly Parents Corner). Bring your own lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided. PLEASE RSVP to Jennie at 774-8243. People are asked to bring their own bagged lunches and to RSVP so we know how many people to expect. There will be !me to ask ques!ons during or aer each presenta!on. IF not enough people sign up before, we will have to cancel—so it is important to RSVP. Fall 2013 Schedule of Topics • October 3rd- Senior Fire Prevenon with David Petruccelli, Fire Lieutenant with the Portland Fire Department. October is Fire Preven!on month and Lt. Petruccelli will discuss kitchen and cooking safety and fire ex!nguisher safety, including a demonstra!on about how to safely use a fire ex!nguisher (in the parking lot) as well as other topics pertaining to Senior Fire Preven!on. • November 7th- Rags to Riches with Jody Bingham. Jody will share her love of fabric & quil!ng, including the ‘ABC’s’ of how to get started in quil!ng. She will share with us examples of the different types of quilts. This will be a great program for people interested in quil!ng or who appreciate the art of quil!ng. • December 5th- Using Pressure Points to Relieve Pain with Robin Randlook for the detailed descrip!on in a later Beacon. Please inform Jennie if you have specific areas of pain you would like Robin Rand to target in her presenta!on. FLU SHOT CLINIC, Thursday, October 2nd, Memorial Hall 1:00-1:30pm: Open to Woodfords members & staff only 1:302:00pm: Open to everyone This clinic is being offered on a firstcome, first-serve basis so there may be some wai!ng. Woodfords members should come between 1:00-1:30 for faster service. Bring your Medicare card, Supplemental Plan card or other The Woodfords Beacon 13 insurance card with you. For those without insurance, the cost is $30. You will be given a receipt that you should be able to send into Medicare for a refund. FALL FOLIAGE TRIP: STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM, PORTSMOUTH Friday, October 10th, 9:15am to approx. 4:30pm Cost: $20 GF/$30 Non GF member Please join us for a 1.5 hour bus trip to Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH. We will meet in the Woodfords parking lot at 9:15am, the bus will leave at 9:30am. We will arrive in Portsmouth at 11am and leave at 3:00pm. Jennie will provide $10 toward lunch which can be eaten at your leisure at The White Apron Café in the Tyco Visitors Center. People can eat lunch and tour the grounds in the order they choose. This trip is open to all Woodfords members. Please RSVP with Jennie by Monday, October 6th at 774-8243 or [email protected]. Please remember to send in payment within a week of signing up to secure your seat on the bus. MOVIE SOCIAL– Wednesday, October 15, 1:00pm, 2nd Flr Conf Room. Join your friends for a spooky good !me while watching the funny film Adams Family Values (1993 film starring Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia.) We will have Halloween treats to share! Please RSVP to Jennie at 774-8243 by Tuesday, October 14th. SMAA MATTER OF BALANCE CLASS- Wednesday, October 15th thru December 10th, 10:00am-12:00pm, Seely Hall. Woodfords is hos!ng a Ma#er of Balance class in Seely Hall from October un!l December. A Ma#er of Balance (MOB) is a na!onally recognized workshop designed to help adults 60 and older manage falls and increase ac!vity levels. Caregivers are invited to a#end. A Ma#er of Balance (MOB) will help you gain confidence and reduce your risk of falls. You will learn to: View falls as controllable; Set goals for increasing ac!vity; Make changes to reduce fall risks at home; Exercise to increase strength and balance You should a#end if: You are concerned about falls; you are interested in improving balance, flexibility, and strength; you have fallen in the past; you have restricted ac!vi!es because of worry about falling; are age 60 and above. 14 The Woodfords Beacon This class is actually full. Woodfords is offering a second Ma#er of Balance class: Wednesday, January 28th thru March 18th 10am-12pm, Seely Hall. If you are interested in the class, please sign up with Jennie at 774-8243 or [email protected]. If you have specific ques!ons, please contact SMAA at (800)-427-7411, ext. 583 or (207)-3966583. Woodfords members will have the opportunity to sign up for the class exclusively un!l November 14th, aer that enrollment will be open to the Community. BOOK CLUB, Thursday, October 16, 1:30pm, Parlor. Grant Fund Book Club will meet to discuss the book, A Certain Slant of Light by Cynthia Thayer. The books have been purchased for current members. New members are welcome to get the book on your own and join us for the discussion. The books have been purchased for current members. New members are welcome to get the book on your own and join us for the discussion. Please call before ge\ng your own book, some!mes Jennie has extra copies. If you are interested in joining book club, please contact Jennie at 774-8243. LUNCH AT THE DOWNEAST FAIR Saturday, November 8th - Lunch at the Downeast Fair The Grant Fund sponsors lunch for Woodfords members 65+. Look for the Grant Fund volunteers near the food table to check in and let them know what you selected for lunch. As the day gets closer, you will be sent a meal !cket as a reminder. If you misplace your meal !cket, you can s!ll get your lunch as your name will be on the Grant Fund list. SECRET SANTA: Woodfords Sunday School Youth & Elders. Sunday, November 30th un!l Sunday, December 21st . We welcome the children and elders of Woodfords to par!cipate in the Secret Santa program. This is an intergenera!onal ac!vity for the children and elders to get to know one another be#er. There will be a party on Sunday, December 21st for those who par!cipate in Secret Santa to find out who their Secret Santa is. There will be more details to come in the November Beacon as well as signs posted around the church. If you are interested in par!cipa!ng, please contact Jennie at 774-8243 or at [email protected]. The Woodfords Beacon 15 FALL CLEAN UP DAY, Sunday, October 26th Start at 11:30am in Memorial Hall Do you need some help raking leaves/doing fall clean up? Do you want to spend a few hours helping Woodfords Elders? We are looking for people (of all ages) to volunteer a few hours to do fall clean-up for Woodfords elders who are unable to do it themselves or need some help. We will meet in Memorial Hall at 11:30am to have a quick lunch of pizza and then go help Woodfords elders. Please contact Jennie at 774-8243 or [email protected] to volunteer or if you need help at your home. Southern Maine Agency on Aging FREE MEDICARE / HEALTH INSURANCE COUNSELING Once again SMAA will offer FREE Medicare/Health Insurance Counseling. One of the loca!ons where this will take place is in the Reading Room at Woodfords Church. The sessions begin October 15 and go through December 3rd from 9am-2pm. Call 396-6500 for an appointment (no drop- ins). Woodfords - Wayside Food Program Monday mornings find 12-15 Woodfords volunteers gathered in the kitchen preparing a luncheon for 50-80 folks needing a meal. Wayside provides the food and Woodfords volunteers prepare the meals, serve the food, and clean the area. This program has been in existence for years, but many Woodfords members know li#le if nothing about it. Yet, this is a vital part of our ministry. Feeding those in need in our community is one of our church’s major goals adopted a few years ago. A good por!on of our member volunteers are 80+ years themselves, but they see the needs of the community about us. The folks who join us for lunch each week are in need of food assistance. They represent all walks of life: from children to 90 year olds, from those who can drive to Woodfords, and who come in wheelchairs with caregivers in vans. We invite you to come and observe this Monday morning ministry. You may even want to join our Woodfords volunteers! 16 The Woodfords Beacon O C TO B E R L E C T I O N A R Y R E A D I N G S 10/5 Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20; Psalm 19; Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:7-15; Philippians 3:4b-14; Ma#hew 21:33-46 10/12 Exodus 32:1-14; Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23; Isaiah 25:1-9 Psalm 23; Philippians 4:1-9; Ma#hew 22:1-14 10/19 Exodus 33:12-23; Psalm 99; Isaiah 45:1-7; Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13)1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; Ma#hew 22:15-22 10/26 Deuteronomy 34:1-12; Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17; Levi!cus 19:1-2, 151 Thessalonians 2:1-8;Ma#hew 22:34-46 18; Psalm 1; Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns. ~George Eliot COUNTING TEAM SCHEDULE COMMUNION SUNDAY Elements Team England / Flaker Also Serving Kenney / Campbell Date Team 10/5 3 10/12 4 10/19 5 10/26 6 DEACONS SCHEDULE Date Usher Team Head Deacons 10/5 3 Hennessey / Stewart 10/12 4 McKee /Nelson 10/19 5 Toner / Keeley 10/26 6 England / Flaker The Woodfords Beacon NOVEMBER BEACON arcles due October 20 17 The Woodfords Beacon is published and edited by Sharon Stephenson, Office Manager [email protected] 774-8243 ext 103 8th Annual Art for Mission Show & Sale SAMPLE This stunning photograph is just one of the many items that will be for sale by silent auc!on at the 8th Annual Art for Mission Show and Sale. We need works of art to sell, but we also need folks to come and buy! So we hope to see you at the Show and Sale on Sunday, October 19th beginning at 9:00am. If you’d like to make some bars or cookies for the show that would be appreciated also– please let Pam Barrows know if you can help. Presumpscot River Reflecons by Bob Cuzner