BOOK CLUB
The book club will not be meeting for the month of October.
The book club will meet to discuss the following books:
November 3rd, “Master and Commander” by Patrick O’Brian
December 1st, “The Kitchen House” by Kathleen Grissom
January 5th, “The Landscape of Death: A Yorkshire Murder Mystery” by M S Morris
TRANSITION CORNER
It’s 2025. November began yesterday. Story Day is coming December 7, right after Thanksgiving. Gather your photos and your notes. Some may be all-parish events; some may be personal to you and your family. Father Tom from the Los Angeles diocese will emcee. We will share our memories as a parish, so begin to hunt down those photos of life at St A and C. Free lunch too.
CENTERING PRAYER
Centering Prayer is currently discussing Richard Rohr’s “Universal Christ” on Zoom, Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. There is a podcast about this book at https://cac.org/podcast/another-name-for-every-thing/ that talks about the first chapter. If you have not done Centering Prayer before, please contact Julia Stesney at juliastesney@yahoo.com and she will teach you, the only way you can do it wrong is to not do it.
CORNER BOOKSTORE NEWS
The Corner book sale will be returning In December (date TBD) after the 8 am and the 10 am service. The October book sale was a great success. It raised $100 for the church.
Thank you for supporting the book sales and for your book donations throughout the year.
EXTRA CHURCH PANTRY FOOD NEEDED
Every Thursday morning there are more and more people coming to St. Andrew and St. Charles Church food pantry. In October the food pantry handed out about 85 bags (up from September) each Thursday.
The food pantry would appreciate the following to help as the numbers increases:
Tuna (5 or 7 oz)
Canned Veggies
Soup
Pasta Sauce
Boxed Spaghetti
Your food donations help tremendously! The food items may be left in the church office Mon. through Fri. 9 am - noon, or Sunday mornings placed in the baskets in either narthex, or leave in the church kitchen. Please mark the bags 'food pantry'. Thank you for supporting this important ministry!
MINISTRY OF HEALING
We are happy to offer the Ministry of Healing during selected Sunday services to anyone who wishes to participate. This has proven to be an intimate, comforting, and valuable experience. Healers are members of the congregation who are available to pray, one-on-one, with any parishioner who would like a healing prayer. Parishioners may come up to the healer who will be standing near the font, after taking communion. The healer may ask if there is any special prayer they would like. At this time, we will have a healer available on the first, third, and fifth Sundays.
The healers are:
8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
Blanca Morales Kate Nott
Susan Cornner Renee Rivera
Paulette Schechtel
GIVING IN GRATITUDE
As we continue through our Stewardship time together, we look forward to talking about why we pledge and how we want our church to be of service in 2026.
Pledge forms have been mailed to each of you, and additional copies are available in either narthex. You may return the completed forms by placing them in the collection plate, mailing them back to the office, or holding them until our Ingathering Service, November 16th at 9:00am, when we will hold up the pledges at the altar in thanksgiving for our many blessings!
Thank you one and all for supporting St. Andrew & St. Charles!
SUMMER 9AM WORSHIP DEBRIEF
Join Rev. Martha and other parishioners on Sunday, Nov. 23rd at 9am in the parish hall to have a conversation about worship this past summer. We will reflect upon whether we enjoyed having one service, if we liked that it was at 9am, and what it was like for us to all be together each week for worship. This is your chance to share your thoughts and hear from others, so please come and join the conversation!