Christ Episcopal Church, Needham, MA: This Week at Christ Church

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 50:4-9a
Psalm 31:9-16
Philippians 2:5-11
Luke 22:14-23:56 or Luke 23:1-49

On behalf of Temple Beth Shalom, I would like to personally invite you to a very special Friday night service that is being held in conjunction to our congregation’s Reaching Across Faith Boundaries Initiative.

On Friday evening, May 21st, we are honored to welcome Dr. Asif Razvi as our guest speaker. Our service will begin at 7:45 pm.

Dr. Razvi’s presentation will focus on the common roots and beliefs shared by both Muslims and Jews. The service will be followed by a delicious dessert reception.

Dr. Razvi is President of the Islamic Center of Boston, located in Wayland, and has lectured extensively on the similarities amongst Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Dr. Razvi was a founder of the Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group, a founder of Camp IF (InterFaith) a nationally recognized leadership training program sponsored by the ADL for New England teenagers to explore each other’s faith traditions. In addition Dr. Razvi is also the chief of vascular surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and a clinical professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Please join our community on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:45 p.m. for a most informative and enjoyable evening. Please RSVP by May 18, 2010 as I would very much like to welcome you that night. If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Shalom/Salaam/Peace……

Fenway Park October 1st Red Sox vs Yankees 2 Box Seats behind home plate.

Buy your Tickets Now

$10 for one ticket or $20 for three.

Drawing Sat 5/22 At Christ Church Call Patty at the office 781-444-1469 or email office@ccneedham.org if you are interested.

September 9th-15th 2010.

If you are interested in traveling to Haiti to meet our Haitian partners at St Luc in Lazile, please contact Emilie Hitron at 781-444-6404 or email her at emhitron@gmail.com

Please consider volunteering for one or more weeks this summer.

Tasks involve light weeding, deadheading, and keeping benches and walk ways clean. No watering or lawn care.

Please contact Winnie West at wawest@comcast.net or 781-444-8739.

Music Celebration Day - Sunday, May 9 May 9, 2010 is deemed “Music Celebration Day” at Christ Church.

The 10 AM service will recognize and thank Adult Choir, Bell Choir and other instrumentalists who have shared their gift of music with you this year. And what a year it was! Thank you to all our musicians for a year of greatness!

Thursday May 13th 6pm at Christ Church

Please join us for food and fun and worship in our wider community.

Cookout and deanery assembly meeting at 6pm. Worship Service 7pm in the Main Church

In addition to the barbecue and much fellowship, we will plan to update you on our plans for a deanery Vacation Bible School, report on this year’s wonderful Deanery Youth Collaborative events, update you on the progress of new Centre Street Food Pantry in Newton, and discuss assorted other items of business around the deanery.

Please RSVP to Patty in the office by Wednesday, May 11. office@ccneedham.org 781-444-1469.

All are invited to attend!

Saturday 3pm May 15 to Sunday 9am May 16

Newman Elementary School Central Ave. Needham

This Relay is for everyone. You can sign up for an hour or whatever time you have. Look for a sign up sheet in Upper Parish Hall. We still have times open! We hope you will join in.

Questions? Contact team captains Donna Vello at velbdbm@aol.com or 781-449-3617 or Harding Ounanian, Jr. at hardingo@verizon.net or 781-449-3589.

More information is available at relayneedham.com

Circle of Hope Yard Sale (to benefit our work in Haiti) and International Food Fair

May 22, 9 am – 2 pm Christ Episcopal Church Parking Lot Needham

Please donate gently used household items, sporting goods, books, music, objects d’art, small furniture, crafts etc.

You can bring your items to the garage at 77 Gayland Rd (at the home of the Adreani's) in Needham ANYTIME starting immediately and to Christ Church at 1132 Highland Ave, Needham beginning May 20 until the big day.

Join us for Tastes and Treasures International Food Festival & Yard Sale Saturday May 22 11 am – 1 pm

All Proceeds benefit Circle of Hope’s International Medical Team and its mission to Haiti

Take home the tastes of France, Italy, The Middle East, Spain, The Caribbean, China, Bavaria … and more

Christ Church Upper Parish Hall

The Feast Day service will be a day of celebration. It is the birthday of the church. It is traditional to have baptisms on Pentecost; we have four baptisms. It is also the day where the service will be packed with your favorite Spiritual and Gospel tunes. Just bring yourself and an enthusiastic spirit. We want to sing out to the rafters! We will be one in the Spirit. Bring your appetite, too. After all that singing, we’ll have worked up an appetite for birthday cake which will be served during coffee hour after the service.

One service at 9:00 am in the Chapel

There will be no regular organist and no choir for summer services, which means there will be many solo opportunities. Sign-up sheets will be posted on the music bulletin board in Upper Parish Hall. Maybe you sing, or play the piano (we have a new baby-grand), play your guitar, or any instrumental ensemble. Also hymn suggestions from the congregation are vital in the summer. Suggestion boxes will be placed at both entrances to the chapel.

Come together at Barbara C. Harris Camp

Go to http://www.bchcenter.org/camp/index.htm for more details.

Tales from the Ring of the Nibelung to be performed in June Needham’s own Longwood Opera welcomes its 24th consecutive season of bringing “Opera to All” with the United States premiere of Tales from Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) by Richard Wagner.

Presented concert style and directed by Scott Brumit with music direction by Jeffrey Brody, the program will be sung in English and feature a Longwood Opera all star cast of Ben Clark, Janice Edwards, Stephanie Mann, Joanne Porackova, Alan Schneider, Rachel Selan, Christopher Aaron Smith, Angeliki Theoharis and Thomas Weber.

Christ Episcopal Church

There will also be a single performance:

Park Avenue Congregational Church 50 Paul Revere Rd., Arlington

“This unique production highlights excerpts from all four of the operas in “The Ring” cycle—Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung— so that they may be appreciated in a single performance and provide the opportunity for our audiences to experience the music and majesty of Wagner,” said J. Scott Brumit, Longwood Opera’s General Director. “Usually, it’s the large opera companies like the Met, Chicago or San Francisco that take on a project of this proportion, but now we are the first in the US to present it. We hope you’ll come and enjoy.”

Tickets at the door for all performances are $23 general admission, $18 seniors, $15 students and $13 children, 10 and under. Tickets are also available in advance at www.LongwoodOpera.org. For additional information call 781-455-0960.