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Programs instill the value of giving — for all ages First they earn. Then they learn. With the Mission and Outreach Council’s Alternative Giving Market (AGM) approaching on Nov. 12, many of the Cathedral’s younger parishioners have been finding wayward coins and doing extra chores to boost their contributions to the AGM. Their fundraising efforts are part
of a teaching and empowerment mechanism offered by the children’s and youth ministries that converts funds raised into “KariAnn Coins” and “Bradley Bucks.” Under this program, no matter the amount raised, each child earns a “coin,” each youth a
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The Alternative GIving Market, coming up on Nov. 12, is one of the many programs where children and youth have the opportunity to learn about how to give, what it means to give, and the impact of giving.
Two Cathedral Bookstore receptions On Thursday, November 16, the Cathedral Bookstore will hold a reception before and after the evening’s reading by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt, which begins at 7:30 p.m. and is co-hosted by Brazos Bookstore. They will read from their book, The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. On Wednesday, November 29, from 5–7 p.m., the Cathedral Bookstore will hold a DAVID EAGLEMAN
BISHOP C. ANDREW DOYLE
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Clothed in love “As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved … clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.” The Stewardship Council didn’t know it when they chose this passage as our Every Member Canvass theme, but this is my favorite passage of scripture. I love this passage because I believe that the Church is, more than anything else, God’s expression of family. And I believe THE VERY REV. that these verses from BARKLEY THOMPSON St. Paul are God’s sentiment of what such a family is supposed to look like and be. I’ll give you an example. St. Paul says the Christian family is supposed to clothe one another in love. Last month at church, we blessed prayer shawls, lovingly handknitted by our Prayer Shawl Guild. These shawls are given to parishioners far and wide when they find themselves homebound, or in the hospital, or otherwise in need of the reminder that they are not alone. They are not trapped in the unfamiliar. They are not lost. When our parishioners-in-need wrap a Cathedral prayer shawl around themselves, they are, as Paul says, “clothed in love” by their Cathedral family. These past couple of months Hurricane Harvey has reminded us of how we clothe each other in love in extraordinary moments. But what about the ordinary? It is in those moments that we do most of our work. It is in the everyday that ministry happens. The work that goes on in and through Christ Church Cathedral every day makes the ordinary extraordinary. Our sublime worship, now augmented by The Well; our pastoral care,
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