Cross Currents VOLUME 2022 | ISSUE 10 | NOVEMBER
IN THIS ISSUE SERVICE OF HEALING & REMEMBRANCE (P. 1) STEWARDSHIP (P. 2) SERVE OUR CITY (P. 3) FINANCIAL UPDATE (P. 8)
From Pastor Pete: Dear Saints of St. Andrew’s, November is here! A sacred feast day in ancient Christianity, obscure to many Protestants, is All Saints’ Day which is annually on November 1. I won’t get into the history of the origins of the three-day “Allhallowtide” (All Hallow’s Eve – October 31, All Saints’ Day – November 1, and All Souls’ Day – November 2), but modern expressions of these days have been reinterpreted as Halloween, Día de los Muertos, and the Tucson All Souls Procession. While these feast days originated in Catholicism, they have found their appropriate expression in Protestantism, though many churches have neglected them. For Protestants, all who are united in Christ, whether dead or alive, are saints (“sanctified,” made holy, to serve God) because— and only because—of the unmerited work of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit! Service of Healing and Remembrance: November 1, 6:30 pm, Sanctuary The St. Andrew’s Session has approved a special worship service for All Saints’ Day – as a time to acknowledge our need for healing and to remember those who have passed into the glorious Church Triumphant. It will be a service where each of us will be encouraged to be honest about the emotions we carry related to complicated changes and loss over the past few years. It is even appropriate to rejoice with all the faithful of every generation - expanding our awareness of a great company of witnesses above and around us like a cloud (Hebrews 12:1). In the knowledge that others have persevered, we are encouraged to endure against all odds! NOVEMBER 2022
Service Worship: Serve Our City: November 12-13 I hope you will sign up and participate in our fourth quarter Service Worship event: Serve Our City! We are linking arms with other churches around Tucson to identify needs and display the love of Jesus Christ! I’m especially excited for the After Party pizza and salad lunch at 12:00 pm on November 13! We will be joined by guests from the community that day, and I hope we can show them unconditional love and kingdomlevel hospitality! Stewardship Commitment and Dedication Sunday: November 20 The Budget Team and church committees have been working hard on preparing a 2023 budget with the desire for a modest increase in the 2023 budget for personnel, mission, and inflation-related rises. The increase to personnel is to provide a cost-of-living adjustment which has not been feasible for the past
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