[Parish] Calling All Saints

[Malcolm Young]

29 October 2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Here’s the link for the November Newsletter:

http://messenger.ccla.us/

Happy Halloween!  This week after all of the trick-or-treaters have  
gone to bed we’ll be changing our clocks.  Please don’t forget to  
“fall back.”  This Sunday is All Saint’s Day and we’re having a  
simple children’s service at 10:00 a.m.  The children bring great  
energy to our worship.  Having children there also teaches them how  
we pray together during that time in the morning that they are  
usually at Godly Play (Sunday School).

To prepare for Sunday please read the gospel at the bottom of this  
note (and read it to your children).  I thought we might try acting  
it out to get deeper into its meaning so you may try thinking about  
what it means.

There will be no forum, but we’ll be having our last Gathering class  
in the Fireside Room this Sunday at 9:00 a.m.  Everyone is welcome to  
join us as we talk about Christian ethics – how do we live the good  
life through Jesus Christ?

The Third Place Resource center will be having an open house after  
church.  Please go down to see it after you’ve gone through the  
famous Christ Church “Haunted Stage.”

May God bless you on this cool fall evening.  We’re getting just  
enough weather to remind us that it is autumn, but not so much that  
it is interrupting our lives as God continues to bless us as  
Californians.

Peace,

Malcolm



John 11:32-44 is about finding new life that comes from Christ:

John 11:32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at  
his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother  
would not have died.”
John 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her  
also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
John 11:34 He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him,  
“Lord, come and see.”
John 11:35 Jesus began to weep.
John 11:36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
John 11:37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes  
of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
John 11:38 ¶ Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb.  
It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
John 11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of  
the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because  
he has been dead four days.”
John 11:40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you  
believed, you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and  
said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me.
John 11:42 I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for  
the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that  
you sent me.”
John 11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice,  
“Lazarus, come out!”
John 11:44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with  
strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them,  
“Unbind him, and let him go.”