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MORNING PRAYER SERVICES AT FORT AT NO. 4

Morning Prayer services at 11 a.m. each Sunday at the Fort at No. 4 will resume when the Fort reopens for the 2012 season on Sunday, May 13, 2012.
Morning Prayer will be read at 11:00 a.m. using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Sermons will be drawn from the Great Homilies of the Elizabethan period.   Read more...

For information or assistance call The Rev. Mr. David Moody at 835-7900.

For further information about events and programs at the Fort at No. 4 and its location click here.

 

Mission to El Hogar
My Personal Log of the mission to El Hogar, a home for poor children in Honduras – Phil Turner
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ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Charlestown, NH

DECEMBER PARISH NEWS

Perhaps the most interesting news from Good Shepherd is that we have acquired a new organ.  Well, perhaps “new” is not the right word. Mason & Hamlin of Boston, Massachusetts built our “new” organ in 1914.  During the time that they were business (1854- 1931), they manufactured more than 250,000 reed instruments, and after 1881 produced world-class pianos.  In mid-October, Ed Boadway, a long-time friend of Good Shepherd, accompanied by Dea. David Moody and his truck, drove to Westbury, Long Island to pick up the organ from the home of Dr. Rollin Smith. Dr. Smith, a noted organist, generously donated the organ to our church.

 Mr. Boadway then renovated the organ that has one manual, seven sets of reeds, and is foot-pumped. Mr. Boadway has been working on reed and pipe organs since 1957 and recently completed his 62^ndyear as a church organist. 

CHARLESTOWN ANGLICAN CHURCH HOLDS ORGAN RECITAL

Charlestown, NH.  – On Sunday afternoon, December 5, at 3 p.m., the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd dedicated its new organ at the service of Evensong. At the end of the short service, they held a recital of music appropriate to the instrument.

DECEMBER PARISH EVENTS

On Sunday afternoon December 5, the Anglican Church Good Shepherd will hold Evensong followed by a short concert by Mr. Boadway and soloist Ms. Lisha Klaiber of Proctorville, Vermont. Bishop Marsh will dedicate the organ prior to the service. We hope that local members of the Charlestown community will attend the service and concert and share in light refreshments afterwards in the parish hall.

Vigil & Memorial Service for the Homeless

The vigil is sponsored by Open Hands Mission.  For the past 20 years, many towns and cities have held an outdoor vigil and memorial service for their homeless residents on December 21, the longest night of the year.  Typically, there are prayers and speakers who are homeless or formerly homeless; the names of people who died homeless are read.  The events are designed to promote awareness and solidarity.

Based in the Congregational Church, Claremont, Open Hands Mission is a volunteer-run soup kitchen which provides meals for the homeless and hungry on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights and holidays. (At these times the Claremont Soup Kitchen is closed.)

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NOVEMBER PARISH NEWS

In mid-November, we hosted a meeting of the Charlestown Ecumenical Network (CEN) Steering Committee in our parish hall.  Dea. David and Aare Ilves are members of the committee that guides the bi-monthly meetings of the network.
Recently, the CEN had focused on support of the Food Mountain Food Shelf and obtaining affordable public transportation in the Connecticut River corridor between Charlestown, Claremont, and Lebanon. The CEN sponsored a “Harvest Walk” to raise funds for the Food Shelf. Parishioners Phil Turner and Dee Blanchard participated on the walk.  Dee, and her dog Midnight, raised $400 in sponsorships for Midnight’s participation.  The parish also purchased turkeys for the Fall Mountain Food Shelf that feeds those in need from  Charlestown and six other towns in the Fall Mountain region. During Thanksgiving week, the Food Shelf distributed 1,000 turkey-dinner baskets of which 200 will go to Charlestown.

Finally, on Saturday, November 20, Dcn. Art Bennett,  Dcn. David, Jeanne Moody, and  Dee Blanchard attended the annual Harvest Dinner at the Fort at No. 4. in Charlestown.  The colonial-style dinner was cooked over an open hearth and made us give thanks to God for the bounty that we enjoy in our great land.

Good Shepherd wishes you all a Happy Thanksgiving and a blessed Advent Season.

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SYNOD 2010 ...
held at the Radisson Hotel, Manchester, New Hampshire, September 23-24 was graciously and jointly hosted by All Saints Anglican Church in Concord and St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Amherst.
It was productive and full of God's peace.

The theme for this year’s Synod is "Unity in Jesus Christ”
and focused on church efforts to expand unity among all faithful Christians.

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Late last summer, Aare Ilves, a parishioner and lay reader at Good Shepherd, paid a visit to the homeland of his parents in Estonia. On his trip Aare met with Metropolitan Stephanos of the Estonian Apostolic-Orthodox Church who gave him a message and gift to bring back to the rector of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. These were presented to Bishop Brian Marsh in a brief ceremony at the end of Sunday services several weeks ago.

Aare’s parents immigrated to the United States from Estonia in the mid- 1950s. In pursuing the genealogy of his family, Aare made several trips to Europe over the past decade during which he located his grandmother’s grave, the Estonian Orthodox Church that she attended, and the priest who conducted her funeral 36 years ago.

This past summer, he made the trip with a letter of introduction and greetings to officials of the Estonian Orthodox Church from Bishop Marsh Aare presented the letter to the Office of the Estonian Apostolic-Orthodox Church in Tallinn and was soon warmly welcomed by His Eminence, the Most Blessed Stephanos, Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia. The Orthodox Church of Estonia was granted autonomy by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1923. During the Second World War, the Metropolitan at that time escaped to Sweden, and the Soviets put the Estonian Church under the control of Moscow. The autonomy of the Estonian Orthodox Church was restored in 1994.

Metropolitan Stephanos gave Aare a book on the history of the Estonian Church and asked him to convey it and his fraternal greetings to Bishop Marsh. This was done in a brief ceremony at the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd after Holy Eucharist on Sunday, October 18. Bishop Marsh expressed his delight in receiving this token of affection from Metropolitan Stephanos. “It is not often that a layman gets to play such a direct role in improving ecumenical relations between distant parts of the Catholic Church”, said Marsh.“We are very gratified that Aare had the opportunity to convey our greetings directly to Metropolitan Stephanos and that he was so graciously received.”

Welcome to the recently baptized members of the Smith family from Bellows Falls, Vermont: mother, daughter, the daughter’s infant son, and three other Smith children. It was a joyous occasion for us to welcome so many at one time to the Body of Christ.

Visit to home land of his parents in Estonia by Aare Ilves, a resident of Charlestown, New Hampshire
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