Benediction Weekly – Dec 31st ⛪

Benediction Weekly – Dec 31st ⛪

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S

ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St. (If you would like to volunteer, please contact at (805) 528-1370)
COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Thursday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.
EARTHCARE – Zoom 3rd Wednesdays 3pm. Discussion/action group seeking spiritual and practical solutions to environmental concerns. MEN’S GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays – 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe.
HEALING SERVICE – FACEBOOK – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30  service on 5th Sundays.
HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on Zoom.
LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11-1pm and 4-6pm on last Wednesdays
PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st  Saturday of even-numbered months
VESPERS AND CONVERSATION  – Zoom –  5:30 pm Tuesdays

VESTRY / PARISH COUNCIL – ZOOM –  3rd Sundays at 12:30pm.          

  • Maureen Titus, Presiding Warden
  • Lisa Gonzalez, Treasurer
  • Sandy Fisher, People’s Warden
  • Pamela Bleisch
  • Cathy Gildea
  • Esta Kandarian
  • Helen Schnieders

We are grateful for God’s financial providence and blessing. Thank you for making your offerings by mail to our PO Box, or on-line.

THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Friday January 5th Potluck will start at 6:00 pm. Our kitchen is now operable, we have hot water and we’re lighting candles. A great time to celebrate Epiphany with our annual Star Party. The 3 Kings will be there! Ovens will be on low warm and medium cook. Curious about what to bring for the potluck? See below:

  • A-F  DESSERTS
  • G-L MAIN DISHES
  • M-Z SIDES AND SALADS

Food at St. Ben’s: Below you will find our schedule for food related activities at St Ben’s. 

  • Friday Jan. 5, 2024    Star Party – POTLUCK 6PM
  • Sunday Jan 7, 2024   Coffee Hour ONLY  Host TBA 
  • Sunday Jan 14, 2024  Coffee Hour  Host Connie W
  • Sunday Jan 21, 2024  Coffee Hour  Hosts  Ann and Michael L
  • Sunday  Jan. 28, 2024  Annual Meeting After Service  POTLUCK

The Tuesday Spiritual Discussion group will be using an Advent program sponsored by a group called Living Compass. The four-week program includes Sunday and weekday meditations for the Advent season. We will begin the program on Tuesday December 5 at 10.30 on Zoom. The program booklets are available as pdf electronic copies for free or a print copy available for $1.00 plus postage. A limited number of print copies have been received and will be available in the back of the church. Order your booklets at https://www.livingcompass.org/advent-lent.

ZOOM LINKCLICK HERE

PERSONAL PRAYER – If you’d like prayer support during the week, contact Louisa Beeler (805) 543-2898. If no answer, please leave a message and your call will be returned. Prayer requests may also be emailed at any time to prayers@stbenslososos.org and requests for pastoral care may be sent to pastoralcare@stbenslososos.org.

BirthdaysCarol McPhee – December 31, Kathie West – January 1, Benjamin Nucum – January 3


This Week at St Ben’s

Sunday

  • 8a Contemplative Service in person and on Zoom
  • 10:30a Eucharist, in-person and livestreamed on FB

Monday

  • 3:30p Liturgy Committee Zoom

Tuesday

  • 9:45a Prayers for the Morning Zoom
  • 10:30a Spiritual Conversation Zoom
  • 5:30p Vespers: (Zoom)

Friday

  • 6p Star Party

Sunday

  • 8a Contemplative Service in person and on Zoom
  • 10:30a Eucharist, in-person and livestreamed on FB

Service leaflets for Sunday services and Vespers are available under the Worship tab on our website
https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

RALPH’S CARD: Please consider registering your Food for Less or Ralph’s card as donating to St Benedict’s. In the last quarter 20 households contributed this way and we received over $200. Searching by our organization number HV013 is much easier when signing up.

Take Action on Our Church’s Values: The Episcopal Church provides a great set of Action Alerts on key issues before Congress. The alerts help Episcopalians automate expressing our views to our representatives in Congress. You also can edit your messages to personalize your concerns. A recent Alert of note is “Urge Congress to Pass Voting Rights Legislation.”https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/office-government-relations/action-alerts/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f100768%2fRespond

A reminder that all organic waste must now be put into a green container not into the trash. Thank you to Ron Thompson for getting us a new compost container – note that it is WHITE. Less organic waste in the landfill means less methane and less global warming. In SLO County green waste means food waste and paper napkins/paper towels that have been used for food waste, flowers and other organic material but NOT items that are labeled compostable like plates, cutlery etc. Thank you for caring for the planet and obeying the law. No bags of any kind may go in the compost or the recycle bins.

BIDDING BOOK PRAYERS – If you’d like to request prayers for someone to have their names read out during the worship services on Sunday, please write them in the bidding book on the stand by the usher’s station as you come into church.

UKRAINIAN REFUGEES in Poland need help. We are sending money to Caro’s sisters church in Nowy Sacz, Poland. Please put “Ukraine” on your check or on-line gift.

NAME TAGS –  We are asking everyone to wear a name tag.   Please check the name tag board by the door for yours.  If you don’t have one, or if an old one has become too shabby, please ask the office to make one for you. In the meantime, you can fill out an adhesive tag for the day. 

HOW TO FIND OUR SERVICES

Our 8am and 10:30 am Sunday services are Eucharist services, held indoors at the church for anyone wishing to attend in person.

The 8:00 am service will also be available on Zoom.  There is no 8am service on the first Sunday of each month.

The 10:30 am service will also be live-streamed for those who watch remotely — either on  Facebook at  www.facebook.com/stbenslososos/  or through our website at  http://www.stbenslososos.org/facebook-including-live-stream/

Service leaflets for both services are available under the Worship tab on our website: https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/

Unless otherwise stated, our meetings happen on Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7977776046?pwd=VUFZSXY3UVpNVitJaDl2VmhPS3E2UT09    Passcode is: 93402


ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S

ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St.

COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Wednesday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.

EARTHCARE – Discussion/action group seeking local solutions to environmental concerns.  3rd Wednesdays 3:00 pm on ZOOM

HEALING SERVICE – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30 service on 5th Sundays.

HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on ZOOM. 

LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11am and 4pm on last Wednesday of each month.

MEN’S BREAKFAST GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe

PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st Saturday of even numbered months

SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION – a lively on-line conversation, often based on a book. Tuesdays 10:15am

VESPERS AND CONVERSATION – 5:30 pm Tuesdays