Sunday Bulletin

Calendar of Events

Monday, 11/2      Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday, 11/3        3:30-5:15 Annie rehearsal
7:30 AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, 11/4 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
‍4–5:30 Women’s Fellowship FH
‍ ‍5:30 Choir Rehearsal in Organ Loft
Thursday, 11/5 3:30 Youth Choir rehearsal
5:30 Women Potluck and games Fellowship Hall

Happy Birthday this week to:
Christian Carey on 11/2
Johanna Darrow on 11/6

Happy Anniversary this week to:
Greg Morrill and Meg Scotti on 11/1
Barry and Virginia Kerrigan on 11/5

Announcements

The ushers today are the Deacons. Thank you for helping today.

All women are invited to the Women's Fellowship Potluck Supper and Category Trivia Night on Thursday, November 5, at 5:30, in the Fellowship Hall.   Please contact Denise Wentz at women@stowecommunitychurch.org  for more details and to RSVP if you plan to attend.

SCC's Eating Well ministry seeks to help the problem of food insecurity in Vermont. We meet about twice monthly to cook fresh, healthy meals for freezing and distributing to local partners or individuals in need. We would like to expand into doing more social-mixer meals for the wider community, as well, but we need man (or woman) power! If you'd like to join in cooking, planning, or distributing meals--or if you know an individual who could benefit from receiving such meals--please contact Nikki Canalichio at 214-725-0088, or nikkicm23@gmail.com. 

Eating Well is also looking for a few key items to stock our kitchen. If you have any of these items in new or very good condition that you would like to contribute, please email Nikki at nikkicm23@gmail.com:

• large wooden cutting boards

• Quality chef knives

• Nesting mixing bowls 

• Immersion blender 

Stewardship Update

As of October 28, 2026 we have received 31 pledges for a total of $97,680.  Our goal is $350,000, and we are now at 27.9% of our goal!  Sincere thanks to all of you who have already pledged.  What a thrill it will be to announce that we have met our goal. 

There will be a pledge card inserted in the bulletin for the next three weeks for your convenience.   Sincere thanks, Nancy Jeffries-Dwyer,  Stewardship Chair

Next Sunday, November 8th we will be honoring some of our Veterans.  Please invite a Veteran to come to worship with you in uniform or not.

Save the dates:

Beginning Sunday, November 29, 2026 at 11am we will have a Holiday virtual on line coffee fellowship.  Join us on Zoom at 11 on Sundays during Advent and the holiday season.  The link will be in the Quest. 

Advent Scripture Prayer Session

Join Pastor Dan each Tuesday at noon during Advent to read the lectionary texts, meditate, pray, and reflect together. People can meet in his office or join via Zoom.  The link will be provided in the Quest, or email the church office. Beginning December 1 for 4 weeks.

Silent Night Service

Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 7pm we will be having our Silent Night Service.  Please come and light a cancel for your loved ones. A service of lament, remembrance and hope.

If you, or someone you know, would like prayers for comfort or healing, the members of the Prayer Team are ready to support you. Please fill out the prayer request form in the pew and put it in the offering plate or hand it to an usher to deliver to the office. 

Please do not forget our neighbors in need by donating food for the Lamoille Community Food Share. Non-perishable items can be put in our two bins, one in the Narthex and one in the hall downstairs. Thank you.

Musical Notes by Karen Miller

‍   Prelude:  Famed Parisian 20th century organist, recitalist, teacher, and composer Marcel Dupre (1886-1971) wrote a collection of fifteen short pieces for the organ.  The first five are based on phrases from the Song of Solomon.  The third piece was inspired by the phrase in the Song of Solomon 1:3 "I am black (dark) but comely, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem".  Here, the author is referring to his countenance which is swarthy and dark from long hours in the hot sun tending a vineyard.  The music is indicated to be played very slowly and in free time.  A slow, meditative melody in the soprano voice on a flute stop is accompanied by repeating chords in the lower voices on string and celeste stops.  Although the piece uses a number of accidentals and unusual chords, it is basically in the key of G major.

‍   Anthem:  Californian organist and composer Dale Wood (1934-2003) wrote a number of organ and choral pieces for service use, although he was basically self-taught as a composer.  The text of his anthem "O Fear the Lord, Ye His Saints" is taken from the Gradual and Introit for All Saints' Day.  Phrases from the Gospels and Revelation are heard as the text reads:
‍   ‍   O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 
‍   ‍   They that seek the Lord: shall not want any good thing. Alleluia.
‍   ‍   Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden:  and I will give you
‍   ‍   rest.  These are they which have come out of great tribulation:  and have
‍   ‍   washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
‍   ‍   Therefore, they are before the throne of God:  and serve Him day and night
‍   ‍   in His temple.  Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous:  for praise is comely for the
‍   ‍   upright.

‍   Offertory:  The tune titled "Jefferson" is an old early American, probably Appalachian, melody and was most likely brought from the British Isles by early settlers.  It appeared in early song collections like The Sacred Harp and Missouri Harmony, but the original composer is unknown.  Dale Wood's voluntary on this tune is slow and gently moving, starting in the pedal line and alternating between upper voices and the pedal line.  The key of A Minor is maintained throughout the piece.

‍   Postlude:  The music for the text we know as "For All the Saints" was written by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) for this text to be included in the English Hymnal of 1906.  Eric Routley comments that the music was initially condemned as "jazz" music, but it eventually gained such popularity that it became considered as one of the greatest tunes of the century.  It's title "Sine Nomine" translates as "without a name."  Glen Winston Cassler (1906-1990) was a professor at St. Olaf's College in Northfield, Minnesota and wrote a number of pieces for organ, including his "For All the Saints" based on "Sine Nomine".  The melody begins in the tenor voice on a solo stop, moves to the soprano on flute stops, and returns to the tenor line at the end of the piece.