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Reading the Bible in a year!
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Continuing Projects
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2. Prayer requests – Add a name to the prayer list here.
3. Box Tops for Education for local schools
This is a project of the children of the church.Take one of the colorful collection cans from back of church and fill them up with box tops from participating products. By the end of February, bring them back to the church and give them to Tierra.
Here is a list of participating products.
Box Tops for Education has helped America’s schools earn over $475 million since 1996. You can earn cash for your child’s school by clipping Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products. Box Tops also offers easy ways to earn even more cash for your school online.
Here is a video introduction
First Week in Lent , February 12 -17, 2013 (full size gallery)
Christ centered, Biblically based, spirit filled and a place of simple hospitality, we have shared our communal life with our church,our community, and those in need. Your presence enriches us.
Feb. 24 -9:00am- Holy Eucharist, Rite I
Feb. 24 -9:45am – "Forgiveness" in Adult Education
Feb. 24 -11:00am- Morning Prayer, Rite I
Lent Continues this Week!
Lent is a 40 day Christian festival beginning Ash Wednesday and concluding on Easter (Sundays are not counted). The word "Lent" comes from the old Anglo-Saxon word lengten, which means "springtime," named so for the time of the year in which it occurs. What we now call Lent was originally a period of fasting and study for catechumens who were to be baptized on the Saturday before Easter. The 40 day fast was said by Athanasius in 339 AD to be celebrated the world over. The 40 day fast of Jesus in the wilderness was responsible for the number 40 being chosen.The purpose of this extended fast was to practice self-denial and humility. This was to prepare oneself for receiving God’s grace and forgiveness in baptism, given on Easter Saturday or Easter Sunday.
We have a dedicated Lenten part of the website – Lent at St. Peter’s 2013 which has the events listed. Highlights include:
- Introduction to Lent
- Our own Lenten Calendar
- Christian Ed on Forgiveness – 9:45 Sundays, beginning Feb 17
- Feasting with Jesus – Food of the early Christians, Thursday nights beginning Feb 21, 5:30pm for the next 5 weeks
- Lenten Quiet Day , ECW at Roslyn March 21
- Holy Week, March 25-30
If this is not enough, we have other links to various Lenten resources
Feasting with Jesus – starts this Thurs, Feb. 21
One way to gain appreciation of Lent is enter the culture of Jesus. That’s the point of the series of Feasting with Jesus, 5:30pm on Thursdays during Lent. Besides family rituals and going to the synogogue, food helped to create and maintain community.
The Bible has many banquet stories associated with Jesus and he ate with a variety of people.
Most of Jesus meals were with common people. Often there were 3 or 4 generations living within the same family – grandparents, parents, children and their children. The average dinner was a community experience where all could gather. Often Roman taxation caused difficulties – reducing the food available or worse yet families losing their land and livelihood. A second type of meal would have been spent with religious leaders.
Food and associated traditions provide a window into a culture. Early Christians worshipped while eating. And they built a community in that setting, bringing together diverse people. Everyone is equal at the table. All are served the same food.
Forgiveness on Feb. 24, 9:45am
Did you miss the first session ? You can read the notes here.
During the Sundays of Lent during the adult education hour, we will take a look at forgiveness, using the work of Father Frank Desiderio, a Catholic priest whose current ministry is helping people to seek forgiveness and reconciliation. Forgiveness is good for your body, mind and spirit. You probably know that intuitively. There is plenty of research to prove that forgiveness helps heal the body and works in the brain to counteract the negative effects of anger.
For the Christian, forgiveness is a non-negotiable. Jesus insisted on it “If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions” (Matthew 6:14-15). Jesus forgave unconditionally from the cross, “Father forgive them they know not what they do” (Luke 23:24). We are called to be like Christ and forgive generously and sincerely. The question is often how to forgive. Join Catherine for this important Adult Ed.
During the second week, we will look at "Why we don’t forgive ? What are the major stumbling blocks we face when we find that we are having trouble forgiving someone?"
Region One Notes from the Meeting, Feb 6
"Notes" are a new way to get the results of the meeting quicker to you. We had a great meeting on Feb. 6, allocating $4,000 to worthy causes. Read more here
Focus on the refugee Crisis in South Sudan
The video describes why we are passionate about the "Tools for the Sudan" project.
As Larry Duffee writes "Imagine being ripped from your life, transported hundreds of miles away to a strange country and told you were now responsible for your own survival!" Beyond food and shelter the next thing a family needs is a means of survival. The "next thing" is a tool. $10- $15 buys it – perhaps a machete to clear the ground, a hoe to till the soil, a net and hooks to catch fish. For $10, what it would cost an average family in America to eat one meal at a fast food restaurant, we could give a tool that could help sustain that family.
- The overall project is described here.
- You can donate funds to help new refugees coming into Sudan through this shopping cart. Print it out and send your card and check to the address listed.
- OR you can pay online saving printing and a stamp.
Either way we thank you for your gift of a new beginning for those coming to our newest world country.
Updates!
1. Cat food collected
Remember the sermon in the last week of January, 2013 – "This can of cat food—a visible reminder of the reign of God. Next time you go to the grocery store, please go down the cat food aisle. Look the cans and bags of cat food and just think about how that cat food can be a visible reminder of God’s reign present here on earth! Actually, most things in the grocery store can be visible signs of God’s kingdom coming on earth when we decide to put some of it in our grocery carts to help someone else.
So I hope you’ll buy some cat food for this woman—you can just bring it to church and the ECW will make sure that this lady gets this food for her cats. We will bring this woman some rejoicing and a visible reminder of God’s love for her through our care for her."
Here is the result of your work. The lady picked it up on Shrove Tuesday. Her cat population has decreased to 30. Her ministry is continuing to find good homes for God’s creatures. Thank you
2. Altar Guild Training Jan 16, 2013
Check our Altar Guild page for more pictures and more information on this important ministry