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Reading the Bible in a year!
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Block Print by Mike Newman
Continuing Projects
1. Writing to Alex Long in Afghanistan
Alex Long would appreciate mail from you. You can write Alex a letter at this address:
Sgt Long, Alexander
1st MSOB A CO
UNIT 42550
FPO AP 96427-2550
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3. Prayer requests – Add a name to the prayer list here.
4. 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
Second Week in Lent , February 24, 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.
March 3 -9:45am – "Forgiveness" in Adult Education
March 3 -11:00am- Holy Eucharist, Rite I
March 3 -12:00pm- Coffee Hour
Rebuilding toilets in Haiti, starting Sunday, March 3
Region One is spear heading a campaign for each of the 19 churches in our region to raise $1,684 to build a new toilet system for the school attached to Notre Dame Cathedral and 300 students in students. Currently there is one latrine for 300 people. And that one is decrepit by our standards. For $32,000 we can build that system which will reduce disease, include cholera and improve sanitation.
The project is keeping with Diocese 5 Priorities for mission and ministry for multiculturalism and proclamation and mission beyond ourselves.
We would like to begin our fundraising for our share on March 3
The 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti in 2010 killed 310,000 and left 1 million homeless, rampant disease. This was to the poorest nation in this hemisphere before the earthquake. Here is a picture story
In 2011 a relationship was established between St. George’s and Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince Haiti. Other churches in our Region, Trinity Episcopal, Christ Episcopal and Church of the Incarnation have contributed their donations and time and money toward developing this partnership. In particuarly they monies have provided scholarship for students for books and support for teachers.
Come on March 3 and contribute to this cause. We hope to be able to complete this by Easter.
Lent continues!
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. 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 for the entire period of just weeks 2 and 3
- Christian Ed on Forgiveness – 9:45 Sundays, beginning Feb 17
- Feasting with Jesus – Food of the early Christians, Thursday nights 6:00-7:30pm (except for 5:30pm-7:00pm on March 21)
- 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 – this Thurs, Feb. 28, 6pm – The Banquet
Come to a banquet this Thursday and understand Jesus in his own time.
Many of the banquet customs were similar over the Mediterranean regions. Banquets began with invitations, many delivered by servants or members of host family. And yes, there were banquet crashers. (In the story of Mary and Martha, Mary was the crasher!)
The feast started at sundown and lasted three of more hours. The perfect banquet was 8-9 people. Any banquet larger would create small group conversations which were to be avoided.
It began in the anteroom where feet were washed and sometimes annointed with perfume. A servant did this and some of the women since it was not a popular or honorable job. After this the guest was offered. After this the right hand was washed and offered a glass of wine.
The only guests at banquets were male. Many wives were much younger teenagers and men would not want to include them. Exceptions to this rule included some feasts and religious feasts, notably the wedding feast but event there men and women sat at separate tables. Read more
Forgiveness on March 3, 9:45am
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.
Did you miss the earlier sessions ? Here are the notes to Part 1 and Part 2. We have had two weeks. The first week was on forgiveness in general and the second on why we should forgive.
On March 3, we will look at how we forgive using a method called "Let go."
Ladies Night Out Sat. March 9
Here is 2012’s Ladies Night Out in words and pictures. 2013 is year 11 of this tradition.
This year the featured entertainment is a Murder Mystery with 20 parts and organized into 4 rounds. It is actually played over the entire evening. Clues will given to you as you arrive and round one is actually at appetizer/cocktails. You can meet the characters and they will discuss their roles. Additional clues will be delivered during dinner and then final clues in round 3 which is dessert and coffee. Come to see how it unfolds at 6pm on March 9.
Please let Bill Wick (742-1218) or Barbara Wisdom (742-5224) know if out wish to portray a character. Men, also let Bill know what foods you will prepared. Characters will be given out on Sunday March 3. This is a major fundraiser for the church.
Focus on the refugee Crisis in South Sudan – Picking up the Pieces
This video shows what Samaritan’s Purse is doing in this region. Through Tools for the Sudan we are trying to provide the next step for these people.
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.