March 2015 The Season of Lent

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March 2015
The Season of Lent
From Snow Drift Slopes to Cascading Water. Preschoolers at St. Mary’s Episcopal School enjoyed
wintertime fun in the churchyard when classes reconvened after a four day closing, forced by frigid temperatures and deep snow. Weather conditions also caused a burst pipe in the Education Building on Saturday, February 21. Our St. Mary’s Administrator Gina Alexander and Sextons Paul Pace and Gersain
Agudelo sprang into action calling in service from the Goochland Fire and Rescue at Manakin, plumbers, electricians, and building restoration experts, as well as our church insurance representative.
2●ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH NEWSLETTER●MARCH 2015
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Dover Parish in the Diocese of Virginia
12291 River Road
Richmond, VA 23238
Telephone: (804)784-5678 Fax: (804) 784-1940
E-Mail Address: [email protected]
Website: www.stmarysgoochland.org
St. Mary’s School Telephone: (804) 784-2049
Episcopal Leadership
The Archbishop of Canterbury
The Most Rev. and Rt. Honorable Justin Welby
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
The Bishop of Virginia
The Right Rev. Shannon Sherwood Johnston
The Bishop Suffragan
The Right Rev. Susan E. Goff
Assistant Bishop
The Right Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, Jr.
The Parish Staff
Rector
The Rev. Dr. John E. Miller
Associate Rector
The Rev. Eleanor L. Wellford
Interim Associate Rector
The Rev. Louise Browner Blanchard
Minister to Children & Youth
The Rev. Kristopher D. Adams
Nursery Director
Meg Zehmer
Organist & Choirmaster W. Dwight Graham
Parish Administrator
Gina M. Alexander
Parish Secretary
Lori R. Smiley
Parish Sexton
Paul E. Pace
Assistant Sexton
Gersain Agudelo
The Parish Vestry
Senior Warden
Junior Warden
Treasurer
Register
Richard G. Lundvall
Jane DuFrane
Howard E. Cobb
Michelle D. Lewis
Class of 2016
William Gooch
Michelle Lewis
Richard Lundvall
Benjamin Weimer, Jr.
Class of 2017
Scott Barton
Jane DuFrane
Steve Guza
Brantley Holmes
Class of 2018
Betsy Rawles
Bruin Richardson
David Rose
Charmaine Trice
stmarysgoochland.org
From the
Parish Register:
Transfers Out:
24 February 2015
Scott Warren Parks to
Hebron Presbyterian Church, Manakin Sabot, VA
24 February2015
Lynne Gould Parks to
Hebron Presbyterian Church, Manakin Sabot, VA
24 February 2015
Anna Elizabeth Maxwell Horner
to Galilee Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, VA
24 February 2015
Campbell Maxwell Horner to
Galilee Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, VA
Baptisms:
08 February 2015
08 February 2015
Timothy Finn Hebner
Madeleine Brown Teeter
07 February 2015
Bonnie Elizabeth Zimmer &
Todd Armistead Bedell
05 February 2015
09 February 2015
12 February 2015
20 February 2015
21 February 2015
Audrey Gifford Eggleston
Edward W. Tuleck
Wilson Platt Reed
George Locher
J. Morton Eggleston, Jr.
Wedding:
Burials:
HAVE YOU MADE YOUR
PLEDGE FOR 2015?
2015 Annual Giving Campaign
Cards Sent
553
Cards Returned
352
% of Cards Returned 64%
Pledges to Date $903,585
ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH NEWSLETTER●MARCH 2015●3
By Susan Rawls, Director
What a crazy February we have had at St. Mary’s Episcopal School! With the snow and
cold temperatures, we missed almost an entire week of school! We are looking forward
to springtime at school when sunny weather and new growth begin to take over our
school campus!
We look forward to celebrating our Dad’s Night in March. This is a fabulous evening
when our dad’s come to school with the children. They play, they paint, they build and
they even participate in circle time activities. We love to see our dads at “play!”
Our summer enrichment program will be held the first two weeks of June. This is a Monday through Friday program
from 9 to 12 for 3 to 6 year olds. We have full days of art, music, movement and outdoor activities. Please call our office for further information at 784-2049.
Our program is filling up for the Fall. For further information, please visit our website at www.saintmarysschool.net.
You may call to schedule a tour of our program at 784-2049.
Reminder:
Daylight Saving time
begins on March 8
Please set your clocks
ahead one hour.
The St. Mary’s NEWSLETTER is published monthly from September through May, with one summer edition, as a ministry to
the members and friends of Dover Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. The views and information expressed herein are guided by
the mission statement of our parish:
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God’s love and grace revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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St. Mary’s Annual
Congregational Meeting
Report from the 2014-2015 Senior Warden, Peggy Talman
15 January 2015
Transition! That is what this past year has been called.
“A year of transition.” You may not have noticed it so
much, but it is happening slowly and many changes are being discussed in the Vestry meetings and the Committee
meetings. Our friend, Christopher Brookfield is leading a
Book class here at St Mary’s on Tuesday afternoons and they
have been reading a book by Kent Haruf entitled Benediction. A NYT critique of the book has raised some questions
about Changes. For instance: What is change worth? When
is leaving certain things unspoken a reflection of good manners and when is it evasion? When is change truly dramatic
and positive and when is it disruptive and too emotional?
When is the aversion to change a form of fidelity to old traditions?
As I began my term as Senior Warden in February of
2014, there were issues of discontent and concern. Church
attendance, especially among the young members, was down
and pledges were down or nonexistent in some cases, causing us to have a financial deficit. We acknowledged that our
leadership needed some younger voices. There seemed to be
a general lack of engagement and an uncertainty among our
members about our future and what plans our clergy were
making for retirement. David Knight, our then Priest Associate preached a thought provoking sermon in January called
“In What Direction are we moving?” in which he reminded
us that if the church is not pressing forward every day to
meet the challenges it faces, then by the sheer momentum of
the tide moving against us, we will move backwards. I’d
like to review with you some of the changes that have taken
place this year and some that we anticipate in the coming
year.
In November we lost David when he decided to make a
change and answered a call to the Church of the Epiphany. I
sent a letter to the congregation asking if you would like to
contribute to a purse for David and by Christmas week, John
and I were able to present a check to him for almost $5000.
He was delighted and thank you for your generous response
on such short notice.
Last March we invited Austin Brockenbrough to attend
our Vestry meeting to advise us on how to go about raising
funds to close the financial gap which had been growing for
several years. As a result of his visit our Stewardship Chairman, Scott Barton called a group of church leaders together
to make some visits. Letters were sent out and a plea was
made from this lectern by Yours Truly. I am happy to report
that the gap has been closed as a result of many of you who
raised your pledge and increased your 2014 gifts. Thank you
for hearing the urgency and for responding. With your continued help, St. Mary’s will continue to stay on solid ground
for us and our children.
As most of you have noticed, Kris Adams who has been
hired in the last year as our minister to children and youth
has been attracting families with young children and engaging these families on multiple levels. He is a talented musician, communicates well to all ages and recently preached a
great sermon. We hear only very positive things from all of
the young families about Kris who has two very young children himself.
Another very positive aspect which is growing steadily is
the PAC Committee. It stands for Parish Advisory Council!
They are an attractive young, vibrant group of members,
headed by Wallace Inge, who are focused on the spiritual,
service and social needs of our St. Mary’s community.
They are serving on various committees according to their
interests and talents, including FoMA, ushering, Fellowship,
Outreach, Newcomers, Caritas, etc. Its members are becoming an important voice and source of future leadership and if
you would like to be a part of this group, please call the
church.
Our Outreach Committee headed by Ben Weimer continues to support many community projects such as Goochland
Free Clinic and Family Services, World Pediatric Project, St
Andrews School, Elk Hill, just to name a few. Ben is looking for younger members to be a part of the Outreach Committee which is a great opportunity to learn and contribute.
The Fellowship committee never ceases to amaze me
with their delicious Parish breakfasts, seasonal dinners and
the popular winter picnics after church which include help
from our youth and the PAC. Dede Andrews has been a
stalwart Vestry leader with the Fellowship Committee as
have so many others.
One of the high lights of my year as Senior Warden is the
development of a close friendship with Eleanor. During the
course of the year she has made the decision to follow a calling to do more pastoral counseling which involves taking
classes and working only part time at St. Mary’s until she
plans to retire in June. If I was facing overwhelming challenges which so many of us do at all ages, I cannot think of a
brighter face, a warmer nature or a more comforting presence
to be by my side. She is so wise and capable and her talents
and voice will long resonate here at St. Mary’s.
It is very fortunate for us that Eleanor ran into Weezie
Blanchard in Elwood Market not so long ago and asked if
she would be interested in talking to John about helping us
out at St. Mary’s since we were getting a little short on
clergy. It was an idea that some of us had been talking
about, knowing that she had just recently served as Associate
Rector and Vicar at St. Stephen’s, including all aspects of
planning, pastoral care and worship. In his intuitive and persuasive way, John has been able to arrange for Weezie to
step right in as Interim Associate Rector from January to
June of this year as she positions herself for a possible calling to become Rector somewhere in the future . Weezie will
have Eleanor’s excellent leadership skills to help her adjust
and they will be a wonderful team to support Eleanor’s replacement.
It has been a very interesting experience to serve on the
Vestry for the last three years and to see the inner workings
of this beloved church. I might have found some of the challenges more frustrating had it not been for John’s relaxed
demeanor which I am sure comes from his faith in God. He
was never as upset as I was over the deficit and when the
security alarm went off during Silent Night at the Christmas
eve service two years in a row, he can smile in the telling.
Some people might have sued that alarm company. He always tells the mother of the bride that everything is going to
be alright even when the groom can’t find the ring. Not too
long ago he walked down the isle here at a funeral and when
he looked behind him, the casket was still at the back of the
church. He just circled back and walked down the isle again,
same hymn, second verse. I have never met a more articulate speaker whether prepared or unprepared, leading a meet-
ing, preaching or just relaxed conversations. He and I have
had lots of those in the past year because he has made himself very accessible. He is a role model to all of us who go
through life trying to deal with loss as we have seen him
persevere and help others in the process. He knows we are
not alone in our struggles and he shares his strength with us.
As his time of retirement looms in the next few years, his
main focus is to leave us in good hands. He has appointed a
youthful, able Search Committee which has begun to meet in
search of a replacement for Eleanor. This is a formidable
challenge, but we plan to have someone by June. John has
also formed a Transition Committee composed of some old
church pillars as well as some young leaders to see us
through these future changes and needs.
So as you can see, there are many people who have the
satisfaction of being engaged in the activities of the church,
but there is certainly room for greater participation. Some
younger members are requesting that we have the family
service at an earlier time so that sports on Sunday do not
interfere with church attendance, rather than vice versa. This
change is under discussion by the Worship Committee. The
Vestry welcomes your ideas and suggestions and realizes
that changes can be opportunities if they are carefully undertaken. I’d like to thank my fellow Vestry members, especially my outgoing classmates, Dede Andrews, Constance
Bowden and Kemper Wharton for all of their support and
contributions this past year and I am grateful for the opportunity to have served as Senior Warden through this year of
Transition.
New Vestry Members
Elected at the Annual Congregational Meeting
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Betsy Rawles
Bruin Richardson
David Rose
Charmaine Trice
New Vestry Officers
Elected at the January 27, 2015
Meeting of the Vestry
Senior Warden
Junior Warden
Treasurer
Register
Rich Lundvall
Jane DuFrane
Howard Cobb
Michelle Lewis
Point Jesus Out
A Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent
22 February 2015
The Reverend Dr. Brian K. Blount
President, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the
twelve, arrived; and with him there was a crowd with swords
and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I
will kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him away under
guard." So when he came, he went up to him at once and
said, "Rabbi!" and kissed him. Then they laid hands on him
and arrested him.
Mark 14:43-46
My wife, Sharon, my daughter Kaylin, and I were walking the streets of Chicago when we first heard the news. I
had been invited to speak at Fourth Presbyterian Church in
Chicago and, since school was out for the summer, we had
gone as a family. It is always nice when I go to speak in a
strange place to look out and see their familiar smiles. Besides, they always laugh at my jokes.
We were looking for a place to eat amidst the crowds on
what they call Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. All of a sudden
we heard these three loud voices, young girls shouting a
proclamation of stupendous shock and stirring sorrow that
was oddly enough also laced with an undeniably malicious,
mocking scorn. It was as if they did not themselves know
how they should feel about the stunning news they were
broadcasting. “It’s Michael Jackson!” they were hollering.
“Michael Jackson is dead. Michael Jackson is dead.”
Who believes that kind of news when you hear it yelled
out of the proverbial blue by teenagers on the street? One
could hardly tell from their demeanors, as draped in derision
as they were cloaked in concern, whether they were perpetrating some sick joke.
It is for this very reason that I keep my cell phone holstered on my hip the way the cowboys of old latched their six
shooters to their sides. You never know when you might
need to quick draw that thing. You never know when trouble
is coming: the snotty email, the gossipy news alert, the addictive desire for a quick game of solitaire. You have to be
ready. Your cell phone has to be ready to open up and get to
work at a moment’s notice. I get so much email these days I
admit to having an itchy trigger finger on my cell phone
hand. I’m fast. Real fast. My cell phone comes out so quickly
my wife hardly has time to say “put that thing down, we’re
having dinner.” This day, before she could say, “put that
thing down, we’re having a nice walk,” the cell phone was
out, I was on the internet, looking at pictures of Michael
Jackson and reading a story about him being taken by ambulance from his home, not breathing.
It didn’t matter what you thought of the man or his music, by the end of that day and the days that would follow,
you were inundated with news about his spectacularly stunning and sad life and his equally stunning and sad death. And
his face was everywhere. Sometimes with his name, sometimes without. But there was no confusion. You knew him.
The whole world seemed to know him, know how he lived
and how he died.
When Walter Cronkite and Edward Kennedy died a few
weeks later, there was a similar sense of “knowing.” Their
lives were less controversial, but their faces were just as recognizable. There are others like them, of course. Among the
living and the dead. People who are instantly and globally
recognized in life and death. Elvis Presley. John F. Kennedy.
Ronald Reagan. Marilyn Monroe. Michael Jordan. Oprah
Winfrey. Katie Couric. Doesn’t matter what you think of
them. You know them. And if they walked into this sanctuary this evening, your head would turn with everyone else’s
head and you would be able without a moment’s hesitation to
point any one of them out.
Jesus . . . is . . . not like that. We know his name, but we
don’t have a face. We have all this data. We’ve got the writings of Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and so forth. But, if Jesus walked into this sanctuary this morning, presuming he
was wearing a twenty-first century suit and not a firstcentury robe, how would you know who he was? The answer
is: you wouldn’t. For all you know, the person sitting right
beside you right now could be Jesus, and you would not
have a clue.
Apparently, it wasn’t so very different in the first century, when Jesus was walking and talking in Galilee and
Judea and Jerusalem. Even during what appears to us to have
been a spectacularly famous and decidedly controversial
public life of preaching, exorcising, teaching, and healing
throughout the regions of Palestine, not all that many people,
certainly not the important and powerful people, could stare
into a crowd and point Jesus out. Know how I know that?
The Kiss.
Now, don’t focus too hard on the kiss or you’ll miss the
point. That is how it generally has been for me, for most of
my life. For me, the stress had always been on that despicable, treacherous, traitorous kiss.
We humans are preoccupied with kissing, aren’t we? If
you walk down a beautiful pathway, say in a park, and you
see gentle waterfalls, and hear the chirping of birds and the
laughter of little children, and sense the rustling of leaves at
your feet as a gentle wind whirls around you and stirs up all
the pieces of creation in your midst, you notice THOSE
things. Those beautiful things in God’s creation. But if you
walk down that same pathway and two people are making
out on a bench, kissing and stuff, slobbering all over each
other, what grabs your attention? You might smile at youthful indiscretion, or, if the couple is older, wonder if some
kind of dementia is involved. But the point is this: kissing
kidnaps your attention. When people kiss, other people take
notice.
I . . . noticed Judas. Whenever I read this story and whenever I heard it preached, the stress for me was always on
Judas’ infamous kiss. The scripture says: “The one whom I
KISS is the man, arrest him, and take him away.”
But, . . . what if the stress were not on the kiss but on the
HIM? The scripture says: “The one whom I kiss is THE
MAN, arrest HIM, and take HIM away.” See, HIM is the
problem. They know the reputation of HIM. HIS reputation
is why they were out to get HIM. What they did not know
was what this HIM looked like. Catching HIM therefore had
to be an inside job. The authorities needed someone close so
they could be sure they got the right man. And that is where
Judas came in. They needed Judas to point Jesus out.
In her commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Morna
Hooker makes the point: “The prearranged signal [the kiss]
identifies Jesus, which suggests that his captors did not recognize him. In John’s account no signal is given and Jesus
identifies himself. It is interesting that the evangelists are
agreed that Jesus’ captors did not know who he was, since it
suggests that he was not in fact as well known in Jerusalem
as we might imagine from the gospels.”1
Of the historians of the period, who studied him? The
answer: nobody. Of the artists of the period, who covered
him? The answer: nobody. That, of course, is why we don’t
know what he looked like. No one ever asked the Son of God
to sit for a portrait. So, the historians didn’t cover him. The
artists didn’t sculpt him. And the temple police could not ID
him. Jesus, it turns out, is a lot like you and me. To the powerful people of his time, for too many people in our time, he
is just one more anonymous face in the bustling crowd.
Here’s the problem. In the first century, the high priests
thought Jesus was leading people dangerously astray. But
how were they going to stop him if they didn’t know what he
looked like? Their temple police needed somebody! In the
twenty first century, we believe that Jesus is leading the way
to heaven. But how are we going to get people to follow him,
how are WE going to be able to follow him if we don’t know
what he looks like? You know what we need? We need, the
world needs somebody to point Jesus out! You know what
we need? We need . . . Judas!!!
I know what you’re thinking. Judas!!?? Are you crazy?
Judas!!??
Amazingly enough, though, Judas was the first apostle to
do what Jesus commissioned all the apostles to do. While all
Jesus’ other followers were getting ready to put as much
distance as they could between themselves and their Lord,
Judas was about to use a kiss to tether himself to Jesus for all
time. Judas made sure that the people who desperately
wanted to find Jesus found Jesus. Judas pointed Jesus out!!
Now, it’s our turn. To be Judas . . .
Remember picture negatives? Kids today don’t know
anything. All this digital mess. They snap a shot, they see
what it looks like on a lens on the back of the camera instantly. They don’t like it, they erase it instantly, they shoot
another. When they do like it, seconds later, it’s all over the
internet, the web, Facebook, twittering around the globe in
nanoseconds for the entire population of the planet to see.
In my generation, after we took the pictures, we had to
turn the camera this way and that until we discovered this
little lever, and then we had to use that lever to crank the film
back up into a roll, and then we had to break our way into the
camera to get the film, and then we had to drag the film out
of the camera. And we had to do it all in the proper sequence, so the film would get rolled up in the proper lack of
sunlight so as not to over expose the film. And then, after all
that, we still couldn’t look at anything. We had to send the
film off somewhere and we had to wait for days before we
got to see what the pictures looked like. Seems like I was just
rejoicing about the miracle of one hour photo processing
when this whole digital thing crops up and turns the world
upside down. That’s what I’m talking about, turning the
world upside down. Remember those little negatives, the
strips, we’d get back with the processed pictures. The negatives were the reverse images of the things we saw in the
actual photo, but they were the same photo, just in negative,
just in dark reverse. Judas is the dark reverse of what we
should be. Like Judas, WE SHOULD BE POINTING JESUS OUT!!! Because, unless we do, the world won’t know
to run to HIM. Remember how when Bartimaeus was on the
road side crying out to Jesus in Mark 10. The disciples
should have pointed Jesus out. Over here, Bartimaeus, here
he is. But they tried to hide Jesus, tried to shut up Bartimaeus. Instead of pointing Jesus out, they tried to secret Jesus away. Remember the stories about the little children that
people were bringing to Jesus. Jesus, the King James Version
tells us, suffered the little children to come to him. Suffer is
the right word. Because in his time adults, particularly important teachers like Jesus, didn’t suffer children in their
presence. Too unruly. Too unpredictable. Too dirty. Just like
a lot of Christians today don’t suffer children in worship
services all that well, especially if they start crying or moving or otherwise displaying a total lack of old people maturity. Instead of sending the children away, as the disciples
apparently, appropriately tried to do, they should have been
shouting at the top of their lungs to the children’s parents,
“here he is, over here, do you see him?!!!” They should have
been pointing Jesus out. All through the gospel narratives
people are trying to protect Jesus from this and that, separate
Jesus from the very reasons, the very people, the very brokenness, the very difficulties, the very diseases, the very impurities, the very troubles, the very despicable, disgusting,
degrading, desperate, demonic realities of life he was sent to
engage. Instead, having seen what the righteous, pure, safe,
and saved world saw as despicable, disgusting, degrading,
desperate, and demonic, they should have been jumping up
and down and shouting, “Hey, you, you over there, you with
the disgusting leprosy, you with the degrading 12 year flow
of blood, you with the desperate withered limbs, you with the
demonic legion of 6 possessed spirits, Jesus is right here.
Right here.” They should have been pointing Jesus out.
Point Jesus out. That’s your Judas job! That is why we
are here in this sanctuary this evening. We are learning how
to know Jesus so well that we’ll be able, when our time
comes, to point Jesus out to people who do not know who he
is, how he lived, or why he died.
We point Jesus out by teaching and preaching the Gospel.
I know that sounds easy. But it’s not. Not in the world we
live in. It’s not easy because people, even Christian people,
don’t know the stories that share the essence of the man they
don’t really know. In a Gallup poll of Americans some years
ago, the results of the polling demonstrated the following
tidbits:
--Only 37% of those interviewed could name all four
Gospels.
-- Only half of adults interviewed nationwide could name
any of the four Gospels of the New Testament.
-- Seven in ten (70%) were able to name the town where
Jesus was born, but just 42% could identify him as the person who delivered the Sermon on the Mount.
How can a world know a man if they don’t know the materials which testify to how the man lived and died? I am so
weary of talking to folk who proclaim authoritatively that
they know what a Christian ought to do and be and yet they
have such little knowledge of any of Jesus’ teachings and
actions that should be the foundation for Christian living.
You’ve got to point Jesus out to a world of people who have
come to somehow think they can be Christian without knowing Jesus, who have come to think they can know Jesus of
Nazareth without knowing anything about or written in the
Gospel stories that share his life and ministry. Who can have
confidence that people who don’t even know the names of
the Gospels are actually reading the Gospels? We must point
Jesus out.
We point Jesus out by living as he lived, even when the
circumstances of living in this world become so daunting as
to be oppressive. We point Jesus out by fighting through the
difficulties that face this church and the community it serves
with the faith of a man who stepped up before a hostile garden crowd determined to take his life. You point Jesus out
by fighting through the obstacles that litter the road you have
taken to follow your call into discipleship with the courage
of a man who fought through the holiness, purity, and ethnic
boundaries that separated humans from each other and ultimately humans from God. We point Jesus out by living his
radical life of touching untouchables, of breaking rules that
had become policies of oppression, of breaking through
boundaries that separated humans from each other and from
God even when we hear people telling us that Jesus could
not possibly be the one we’re pointing to with the kind of life
we’re living.
When you point Jesus out to people who don’t know the
names of the gospels or know that he preached the sermon
on the mount, they are bound to be shocked at what they hear
you say and scandalized by how they see you live. When
they hear that he went to parties populated by prostitutes,
when they hear that he dined with people who were tax collectors fleecing others out of any chance they had for a decent living, when they hear that he lingered with lepers who
were cast out of polite society, when they learn that he
roamed from place to place without guarantee of a place to
lay down his head, when they learn that he broke some of
the most important cultic traditions of his time like the Sabbath and dietary laws, when they learn that he confronted
the ethnic and racial prejudice against gentiles and proclaimed that they, too, were God’s people, when they learn
that Jesus lived his life in such a way that the Roman and
Jewish authorities of the time understood his behavior to be
seditious and that he so threatened the very way and order of
life and society that they had to put him to death to put his
movement to a stop, they won’t be angry with Jesus, because
they don’t know Jesus, but they may very well be mad at
you for pointing this Jesus out.
That is when you will have to reach down and find the
strength to do what Judas did.
One thing you can say for Judas: he knew how to focus.
Despite everything swirling around him, he stayed locked on
Jesus and kept moving to Jesus. He fought through the
crowds and the difficulties and the second thoughts and the
fear and the anxiety and through it all, he pointed Jesus out.
We must do at least as much as Judas. For a different
reason altogether, we must not be diverted from our task of
pointing Jesus out. The people of our world, for a reason
very different than the reason that motivated the high priests,
are still seeking Jesus. They often do not want Mark’s Jesus.
Too often, they want their Jesus. An easy Jesus. A comfortable Jesus. A Jesus who looks like they look and lives like
they live. A Jesus who demands nothing and asks them to
give nothing in return. Our job is to get to know scripture’s
Jesus, and then to point him out. If Judas could do it for the
wrong reason, we can do it for the right reason.
We must not lose focus on why we come here week in
and week out, and for many of you day in an day out. We are
here to ensure that we learn and, having learned, to go out
into the world and point Jesus out.
Do you know someone struggling with a sense of God’s
call upon their lives and trying desperately to discern what
God’s will is? Use your own faith journey as a lightening rod
to point Jesus out.
Do you know some social or political or religious brokenness? Jump into the middle of it and point Jesus out.
Do you know some desperate soul who feels that all is
lost? Navigate your way into their bewildered world and
point Jesus out.
Do you know a community or a people struggling to
reach their destiny? Step into their world, listen to their
dreams, reach out to their needs, dig into your pockets, kneel
down hard on your knees, and point Jesus out.
We do know a world that is slipping farther and farther
away from knowledge of and relationship with God. We
want to help that world. That is why we are here. We have
come to this place to learn from and to learn with each other
so that on those days when we find ourselves in the gardens
of contemporary life where desperate crowds are wandering
in search of direction and meaning, like Judas, we will have
spent so much time with the history, tradition, scriptures, and
person of the Son of God that we will be able to point Jesus
out.
________________
1.
Morna Hooker, The Gospel According To Saint Mark (Peabody,
Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), 351.
SCHEDULE FOR LAY WORSHIP ASSISTANTS
9:00 a.m. Service—Little St. Mary’s—March 2015
Date
Service
Ushers
LEM
Lay Reader
Cabell Jones
Prayer Leader
Mar 1
Holy Eucharist I
Elizabeth & Lloyd
Johannessen
Cabell Jones
Mar 8
Holy Eucharist I
***Start DST***
Anne Lower &
Wally Stettinius
Mar 15
Holy Eucharist I
Phebe Van Valen
Margaret Mickel
Mar 22
Holy Eucharist I
Karen & Mike
Huennekens
Nell Cobb
Pam Loree
Nell Cobb
Mar 29
Holy Eucharist I
Barbara & Mac McCarthy
Robin Lind
Kitty Williams
Susie Salsitz
Apr 5
Holy Eucharist I
*New St. Mary’s
***Easter
Susie Salsitz
Joan Wilkins
11:00 a.m. Service—New St. Mary’s—March 2015
Date
Service
Mar 1
Holy Eucharist
Mar 8
Morning Prayer
Mar 15
Ushers
LEM
Lay Reader
Marilynn Ware Ros Bowers
Eva Bryson (2)
Prayer Leader
Tracey Ragsdale
n/a
Lawrence Croft
Holy Eucharist
Fay Lohr
Lisa Powell
Mar 22
Morning Prayer
n/a
Winston Price
Mary Madge
Mar 29
Holy Eucharist
***Palm Sunday
Sydna Street
Patricia Plaisted
Sydna Street
Apr 5
Holy Eucharist
***Easter
Bill Thornton
Frank Trice
CHILDREN & YOUTH MINISTRIES
The Rev. Kristopher D. Adams
Minister to Children and Youth
CALENDAR AT A GLANCE
Saturday, February 28
Youth Food Packing (3:00-6:00pm, Grades 6-12)
Wednesday, March 4
Lenten Parish Supper with Children’s & Youth Activities
Sunday, March 8
Children’s Lesson in New St. Mary’s (11:00am)
Wednesday, March 11
No Lenten Parish Supper or Activities
Wednesday, March 18
Sunday, March 22
Children & Youth Committee Meeting (10:00am)
Wednesday, March 25
Saturday, March 28
Youth Jumpology Party (10:40am-1:00pm, Grades 6-12)
IMPORTANT
SUMMER
DATES
More details inside!
Youth Mission Work: June 18-19
Vacation Bible School: July 13-17
YOUTH FOOD PACKING
for Goochland Family Services
Saturday, February 28, 3:00-6:00pm
We hope you will plan to join us for a pioneer outreach opportunity in cooperation with Goochland Family Services,
St. Mary's Outreach Committee, and St. Mary's Youth!
Please join us on Saturday, February 28, from 3:00-6:00pm
as we pack 150 pounds of flour for distribution through
Goochland's food pantry. A pizza dinner will be provided
for all youth who attend, and we will be playing MANHUNT
with any time left over after our food packing. Please note
that for our first attempt at food packing, we are limiting our sign up to the first twelve youth who RSVP!
LENTEN PROGRAMS
FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
following Lenten Parish Suppers
Wednesdays, March 4, 18, & 25,
5:30-7:00pm
Throughout Lent, St. Mary's hosts several parish suppers from 5:30-7:00pm. On these evenings, we are encouraging families with children to share their supper together from 5:306:15pm. At 6:15pm after eating their dinner, children and youth (kindergarten - grade 12)
will be dismissed for some fun Lenten activities following supper. All programs for children
and youth will conclude by 7:00pm.
Weekly emails will be sent out with the details for each supper’s activities for children and
youth. Children in kindergarten through Grade 2 will have special Lenten Movie Nights and
learn about different biblical stories with the Veggie Tales characters. Jr. Youth Group
(Grades 3-5) and Youth (Grades 6-12) will have outreach-focused activities following each of
our suppers. We hope to see you there!
Childcare for our youngest little ones is available upon request. Please contact Kristopher
Adams ([email protected]) in advance if you have a child who will need nursery
care (birth - age 6).
CHILDREN’S LESSON IN NEW ST. MARY’S
Sunday, March 8, 11:00am
Join us Sunday, March 8, for our children's sermon during the
11:00am service in New St. Mary's. Rather than having our lesson in
the Block Room, we will share our lesson together in the front of
New St. Mary's before our dismissal! Children in grades 1-5 should
go with their parents into worship as they usually do. Children ages
3-6 should go by their classrooms to sign in first, and then go with
their parents into worship. After the children's lesson, all children
(age 3-grade 5) will be dismissed to the Block Room.
WINTER PICNIC FOR YOUTH MISSION TRIP UPDATE
Thank you to everyone who came out to
our two Winter Picnics in support of our
summer youth mission work! Through your
generous donations, we raised $350 to put
towards our Homegrown Mission Trip! Special thanks go the Parish Advisory Council
(PAC) for their help in the kitchen!
YOUTH JUMPOLOGY PARTY
Saturday, March 28, 10:40am-1:00pm
Bounce in an open jump field (over 35 connected trampolines), play intense trampoline
dodgeball, jump into the foam pit, perfect your moves on bounce boards, get a grueling
trampoline workout, shoot some hoops in the trampoline basketball area, and so much more!
Join us as we have our first youth party at Jumpology (10087 Brook Road, Glen Allen, VA
23059 - 804.625.4290) on Saturday, March 28, from 10:40am to 1:00pm. We will meet at
Jumpology at 10:40am to get ready for an hour of "flight time" beginning at 11:00am,
and then we will walk across the street to McDonald's for lunch, where parents are welcome to pick up their youth at 1:00pm. Please make sure you arrive on time at 10:40am so
that you can be ready to begin jumping at 11:00am.
Please sign up using the link below, and note that the deadline to sign up is Sunday,
March 15. Those signed up by March 15 are responsible for the cost of the event even if
they are unable to attend. The cost is $15 for a Jumpology ticket plus additional cash to
purchase lunch at McDonald's. Remember that friends and guests are always welcome.
Adult chaperones are needed, and those who sign up will receive a FREE Jumpology ticket.
Less adventurous chaperones who wish to watch but not "jump" can have one FREE youth
ticket for their child. Chaperones should sign up using the link below.
The Jumpology Waiver Form and St. Mary's Waiver Form must be completed for each youth
and adult chaperone who wishes to participate. These forms should be returned no later
than Sunday, March 15.
Jumpology Waiver: http://www.stmarysgoochland.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/JumpologyWaiver.pdf
St. Mary’s Waiver: http://www.stmarysgoochland.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/St.-Marys-Youth-Form-2015.pdf
Jumpology Party Sign Up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c48acaa29aafe3-youth3
Thursday & Friday, June 18-19
St. Mary's Episcopal Church stands in the gap between rural Goochland and urban Richmond.
This summer, our youth are invited to participate in a homegrown mission trip designed to
help our youth serve both of these different communities. Our homegrown mission trip will
include food packing at St. Mary's for Goochland Family Services' Food Pantry, volunteering
at Shalom Farms, serving food at Grace and Holy Trinity's Soup Kitchen, as well as sharing in
activities for both worship and fun. Our mission work will take place Thursday, June 18,
through Friday, June 19. More details will be available soon, as well as an online sign up. We
hope you will plan to join us this summer as we minister to the needs around us from the
farm to the city!
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Monday-Friday, July 13-17, 9:00am-12:00pm
You will not want to miss out this summer on our summer Vacation Bible School where we will learn all about
Jesus’ life as a child! Everyone knows what it’s like to
hear their mom tell stories from their childhood. Can
you imagine the kinds of stories Mary and Joseph could
tell about Jesus? We will be journeying with your children back to Hometown Nazareth, where they’ll learn
more about their faith and that the child of Mary and
Joseph is also the Son of God. Our registration form
will be available in next month’s newsletter!
For more information about our children and youth ministries, including additional details
for events or signing up as an adult volunteer, please contact our Minister to Children and
Youth, Rev. Kristopher Adams, at [email protected], or the Chair of the
Children and Youth Committee, Mrs. Brantley Holmes, at [email protected].
LENTEN OFFERINGS
Wednesday Evening Lenten Series Continues
“Will the True Jesus Stand Up?”
Speaker: Dr. Frank E. Eakin, Jr.
Professor of Religion at The University of Richmond
March 4, March 18, and March 25
6:45 p.m.—7:30 p.m. following the Lenten Parish Supper
Dr. Frank E. Eakin, Jr., Professor of Religion at the University of Richmond and chair of St. Mary’s Adult Ministries
Committee, continues a Wednesday Evening Lecture and
discussion series during Lent. The series, which is entitled
“Will the True Jesus Stand Up?” will examine the biblical
and theological roots of the Church’s view of the nature and
meaning of the life of Jesus. The sessions upcoming are as
follows:
March 18: The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and
Luke) and their perceptions of Jesus of Nazareth. How
do their views of Jesus correspond to diverse messianic
views among the Jews? We will refer to numerous passages but read few in larger context.
March 25: The Book of Revelation and the Gospel of
John and their unique views of Jesus. We will discuss
the nature of the Book of Revelation and its militant
March 4: The Contributions of Paul. How does Paul
Christ. In addition we will focus on the special Christology
understand the Christ and what does he tell us about Jeof the Fourth Gospel, which equates Jesus clearly with
sus. We will discuss some of the Pauline passages (as Ga- God. We will focus on the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel
latians 4:4) as well as a confessional passage Paul borrowed (1:1-18), the unique “I am” passages in John, as well as the
(Philippians 2:1-11) but apparently embraced.
use of “Signs” in the Fourth Gospel. The study of John will
naturally lead us back to the Nicene Creed.
March 11: No session.
Special Guest Chef
for March 18 Lenten Dinner
Chris “Woobie” Mack
Woobie has worked with James Beard award winning chef Roy
Yamaguchi. Learning pacific rim cuisine and sushi from the master
of Hawaiian fusion, chef Woobie ran his own kitchen at Soul in
Honolulu. He then moved to Washington D.C where he was a chef
at Quench restaurant. There he came into his own, winning Best
New Restaurant, Best Doughnut dessert, chef of the year and appearing on the Food Network show CHEF WANTED with Anne
Burrell, season 3.
Chef Chris "Woobie" Mack is currently working as a private chef.
The Special Menu for that Evening will be a Hawaiian Menu with
Kalua Pig with cabbage, Shoyu Chicken, White Rice, Mac Salad, &
Garden Salad. Chicken Nuggets & Mac & Cheese for the kids.
Observing Lent in a Multicultural and Secular World
Lenten Study led by the Rev. Louise Browner Blanchard
February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 Noon
Education Building Library
Lent, the six weeks leading up to Good Friday and Easter, is one of the most ancient and important seasons in the Christian
calendar. But how do we observe a holy Lent, as the Book of Common Prayer invites us to do, in a world of many religions,
in a world where many people have given up on religion, and a world where the rest of us struggle to make sense of it all?
If you are interested in exploring these questions and more, please join Interim Associate Rector Weezie Blanchard on Mondays during Lent (March 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30) from 10:30-noon in the Library of the Education Building.
To sign up, please contact Weezie at [email protected], or call the church office at 784-5678, email
[email protected].
Virginia Union’s Rev. John Kinney
to Fire Up St. Mary’s Seniors
at St. Paul’s Lenten Preaching
and Lunch Series Wednesday, March 11
by Robin Lind
St. Mary’s Seniors go on the road this month to celebrate Lent with “the Dean of Preachers” at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond on Wednesday,
March 11 at midday.
The Rev. Dr. John Kinney, Dean of the School of Theology at Richmond’s Virginia Union University will be the
guest preacher in the Lenten Series “Beloved Community”
— and the special guest, with Rector Wallace Adams-Riley,
at a table reserved for St. Mary’s Seniors following the 30minute service.
Dr. Kinney, one of the most energetic and vigorous
preachers ever to exercise St. Paul’s pulpit, is distinguished
as a systematic theologian, academician and administrator.
He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University/Union
Theological Seminary in New York and established the
Doctor of Ministry program at Virginia Union. He has
served as adjunct faculty at Randolph-Macon College, Union Theological Seminary, and the College of William and
Mary. He keeps his preaching fresh and grounded as pastor
of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Hanover
County.
The service begins promptly at 12:30. We recommend
you be in the sanctuary at least 10 minutes early to obtain
seating. Lunch follows in the adjacent parish hall at 1 pm.
The diocesan-famed cheese soufflé and salad trio plate
is served by a team of more than 300 volunteers from over
50 area churches. A $10 donation is requested and includes
drinks and dessert. All proceeds from the Lenten Lunch
program are contributed to international institutions and
charities.
If you live near St. Paul’s or work downtown, please
come directly and join us in the sanctuary; if more convenient, please come to St. Mary’s to car pool with fellow seniors. We will depart by 11:50 am and expect to return by
2:30.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is located at 815 E. Grace
Street at Capitol Square. Limited parking under St. Paul’s is
free, on a first-come, first-served, basis: enter from 8th
Street between Grace and Franklin.
Please make your reservation with the St. Mary’s church
office so that we may reserve sufficient places at the table
reserved for us: 804-784-5678. If you can share your car
with three others please let us know! All members of St.
Mary’s are invited to attend, especially those juniors who
are aspirants to the order of seniority.
St. Paul’s Lenten Preaching Series and Lunch is now in
its 94th consecutive year. It is a popular urban outreach program with notable preachers exploring the same theme each
week. Additional information is available on the St. Paul’s
website www.stpauls-episcopal.org.
Lenten Retreat
Embracing Life’s Transitions with Grace
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of
human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult
times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open
and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Elizabeth Lesser
prayer * music * meditation * reading
quiet reflection * discussion * fellowship
When: Saturday, March 7th, 9:30 ~ Noon
Registration: The church office, 784-5678 (space limited to 24)
Facilitator: Mimi Weaver, Life Transition Coach, gracemoves.com
Where: The Old Parish Hall
Cost: $10.00
PARISH●NEWS●IN●BRIEF
Rector’s Weekly Bible Study
The Bible Study meets every Wednesday in the Library from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Led by Rector John E. Miller, each Bible study session focuses on the Lectionary readings assigned for the succeeding Sunday. Members are encouraged to bring a Bible in
a translation or version that they enjoy reading. All members and friends are cordially
invited to attend and participate. While no prior biblical training is required of group
members, an open mind and readiness to learn and share insights are always welcome!
Education for Ministry
This small group co-mentored by Associate Rector Eleanor Wellford and Cabell
Jones meets every Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-6:00 p.m. in the Library of the Education Building. The group spends its time in theological reflection and review of
specific reading assignments.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
This group of spirited knitters meets in the Associate Rector’s office every third
Thursday of the month at 10:00 a.m. Its purpose is to knit, weave, or crochet shawls
as the ministry’s participants pray for God’s blessing on those in need of pastoral
care. The end product is not only a lovely source of warmth, but it is also a tangible
means of comfort. Each shawl represents the loving witness of prayer offered by a
community knit together by the Spirit of God.
A Ministry of Caring
In the last several weeks, there has been a group of about 40 parishioners preparing to become lay pastoral caregivers. They will help the clergy of St. Mary’s church minister to the various pastoral needs of our large parish.
Those needs could be met by sending a note of remembrance of special occasions in a parishioner’s life, or by
delivering altar flowers after church, or by taking communion to someone as Lay Eucharistic Ministers have
been licensed to do, or by calling parishioners on the phone to let them
know that we’ve missed seeing them, or by sitting with someone experiencing grief from loss or transition. The needs are as varied as the gifts that
our initial group of parishioners brings to the ministry of pastoral care giving. Preparation will include two Saturday morning training sessions in
March as well as plenty of prayer! Besides looking after our parishioners’
pastoral needs, they will meet regularly to support each other in the challenges and joys of their care-giving journeys. If you feel drawn to this type
of ministry, there certainly will be opportunities in the future to add you to
this inaugural group.
Your Outreach Committee:
ST. MARY’S OUTREACH COMMITTEE AWARDED $57,000
IN GRANTS TO HELPING MINISTRIES IN 2014
Where did the money go? What was it used for? What really
happened? As stewards of your money, the Outreach Committee has an obligation to answer these questions and tell you
what we did.
Why do outreach in the first place? In our Baptismal Covenant, each of us promises to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbors as ourselves. We also promise to
respect the dignity of every human being. In affirming these
promises, each of us responds, “I will, with God’s help.”
The Outreach Committee aims to inspire and support each
parishioner in fulfilling his or her Baptismal Covenant by
serving people who need help and by making a meaningful
difference in their lives. The Outreach Committee meets to
discuss possible recipients and grant amounts, and then makes
recommendations to the Vestry for its approval.
The main themes of the 2014 outreach grants were:
to provide medical and dental care to those in need;
to provide shelter and food for those in need;
to help educate children and young adults in poverty; and
to help children and adults with behavioral and emotional
issues and mental illness.
The recipients of the 2014 outreach grants were:
Goochland Free Clinic & Family Services received $21,500,
which provided 17,500 pounds of food purchased from the
Central Virginia Food Bank, supported dental program that
served nearly 700 patients, and rehabilitated several homes to
safe conditions.
CrossOver Healthcare Ministry, Virginia’s largest free health
care clinic, received $9,000 for its Chronic Disease management program. Part of the money was used to buy A1C test
strips, which track blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.
The rest of the money was used to buy generic medications for
chronic disease patients.
Peter Paul Development Center received $7,000 to support its
academically focused after-school program. All of the 125
students served by the program achieved grade promotion or
graduated. The students had an 89% average attendance rate,
and 84% of the students achieved their individual math or
reading growth projection.
World Pediatric Project received $6,000, which was used to
sponsor a young girl from St. Vincent and the Grenadines who
received lifesaving cardiac surgery at the VCU Medical
Center. The surgery went perfectly, and the girl was able
to return home much sooner than expected!
St. Andrew’s School received $5,000 for their kindergarten
through fifth grade ensemble-based music program. Because of the increased hours of musical instruction made
possible by the grant, the students achieved significant
improvement in their musical knowledge and improved
their overall academic performance.
Elk Hill received $2,500, which provided a scholarship for
an elementary-aged child to attend its specialized six-week
summer camp program combining academic support,
therapeutic counseling, and good, old-fashioned fun.
CARITAS received $2,000 to help pay the salaries of two
case managers and three resource navigators who help
homeless men, women, and families obtain benefits and
secure permanent housing.
Communities in Schools received $2,000 to support expansion of the CIS Model at Blackwell Elementary School
from a part-time to a comprehensive site by helping pay
the salary of the CIS Site Coordinator for the 2014-15
school year. CIS Richmond served 594 students through
enrichment activities and case managed 70 students who
needed support to stay on track at school. Among these
high-risk students, 80% met improved attendance goals
and 82% showed gains in course performance and positive
behaviors.
Gateway Homes received $2,000 to provide psychiatric
counseling to18 residents for several months. Such care is
the foundation for residents to achieve and maintain success and sustainability in the community.
Goochland Family YMCA received $1,000 to provide financial assistance to give children in the Goochland community full access to the Y’s after-school child care program.
Current committee members are Kris Adams, Weezie
Blanchard, Ralph Fisher, Meredith Flippin, Bob Gorrell,
Sally Graham, Hilary Long, Patrick Hughes, Nancy
Kristofak, Margaret Mickel, Joanne Miller, John Miller,
Eazy Milligan, Nancy Sebren, Molly Tashjian, Eleanor
Wellford, Ben Weimer, Chair and Joan Wilkins.
A Big Thank You from CARITAS!
Thank you St Mary’s family for stepping up and helping in every way with the care
of our CARITAS guests during the week of January 31-February 7, 2015. With your
generous donations of breakfasts, lunches, succulent dinner meals, rides for showers,
overnight stays, nightly serving, nightly clean up, mending, meditation, caring for
medical needs and being good listeners, we served those who are in need and trying
to return to a better life. Our PAC gave us generous hearts and strong backs for our
set up and take down. Our Youth gave their time to make toiletry bags, and to
watch the Super Bowl on Sunday night. By playing bingo with our guests and packing lunches on Friday night, our Youth gave our guests such a nice last evening.
We watched our youngest place cards and toiletry bags on mattresses and our seniors interact in such a positive way with the men of CARITAS. Our youngsters sang a
fabulous CARITAS song in church on February 1. Our appreciation extends to Dover
Baptist Church, Byrd Presbyterian Church, and Jerusalem Baptist Church for delicious meals and activities
for our guests.
Many,
many
thanks
to
our ENTIRE St Mary’s congregation, and we sincerely
appreciate
your
continued support of this
important Outreach endeavor.
Your CARITAS Committee
CALLEN TYSON BLOOD DRIVE (PART III)
Sunday, April 19
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Callen Tyson Blood
Drives in December and February! Your support was overwhelming in
February, with a total of 33 successful donations! Special thanks go to
St. Mary’s School for leading our second drive!
Our third and final Callen Tyson Blood Drive for this
church-school year will take place on Sunday, April 19. We will again need
at least 45 individuals willing to donate their blood, so please prayerfully
consider supporting this important cause. If you donated in the last drive,
there is enough time before this second drive for you to be eligible to donate again. Please mark your calendars today, and more details with a sign
up link will be available soon!
PARISH BREAKFAST
Sunday, March 8
10:00 a.m.
New Parish Hall
Menu:
Amish Style Creamed Chipped Beef
Sausage
Scrambled Eggs
Warm Biscuits, Butter, and Jams
A Variety of Pastries from
Westhampton Pastry Shop
Assorted Fresh Fruit
Cost: $6.00 per person
Family maximum $22.00
If you would like to help, please contact
Karen Stephens at 514-4769 or
[email protected]
LENTEN
PARISH SUPPERS
Wednesdays
March 4, 18, & 25
5:30 p.m.– 7:00 p.m.
New Parish Hall
Programs for Adults and Children after Dinner
See Pages 11 & 14 for more Information
Requested Donation: $8 per Adult,
$5.00 per child 9-14,
Family Maximum of $25
Please call 784.5678 for reservations, or email
[email protected]
.
9
10:30 AM
Lenten Study
16
10:30 AM
Lenten Study
23
10:30 AM
Lenten Study
30
10:30 AM
Lenten Study
8
9:00 AM Holy Eucharist I
10:00 AM Parish Breakfast
11:00 AM Morning Prayer–
Children’s Lesson
15
11:00 AM Holy Eucharist II
22
10:00 AM Children’s &
Youth Committee Meeting
11:00 AM Morning Prayer
29
5:00 PM Vestry
School Phone: 784-2049
5:30 PM Parish Supper & Programs
7:30 PM Richmond
Symphony Chorus
led by Erin Freeman
31
25
10:00 AM Bible Study
5:30 PM Parish Supper & Programs
18
11
11:50 AM Seniors Trip
to St. Paul’s Lenten
Lunch and Program
Fax: 784-1940
26
7:30 PM Adult Choir
7:30 PM Adult Choir
19
10:00 AM Prayer
Shawl Ministry
12
7:30 PM Adult Choir
7:30 PM Adult Choir
5:30 PM Parish Sup-
5
4:00 PM Churchyard
Committee
Thu
4
9:00 AM Fellowship
Committee
Wed
24
3:30 EfM
3:30 EfM
17
8:30 AM Building
Committee
10
3:30 EfM
3
3:30 EfM
Phone 784-5678
2
10:30 AM
Lenten Study led by
the Rev. Weezie
Blanchard
1
Tue
27
20
13
6
10:40 AM Youth to
Jumpology
28
9:00 AM—12 Noon
Pastoral Care Training
21
14
9:00 AM—12 Noon
Pastoral Care Training
7
9:30 AM—12 Noon
Lenten Retreat
Sat
Email: [email protected]
Fri
12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238
Mon
Sun
March 2015

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