Easter is early this year, March 27 which means that today is Ash Wednesday. Michael will be on the square in Burnet dispensing ashes from 11-1. Our regular Ash Wednesday service will be this evening at 5:30.
Our annual pancake supper didn't happen as you know. Jim Dyke had grandfather duty in California, Steve Stevens is recovering from a knee replacement. Rufus is now working on Tuesdays. Jim called Rufus last week; and together, they decided to let it go for this year. Hopefully, we can have it next year.
Next Wednesday, February 17 will begin our Lenten Soup Suppers and Study. . Please sign up for a Wednesday to provide soup, bread, or both. Carol Hervey is in charge of the Lenten dinner sign-ups. Thank you so much, Carol.
Jo Lipscombe called on Tuesday with a message for Epiphany. She would like everyone to know how much she appreciates all of the cards and prayers she has received. She misses everyone and hopes to be back in church soon.
Please help us-if you switch with someone, either for serving at the altar, ushering, or vestry person of the day, could you please let us know so that we can put the correct information in the E-Star. Thanks so much.
Next Sunday, February 14 will be our baked potato lunch honoring Addison Drake and John Wesley Erskine. It is always a wonderful time. Please try to come and enjoy being with each other and honoring Addison and John Wesley.
Attendance last Sunday was 44. The collection was $3,567. .
Servers this week will be David Leitch and Rachel Bryson. Ushers will be Claude and Ellie Burks (?). Vestry Person of the Day will be Mary Erskine.
Michael's sermon was perfect Sunday, comparing the brilliance of the Transfiguration with the looking ahead to Lent. There are several people to whom we send Michael's entire sermon every week. If you would like it, please let us know. We find it means so much more when we can read his sermons, hear them, and then read them again. He closed the sermon with these words, "When we shy away from the power and intensity of God's love, he calls us closer even deigning to dampen the brilliance so we can tolerate it. When we decide to stay put and bask in the brilliance of a mountain-top experience (wherever that may be), God calls us away from that, down into the rough-and-tumble of life where people are desperate to be healed by God's love made incarnate in us.
When we try to open our eyes in the dream in order to live there, God awakens us and sends us out into the conscious, physical world.
Having enjoyed the glow of the Epiphany season (however briefly, this year), we are led by God into the wilderness of Lent, to contemplate the depth of that divine love, and the price Jesus paid to bring it home to us.
We are the timorous Israelites at the foot of the mountain, we are that small group at the Transfiguration, we are the great crowd anxious for Jesus' descent to be among us and heal us
We are God's people, called out into the world to bring relief and comfort and love to those who suffer". Thanks so much, Michael.
Our annual pancake supper didn't happen as you know. Jim Dyke had grandfather duty in California, Steve Stevens is recovering from a knee replacement. Rufus is now working on Tuesdays. Jim called Rufus last week; and together, they decided to let it go for this year. Hopefully, we can have it next year.
Next Wednesday, February 17 will begin our Lenten Soup Suppers and Study. . Please sign up for a Wednesday to provide soup, bread, or both. Carol Hervey is in charge of the Lenten dinner sign-ups. Thank you so much, Carol.
Jo Lipscombe called on Tuesday with a message for Epiphany. She would like everyone to know how much she appreciates all of the cards and prayers she has received. She misses everyone and hopes to be back in church soon.
Please help us-if you switch with someone, either for serving at the altar, ushering, or vestry person of the day, could you please let us know so that we can put the correct information in the E-Star. Thanks so much.
Next Sunday, February 14 will be our baked potato lunch honoring Addison Drake and John Wesley Erskine. It is always a wonderful time. Please try to come and enjoy being with each other and honoring Addison and John Wesley.
Attendance last Sunday was 44. The collection was $3,567. .
Servers this week will be David Leitch and Rachel Bryson. Ushers will be Claude and Ellie Burks (?). Vestry Person of the Day will be Mary Erskine.
Michael's sermon was perfect Sunday, comparing the brilliance of the Transfiguration with the looking ahead to Lent. There are several people to whom we send Michael's entire sermon every week. If you would like it, please let us know. We find it means so much more when we can read his sermons, hear them, and then read them again. He closed the sermon with these words, "When we shy away from the power and intensity of God's love, he calls us closer even deigning to dampen the brilliance so we can tolerate it. When we decide to stay put and bask in the brilliance of a mountain-top experience (wherever that may be), God calls us away from that, down into the rough-and-tumble of life where people are desperate to be healed by God's love made incarnate in us.
When we try to open our eyes in the dream in order to live there, God awakens us and sends us out into the conscious, physical world.
Having enjoyed the glow of the Epiphany season (however briefly, this year), we are led by God into the wilderness of Lent, to contemplate the depth of that divine love, and the price Jesus paid to bring it home to us.
We are the timorous Israelites at the foot of the mountain, we are that small group at the Transfiguration, we are the great crowd anxious for Jesus' descent to be among us and heal us
We are God's people, called out into the world to bring relief and comfort and love to those who suffer". Thanks so much, Michael.