and what it means to be "saved"
will meet Thursdays from March 2nd - April 6 at 10:00 a.m. in the Guild Hall. We will discuss The Rev. Dr. Stephen Smith's book
Saving Salvation: The Amazing Evolution of Grace.
You do not need to read the book.
Living One, in whose freedom creation was born as gift: free us from the need to possess, define and silence others that we might rejoice in the strangeness of your beauty revealed in flesh and blood; through Jesus Christ, our reconciliation. Amen.
From Prayers for an Inclusive Church, by Steven Shakespeare
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5th Annual Blanket Drive
Please bring new or serviceable blankets of any size to church. We will deliver them to Episcopal Migrant Ministries and the Inter-faith Ministries Homeless Shelters. Thank you!
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Calling all parents, parents-to-be, parents-in-waiting
of young children and youth
- there is a new fellowship opportunity called the Young Families Fellowship. We meet while the kids are in Sunday School or in the nursery from 9:45-10:30 in the Undercroft (downstairs kitchen) for refreshments and fellowship time. There is no agenda just a time for us to gather together. We'd love for you to join us and help our group grow! If your kids aren't currently attending Sunday school please contact Chelsea Whipple, chelsea.whipple@gmail.comor 993-4672 to get them registered or for information.
the Episcopal Social Services fundraiser, Sunday, February 26 Tickets may be purchased at the Church office.
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Youth Sunday
next weekend
February 25 & 26
at all the services
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Word for the Week ~ Economy
Now as in Jesus' time, there are those who believe that if we come from a "good family" and have the economic means to consume then we must be worthy of entrance into the kingdom. But the economy of the kingdom is based not in how much we earn, what we possess or even who we are but how we use what is at our disposal. How we use what is at our disposal says a great deal about whose we are and whom we follow.