THE WEEK OF LENT V
Wednesday Dinner & Formation
5-6pm : Dinner in Drake Hall 
Kenny Morphis's Baked Spaghetti
Proceeds go to the youth mission trip
5-5:30pm :   Pre-K Godly Play in Room C3
5-5.45pm :   Cantate (Youth Choir) in Choir Room
5.45-6.30pm :  Pre-K Formation & Nursery in C2, Formation (K-2nd Grade) in C5, St Francis Choir (3rd-5th Grades) in Choir Room
6-7pm : Adult Formation in ECW 
6-7pm: Youth Formation in Drake 
6.30-7pm : Pre-K Formation & Nursery in C2, Cherub Choir (K-2nd Grade) in C3, Formation (3rd-5th Grade) in C5
7pm :   Parish Choir & Schola Rehearsal in Choir Room

LENT AT ST TIMOTHY'S
Download a copy of "Keeping a Holy Lent at St Timothy's".
MAUNDY THURSDAY VIGIL
Jesus asked Peter, James, and John if they could stay awake for one hour while he prayed. We are asked to keep watch with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament for one hour after the conclusion of the Maundy Thursday liturgy until noon on Good Friday. Sign up for one hour during the night.
Decorating for Palm Sunday & Easter
  • Palm Sunday set up: Saturday, April 8, 9am-noon
  • Palm Sunday clean up: Monday, April 10, 10am
  • Easter set up: Saturday, April 15th 9am-11am
Activities for all ages. No experience necessary. Questions? Contact Lea Thullbery  lea@sttimothys.ws  or  336.918.7981

Easter Lily Sponsorship Cards in Pews
To sponsor Easter lilies in honor or memory of loved ones, there is a suggested donation of $25. Please list all names on the back of the pew card. You may pay by cash, check, or on-line. Please indicate “Easter lilies” on your payment method. Turning in a card is the only way to sponsor a lily. Place the card in the offering or turn it in to the church office by April 10. Contact Robert ( robert.matthews@sttimothys.ws) if you have questions. 
Easter Egg Hunt (on Easter!)
Join us on Sunday, April 16 between the 9am & 11am Easter Masses on Gribbin Lawn for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Wrapped Candy donations are needed by April 10. 

P alm Cross Workshop
St. Timothy’s annual Palm Cross Workshop will be held in ECW Hall on Saturday, April 8 from 10 to 11:30am. Please bring your own scissors. All ages are welcome. For questions, call Katie Bryant at (336) 765-0294 . 
ECW Ladies Night
It’s Ladies’ Night Out
Saturday, April 8
6:30 pm 
ECW Hall

Please join us for food, drink, prayer, laughs, and time simply being together!  We will continue our conversation about how we can support each other as women, and share our vision for the future of St. Tim’s ECW.  Check your e-mail for more details.  Not getting the ECW mailings?  Contact Beth Morphis,  Beth@salemgym.com ;  336.971.0769

Outreach and Shelter Updates
Let's Buy a Bike! 
Thanks to all who have donated pasta for New Communion Mobile Food Pantry. St.Tim's is committed to collecting 100 boxes of dry pasta each month to be shared with neighbors who have a harder time accessing food. This month we collected more than 100 boxes! Good work, church!  The Club 543 children are collecting money to buy a bicycle to be used as a big prize at New Communion's Easter Egg Hunt. If you'd like to donate towards buying a new bike, please make checks to St.Tim's with "New Communion bike" in the subject line.    

THANK YOU!!!
If I've said these two words a million times this Overflow Season, it still would not be enough! THANK YOU all for the ways you have sustained our Overflow Shelter here at St.Timothy's for the entire winter season (121 nights, 4 months, or 1/3 of a year!). Thanks to all of the volunteers who gave up their time, their resources, their sleep, their patience, their church space, and even their sanity for the sake of good hospitality to our guests. We closed our Overflow Shelter this past Saturday, April 1st, and our guests are now dispersed throughout the city. City with Dwellings will continue to offer daytime hospitality and advocacy work through our resource space at 633 W.4th Street on Tuesdays and Thursdays from  9-11am. Talk to Lea Thullbery or Katie Bryant if you're interested in volunteering with our homeless friends during these times ( lea@sttimothys.ws or  Katie@sttimothys.ws)Donations still are helpful to buy bus passes, tents, sleeping bags, and water for our guests as they venture out and try to make it on their own.  For many, just knowing they can check in with us and that someone out there cares for them goes a long way. Thank you for continuing to make this important kingdom work possible in Winston-Salem!  www.citywithdwellings.org
Dwayne McFerrin appointed as Sacristan
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dwayne McFerrin as sacristan. As the sacristan, Dwayne will help coordinate and plan liturgies and serve as the liaison between worship ministries.

Dwayne has been a stellar altar server and has a passion for the details and theology of the liturgy and how it forms us in the life of Our Lord.
-Fr Steve

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.
The Liturgy of the Palms and Procession will begin at 9am and 11am in front of the chapel. After the palms are blessed, the procession will enter the church.
From the Altar
   Below is a video from Fr Steve on the gradual stripping that occurs in Passiontide.
From the Choir
This Sunday we will, sing  " All   glory ,  laud , and honor" at all three masses. 

This hymn text was written by St. Theodulph of Orleans in 820 while he was imprisoned in Angers, France, for conspiring against the King, with whom he had fallen out of favor. The text acts as a retelling of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The medieval church actually re-enacted this story on Palm Sundayusing a standard liturgy that featured this hymn. The priests and inhabitants of a city would process from the fields to the gate of the city, following a living representation of Jesus seated on a donkey. When they reached the city gates, a choir of children would sing the hymn, then in Latin:  Gloria, laus et honor , and the refrain was taken up by the crowd. At this point the gates were opened and the crowd made its way through the streets to the cathedral. Though we might not have any city gates to proceed through today, this hymn still acts as a royal hymn of praise and proclamation. 
-Hymnary.org

To Thee, before Thy passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To Thee, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise!

After we sing " All  glory,  laud, and honor" and shout joyful Hosannas, we quickly turn our eyes to the Passion and sing some of the most poignant hymns in our Hymnal:

My song is love unknown, No. 458, stanzas 1-3, 7
O sacred head, sore wounded, No. 168
Go to dark Gethsemane, No. 171
When I survey the wondrous cross, No. 474
Ah, holy Jesus, No. 158

Before the 9am mass, our St Timothy's Brass Ensemble, led by David Bergstone, will play some Holy Week hymns and traditional Moravian chorales outside the Church as everyone gathers for the Liturgy of Palms and Procession into the Church. 

See you  Sunday as we begin our Holy Week journey together,
Christin
From the Classroom
Hosannas loud hosannas! The children are excited about this last Sunday in Lent. The ideas of a parade, welcoming an honored guest, waving palms, and even a donkey spark the youngest of imaginations as they anticipate the arrival of Jesus. This Sunday, our Palm procession will gather on the steps of the Chapel before the  9am and 11am  masses. At the  9am  mass, children should stay with their families until inside the narthex.  Katie & Emily will be in the narthex ready to escort the PreK children downstairs for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Children join their families in mass at the passing of the Peace. There will be no  10:15am  formation classes this week or next week.