WEEK OF MARCH 4, 2019
Building for the Ages
Ground Breaking Celebration
Featuring Shrove Tuesday Family Dinner and Fireworks  

Tuesday, March 5
5 p.m., Shrove Tuesday Family Dinner
6:15 p.m.,  Program
Bagby Parish Hall 

Tickets sold at the door: $8 adults; $5 children; $25 families of four or more (immediate family members)

Everyone is invited to attend the ceremonial ground breaking and fireworks that will be held following the Shrove Tuesday family dinner. This event kicks off a much-anticipated expansion and renovation that will change the campus of St. Martin's for years to come. Dress warmly for a special, memorable evening of celebration.  A commemorative gift will be given at the event.  See you there!

Daughters of the King

Saturday, March 9
10:30 a.m. -- noon
Payne Education Center,
Room 210/212

The Order of the Daughters of the King (DOK) is a spiritual sisterhood of women dedicated to a life of prayer, service and evangelism. We are pleased to have Christian writer Christa Allan join us to talk about her ministry of writing. Her fictional stories of redemption and hope for Christian women are truly powerful. Listen to her witness and be inspired.

Adult Confirmation Classes
  
Sundays, March 10 --
April 7
 10:15 -- 11 a.m.
Activity Center, Upper Hall

Join the Rev. Chad Martin to learn how the Episcopal Church is like other Christian churches and what makes our Anglican heritage unique. Time will be spent discussing The Book of Common Prayer, the Sacraments, and the Church's history and polity. Click the link below for more information and to register.

St. Martin's Scholarship
 
St. Martin's Episcopal Church is proud to announce the St. Martin's University Scholarship Award for graduating high school seniors. The scholarship may be applied to either two-year or four-year degree plans for the area of study of the student's choice. This is a one-time scholarship. The number of scholarship awards and amount of the award varies from year to year. Click the link below for more information. The application deadline is Friday, April 5.


Wednesday Evening Adult Lenten Series

Wednesdays, March 13 --
April 10
5:15 -- 6:15 p.m., Dinner
Bagby Parish Hall
(Café St. Martin's dinner prices are charged
for the meal.)
5:30 p.m., Holy Eucharist
(no homily)
The Church
6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Program
Bagby Parish Hall

What if our Clergy had only one more message to share...what might they say? Join us on Wednesday evenings as Clergy members share what they believe would be their own words, if it was, in fact, their last time to speak.

Stations of the Cross
  
Wednesdays, March 13 --
April 10 and Tuesday -- Thursday, April 16 -- 18
 3:30 -- 5 p.m.
The Church
Friday, April 19
1:15 -- 2 p.m.
The Church

Parishioners and guests are invited to make their own pilgrimage along the Via Dolorosa, or "Way of Sorrows," during Lent 2019. You are invited to "walk the stations" on your own, making your own spiritual pilgrimage of prayer, while meditating upon the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death.

Come Hear the Rt. Rev. Mike Hill
 
Sundays, March 17 and 24
10:15 a.m.
Bagby Parish Hall

During Basic Bible Study this Lent, Bishop Hill will teach his way through the Book of Jonah, following the story of a reluctant prophet who knows God's ways well enough to want to run away. He also will be the guest preacher on Sunday, March 17 in The Church for all services and Sunday, March 24 at 11:15 a.m. in the Old Church. He is the guest speaker at the Men of St. Martin's Thursday Morning Bible Study on March 21 at 7 a.m. in Bagby Parish Hall.