Our Weekly Blast!
The Last Sunday after Epiphany
Ash Wednesday
February 21, 2020
Confirmation Classes Begin
Confirmation classes begin on Thursday, February 27th at 5:30 p.m. They will continue on Wednesdays starting March 4th at 5:30 p.m. A simple meal will be served each week. Confirmation information and registration forms are in the hallway. 
Food Basket Update
Thank you for all those who came out to serve those in need at Food Basket this week!

Please continue to keep our Food Basket on your mind as you grocery shop. They are in need of tuna, canned chicken, pasta sauce, canned beans, feminine hygiene pads, personal cleanliness items such as soap, shampoo and deodorant, and baby items such as diapers, wipes and food. As well, they are always in need of bags and egg cartons. Baskets are in the hallway and items are delivered weekly. Many thanks to everyone for all you do to help feed our neighbors!
The Lenten Journey
Lent is often seen as a journey towards something. For Christians it has always been a journey toward the cross, helping us to see what an encounters with God along the way really means.

Sign-up sheets are in the hallway for the following small groups:
  • Beginning March 1st, Sundays – Hosting & Leading: Bunny Schockmel, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
  • Beginning March 1st, Sundays – Leading, Laurel Owen; Hosting, Kay & Roy McKneely, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
  • Beginning March 4th, Wednesdays – Leading, Susan Buell; Hosting, Marianne Essington, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
  • Beginning March 5th, Thursdays – Leading, Harriet Cutshall; Hosting, Dale & Sylvia Walker, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
  • You can also sign up for the book and do daily reflections on your own.
Rector's Forum
February 23rd - Video documentary & discussion - Why Beauty Matter s

March 1 - Video documentary & discussion - Why Beauty Matters
Carnival Pancake Supper, Feb. 25
The St. Timothy's Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper will be here before we know it. At 5:30 pm on Tuesday, February 25th, enjoy some cool jazz from the Brazoswood High School Jazz Band and eat some hot, hot pancakes. Krewe sign up sheets are in the hall by our patio entrance. We NEED your help with decorations going up Sunday, February 23rd after 10:30 service, but help Monday, the 24th is welcomed as well. Shrove Pancake tickets will be $5 per person; $20 max for a family. We also really need help cleaning up after the Supper as we prepare for Ash Wednesday services. Get your purple, green, and gold ready. Break out those beads!! Sign up for a Krewe shift. Contact Kim/Mark Lehnhoff with questions.
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler !
Buy a Pancake Shirt - on Sale!
Shrove Tuesday Pancake T-shirts for sale - $5 each! Get them while they last.
Ash Wednesday Worship
February 26th, noon and 6:30 p.m. – with a light simple meal of soup and bread to follow after the later service, served by Fr. Brendan.
Lent Begins with Ashes
Why ashes? Ashes remind us of our own mortality and that life is short. Ashes are inert. Dead. They remind us that we are 'dead in our trespasses' and that our hearts are always being ruled by something. And so we ask God to create and make in us new and contrite hearts. New hearts are ones that are ready to acknowledge sin and our deep need of a savior. But a readiness to do that can be the very thing we struggle with. Lent involves thoughtfulness, a slowing down, self-reflection and the work of the Holy Spirit to convict us, as we strive to set aside time to be with and talk to the Lord, on our own but also in the company of others. Lent, therefore opens up for us time to do that - beginning with Ash Wednesday - and as we do that we find ourselves traveling nearer and nearer to the cross and the hope, joy and healing that is found in dying to self and rising to new life in Jesus.
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
2020 Scholarship
Graduating seniors who plan to go to college and have received a letter of acceptance from the college they plan to attend are eligible to apply for the Brotherhood of St. Andrew College Scholarship Program. Previous St. Timothy’s seniors have been awarded this scholarship of $2,000. Deadline is April 2 and only one application can be made per parish. Contact the church office for more information on how to apply.
2020 Census
Know someone looking to work full or part-time? Set their own hours? You can support your community and the once-a-decade national census by being a census taker. All training is provided with excellent hourly pay. Brazoria County is short handed. Apply online at 2020census.gov/jobs.
EYC Calendar
February

23 - Lunch and Study

29/Mar. 1 - Youth Lock-In begins Saturday night at 5:00 pm until Sunday at noon. (teens must bring signed release - there will be two adult chaperones)
St. Timothy's is Recycling
Let’s start recycling Sunday bulletins. Look for the recycling bin lined with a blue bag next to the trash can in the Narthex. As well, let’s start recycling plastic ware, plastic bottles, tin cans, and soda cans. Look for this recycling bin lined with a blue bag next to a trash can in the Parish Hall.
Looking Ahead to Sunday
February 23, 2020
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
 
Exodus 24:12-18
2 Peter 1:16-21
Matthew 17:1-9
Psalm 2
or Psalm 99

Joel 2:1-2,12-17
or Isaiah 58:1-12
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6,16-21
Psalm 103 or 103:8-14
Mark your calendar!

   February 23 - Brotherhood of St. Andrew Study and Breakfast, 7:00 a.m., Parish Hall
                Decorating for Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, 12:00 p.m.
                EYC meets in the Youth Hall, 12:00 p.m.

   February 24 – Finish decorating for Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
             
   February 25 – Breathe and Be Better, 10:30 a.m., Blue Room 
                 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, Parish Hall, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

   February 26 – Army of Retired Men (ARM), Parish Hall, 8:30 a.m.  
                 Ash Wednesday Service, noon and 6:30 p.m., with dinner afterwards
                 No Centering Prayer
                 Choir Rehearsal, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

   February 29 – EYC Lock In begins at 5:00 p.m., Youth Hall

   March 1 – Lenten Small Group Study, Bunny Schockmel’s home, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
             Lenten Small Group Study, Kay & Roy McKneely’s home, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

   March 2 – Round Dance Lessons, Parish Hall, 7-8:00 p.m.

   March 3 – Breathe and Be Better, 10:30 a.m., Parish Hall

   March 4 – Army of Retired Men (ARM), Parish Hall, 8:30 a.m.  
             Lenten Small Group Study, Alan & Marianne Essington’s home, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
    
   March 5 – Lenten Small Group Study, Dale & Sylvia Walker’s home, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

   March 8 – Daylight Saving Time begins
            Brotherhood of St. Andrew Study and Breakfast, 7:00 a.m., Parish Hall
             Lenten Small Group Study, Bunny Schockmel’s home, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
             Lenten Small Group Study, Kay & Roy McKneely’s home, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

   March 19 – Craft and Chat at the Food Basket, 9:30 a.m.
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
200 Oyster Creek Drive
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
979-297-6003