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Welcome!
Radically Open to God
The SMC Mission is to
Love God, Love Others, and
Serve
the World.
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Join Us for Worship
SUNDAY
7:45 am
Holy Eucharist
9-9:30 am
Children's Family Service
10:15 am
Choral Eucharist
6 pm
Contemporary Eucharist
Healing Service
7 am
Holy Eucharist
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Your Vestry Members
Treasurer
Craig Maughan
Ashley Bennett
Mike Farina
Eric James
Toni Jennings
Linda Midkiff
Niki Nash
Ronda Olson
Tom Sommerville
Katie Terry
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Contact Us
The Rev. Rick Luoni
Assisting Priest
The Rev. Greg Favazza
Ashleigh Gonzalez
Submissions for the E-Messenger should be emailed to the Church Administrator by Tuesday at 5 pm for that week's edition. The E-Messenger is distributed every Thursday.
Preschool Director
Melanie Olivier
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Reflections from Fr. Rick
Living Hope
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
1 Peter 1:3
The Sunday of the Resurrection, Easter Sunday is April 21st.
Join us as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and therefore our sharing in this eternal gift and reality. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life for us!
Easter claims that God is not dead. God is alive. And God is actively working to bring about liberation and peace to God's world for all of creation. There is no enemy that you face, no fear that holds you, and no darkness that you experience that will not be overcome by the risen Son of God. And that is the greatest news that has ever been heralded across the face of the earth.
I like how Franciscan Richard Rohr describes it, "It is in the power of Jesus' resurrection that each of us finds renewed strength to face our lives, knowing that Christ who is in us has already overcome our greatest fears. And in light of that truth, we are empowered to be the hands and feet of the resurrected Christ to everyone we encounter. To stand in the divides that hatred has caused; to reach out and touch the untouchable because we know that Christ has done the same for us. To freely give our lives to others with abandon out of love for God's world."
Join us on Sunday: 7:45AM, 9AM Children's Family Service and 10:15AM as we celebrate this reality!
Alleluia, the Lord is Risen!
Love wins.
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Maundy Thursday Prayer Watch: April 18 - Spaces are still available. Sign-up in the Chapel.
Beginning tonight, April 18, immediately following the Maundy Thursday service at 6:30 pm, all are invited to participate in the Prayer Watch. It concludes at noon tomorrow, April 19.
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Holy Week 2019 Schedule
Maundy Thursday Service:
Tonight, April 18
6:30 pm in the Church
Maundy Thursday Prayer Watch
April 18 at 8 pm - April 19 at Noon
Good Friday Service:
Tomorrow, April 19
12 noon in the Church
NO Friday Morning Eucharist on Good Friday
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Easter Day Activities April 21st
Service Times:
7:45 am: Easter Day Service
9 - 9:30 am: Children's Family Easter Day Service
10:15 am: Easter Day Service
Note: There will be no 6 pm service on Easter Day
Easter Day Family Activities
Flowering of the Cross and Easter Egg Hunt
9:30 am - Immediately following the 9 am Children's Family Service
there will be an Easter Egg Hunt on the playground.
9:45 am - 10 am - All children are invited to decorate the cross. Please bring flowers to place on the cross or there will be flowers provided by the flower guild.
11:45ish - A second children's Easter Egg Hunt will follow the 10:15 service. 4th and 5th graders will hunt in the Club 412 room, Kindergarten through 3rd grade will hunt on the playground, preschoolers on the toddler playground (behind Rowe Hall), and the really little ones on the grassy area in front of Rowe Hall. Remember to bring your baskets (and your cameras)!
Reminder, we will not have Church School Easter Sunday for Camp R.O.C.K.
or Club 412. The nursery and Camp Sonshine will be available.
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You are invited to take a potted Easter Flower Home this Sunday!
Immediately following the 10:15 service
After the 10:15 service on Easter Day, the Flower Guild invites you to take a potted plant or potted flower home with you!
Each year we have many left over that are unable to be enjoyed after our Easter Day celebration and we would so love if they had a home with you or someone you love this year.
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Feed My Lambs: Easter Day!
GET READY! 3rd Sunday Feed My Lambs is on
Easter Day this month - this Sunday!
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Church Office Closed
 Our Office will be closed beginning at noon on Good Friday and in observance of Easter Monday on April 22nd. We will reopen on Tuesday, April 23rd at 9 am.
Although the office will be closed on Monday, the
Surrender to Love book study will meet on Monday morning at 9:30 am in the Fordham Hall Conference Room.
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Outreach
9th Annual Paws for Peace Walk - It's Finally Here! This Saturday, April 20
Tails are wagging in anticipation of the 9th Annual Paws for Peace Walk - a fun and leisurely stroll for pets, their families and friends to raise awareness about domestic abuse and its effect on pets and their owners. The walk benefits the Paws for Peace Kennel on Harbor House's emergency shelter campus. If you cannot walk with us this Saturday, please consider making a donation! We are at $677 of our $1000 goal!
The walk will take place on Saturday, April 20 at Blue Jacket Park.
Check in opens at 8 am, and the walk begins at 9 am.
We will have a tent set up with the St. Michael's Banner where we can gather and relax before and after the walk. Bring some chairs and join us!
We'll have a few treats (people) and some biscuits (doggy) to share!
St. Michael's Priests Pets and Parishioners
Paws for Peace Auction
If you can't join us in person, you can still bid on some amazing auction items at the following link:
Click Here
Serve With The Gathering on 4th Tuesdays
We are in need of more people to serve this coming Tuesday at the Coalition for the Homeless.
We need a total of 8 servants and so far there are only 3 people signed up.
This is a great way of putting thankfulness into action and celebrating the gifts we have received from God.
Please consider joining us.
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New Book Study on Monday mornings beginning April 22
Please note new date!
*Although the church office will be closed on Monday, April 22nd, this study will still take place in the Fordham Hall Conference Room at 9:30 am.
Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality
By David G. Benner
"Only God deserves absolute surrender because only God can offer absolute dependable love."
Benner shows how God bids us to trust fully in his perfect love.
This new book study begins Monday, April 15 at 9:30 am in the Conference Room of Fordham Hall. It will be a 5 week study, facilitated by Deacon Happy Gafford.
You will want to read the preface and chapter one, pages 11 thru 35 before the first meeting. It would be helpful to look over the discussion guide for Session One, pages 106-107.
Journaling your responses is optional but could be meaningful. Hope you can come! For any questions you may have please email
[email protected]
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| Gospel Concert: Benefit for Africa - May 5
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| Take Them A Meal
John and Millie Nowell
Our sweet John Nowell has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, so he and Millie could use some love, our prayers, as well as some food from us. While they have no restrictions, John doesn't like curry. What they both love is good old fashioned comfort food, and they love soup. If preparing food, it would be helpful to make for 4 so they can have leftovers.
To sign up
, please go to takethemameal.com, enter Nowell under Last Name and Nowell under the Password. There you can find a day that is convenient for you. And if you'd like to provide a meal but find your time limited, you can pick up from any nearby restaurant and deliver, or use UberEats to order and they pick up and deliver. In any case, please go to the link and note that you are providing a meal.
The Nowell's address is 1406 Magna Court, Orlando 32804. The best time to deliver food is between 4pm-5:30pm.
Thank you so much for serving the Nowell family during this time.
Patty Tew
Chairperson - Pastoral Care Food Committee
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Carilloneurs Needed
You may not see us but you can hear us every Sunday both before and after the 10:15 service, playing to the glory of God and enhancing the worship services by providing beautiful music around the church and surrounding neighborhood. If you can read music and play the melody line on a piano then you could be a carilloneur - it's that easy!
We would welcome adult and youth, men and women into this wonderful ministry. Please contact Wendy Tramell (
[email protected]) if you are interested or have any questions.
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Help needed in Camp Sonshine
Out of the 10-15 kids who attend each week only three parents have helped! We need more parents to pitch in!!!
Our preschool class keeps growing and Mrs. Cindy could you use a few helping hands.
Please
click here
to choose a week you can stay and assist.
Flowering of the Cross and Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Morning
The children are invited to flower the cross before the 9am and 10:15 services.Bring a flower from home or a flower provided by the Flower Guild.
Easter Egg Hunts will take place immediately after the 9am
a
nd 10:15 services. Don't forget to bring your baskets (and cameras).
9 am service Easter Egg Hunt will be on the big playground
10:15 service Easter Egg Hunt will be broken up into age groups:
Nursery - grassy area in front of Rowe Hall
Preschoolers - Playground behind Rowe Hall
KG - 3rd grade - Big Playground
4th & 5th grade - Club 412 room (Fordham Hall)
June 17th - 23rd
9am - Noon
VBS IS NOW FULL!
Click here to email Tiffany to be added to the wait list.
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St. Michael's EYC is canceled this Sunday Evening, April 21
EYC will be canceled this Sunday due to Easter Day.
5th Tuesday
Tues. April 30th
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5th Tuesday Club!
5th Tuesday Club, a great opportunity for youth to serve the local community, by providing food to the residents of the Coalition for the Homeless.
Meet at St. Michael's Quigley Hall @ 5:40PM to load up the food in the van before we leave for the Coalition.
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Acting Director of Youth Ministries Fr. Greg Favazza
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT:
HE IS NOT HERE - BUT HAS RISEN!
In anticipation of Sunday.....
HAPPY EASTER! ALLELUIA! HE IS RISEN!
Turn up the speakers, and revel in the mighty sound of the choir and organ of King's College, Cambridge:
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PRAYERS
Ann, Arel,
Barbara, Benny, Bill B., Bill C., Bill H., Bill M., Bill T., Bud., Burke, Charlotte, Donna, Elaine, Ellen, Joanne, Gabby, Gloria, Kelley, Kristina, John, Joy, Jude, Lindsey, Lisa, Mabel, Marci, Mike, Rick M., Pilar, Scott, Thomas, Tom, Vic, Walter.
BIRTHDAYS
18: Austin Singhofen 19: Anna Benge, Coco Nevill, Carla Warlow 20: Patti Block, Eddie Caruso, Nat Caruso 21: Joanne Murphy 22: Mary Ruth Houston, Gene Lisa 23: Mary Carpenter, Hadley Gafford, Marti Lisa, Anna McPherson, Tony Morris, Ed Murphy 24: Mike Beam
ANNIVERSARIES
18: Joseph Tauriello & Amy London - Tauriello 19: Curtis Henry & Carolina Rojas 20: Robert & Therese Gentile 22: Ken & Courtney Hazouri, Wayne & Jean Mosher
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Reminder:
Prayer list names will rotate off after a three month period unless we are made aware that an individual needs to remain on the list.
To place someone on the prayer list, please contact Deacon Carter at [email protected] .
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