Christ in the Wilderness, Ivan Kramskoi, 1872

February 26

The First Sunday in Lent

The Rev. Kip Ashmore, Celebrant

+The Holy Eucharist+

Rite I 8 a.m. | Rite II 10 a.m.

Masks are optional.

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite One

8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - child care in the nursery.

9:00 a.m. - Choir Rehearsal

9:15 - Adults - Morning Prayer & conversation in Pearson Hall

10:00 a.m. - Church School for Children, Lower Level

10 a.m. service in person & streamed via Facebook Live

Coffee hour following the 10 o'clock service.

Matthew 4:1-11 The Temptation of Christ

Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’”

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’”

Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

Offerings | Statements



• Online: standrews-edwardsville.com/stewardship/

• Mail: Send your offering/check to St. Andrew's Treasurer, 406 Hillsboro Avenue, Edwardsville 62025.



• If you have not received a contribution statement for 2022, contact Drake Depew or Maxine Callies.

The Week of February 26

• Monday through Friday - Daily 8 a.m. morning prayer and 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, March 2 through Saturday, March 3, Fabric Art and Quilt Show, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.
• Friday, March 3, - 7 a.m., AA Meeting in Pearson Hall.
• Thursday, March 30, interment service for Sarah Turner.

Looking Ahead

• Thursday-Friday-Saturday, March 2, 3, 4 - 2023 Quilt Guild Show
• Sunday, March 26, Bishop Burgess visits St. Andrew's.

2023 Fabric Art and Quilt Show

Hosted by St. Andrew's Quilt Guild

March 2, 3, 4

(Thursday - Friday - Saturday)



The 2023 Quilt Show is just a few days away. Show hours will be 10 to 4 daily in Pearson Hall and the nave. On March 4 at 1 p.m. there will be presentations of Quilts of Valor. Admission is $5 per day.

Changes to the Intercessory Prayer List

On March 1 a new prayer list will be developed. The old list will not be carried forward, and a new procedure for adding and removing names on the parish prayer list will begin.

If you would like to add a name to the prayer list, please send your request to Marianne Cavanaugh or write the name you wish to add on a slip of paper and put it in the wooden box on the display cabinet located in the hall opposite the entrances to the restrooms.

If the person you added to the list has recovered, please contact Marianne so that she can remove that name. Your help with this change in the process is appreciated.

February 19 Meeting Highlights

Senior Warden Fredna Scroggins called the meeting to order at 11:30 a.m.

Members in attendance included Sally Atwood, Michael Barford, Heather Clausen, Drake Depew, Liz Edwards, Toby Griffen, Liz McKenney, and Carl Slaughter. Marty Cavanaugh, Parish Clerk, and Jane Weingartner, Altar Guild and Office Volunteers Coordinator, were also in attendance. Marian Smithson, Communications Coordinator, was connected via telephone.

The minutes of the January meeting were approved.

Fredna Scroggins indicated that work was progressing on the Parochial Report which must be filed with The Episcopal Church by March 1; outdoor signage for services was being updated by Michael Barford; the number of Church School age children attending Church School at 10 a.m. continued to be small; and a reception will be held at St. Andrew’s following the interment of Sarah Turner on March 30.

Also, she expressed concern about the appearance of the church buildings and suggested that ministry leaders be asked to identify projects that need attention in the near future (before Easter, the dedication of Pearson Hall, confirmation Sunday, etc.). The vestry approved this approach.

Treasurer Drake Depew presented the December financial report and it was received. Drake indicated he and others were recently on a phone call with a representative of Church Insurance Company about preparing an appropriate inventory of church items considered to be an inherent part of church property and others that are church “valuables” such as the chalice used at the altar and the large brass cross. Drake estimated that the annual cost of church property insurance was about $18,000.

Jane Weingartner, who has been working on the early stages of inventorying “ordinary” church property items for the past few years provided insight into what has been done and what is yet to be done and suggested that an ad hoc committee be formed to make policy decisions and oversee the inventory.

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Church History

Absolom Jones, Black Episcopal Priest

by Jim Weingartner



February 13 is the day set aside on the Episcopal Calendar to honor Absolom Jones. The simplest answer to the question of “Who was he?” is that he was the first African-American priest of the Episcopal Church. But that answer is shamefully inadequate.

He was born a slave in 1746 in Delaware. As slave owners went his master, Benjamin Wynkoop, seems to have been surprisingly humane. He moved north to Philadelphia, taking the sixteen year-old Jones with him. In that city was a school run by Anthony Benezet, a Quaker who opposed slavery and the notion of Black inferiority. Jones was allowed to attend the school where he learned reading, writing, and mathematics, knowledge which he put to use as a store clerk and handyman.

With earnings from his employment, some of which he was allowed to keep, Jones purchased an enslaved woman, Mary King, whom he married and was later granted his own freedom by Wynkoop. We can hope that Wynkoop’s status as a vestryman of Philadelphia’s Christ Church, the later birthplace of the Episcopal Church, had something to do with his benevolence.

As a free man, Jones devoted himself to the spiritual and physical well-being of the Black population of Philadelphia. In 1787, he and friend Richard Allen organized the Free African Society to provide a place of worship for free Blacks and support for those in need.

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St. Andrew's Communications

Communications Coordinator and Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Marian Smithson

Newsletter Editor, Jane Weingartner | Newsletter Editor, Marianne Cavanaugh