St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Boca Grande ~ Florida
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In this Edition ...
- Link for Sunday Service (The Fifth Sunday of Easter)
- Thank you from the Boys and Girls Club of Englewood
- Women's Bible Study
- Red Bag Ministry
- Invitation to join Monday Men's Ministry Group
- Links for Men's groups
- Next "Faith and..." speaker
- Pastoral Prayer List
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Sunday Worship Information
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2021
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We hope you will join us for worship either in person or online. The link to watch LIVE is available as well as a link to watch any time after 10:30 a.m.
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St. Andrew's Outreach committee purchased 15 refurbished laptops for the Boys and Girls Club of Englewood. In the photo the boys and girls pose with their new laptops and above is the thank you card they sent our committee.
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Fridays at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom
Mother Michelle will lead our study on Romans. The book of Romans tells us about God, who He is and what He has done. It tells us of Jesus Christ, what His death accomplished. It tells us about ourselves, what we were like without Christ and who we are after trusting in Christ.
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Red Bag Ministry
We are still collecting food donations...
- If you are leaving the island for the season, please consider donating dry food stuffs + canned goods from your pantry. Donations can be brought to the church and we will deliver to the Food Pantry.
- Red bags, along with accompanying shopping list (inside pocket of red bag) are available in the back of the church. Please consider picking up a red bag, filling it with requested food stuffs and returning it to the church.
- Make a donation to support the Food Pantry by clicking the link below. This connects you to our secure St. Andrew's donation page. Choose the fund to contribute to by clicking where it says, "General Fund." A drop down menu appears. Just click "Virtual Red Bag." It's easy, safe/secure and a wonderful way to help feed the hungry in our community.
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An Invitation to Men ...
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... try our Monday's Men's Group that meets via Zoom |
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Zoom:
Meeting ID: 827 4926 7727
Passcode: 9642257
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St. Andrew's Monday Morning Men invite men in the community to participate in a bi-weekly engaging ZOOM conversation involving our joys and concerns followed by a "no homework" discussion of the Gospel.
We meet every other Monday. The commitment is carving out the time 9 to 10am on alternate Mondays and opening our heads and hearts to one another and God. Retired priest, Fr. Read Heydt participates in this Zoom gathering and helps to guide and stretch our theological understanding.
Give the group a try!
Our next meeting is May 3
If you have any questions, please contact Gerry Miller ...
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Men's Bible Study and Fellowship |
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TUESDAYS
8:30 a.m.
via Zoom
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Fr. Chris is leading this group in conversation. This week’s conversation is about the Philippians. The book of Philippians can be summarized in the word “encouragement”. Throughout this letter, Paul is encouraging the people of Philippi to live out lives that are obedient God and that are uplifting to one another. Paul wrote this letter while in prison to the church to also tell them how he was doing.
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Our next
"Faith and ..."
presentation will be
May 11, 2021
4:30 p.m.
with professor
Alexis McCrossen
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The mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions and pitted a surprising variety of social, religious, and class interests against one another. Whether observed as a day for rest, or time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week. Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the day in the United States since 1800. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. Holy Day, Holiday attends to the history of religion, as well as the histories of labor, leisure, and domesticity.
About professor McCrossen:
Alexis McCrossen is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University, where she has taught since 1995. She is a cultural historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with research interests in the history of timekeeping, religion, technology, cities, and business. McCrossen is the author of Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday (2000) and Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life (2013). She is also the editor of and a contributor to Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands (2009). She is currently working on a book entitled "Time's Touchstone: The New Year in American Life" which will examine the White House's annual New Year's Day reception, New York's Times Square extravaganza, and Watch Night services, among other observances. This research is supported by a 2016-2017 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Education
Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University, 1995
A.M., History, Harvard University, 1990
B.A., History, Carleton College, 1989
Alexis McCrossen's work is part of an emerging area in historical research, temporal studies, a new way of looking at the past through the study of measurement, importance and recognition of time.
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PASTORAL PRAYER LIST
Ivan, Ellen Adams, Louise Bell, John Berley, Riley Zellers Burton, Riley Callen, Vera Chelnokov, Brian Covachuck, Hadley Cox, Shannon Glenn, Connie Gregg, Michael Guadagnoli, Tonya Hillenbrand, Krystle Hollis, Jake Hulbert, Bud and Mary Jenne, Jennifer Lilly, Hillary Lupo, Mac Martin, Peggy Mason, Bob McKinney, Nora Neely, Pete Nicholas, Ava Potts, Fletcher Rollinson, Jamie Rollinson, Hal Russell, Terry Sader, Shirley Thayer, Jennifer Weaver,
Ginny Wharton, Hunter and Katie Wright
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MILITARY PRAYER LIST
Blaise Bess, Max Hoffman, John Life Ikenberry, Colin Jackson, Anthony Kopp, Alex Lovo, Renier van Breen, and Arch Wilson.
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