Dear Friends

February’s, this month, Grapevine newsletter went out yesterday as an email attachment. If you have not seen it, please check your inbox or spam folder and let me know if you need it sent out again.

We have some good stuff coming up this month!

First up, the opening poetry and music salon of the year, on February 15^th at 7 p.m.

Passion, Romance, Friendship, and Love-

poetry, verse and music, in honor of St. Valentine’s Day

Come listen to accounts of love’s many faces, from the Ancient of Days to the 21^st century with Pastor Burke, reader and musician to be determined. Passionate love, divine love, secular love, parental love, love of country and people, love of creation and nature, love of all, love of one, love as energy, love of none. Love’s many voices, perspectives, times and places will be presented as we seek to understand its great power and place in the cosmos. Join us for an evening showcasing loves many splendored things. Light refreshments and wine served with a suggested $20 dollar donation to benefit the SHUMC Music Fund. 

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Then, on Sunday, February 19^th after worship, we will hold a special Mardi Gras, Waffle Sunday Fellowship time. Please bring your waffle iron ahead of time so that as many waffles as needed are warm and ready for everyone to enjoy! As we prepare for Lent, just a few days later, we enjoy the richness of waffles, maple syrup, bacon and coffee, knowing that God’s love is in all things, the eternal, the temporal and the yummy.

Then on Wednesday the 22^nd, we begin the season of Lent. Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, sometimes called Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday is the last of Epiphany. Wednesday, we end the party and prepare our souls for the season of Lent, a time of reflection, of giving something up or taking something on, all to bring us closer to God and Christ.

Ash Wednesday services will be held at church, one between 8-9 a.m. for those on their way to work, and again from 5-6 p.m. for those on their way home. Weather permitting, we will be outside at the front entrance of the church for the imposition of ashes. Walk up or drive up, ashes will be ready to anoint and remind us of life’s impermanence and the infinity of God’s love and grace.



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Finally, lets return to a favorite evening program; Family Film night for all ages! As usual, please bring your dinner, and if you like, something to share as we enjoy a meal and a movie!

Family Film night- Friday, February 24 at 6 p.m.- Ratatouille, 2007, Pixar, Ratatouille is one of Pixar’s best films, overwhelmed by so many other excellent films such as Toy Story, Up, Wall-E, and Finding Nemo. The story of a rat, a French one but still a rat, who dreams of becoming a great chef. His efforts to achieve this, despite being a rat, is funny, surprising, and inspiring too. Made with the assistance and guidance of SF area chefs, so that overall, it gets the details right about how a restaurant kitchen’s run and how strange the world of fine dining really is. Highly recommended and quite perfect for children and their parents too! 

Hope to see you at some or all these programs later this month!

Blessings and God be with you,

Burke

Sunday Worship

February 5, 2023

4th Sunday in Epiphany

10 a.m.

Scripture: Luke 18:15-17

Sermon: Welcome to the Community and Our Children

Music: Ron and Esther Brunswick

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Click on the picture below to join

Sunday morning Livestream Worship

Join us after worship for fellowship time in our Fellowship Hall.

We look forward to seeing you!

Remember you can give online!

Our church continues to receive giving and donations through our online and mobile app platforms. Thank you for trying it out, here are the links again for you to sign up and give easily from your computer with Vanco:

CLICK HERE

or your phone or tablet with Vanco Mobile Faith Engagement App:

Dear friends,

Our St Helena church has provided an on-line app for use on your phone or tablet to give remotely over the last two years.

This app, GivePlus, is managed by Vanco, a finance company ensuring online payment processing with donations received for our church bank account.

Vanco Mobile Faith Engagement App. 

• Download the Vanco Mobile app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
• Find our church and log in using your previous GivePlus Mobile username and password.
• Or set up your user account in minutes.

Do let me know if you have any questions.

Pastor Burke

Our groups have

 something for everyone!



Two of our small groups

are on Zoom

for the month of February.

Check below to see which ones.



Everyone is invited to join our small groups!

Our Weekly Small Group Meetings

Book Study Group  In person.

Vintage Group, Tuesdays via Zoom

Call Pastor if you need a link to join any group!

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Silent Meditation, Wednesdays via Zoom.

Bible Study on Thursdays  In person.

Thursday's Bible Study is:

The Book of Psalm,

Please hold these saints in your prayers, 

For the family of Char Butcher on her passing; for Nancy and the family of David Garden on his passing; for Bette Antor and family, on the passing of her brother Tommy; for Tyler Barnedt, Ali Leeds husband, and Frank and Beth Leeds son-in-law; Lisa Cox; Karl and Linda Parker; Ben DiMaio; Jack and Ruthie Rydman; Carolyn and Dick Woodson; Anita and David Cummings; Jan Frate; Lois Need; Tony and Carole Pietrangelo; and all our community near and far.

Click on the picture of the

February Sign below,

to hear: Romantic Classical Music For

Lovesick and Lonely Hearts