Services for this coming Sunday,
February 16 and the Sixth Sunday
after the Epiphany, will be at 8 and 10
AM. Each service is followed by a coffee hour. We hope you will join us for
worship and fellowship.
Readings for this Sunday: Deuteronomy
30:15-20, Psalm 119:1-8; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37.
We are in need of volunteer coffee hour hosts. Have
you hosted recently? Please check the
Parish Hall sign up sheet for a date that you may be available to help or host.
If you’d like to provide goodies for coffee hour but are unable to serve with
set-up and clean-up, or if your available to do set-up and clean-up but prefer
not to do the goodies, please let the office know as well; we can pair you up
and make a team! “Training” is available. Sally DeGoot, our hospitality chair,
would be happy to work with you. Thank you.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrew 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrew 13:2
Baptismal Preparation and Inquirers’ Class: Have you been thinking about getting baptized? Or do
you have questions about faith, Christianity, or the Episcopal Church that
weren’t resolved when you were twelve and confirmed??? I will be working with
at least one person, and it would be wonderful to make it a group. We would
begin in early February and culminate with baptism and reaffirmation of vows at
the Easter Vigil on April 19th or Easter Sunday. I am envisioning a
program that would have some group meetings, maybe some on-line or at-home
learning, and some individual meetings as appropriate. If any of our
middle-school/Junior High young people are interested, it would be wonderful
for them to be included. The details will be worked out as I discover who would
like to be involved. Please call me at church or home (367-8220) or email me (frantzdale@gmail.com). And if there are
a couple of people who want a “brush-up,” catechesis and formation always
benefit from a group with varied experiences to share, I would welcome some
“Companions-on-the-Way” who might serve as mentors. I look forward to embarking
on this together!
Greetings
from Walter Fortier! He’s doing well,
but wanted us all to know that he misses worshiping at Saint Andrew’s and
especially misses the people. He’s at Mineral Springs in North Conway and
always greets visitors with his warm smile and enthusiastic sparkle. Consider
stopping by – just enter through the main door at take the left-hand corridor. His room is directly at the end.
Food for thought: You
are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world!
A few of you have responded to the challenge I put forward last Sunday when we explored this Gospel passage together (Matthew 5:13-16). Email me some ways in which you have been the “salt” that gives flavor and interest to some situation or a way in which you have been that light to others. Jesus says very clearly, “Let your light shine before others, that they may see you good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” We all do this, quietly in our lives. I promise to keep your stories anonymous, but it would be a powerful witness to each other and others for us to be aware of how we are all being God’s light in the world. [Jesus also says, “Don’t hide it under a basket. Put it on a lampstand!”] And, if you really can’t talk about your light, tell me about someone else’s. I will keep that anonymous as well.
A few of you have responded to the challenge I put forward last Sunday when we explored this Gospel passage together (Matthew 5:13-16). Email me some ways in which you have been the “salt” that gives flavor and interest to some situation or a way in which you have been that light to others. Jesus says very clearly, “Let your light shine before others, that they may see you good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” We all do this, quietly in our lives. I promise to keep your stories anonymous, but it would be a powerful witness to each other and others for us to be aware of how we are all being God’s light in the world. [Jesus also says, “Don’t hide it under a basket. Put it on a lampstand!”] And, if you really can’t talk about your light, tell me about someone else’s. I will keep that anonymous as well.
See you in church.
Blessings, Heidi+
Blessings, Heidi+
