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This Sunday, May 19, 2019, the Fifth Sunday of Easter, there will be 2 services at 8 and 10 am.
CENTERING PRAYER
Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. (Note: New time)
MORNING PRAYER
Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m.
WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
and FELLOWSHIP
READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Year C
Acts 11:1-18
Psalm 148
Revelation 21:1-6
John 13:31-35
Psalm 148
Revelation 21:1-6
John 13:31-35
FROM THE RECTOR
I continue to enjoy the blog from the SALT
Project, and found the following from their Theologian’s Almanac to be worth
sharing.
In honor of those of you who are nurses, May 12 was
the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. She
was born in 1820 to a wealthy English family, and as a young woman, she wrote
to a friend: “God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him
alone without reputation.” She visited a Lutheran religious community in
Germany, and after observing the deaconesses care for the sick and destitute,
she stayed for four months of medical training.
During the Crimean War, Nightingale and her team
reduced a British military hospital’s death rate from 42 percent to 2 percent,
mostly by introducing sanitary reforms. Insisting that patients require
personal care, and she roamed the hallways at night with a lantern, speaking
with the wounded and eventually becoming known as the “Lady with the Lamp.”
Her mathematical skill was equally illuminating: she was an excellent
statistician, and created groundbreaking diagrams to help explain the spread of
contagious disease.
May 22 is the anniversary of the debut of Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood, introducing generations of young children to ideas of
kindness, diversity, peace, and even grief - and eventually becoming the
longest-running children’s program on television. Fred Rogers was a
Protestant pastor who considered the show to be his ministry. Rogers said: “The
world is not always a kind place. That’s something all children learn for
themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need
our help to understand.” One of his trademark cardigans hangs today in the
Smithsonian Museum. Here’s a lovely gift from Rogers, “One Silent Minute.”
May 23 is the birthday of poet Jane Kenyon, born
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1947. Kenyon’s grandmother was a
fire-and-brimstone Methodist, frightening Kenyon as a child, and eventually
leading her to withdraw from religion. But she returned to Christianity
later in life, and many of her later poems she explored theological territory.
She translated the work of the Russian poet and mystic Anna Akhmatova, and
attended a local Congregational Church in New Hampshire. When asked if
her newfound faith influenced her writing, she said, “My spiritual life is so
much a part of my intellectual life and my feeling life that it’s really become
impossible for me to keep it out of my work.” Here’s an example. Her advice for living: “Be a good steward of your
gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise.
Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as
you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.”
Caroline
PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY
1st and 3rd Wednesday morning at 10:15 a.m.
If you knit or crochet (or would like to learn how to) and are led to engaging in an outreach mission that provides physical and spiritual comfort to those in need, please join us on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at 10:15 AM in the Prince Room. We are a joyous group that will keep you in stitches! The coffee and tea will be on and new members are always welcome. If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.
IT'S ABOUT PETS
THE PET CORNER
Midge Pendergast's "Fritzy"
Stuffed animal or real dog?
Fritzy at Hurricane Point on Silver Lake
Fritzy on a Silver Lake adventure
Share your pet pic by emailing to:
OFFICE@STANDREWSINTHEVALLEY.ORG
Please add the pet breed, name
and anything else about the photo.
DINNER BELL
COOK TEAMS
for May are:
SATURDAY, MAY 18- 9 AM
DINNER BELL ANNUAL MEETING
19-Rau
26-Three Ladies
~
COOK TEAMS NEEDED!
for the following date:
June 23
Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The Messenger
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
~ Mary Oliver
A Recipe shared
"This was given to me by a friend and neighbor years ago
in San Antonio and enjoyed at our backyard cookouts, and it has been a hit
everywhere I have turned up with it since."
Mango Salad
3 3 oz. Boxes of Lemon Jello
3 12 oz. cans of mango NECTAR
1 8 oz. package light cream cheese
3 Tbsp. Lime juice
Bring mango nectar
to a boil. Add jello to nectar mixture
while it’s heating; stir completely to dissolve. Cream 8 oz. cream cheese in a mixer. Add 1 cup of hot nectar mixture to cream
cheese and blend until smooth. Add
remaining hot nectar mixture and lime juice.
Chill 4-6 hours in
a 2 1/2-3 qt. Pyrex dish. Cut in squares
and serve. Enjoy! 😀
Johnny and Oreo
McGowan 😀🐾🐾🐶
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
FOOD CENTER
The Food Pantry thanks you
for your contributions throughout the year.
FORWARD DAY BY DAY FOR TODAY
FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE
I will be out of the office Thursday May 16, and Friday May 17.
MAY BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
If you do not see your birthday or anniversary listed, please make sure Deb in the office has an information sheet on file for you.
Birthdays
1 John Marshall
7 Elaine South
15 Kitty Lou Booty
15 Betty Faella
17 Kit Morgan
17 Kit Morgan
18 Tim Huckman
20 Tom Forbes
28 Bob Luz
28 David Gartrell
20 Tom Forbes
28 Bob Luz
28 David Gartrell
Anniversaries
13 Tom & Jen Huckman
20 Jonathan & Lois Brady
26 Grete & George Plender
28 Bruce & Denise Foreman
30 Bob & Gabriele Wallace
20 Jonathan & Lois Brady
26 Grete & George Plender
28 Bruce & Denise Foreman
30 Bob & Gabriele Wallace
PHOTO GALLERY
PRAYER SHAWLS IN THE MAKING
ELEANORE'S PROJECT PRESENTATION
TO LITTLE KENNY
