A Message from our Senior Warden:
My Thoughts About Lent
What does Lent mean to me? The simple answer is Lent is a time for prayer, fasting, and sharing resources with those in need. I am reminded that the three things mentioned above should be a part of my everyday life, not just followed during the forty days of Lent.
The season of Lent asks us to engage in self-evaluation. How do I rate myself in the three categories of prayer, fasting, and sharing of resources? No full disclosure here! The need for honest and insightful introspection is not easy, but this process is what we need to do. As we take this very personal journey we need to recognize our strengths and weaknesses. Changing how we think about prayer, fasting, and sharing resources takes more than 40 days! This coming Sunday will be the fourth Sunday in Lent already. So if you have not yet begun with your challenge of self reflection, this is a good time to start!
Page Cotton
Sr. Warden
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Rector’s Office Drop-In Time
Rev. Jen has set her office drop-in day as Wednesday of each week from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. for anyone who would like to stop in and visit. You are always invited to make an appointment for a time convenient for you. Mondays are her Sabbath day.
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
In-Person Sunday Morning Worship Service, March 15, led by the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore,10:15 a.m.
You can stream the service via St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Greencastle, Indiana Facebook Page. Click on this link to view the Live Stream. We will start the Live Stream 5 minutes prior to the start of the service.
Click here for the service booklet for March 15.
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Service for Lament and Remembrance, Sunday March 15, 7:00 pm
A service of healing and comfort for all who mourn the loss of a child, whether through death, miscarriage, estrangement, or other kinds of loss.
EASTER FLOWERS
If you are interested in making an offering of Easter flowers as a remembrance gift, forms are available at the exit to Hamilton Hall.
EPISCOPAL 101, SUNDAYS 11:45-12:45
Continuing this month, Episcopal 101, a gathering to learn about the Episcopal church–what we do, how we pray and worship, our history, and more. All are welcome.
St. Andrew’s Youth Murder Mystery Party, Friday, March 13th **UPDATE**
Our Friday Mystery Party is being rescheduled. There is NO PARTY this Friday, but we will host this again in Easter – and it will be intergenerational with adults and youth able to play!
TUESDAY BIBLE STUDY
Starting Lent, we will focus on a series called “Walking the Palm Sunday Path.” I will be inviting the whole congregation to use the materials for their own Lenten practice, and will send links and some printed copies out. In addition, the sermons in Lent will preach on these texts.
I am attaching Week One materials here. I will also bring the printed handouts that were not picked up in church on Sunday to our meetings.
I will be drawing from (and you can find out more here):
We will return to Chinese Religion—and other religions, if you wish—when Lent is done and our alleluias have returned.
In peace,
Jen+
LENT SCHEDULE AND GUIDES
Click on links for Lent materials below:
First week of Lent
Lent and Easter Schedule
https://www.lentmadness.org/
Lenten Discipline – Week 1 “Walking the Palm Sunday Path”
Lenten Discipline – Week 2 “Walking the Palm Sunday Path”
Lenten Discipline – Week 3 “Walking the Palm Sunday Path”
Lenten Discipline – Week 4 “Walking the Palm Sunday Path”
Lenten Taizé at Gobin, Wednesdays
Gobin and Saint Andrew’s are collaborating on Wednesday services this year. One of these collaborations will be hosted by Gobin, a weekly evening Taizé services that will give voice and time for considering grief. This Lenten Taizé Wednesday series will be offered 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25 at 6:30pm.
PROJECTS AND PARISH SPACE
We are blessed with ample and well organized spaces for our worship, fellowship, and outreach. However, things have a way of collecting at churches—as we found when Gwen Morris and Cathryn Ensley cleaned out the front closet. We want to know what’s going on! Please mark supplies or materials gathered for outreach with the name of the project and the name of the point person.
HEALING PRAYER
Most Sundays our intern Meghan will be offering anointing and healing prayer at Sunday services during communion. Meghan will set up a station in the narthex; meet there for general or specific prayers for healing.
EVENING PRAYER
Join us for Evening Prayer in the sanctuary on Tuesdays at 4:00. Evening Prayer is a wonderful service to wind down the day and move into the evening hours.
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER DURING LENT
Lenten Prayer: 7:45 am (pray where you are); 1:00 (contemplative prayer in sanctuary); 1:30 (Stations of the Cross, in sanctuary), 6:30 (Taizé at Gobin), 9:00 compline on-line (use St Andrew’s zoom from church web page). Details in Hamilton Hall.
ALTAR FLOWER CALENDAR
An altar flower calendar is posted in Hamilton Hall. Sign up to sponsor the altar flowers to commemorate a birthday or anniversary, remember a loved one, or in thanksgiving for an important event. We ask a donation to help offset the cost of the altar flowers and other worship expenses. Be sure to tell the office your dedication so that it can be printed in the bulletin. Please make checks payable to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and in the memo field please put this information: Altar Flowers, person’s name, occasion, Sunday date you’d like for the flowers to be on the altar.
VESTRY MEETING MINUTES
If any of you are interested in what your Vestry is doing, there are two copies of each month’s minutes on the music stand in Hamilton Hall. Feel free to read and return!
SHOPPING LIST FOR NON-FOOD PANTRY
Please add razors, shaving cream, laundry detergent, spray cleaner, and toilet bowl cleaner to your shopping list for the NFP for the month of January. Meals and conversation in Hamilton Hall are going well. Patrons are now able to pick out items they most need. Your contributions help our budget go farther in helping meet the needs of those in Putnam County. Please scroll down to see the dates and latest updates. If you can help with this ministry in any way, please contact Harriet Moore or Carl Huffman.
KROGER COUPONS
If you have any unwanted Kroger coupons, please bring them to Hamilton Hall and place in the window ledge near the “Little Library”. We would like to make them available to our Non-Food Pantry recipients so that they might be able to take advantage of them to help extend their food budget. Thanks in advance!
FREE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
We have some large print Day by Day daily devotionals in the sanctuary that you are free to take home for your personal devotions–and if we know that people would like copies, we can order the right amount. Many of you may also appreciate the on-line version of Day to Day. Click here.
Non-Food Pantry Latest
Saturday, March 28
• Noon to 2:00 p.m.
There will be a distribution in Hamilton Hall and light lunches will be served inside. We are grateful for all those who have worked so hard to obtain supplies for the Non-Food Pantry. Items are having to be purchased from a variety of sources making it much more expensive. Donations to help offset this extra cost will be gratefully accepted!
Top 3 Needed Items
Your prayers are asked for:
Rabbi Adler, friend of Harry Maginity
Haile Bane, grandson of Joanne Haymaker
Beth Benedix, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Jennifer Clarke, friend of Patti Harmless
Diane * Judy *
Heather Cantonwine and family, friends of the Knuths
Angela Evans
Katie Gleichman, relative of Jim & Cathryn Ensley
Tom Kaiser, friend of Jen+ & Chris
Lynda, friend of Sarah Finlay-Black
Warren Macy
Jacob Majors, son of Renee Majors
Teresa Masten, friend of Karen & Jim Mannon
Sally Motsch, friend to many at St. Andrew’s
Mary Mountz
Sam Paris, grandson of Harry Maginity
Gene Shaw, brother-in-law of Patti Harmless
Elizabeth & Natalie Sheffler, daughter & granddaughter of Page & Narda Cotton
Deloris Smith, friend of Emily Knuth
Jenny Smyth, niece of Patti Harmless
Luke Smith, son of Mark Smith
Skip Sutton
Larry Taylor, former member of St. Andrew’s
Donald Voermans, father of Nick Voermans
Dwight Ziegler, uncle of Stephanie Gurnon
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: St. Paul’s, Jeffersonville, The Rev. Allan Wallace
Our companion dioceses: The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil: The Most Rev. Mauricio Jose Araujo De Andrade, Primate of Brazil and Bishop of Brasilia. The people and Diocese of Haiti and Saint Andre’s Parish and school in Mithon.
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Anglican Church of Kenya
Birthdays: Scout Whitten, Mar. 11; Justin Glessner, Mar. 18; Karen Vallowe, Mar. 18
Anniversaries: none
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