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THE EPISTLE
Volume 13 Issue 2 FEBUARY 28, 2008
Spaghetti Dinner onMarch 30 at Church
There will be a spaghetti din-ner at the church on March 30 to benefit the youth mission trip. Therewill be
two seatings
-one at
5pm
and one at
6:30pm
.A
silent auc-tion
will also take place. Our youthwill be selling tickets in church dur-ing the month of March.Our junior and senior highyouth will be traveling to Ohio inJuly to repair and rebuild homes for low income families through Reachwork camp. All proceeds from thedinner and auction will reduce thecost of the trip for the participants.
March 30 at Church
5:00 First seating6:30 Second seatingSilent Auction
THE WORSHIP PAGEMarch 2, 9, 16, 21, 23, 2008
Sunday Worship at 9:30 AMFellowship Time and Christian Education follow
March 2
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Holy Communion
ISamuel 16:1-13John 9:1-41
“Through Darkness to Light”March 9
Fifth Sunday in LentEzekiel 37:1-14John 11:1-45
”From Death to Life”March 16
Palm Sunday
Sunday of the PassionBlessing of the Palms
“Requiem”
Gabriel Faure
March 20:
Maundy Thursday 7:30 PM
Service of Holy Communion andTenebraeMarch 21:
Good Friday Noon
“Way of the Cross”
Beginning here7:30 PM
Service of PrayerMarch 23
Easter Day
Resurrection of our LordHoly CommunionActs 10:34-43Colossians 3:1-4Matthew 28:1-10
“Fear and Great Joy”
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PastoralPerspective
...and Trinity are “get away places” for clergy and families to spend some down time in themidst of busy ministries. I had not heard about this until I saw a small ad in TheChristianCen-turyafew months ago.Iknew that I needed a few days to decompress and do nothing. We left on Sunday after worshipand got there about 5:00 pm. There is no schedule except meal time and no one tells you whatyou have to do. I read and rested and slept and Jean did needlework and read. We took a coupleof walks and chatted with others at meal time. That was it.All of us need such times in our lives. We are so accustomed to “doing” rather than “being” thatsometimes it is difficult to get out of that way of thinking. Some people have a hard time beingalone; alone with themselves and alone with God. They become agitated unless there is activitysurrounding them. This is a sign of spiritual trouble and needed to be remedied. One of theways of doing this is to take time for doing nothing. It may seem hard to do and no doubt it isdifficult, but it is necessary. When this doesn’t happen, then our spiritual lives become dry andunproductive and this flows over into our day to day lives, also. No matter who we are or what we do or our age, this “down time” is important not only spiritu-ally, but also physically. In our small groups this Lent, we are taking a look at spiritual disci- plines. John Ortberg talks about “hurry sickness”. We all know about it, and all of us are af-fected one way or another by it. Now is a good time to take stock of our lives and to make ef-forts to root out that “hurry sickness”. We have all kinds of reasons, or excuses why we can’t doit, but if we are honest with ourselves, we know that that excuses is just what they are. We cando it. It takes small steps but it can happen and when it does happen, then our lives are richer and more connected to the God who is the source and the goal of our lives.I’d love to chat with you about this.Faithfully yours,
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I’m writing this on the day after we got back from being away for a few days. It was a wonderful few days at Trinity House at Silver Bay on Lake George. Many of you know about Silver Bay, aconference center and summer retreat for over a hundred years. Brookside...
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