Announcements & Schedule of the Week

LENTEN STUDY—SAVE THE DATES

“Complaint Free Living—A 21 Day Challenge!”

(2/29, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28 from 6:30 - 8:00pm)

Lent is often associated with “doing without.” Did you know that Lent is also a great time to take on new spiritual and life disciplines? One discipline we will be exploring in supporting one another during Lent as a congregation (and this includes your priest!) is “complaint free living.”

The “Complaint Free” (www.acomplaintfreeworld.org) challenge is a transfor-mative program in which people work to stop complaining and start living more consciously for 21 days straight. Each Wednesday during Lent from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at night we will have light supper, prayer, discussions, guest speakers and programs offering new and positive ways of living, sharing and being. More information will follow next week. Questions? Email Father Tim (fathertim77@gmail.com) or Juaney Lynn Rigsby (juaneyl@aol.com)

Ø Finance Committee meets after the service today.

Ø The Feast of Absalom Jones will be celebrated this afternoon at 4pm at the Cathedral of St. Philip. Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris, the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion, will be guest preacher during the a festival Eucharist commemorating the first African-American priest of the Episcopal Church, Absalom Jones, born a house slave in Delaware in 1746 and ordained priest in Philadelphia Feb. 13, 1802.

Ø Vestry will meet next Sunday, February 19 after the service.

Ø LENT begins in 10 days on February 22, 2012.

Ash Wednesday Services are at noon and 7pm.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Bury the Alleluia is 6:30pm on February 21, 2012.

Ø DO YOU KNOW ANYONE GIVING AWAY A PIANO? We would be happy to give it a new home. Contact Marcia Griffith (marciafay1234@gmail.com)

Ø ANNUAL DIOCESAN MINISTRY FAIR, 3/10 from 9a-4pm at the Cathedral. 40+ workshops, including Safeguarding trainings, as well as topics from accessibility to worship. Cathedral of St. Philip. $20 registration includes lunch. http://www.episcopalatlanta.org/Content/Ministry_Fair.asp.

Ø The Delores Project: Stay Alive – Get Screened! (by March 15): Schedule your preventive screening! For more information, contact our Project Coordinators: Minnie Jenkins (mjenkins0103@yahoo.com), Alda Swaby-Thorne (aswabythorne@bellsouth.net) or Ruby Jackson. Flyers with more information are also available in the narthex.

Ø SAVE THE DATE: Prayer Brunch sponsored by the ECW for everyone! Men, women and friends are all invited! March 31, 10:00am.

PARISH SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF February 12, 2012

Sunday, 02/12/2012

Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

9:15 AM

10:30 AM

12:30 PM

4:00 PM

Adult Christian Education

Holy Eucharist, Youth Sunday

Finance Committee

Feast of Absalom Jones (Cathedral)

Monday, 02/13

8:00 PM

AA/AlAnon

Wednesday, 02/15

5:30PM

6:45 PM

7:15 PM

Absalom Jones Chapel dinner

Eucharist and Healing

Adult Bible Study

Thursday, 02/16

8:00 PM

AA/AlAnon

Saturday, 02/18

11:00 AM

8:00 PM

Choir

AA/AlAnon

Sunday, 02/19

Last Sunday after Epiphany

9:15 AM

10:30 AM

12:30 PM

Adult Christian Education

Holy Eucharist & Healing, Sunday School & Children’s Chapel

Special Guests: Newark Boys Chorus

Vestry Meeting

Coming up:

February 21, 6:30pm: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

February 22, 12 noon and 7pm: Ash Wednesday Liturgy & Imposition of Ashes

February 24, 25: Vestry Retreat

February 26, after the service: Sunday School Black History Program

February 26, 6:30pm: Union of Black Episcopalians meets at Absalom Jones Center

February 29, 6:30pm: Lenten Supper and Program begins

March 10, 9am-4pm: Diocesan Ministry Fair at the Cathedral of St. Philip

March 11: TIME CHANGES – Spring forward!

March 31, 10am: ECW Prayer Brunch

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