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Dear Fellow Member of Ascension:
I am asking you to consider a pledge for my walk to raise funds to send a Million Books to The Gambia. We consider this will do a great deal to end the book famine in this small African country.
If you want to learn more and pledge please click the link below:
http://www.razoo.com/story/Africanbookwalk
Or simply send me a cheque payable to BOOKS FOR AFRICA at Box 253, Marine, Mn 55047!
And thanking you on behalf of the children of The Gambia.
Tom
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Sunday February Health Talks, Parish Hall, 11 a.m.
Come and listen to a different featured speaker the next two Sundays in February. February 12th: Addictions
Bill Alexander is an author and public speaker on addiction and recovery. His engaging and simple presentations have been said to "cut to the heart of addiction". His presentation will include understanding the roots of addiction and finding, within, the tools to destroy those roots. He calls this process 'radical sobriety'.
February 19th: Women's Health at Midlife
Andrea L. Tipple, MD is a member of Ascension Episcopal Church and a specialist in Family Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology with Stillwater Medical Group. She will talk about the challenges women face at midlife and the research-based medical, complementary and lifestyle practices that help women navigate this transition.
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 Episcopal Church of the Ascension 2012 Mission Trip
Want to join a team of youth and adults on an adventure of service and love? We have found a long-standing, safe, excellent program that serves orphans and single mothers in Guatemala. The director, Patrick Atkinson, is a family friend of Ascension members Bob and Mattie Rupp, and he touched the hearts of all who heard him speak at Ascension in early December.
Each year scores of volunteers serve the thousands of children that depend on the God's Child Project for food, shelter, and education by building and repairing facilities, playing with and tutoring children, offering medical care, and more. Patrick and his staff will work with us to tailor a service project to the abilities of our group.
**** Scholarships are available. *****
Go to: http://www.godschild.org
If interested in this program please talk to Buff.
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Nine Lessons and Carols CD's for Sale!
The beautiful and inspirational music and lessons are recorded on a CD that is now available for sale for $15.00 each. Please see Nancy Whipkey to buy one. |
 We now have a Twitter account, @aechurchmn. If you would like to keep visitors to our website informed on what you are doing at Church, use hashtag #aechurchmn and your tweet will show on the new homepage. |
At our Annual Convention in October 2011, the Episcopal Church of MN passed a resolution that said we oppose the proposed amendment to the Constitution banning same-sex marriage. At the time, Bishop Brian Prior told StarTrib reporters: "The Episcopal Church in Minnesota has always stood with the marginalized. Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender orientation or immigrant status, Episcopalians in Minnesota have always embraced both the Gospel mandate of love of neighbor and the Baptismal Covenant imperative to respect the dignity of every human being."
If you would like to learn more about this issue, please watch our Enews for upcoming speakers and discussion gatherings.
** If you would like to support the Episcopal Church's work in this issue, you can join Buff+ on February 23 in a phone banking effort with other Episcopalians from around the metro area. **
Email Buff if you would like to participate and to find out more: rectorbuff@aechurch.org
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YogaDevotion: If ten people pre-pay with a check written to Ascension for $55 by SUNDAY, MARCH 4, then the next YogaDevotion session will start on Tuesday, March 6 and run through Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m in the Parish Hall. There will continue to be free child care. Please note: YogaDevotion will only start up if ten paid registrations are received by SUNDAY, MARCH 4. Please write "YogaDevotion" on the check memo line and mail your check to the church office of place in the brown envelope on the mailboxes outside the Parish Hall kitchen. Thank you! Andrea Johnson, Parish Nurse, 651-439-3544.
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Saving a Life
The life you save with CPR is very likely a loved one, a child, spouse, parent or friend. Four out of five cardiac arrests occur at home. Effective and immediate CPR can double or triple the chance of a heart attack victim's survival.
Ascension parishioner Frank Langer will offer CPR and AED instruction for Ascension parishioners on Saturday, March 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall. To prevent the risk of disease transmission, CPR is now "hands-only", that is, compressions to the chest, with no mouth-to-mouth contact. To sign up, please call Andrea Johnson, Parish Nurse: 651-439-2609 or 651-439-3544.
The Suicide Prevention Collaborative and Community Partners present two events on:
February 28, 2012 from 6 - 9 pm
Resource Fair 6 - 7 pm; Presentation: 7 - 9 pm entitled: 'Not My Kid: A Community Conversation on Youth Suicide Prevention'
Presenter: Maureen Underwood, LCSW, CGP, Clinical Director, Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide
This Free event is being held at Oak-Land Junior High School, Lake Elmo, MN Target Audience: All interested community members including, parents, caregivers, teens, educators, mental health professionals. For more information: www.suicidepreventioncollaborativemn.org/education
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Altar Flowers
If you are interested in sponsoring altar flowers for 2012, please contact Barb Smolik at 651-275-3533 or the office at 651-439-2609 for sign-up. Get your names on the dates you wish before they fill up.
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Cyril And Methodius: Missionaries To The Slavs (14 FEB 869)
Cyril (originally Constantine) and Methodius were brothers, from a noble family in Thessalonika, a district in northeastern Greece. Constantine was the younger, born in about 827, and his brother Methodius in about 825. They both entered the priesthood. Constantine undertook a mission to the Arabs, and then became a professor of philosophy at the imperial school in Constantinople and librarian at the cathedral of Santa Sophia. Methodius became governor of a district that had been settled by Slavs. Both brothers then retired to monastic life. In about 861, the Emperor Michel III sent them to work with the Khazars northeast of the Black Sea in the Dnieper-Volga region of what was later Russia. They learned the Khazar language and made many converts, and discovered what were believed to be relics of Clement, an early Bishop of Rome.
To learn more about these two brothers, please click here.
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Ongoing Events
 Our Community KitchenTuesday and Thursday mornings 7 - 10 am @ Ascension's Kitchen and Fellowship Hall.
Come and meet your community and have a delicious breakfast!
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Ascension Episcopal Church
E-Newsletter CommunicationsLynn Raarup To submit an article or question please e-mail me at: enews@aechurch.org 651-439-2609 |
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