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Lenten Program : Deepen Awareness
Lent is a time to come to know ourselves more deeply. Through fasting we get in touch with our bodies. Through self-examination we listen to our minds. Through prayer we come to know ourselves more as God knows us. In this deepened awareness we acknowledge the ways in which the human mind and body are made. Some of those ways block us from the divine and the fullness that God wants for us. Some of those ways exquisitely attune us to the divine.
Come on Sundays during Lent at 11:30 a.m. in the parish hall for lunch and a deeper look at ourselves and God. Sign up by calling or emailing the office:office@aechurch.org, 651-439-2609. Cost is $12 for the booklet and lunch donation. First Sunday in Lent is February 26 and goes through March 25.
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Sunday February Health Talks, Parish Hall, 11 a.m.
Come and listen to our featured speaker on this coming Sunday. 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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Confirmation on Sunday, February 19
Sunday, 11:30-1:30pm down in the church. Today topic, "Ways of Prayer" What is prayer really? Led by a variety of church members, we'll travel through prayer stations to sample everything from prayer with art, oils and music to meditative prayers to lectio divina. Lunch will be served.
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Ash Wednesday Service InformationFebruary 22, 2012
10 am Service at Boutwells Landing
12 noon Service at Ascension
7 pm Service at Ascension
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Youth Invited to Ash Wednesday
All Ascension youth are invited to an Ash Wednesday class that Buff and Mindy will be teaching at 5:00pm on Feb. 22nd in the Parish Hall. We will talk about the service of Ash Wednesday, Lent and have a question and answer time. There will be a simple soup & bread meal at 6:00pm in the Parish Hall and the service begins at 7:00pm. All are invited so come with your questions. If you are interested in helping with the meal, let Mindy know.
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Youth Music Festival
at St. Mark's Episcopal Church Saturday, March 3, 2012
The Youth Music Festival is a jam packed day for the choristers filled with rehearsals and fun activities planned just for them. This year the service will be moved up to 4:00 and will be highlighting the music they've practiced.
The Youth Music Festival welcomes Sofia Ardalan, director of the Choir School at House of Hope Presbyterian in St. Paul, MN. for her direction of the Festival.
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Evensong at Ascension
Come celebrate an ancient tradition in the Episcopal church of the Evensong service. This will be held on Sunday, March 4th at 5:30. You won't be disappointed!
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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. |
 Are you interested in Prayer?
A Contemplative Prayer Group is forming. If interested please contact John or Louis Welshons @ jonlos@aol.com |
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30 Hour Famine
The junior high students will be attending the 30 Hour Famine on Friday, Feb. 23-24 at Our Saviors Lutheran. The students will be doing a food drive on Saturday. If you are interested in making a donations, all money collected goes to World Vision so checks should be made out to them. |
 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. |
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 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. There is a sign up sheet for this in the parish hall.
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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Martin Luther Educator, Translator (18 Feb. 1546)
I once heard a priest say: "Sometimes in a sermon, I have occasion to quote some comment by Martin Luther which bears on the point I want to make. But there are those in my congregation who would wonder what I was doing quoting a notorious Protestant. So I simply refer to him as Brother Martin of Erfurt, and they smile and nod. He said a lot of remarkably good things."
Brother Martin of Erfurt, born in 1483 of German peasant stock, was a monk (more exactly, a regular canon) of the Order of Saint Augustine, and a Doctor of Theology. In his day, the Church was at a spiritual low. Church offices were openly sold to the highest bidder, and not nearly enough was being done to combat the notion that forgiveness of sins was likewise for sale. Indeed, many Christians, both clergy and laity, were most inadequately instructed in Christian doctrine. Startling as it seems to us today, there were then no seminaries for the education of the clergy. There were monastic schools, but they concentrated on the education of their own monks. Parish priests, ordinarily having no monastic background, were in need of instruction themselves, and in no way prepared to instruct their congregations. Brother Martin set out to remedy this. He wrote a simple catechism for the instruction of the laity which is still in use today, as is his translation of the Scriptures into the common tongue. His energy as a writer was prodigious. From 1517, when he first began to write for the public, until his death, he wrote on the average one book a fortnight.
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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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