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February 24, 2016
REMAIN WITH ME - LENTEN SERIES 
 
Wednesday Night Lenten Speaker Series
Join us on Wednesday nights in Lent as four distinguished luminaries from The Candler School of Theology at Emory University light ourHoly Week path.We offer a simple soup dinner in the Parish Hall at 6:00 p.m., with program to follow in the nave (church) from 7-8 pm. Childcare is available upon request by the preceding Monday. Click here for brochure. 
 
2/24       The Rev. Dr. Charles Edward "Ted" Hackett -
Fr. Hackett is Associate Professor of the Practice of Church Ministries, Emeritus at Emory University. He received the B.A. from Brown University, the M.Div. From Berkeley Divinity School (Yale) and the P h. D. from Emory. He was the founding Director of the Emory Episcopal Studies Program and served in this post from 1972 to 2008, and again as interim Director from 2010 to 2012. He continues to teach at Candler with regularity. He also undertook psychoanalytic training and maintained a practice of Marriage and Family Therapy from the 1970's until 2000. Fr. Hackett is the author or co-author of a number of publications having to do with the Liturgy and with the interface of psychoanalysis and theology. He is currently Priest Associate at the Church of the Holy Family in Jasper GA.
 
Coming Up:
3/2         The Rev. Dr. Don E. Saliers
3/9         The Rt. Rev. Dr. Keith B. Whitmore
3/16       The Rev. Nan Baxter, Society of St. Anna the Prophet
A NOTE FROM SARAH AND JULIA 
  
A note from Sarah & Julia about children's Christian formation:

We hope our families with young children have begun to enjoy the Illustrated Children's Ministry Family Lenten Devotions.  They are a wonderful way to explore Lent together as a family, to do some of that good seed planting in the lives of our children in the very fertile earth of home life.

This week's theme is Serve, and the packet can be accessed by clicking here. Click here for coloring sheets to use with the packet during Lent. 

Father Dick offered a great message for All God's Children this past Sunday.  We hope you still have your feathers!

With much love,
Julia and Sarah

HAPPENING

 

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THEOLOGY ON TAP

LENTEN OFFERINGS
 

 

  • Yoga and Our Lenten Journey: We will reschedule this offering for a later date due to conflicts with several other events.

 
UPCOMING EVENTS

SPARKS in Today's World:
SPARKS will hold a series of programs starting Tuesday, March 15, discussing various topics of interest to St. Patrick's Seniors. These programs will be led by a moderator, John Watkins, and held in classrooms 7 and 8. This will be a bring-your-own Brown Bag Brunch.
Detailed information will be forwarded next week.  Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 15 at 9:55 AM. Come and enjoy this fellowship with your fellow worshipers.  See you there!

Stephen Ministry:
Changes can be difficult, especially when they are unexpected. Stephen Ministers are trained to help people learn to cope with unwelcome changes in their lives for as long as they are needed. If youhave experienced great changes or know someone who has, learn more about Stephen Ministry by contacting Fr. Dick at (770) 455-6523 or Anne Duncan at (770) 454-9053, [email protected]. Everything you tell a Stephen Minister is kept absolutely confidential.
LOOKING AHEAD

Sat., Mar. 5 at 6 p.m. 
Red, White, and Blue Dinner, Parish Hall 
Sunday, March 13 
WEEKLY EVENTS

 
Join Mother Julia:
Noon- Meditative Basics Class (open to beginner and long time practitioner alike)
Mondays at 2:30- Gentle Yoga (a very gentle yet transformative practice)

***FRIDAY YOGA WILL NOT MEET THIS WEEK, FEB. 26.***

Fridays at 12:30- Open to beginner and long time practitioners alike. This offering will run through March. 
 
Cost: recommended donation of $10. Please speak with Julia if this cost is a hardship, so that scholarship can be arranged.
SUNDAY MORNING CHRISTIAN FORMATION

Children 
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - meet at 9:00 a.m.: 
Level 1 (children ages 3, 4, and 5-years old) and Level 2 (children in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades)  Join Ms. Pam in level II room 
Level 3 (children in 4th and 5th grades) join Ms. Marsha in the Level 3 room 
 
Youth 
Journey to Adulthood classes meet at 9:00 a.m. in their classrooms
Rite 13 - grades 6-7
J2A - grades 8-9
YEA - grades 10-12

Adult Christian Formation - Sundays at 9:15 a.m.
  • The Book of Acts with Charles Boyanton and friends in Room 8. Some Bible reading methods scheduled to be covered in the class entitled 50 Ways to Read the Bible will be incorporated.
  • Dreams: Listening to God with Brenda Marquis and Kendra Yates in the Library.
  • Doing Art Looking Up with Diane Rankin and Nancy Dusenberry in the Art Lab.
OUTREACH
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Malachi's is open each Wednesday - lunch at 11:30 a.m. Free grocery shopping from 1 -3 p.m.
Click here to learn more.
 
Malachi's in the AJC: Click here to read "Making the Grade: School project helps community's neediest"


MALACHI'S BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR IS COMING UP! 
  The HUNGER WALK/RUN is Sunday, March 13
Join the Malachi's Storehouse Team by walking or supporting us in the 2016 Hunger Walk/Run! The Atlanta Community Food Bank is our beneficiary where Malachi's purchases food for .16 a pound. Every dollar you raise or donate helps the ACFB provide food to Malachi's clients very inexpensively. In 2015, we were able to feed 37,500 people because of generous supporters like you! 
Every single donation makes a difference! 
$1.00 provides 6.25 pounds of food
$5.00 provides 31.25 pounds of food and feeds a family of 4!
$25.00 provides 156 pounds of food and feeds 5 families!
$100 provides 625 pounds of food and feeds 20 families!
     
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