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March 7, 2013
Children & Youth, Education
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Re-Vision Children & Youth Now comes the final stage of our Children & Youth Re-visioning work, and we need your input. Consultant Joy Caires made her final presentation on March 3, and now it is up to us to determine the exact curricula we will use
beginning September 2013. Here's how we plan to complete the Re-Visioning:
Now to mid-April
Parishioners review and comment on curricula.
VIEW curricula options and Joy's chart at:
April
A small working team reviews feedback and assess resources. The team constructs the new program, identifying curricula and resources.
Sunday, May 12
The new program is presented to the congregation.
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Daylight Savings Time begins
on Sunday, March 10th!
Remember to turn your clocks ahead one hour
on Saturday night!
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30 Hour Famine
There were 70, 6th thru 8th Graders who gathered at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Stillwater last Saturday to participate in the 30 Hour Famine. They learned how to make a difference in our world and in our community. Ascension had 7 youth attend along with Sarah & Chad DeWolf & Mindy. Here are some of our pictures.
 Our Ascension Group at the Famine
Scotland Kraker, Olive Weston, Chloe Brey, Marley Rick,
Arleigh Kraker, Avree Rich & Rachel Kelly
 Rachel Kelly & Olive Weston at the Trampoline Park
during the 30 Hour Famine.
 Sarah & Chad DeWolf have helped
with the 30 Hour Famine for years.
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Ascension Youth Groups
Ninth Grade Confirmation Class
Back row, Jackson Brown, Amelia Gerrard, Cole Bardwell Front row, Hope Miller, Grace Rossez, Eve Thompson, Ingrid Kollaja, Ava Wichser & Jane Delahunt Missing, George Uppgren, Katie Lottsfeldt & Jack Allaire
* 6th-8th Gr.: Meets every Wednesday, 6:30-8:30pm at Manwaring. They are half way into their Lenten Movie series and have watched, I am Sam, Forrest Gump and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. They will continue with Pay it Forward, Simon Birch & Edward Scissorhands. Movies are open for everyone to attend. Thank you to Lori Allaire & Chad DeWolf for helping.
* 9th Gr. Confirmation Class: We have 12 youth participating every Sunday, 11:30-1:30pm. We have spent a lot of time discussing who is Jesus, the Baptismal Covenant, different forms of Prayer and learning about our church.
* 9th-12th Gr.: Meets every Sunday at 9:00 am at Manwaring. They are finishing up a program called The Power of Youth. The T.E.C applications have been handed out. Team applications are due by 3/8 and Candidate applications are due by 4/2. Teens Encounter Christ is a 3-day experience of learning about God and yourself, making new friends and growing in your faith
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 A typical morning in the Ascension Nursery
waiting for snacks!
Charlie Finn O'Reilly, Jimmy St. Ores,
Cooper St. Ores and Kaila Hannigan
along with our sitters,
Maddie Gerrard and Claire Rossez.
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 Singing with Nancy Whipkey during Children's ChapelChildren's Chapel:
Thank you to Susie Danielson, Monica Davis, Amy Grace and Julie Luna who have helped with teaching the 2 different classes that we have for chapel. Thank you also to Ann Kraker, Julie O'Reilly, Tom McElin and Amy Grace who have provided us with snacks.
March Parent letters have been handed out and there are 2 children's programs that you should have on your March Calendar:
March 29, Good Friday, 10:00 am: All children are invited to walk the steps that Jesus walked in a service tailored to their ages. Dress for being outside.
March 31, Easter Sunday: We will have an Easter egg Hunt put on by the Youth Groups for all children in between the 9:00 and 11:00 am services. Dress for being outside.
*Looking for more teachers for Chapel in March so if you are available, let Mindy know. mindy@aechurch.org
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Healing Touch
this Saturday, March 9th 9 - 11 am in the Parish Hall |
Breakfast at Ascension for Valley Outreach!
Mark your calendars! This Sunday March 10, Ascension will be serving breakfast in conjunction with our Valley Outreach Fund/Food raiser.
Join us after the 8:00 and 10:00 services
for food and friendship.
** Please contact Sue or Frank Langer if you would like to volunteer for the breakfast at 651-439-5766 **
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Valley Outreach March
Fund & Food Drive
March is Minnesota FoodShare month and the only time of the year when local food shelves (Valley Outreach Food Shelf) are awarded incentive dollars from the Minnesota Council of Churches as a result of the local response to the request for donated food and dollars. In other words, the more food and money donated in March, the more resources will be available to the food shelf during the rest of the year.
The Valley Outreach Food Shelf is giving more than 40,000  pounds of food to up to 400 families each month who reside within the Stillwater Area School District. One in ten Washington County residents-families, children, the elderly- struggle with hunger. More of our neighbors are going hungry. Please consider making a financial or food donation to this very important effort.
Financial donations to Valley Outreach Food Shelf go far to serve our neighbors in need. Through food bank partners, Valley Outreach Food Shelf is able to purchase ten times more food per dollar than can be purchased through retail grocery stores. Your donated dollar can purchase so much more when spent by Valley Outreach! Make your check to Ascension church with a note: "Valley Outreach/Food Drive" on the memo line.
Most needed Foods: Cereal, Canned Meat and Fish, Hearty Soups, 100% Juice, Peanut Butter.
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No Young Mom's Breakfast in March.
The next one will be Tuesday, April 9th.
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2011 Sundance Film Festival selection
Miss Representation explores how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions in America. It challenges the media's limiting portrayals of women that make it difficult for the average girl to see herself as powerful.
Please join us for a screening & discussion:
Monday, March 18, 2013
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Stillwater Public Library - Margaret Rivers RoomTickets: Adults - $5.00 Students - $2.50
Order Tickets online:
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New Priest Associate for Pastoral Care
Welcome our new priest, the Rev. Marilyn Baldwin! Marilyn will be serving part-time, making pastoral visits and organizing our lay pastoral care team. She will preach and celebrate regularly in our liturgy on Sunday. Her first day at Ascension will be Palm Sunday, March 24.
Marilyn is a second-career priest, ordained in 2006. Her earlier positions included working as a police dispatcher, where she met her husband Tom (a retired police officer) and twenty-five years working in transportation for a Minnesota manufacturing company. She attended United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Chicago. She likes to walk, reads history and biographies, and occasionally makes home-brewed beer to share. Marilyn and Tom live in White Bear Lake along with Katya, their Russian Blue cat, and enjoy spending time at their cabin on Mille Lacs Lake.
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Volunteers Needed!
Every other Thursday night through April, the new, state-of-the-art Mobile Action Ministries food truck will be stationed in the parking lot of Valley Outreach in Stillwater ready to serve wholesome, hot meals to families in need in Washington County.
The mission organizer, Peter Bolstorff, is looking for 5 - 6 volunteers to serve meals to clients with enthusiasm and love from 4:45 - 8:00 PM each Thursday night on the schedule.
■ Thursday, March 21
■ Thursday, April 4
■ Thursday, April 18
Lynn Raarup & Allan LaValier, Hannah Keller, and Scott and Jack Allaire have all served on the truck and have had a meaningful and fun experience. When you see them at church, ask them about it!
Please contact Katie Keller at (651) 351-7032 / katiekeller.pr@comcast.net to volunteer on the Mobile Action Ministries food truck. Thank you!
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Extra Worship in Lent
Increasing prayer can be a good way to practice Lent. Here are some extra worship opportunities for Lent:
Holy Eucharist at Boutwell's Landing, 11:00 a.m. in the Boutwell's Chapel
5600 Norwich Pkwy Oak Park Heights, MN 55082
March 13, March 27
Tuesday Worship at Ascension, 8:00 p.m. Canceled for March 12, resumes March 19.
We will pray Eucharist or Compline following our Lenten Reflections each Tuesday evening in Lent.
March 12, 19, 26
Healing Touch at Ascension, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
On March 9, Healing Touch ministers will offer healing prayers in the parish hall. Drop in anytime during their 2-hour session.
Private Devotions
Your schedule may make it difficult to attend extra communal prayer, but you can pray alone or with your family or friends. Compline is a simple prayer and a great way to prepare for sleep. Follow this link to a free download of Compline. Scroll down and click on MS Word next to the name "Compline": http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/formatted_1979.htm
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Lenten Reflection Time
Lenten Reflection Time in the Parish Library
Sunday Mornings, 9:10 a.m.
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Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 p.m.
Join us for discussion and reflection on John's account of Christ's passion. Copies of the reflections booklet are still available. In these meditations, Martin L. Smith shows how, in the Christian mystery, love itself must be crucified and die to be reborn as the grace of communion, as love set free.
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For only $40 you can contribute beautiful flowers for the week of your choice at Ascension's Worship services! You may also contribute any amount towards flowers to adorn the church for Easter. Please call the office at 651-439-2609 or Barb Smolik at 651-275-3533. |
 Update from Cindy:
Thanks to all who have called about donating various pieces of furniture for our Family Resource Center families. The girl that was sharing a bed with her sister and ending up on the floor now has a twin trundle bed. A second twin mattress would be helpful if anyone has one to donate. The family that just moved into their new place last week is still needing a full and a queen bed, kitchen table and chairs. I also have a family with a little girl that has outgrown all of her clothes and is in need of size 7 clothes. They went to Dawn's Closet but they did not have much in that size.
Please call Cindy at 439-2641 if you have items to donate. |
Spring Plant Sale!
To support the Guatemala Mission 2013, we will be holding a spring plant sale again this year. Orders will be taken between services and after the 10:00 service in the Fellowship Hall. A wide variety of bedding plants and hanging baskets will be available and prices are competitive with local garden centers.
Start planning your gardens now, and order your plants during the month of March.
Plants come from Gertens, and pick-up will be Saturday morning, May 4th at church. Any questions, contact Brenda Doneux, 430-9193.
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 depicts Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane Maundy Thursday Vigil "Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." Matthew 26:36 On Maundy Thursday we hold an all-night vigil here at Ascension to remember Christ's anguish as he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane before he was betrayed. The vigil watch begins right after the Maundy Thursday service. Come join us for one hour (or longer if you desire). This year each person has 2 options: Sanctuary or Chapel. The Sanctuary will be available as a quiet, candle lit space. The Chapel will be available with a little more light and the option of soft background music. We will also have a variety of choices for your use - journals, rosaries, readings or questions for reflection. You can sign-up on the sheet posted in the foyer on the way to coffee. Signing up helps distribute vigil keepers across the whole night, but you may also come without signing up. We will be "open" all night. Feel free to come early or stay late and join us in the parish hall where we will be showing "The Greatest Story Ever Told", a 1965 epic film based on the Gospel According to St. John. |
Holy Week Services
*The nursery will be available for every service except the All night vigil.
Sunday, March 24, Palm Sunday, 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
We celebrate Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem with real palms and remember his passion with a dynamic reading.
Monday, March 25, Tenebrae, 7:00 p.m.
A series of readings, meditative music, and candlelight guide us into Holy Week.
Tuesday, March 26, Healing Service, 7:00 p.m.
The Healing and Wellness Team lead this meaningful service of release and comfort.
Thursday, March 28, Maundy Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
In this Eucharist we remember Jesus' call to wash one another's feet. We strip the altar to prepare for Good Friday.
Thursday, March 28, Vigil overnight, 8:00 p.m.
We hold an all-night vigil to remember Christ's anguish as he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane before he was betrayed.
Friday, March 29, Good Friday Liturgy, 12 noon & 7:00 p.m.
We follow Jesus to the cross, praying the church's most ancient prayers. Women's voices sing the anthems at the later service.
Friday, March 29, Stations of the Cross, 10:00 a.m. & 6:00 pm
At 10:00 a.m. children are invited to walk Jesus' "Way of Tears" in a service tailored to their age.
At 6:00 p.m. we walk the streets of Jerusalem using image and prayer to meditate on Christ's passion.
Saturday, March 30, Easter Eve, 8:00 p.m.
The first Easter service and the fullest service of the year, we begin by lighting the Easter fire and the Paschal Candle. We hear stories of old and baptize by candlelight, then raise the roof as we move with Christ to resurrection. Chanting, incense, guitar, violin, and piano make this service at the same time humble and extravagant.
Sunday, March 31, Easter Morning, 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Eucharist with extra Easter joy, we enjoy special music and a trumpet fanfare. Prayers and readings name us a resurrected people, flowers adorn the nave and altar, the sun is up, life is good!
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Easter Egg Hunt on Easter
in between the 9:00 and 11:00 services outside!! |
Community Needs for Ascension:
* CoatTree for Manwaring
*Small Wooden Desk in good condition 3-5 ft. wide with working drawers for Manwaring
* Floor Lamp(s) for Youth Room or
Table Lamps with End Tables
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The archived section has been updated
and the past e-newsletters are posted now!
Click here for past editions.
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 East Metro Writer's Room now Open at the Lake Elmo Library!
Writer's looking for a quiet space, free coffee, conversation and inspiration are invited to Lake Elmo Public Library on Monday and Wednesday mornings 8:30 - noon.
Free and open to any writer seeking motivation and heads down drafting time in the writing room. Organized by Renee Murray.
There will also be a 'procrastination station' for coffee breaks and lively chats with other authors. A smaller breakout room is available for discussion on topics ranging from passive voice to marketing kindle books.
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William W. Mayo, and His Sons
Pioneers In Medicine, 1911
William Worrall Mayo (May 31, 1819 - March 6, 1911) was an English born medical doctor and chemist, best known for establishing the private medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. His sons, William 
James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, joined the private practice in Rochester, Minnesota in the 1880s.
Dr. William Worall Mayo was born in Eccles, near Salford, Lancashire, England and studied science and medicine in Manchester, Glasgow, and London before leaving for the U.S. in 1845. Mayo received his medical degree at Indiana Medical College in La Porte, Indiana in 1850. While the training there would be considered poor by modern standards, the school did have a microscope, an uncommon tool at the time. Knowledge of this instrument proved to be useful in Mayo's future practice.
Mayo worked at a numer of jobs in a number of places before settling in LeSeur, Minn., where his first children (including oldest son William James) were born.In 1863, he opened a medical practice in Rochester, also spending time as a city mayor, alderman, and member of the school board.
The event where the Mayo Clinic story usually begins happened in 1883, when a tornado devastated Rochester. With the assistance of his sons,  other doctors who came to help, and the local Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, he organized treatment of the injured. Mother Alfred Moes of the Sisters of St. Francis convinced him to help her establish a new hospital under her direction, forming St. Marys Hospital in 1889. At the time, only three people were on the surgical staff: William Worrall Mayo as chief, and his two sons as the medical practitioners (their father was 70 by this time). No other doctors accepted invitations to join at the time, perhaps because St. Marys was a Catholic Hospital. The alliance between the Episcopalian Mayos and the Roman Catholic Franciscan religious order caused some controversy at the time.
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Ongoing Events
 Please note New Hours for:
Our Community KitchenTuesday and Thursday mornings
8- 10 am @ Ascension's Kitchen and Fellowship Hall.
Come and meet your community and have a delicious breakfast!
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Ongoing Groups:
Scripture Reflection and Prayer GroupFirst & Third Thursdays from 9 - 10:30 am in the Library
Thich Naht Hanh study/meditation group
Thursday nights at 7 pm in Parish Hall
Zen style Meditation group
Saturday mornings at 7 am in Small Chapel
Healing Touch
2nd Saturday every month in the Sanctuary at 9 am
Youth Choir Wednesday nights at 4:45 pmfor more info contact Nancy Whipkey @ 651-439-2609Bell ChoirWednesday nights at 6:15 - 7:15 pm
Adult Choir
Wednesday nights at 7:15 pmfor more info contact Nancy Whipkey @ 651-439-2609
YogaDevotion & Tai Chi
Yoga began another session on 11/27, Tuesdays at 7 pm
Tai Chi was cancelled for the Fall, to be rescheduled at a later date.
Contact Laura Weston if interested in Yogadevotion at 651-430-9028
Centering Prayer Groupfor more information on meeting times contact Lois Welshons @jonlos@aol.com |
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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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