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May 2, 2013 Children & Youth, Parish Life
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 Confirmation
 Celebrate Our Confirmands: Confirmation at Ascension
On Thursday, May 9th, 2013, at 7:00 pm, The Right Reverend Brian Prior will confirm members of Ascension Church and preside at the Holy Eucharist. Everyone is invited to this festive service in which participants in our youth confirmation program and our adult inquirers' class will be confirmed in the Episcopal Church. Adults who have been confirmed previously in other denominations will be confirmed by the laying on of hands and will be received into the Episcopal Church. A festive reception will follow the service in the Parish Hall. Please plan on witnessing this beautiful Rite of Passage. The nursery will be open.
Please come and see our Confirmation Class become the youngest members of Ascension.
In photo above:
Front: Hope Miller, Eve Thompson, Ingrid Kollaja, Ava Wichser, Jane Delahunt
Middle: Grace Rossez
Back: Jackson Brown, Amelia Gerrard, Cole Bardwell
Missing: George Uppgren, Jack Allaire and Katie Lottsfeldt
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Please Note Time Correction!!!
Gertens plants arrive this coming Saturday, May 4th.
Pick-up is from 10am to noon in front of the church. We would appreciate people coming as early as possible due to the weather forecast. If you have questions or need to make other arrangements to get your plants, call Brenda Doneux at 651-430-9193.
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It's proven. 100% of us will die.
Did you know you can have surprising control
about how you die?
If you plan well.
There are forms available in the Parish Hall
(on the buffet under the Last Supper needlepoint)
that will help you with end of life planning.
You can also attend a free workshop on
Sunday, May 5 (11:30 am)
that will help you complete the forms and learn more. Please come and listen to the Rev. Joanie Delamater, lunch will be provided. 
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Important Dates to remember:
No Adult Choir on May 8th.
Last Children's Choir on May 8th.
No Thich Nhat Hanh meeting on May 9th.
Youth Choir sings on Mother's Day, May 12th.
Last Adult Choir on May 15th.
Office will be closed on Memorial Day!
Outdoor Worship Service in Washington Park
on June 16th.
Guatemala Trip is July 10-20th.
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 17 from Ascension went to Spring TEC in April.
One of the largest groups we've had!
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 Wednesday Night 6th-8th gr. Jr High Youth Group:
Front: Max Korth, Brett Nelson,
Scotland Kracker & Marley Rich
Back: Elise Rossez, Arleigh Kraker,
Chloe Brey & Rachel Kelly
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Zoe Wichser & Addy Van Pelt up at Boulder Junction, WI enjoying the recent Senior Retreat.
All the graduating Senior's will be highlighted during the May 12th 10:00 service.
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Susan Ward shows her instrument to Bear Atkinson and Talbot Ward during Chapel Time.
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 Baptism
 We have two Babies being Baptized in May.
Marin Mattson (right) will be Baptized on Sunday, May 12th and Isla Jane Haslam will be Baptized on Sunday, May 19th.
Please come and celebrate with them!
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INVITE YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
To the first annual
Healthy & Delicious
Fundraising Breakfast
Sunday, May 19
8:30 am - noon
IN THE PARISH HALL
$10 Suggested Donation
Enjoy OCK favorites including
Steel Cut Oats with Assorted Toppings
Sweet Potato Pancakes with Cranberry-Apple Compote
And The Best Banana Bread...ever!
We couldn't have done it without you! Our Community Kitchen is immensely grateful for Ascension's generous support and
commitment to bringing our vision to life. Two and a half years after our inception, OCK is indeed a place where everyone is
welcome and everyone is fed.
By offering a healthy variety of chemical-free, locally produced fresh fruits and vegetables, bringing volunteers
into the kitchen, introducing people to nutritious foods, teaching children and adults how to prepare healthy
menus, Our Community Kitchen is creating a community of friends that make sure no one in our neighborhood goes hungry.
Please help us continue this important work in the community by contributing to our Wish List:
____ $10 will buy 2 pounds of organic butter or 5 pounds of organic oats
____ $24 will buy 3 pounds of locally roasted, sustainably sourced coffee from The Bikery
____ $46 will buy one case of local eggs from River Market (this will last one week)
____ $75 will buy one case of organic fruit from River Market
____ $100 will buy 40 meals for hungry people
____ $200 will provide food and programming for the Head Start children for one month
____ $475 will buy a CSA share from the Backyard Grocery (lots of fresh produce)
____ $1000 will provide supplies to start a garden for OCK
____ $5000 will pay for an intern to create and run a garden program
Please make checks payable to Our Community Kitchen and drop off at or mail to the church office. THANK YOU!
For more information about OCK, please contact Diane Rollie, volunteer coordinator at (651) 436-0300.
Follow us on
Facebook!
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Gospel Sunday coming on May 19th!
Mary Jo Vene, an awesome gospel singer will be joined this year by gospel piano player extraordinaire Karl Kornowski. This will be amazing!
Mary Jo Vene is a versatile vocalist who has performed throughout Minnesota as well in Nashville and New York City. Her repertoire includes a wide variety of music that includes jazz, blues, R & B and opera, as well as gospel music.
Mary Jo is currently a music specialist with the Stillwater Area Schools and has appeared with the St. Croix Jazz Orchestra, Century Jazz Band, City Vibe and is currently the lead singer for Mary Jo and the Groove Daddies. She also performs in various other venues and enjoys teaching voice, piano, and strings in her private home studio.
May 19th will also be the day the beautiful Senior Quilts are given out to graduating High School Seniors during the 10 am service.
Our Community Kitchen will be serving 2 breakfasts on May 19th as a Fundraiser for their program. One at 9 am and the other after the 2nd service at 11 am.
You won't want to miss this Sunday!
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Summer time activities
With summer just around the corner, I would like to put together a list of summer activities and events that are free or low-cost for our Family Resource Center families. Please think about some of your favorite summer days, activities and events. Make a list and e-mail them to me at c.parsons@aechurch.org. If you have a favorite website for family activities, please share. Soon, I will have a bulletin board in the hallway of the church for our Family Resource Center and I will post our summer list for Ascension families as well. I have a few requests for donations for some of our families:
Kitchen table and chairs
Full or Queen-size beds
Dressers
A sewing machine and fabric for a 14 year old girl that wants to do a lot of sewing this summer!
For donations of time, talent and treasures to the Family Resource Center, please call Cindy at 439-2641.
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Mission Team
Garage Sale  Saturday, June 1st
9 - 3 pm at Manwaring
Clean out your basement, garage and bedrooms
and donate to the Ascension Mission Sale!
We are raising money to go to Guatemala and
do mission in this world.
Drop off your items anytime up at Manwaring in May.
Questions, please call Mindy at 439-2609
Please, No Clothing, computers, beds, mattresses, microwaves or T.V. Thanks!
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All About Me Posters
For those of you that have been in the hallway outside of the Parish Hall, you have noticed many pictures along with some artwork from each child or youth. On some walls you will see pictures of our youngest friends that attend Chapel. On other walls you will see the Jr High Youth Group that meets every Wednesday. Inside of the Parish Hall you can see 12 youth that have attended our Confirmation Program along with some old & new pictures.
There is another poster of all of our Seniors that will be graduating from High School and where they will be attending college. There are also some young pictures of what they looked like in my 1st Grade Sunday school program and what they look like now. Fun to compare them!
There is also a poster of our Guatemala Mission Team for all to see and get to know who will be doing Mission this summer.
So come and get to know some of the young people in our midst. We will be continuing to make posters so if your child hasn't made one there is still time.
Mindy
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The Stained Glass Windows are back in place and ready for your worship experience on Sunday!
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Come and enjoy A Delicious Breakfast prepared and served by Our Community Kitchen on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8-10 am.
Meet new friends and join the Community!
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Catherine Of Siena Reformer and Spiritual Teacher (29 April 1380)
 Catherine Benincasa, born in 1347, was the youngest (one of my sources says the 23rd) of twenty-five children of a wealthy dyer of Sienna (or Siena). At the age of six, she had a vision of Christ in glory, surrounded by His saints. From that time on, she spent most of her time in prayer and meditation, over the opposition of her parents, who wanted her to be more like the average girl of her social class. Eventually they gave in, and at the age of sixteen she joined the Third Order of St. Dominic (First Order = friars, Second Order = nuns, Third Order = laypersons), where she became a nurse, caring for patients with leprosy and advanced cancer whom other nurses disliked to treat. She began to acquire a reputation as a person of insight and sound judgement, and many persons from all walks of life sought her spiritual advice, both in person and by letter. (We have a book containing about four hundred letters from her to bishops, kings, scholars, merchants, and obscure peasants.) She persuaded many priests who were living in luxury to give away their goods and to live simply. In her day, the popes, officially Bishops of Rome, had been living for about seventy years, not at Rome but at Avignon in France, where they were under the political control of the King of France (the Avignon Papacy, sometimes called the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy, began when Philip the Fair, King of France, captured Rome and the Pope in 1303). Catherine visited Avignon in 1376 and told Pope Gregory XI that he had no business to live away from Rome. He heeded her advice, and moved to Rome. She then acted as his ambassador to Florence, and was able to reconcile a quarrel between the Pope and the leaders of that city. She then retired to Sienna, where she wrote a book called the Dialog , an account of her visions and other spiritual experiences, with advice on cultivating a life of prayer. Catherine is known (1) as a mystic, a contemplative who devoted herself to prayer, (2) as a humanitarian, a nurse who undertook to alleviate the suffering of the poor and the sick; (3) as an activist, a renewer of Church and society, who took a strong stand on the issues affecting society in her day, and who never hesitated (in the old Quaker phrase) "to speak truth to power"; (4) as an adviser and counselor, with a wide range of interests, who always made time for troubled and uncertain persons who told her their problems -- large and trivial, religious and secular.
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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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