This Week at St. Michael'sLent, Holy Week, and Easter at St. Michael's and Holy Apostles
Plan to join us for many Lenten opportunities including:
- Bible Study: Conversation, Questions and Discussion on The Way
- The Renk Ministry Partnership Bible Study
- Sprirted Sisters Lenten Study: 3:16, The Numbers of Hope
- The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’ Final Days in Jerusalem
- Pictures from the Holy Land
- Personal Prayer & Stations of the Cross
- Small Group/Prayer Group: The Gospel of Mark
For information and a full schedule of St. Michael's and Holy Apostles worship and formation opportunities, click here.
Maundy Thursday Vigil
If you are interested in taking part in the Maundy Thursday Vigil, a sign-up poster is available in the narthex/main entrance of the church. The vigil will take place in the chapel and will begin following the 7:30 p.m. service on Maundy Thursday, April 1, and will continue through 6:00 a.m. the following morning, Good Friday.The Little Red Wagon
As we collect food for St. Cyprian Food Pantry during the months of March and April, it gives us opportunity to help provide Easter feasts for over 800 families that come to the pantry. Some suggestions are: soup, canned hams, sweet potatoes, vegetables, jello, cake mixes and frosting. Donations to the food pantry fund can help increase the amount of food that we can supply. The Little Red Wagon can be found in the narthex/main entrance each Sunday.St. Michael's Welcome New Members
The Connection Ministry hosted its first Newcomer/New Member Lunch on Sunday, February 28. 15 guests representing seven new households gathered in the Community Room after the 10:30 a.m. service for food, fellowship, and an overview of what’s happening at St. Michael’s in 2010. Guests heard from ministry representatives from our vestry, children’s and adult formation, and the Connection Ministry. Each family graced us with a short family introduction and bio of themselves. The event ended with Fr. Johnson taking the families on a guided tour of the church. A warm welcome to our new faces: Lee, Georgiana, Russ, and Rob Rushing; Jim and Lisa Swenson; Joe and Kathy Pardun; Shawn, Melissa, Taylor, Max, Sarah, and Charlie Palmer; Cynthia White; Mike and Andrea Willis; and Corliss Anderson. We are very happy you are here and found your church home!Attention 9:00 Singers!
Ever thought about singing in the choir but just couldn't do that weekly commitment?? Well, we have a solution for that. Come and join the 9:00 a.m. newly-formed "Congregational Choir" that will sing three more times this (program) year. Here's the deal: You show up on the assigned Sunday at 8:00 a.m. in the choir room, learn a fun, easy, 2-3 part piece, go and sit with your family during the service, come back at the passing of the Peace and then sing the Offertory Anthem (fancy word for Choir piece) with us. It's that easy.
- Non-Requirements: opera voice, musical reading skills, choir robe
- Requirements: good attitude, a somewhat "decent ear" (subjective term, I know), can play well with others. See?? I've probably just described 85% of the congregation (Or more!!)
The final four Sundays are: March 14, April 11, and May 2. For more information, questions, or especially if you'd like a handy, dandy reminder e-mail, call Kay Lewis at 847-381-7820 or kaylewis1029@gmail.com.
Coffee with Fr. Johnson
Enjoy a cup of coffee with Fr. Johnson during the week at Cook Street Coffee Shop. Call Nancy Holmes at the Parish Office at 847-381-2323, ext. 11 on Monday to arrange a time. As possible, there will be times each week for either coffee at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:00 p.m.Around the Neighborhood
Episcopal Marriage Encounter
To love someone is to inspire them to live and encourage them to grow. No marriage can be taken for granted. To become the wondrous and fulfilling joy which God intends our marriage to be, it needs daily care, thought, re-evaluation, sharing and honest, loving communication. A Marriage Encounter Weekend offers you the unique opportunity to enrich and renew your marriage…to strengthen an already good relationship through a technique referred to as "dialogue." You will be given the time to share, to love, to learn, and to grow with your spouse and God. The next Episcopal Marriage Encounter Weekend will be April 16-18 at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Schaumburg. To register contact Dale or Debra Sands at 847-381-8353 or DebraHeath@aol.com.Bishop's Awards
Bishop's Associates, the ministry support organization for the Bishop of Chicago, is accepting applications for the Bishop's Awards. The awards are from the Bishop of Chicago in recognition of lay members in the Diocese of Chicago who have made an outstanding contribution in service to the church, the wider community in northern Illinois, or to the world. Criteria used in evaluating the nominees: 1) the capability and creativity of the nominee's achievement; 2) the impact of the achievement on the community; 3) the achievement's influence on the spiritual life of the people involved with or affected by the achievement. Downloadable nomination form and guidelines are posted at http://www.episcopalchicago.org/agencies/bishop-associates/BishopsAwardsProgram.cfm The deadline for receiving nominations is 4:00 p.m. on March 26. Awards will be presented at the Bishop's Associates annual luncheon on May 6 at the Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W. Jackson, Chicago. Nominations should be submitted to: Bishop's Awards Episcopal Church Center 65 E. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611, or by email to: bishopsassociates@episcopalchicago.org. For further information, contact The Rev. Canon Michael Stephenson, Canon for Development at 312-751-6725 or mstephenson@episcopalchicago.org.Those for whom prayers have been requested
Tim & Harriet, Timothy, the Ribando family, Dolores, the Holvay family, Jenny, Kate, The Williams family, Suzi, Patricia, C.P., Robin, Will, Marek & children, Priscilla, the Schwind family, Bill, Amy, Mary Louise, St. Michael's clergy, staff, and Transition Team, military troops in danger and those in active service, especially, Silas, Eric, Arielle, Taylor, Michael, Tim, Robert, Ryan, and Jonathan. Rest in Peace: Mary Schwind, Leonora Burton (Mark Burton's mother).St. Michael's First Communion Class: Maggie, Grace, Claire, Justin, Abby, Tristan, Amanda, Kiley, Madison, Riley, Olivia, Dawson, Jack, Nick, Madyson, Max, Valentina, Ava, Jack, Sophia
St. Michael's Confirmation Class: Tyler, Abby, Claire, Peter, Lauren, Brett, David, Caroline, Evan, Cooper
Birthdays
3.7 Clare Kean, Morgan Allord
3.8 Katie Tomczyk, Jean Louis Lafon, John Davis
3.9 Nathan Smith, Graham Erbs
3.10 Kyle Ferry, Jennifer Tilly, Anne McIntosh, Andrew Gier, Marjorie Brown, Susan Beuttas
3.11 Steve Barnum, Stephen Walcott, Andrew Erbs, Cassie Bacher
3.12 Stephanie Rieke, Nicholas Marcinkiewicz
3.13 Annilee Quinlan, William Baar, III, Aidin J. Donohue, Robert Gier, Vicky Hutchinson, Charlie Greenlief
Anniversaries
3.3 Sharon & Richard CurranRemembrances
3.7 Jerry Camper
3.13 Norton Penney, Patrick Kane
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