THIS WEEK AT EMMANUEL
March 14, 2010
TODAY
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (traditional; no music)
9:00 a.m. Refreshments (Parish Hall)
9:15 a.m. Sunday School, Adult Forum & Nursery
10:15 a.m. Choral Eucharist (contemporary language)
11:45 a.m. Refreshments (Parish Hall)
12:00 p.m. Committee meetings (downstairs)
4:30 p.m. Handbells
THIS WEEK
Monday H.A.R.T.S week
Wednesday 7:00 a.m. Men’s Breakfast
10:30 a.m. VMRC service
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist (Chapel)
7:30 p.m. Parish Choir rehearsal
Thursday 6:15 p.m. Simple Supper (Canterbury room)
7:00 p.m. Bible Study (Canterbury room)
HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Palm Sunday 8 am & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist
Monday-Thursday 7 am Holy Eucharist
Maundy Thursday 7 pm Holy Eucharist (nursery)
Good Friday 7 pm Good Friday Liturgy (nursery)
Holy Saturday 12 pm Holy Saturday Liturgy (nursery)
Easter Vigil 9 pm Easter Vigil service
Easter Day 8 am & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist
WELCOME TO EMMANUEL! We are always glad to welcome visitors, travelers, students and their families. Help us to welcome you by completing a “welcome visitor card” and introducing yourself. Please join us in the parish hall after worship for refreshments and fellowship.
Office phone: 540-434-2357
Website: www.emmanuel.thediocese.net
Fr. Robayo’s email: drobayo@ntelos.net
Facebook: Emmanuel Episcopal Church Harrisonburg
Nursery care for children under 4 is available downstairs in the nursery during Sunday School and Adult Forum (9:15am) and during the 10:15 service.
Activity bags for children are available at the back of the nave.
Please see an usher if you need assistance finding these.
Baby changing stations are available in the men and women's upstairs hallway bathrooms (past the parish hall).
Children’s Chapel is offered for children ages 3-8 as part of the 10:15 service. Children follow the cross after the Gospel reading for a time of lessons and activities, and will rejoin the parish for Eucharist.
ALL BAPTIZED PERSONS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US IN HOLY COMMUNION. Receive the consecrated Bread in the palm of your raised crossed hands, and the Wine by holding the chalice and guiding it to your lips, or by touching your bit of Bread to the lip of the cup, or wait for a minister to intinct it for you.
BIRTHDAY THANKSGIVINGS THIS WEEK:
Julie Sutherland, Rosemary Douglass, Sylvia Fellows, Lou Gene Bartram, Perry Maddox
WE PRAY FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY: Jocelyn Stewart-Waite, Laura Remington, Frank & Ches Gearing, Doris Shifflett, Dan Witmer, Harry Jopson, Nancy Bondourant Jones, Anne Haines, Judy Bachschmid, Lucy Pringle, Katie Smith, Harriette Shank, Joe Lynch, Fran Smith, BJ Daniel, Ellie Pieszak, Christine Rick, Elizabeth Hamilton, Jay Walton, Mac Baber, Jack Rapp, Sally Lance, Andrew Yancey, Kenna Roskosky, Anthony Joralemon, Catherine Blair, Florence MossNer Adams, Mary Llew Strough, Sue Taylor, Twila Wilkinson, Penny Dechert, Jennifer Sayre, Wanda Gahr, Steve Barranco, Harry Teasdale, Peter Palmer
FOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN THE ARMED FORCES: Major Jamie Bulken-Hoover, Lt. Cmd. Peter Ward, Chaplain Christopher Miller, Capt. Michael Herbek, Luke Minnich, Corey Turner.
THE EPISCOPAL CAMPUS MINISTRY and the Chaplain, the Rev. Laura Lockey.
EVENTS
Thursdays in Lent: A simple supper of soup and bread is served at 6:15 pm in the Canterbury room, downstairs. All are welcome! This is followed by Bible Study at 7 pm, also in the Canterbury room.
En3rgize!, Our contemporary worship is a monthly service. Invite your friends! Come to En3rgize! March 21st at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Room.
ADULT FORUM: Adult Forum Schedule
March 14 Saints and Apostles, with Br.James-AidanKetler,FOCD
March 21 Saints and Apostles, with Br.James-AidanKetler,FOCD
We have a Bible Study on Sunday mornings at 9:15 in the Canterbury Room. We will look at the gospel of the day, but we will also look around it: underneath it, above it, in front of it, behind it. By studying the text in context, we hope to see God moving in some not-so-obvious ways.
We need your help: If you can change a light bulb, spray a weed, hold a ladder, run an errand, clean a counter top or paint a door, please join us the second Saturday of every month to tidy up around the church. Next volunteer opportunity is Saturday, April 10th starting about 8:30ish. Coffee, tea & donuts provided.
The Food Pantry: We are in desperate need of meat, jelly and dry milk. The Food Pantry is running well thanks to our wonderful volunteers! The first two weeks of March we have provided food for 152 people. Thank you all for your generous donations of both personal items (always in demand) and food. This month we have given out, or are in the process of giving out, 300 pounds of potatoes, 120 pounds of apples, 100 pounds of onions, and 50 pounds of carrots. These items are a two fold blessing (1) They are fresh, unprocessed and basic food (2) We get them free of any charge from Blue Ridge Food Bank. Jack Rapp is back (it's hard to keep a good man down) driving his pick-up and helping with the food order this past week. Many thanks to Jack Martin, Steve Barranco and Stephen Chappell who filled in while Jack was in the hospital and recuperating. They will continue to assist in keeping the Pantry supplied with the items we get from the food bank.
Canterbury Campus Ministry needs cooks for very appreciative young adults. Meals on Sunday nights are a vital part of our ministry. 20-25 usually stay for dinner on Sundays after our Eucharist. If you'd like to be a part of this ministry, please see Laura Lockey or contact her at 246-3032 or minniclk@jmu.edu
Choral Evensong will be sung at Emmanuel on Sunday, March 28 at 5:00 p.m. by the JMU Madison Singers. Refreshments follow in the Parish Hall. Evensong services are scheduled for the first Sunday of each month October through June, excluding January. All are welcome. No charge. For information call 434-2357. There will be no Evensong on Easter Sunday, April 4.
Friends of Emmanuel Music is a fund created by the Vestry to assist the needs of our music ministries. Donations can be made any time, made out to Emmanuel Episcopal Church and marked “Friends of Emmanuel Music” on the memo line.
"The Messenger" Contact the church office at 434-2357 or email Cindy at eechbg@ntelos.net. to receive the parish newsletter, via email or postal service. If you would like to submit an article, poem, reflection or info to the newsletter, please contact Jennifer Spruhan 434-4319 or jspru86@comcast.net
Deadline: March 20
Harrisonburg-Rockingham Interfaith Lenten Lunch is on Wednesdays, 11:45-1 pm at Hburg 1st Church of the Brethren. Cost is $5. The speaker this Wed is Pastor Ross Erb, Assoc. Pastor at Park View Mennonite Church.
We have Emergency Medical Cards available in the office.
This asks that Emmanuel Church be notified if you are admitted to a hospital.
Fill it out and carry it with you.
Volunteers are needed once again to prepare meals for the health care providers who volunteer at the Free Clinic. We were so popular in 2008 and 2009 that The Free Clinic has asked Emmanuel if we’d provide food for the volunteers again, on Wednesday evenings in March 2010. Meals don’t have to be fancy—sandwiches, casseroles, soups, salads will do, plus dessert and drinks. Food is needed for about 20 volunteers and needs to be at the Free Clinic downtown on Water Street by 4:45 pm. Please send an e-mail to: drlex1995@gmail.com if you’d like to volunteer. Thank you.
Commemorative lilies for Easter are $10. Please call the office, 434-2357 or Norma Sheap by March 17th to place your order.
HARTS: If you can help with transporting HARTS guests to the locker rooms at Westover Swimming Pool on Wednesday, March 17th, or Friday, March 19th, please call Lynn Martin at 434-3487. Our guests will be using the shower facilities between 8:00 and 9:00 pm. Thanks to many volunteers, this is the only area we haven't covered in our preparations for sheltering the homeless in our parish hall next week. Please remember this project in your prayers.
The Church Reading Group will meet this coming Tuesday evening. “Take This Bread” by Sara Miles is this month’s choice. A wonderful examination of the connection between our Sunday Eucharist and the Food Pantry. Call Linda Burchfield or e-mail her at lindakburchfield@comcast.net for the exact time and place.
Choir Anthem/Offertory: God so loved the world Bob Chilcott
John 3:16
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoso believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Ministers of the Services
The ministers of this congregation are all the members of
this church who serve faithfully in the name of Jesus Christ
Lectors Ministers of Communion
8 am: Joyce Guthrie 8 am: Joyce Guthrie
2nd lesson: Eric Pyle
10:15 am: Bob Spiller 10:15 am – Deacon Ed,
2nd lesson: John Elledge Rev.Cindy Gilliatt, Jay Litten Sylvia Fellows
Crucifer Acolytes
8 am: Ben Smith 8am: Ben Smith
10:15 am: Melinda Houle 10:15am: John Eagle, Alexus Elledge
Ushers Counters
John and Iris Elledge Kay Woolf and Jack Rapp
A Good Friday Ecumenical Service of Stations of the Cross starts
at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 12 noon.
All are invited.
