News and Announcements:
Sun Feb 26 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Sundays At Four – Trinity Methodist Church
Mon Feb 27 Lenten supper and Program 6:30 - 8:30
Wed Feb 29 Bible Study – 4.00pm
Mid week Eucharist – 5-6pm
Choir Practice – 6:30pm
Thur Mar 1 Choir practice:7:00pm
Sun Mar 4 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Sundays at Four
Presents
Violinist Brendon Elliott in Recital
17 year old violinist performs a solo recital, Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4:00 pm hosted by Trinity United Methodist Church. This award winning performer first played in a Sundays at Four, “Terrific Teen Talent” program at age 13. After many solo performances with Virginia orchestras, concert master of several youth orchestras, a finalist in the National Sphinx Competition and numerous other awards, he returns to Smithfield to give a full recital – a major achievement for such a young musician.
Information call: 757-375-9140, or 675-5777. A free-will offering will be taken to support this concert.
Lenten Retreat on Saturday, March 10
The Daughters of the King, Mary and Martha Chapter, here at Christ Church invite you all to come for a brief silent retreat on Saturday, Marcy 10, from 10 am until 1 pm.
The retreat will be led by Gary and will focus on our beautiful stained glass windows. It is being called “Light in Lent.”
Friends and acquantances are also invited to come experience our windows in a special way this Lent. There is no cost for this retreat.
Questions? Contact the office at 757-357-2826
Finding Faith
In the Wilderness
Seekers Lenten Program
from the book written by Marcus Borg*
Christ Episcopal Church
Join us this Lent for simple meals, fellowship, and an exploration of our personal faith and how we live it together.
Monday nights
February 27 – March 26, 2012
6:30 pm simple soup and salad supper
7 pm program
8;30 heading home
* Marcus Borg is a Christian and theologian who straddles the Lutheran and Episcopal/Anglican traditions. His best known book is Meeting Jesus again for the first time
Dear Church Family,
There is an up coming Youth Event called Happening being conducted on the weekend of March 9-10th.
Happening is a weekend to make diocesan friends, have fun, and celebrate God. It is a great event for
high school aged teens (grades 10-12) to deepen their connections with God and everybody!
The link below goes to information regarding Happening
It is a great experience for your high school child to meet other kids from other churches, and to learn
Episcopalians come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and backgrounds. We have a big and beautiful church and this
is a great way for the kids to engage in the diversity of our church. I hope you will encourage your child to go to Happening #58.
Please contact Ray Locke for further information
Readings February 26 7.45 & 11am
+The First Lesson: God speaks to Noah and his sons after they have left the ark and establishes the rainbow as a sign of his covenant. God will preserve the world, not destroy it.
A Reading from Genesis [9:8-17]
God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 25:1-9 Page 614, BCP
To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
my God, I put my trust in you; *
let me not be humiliated,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
my God, I put my trust in you; *
let me not be humiliated,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
Let none who look to you be put to shame; *
let the treacherous be disappointed in their schemes.
let the treacherous be disappointed in their schemes.
Show me your ways, O LORD, *
and teach me your paths.
and teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me, *
for you are the God of my salvation;
in you have I trusted all the day long.
for you are the God of my salvation;
in you have I trusted all the day long.
Remember, O LORD, your compassion and love, *
for they are from everlasting.
for they are from everlasting.
Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions; *
remember me according to your love
and for the sake of your goodness, O LORD.
remember me according to your love
and for the sake of your goodness, O LORD.
Gracious and upright is the LORD; *
therefore he teaches sinners in his way.
therefore he teaches sinners in his way.
He guides the humble in doing right *
and teaches his way to the lowly.
and teaches his way to the lowly.
All the paths of the LORD are love and faithfulness *
to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
+The Second Lesson: Peter compares God’s acting to save Noah from the flood to our salvation by baptism through Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you-- not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
Reading February 26 9am
Reader: A reading from 1 Genesis [9:8-17]
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
God speaks to Noah and his sons after they have left the ark and establishes the rainbow as a sign of his covenant. God will preserve the world, not destroy it.
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I've set up between me and everything living on the Earth."
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
