News and Announcements:
Sun Mar 18 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Parish Meeting: 10-11am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Mon Mar 19 Lenten Supper and Program 6:30 - 8:30
Finance Meeting
Tues Mar 20 Vestry Meeting – 7:00pm
Wed Mar 21 Bible Study – 4.00pm
Mid week Eucharist – 5-6pm
Choir Practice – 6:30pm
Thur Mar 22 Choir practice:7:00pm
Sat Mar 24 Prayer Shawl Meeting – 10:00am
Sun Mar 25 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Sunday, April 1 at 4:00 pm
Sundays at Four and the Smithfield Little Theatre present the Old Dominion University Percussion Ensemble, David Walker, Director.
An eclectic program of Guatemalan Marimba Band, Jazz, Rock, Avant Garde, and Classical Music will be performed by a stage full of percussion instruments.
A Pre-Concert will begin at 3:40 pm performed by “The Westside Elementary Fourth Grade Orff Ensemble” under the direction of Sherry Wozniak.
This is the last ticketed concert of the season: Adults $20 Students $5
Information: 757-375-914
At St Lukes April 8th (Easter Sunday). The Gates will open at 6:00am, Prelude starts 6:15am
The officiators of the service will be Gary Barker and O.H Burton from Bens United Methodist Church.
Breakfast will be served following the service at Bens Church
All are very welcome!!
Easter Sunday is April 8th. This is a very special time of the year for the Church. It is also a time when we remember and recognize our loved ones with flowers to beautify the sanctuary. To purchase lilies, please complete this form by April 1st.
Name: _____________________________________________________________________
No. of Lilies: _____________________________________________________________________
In Memory of: ____________________________________________________________________
In Honor of: _____________________________________________________________________
Please make checks payable to Christ Church Altar Guild .The cost is $7.50 per lily. Place your check and order form in Judy Cutler’s Church mailbox.
Please be aware there is a Women's Weekend from April 19-22 at Camp Chanco. Please strongly consider coming out to the closing at the Surry Recreation Center for the closing of Cursillo #148's weekend to welcome the newest members of the Cursillo movement. Remember how great YOUR closing was?
Reading March 18 9:00am
Reader: A reading from Ephesians [2:1-10]
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Reader: Faith is a gift from God that cannot be earned. By God’s grace, our faith empowers us to do the work God intends for us.
It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Readings March 18 7.45 & 11am
+The First Lesson: As they wander in the wilderness, the people become impatient with Moses and resentful of God. They are punished for their disobedience, but God heals them when they repent.
A Reading from Numbers [21:4-9]
From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food." Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live." So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 107:1-3,17-22 Page 746, BCP
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures for ever.
and his mercy endures for ever.
Let all those whom the LORD has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
Some were fools and took to rebellious ways; *
they were afflicted because of their sins.
they were afflicted because of their sins.
They abhorred all manner of food *
and drew near to death's door.
and drew near to death's door.
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.
and he delivered them from their distress.
He sent forth his word and healed them *
and saved them from the grave.
and saved them from the grave.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.
and the wonders he does for his children.
Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
+The Second Lesson: Faith is a gift from God that cannot be earned. By God’s grace, our faith empowers us to do the work God intends for us.
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-- not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
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