News and Announcements:
Sun Mar 4 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Mon Mar 5 Lenten supper and Program 6:30 - 8:30
Tues Mar 6 Daughters of the King 7:30pm
Executive 1st Tuesday Leadership Committee
Wed Mar 7 Bible Study – 4.00pm
Mid week Eucharist – 5-6pm
Choir Practice – 6:30pm
Thur Mar 8 Choir practice:7:00pm
Sat Mar 10 Lenten Retreat – Christ Church 10-1pm
Sun Mar 11 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
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
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
Reading March 4 9am
Reader: A reading from 1 Genesis [17:1-7,15-16]
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
The Lord establishes a covenant with Abram. He and his elderly wife will be blessed with a son, and through him and his offspring a large number of nations will arise.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God showed up and said to him, "I am The Strong God, live entirely before me, live to the hilt! I'll make a covenant between us and I'll give you a huge family."
Overwhelmed, Abram fell flat on his face.
Then God said to him, "This is my covenant with you: You'll be the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that 'I'm making you the father of many nations.' I'll make you a father of fathers—I'll make nations from you, kings will issue from you. I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants. And I'm giving you and your descendants this land where you're now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I'll be their God."
God continued speaking to Abraham, "And Sarai your wife: Don't call her Sarai any longer; call her Sarah. I'll bless her—yes! I'll give you a son by her! Oh, how I'll bless her! Nations will come from her; kings of nations will come from her."
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Readings March 4 7.45 & 11
+The First Lesson: The Lord establishes a covenant with Abram. He and his elderly wife will be blessed with a son, and through him and his offspring a large number of nations will arise.
A Reading from Genesis [17:1-7,15-16]
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous." Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you."
God said to Abraham, "As for Sarah your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 22:22-30 Page 611, BCP
Praise the LORD, you that fear him; *
stand in awe of him, O offspring of Israel;
all you of Jacob's line, give glory.
stand in awe of him, O offspring of Israel;
all you of Jacob's line, give glory.
For he does not despise nor abhor the poor in their poverty;
neither does he hide his face from them; *
but when they cry to him he hears them.
neither does he hide his face from them; *
but when they cry to him he hears them.
My praise is of him in the great assembly; *
I will perform my vows in the presence of those who worship him.
I will perform my vows in the presence of those who worship him.
The poor shall eat and be satisfied,
and those who seek the LORD shall praise him: *
"May your heart live for ever!"
and those who seek the LORD shall praise him: *
"May your heart live for ever!"
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, *
and all the families of the nations shall bow before him.
and all the families of the nations shall bow before him.
For kingship belongs to the LORD; *
he rules over the nations.
he rules over the nations.
To him alone all who sleep in the earth bow down in worship; *
all who go down to the dust fall before him.
all who go down to the dust fall before him.
My soul shall live for him;
my descendants shall serve him; *
they shall be known as the LORD'S for ever.
my descendants shall serve him; *
they shall be known as the LORD'S for ever.
They shall come and make known to a people yet unborn *
the saving deeds that he has done.
the saving deeds that he has done.
+The Second Lesson: Paul explains that Abraham, who trusted God’s promise before the law existed, should be our model for responding in faith to God’s goodness.
The promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.
For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become "the father of many nations," according to what was said, "So numerous shall your descendants be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Therefore his faith "was reckoned to him as righteousness." Now the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
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