The Sunrise...
Starkville, Mississippi
March, 2002 Newsletter
WORSHIP
SCHEDULE
Regular Weekly Schedule
SUNDAY:
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I
9:15 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I
TUESDAY:
12:05 p.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I
10:00 p.m. Compline at Chaplain's Home
WEDNESDAY:
6:15 p.m. Canterbury Dinner (Scales House)
7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
THURSDAY:
12:05 p.m. Healing & Holy Eucharist followed by "Dutch
treat" lunch
Holy Week Thru Easter Schedule (March 25-31)
Monday:
7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
Tuesday:
7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
Wednesday:
7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist led by Canterbury
Tuesday
& Wednesday:
9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.--Labyrinth at YMCA Auditorium at
MSU
Maundy
Thursday:
12:05 p.m. Holy Eucharist & Healing
7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist with Footwashing
Good
Friday:
12:05 p.m. Good Friday Liturgy
5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
Saturday:
10:00 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt at McCormicks
12:05 p.m. Holy Saturday Proper Liturgy
7:00 p.m. Great Easter Vigil
Sunday:
8:00 & 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Services
Good news! Our time is drawing short in the Parish Hall! Watch for information on the big move upstairs, maybe by the middle of this month! In the meantime, please continue to be patient and flexible as we worship in the Parish Hall!
PARKING PROTOCOL - While we worship in the Parish Hall, remember there is parking behind Merchants & Farmers Bank. Please leave the spots closest to the gate for those for whom walking may be a problem. If you are able to do the stairs, feel free to park in the upper parking lot. Once we move back into the church, please reserve the upper parking lot for those for whom walking may be a problem and those with small children. Thanks!
CHOIR WARMUPS - The choir will warm up in the worship space from 10:00-10:15 each Sunday morning. Please enter the worship space, whether the Parish Hall or the church proper, quietly to prepare for worship.
CAMP APPLICATIONS are available in the church office. Children completing grades 3 through 9 are encouraged to consider attending Camp Bratton Green. Older youth and adults might consider serving on staff! This parish has a long history of good times at camp! Be sure to mail your forms March 1st (not before), and remember to get your form signed by one of our priests.
BIRTHDAY SUNDAY celebrations will resume soon...hopefully the 1st Sunday in April! In the meantime, please wish the following folks Happy March Birthday!
1 Nina
Chatham
1 Alex West
3 Jan Rhodes
4 Gracie Cox
5 Slick Ables
5 Steve Wilkerson
6 Douglas Crawford
13 Granville Barker
13 Tracy Stebbins
15 Judith Barker
15 Young Kerby
15 Rowan Williams
16 Alex Friend
19 Chad Green
22 Reed Green
24 Caroline Brandon
27 Julia Friend
26 Marsha Williams
27 Honey Johnston
28 Mary Lynn Peyton
28 Gretchen Simmons
29 Susie Owings
31 Carole Watkins
30 Mary Switzer
HOSTS WANTED - Would you like to host the first birthday celebration in our newly repainted space? Or perhaps you would be willing to coordinate Coffee Hour hosts. If so, call James McCormick, our vestry liason for Hospitality.
ST. MARTHA'S GUILD will meet March 4th at 12:30 p.m. in the Sunday School room off the office for brown bag lunch and fellowship. Visitors and new members are welcome!
SECOND SUNDAY SHARING is March 10th. Please bring food for the community food pantry and place it in the basket near the entrance to the Parish Hall or bring food goods to the office during the following week.
COMMUNITY LENTEN WORSHIP SERVICE coordinated by the Starkville Ministerial Association will be held on Sunday, March 17th at 7:00 pm at the First United Methodist Church. Join with your community in celebrating our oneness in Christ and hear how we can help meet the needs of our community through the support of Helping Hands for which the offering will be taken that night.
GUILD OF THE PALM CROSS led by Beth and Jessica Callahan will meet in the Student Center on Saturday, March 23rd at 10:00 a.m. To join the "Guild," show up on Saturday. People of all ages are welcome. On the job training. Making the palm crosses is fun and easy. Come join the fellowship. We usually make about 200 crosses in an hour!
BAPTISMAL DATES are on the horizon, including Palm Sunday and the Great Easter Vigil. If you or someone you love desires baptism on either of these dates, please contact Elizabeth or Murray to make plans and preparation for a Celebration of Baptism.
THE BISHOP IS COMING! Bishop Alfred C. "Chip" Marble will visit our community of Resurrection on Palm Sunday, March 24th. Remember that the loose offering on Palm Sunday goes to the Bishop's discretionary fund.
CELEBRATION WITH BISHOP MARBLE - We hope you will make an effort to join us to welcome Bishop Marble and to celebrate our return to our newly renovated "home." Following the 10:30 service we will have a festive celebration over a "planned potluck" lunch. Watch for more details about the "Welcome Home" party. Kathy Brandon will be calling folks to request assistance...or you may contact her at 324-6552 or Katbrand@aol.com.
EASTER FLOWERS FUND - Envelopes marked for Easter Flowers will soon be available on the table in the Parish Hall or through the church office. To contribute to the Easter Lilies for the altar please mark your check for Easter Flowers.
EASTER EGG HUNT - On Saturday, March 30th at 10:00 a.m., the EYC, Kim Noffsinger and other parental types, will host our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Due to the barren state of some of our grounds, the McCormicks have offered to host the Hunt at their home (108 Tanglewood Dr.). If your child, grandchild, niece or nephew (toddlers through 5th grade) would like to participate, please deliver one dozen eggs per child (dyed eggs or filled, plastic eggs) to the church office by noon on Friday, March 29th. Please mark the egg container with the child's first and last name and age.
FLOWERING OF THE CROSS - On Easter Sunday the children of the parish are invited to bring blossoms or flowers for the flowering of the cross which will take place as a prelude to the 10:30 am service. Having been a source of death and destruction through the events of Holy Week, we flower the cross on Easter to show forth the transformation of the cross into a symbol of beauty, resurrection, new life and "Alleluias."
ALTAR GUILD will soon host a Sacristy Shower to help furnish the new sacristy. Once we have done a thorough inventory and organized our new sacristy, we will know what we need. Watch for details.
SEARCH
COMMITTEE UPDATE from John Beal:
The search committee will be evaluating applications and
making contacts in March. Hopefully, we can start visiting
in April. Please keep all of us in your prayers.
RENOVATION COMMITTEE REPORT - David VanLandingham reports that a preliminary final inspection was held on February 12th with the contractor, architect and Building Committee present. A list was made of items which are to be corrected or which have not yet been completed. Our goal is to begin moving back into the renovated areas by March 16th. Some minor outside work may still remain, but hopefully all the inside work will have been completed. We're excited about finally being able to move into our newly renovated spaces!
EYC is very grateful to those who have opened their kitchens and homes during this time of renovation and growth! Thank you! If you've been missing out on the EYC fun, come join us! If you would like to be kept up-to-date with what is going on, send your email address to Amanda (aly2@ra.msstate.edu) to be added to the list. Watch for EYC happenings at the Easter Egg Hunt and the upcoming Youth Sunday!
CANTERBURY has enjoyed a steady increase in participation on Wednesday nights and is ever grateful to our many meal providers. We are pleased to welcome Amanda Boyd as our part-time office assistant/gopher to meet the growing needs of the Canterbury program. Scheduling wise, Canterbury services will be canceled during Spring Break. As noted in Holy Week schedule, we will bring the Labyrinth to Starkville/MSU for the second visit and invite everyone to come and walk the contemplative path inward and outward.
NEW CHURCH DIRECTORY NOW AVAILABLE! There are still copies available in the church office or on the table with the hymnals. A few errors have been spotted. If your information is incorrect, please let Ellen know. If you would rather have the Directory on your computer, email Ellen at wnewsom9@bellsouth.net.
HONDURAS BUILDING MISSION is March 9-16, led by David Lewis. Under the guidance of El Jeffe Lewis, our mission team includes...Laura Adcock, Jason Derbort, Jane Greenwood, Steve Harris, Brandi Hill, Scott Logan, James McCormick, Andrew Webre, and Melissa Young. Please keep them in your prayers.
CALLING ALL NEW GRADUATES! It will soon be time to honor our 2002 graduates! If you or someone in your family is graduating from High School, College, or Graduate School (or has graduated since last spring) please call Nelda in the church office so we will have a complete list.
LOOKING FOR A WAY to celebrate a birthday, wedding anniversary or other special day in your life? Why not sign up to be an oblation bearer on that day and offer up your thanksgiving to God. Ann McVey has the list of oblation bearers. Give her a call at 323-4995!
NEW KITCHEN - The newly refurbished Parish Hall kitchen was inaugurated with the annual Red Beans and Rice supper. Michael Fazio especially enjoyed the new stoves with their level burners. The clean up crew had nothing but raves for the new dishwasher which has a four- minute cycle! This new commercial dishwasher was a given in thanksgiving for all who work on kitchen clean up crews with the hope that, while making their work easier, we can be good stewards of the environment and not use disposable dishes and cups. For meals at Resurrection, please plan to use "real" dishes.
PLANNED GIVING - A planned gift is the Ultimate Gift. The once-in-a-lifetime gift. Planned gifts are given in response to an affection and concern for the future ministry of the Church. Do you have a current will? Have you remembered the Church?
VESTRY - For those who may not know, our new vestry is composed of an energetic, talented and committed group of parishioners. Led by our Senior Warden, Mary Lee Beal and our Junior Warden, Douglas Crawford, the vestry consists of the following folks: Mary Eleanor Anderson, Tom Cathcart, Alyson Hardin, David Lewis, Dolton McAlpin, James McCormick, Dwayne Myers, Tracy Stebbins, and Marsha Williams. Vestry meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month. If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, or compliments, please share them with your church leaders -- your vestry!
MANY THANKS to the Red Beans and Rice Mardi Gras party crew; Michael Fazio for all the food preparation, Clark and Beth Callahan for the tea and to Clark for operating the new dishwasher, Amanda Yates and the EYC workers who decorated and served, Ann McVey for collecting and paying the bills, Karen and Tom Cathcart and the EYC for cleaning up, Jennifer Damms for organizing the pizza and pb&j for the kids, and to all who helped move tables and chairs in the "strike and set" from worship space to party and back again. It was a fun affair! (PS. Jason Pearson got the baby in the King Cake)
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Michael Pearson on his new position as at the Director of Programs and Services for the Mathematics Association of America based on DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. Wish the Pearson family well as they make plans to embark on this next leg of their journey in the vicinity of our nation's capital!
CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY is extended to Peggy Reed on the death of her husband, Bert Reed; and to David, Angela and Tiffany Evans on the death of wife and mother, Marlene. "Rest eternal grant them, O Father, and let light perpetual shine upon them." Pray for all who mourn.
YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR LaVora Williams and Lorenzo Crowell as they undergo treatment, Lorene Martin and Guy Hargrove who are recovering from surgery, and Malvina Moore who is recovering from a broken shoulder.
LOOKING AHEAD...
- April 5-7...Senior DOY
- April 9...ECW Spring Salad Luncheon
- April 14...Parish Blood Drive
- April 21... YOUTH SUNDAY
- April 26-28...Junior DOY
- May 19...Pentecost and Graduate Recognition
- May 25...Ordination of Lynn Barker to the Diaconate
- June-August...Summer Camping at Bratton-Green