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 Updated: Friday, 5 March, 2010, 7:00 pm.

Announcements

 
Current Items
Lenten Events at St. Luke's
Upcoming Sunday School Events
Request for Volunteers
Rescheduled visit from Ugandans
A.I.D.S. Orphans in Uganda
Adult Education in Lent
Parish email newsletters
Changing the church’s security system
Tuesday Hospitality
In lieu of flowers…?
Upcoming Events
For Sale

The Winged Ox
St. Luke‘s parish magazine.
Click here for the
Lenten issue

(February, 2010)

The next edition will be available
at Easter: April 04.
The deadline for submission
is one week prior,
and may be E-mailed
or dropped into the
Winged Ox mailbox
outside the Parish Office.

Christmas, 2009 edition.

Current Items

Click here to view or download a PDF copy of the Pew Leaflet for Sunday, March 7th, 2010.


PLEASE NOTE: When writing cheques for Haiti, Uganda, PWRDF, Flowers, Altar Guild, and other special directions,
please make the cheque out to "St. Luke's Anglican Church" first and then in brackets where it is to go.
If you do this, it will tracked properly and will appear on your tax receipt.

Lenten Events at St. Luke's

March 14 - Daylight Saving Time - Move your clocks forward one hour to make sure you're not late for church!

March 21 - Seder Meal - to take place in the Church House during Sunday School hour.

March 28 - Palm / Passion Sunday - 8:15 am: Eucharist; 10:30 am: Liturgy of the Palms, Procession, Baptism, and Confirmation.

March 29 (Monday) to March 31 (Wednesday) - Holy Week - Services at 7:30 pm.

April 1 - Maundy Thursday - 7:30 pm: Sung Eucharist, Foot Washing, and Stripping of the Altar.

April 2 - Good Friday - 2:00 pm: Readings and choral music on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

April 4 - Easter Day - 8:15 am: Said Eucharist with hymns; 10:30 am: Choral Eucharist.


Upcoming Sunday School Events

March 28 - Palm / Passion Sunday Procession - Children should arrive at Sunday School by 10:20am. Children will be given a palm and will follow the Choir and Clergy walking through the aisles of the church at the start of the service.

April 4 - Easter Day - There will be Sunday School. Easter Egg Hunt immediately following the service.

April 18 - St. Luke's Sunday School Talent Show and Pretzel Fund-raiser - Open to all ages. Please encourage your child(ren) to sign up and perform a song, dance, poem, gymnastics routine, Magic trick (!) – whatever their heart desires. Sign up began on January 31st. The children will be making pretzels during the Sunday School hour to serve to guests for a minimum donation during the coffee time. Proceeds from the pretzel sale will go towards our two charities: Agape Table for Kids and our parish church in Central Buganda.

May 2 - Last Sunday School for 2009-2010 - The Sunday School children will be taking on leadership roles during the 10:30 service. Lunch will be served following the service. A Treasure Hunt will follow lunch.

If there are any questions, please contact Holly Beard (477-8793) or Joy Loewen (284-6130).


Request for Volunteers

The Men of St. Luke are requesting volunteers to come out at 8:30 am Saturday morning, March 13 to retrofit the banquet tables. Volunteers would be needed to remove the old covers along with the staples, cut the tablecloth pattern, router the edges of the tables, attach the new wooden cross braces and legs, and re-staple the new covers on. Coffee and raisin toast will be served. Please see Neil Almdal or Don Seaton after service on March 7th to sign up.


Rescheduled visit from Ugandans

A delegation was to have come to Winnipeg from Uganda this spring, but for a variety of reasons, they have had to change the date of the visit. The visit will now take place October 4 to 25, 2010. If you have offered to billet a member of the delegation, please contact Bud Oliver of the Winnipeg committee to indicate whether you are available in October. Please note: this change also affects plans underway for a parish event about our companion parish, scheduled for May 2nd.


A.I.D.S. Orphans in Uganda

Throughout Lent we turn our attention to the people of Central Buganda, a diocese in Uganda, Africa. Specifically we will be raising money for the education of A.I.D.S. orphans. This is part of a project undertaken by our Diocese since 2004, providing uniforms, lunches, school supplies and other necessities for hundreds of children left parent-less by the A.I.D.S. epidemic.

Each year our Diocese tries to raise $20,000, and will do so again this year provided parishes such as ours continue to be generous.
St. Luke's is also directly connected to a specific parish and district in Uganda, called "Lwanga Parish." However, while we send letters and photos back and forth, we are not currently fundraising for that parish (that may come later). Our attention and care during Lent is exclusively for the benefit of A.I.D.S. orphans. Cheques should be made out to St. Luke's, and marked "A.I.D.S. Orphans."

You can also give directly online by clicking here (in the place where it says, "Fund/Designation," select "Mission & Outreach" and type "A.I.D.S. Orphans" in the "Message/Instructions" box).


Adult Education in Lent

On the Tuesdays of Lent, St. Luke's Interim Incumbent is leading a six-week class on the origins of the specifically "Anglican" church. Although not directly about the six wives of Henry VIII, Henry's royal partners will be mentioned, along with a number of powerful public figures (eg. Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Cranmer). The goal is to explore and understand the political and theological forces that made us who we are.

Already, people have committed themselves to attend. There is room for a few more. Please indicate your interest in attending, either in person or by email. The first session was on February 23rd; the last session will be March 30th. 7:30 PM Tuesday evenings, in the Board Room (downstairs by the parish office - the room where the choir rehearses). A registration fee of $25, mostly to cover the cost of take-away materials, is charged.


Parish email newsletters

The most recent email message went out to more than 130 addresses in the parish database on February 13.  It continues our attempt to distribute current information about St. Luke’s as widely as possible.

If you do not receive emails with the name “St. Luke’s Parish Email” in the Subject line, and if you would like to be on the parish email list, please click here and let us know.


Changing the church’s security system

Very shortly St. Luke’s church buildings will be protected by a new system, provided by Safe Home Security. Corporation is confident that this service will not only effect substantial savings in security costs, but be more efficient and reliable than the current provider. The average parishioner will not notice much difference, but we will be restructuring and retraining our list of “first responders” (those who are contacted when an alarm is triggered).

Also, on the subject of security, the church will be re-keying the locks to the building.  If you have a key to the entry doors, please contact the Parish Office.


Tuesday Hospitality

Our Tuesday morning Hospitality programme was particularly well attended last fall. Sometimes well over 30 people come in out of the cold for coffee, muffins, and other nourishing food. We give out a few essential toiletries, and a five-dollar Safeway grocery voucher (groceries only) to each guest. Five dollars doesn’t get you a lot, but with over thirty recipients a week, the cost adds up for the church. Donations are needed, and welcome. Please make a gift today by clicking here (in the place where it says, “Fund/Designation,” select “Tuesday Hospitality fund.”), or by cheque to St. Luke’s, specifying “Tuesday Hospitality” in the memo line.


In lieu of flowers…

If ever you have the sad duty of arranging a funeral for a loved one, consider including in the obituary notice: “In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Building Fund of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 130 Nassau St. N. R3L 2H1.”

Of course you might also consider telling friends and family that such a designation would be your preference for your own funeral.  Remembering St. Luke’s in your will is another good thing to do.  It is a testament to the importance of this parish in your life.


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Upcoming Events

(see also the Parish Calendar page

Sunday, May 30, 2010
4:30 PM
 
Choral Evensong

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FOR SALE

Choir CD


Cover of Choir CD
St. Luke’s Choir CD "We Love The Place, O God" is available at a cost of $20.00 each.
For further information -
Click Here

Selections from the CD may be heard on the Internet Radio Station, www.ckec.com, in the programme called “The Hymn Book,” Sundays, 8:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  Windows Media Player required.

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Special Occasion Greeting Cards showing the stained glass windows of the Church are available.

Card #1 - 'The Resurrection' - suitable for Bereavement, or Easter
Card #2 - 'The Light of the World' - suitable for Bereavement, Easter or all occasions
Card #3 - 'Gift of the Magi' - suitable for Christmas, Baptism and Birth
Card #4 - 'Madonna and Child' - suitable for Christmas, Baptism and Birth

Single Card - $2.00
Four Card Set - $6.50
Eight Card Set - $12.00
Twelve Personalized Card Set - $25.00
Twelve Personalized Card Set including photo - $30.00

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