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.
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