[ecm] Shrove Tuesday bulletin...

Tue Feb 20 14:42:01 EST 2007

Shrove Tuesday blessings!

          In preparation for Ash Wednesday it’s an Anglican tradition to eat
pancakes!  Tonight at St Paul’s (1208 W Elizabeth St, in Campus West) from 5
– 7 pm you can pancakes for just $3 at the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper.
Come on by, bring friends, and feast on all the pancakes you care to eat,
plus the fixin’s (sausage, apples, coffee)

Ash Wednesday

          “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”  Holy
Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes will be offered at St Paul’s tomorrow
at 7 am, Noon and 7 pm

          Last Sunday night we had a terrific chalupa after Bible study,
courtesy of Beth Etter!  Dessert was a choice of tart lime pie or King’s
Cake (imported from New Orleans – I’m serious!).  Most of us took some of
each

          Each Sunday at 5 pm we do the same, beginning with our Bible study
with the Beatles.  This week, the 4th of 6, we’ll hold John 3:1-21 and the
creation story of Genesis 2 beside McCartney’s “Pipes of Peace.”  We’re
finding this a provocative way to get inside scripture.  

          Join in this Sunday!  Bring a friend for the dinner – no charge.
The wonderful people of St Paul’s have signed up to cook Sunday dinner for
you for the rest of the semester.  And they’re darn good cooks, as we’re
finding out!

          Blessings this week
  I look forward to seeing you soon,

In Christ,

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2007 Lenten Meditation Guide: “Sitting Still”
Lent is taken from the "lengthening" of days, the days in spring. Designed
as a time of fasting, penitence, and prayer preceding Easter, its 40 days
(starting with Ash Wednesday, Sundays are excluded) commemorate Jesus
Christ's fast in the desert, following his baptism. Beginning with the
tradition of ashes on one's forehead, symbolizing death and sorrow for sin,
Lent began for me a few years ago with the re-reading of T.S. Eliot's poem
"Ash Wednesday." Eliot's prayer poem pleads with God to "Teach us to care
and not to care/Teach us to sit still." I decided that year to discipline
myself to read the poem every day of Lent. By the following summer I felt
sure that a Lenten meditation guide could be grounded in Eliot's powerful
language. I approached Erin Brown to work with me on the project, and our
attempts to find a time to write together during Lent failed us ... because
we, too, could not "sit still." So: this booklet we hoped to write for
others became a booklet we wrote for ourselves. As we discussed and prayed
about form and message, we moved from Eliot's poem to the cycles of our
campus-centered lives. And we learned, as Erin concluded, that "there is
more than one way to sit still." — Lois Parr

To receive a free e-mail meditation from this guide each day of Lent, please
send a blank e-mail with your e-mail address as the subject line and join
meditations in the body of the e-mail to: gwilliams at episcopalchurch.org. If
you received our Advent meditations via e-mail, you are already subscribed
for Lent unless you asked to be unsubscribed. The entire text of the guide
is now available at the www.cescm.org site for free download and local
printing.

Featured congregation on main Episcopal Church website
is a campus ministry
Episcopal Campus Ministry 
Georgia Southern University
http://www.ecmgsu.org

“Who is Jesus to you?” asks a hip montage on this campus ministry homepage.
The images next to the query are clearly tailored to a college crowd – we
see Jesus as a Simpsons character, an iPod-wearing hipster, a Middle Eastern
Christ, even an arty alien. 

On the ECM @ GSU banner is an invitation: come worship, laugh, play & eat
with us. If you click through the site, you get the feeling they really mean
it – in the sweet name of Jesus. The ‘tues nights’ (worship and free food)
page provides as much invitation as information, saying, “Jesus was
generous, and he loved to eat! He ate with friends, with sinners, and with
strangers.” “We want you to feel as welcome at our table as you would if you
were sitting at Jesus’ table.” 

The 26-year-old chaplain (and web designer) is available to the students
online through this site and Facebook (an online social networking site).
The News & Notes blog and weekly E-newsletters are good ways to stay
connected to the latest ECM goings-on. As a cyber gathering place and news
source, this website is part and parcel of the mission of this ministry:
helping students feel connected and cared for, while discovering who Jesus
is
 to you. 

Visit more campus <http://www.episcopalchurch.org/findacampus>  ministry
websites.

Camino: Young Adult Gathering
Building on the work and consensus of the Young Adult Ministry Network
consultations of the last three years, the Young Adult Gathering provides an
opportunity for even more young adults and young adult ministers to come
together in community and discuss the place of young adults in the church.
Visit the Young
<http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_48944_ENG_HTM.htm?menupage=50539>
Adult Ministry Network pages to join the conversation. Read
<http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_80981_ENG_HTM.htm>  more.

Featured on epiScope (the new Episcopal Church blog):

Making their voices heard
Students say they aren’t just the future of the Episcopal church, they are
the now
The following article appeared in the Tuscaloosa News and was written by
staff writer, Sarah Bruyn Jones

It is a cliché often uttered by grownups: “The youth are our future."

Ask “the youth," which in this case means college students, and they
wholeheartedly disagree. 

“I think it is so important to listen to our voices now," said Austin
Kendrick, 21, and a junior at the University of Alabama. “We are important,
and we care. We want to know what’s going on, and we want to be involved.
Don’t ignore us."

With that determination to be heard, students at UA are hosting the annual
convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama next week, marking the first
time college students have hosted a state convention within the entire
Episcopal Church. Kendrick is the convention chair and student forum
president at UA.

“We want to show people that college students are not the future of the
church, that they are the church now," said the Rev. Ken Fields, Episcopal
chaplain for UA. “These students, believe me, they are involved, and they
care about what’s happening within our church." Read
<http://episcopalchurch.typepad.com/episcope/youthyoung_adults/index.html>
more of our blog.

Young Adult Mission Opportunities
Three mission programs for young adults operate under the banner of
Episcopal MissionWorks with a continuous cycle of application deadlines:

Young <http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_51233_ENG_HTM.htm>  Adult
Service Corps is our global program placing over a dozen young adults each
year in sites around the world—deadline January 1 each year.
Domestic <http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_51236_ENG_HTM.htm>  Young
Adult Internship Programs are operated independently, each with slightly
different requirements and features—deadlines range from March 1 to April 15
each year for service beginning in August or September.
Short-term <http://www.episcopalchurch.org/49662_59841_ENG_HTM.htm>
Domestic Internships for Young Adults offer more time flexibility and have
rolling deadlines: April 16, 2007 for service May 30-July 24, 2007, August 6
for service September 6-November 13 and November 6, 2007 for service January
9-March 5, 2008.

Summer Job Opportunities for Young Adults
Every year, Ministries with Young People collaborates with Episcopal Camps
and Conference Centers to publicize work opportunities for young adults.
Each program is independently operated and deadlines and terms of employment
vary. Click
<http://www.episcopalchurch.org/50071_50168_ENG_HTM.htm?menupage=50167>
here to view the list. Then scroll down to 2007 Summer Job Opportunities

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The Rev. Robert Lundquist, Episcopal Chaplain

1208 W Elizabeth St, Ft Collins, CO  80521

   970-482-2668                 FAX 866-261-3507

 970-7515 cell & text       rector at stpauls-fc.org

      <http://www.stpauls-c.org/College_ministry.htm>
www.stpauls-c.org/College_ministry.htm   

                        see ECM on Facebook at

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