Messenger - ST Marys Blair
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Messenger - ST Marys Blair
St. Mary's April/May 2014 Messenger Parable of the Dishonest Manager Upcoming Events 4/9: Vestry 4/13: Palm Sunday 4/18: Good Friday 4/20: Easter Sunday 4/20: Baptism of Brody Johnson 5/18: Baptism of Angel McKinney and Serenity Keesling-Smutko S T . M A RY 'S E PI S C OP A L CHURCH 1734 Grant St Blair, NE 68008 Phone: (402) 426-2057 E-Mail: office@stmarysblair. com stmarysblair.com !@ I have been thinking about the Parable of the Dishonest Manager (Luke 16:1-13) many times over the last number of weeks. Because, as we had been finishing Epiphany and just starting Lent, we were also really just starting our new initiative of “adopting” the weekly Sunday morning coffee hour. Now “ministry teams” (the new lingo for “church committees”) were to be taking on the allimportant task of Hospitality 101within parishes everywhere: getting the coffee made! You’ve probably heard the jokes as many times as I have: if the Church were to add an additional sacrament, on Sunday mornings it would be brewing java. Let’s be honest about it: St. Mary’s has been struggling within this caffeinated realm for quite some time. Simply getting the coffee made on a consistent basis has not been a claim we could make. All-to-often, the offering (which was more a burden for some I imagine than a joy) was falling to the same couples or families. Even after maybe a month or six weeks of sequential successes, like the rebellious Israelites found in Exodus, we would fall back to our former ways. The next couple of Sundays there would be very little; sometimes nothing. So why the Parable of the Dishonest Manager? Because I have been pondering what the Holy Scripture can mean for repentant Christians (which is really to say, those followers of Christ Jesus who are open to thinking about things in new, healthy, and life-giving ways) if we take Luke 16:10 to heart: “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much;” As of the end of March, I am beyond happy to be able to report that all of the remaining months of the year save one— October—are now covered by church committees and ministry teams. We have a commitment to coffee! This is a perfect example of this year’s theme: “Stepping Back, Moving Forward…Breaking Down, Raising Up.” As Luke’s Gospel tells us, if we can do the little things together, and do them well, even quite well, then we will have incentives and renewed hope to confront the big-picture needs of individuals and communities. Now, about that non-dairy creamer… All peace, Fr. John+ Page 2 Messenger Found In the Gospels we read how Mary of Magdala came to anoint the body of Jesus with spices. It was early, before dawn. Mary had been to the garden tomb earlier, when Joseph and Nicodemus had laid Jesus’ body inside. To her dismay, the stone was now removed from the entrance, and Jesus was missing. Distraught, she ran to Simon Peter and John and told them all about it. It was true: all that remained in the tomb were the linens Jesus had been wrapped in. Jesus’ body was gone. So the disciples decided to travel back to their homes in Galilee. Mary, however, stayed outside the tomb crying. While weeping, she bent over to look once again into the tomb. Was he really gone? This time she saw two angels in white seated where Jesus’ body had been. “Woman, why are you crying?” they asked her. “They have taken my Lord away,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” Mary was beside herself, lost in grief, for she could not find her Lord. Then suddenly she noticed someone behind her – the gardener perhaps? “Woman, why are you crying?” he asked her. “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Mary would do anything and go anywhere to retrieve Jesus’ body. He, of all men, deserved a proper resting place. Then she heard her name, “Mary.” In that instant Mary recognized her Lord. She clung to him and wouldn’t let him go. When Jesus spoke her name – “Mary” – everything changed. She had been looking for Jesus, but Jesus had found her. It was she who was lost, not him. It was she, bent over in despair at the tomb, who needed lifting up. Jesus, the living one, raised from the dead, found Mary and transformed her life. So it was for the rest of Jesus’ disciples. Cleopas was on his way to Emmaus, trying to process with a friend all that had happened to Jesus. Jesus’ closest disciples were huddled together behind closed doors in Jerusalem, mourning and afraid that they too might be arrested. Others had gone back to fishing, not knowing what else to do. Yet whether on the road to Emmaus, confused and bewildered, or in a room locked in fear, or in their boats, laboring and frustrated over yet another dismal attempt at catching fish, Jesus came to his own. In their need he spoke their name – “Thomas,” “Simon Peter,” “Cleopas” – and their eyes were opened, their hearts burned, and they believed. The disciples, scattered and aimless, each in his or her own way was found by Jesus, brought back to life by the one who was still doing his Father’s work. “Why seek the living among the dead?” the two angels asked Mary. “He is not here; he has risen!” Yes, Jesus was gone, missing. And yet he was alive. One by one his disciples encountered him anew and were changed forever. Jesus was on the loose, finding all those who could not find him, seeking out all those who could seek no more, revealing himself to those whose hopes and beliefs had been shattered. As with Mary, Jesus still comes to us. Yet if we are not careful, we may not notice him. We may be too wrapped up in the material world, bent over with the weight of things that don’t last. We may even be looking where Jesus can’t be found: in buildings and books, holy places and sacred times, confessions and creeds. Jesus is not there. And yet he goes ahead of us to our various “Galilees,” to transform those familiar places where we feel safe and secure but where we, despite all our good efforts, remain empty. He penetrates the walls we hide behind so we might believe again. He interrupts us on the roads of everyday life, in the midst of confusion and controversy, to open our hearts and minds to the kingdom of God. Easter must never become a remembrance, a mere celebration, or worse, a discussion or debate. For Jesus wants to come to us again and again, here and now. As with Mary, he calls each one of us by name. And he asks us: Why are you crying? Who are you looking for? What are you straining to find? What is upsetting you so? Why are you afraid? He speaks into our hearts, personally, directly, so we can see him as he really is. Our lost Lord finds us. Jesus comes to everyone who feels lost without him. This is the miracle of Easter. On our own, we can never find him. But he can find us. Our names are on his lips. Written by Charles E. Moore God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Page 3 Messenger Big Red Rangers At Neal Woods . Page 4 Messenger Diocesan Women's Retreat There will be a retreat led by The Rev. Canon Judi Yeates, The Diocese of Nebraska's Canon to the Ordinary, which begins on April 25th on the theme of "Forgiveness: A Christian Virtue". This retreat will be held at the Benedictine Retreat Center located in Schuyler, NE on 04/25 to 04/26. Check-in is from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. with dinner at 6:00 p.m., all on Friday. The retreat ends on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. $95 double occupancy/$100 single room, includes meals. To register online, go to Diocese of Nebraska, click on ministries, then down to women's ministry. Questions can be directed to Deacon Christine Grosh at cgrosh@windstream.net or 402-468-3259. This weekend will be Canon Judi's last weekend as our diocese's beloved Canon to the Ordinary. Please help spread the word and encourage participation in this diocesan offering. DOK meetings The Daughters of the King will begin meeting the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the home of Joyce Liberty at 7:00 pm. In April they will begin watching the film "Tuesdays With Morrie" followed by group discussion. Subsequent program material will be decided upon by the group at the conclusion of each meeting. The group will also be offering corporate prayer for those wishing to be held up from our own congregation, as well as individuals known individually by our daughter's. The focus of the order, Daughters of the King, is prayer. This is the sole purpose of the group, to pray for the good of God's people and His kingdom. Any woman who is a member of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran or Episcopal faith community, who has been baptized in one of these faith traditions is eligible for membership into the order. Further indepth, detailed information can be obtained at the DOK website. Submitted by Renee McWilliams Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feed \ Page 5 Messenger April Calendar Items 4/1: 4/1: 4/2: 4/2: 4/2: 4/3: 4/8: 4/8: 4/8: 4/9: 4/9: 4/10: 4/13: 4/15: 4/15: 4/16: 4/16: 4/16: 4/16: 4/17: 4/17: 4/18: 4/18: 4/19: 4/20: 4/22: 4/22: 4/23: 4/23: 4/26: 4/29: 4/29: 4/30: St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Healing Service 5:15PM Church Taize service 7:00PM Church Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Homeless Bridge Club 1:00PM Children's Chapel Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Vestry meeting 6:30PM Library Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM Sunday of the Passion- Palm Sunday 10:00AM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Pastoral Care Team meeting 10:00AM Parish Library Healing Service 5:15PM Daughters of the King 7:00PM Liberty's Home Maundy Thursday 7:00PM Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM Good Friday 12:00PM Community Service at First Lutheran Church Good Friday 7:00PM St. Mary's Great Vigil of Easter 5:00PM Easter Day 10:00AM Baptism of Brody Johnson 10:00AM Easter Egg Hunt 11:30AM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM Saturday Evening Contemporary Mass 5:00PM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall May Calendar Items 5/1: 5/1: 5/6: 5/6: 5/7: 5/7: 5/7: 5/8: 5/11: 5/13: 5/13: 5/13: 5/14: 5/14: 5/15: 5/18: 5/18: 3/16: 5/20: 5/20: 5/21: 5/21: 5/21: 5/22: 5/25: 5/27: 5/27: 5/28: 5/29: 5/29: 5/31: Month-long adoption of the Washington County Food Pantry Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Healing Service 5:15PM Church Taize service 7:00PM Church Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM SMART church school 11:15 AM Children's Chapel St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Homeless Bridge Club 1:00PM Children's Chapel Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Vestry meeting 6:00PM Library Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM Baptism of Angel McKinney and Serenity Keesling-Smutko 10:00AM Third Sunday Brunch 11:15AM Narthex & Parish Hall Financial Peace University 5:00PM, Living Hope Church (and every Sunday afternoon at 5:00PM for the next nine weeks except for Easter Sunday) St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Pastoral Care Team meeting 10:00AM Healing Service 5:15PM Church Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM Rogation Sunday and the Blessing of Animals 10:00AM St. Mary's Bible & Book Study Group 10:00AM Johansen Manor Alcoholics Anonymous "Tuesday Night Happiness Group" 8:00PM Parish Hall Alcoholics Anonymous "Wednesday Morning Freedom Group" 9:00AM Parish Hall Ascension Day Service 7:00PM Blair Saints at Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. for trivia 8:00PM The Visitation service 5:00PM Page 6 Messenger Announcements If you would like to begin receiving the newsletter by email instead of the paper copy, send an email to jjohnson3@abbnebraska.com with the subject e-newsletter. You will no longer receive the paper copy, but an electronic pdf version. If you would like both a paper copy and the enewsletter, please specify that in the email. If you would like to make an announcement in the St. Mary’s newsletter, send it to jjohnson3@abbnebraska.com! The Stewardship Committee will meet briefly on Palm Sunday and again the second Sunday in May at 11:30 AM. Please remember that if you are a member of any of the following ministry teams presently (Vestry; Godly Play teachers; S.M.A.R.T. teachers; Big Red Ranger leaders; or Nursery Attendants) you have been asked to complete Safeguarding Online before Easter. This is the larger Episcopal Church’s program of working toward the prevention of sexual exploitation of children and sexual harassment of fellow church members. St. Mary’s is embarking on a significant initiative by having all of our adults either directly involved with our parish children and youth (through ministry or through leadership roles) complete the Safeguarding Online modules. Following the completion of the modules, there will be a final wrap-up discussion offered for all of the participants by the rector and senior warden. Sr. Warden Nicole Cloudt explains how to log in to the Safeguarding Online training. Come Away & Pray Saturday, April 5, noon until 4 PM St. Matthew's Episcopal Church 2325 South 24th St, Lincoln Holy Week is fast approaching. Whether or not you feel you have had a meaningful Lenten spiritual journey so far, the Quiet Day on April 5 will be an opportunity to take stock, to regroup and to redirect yourself for the last weeks of Lent. The Spiritual Life Team of St. Matthew's will make available to you throughout the church on that day the space, time and resources to encourage and energize your personal journey. Feel free to come and go as best fits your schedule and to take advantage of any of the resources that meet your needs. Written materials will be available for selfdirected experiences and prayer partners will be available for those wishing to share with another person. EFM Training EFM mentor training will be held at All Saints Church, 9302 Blondo St., Omaha, NE on Thursday, June 19 through Saturday, June 21, 2014. The topics are: Basic/In-service & Formation-Living with Conflict. Training starts at 2:00 PM on Thursday and ends at 2:00 PM on Saturday. The cost of $150.00 includes materials, lunch and dinner (Overnight accommodations are not included.) All registrations must be completed online at http://efm.episcopalne.org/registration.html. registration deadline is May 16, 2014. Please contact the Diocesan EFM Coordinator Judy Gray at rjregray@cox.net or 402493-8161 with any questions on Education for Ministry in the Diocese of Nebraska or if you need assistance with overnight accommodations. Page 7 Messenger What's So Good About Good Friday I love Easter Sunday. I love the way my church's normally casual congregation takes everything up a notch (or three)—the girls in new linen dresses and the boys in once-ayear ties. I love the jubilance of the music, and the preacher's grin when he urges us to turn to one another and say, "He is risen!" Easter Sunday is the Christian faith's gold medal victory lap and its raison d'etre. It's the Happily Ever After to end all happily ever afters. Easter Sunday shouts: "Death where is thy sting?" and "Love wins!" and "God is alive!" But here's the rub: I dread Good Friday. I dread the images of torture and suffering. I dread the somber music and the awful remembrance of the violent death of a loved one—of Jesus, the Loved One. I dread the smothering grief and the inescapable remorse and the terrible recollected cry, "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Left to my own devices, I'd probably skip Good Friday. But I suspect that if I did, Easter morning would become increasingly hollow. I'd forget how much my salvation cost. What's more, I'm pretty sure my Good Friday avoidance would cause me to lose touch with certain realities about the way the universe works on this side of eternity. I'd start to believe that you can have victory without sacrifice. I'd convince myself that you don't have to die to live the resurrection. I'd buy the lie that Christ's ultimate victory over death—and my decision to follow him—means life on this earth will be trouble-free. The biblical writers warn us repeatedly that the Christian should not expect a life exempt from Good Fridays. They encourage us to consider every hardship pure joy because suffering is an opportunity to identify with Christ and become more dependent on him (James 1:2-4). They repeat Christ's plainspoken invitation to "take up his cross" (Mark 8:34-35). And yet for many of us Easter Sunday Christians, when the job is lost, or the tumor is malignant, or the friendship is betrayed, we grieve not only the wound but also the fact that we can be wounded. We feel that either we're not doing faith right or that faith—that Jesus—has let us down. We don't consider it "pure joy" when our faith is tested. We consider it failure. I'm beginning to think our expectations are not just unrealistic, they're anti-gospel. But our confusion is hardly surprising. According to some experts, we're bombarded with more than 3,000 advertisements a day, telling us we're entitled to (and must pursue at any cost) an easy, ageless, worry-free life. When we meet and accept Jesus, many of us can't help but distort his promise of abundant life into something that resembles the illusion advertisers sell us every day. So how do we become Easter Sunday Christians who truly see (and even embrace) the good in our Good Fridays? How do we resist our sense of entitlement and the distorted expectations that are so deeply ingrained? I've found the following four principles helpful. Check the Definitions When I read that God "works all things together for good," I can't help but think of the marketers' definitions and assume that "good" means "easy," "youthful," "desirable," and "wealthy." But when I read the Bible, I discover that God defines "good" in entirely different terms. New Testament Christians seemed to believe the greatest good is to become more like Jesus. They took it for granted that this process wouldn't be easy. "What do people mean when they say 'I am not afraid of God, because he is good?'" asked C.S. Lewis, musing on this idea. "Have they never even been to a dentist?" Evidently, early Christians also assumed that the "good" God is working toward is much more expansive than one individual's personal circumstances. God is establishing his kingdom, doing nothing less than "reconciling all things to himself" (Colossians 1:20), and the ultimate good for the believer is to be included in that process. I'm immensely comforted when I remember that the God who cares deeply and personally about even a fallen sparrow is watching over me. But I've been a parent long enough to suspect that my heavenly father knows more than I do about what I need and where I'm going—and about what's best for the whole family. So it's a safe bet that his definition of "blessing" is different from mine. When I'm expecting Easter Sunday and I get Good Friday instead, I'm trying to remember that God's definition of "good" undoubtedly confounds and far exceeds my own. Re-evaluate Death Almost all the new beginnings in my life have come from what felt at the time like terrible endings. So I know I need to reexamine my concept of "death." Frequently, what seems like a small (but devastating) death is actually a chance at new life. I can point to dozens of "dead ends" in my career, ministry, or relationships that turned out to be opportunities to change direction. Nature gives us vivid examples of this principle. Like seeds, we must be willing to be broken in order to grow into what we were made to be. Like reptiles, we have to shed old skins. Like caterpillars, we must be entombed so we can emerge as completely new creations. When I think of all the energy I've expended resisting endings and change, I wonder what new life I've missed. Jesus tells us to die so we can live. He invites us to surrender all the illusions we have about what makes a life good and worthwhile so we can discover real life. And then he walks with us, every step of the way, as we die a thousand deaths in the process of letting his life go deeper and deeper into us. Until at last we really and truly physically die, only to live forever. The rumors of our demise, it turns out, are greatly exaggerated. With God, the end is the beginning. Keep Time In my non-liturgical church tradition, a "church calendar" is a list of youth group meetings and members' birthdays, not an ancient rhythm of days and observances. But I've been learning that many branches of Christianity throughout the centuries have used liturgical time as a way of keeping believers connected to the realities of both life and death in the faith. Cycling through Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Passiontide, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and back through "ordinary time" to Advent again, Christians are reminded that suffering is an expected part of human life, and, more important, that God is constantly redeeming that suffering through his resurrection power. I'm just beginning to discover how helpful the church calendar can be in correcting and realigning my own expectations. Lent, in particular, is a fascinating season. A few years ago, when I became aware that some of my Anglican and Catholic friends went through an Continued on Page 8 Continued from page 7 Page 8 Messenger What's So Good About Good Friday Continued annual ritual of giving up some creature comfort for 40 days every spring, I responded with what I thought was a clever line: "This year for Lent I'm giving up self-control." My friends would smile but challenge me to give Lent a serious try. This year, in my desire to more fully embrace Good Friday, I'm observing my first Lenten season. It's an experiment to see if denying myself one small but habitualized comfort (in my case, a certain kind of food) prepares my heart to more fully enter into every part of Easter. My Lent-experienced friends tell me that disrupting even one routine can expose the crutches and illusions and substitutions that keep us from authentically participating in the life Christ offers. Lent, they claim, can facilitate a small death to self that becomes an opening to new life. I aim to see if they're right. Expect the Unexpected Endings that are beginnings, death that is life—God will always confound our expectations. A couple years ago, during a jubilant Easter service, our pastor said something that stopped me in my mental tracks: "The world offers promises full of emptiness. But Easter offers emptiness full of promise." Empty cross, empty tomb, empty grave-clothes … all full of promise. If I were writing the Easter story, I don't think I'd choose emptiness as my symbolic gesture. But then, I also wouldn't be talking about strength being made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9), foolish things confounding the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27), the meek inheriting the earth (Matthew 5:5), or the poor in spirit getting (in every sense of the word "get") the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3). And I certainly wouldn't be talking about dying in order to live. What is it about God that makes him so favor this kind of paradox? I guess this is what we should expect from the Servant King—the God who decided that the best way to save the world was to let it kill him. I don't understand the way God thinks. But on those days when I feel hollowed out and broken—half-dead, even— it makes me glad to remember that for Easter people, even death is full of promise. The world makes a lot of promises. Smoke and mirrors, mostly. Frantic, cartoonish attempts to distract us from the gaping holes in the middle of our souls (or to sell us the latest product in order to fill them). There's no life in those promises. So I'm hoping that this Lenten season, I'll be a little more willing to die to that stuff. I'm praying I'll become more aware of the empty space within, and that I'll resist the urge to fill it with any old thing I can find. I'm going to wait, carved out, vulnerable, a cracked and crumbling jar of clay, on a life God's offered to deposit anywhere there's room. I'm going to believe that if I'll just leave my empty spaces empty, he'll fill them. That, I'm convinced, is a reasonable expectation. I'm writing this article during a particularly long Good Friday season in my own life. My mom is battling cancer, and I'd be lying if I said I was able to watch her suffer and "count it all joy." I pray for healing and hope desperately it will come here on earth. I ask all the questions people have asked at the bedsides of sick loved ones for thousands of years. I vacillate wildly between hope and despair, faith and doubt, openness and bitterness. But I know that we do not suffer alone, because the God of the universe wore our skin and died our death and removed its sting forever. This is no meager consolation. And even when I'm desperately sad, I look at my mom and I remember: Without Good Friday, there would be no Easter morning. So I pray through the night, and I wait for the resurrection. Written by Carolyn Arends Page 9 Messenger Happy Birthday To......... Happy Anniversary To........ 4/8: Zach Van Gestel 5/11: Frank Wolff 4/11: Teri Cornett 5/12: Adam Van Gestel 4/11: Joyce Liberty 5/14: Amy Purdy 4/20: Emily Wilson 5/15: Jim Lemen 4/20: Retta Wolff 5/17: Jan Kolb 4/22: Pat Steinke 5/18: Asa Albus 4/23: Linda Andersen 5/18: Nick Smutko 5/4: Jacob Swartwood 5/20: Jenna Purdy 5/6: Bob Aronson 5/22: Betty Wilcox 5/7: Kittie Stricklett 5/25: Trisha Swartwood 5/7: Gracie Coon 5/27: Sidney Ham 5/9: Jill Johnson Jesse & Jill Johnson: 4/5 Tom & Linda Andersen: 4/26 Gordy & Linda Lippincott: 5/10 Asa & Imogene Albus: 5/15 Bob & Mabel Aronson: 5/18 Scott & Theresa Kolb: 5/24 Ministry Schedule – April/May Date Acolyte LEM Lector Greeters Nursery April 6 April 13 Jesse Hutchson Gracie Coon Kim Symonds Rhonda Dick Bill & Nan Smutko Paul & Jan Kolb Janelle Burns April 20 Iantha Wessel Asa & Imogene Albus Gracie Coon April 27 May 4 Brandon Hutchson Logan Thallas Jesse Hutchson Bob Liberty Renee McWilliams Bill Smutko Pat Steinke Bob Liberty Sharen Lemen Mabel Aronson Renee McWilliams Kim Symonds May11 Gracie Coon Helen Wilson May 18 Brandon Hutchson Logan Thallas Renee McWilliams Bill Smutko Josh & Rhonda Dick Kathy Frahm & Jill Johnson Bill & Nan Smutko Travis Mood Paul & Jan Kolb Kathy Frahm Pat Steinke Kim Symonds Asa & Imogene Albus Nan Smutko May 25 Nan Smutko Jan Kolb Thank You....... Thank you to everyone who helped with the Shrove Tuesday pancake feed. Especially Bob Aronson for his master pancake making skills! Color Me Kid's Corner Dot-to-Dot Maze These activities can be found at www.printactivities.com S Mary’s Episcopal Church 1734 Grant St Blair, NE 68008