Week of February 19, 2017 - Church of the Apostles UCC

Food Bank
Needs: Specifically—cold cereal, rice or rice helpers, pasta, crackers, dry soup, and canned items, including soups, fruits, beans, baked beans, tomatoes, and tuna.

Market Basket
During the first three Sundays of each month, you have the opportunity to buy grocery cards in the office after service. You can buy cards for the following month and pick up the ones you ordered last month. Remember, the discount we earn from purchasing cards in bulk from Giant, Stauffers, and Weis provide food for the Saturday Breakfast downtown once a month. Helping others is easy, as well as a wonderful thing!

Widowers Support Group
This month, the Widowers Support Group will be meeting on Wednesday, February 22 at 3 pm.

Ash Wednesday Service
Ash Wednesday service will be held on March 1 at 7 pm. Focusing on the theme “Wherever You Are, We’ll Meet You There,” we will explore where we are in life, and will acknowledge our mortality through the distribution of ashes and how we fail to live as Christ did. Join us as we seek to find God in those dark places and learn all there is to be taught through the experience.

Pictures for Lent
If you have personal photos to share within the congregation that fit our worship theme for Lent—“Gifts of the Dark Wood”—please forward them via email to michellea@apostlesucc.org. It is our vision to share with each other the good news of God’s love, grace, and guidance in the midst of the darkness. Again, thank you for the many things you share, as it makes our life together more meaningful!

Heritage and Horizons
The spring 2017 session of Heritage and Horizons will begin on March 7 and continue for five Tuesdays through April 4. The five-week series costs $15 for the entire series, or for as often as you choose to attend. Sessions will be held from 9:30 am—11:50 am and includes a 20-minute break with snacks and refreshments.

Lent Theme: Wednesday Evening Services
Based on themes explored in the book Gifts of the Dark Wood by Eric Elnes, we will study the proposition that our best help on life’s journey often comes from the most unlikely and misunderstood of places: a place known famously, or infamously, as the Dark Wood. On Wednesday evenings at 7 pm, we will watch video clips from some famous thinkers and share some of our own experiences of the Dark Wood, those times and places where we felt lost, afraid, tempted, or out of place.

Service dates and topics will include:

March 8: The Gift of Uncertainty with Brian McLaren
March 15: The Gift of Emptiness with Chuck Marohnic
March 22: The Gift of Being Thunderstruck with Melvin Bray
March 29: The Gift of Lostness with Diana Butler Bass
April 5: The Gift of Temptation with Parker Palmer

Pilates Classes
Pilates classes are held in the church on Mondays at 7:00 pm and Tuesdays at 5:30 pm. Sessions are 13 weeks and the cost is $130 per session; each class is one hour long. Pilates will address flexibility, core strength, balance, and focus. Classes are led by Karen Cox. The sessions have already begun, but the cost will be prorated.