Posts from February 2022

SERVICE SCHEDULE CHANGE Sunday, Feb. 27, the 8 a.m. service is morning prayer. The usual schedule resumes the following week. LENT BAG PICKUP Lent bags contain different symbols of the season and are designed to help individuals and families in practicing Lent at home.  Lent bags for parishioners will be available to pickup at each of the Sunday, Feb. 27, services. Inside you’ll find a number of items, including pancake mix and applesauce to enjoy a pancake supper on Shove…

SERVICE SCHEDULE CHANGES Next Wednesday, Feb. 24, there is no Eucharist at Emmanuel. Sunday, Feb. 27, the 8 a.m. service is morning prayer. The usual schedule resumes the following week. LENT BAG PICKUP Lent bags contain different symbols of the season and are designed to help individuals and families in practicing Lent at home.  Lent bags for parishioners will be available to pickup at each of the Sunday, Feb. 27, services. Inside you’ll find a number of items, including pancake…

BECKFORD PARISH LENT BOOK STUDY Every Monday during Lent at 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (March 7, 14, 28; April 4, 11) we’re meeting via Zoom for a study of the book Reclaiming Rural: Building Thriving Rural Congregations by Allen T. Stanton. During Lent, we will focus on this book a foundation to living Lent as Easter people, and how we are always alive in Christ, who died and was raised from the dead. The book describes how by establishing a rural identity,…

LENT BAG PICKUP Lent bags contain different symbols of the season and are designed to help individuals and families in practicing Lent at home.  Lent bags for parishioners will be available to pickup at each of the Sunday, Feb. 27, services. Inside you’ll find a number of items, including pancake mix and applesauce to enjoy a pancake supper on Shove Tuesday. If you’re not able to come to the services, bags will be available for St. Andrew’s folks to pickup…

Mother Kathy would like to share the message below from The Rev. Laura Minnich Lockey in light of recent events at Virginia college campuses that touch our communities. Please keep the JMU and BC families in your prayers. “My heart is broken. 2 young men have taken their lives on the JMU campus in 7 days; a man shot and killed 2 officers at Bridgewater College; a man shot and killed a high school student, and wounded 4 others in Blacksburg.…

ANNUAL MEETING AT ST. ANDREW’S THIS SUNDAY St. Andrew’s Annual Meeting is at Sunday, Feb. 6, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s. The Annual Report will be available on our website prior to the meeting.  The Emmanuel Annual Meeting was last Sunday. In case you missed it, the annual report is available on our website If you have any questions, please speak with Mother Kathy. SERVICE SCHEDULE FEBRUARY THROUGH MAY NOW AVAILABLE The new service schedule is now available via the…