Parish Happenings & Updates (Page 15)

DUE MONDAY: UPDATES TO PARISH DIRECTORY We want to update the directory for 2022. Please email any updates to Melissa by Mon., March 7 (please note the change in date so that we can get this updated more quickly). The directory is available on our website. To access the file, you’ll need a password so please email Melissa for it. (You don’t have to sign up for a DropBox account to access the file. If a window pops up asking if…

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…

It seems COVID is showing up everywhere. I know of more and more homes where at least one person has tested positive for COVID, is showing symptoms, or has even been hospitalized. Our COVID fatigue is real. I didn’t take Greek in seminary, and I’m not too happy about learning the Greek alphabet via COVID. The omicron surge is so fast and widespread (and likely underreported) that we’re just emotionally exhausted. The sheer numbers of people infected simultaneously have led…

An Important Update from Mother Kathy It seems COVID is showing up everywhere. I know of more and more homes where at least one person has tested positive for COVID, is showing symptoms, or has even been hospitalized. Our COVID fatigue is real. I didn’t take Greek in seminary, and I’m not too happy about learning the Greek alphabet via COVID. The omicron surge is so fast and widespread (and likely underreported) that we’re just emotionally exhausted. The sheer numbers…

SUNDAY SERVICES STAYING ONLINE The COVID infection rates in Shenandoah Country continue to be too high for in-person services to be safe for us all. Currently, the rate is at 182.3 per 100,000. Given this, we will live stream worship on January 23 on Facebook Live at 10:15 a.m. and on Zoom. Mother Kathy will offer Holy Eucharist with Spiritual Communion. A reader, our organist, and Mother Kathy will be physically present in the building, masked and socially distant. The bulletin is available on…

SUNDAY SERVICES STAYING ONLINE Unfortunately, the COVID infection rates in Shenandoah Country remains far to high for it to be safe for us to have in-person services this Sunday. Currently, it is at 216.1 per 100,000. Who would have thought we would again be facing an uncontrolled spread of which we seem to not have yet reached the peak? Given this, we will live stream worship on January 16 on Facebook Live at 10:15 a.m. and on Zoom. Mother Kathy will…