Saint Mark S EpiScopal pro-cathedral 422 North Burlington Hastings, Nebraska 402-462-4126 The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Barker, Bishop The Very Rev. Katie Hargis, Dean HAPPENINGS February 12, 2018 www.stmarkshastings.org stmarkshastings@gmail.com The Forum Lyndle Lewis, Senior Warden Is there anything you wouldn t do for someone you love? Even sacrifice your own life? For God so loved the world We are made in the image of God and forming and maintaining relationships is an essential part of how we are made. All healthy relationships are patterned after God s love for us and all of creation. Sometimes we initiate relationships and sometimes we respond to someone else s initiative. A lot of time and effort goes into building and maintaining our relationships. It is hard work and we keenly feel the loss when relationships end. All through human history, God has been the initiator of relationships with God s creation. For God so loved the world From beginning to end, the Bible is full of stories of God reaching into human lives offering love, help, and hope. In the Old Testament or Covenant, from Adam and Eve, through Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Samuel, David, the tribes of ancient Israel, and countless others, God called real people, ordinary women and men, into personal and loving relationships. I will be your God and you will be my people. In the New Testament or Covenant God enters human history in the person of Jesus calling ordinary men and women into friendship and discipleship, sending them to tell others about God s love, inviting them and us into relationship. For God so loved the world enduring even death on the cross. God reaches out to us in love because it is God s nature to love, and God asks us to respond. How we respond is always our choice. The season of Lent is almost upon us. This season gives us an opportunity of to think about our own response to God s invitation to love, and to think about how to be good stewards of that relationship. Our Episcopal devotional book, Forward Day by Day is inviting us to read the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts during Lent. Please consider including this in your Lenten discipline. These scriptures are full of stories about God reaching out to people like you and me, and the amazing things that can happen when ordinary people say yes to God. 1
THIS WEEKS CALENDAR February 12 February 18, 2018 MONDAY Office Closed SHROVE TUESDAY 5:00-7:00 pm Pancake Supper 6:30 pm Soul Talk ASH WEDNESDAY 10:00 am and 7:00 pm Services Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes 10:00 am and 7:00 pm THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8:00 am Bible Study at Blue Moon SUNDAY 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I 9:45 am Sunday School & Nursery 10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II 2:30 pm St. John s Harvard How to Contact St. Mark s Phone: 402-462-4126 Email: stmarkshastings@gmail.com Website: stmarkshastings.org Parish Office Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 9:00 am 11:00 am and 12:00 pm 3:00 pm ST. MARK S ON FACEBOOK Are you on Facebook? Don t forget to Like St. Mark s Pro-Cathedral! DATES TO REMEMBER February 20 February 21 February 21 March 11 March 20 April 1 Outreach meeting Sermons ala Carte begins Lenten Soup Supper and Guest Speaker 6:00 pm Day Light Savings begins Spring Equinox Easter 2
HAPPENINGS LENT SOUP SUPPER WITH GUEST SPEAKER Each Wednesday in Lent beginning February 21st, we will gather at 6 p.m. for a soup supper in the Undercroft followed by a presentation from a guest speaker. A sign-up sheet to provide soup and bread is in the Common Room. Watch the Happenings for more information about that week s presentation. The speakers for this year are: Feb. 21st Dean Katie Hargis Feb. 28th Greg Burke March 7th Rev. Teresa Houser, Executive Director of Magdalene House Omaha March 14th TBA March 21st Rev. Robert Lewis, Rector of St. Stephen s Episcopal Church in Grand Island DISHWASHER SIGN-UP SHEET Please consider helping with Sermons à La Carte beginning February 21st! There is a sign-up sheet in the Common Room. Thank you for supporting this 46 year-old Lenten ministry at St. Mark s! COFFEE HOSTS/HOSTESSES We are looking for a Coffee Hosts for 2018! There is a sign-up sheet in the Library/Common Room for Coffee Hosts. Everyone is encouraged to participate. ST. MARK S FIRST FRIDAY FELLOWSHIP Mark your calendars for St. Mark s new informal community gathering being held on the first Friday of every month. We will announce every month where we are going for the First Friday Fellowship. Everyone is invited to attend and we look forward to this time of fellowship! FORWARD DAY BY DAY DEVOTIONALS The new Forward Day by Day Devotionals are in. Please help yourself to this meaningful tool, which is designed to help further your journey in faith. You can find the devotional in the literature stand just outside of the offices. CURSILLO SAVE THE DATE! Evening of May 31, June 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd, 2018 Make a friend, Be a friend, Bring a friend to Christ! More to Follow ST MARK S VESTRY 2018 Dean Katie Hargis, Lyndle Lewis, Senior Warden, Don Brown, Jeff Lind, Co-Junior Wardens; Patrick Crawford, Andy Gonzalez, Heather Witte, Judy Schwenk, Kelley Shafer, Jessica Spencer, Mary Helen Edwards, Danny Leonard 3
St. Mark s Episcopal Pro-Cathedral 5th and Burlington, Hastings Sermons A La Carte 46 th Annual Lenten Series Please join us on the following Wednesdays during Lent from 12:05 pm to 12:30 pm for a Lenten message, followed by lunch served in our undercroft. $4.00 Lunch 2018 Theme The Parables: Unlocking the Mystery Stories of Jesus February 21 st Matthew 22:1-14 The Wedding Banquet The Very Rev. Katie Hargis Saint Mark s Episcopal Pro-Cathedral Lunch by the Women of Saint Mark s February 28 th Luke 15:1-7 The Lost Sheep Pastor Greg Lindenberger First United Methodist Church Lunch by the United Methodist Women March 7 th Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan Pastor Greg Allen-Pickett First Presbyterian Church Lunch by the Presbyterian Women 4
March 14 th Mark 4:21-25 Hiding your lamp under a bushel Pastor Jessica Palys United First Congregational Church of Christ Lunch by the First Congregational United Church of Christ March 21 st Luke 18:9-14 The Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector Pastor John Whitsett Lakeside Community Church Lunch by Lakeside Community Church SALC 2018 Sponsors Thank You! Ahlman Janitorial Services Bernard Pavelka Trucking, Inc. Bryant Piano Service Greg & Melissa Burke Consolidated Concrete Co. Cornhusker Press Culligan of Hastings Dutton-Lainson Company Chuck & Sigrid Eigenberg Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska Gessford Machine Shop, Inc. Guarantee Electric Co. Jacobi s Carpet One Livingston Butler Volland Funeral Home & Cremation Center Tom & Amy Michalek Oakeson Steiner Wealth & Retirement Rhonda Pauley Tom & Rosey Peterson Pinnacle Bank Protex Central, Inc. The Hastings Tribune Theis Auto Care Total Turf & Tree Care Angela Keiser LLC::Total Web & Design Solutions Weathercraft Co. of Lincoln David & Jane Werner Jackie Werner Werner Construction, Inc. Williams Pest Control, Inc. Woodwards Disposal Service, Inc. 5