St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church
An Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina
Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 11th at 6 PM for the Youth Group’s Annual Italian Dinner. Come taste the flavors of Italy and enjoy wonderful fellowship with our parish family. Tickets are $5.00 for children under 12 and $7.50 for ages 13 and over.
A tradition for our children during Lent is collecting money in a Lenten envelope. This year the children will donate their money to Loaves and Fishes. This local non-profit organization runs an after-school program for at-risk children. If you are interested in learning more about this organization, please visit lafchildren.org. Envelopes are available for the children in the Parish Hall during Coffee Hour.
The Youth Group will meet on Sunday, February 19th from 4 to 6 PM in the parlor. We will discuss out upcoming Italian Night on March 11th and what we will be doing for spiritual disciplines in Lent. We will also continue our look at C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.
We have a parish Lenten practice of groups hosting soup suppers on the five Wednesdays in Lent after Ash Wednesday. This does two thing in helping keep a holy Lent. First, it brings us together. We share a simple meal of meatless soup or chili, rolls or bread, crackers, and coffee, tea or water. Second, there is a program, usually intended to be informative and to help in our study of the Faith. This year the five talks will be on various aspects of The Eucharist. The talks are intended to be a continuation or further examination of some of the areas covered in our Eucharistic Workshop last month. Father Martin and Father James will lead talks on the following:
The Eucharist is our main form of worship in The Episcopal Church and ought to be the focus of our devotional life as a Christian and to form and inform our lives all through our time on earth. Come and learn how that can happen.
The groups hosting this year’s Lenten soup suppers are:
Services on Ash Wednesday (February 22nd) will be held at 7:30 AM, 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM.
It has become a great local tradition at Saint Timothy’s for the Men’s Fellowship to gather on Shrove Tuesday and cook heaping mounds of pancakes and sausages so we can eat as much as we can before it all gets taken away on Ash Wednesday. Since we need to use up the meat and butter that we are prevented from eating due to our Lenten fasts and abstinences, we will do well to make our way to the Parish Hall on Tuesday, February 21st at 6:30 PM and have as much as we possibly can. Everyone is welcome.
St. Timothy’s School, a Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade school, has limited openings for the 2012-2013 school year. The school offers before- and after-school care. For more information, please contact the Director of Admissions, Cathy Clement, at 781-0531 or cclement@sttimothys.org.
The Vestry will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 PM in the parlor.
The Pastoral Care Committee will meet on Thursday, February 16th at 3:30 PM in the parlor.
St. Anne’s Chapter of the ECW will meet on Wednesday, February 8th at 11 AM (after the communion service) in the parlor. Please bring a sandwich; salad and dessert will be provided. Edythe Derbyshire will share with us some of her experiences in Africa when she and her husband, Walter, were missionaries. Come and hear Edythe and be with friends.
