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Please keep these individuals in your prayers this week: Martha sea isle city Baker, Sherry Braden, Robin Buchanan, Hugo Canada, RoNell Coco, Clefton, Meredith, and Emory Davidson, Whitney Dill, George Dixon, Joyce Fowler, Jim Frank, Kellie Grabby, Virginia Hoover, Marilyn Hughes, Laurel Humphreys, Nick Jones, Joyce King, Lana McGee, Carrie sea isle city Moudy, Monica Peek-Taylor, Elaine Powell, Duane Sanders, Nan Sheley, Kathryn sea isle city Smith, Andrea Stengel This list includes parish members or staff and their immediate family members. The supplementary intercessions list of friends and other relatives is available in the parish office or from any usher. Please notify the office if you would like a friend or family member sea isle city added to either list. Each person remains on the list for 30 days. Call Cathy Wadley in the office, 588-0589, to request that a name remain on the list. P ARISH N OTICES
Come celebrate with us for a good cause. Tuesday 2/17 @ 6 PM in the Parish Hall. Jack Russell and the Terriers will return sea isle city for entertainment as well as a Chef Gary Harper Mardi Gras menu. All funds support the Bolivia Mission Trip. $15 per person. A sign up sheet is located in the lobby. We need donations for the silent and live auctions. This is always an amazing array of the talent we have at Ascension. Donations can include artwork, pottery, handmade clothing, knitted and crocheted items, tennis, riding, bridge, music lessons, photography, published works, catering sea isle city services, vacation homes for rental, boat/airplane rides, homemade goodies and much, much more! Please fill out a donation sheet at the table in the lobby to let the committee know what you are submitting.
As you may know, a request sea isle city has been made by Ascension parishioners to provide a Same-Gender Blessing. A series of small group meetings was set up in January, February, sea isle city and March 2015, to provide a time for discussion, questions, and compilation of feedback to our vestry. Here are the dates, times, and locations of the meetings yet to be held:
You may e-mail Julie Hembree at jshembree@bellsouth. sea isle city net to sign up or sign up at the communication center in the office. sea isle city You may also email your thoughts concerning Ascension s offering same-gender blessings to either Fr. Howard or Julie Hembree for inclusion in the vestry s discernment. If you wish to talk with Fr. Howard, he will be available.
There will be an Adult Acolyte training today, after the 11:15 service. The adult acolytes serve at the 7:45 and 9:00 AM services and sometimes for extra services. You may decide which services you would prefer. Please call Peggy Phelps at 522-0924 for more information. YOUTH NEWS:
Is just around the corner! Any youth who are high school freshmen or above are welcome to join . We will have our kickoff meeting TODAY, in the library immediately after the 11:15 service. Lunch will be provided! If you have any questions or cannot attend the first meeting but wish to pursue confirmation, please contact Chelsea Krahulik at chelsea@knoxvilleascension.org.
Our winter retreat is approaching, and it s time to sign up! We will be staying in a cabin in Gatlinburg from February 13th-16th. Our theme for the retreat is “Encountering God,” and we’ll do a lot of fun activities together, including a beautiful hike in the Smokies and games in Gatlinburg. The cost is $75 total per person, and we need your $50 deposit no later than TODAY. With any questions contact chelsea@knoxvilleascension.org.
Our Ultreya will be held at the Ascension Parish Hall on February 9 at 6:30 PM . Please join us for snacks, song, a sharing time, and some discussion about whether to rotate future Ultreya meetings between the other participating parishes in this area. We look forward to seeing all of you there. Pam Douglass 865-207-7503.
A sung Compline service by Orison, a schola led by Jason Overall of St. John s Cathedral, will take place on the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple (on Holy Ground Hog s Day), Monday, February 2nd, at 8 PM at St. John s Cathedral. All are invited for this festive service.
Choirmember Cecily Nall, a soprano on the voice faculty at the University of Tennessee, presents a voice recital at 8 PM on Monday, February 2, at Powell Hall in the music building on the UT campus. All are cordially invited. sea isle city
On Wednesday, February 4, the Ascension Trekkers will hike House Mountain, a 5-mile RT trail rated moderate but includes rocks and steepness. House Mountain is only about 8 miles east of downtown Knoxville and it offers magnificent views. Those interested in going, please call Emily Vreeland (emilyvree@aol.com or 470-2518 or 690-2929.
We’ll have a DJ spinning all your favorites from the ’50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s! Cash bar. Even if you “don’t dance,” join us for a FUN evening! As always, your In-Betweeners Friends are welcome! RSVPs are needed to Katie at katie_mchargue@yahoo.com sea isle city by