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January 2017 Mary & Martha’s Message Carol Honderich, Goshen, Indiana This is the original Women of the Bible Quilt. I worked on it from 2000-2004. It was a semi-finalist in the 2005 AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky. Each block is a traditional quilt block that I chose to represent a specific woman in the Bible based on the name of the block and the Bible woman's name, character or circumstances (Eve - Garden of Eden; Sarah - Sarah's Choice, etc.) United Thank Offering 2017 Grant Applications Available The focus of the United Thank Offering grants for 2017 is broad in scope giving en- tities an opportunity to be creative: "Evangelism, reconciliation, and following Jesus' way of creating, loving, liberating, and life-giving relationships with God, each other, and all creations - the Jesus Move- ment!" Each diocese can submit one application for a diocesan program and one application for a compan- ion/diocesan partnership program. If more applica- tions are received by the diocese, the UTO diocesan committee evaluates the applications and deter- mines which best fits the criteria. The application recommendations are then passed on to the Bishop, the final person to approve the applications. DEADLINE for applications — FEBRUARY 1. Connie Ott, UTO Coordinator [email protected] Lake Area Episcopal Parishes TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER Saturday — January 28 — 7 pm Lake Country Lutheran High School, Hartland for Lake Country Free Medical Clinic See flyer, p. 4 for details. Ultimate Altar Guild Adventure Washington, D.C. in 2017 Still time to register! SEPTEMBER 19-22, 2017 Spend 5 days in Washington, D.C. touring churches, including The National Cathedral and St. John's ("the President's Church"); the Na- tional Gallery; The Mall and the Smithsonian; National Buildings and Monuments. Participants: Any woman or man interested in a unique tour of our country's capital is WEL- COME - NO NEED to be an Altar Guild member or an Episcopalian! Projected cost: APPROXIMATELY $1800/ person, adult double occupancy. Interested? Contact Leslie Thorkelson at [email protected] . Panca Hard mont day. T this y for pa races arao the st Ash W havin pleas We w inform Mand Pancakes on the Horizon! Hard to believe, Shrove Tuesday is right around the corner. February 28 is the time for pancake making, pancake races, and other ac- tivities in preparation for the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 1. If your parish is having a pancake supper or other Lenten activities, please let us know! We will share that information in February and March M&M’s. Thanks! Send to [email protected]. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden, sports coach
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January 2017
Mary & Martha’s Message
Carol Honderich, Goshen, Indiana This is the original Women of the Bible Quilt. I worked on it from 2000-2004. It was a semi-finalist in the 2005 AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky. Each block is a traditional quilt block that I chose to represent a specific woman in the Bible based on the name of the block and the Bible woman's name, character or circumstances (Eve - Garden of Eden; Sarah - Sarah's Choice, etc.)
United Thank Offering 2017 Grant Applications
Available The focus of the United Thank
Offering grants for 2017 is broad in scope giving en-tities an opportunity to be creative: "Evangelism, reconciliation, and following Jesus' way of creating, loving, liberating, and life-giving relationships with God, each other, and all creations - the Jesus Move-ment!" Each diocese can submit one application for a diocesan program and one application for a compan-ion/diocesan partnership program. If more applica-tions are received by the diocese, the UTO diocesan committee evaluates the applications and deter-mines which best fits the criteria. The application recommendations are then passed on to the Bishop, the final person to approve the applications.
DEADLINE for applications — FEBRUARY 1.
Connie Ott, UTO Coordinator [email protected]
Lake Area Episcopal Parishes
TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER
Saturday — January 28 — 7 pm
Lake Country Lutheran High School, Hartland
for Lake Country Free Medical Clinic
See flyer, p. 4 for details.
Ultimate Altar Guild Adventure Washington, D.C. in 2017
Still time to register!
SEPTEMBER 19-22, 2017 Spend 5 days in Washington, D.C. touring churches, including The National Cathedral and St. John's ("the President's Church"); the Na-tional Gallery; The Mall and the Smithsonian; National Buildings and Monuments. Participants: Any woman or man interested in a unique tour of our country's capital is WEL-COME - NO NEED to be an Altar Guild member or an Episcopalian! Projected cost: APPROXIMATELY $1800/person, adult double occupancy.
Interested? Contact Leslie Thorkelson at [email protected] .
Pancakes on the Horizon Hard to believe, but next month will be Shrove Tues-day. Tuesday, Feb. 28 this year is the timefor pancake making, pancake races, other activities in prep-aration for the starting of Lent onAsh Wednesday. If you are having a pancake supper, please let us know. We will share thatinformation in the February MandM .Pancakes on the Horizon!
Hard to believe, Shrove Tuesday is right around the corner. February 28 is the time for pancake making, pancake races, and other ac-tivities in preparation for the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 1. If your parish is having a pancake supper or other Lenten activities, please let us know! We will share that information in February and March M&M’s. Thanks! Send to [email protected].
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
-John Wooden, sports coach
Julian of Norwich Gathering — Madison area
Wednesday
January 11, 1:00 pm
*Note Change of Time!
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church 6205 University Ave., Madison, WI 53705 St. Julian of Norwich: 14th Century feminist? 14th Century heretic? No, although a reader might at first think so. 14th Century psychologist? Sort of — she understood the human heart and, through her sixteen revelations of Jesus, she understood the heart of God. Thomas Merton called her "the greatest theologian for our time." Come to one of our monthly meetings and find out why -- and learn about contemplative prayer. We meet the second Wednesday of each month. We'd love to see you. For more information, contact Susan Fiore, ObJN at [email protected]
The Ingatherings from nine parishes of the Dio-cese of Milwaukee and the Diocesan Convention were a wonderful outpouring of thankfulness from the women of the church over the 2016 calendar year. The 2016 total, $3,086.47, has been forwarded to the national United Thank Offering [UTO] Board, which will grant every penny of it in early summer, 2017. If you want to know more about UTO, please contact Connie Ott at [email protected] with UTO in the sub-ject line or at 608-798-3688. Traditionally UTO Ingatherings are held in parish-es on All Saints’ Day and/or Mother’s Day. Plan your parish’s Ingathering now!
Thanks for the Blue Boxes!
Looking for new areas of interest for your church study groups this winter? The Wisconsin Council of Churches website wichurches.org/calendarevent-list has resources on the Week of Christian Unity, January 18-25. Consider using the resources for discussion by your study group, Sunday adult forum, or personal study. There is also a discussion guide for the environ-mental concerns regarding water - several ways of addressing the issue and several formats. The winter forum will be held March 3-4 at United Methodist Church in Sun Prairie: "Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism," led by Dr. Drew Hart, professor of theology with 10 years of pastoral experience, author, and activist. The program runs from dinner Friday to 3 PM Saturday.
E-NEWS reaches over 200 women in the Diocese of Milwaukee and Fond du Lac. Please send information about events coming up in your parish or area that might be of interest to the women of the diocese to Connie Ott, [email protected] To add someone to the mailing list, please send the e-mail address to Connie Ott.
ECW LEPER BANDAGE DIRECTIONS
One ball [350 yards] of thin crochet yarn — MUST be 100% COTTON Cast on 30 stitches, No. 1 knitting needles. Slip the first stitch on every row. Knit until the entire ball is used or until it measures 3 to 5 feet long!
These hand-knit, re-usable, sterilize-able bandages are ALWAYS needed!
Send finished bandages to: Micki Hoffmann 53 E. Rogers St.
Hartford, WI 53027 Questions — 262-673-2903
Hi Micki, Got this e-mail yesterday.... Dear Mwalimu and Jane, The leper bandages arrived on Thursday and on Sat-urday I sent them to Lulindi. On behalf of the Diocese of Newala I say thank you very much. I also thank you in advance for the arrangements of funds to be sent to Newala Diocese to various projects. We expect rain season to begin any day. Please spread the word to all who participate. Thanks, Neil Radtke Companion Diocese Coordinator
New Year Poem May Sarton
Let us step outside for a moment As the sun breaks through clouds And shines on wet new fallen snow, And breathe the new air. So much has died that had to die this year. We are dying away from things. It is a necessity—we have to do it Or we shall be buried under the magazines, The too many clothes, the too much food. We have dragged it all around Like dung beetles Who drag piles of dung Behind them on which to feed, In which to lay their eggs. Let us step outside for a moment Among ocean, clouds, a white field, Islands floating in the distance. They have always been there. But we have not been there. We are going to drive slowly And see the small poor farms, The lovely shapes of leafless trees Their shadows blue on the snow. We are going to learn the sharp edge Of perception after a day’s fast. There is nothing to fear. About this revolution… Though it will change our minds. Aggression, violence, machismo Are fading from us Like old photographs Faintly ridiculous (Did a man actually step like a goose To instill fear? Does a boy have to kill To become a man?) Already there are signs. Young people plant gardens. Fathers change their babies’ diapers And are learning to cook. Let us step outside for a moment. It is all there Only we have been slow to arrive At a way of seeing it. Unless the gentle inherit the earth There will be no earth.
Photo by The Rev. Dr. Miranda Hassett
Resolve to make a leper bandage —
Awesome!
Team Trivia Night
Saturday, January 28, 2017, 7pm
Trivia and Silent Auction
To benefit the
Lake Area Free Clinic Brought to you by St. Anskar's Episcopal Church & the Lake
Country Episcopal Community. With special thanks to the
WCTC Nursing Club, and Rogers Memorial Hospital
Where: Lake Country Lutheran HS
401Campus Drive Hartland
(N side of Hwy 16 at the Hwy 83 exit 1/2 mile east of St. Anskar’s.)
Doors open 6pm.
Max of 8 per team, age 12+, $15 per person, includes snacks and beverages!
Contact Bill Webster for further information,
414.640.0557, billw1220@ Hotmail.com
