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March 2020 Loving Worshiping Learning Serving,
In the name of Christ.
feelings that can swallow us up, and often they are feelings that can keep us stuck unless we turn our lives toward a new direction. Lent helps us to take the steps to get unstuck.
If the first step is turning, the second is receiving forgiveness. When we repent of our sins and confess them to God he forgives. A priest often times pronounces this forgiveness as an assurance of the grace and pardon of God. Sometimes we stop here instead of making the next step, but I want to urge you to not only confess, and receive absolution, but also to walk in the new direction.
This is where penance comes in, it is not a punishment for being stuck in a sin, rather it is the first steps in walking out the new direction of your life. Penance is the trying of the new thing to get and keep your life unstuck. Often times this is serving those in need, or taking up a new prayer, or beginning some other new practice. In lent we often talk about giving something up to point us closer to God. This year take note of the places in your life you feel stuck, places where your life could use a turning toward God, and take a tangible step in that new direction. May you discover the deep freedom of God this Lent.
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Inside this Issue
From the Pastor’s Desk 1
Holy Week Schedule 2
Lent & Easter Activities 3 What’s Happening 4
Movie Nights 5
Connecting Communities 5
Birthdays, Anniversaries 6
Easter Flowers 7
Prayers 8 Grateful Thanks 9 Community Schedule 9 March Calendar 10
March Ministry Schedule 11
Upcoming:
The Rt. Rev. Mark
Hollingsworth, Jr.,
visits St. Paul’s on
March 29th.
Have you ever been stuck, I mean really stuck…
In my senior year of high school I was stuck, quite literally. My friends and I decided it would be a good idea to take our trucks out near the Toledo airport, where there were muddy paths and undeveloped land, for us to “off road” our vehicles. In the first hour we had fun, in the second hour we got stuck. We tried and tried but could not get the truck free from the mud. Actually everything we tried made it worse. Then on top of that, we kept trying the same things over and over making the situation worse and worse. It took us five days to get that truck unstuck.
I have found this to be a good metaphor for life when I am stuck and no longer moving forward. I often try the same old things over and over with no success. In times like these the church year offers us a gift of penance. Yeah penance can be a gift not a punishment! It can be a season to break old cycles and start new ones, a season to get unstuck but trying something new.
Penitential seasons, like lent, start with repentance. The imagery that comes with this word that of a person walking on a path, realizing it is not the right path, turning around, and going a different way. In the moment when we realize we are on a wrong path, or realizing the “stuckness” of our lives we often have overwhelming feelings of guilt, sorrow, and remorse. These are
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Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Sunday,
April 12th after the
10am service.
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March 1
Benevolence
Sunday
Adult Forum 9am
Service of Holy Eucharist 10am
Lector, Intercessor & Psalmist training
11:30am
Usher training 12:00pm
March 7
Men’s
Breakfast,
8am The men of St. Paul’s meet at Frisch’s the first Saturday of the month.
March 7
Connecting
Communities
training
(time to be announced)
March 8
Daylight Savings (Spring Forward)
March 15
Vestry
Meeting
11:30am
March 16
Newsletter
deadline
March 17 Election Site for precincts
Fremont 1b, 1c, 4b, 4c
March 22
11:30am Chalice training
Community Meal
5pm
Adult Forum
Living Well Through
Lent (No Forum 3/29)
Sundays 9am,
Guild Room
Mid Week Study
Lenten Dinners
Wednesdays
5:30-7pm
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Community Meals Let us know if you would like to host a future meal, make dessert, serve. Donate to Food Pantry Donate to Community Meal
Coffee Hour
Ready to Volunteer? Please contact the office at
419-332-3032.
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Connecting Communities
We’re excited to announce the St. Paul’s Connecting Communities Team! Hannah Rife, Darcy Young, Roger Hart, Brooke Taylor and Bob Parker. Please offer them your support.
Please keep this group in your prayers as they work towards the growth and vitality of St. Paul’s Fremont. Connecting Community is a group of congregations who commit to one another in a nine-month learning experience. Participating congregations come together for three Saturday workshops and, in the months between them, invite members of their congregations into fun, simple experiential exercises.
Adults learn best by doing and reflecting together. The Saturday workshops and the congregational exercise will hep us do just that. They have been developed and tested in dioceses over several years by Dwight Zscheile, Michael Binder, and the Innovation team at Luther Seminary in Minneapolis.
Documentary & Discussion Series
Join us and invite a friend
MARCH DOCUMENTARY
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MINISTRY UPDATE
Please let us know, by the newsletter deadline, if you are not able to serve a ministry role for the following month. Those who already do so, thank you so much. It really helps not
to schedule someone who won’t be available. If the dates have already have been assigned and you can’t make a Sunday, please find someone to fill in for you and let us
know who will be filling in so it can be noted in the bulletin and ministry schedule.
Fabienne Stout 3/3
Jace Burgess 3/4
Jeff Hasselbach 3/4
Jio Hasselbach 3/4
Samantha Burgess 3/6
Janet Burger 3/7
Edwin Childs 3/11
Carolyn Speer 3/11
Randy Speer 3/11
Arthur Brockmueller 3/15
Wilbert Henry 3/16
Tom Scott 3/16
Christian Motot 3/19
Christine Smith 3/19
Scott Warner 3/19
April Howard 3/25
Isabel Wahlgren 3/27
♥ Rob & Brooke Taylor 3/5
Inclement Weather policy
Level one snow emergency - All Bible Studies and activities / church offices will be open. (Please proceed with discretion)
Level two and three snow Emergency - Worship services are cancelled, and church offices will be closed.
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Would you like to provide palms for Palm Sunday?
If you would like to provide palms this year, and possible future years, please
contact Jo at 419-332-3032 for more information.
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Intercessions: Susan Bergeman, Joe Binder, Paul Branco, Samantha Burgess and family, Richard Graeter, Jacob Hasselbach, Teresa Ilich, Mary Lynne Moyers, Mary Lou and Jerry Parker, Clarice Sayle, Chyleen Scott, Isabel Sweeney and family, Brooke Taylor, Lori
Tolhurst, Ted, Katherine Young.
In the Diocese of Ohio
Prayers Requested
March 1, 2020 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for the Cuyahoga Mission Area. St. Barnabas Church, Bay Village, The Rev. Alexander D. Martin, Priest-in-Charge & the Rev. Barbara J. Maxwell, Deacon St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Berea, The Rev. David R. Radzik, Rector St. Matthew’s Church, Brecksville, The Rev. Stephanie A. Pace, Rector
St. Andrew’s Church, Cleveland, The Rev. Sharon E. Williams, Priest-in-Charge
March 8, 2020 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for the Cuyahoga Mission Area. St. John's Church, Cleveland St. Luke's Church, Cleveland, The Rev. Barbara J. Maxwell, Deacon
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, The Rev. Bernard (BJ) Owens, Dean, The Rev. Adrienne M. Koch, Priest Associate
March 15, 2020 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for the Cuyahoga Mission Area. St. Paul's Church, Cleveland Heights The Rev. Jeanne A. Leinbach, Rector, the Rev. Jessie G. Dodson, Assistant Rector, The Rev. Kirby P. Colwell, II, Deacon, The Rev. Brian M. Bechtel, Curate Church of the Ascension, Lakewood, The Rev. Vincent Black, Part-Time Priest-in-Charge
St. Peter's Church, Lakewood, The Rev. G. Keith Owen, Rector
March 22, 2020 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for the Cuyahoga Mission Area. All Saints Church, Parma Christ Church, Shaker Heights, The Rev. Peter Faass, Rector
Advent Episcopal Church, Westlake
March 29, 2020 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for the Northeast Mission Area. St. Peter's Church, Ashtabula, The Rev. Peter W. Nielsen, III, Rector St. Martin's Church, Chagrin Falls, The Rev. John Anthony Cerrato, III, Rector, The Rev. Terrence P. Dautel, Priest Associate St. Luke's Church, Chardon, The Rev. Christopher McCann, Rector Christ Church, Geneva, The Rev Dr. C. Thomas Jackson, Interim Supply
Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, The Rev. Rosalind C. Hughes, Rector
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We give thanks to God for the following people and we give thanks to them as
well.
Tina Hasselbach, Matt & Melanie Wahlgren, Bev & Roger Hart and Darcy Young who hosted coffee
hour in February.
Ken & Amanda Rutski and Roger & Bev Hart for hosting the January and February Community Meals. Chyleen Scott & Carolyn Speer for organizing Shrove Tuesday.
Parishioners and friends of
the parish who donate altar
flowers to enhance our
Sunday worship.
Community Schedule
Sunday Free Community Meal AA
4th Sunday 5-6pm (P) Sept-May 8 pm (B)
Monday AA (Men & Women)
10 am (B)
Tuesday AA Al Anon/Ala Teen
7:30 pm (B) 7:30 pm (N)
Wednes-day
AA Men 7 pm (B)
Friday AA AA
10 am (B) 8 pm (B)
Saturday AA AA Sponsored by AA (Last Saturday, Oct-May)
10 am (B) 10 pm (B) Euchre/Potluck 4-? pm
Key
B N P *
Basement Nursery Parish Hall Freewill Donation
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The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop
The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., Bishop, Diocese of Ohio The Rev. Matt Wahlgren, Priest-in-Charge
Vestry Members: Carolyn Speer (20) Senior Warden, Tina Hasselbach (21) Junior Warden,
Kay Klein (21) Clerk, Bill Young (22), Chyleen Scott (22), Beth Hackenburg (20), Mary Bower (22)
Treasurer: Kay Klein
Financial Secretary: Marcia Webster
Church Phone: 419-332-3032 Church E-mail: stpaulsfremont@sbcglobal.net Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00am-2:00pm
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 206 N. Park Avenue Fremont, Ohio 43420
Dated Material: Please deliver
on or before March 1, 2020
EMERGENCY CONTACTS:
Rev. Matt Wahlgren: 419-388-5806; mattwahlgren@gmail.com
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
U.S. Postage PAID
FREMONT, OHIO 43420
PERMIT NUMBER 173
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