Ash Wednesday is February 22. Services will be held at the church at 7:30 am and 7:30 pm. “Lenten Pilgrimage,” an adult education offering during Lent, will begin Sunday, February 26 after each service.
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Join us Tuesday, February 21 for the traditional pancake dinner before Lent begins. Come for Mardi Gras fun and tasty hotcakes! 6-8 pm in the Fellowship Hall. Our youth groups will be cooking and serving; all proceeds go to benefit their June mission trip. Because of the fumigation and its clean-up, the church will be closed and all meetings, gatherings, and Thursday Eucharist are canceled for the week of the fumigation (February 13-17). Regular activities, including Walk With the Rector and Bible Study, will resume the week of February 20. Our church has been accepted as a pick-up site for High Ground Organics Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program! High Ground Organics is a farm near Watsonville; subscribers can sign up for 9 weeks at a time, or for the whole season. Deliveries begin in March. Go to www.highgroundorganics.com to sign up (you can also try a 4-week intro), and pick the ‘San Jose Camden Ave.’ site as your pick-up location. Deliveries are weekly on Wednesdays. Talk to Kate Flexer for more information! We are excited to welcome our guest teacher, Janice Krahenbuhl and highlight our Games Learning Center. Yes, we can learn even more about Jesus and his disciples through a variety of games. We extend an invitation to all children from age 4 through 5th grade and further invite each child to bring a friend to share in our fun. Middle School and High School youth who would like to be here during our Sunday School hour (10-11 AM) are invited to be classroom helpers. Please contact Susie Ferguson, if you have any questions or need further information through this email: christianed@jointventurechurches.org. ECA member, author and licensed therapist Beth Proudfoot leads a free talk for all Almaden Valley parents on dealing constructively with sibling rivalry. Members of the public are welcome. The talk begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, preceded by a free dinner at 6:00 p.m. Free childcare is provided. Past talks in the series have been well attended so be sure to RSVP with the number of attendees and the ages of children requiring childcare to parentingclass@eca-sj.org. 6581 Camden Ave. Information: 408-268-0243. To learn more about upcoming talks in the series join our Meetup group: www.meetup.com/san-jose-parenting-class Save January 22 for a luncheon discussion on ways for ECA to minister to and with seniors in our congregation and beyond. Following the 11:00 service, stay for lunch and a chance to weigh in on ideas for ministry. Please RSVP to the church office, office@eca-sj.org, if you will be attending, or sign up on the ECA bulletin board in Fellowship Hall. Questions? Talk to Kathleen Eagan or Kate Flexer. Help rebuild the Episcopal cathedral in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti! The Episcopal Church of the United States of America has set a goal of raising $20 million to rebuild Holy Trinity Cathedral, which was destroyed in the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. ECA members can take part by purchasing bricks for $10 each that will be used to restore this vital center of worship and community life. We hope to donate at least 100 bricks. So far 65 have been purchased already! To donate, make checks out to ECA and put Haiti on the memo line. Thank you to all who have already responded! For more information watch this short video. If you are interested in strengthening your prayer life and your relationship with other women at ECA, then the 2012 ECA Women’s Retreat is the perfect opportunity for you. The theme is ‘Women of Prayer,’ led by our own Rev. Kate Flexer. The retreat will focus on prayer warriors (mystics, activists, etc.) throughout history. We will discuss their impact on their times and their relevance today. We will explore different styles of prayer or meditation. The retreat will have content for your brain and practice for your soul. The retreat will be the weekend of March 2-4, 2012 at the beautiful St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista. The cost is $196.00 per person/double ($246.00 per person/single) including all meals. There is a $75 non-refundable deposit. Space is limited to 24 women. If you are interested in attending this exciting retreat, please contact Melinda Jennings by phone (408-225-0528) or email (melinda1948@gmail.com). Scholarships are available: talk to Kate if the cost is a problem. Several issues later, a new ADA-compliant lift is on order and will be installed in the same shaft as the current one. It will be early March before we have a new lift installed and functional. Please, if you or someone you love needs help getting up the stairs and you plan on attending worship over the next few months, contact the office and/or arrive early enough that we can assist you. ‘Tis the season to be thankful, being mindful of our many blessings. That said, the Second Harvest Food Bank bin in the church hallway, by the Music and C.E./Youth Directors’ office, awaits for more of our gifts of food, so that it can be sent on its way to those in need. The kinds of food requested are non-perishable; flip-top cans of tuna, etc. are very welcome, since a can opener is not always available…Healthier choices such as peanut butter, low-salt/fat soups/stews; powdered milk; small (flip top) cans of fruit packed in fruit juice; small (school lunch size) boxes of fruit juice/milk, etc. STEWARDSHIP INGATHERING Thank you to all who have contributed to the future of ECA! If you have not yet returned your pledges of time, talent, and treasure, please send or bring those cards this week. We will use the information as we begin to create our budget and plan ministries for 2012. Thank you for sharing your self and your gifts in our community! Walk with the rector every Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Meet at church at 9:00 a.m. for an invigorating walk to Almaden Lake. Rain or shine! Last year, 2010, ECA received $555.80 in contributions from E-scrip. Thank you to everyone who participated! This year to date we have already received $555.17. E-scrip is a program whereby merchants contribute a percentage of the purchases we make to them back to our church ECA. When we shop at Safeway or Macy’s, or when we buy Kraft, Frito-Lay, General Mills, Barilla, or Nabisco products, these are all merchants who donate a small percentage back to us, and there are even more. The best way to participate is to make sure your grocery club cards as well as credit/debit cards are registered. After you register, you can generally forget about it. To sign-up visit www.escrip.com. If you have questions contact Mary McPherson. We have the opportunity of hosting a CSA pickup site here at our church in 2012. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a program where one buys a share of a local farm and receives the produce of that farm during its harvest season. High Ground Organics in Watsonville (www.highgroundorganics.com) has a CSA with local pickup sites; if we start off with 10 signed up, we can host a pickup site right here, convenient to many of us. A verbal commitment is all that is required for now. We’ll need to let them know by the end of October. Look at their website and talk to Kate if you are interested in participating. |
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