From the Rector

Our Annual Meeting of the Parish has come and gone, and those of you who were there heard about the many, many parish activities of 2018, as well as some of the plans for 2019. If you were unable to attend the meeting but would like a copy of the Annual Report, please call the Parish Office and we will be glad to send one to you. In it you will find reports from all of the Emmanuel committees, the end-of-the-year financial reports for 2018, the 2019 budget, and parish statistics. The format of the committee reports is different this year. Please take a look and let me know if you like the new format or prefer the old one.

As you read through the Annual Report and through this newsletter, I invite you to think about how you might get more involved in parish life. Do you want to be more involved in the Sunday morning worship services? If so, you might want to volunteer as an usher, a lector, an intercessor, or even an acolyte. Maybe you enjoy being with kids. Sunday School coordinator Jenny Lee could use your help as our Sunday School grows. The Altar Guild and Flower Guild always welcome new members and are more than happy to help you get involved. Do you like to take pictures? It would be wonderful to have more photos of the many events at Emmanuel to share on our website, in the newsletter, or on the Facebook page.

Reading through this newsletter, you will notice that throughout the month of February, leading up to the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 6, we will continue to explore in scripture and sermon the different practices (Turn - Learn - Pray - Worship - Bless - Go - Rest) recommended by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry as we follow "the loving, liberating, life-giving way of Jesus."

On Sunday, February 10, we will welcome the Rev. Mark Jefferson, Visiting Professor of Homiletics at Virginia Theological Seminary, to our pulpit as we celebrate the feast of Absalom Jones, the first African-American ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. Mark is a gifted preacher who will also be with us on Saturday afternoon, February 9, to present a program open to the wider community, with a reception to follow. I hope many of you will attend.

The weekend of March 1, 2, and 3 will be one of celebration in the Diocese of Easton, as we conclude our year-long celebration of 150 years as a diocese on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The annual business meeting on Friday will be followed on Saturday, March 2 with a day of excitement as the diocese welcomes the Rev. Jay Sidebotham, Director of Renewal Works, the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellars, the Presiding Bishop's Canon for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Creation, and our own Bishop Santosh Marray. They will IGNITE the WAY of Loving for the Diocese of Easton as we look to the future. On Sunday, March 3, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will help us close out the year of celebration with the closing Eucharist.

Following the traditional Pancake Supper on Tuesday, March 5, we will begin a Holy Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 6. This year we will return to holding a Lenten study program on Tuesday evenings, as well as continuing our film series exploring issues of race and reconciliation.

Emmanuel continues to be a place where mission, ministry, and outreach come together in exciting and vibrant ways. I look forward to sharing the journey with you and seeing you on Sunday.

Faithfully,

Darcy+

Worship Schedule

Wednesdays: 12 noon—Eucharist

with anointing for healing Sundays:

8 a.m.—Eucharist 10:30 a.m.—Eucharist

with music

Church School and Nursery available at 10:30

A Publication of Emmanuel Church, Chester Parish

Chestertown, Maryland

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Some Lenten Resources for 2019 The following is a list of some books and online resources available for your personal study, meditation, reading and prayer time as you prepare for a Holy Lent, which begins March 6, 2019. SSJE Lenten Series ( https://www.ssje.org/): The monks at the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE), in conjunction with the Ministry of Teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary, offer four different Lenten programs supported by workbooks and online video meditations: Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John, The Five Marks of Love, Growing a Rule of Life, and It's Time to . . . Stop, Pray, Work, Play, & Love. Any of these can be completed individually or as part of a study group. Living the Way of Love by Mary Bea Sullivan (Church Publishing Inc.): The author tells stories from her own and others' experiences as a starting point for discussion about how to seek and find a deeper connection to God. Reconciliation by Muthuraj Swamy (The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent 2019 book): "Global in scope, but focusing on the role of ordinary people in conflict and violence, Reconciliation explores both the positives of multiculturalism and the challenges of accepting difference. This book issues a vibrant call to the church to maintain and strengthen relationships locally . . . ; to cross borders to build relationships." Meeting God in Paul; Reflections for the Season of Lent by Rowan Williams. In Meeting God in Paul Rowan Williams explains how Paul moved from being the leader of an anti-Christ terrorist squad to being all-consumed by his contemporary, Jesus, who becomes for Paul "the image of the invisible God." Are We There Yet: Pilgrimage in the Season of Lent (Forward Movement product #2450): Our companions on this Lenten journey are fellow pilgrims, sharing their stories about following yellow arrows along the Camino and white blazes through the Appalachian Trail to bearing witness to the pain of historic lynching sites in the American South. Contributors recount their search for healing and wholeness at Marian shrines, in a reunion with birth parents, and around a prayer circle in a mental hospital. Episcopal Relief and Development Lenten Resources (https://www.episcopalrelief.org/church-in-action/church-campaigns/lent). A series of daily Lenten meditations for Lent 2019 is available from ERD. Lent Madness: Who Will Win the Golden Halo? Vote online for your favorite saint each day. To play, go to: http://www.lentmadness.org/bracket/ The Daily Office from the Mission of St. Clare. Read the Daily Office on your computer or your iPad or your Kindle. Go to: http://www.missionstclare.com/english/

Lenten Program: Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture Join us on Tuesday evenings during Lent, beginning March 12 at 6:15 p.m. as we engage in a Lenten study program with Walter Brueggemann, Old Testament scholar and theologian, to look at the Prophets of the Old Testament in relation to contemporary culture. The video and discussion format is described as a "wild ride through the poetic prophecy of the Hebrew Scripture, identifying cultural contexts, putting a framework to Israel’s history, and, most significantly—and times challengingly!—drawing connections between Israel’s sociological, economic and spiritual status and that of America today."

Brueggemann addresses question such as, What was the message of these remarkable poet-prophets in their own time and place? What is their message for us today and who are today’s prophetic voices? How has the contemporary church been coopted by culture? What steps can we take to reclaim the prophetic message of distributive justice,

nonviolence, loss and hope? And what is your role in bringing God’s perspective to today’s society?

Each session will begin with a Pot Luck supper at 6:15 p.m., followed by a video presentation and discussion. No registration required. Simply come and join the conversation.

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Did You Know. . . . . . that Mary Booth Davis, Libby Rice, and Nancy Dick will be honored at the Gala Banquet on Saturday evening, March 2, 2019 in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Diocese of Easton? They will join five clergy members nominated by Bishop Marray, and ten other lay members of the diocese for their long-term and outstanding service to the church at local, diocesan and/or national levels. . . . that registration for Camp Wright programs, Summer 2019, opened December 1? Go to www.campwright.com to register. . . . that Ricky Freebery videotaped the Emmanuel Church 2018 Christmas Pageant? Please go to https://vimeo.com/308203771 to view the video or to the Emmanuel Chester Parish website. . . . that the fourth Rector of Chester Parish, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Keene, served for only one year, 1779, at a stipulated salary of 800 pounds of wheat? At the end of the year, Rev. Keene left Chester Parish and became the Rector of St. Luke's, Queen Anne's. He finally received his complete compensation from Chester Parish two years after leaving for St. Luke's. . . . that the fifth Rector of Chester Parish (1780-1788) was the Rev. Dr. William Smith, who in addition to serving as the rector of Chester Parish, founded Washington College in 1782?

Ask the Vicar If you have a liturgical question, please send it to me at drdarcy.williams@gmail.com and I will do my best to answer it.

Question: Two years ago, we had an "Instructed Eucharist" at Emmanuel, but there was so much information, it was confusing. How can I learn more about the different parts of our Sunday morning service? Answer: Our Worship Committee has asked that over the next year, I use this column to explain the various parts of the service.

PART 3 of the answer to this question follows as we continue to learn about the Liturgy of the Word : It has long been a tradition among Christians that lay people read the lessons, with the exception of the Gospel. The first lesson is generally from the Old Testament, the Jewish Scriptures. The second lesson is from the Epistles, letters from the Apostle to the early Christian church.

A psalm or a part of a psalm is read or sung between the first and second lesson. The Psalms are the ancient hymnal of the Jews, and Christians have always continued to use them.

The final reading at a Eucharistic service is always from one of the four gospels. Christians have long given special importance to the gospels because that is where we hear directly the words and actions of Jesus. We express this importance by having an ordained minister do this reading, and by standing when we listen to it. If there is a deacon present, the deacon reads the Gospel.

A sermon, which is usually based on at least one of the scripture readings, follows the Gospel reading. we conclude our response to God’s Word by standing and saying together the Nicene Creed. This summary statement of Christian belief was adopted by the undivided church in the fourth century and is one of the oldest texts of Christian worship.

Samaritan Group Winter Schedule Emmanuel Church will be providing dinner for shelter residents during the week of March 17 through 23. The shelter is being held at the Presbyterian Church during March. Volunteers will need to be at the church at 5:30 and ready to provide a meal for 8 - 10 people at 6:00. We are asked to stay, eat with the guests and help clean up afterwards.

Anyone interested in helping in any way, please call Ellen Stevenson, 410-778-5521. Thank you.

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Music Notes

Mark Your Calendars

Emmanuel's Film Series Continues, February 6, 5:30 p.m.: Loving The Emmanuel film series which began last summer and has looked at issues of race and racism through the lens of film will continue this spring, beginning on Wednesday, February, 6, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. with pizza and beverage, followed by the showing of the 2016 feature film Loving starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga. This film tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. A discussion will follow the film.

Films will be shown monthly in the Parish Hall. Watch the email news and the website for dates and film selection. Some of the films we are considering are: A Raisin in the Sun, The Blind Side, Glory, Blindspotting, Queen of Katwe, The Green Book, Twelve Years a Slave, Moonlight, Black Panther. If you have any recommendations, please let Sandy Bjork or Darcy+ know.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday, March 5, 2019 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for this year's Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. Join our Church School children and their parents for a delicious supper to mark the end of the Epiphany season and the beginning of Lent. The menu will include pancakes, breakfast casseroles, bacon, sausage, cheesy grits and fruit. Proceeds from the Pancake Supper will be added to the Youth Group's "Give Change to Make Change" collection held during Lent and be donated to a charity chosen by the Sunday School students and our acolytes.

Episcopal Diocese of Easton, 151th Convention of the Diocese—Cambridge, Maryland Friday, March 1, 2019: 151st Convention of the Diocese of Easton, Business Meeting, Registration opens at 9:45 a.m., Opening Worship, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 2, 2019: "Ignite The Way: Loving through discipleship, evangelism, and mission", 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (registration forms are available in the Parish Hall) 150th Anniversary Gala Banquet, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, 2019: Special Celebratory Eucharist, featuring the Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop, Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort, 12 noon.

Bishop's Annual Visitation to Emmanuel, May 12, 2019 The Rt. Rev. Santosh Marray will make his annual visitation to Emmanuel on Sunday, May 12, 2019. This is the time for anyone who wishes to be confirmed or received into the Episcopal Church, or to reaffirm their faith in the presence of the Bishop to do so.

Any adult or teen who wishes to be confirmed this year should contact Vicar Darcy to register for Confirmation classes.

Upcoming Concert Date: The next concert in Emmanuel’s 26th Concert Series is on Friday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m., when Nicole Keller will perform.

Nicole is an active solo and chamber music recitalist and clinician performing throughout in the United States and abroad. She performs regularly as a solo and collaborative artist on the organ, piano and harpsichord. Nicole is on the faculty at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and is the Associate Organist at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland. Concert tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for children and students with ID, and will be available at the door.

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Thank you, Emmanuel . . . . . . from Kent County Adult Medical Day Care Foundation: hank you for your generous gift $5,000 to our program. Your gift allows us to reach many older, vulnerable members of the community who need medically supervised assistance with activities of daily living and to offer respite for their caregivers.

. . . from Chestertown River Arts and KidSPOT Advisory Committee: thank you for investing in our children. In particular your $5,000 grant will assist in sponsoring scholarships to the Afterschool Enrichment Program and Summer Camp, as well as cover some much needed renovations.

. . . from Janes United Methodist Church: It is with sincerest appreciation that [we] thank you for your generous donation of $5,000 in support of our Centennial Year restoration project for this historic community building. It is because of caring, committed people like you that this important work can move forward.

. . . from Ann O'Connor, Compass Regional Hospice: A very special thank you for once again allowing us to have our Hospice Memorial Service in your church. Besides your generosity of spirit, Stephanie King and the large presence of your choir brought a warm familiarity to the occasion.

. . . from The Community Food Pantry: thank you for your generous support of the Community Food Pantry through your regular donations of nonperishable food, and the many cash donations. Through your generosity we are able to help meet the needs of adults and children in Kent County so that no one goes to bed hungry.

. . . from The Retreat House at Hillsboro: Thank you for your generous gift of $250. We are so grateful for friends like you who care about our mission of holding prayerful space for anyone who seeks God.

. . . from the Samaritan Group of Kent County: Thank you for your recent donations to the Samaritan Group. Because of your contribution and others, we will be able to provide our Emergency Shelter and Outreach services to those in need in Kent and Northern Queen Anne's, and were able to purchase 15 new cots for the winter shelter.

. . . from the Kent County Community Marching Band: thank you so much for letting us use the Parish Hall to rehearse!

. . . from the Diocese of Easton, Bishop Santosh Marray: thank you for your gift to the Bishop's Christmas Appeal for Episcopal Relief and Development in the amount of $250.

. . . from Episcopal Relief and Development: thank you for your generous gifts totaling $1400 to Episcopal Relief and Development for the Hurricane Relief Fund during 2018.

. . . from Agape Ministry of the Diocese of Easton: thank you for your generous donation of new toys for the Christmas Party for our Agape Ministry children. I wish you could see the children's eyes light up when they see the gifts that have been donated.

. . from The Good Neighbor Fund: thank you for your generous donations to the Good Neighbor Fund during 2018. Donations like yours from our supporters in the community allow us to help families stay in their homes, and meet the those unexpected needs when confronted with a crisis that prevents them from being able to meet those expenses themselves.

. . . from ACTS Legacy Foundation: thank you for your generous contribution of $250 to the Heron Point Benevolence Fund. Through gifts like yours, we are able to enhance and improve the quality of life and provide those "extras" for our residents.

. . .from The Kent Center: We are grateful. On behalf of our entire Kent Center Family, thank you for your generous donation of $5,000. Thanks to donors like you, we currently provide daily, personalized supports and services to more than 75 adults with diverse abilities… ...Wow! What a tremendous gift—thank you!

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Of Rabbits, Ratios, and Scripture by Ron Abler

For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light. 1

Early in the 13th century, mathematician Leonardo Bonacci of Pisa (nicknamed Fibonacci, or son of Bonacci) posed this hypothetical mathematical problem: Beginning with a single pair of rabbits (one male and one female), how many pairs of rabbits will be born in a year, assuming that every month each breeding pair gives birth to a new pair of rabbits, and the new pair starts giving birth to additional pairs one month after their birth? He discovered that the number of pairs of breeding rabbits increased according to a regular sequence; namely,

0, 1,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, and 89, etc. 2 He observed that each number in this infinite sequence can be derived as the sum of its two preceding numbers; e.g., 2+3=5, 3+5=8, etc. Coincidence? Maybe.

This "Fibonacci" sequence has some very interesting characteristics. For example, a spiral whose radius increases according to the sequence can be found throughout nature. One simply has to look: in the internal architecture of a chambered nautilus, in the arrangement of the florets in the center of a sunflower, the fruitlets of pineapples, and the scales of pine cones. Even waves breaking onto the shore and some galaxies take the

shape of Fibonacci spirals. 3 Coincidence? Maybe.

Ever since the 5th century BC mathematician Pythagoras discovered the Golden Ratio of 1.618... (a non-repeating decimal like pi), it was considered to produce esthetically pleasing proportions in art and architecture. 4 It can be seen in the Parthenon, the Taj Mahal, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the UN building. 5 It was also used to design the Apple, Pepsi, and Twitter logos. 6 The ubiquitous 3x5 index card and 5 by 8 picture frame have the Golden Ratio. (Dividing 3 into 5 and 5 into 8 yields 1.6. Notice that 3, 5, and 8 are Fibonacci numbers. The larger the numbers, the closer their quotients come to the precise value of the Golden Ratio.) Even our chromatic musical scale uses the Fibonacci Sequence 7, and many classical compositions employ the Golden Ratio. 8 Coincidence? Maybe.

Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio can even be found in the Bible: the dimensions of Noah's Ark (300 x 50 x 30 cubits) 9 are Fibonacci, as are those of the Ark of the Covenant 10 and the Temple in Jerusalem. 11 Coincidence? Maybe not.

Consider this instead: when God said, "Let there be light!" on the First Day of Creation, all the laws of the physical universe were brought into being. Everything that has happened since, including whatever it is that makes the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci spirals so useful to Mother Nature and so pleasing to human senses, has followed those laws. They had to. They were made that way. That is why they have been called the divine fingerprint and the math of God.

1. Luke 8:17

2. http://science.jrank.org/pages/2705/Fibonacci-Sequence-History.html\

3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnR8zupK0A

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#History

5. https://artgreet.com/golden-section/

6. https://twitter.com/Multiple_Design/status/1041952271771295744

7. https://www.goldennumber.net/music/Genesis 6:15

8. https://www.cmuse.org/classical-pieces-with-the-golden-ratio/

9 Genesis 6:15

10. Exodus 25:10

11. https://www.recoveredscience.com/constgoldentemple.htm

Fibonacci Spiral

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Have You Seen Our Newest Banner?

Many thanks to Helen Tyson for creating and donating our newest parish banner: the Epiphany Season banner. Every Sunday, the children carry the banner into church as part of the 10:30 a.m. procession at the beginning of the service. Thank you, Helen! The new banner is beautiful!

Directory Updates

Wendell & Ellie Johnson 415 Mallard Court

Chestertown, MD 21620 443-282-0907

David & Sandy Durfee 474 Sandpiper Court

Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-0197

Bill & Faith Parshall P.O. Box 582

Oaks, PA 19456-0582

Leslie Baldwin 496 Cormorant Court

Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-0671

Mary Grace (MG) Brosius 715 Rosin Drive

Chestertown, MD 21620 410-810-1675

Jean Smith 478 Sandpiper Court

Chestertown, MD 21620 443-282-0186

George Barnum Ohio Chestertown P.O. Box 213 204 E. Campus Ave. Austinburg, OH 44010 Chestertown, MD 21620

Anne Bainbridge 212 Washington Avenue Chestertown, MD 21620

Joe & Carrie Pawelchak (Lexie, Annie)

103 Cool Meadow Drive Centreville, MD 21617

301-343-9067

The Rev. Rachel Field 75 Sea Street, #1

New Haven, CT 06519

Earl & Susan McGimpsey 501 E. Campus Ave, Apt 318

Chestertown, MD 21620

Barbara Fertig 200 Fey Road

Chestertown, MD 21620

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Guest Speaker: The Rev. Mark Jefferson, Saturday, February 9, 4 p.m. Please mark your calendars for Saturday, February 9, at 4 p.m., when the Rev. Mark Jefferson will join us and

present a talk on "Where Do We Go From Here: Absalom Jones and the State of the Church." Mark currently serves as Visiting Professor of Homiletics at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), in Alexandria, Virginia. He also serves as Associate Director of the Deep Calls to Deep preaching program, an initiative supported by a Lilly grant to cultivate embodied preaching. He is also a presence on social media blogging extensively with posts being featured on Urban Cusp and The Root. A reception in the Parish Hall will follow his presentation.

The Giving Tree - 2018 The first year we put up the ”The Giving Tree” was in 2005 and we helped 4 families. This past Christmas with your help, we purchased a total of 135 gifts for 9 families - 9 Adults and 21 Children. In

addition the families also received gifts cards from either Acme or Redners.

With some of your generous cash donations we purchased additional supermarket gift cards and also oil and propane for one family in need and we are still able to give $515 to the Food Pantry.

Christmas Bazaar—2018

A Happy New Year and early “hello” to all Bazaar workers and well-wishers. Please come to an early 2019 Bazaar meeting on Sunday, February 3, after Coffee Hour. We have some serious congratulations owed each other, and some re-organizing for 2019.

"Souper Bowl" Sunday is Coming, February 3

The Souper Bowl of Caring is a national movement of young people working to fight hunger and poverty in their own communities around the time of the Super Bowl football game. Started by a youth group in 1990, Souper Bowl of Caring has since grown all over the world, collecting more than $130 million donated back into their own community. This year, Emmanuel will hold our own Souper Bowl of Caring on Sunday, February 3. We will have a large "soup bowl" -- maybe two -- in the Narthex where you will be able to leave your donation of cash or canned food. Everything we collect will be donated to the Community Food Pantry.

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Meet Emmanuel’s Newest Vestry Members Brianna Mayer Bree is a life-long Episcopalian and mother of two girls, Luella 7, and Bianca 4. She and her husband, Adi, moved to Chestertown from Austin, Texas in 2010 when he accepted a job in the Economics Department at Washington College. Bree is a social worker at the Kent Family Center in Chestertown that helps parents of children 0-4 to access early childhood education as well as adult education, personal and employment resources for themselves. She thinks that Emmanuel’s strong community outreach, kindhearted parishioners and the active Sunday School makes Emmanuel as perfect fit for her family!

George Shivers George Shivers grew up on a farm on the Eastern Shore near Salisbury and was raised in the Methodist church. He received a BA with a major in Spanish and a minor in Secondary Education from American University and a MA and PhD in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He came to Chestertown in 1989 to teach Spanish language, literature and culture at Washington College and was there until he retired in 2007. He was married to Jeanette Sherbody in 1988. She is an anthropologist who also taught at Washington College and retired in 2007. Jeanette is a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Baltimore. Their daughter by an earlier marriage, Juliette Tord, lives with her husband, David Diggs and their daughter, Anya, in Severna Park, Maryland. She is an office manager in a law firm. Anya is nine years old and has two older step- siblings, J.R., a high school teacher in Anne Arundel County, and Rebecca, who is in graduate school studying to be a nurse leader.

Jenny,

What are you and the kids doing??

To find out just what Jenny Lee and Emmanuel’s Sunday School kids have been doing, read the Sunday School report in the 2018 Annual Report. If you don’t have a copy, call the church office, 410-778-3477and ask

to have one mailed to

you.

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Calendar Highlights

February Monday, February 4, 7 p.m.: Northern Convocation Pre-Convention Meeting, Emmanuel, Chestertown

Tuesday, February 5, 6:30 p.m.: Road to Reconciliation

Wednesday, February 6, 5:30 p.m.: Emmanuel film series—Loving (see page 4)

Thursday, February 7, 2 p.m.: Heron Point Eucharist

Saturday, February 9, 4 p.m.: Rev. Mark Jefferson presents, “Where Do We Go From Here: Absalom Jones and the State of the Church;” reception to follow (see page 8).

Sunday, February 17. 12 noon—2 p.m.: Vestry meeting

Monday, February 18: Presidents’ Day, Office Closed

Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 a.m.: Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s breakfast

Thursday, February 21, 2 p.m.: Heron Point Tea

Friday, February 22: 8 a.m.—12:30 p.m.: Food Summit

Thursday, February 28, 5-7 p.m.: Laundry Love

March

Friday, March 1—Sunday, March 3: Diocesan Convention (see page 4)

Sunday, March 3, 8 a.m.: Morning Prayer (No 10:30 service); Convention Eucharist, 12 noon

Tuesday, March 5, 5:30-7 p.m.: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper (see page 4)

Wednesday, March 6, 12 noon and 6 p.m.: Ash Wednesday services with Imposition of Ashes

Sunday March 10: Daylight Savings Time begins Set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed Saturday night, or you will be late for church!

Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 p.m.: Emmanuel film Series (see page 4)

Sunday, March 17: 12 noon—4 p.m. Eastern Shore Wind Ensemble concert, admission is free

Wednesday, March 20, 7:30 a.m.: Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s breakfast

Friday, March 29: Organ Concert featuring Nicole Keller, (see page 4)

Schedule for Emmanuel’s Lenten Program—Embracing the Prophets (see page 2) Each program in the Lenten series will be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning at 6:15 p.m. with a pot-luck supper.

March 12 April 2

March 19 April 9

March 26 April 16

Every Week

Bible Study—Each Wednesday at 11 a.m.

Mid-day Eucharist with Anointing for Healing—Each Wednesday at noon; the service lasts about 30 minutes.

Alcoholics Anonymous—Meets each Thursday evening, 8 p.m., in the Parish Hall.

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Flower Memorials, Parish Cycle of Prayer

February March

Sunday, February 3 (G) Way of Love: Worship

Flowers: Trent & Tyler Ward, and Bill & Janet Knapp

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Sandy Bjork; Penny & Jim Block; Julie, Brent, Adele, Oliver, & Gardner Blyman; and Ann & Michael Bourne Wed., Feb. 6 (G) The Martyrs of Japan (o) Sunday, February 10 (G) Feast of Absalom Jones

Flowers: Dorothy Vickers Anthony

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Barbara & David Bowering; Bernadette& Paul Bowman; Ann Boyden; and Janet Brandon

Wed., Feb. 13 (G) Absalom Jones

Sunday, February 17 (G) Way of Love: Bless

Flowers: Anthony Gray Scott

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Robyn & Neil Brayton; Jerry Bristoll; Carolyn Brown & Teijo Niemela; and Mary Grace (M.G.) Brosius

Wed., Feb. 20 (G) Frederick Douglass Sunday, February 24 (G) Way of Love: Go

Flowers: Edward T. Tait

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Phyllis & Roger Brown; Cecily & John Buckley; and Virginia Catherwood

Wednesday, Feb. 27 (G) George Herbert

Sunday, March 3 (G) Morning Prayer (8 a.m.)

Flowers: Fred W. & Miriam S. Dumschott

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Jane & Gordon Chapman; Anne Charles; Melissa Clarke; and Ginger & Tom Collier

Wed., Mar. 6 (P) Ash Wednesday Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes

12 Noon and 6 p.m.

Sunday, March 10 (P) Lent I

No flowers during Lent

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Rob Comfort; Sid Cooper; Lawson Cording; and Steve Croker

Wed., March 13 (P) Wednesday in the First Week of Lent

Sunday, March 17 (P) Lent II

No flowers during Lent

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Barbara Cromwell; Diane & Anne Daniels; Mary Booth Davis; and Betty & John De Jong

Wed., March 20 NO NOON EUCHARIST Sunday, March 24 (P) Lent III

No flowers during Lent

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Amanda Deringer, Wittney & Lynn Reed; Nancy & Tom DiAngelo; Nancy Dick; and Alec Dick

Wed., March 27 (P) Wednesday in the

Third Week of Lent Sunday, March 31 (P) Lent IV

No flowers during Lent

Parish Cycle of Prayer: Penny Walker Doyle & Ann Hedgepeth; Laura Drons; and Sandy & David Durfee

Wed., Apr. 3 Wednesday in the

Fourth Week of Lent Notes: Uppercase letters in parentheses indicate liturgical colors: B=black, BL=blue, G=green, R=red, LA=Lenten array,

P=purple, W=white The letter “o” indicates that a saint’s feast is being observed on this date, rather than the date usually appointed.

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Staff:

The Reverend F. Darcy Williams, Rector

Stephanie King, Director of Music and Choirmaster

G. Robert Tyson, Choirmaster Emeritus

Avis Wheatley, Organist

Laura Kaufmann, Parish Secretary

Sue Byerly, Financial Assistant

Melvin Thompson, Sexton

Emmanuel Church, PO Box 875 Chestertown, Maryland 21620

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Susan Roberson (2021)

Craig Jackson (2022)

Brianna Mayer (2022)

George Shivers (2022)

Parish Officers:

Sandra Bjork, Senior Warden

Thomas Mack, Jr., Junior Warden

Roger Brown, Treasurer

Penny Block Registrar