Calendar of Events for Lent and Easter

February 21: Shrove Tuseday Pancake Dinner
February 22: Ash Wednesday Services 12:30 and 5:30 pm
Month of March: Soup Kitchen - sign up sheet on bulletin board
March 11: Daylight Saving Time begins
March 18: Show and Tell Sunday - tour of church
              'how to' set up coffee hour, and other ministries
March 24: Winter Blues Flea Market
April 1: Palm Sunday
April 5: Maundy Thursday Pot-luck dinner and service
April 6: Good Friday - Stations of the Cross
April 7: Easter Vigil
April 8: Easter Day

COMING IN LENT

Sundays after church: Feb 19 and March 4
DVD presentation featuring John Bell
Singing the Unsung: Liberating the Song of God's people

Excerpts from "Singing the Unsung: Liberating the Song of God's People"
with John Bell

St. Gregory's Sunday Discussion and Reading Group continues Sunday at 12:00 PM (please note new time)

The Wisdom Jesus led by Matthew Leaycraft, M.Div. will center on discussions from the book The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, written by Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopal priest, spiritual writer and contemplative retreat leader.

The group will meet in five sessions from 12:00 to 1:30pm in the Parish Hall at St. Gregory's. Books are available at Mirabai bookshop in Woodstock or at any online bookseller.

Please read the first three chapters.

OUTREACH: CHANGE FOR CHANGE

 A glass jar labeled change for change is located on a stand as you enter the church. Change (coins or small bills) can be donated to Family Inn through this program. When the jar is full, the money will be given to the  Family Inn in Kingston, to offer money toward rent deposit for those who are trying to move into permanent housing.

So you can empty your pockets or pocketbooks OR perhaps take all those plastic bottles you might leave out for recycling to Hannaford's where you can put them in a plastic machine and get change for them. Then you can empty your pockets.

Clothing drop-off shed  

Clothes and shoes continue to be dropped off in abundance in the clothing shed and the bags have been stacked to the ceiling.

Take a turn at keeping the bags stacked and the drop-off chute clear. Great exercise. Sign up sheet on bulletin board by kitchen.

St. Gregory's gets $40 for every thousand lbs of clothes. This will help to defray the cost of snow plowing in the winter and mowing in the summer.

WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT 5:30 PM: CAYA SERVICE

(Come As You Are)
This service features prayers, music & Eucharist using resources from the Iona Community in Scotland.

One of the largest expenses we have at St. Gregory's is the fuel bill. Therefore, to help with this expense, CAYA will meet in the Parish Hall during the late fall and winter months so the church does not have to be heated on those evenings. We plan to make a cozy chapel in a small room off the Parish Hall. As usual, after the service of communion - breaking bread, sharing wine - we continue with a shared pot-luck meal and table conversation. All are welcome.

This is an informal way to worship, to meet other people, and to learn more about faith journeys.

On Going: The Centering Prayer Group continues to meet on Saturday mornings from 9:00 to 10:30. Newcomers are always welcome.

Help!!!  We need volunteers!  Where?  For the coffee hour in Swezy Hall each Sunday after church.