Please
keep in your prayers this week (Feb 5-11, 2012)
The Church
Rowan Archbishop of
In the Anglican Cycle of prayer:
The Most Revd Frederick Hiltz, The Anglican Church of Canada
In diocesan cycle of prayer:
St. Philip the Deacon,
In the Parish Cycle of Prayer:
Bob and Jean Gayhart; Marilyn Hargis; Tim, Karen, Amelia and Carolyn Harp
For Missionaries: Bob and Joyce
Carlson, Pat Mohney
For the Nation and all
in Authority
Barack our president and John our
Governor
The World
Victims of terror, war, famine,
disease, and natural disaster, especially in
For peace in all areas of conflict,
especially
For all suffering from the ongoing
economic turmoil
Local Concerns
For all who are serving in our armed forces:
especially Robert, Harris, Bill, Jack,
For all expectant families: Kate Johnson and
Nick Richen, Megan and Sam
For those who are traveling:
Art and Corrine Bush
For the departed: Frank Tillia,
Michele Heneghan
Those who suffer or
are in any trouble
For those needing healing: Gene, Hugh,
Lilly, Gaik, John, Roberta, Dan, Carol, Alisa, Catherine, Ken, Debbie, Jeff,
Carolyn, Linda, Pam, Cookie
For those living with chronic illness:
Paul, Boone, Doug, Marjorie, Mary, Wanda, Norma, Danny, Jessie, Erik, Helen
Mary, Dorothy, Margaret, Pamela, Junior, LiAna, Donna, Dick, LaVelle
For those needing guidance & support:
Pete, the Arellano family, Erik’s family, the Gayhart family, the Blouin
family, Theresa, Christopher and Samuel, Patrick, the Walker family, the
Scofield family, Kate, the Tillia family, Christy, the Hickman family
Thanksgivings
Birthdays: Tabor Adams (6); Patti
Emmons (7); Hannah Krause (10);
New Birth: Evan James Heileson
Return from deployment: Solomon McHenry
Saints Days and
Observances this week
The Martyrs of
ANNOUNCEMENTS
This Sunday, February 5 is “Souper Bowl”
Sunday The Souper Bowl of Caring began in 1990 with a simple prayer:
"Lord, even as we enjoy the Super Bowl football game, help us be mindful of
those who are without a bowl of soup to eat." Started in a church in
This Sunday, February 5 is a “First Sunday” and it is time for our
annual Valentines for Veterans project. Children and young people
will meet in the parish hall to work on Valentines and to help with preparations
for the upcoming Parish Outreach Fundraiser, “St. Paddy’s Party.” Bring
the young people in your family to the parish hall at 10:00 AM on February 5. We
will work for forty-five minutes, then join the adults for communion.
Questions: contact Deacon Mimi meick3@comcast.net.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 17 Come to St. Paddy’s Party
and enjoy lunch and our annual silent auction. Please think about items
which you might donate for the auction: artwork, household items, themed
baskets, jewelry, fabric art, special services such as child care, cleaning or
yard work, tickets for events or gift certificates for dinner out, or think of
something very creative and useful. It will be a fun event and a benefit
for St. James parish outreach programs.
Troops
for Valentines Day:
I'm reading an article in my college sorority alum
magazine about sending care packages to soldiers. Following is their list
of suggestions. Most are kind of different from what we've sent and may or
may not appeal to us. Corrine Bush, 503-624-8665.
Magazines, books, crossword puzzles
Small drink mix packets
Candy that will not melt
Trail mix
T-shirts, pajama pants, gym shorts
Any college-themed t-shirts (Soldiers enjoy have something "not military" to put
on during down time)
Board games (checkers, chess, Monopoly, etc)
Golf balls & tees
Frisbees, footballs, soccer balls, used bats and softballs
Deck of cards
Used movies and games from rental stores
Anything remote controlled...planes, helicopters, cars, etc. (It doesn't
have to be anything big and fancy. These can be found at a low cost at
Walgreens, etc.
Water balloons, sling shots
Calendars
Air fresheners for rooms and trucks.
Calendar Share:
If you have
received too many 2012 calendars for your use, please bring them to church and
put them on the bookshelf under the maps in the Parish Hall. If you need a
calendar, feel free to take any calendar you find there that appeals to you.
Adult Forum We
have begun our exploration of The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Please let
Please
note: All
church services, meetings etc., will be cancelled when Tigard schools are closed due to inclement weather. Check
your television news channels or website
http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=111&alert=1
for these closures.
Prayers: If you have a concern which you would like
included in our parish prayers, you may fill out one of the blue cards in the
pew racks and place the card in the offering plate. You may also call the
office or send us an email. Our normal practice is to keep people on
the healing and ‘guidance and support’ lists for one month unless you request
otherwise. If you want someone on longer, please update the office at
least monthly, so that we know that the person is still in need of the same
prayers. Be sure to take the bulletin insert home (or use the one you receive
online) so that you can join us in lifting these people up in prayer.
Calendar Feb 5-11, 2012
02/05
Holy Eucharist I-8 a.m.
Adult Education-9:05 a.m.
Holy Eucharist II-10:00 a.m.
Sunday School-10:00 a.m.
Oregon Jusarang
Church-1:00 a.m. *
02/06
Noonday Prayers-office
Quilters-noon
AA-7:30 p.m.*
02/07 Noonday Prayers-office
Evangelism Subcommittee-7:00 p.m.
Spanish AA-7-9 p.m.*
02/08 Holy Eucharist with healing-noon
Oregon Jusarang
Church-6:00 p.m.*
NA-6:30 p.m.*
AA-6:30-7:30 p.m.*
02/09 Bible Study at King City-10:15 a.m.
Noonday Prayers-office
02/10 Office closed
Spanish AA-7:00
p.m.*
AA-7:00 p.m.*
Oregon Jusarang Church-7:30 a.m.*
02/11
AA- 9:00 a.m.*
Noonday Prayers-office
Holy Eucharist -5 p.m.
*Non-Parish sponsored
Future Events
02/03 Frank Tillia Funeral Service – 11 a.m.
02/08 Frank Tillia 'Inurnment Service' – 3 p.m.
02/21 Pancake Dinner
02/22 Ash Wednesday
03/03 Lenten Program begins (5pm"Saturday Night at the Movies)
03/17 Lunch and annual silent auction.
(benefit for outreach)
04/1-7 Holy Week
04/08 Easter
Fifth Sunday after
the Epiphany, 5 February 2012
Collect
Set us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins, and
give us the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to us in
your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Isaiah 40:21-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been
told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the
earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are
like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads
them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers
of the earth as nothing. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has
their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble. To whom then will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who
created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all
by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does
not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to
the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew
their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and
not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 147 Laudate Dominum
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! *
how pleasant it is to
honor him with praise!
The Lord rebuilds
He heals the brokenhearted *and binds up their wounds.
He counts the number of the stars *and calls them all by
their names.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power; *there is no
limit to his wisdom.
The Lord lifts up the lowly, *but casts the wicked to
the ground.
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; *
make music to our God
upon the harp.
He covers the heavens with clouds *and prepares rain for
the earth;
He makes grass to grow upon the mountains *
and green plants to
serve mankind.
He provides food for flocks and herds *
and for the young
ravens when they cry.
He is not impressed by the might of a horse; *
he has no pleasure in
the strength of a man;
But the Lord has pleasure in those who fear him, *
in those who await his
gracious favor. Hallelujah!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit: *
as it was in the
beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for
boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim
the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my
own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this:
that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make
full use of my rights in the gospel. For though I am free with respect to all, I
have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I
became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one
under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those
under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though
I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win
those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak.
I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I
do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
Mark 1:29-39
Jesus left the synagogue at