Volume 5, Number 2            The First Sunday After Epiphany, Baptism of Our Lord            January 13, 2008

            SEARCH — QUICK UPDATE

The Search Team held it's first meeting of the New Year on Tuesday, having taken a holiday break. This is our current status, as of the end of our January 8^th meeting:

·        We have been working on finalizing the editorial process of the updated profile to submit for printing within the next week.

·        The Search Team Chairs have been in communication with the Diocese as to where our progress is at this point.

·        We expect the Standing Committee to give us names of candidates who match our profile criteria by March and should be able to start interviewing in April.

·        We have scheduled weekly meetings and will be working closely with our consultants to prepare ourselves for interviewing and discernment.

Please keep us in your prayers. 

                                                                                   Connie Shultz, Search Team

THIS WEEK AT IMMANUEL:

Sun      13    First Sunday After The Epiphany, The Baptism Of Our Lord Jesus Christ

                      8:00 am        Holy Eucharist in Chapel

                      9:30 am        Sunday School

                    10:30 am        Sung Eucharist,   followed by Coffee Hour downstairs

Mon   14       7:00 pm        Stewardship/Finance Meeting (Library)

Tue     15       6:30 pm        Search Committee Meeting (Parlor)

                      6:30 pm        Girl and Boy Choristers (Choir Room)

                      7:00 pm        AlAnon (Common Room)

                      8:00 pm        Coro Allegro (Choir Room)

Wed   16       6:30 pm        Quiet Prayer (Common Room)

                      7:30 pm        Healing Service (Chapel)

Thu     17       7:30 pm        Mixed Choir (Choir Room)

Sat      19     12:00             AlAnon (Common Room)

COMING SOON:

Sun     20       8:30 am        Cooking for Emmanuel Dining Room (Kitchen and Dining Room)

                                             See Nancy Loux, if you can help

                    10:30 am        Sung Eucharist and Baptism of Samuel Louis Grillo,

                                             followed by Coffee Hour downstairs, which is currently looking for Host volunteers

Mon   21       7:00 pm        Next Vestry Meeting (Parlor)

Sat      26       3:00 pm        Bayou Bingo

So many thanks to all of our Sunday School youth who, through pictures and personal accounts have shared some of themselves and their lives with the students at You Ai (‘Have love” or “Have affection”) Primary School.  It’s a marvelous connection, an introduction to real friends on the other side of the earth. 

On the building front, the news is exciting.  With the most generous help of parishioners, – thanks again to each of you – friends and family, Phase II of the construction, the kitchen and dormitory has actually begun!  Please contact me if you would like to see more pictures, have question or are thinking of a trip.  To date, six people have visited and enjoyed the experience greatly.

More news and pictures when I return in May!

                                                                                    Julian Taplin

Are you available?  We don't have hosts for coffee hour, Sunday, January 20; any volunteers?  If you can help with this one week, please contact me or write your name(s) on the bulletin board schedule.  Thank you.

                                                                                    Carolyn Gibson

Have you picked up your Offering Envelopes for 2008?  If not, look for them on the lobby credenza.  If you do not find your packet, please contact me at 239-6077.

                                                                                    Ken Germain

Three invitations to help with the next Katrina Mission trip:

Prayer Shawl Knit-a-thon!  You are invited to pledge for each prayer shawl knitted between January 1 and March 1.  The prayer shawls will be given to needy folks in our community and the proceeds will be donated toward the cost of the trip.  A sign-up sheet is in the foyer!

Bayou Bingo!  We invite you to an afternoon of fun on Saturday, January 26 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Immanuel’s Dining Hall.  Admission of $10.00 gets you your first bingo card, ($1.00 for each additional card), as well as complementary cookies and coffee.  We will have a variety of prizes for the winners!  All proceeds go to support our Katrina Mission Trip.

Donate!  We also invite you to make a monetary donation, if you are able.  Please make out checks to Immanuel Church, Highlands with “Katrina Mission Project” in the memo line.

                                                                                   Vicki Anthos, Katrina Ministry

What can I do?  This is a natural response to the question of homelessness, but sometimes the answer can be as simple as contributing toilet paper.  By giving Friendship House enough toilet paper for a month, we help cut their operating costs significantly, and that makes other resources go farther.  Friendship House uses 400 rolls of toilet paper each month in the day ministries alone.  Let's try to meet one month's need!  Bring in any brand of toilet paper during January, and you will be helping to address the needs of homeless people in Wilmington.  Many thanks.

                                                                                    Sue Welles, Outreach Ministry

Fr. Thom may be reached at his church phone, 302-658-7326 Ext. 14, during his normal office hours Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. He works from home on Fridays. Please feel free to call him on his cell phone 302-229-8449 or write to thomjensen@gmail.com at any time other than church office hours, if a need arises.

Article from The Net - A Weekly Newsletter For Delaware's Episcopal Clergy

This year Martin Luther King Day is January 21st.  Because this event has now become a civic holiday, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that Martin Luther King’s life and work were built upon the rock of faith in Jesus Christ.  The annual celebration is an appropriate occasion for all of us to give thanks for the presence of Christ in Dr. King’s life and ministry.  It is an opportunity for each of us to re-dedicate ourselves to challenge racism and bias everywhere.