This Week's Announcements
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
We are a welcoming, caring community, called by Christ
and enabled by the spirit, to share God’s love by living our faith.
EVENTS THIS WEEK!!!!
CHURCH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY FOR THE FAMILY DAY HOLIDAY
Tuesday – Pancake Supper 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Wednesday – Ash Wednesday worship with Imposition of Ashes – 7:30 pm
THIS WEEK AT MOUNT ZION
Today Transfiguration of Our Lord February 19
Holy Communion 8:45 am
NO Confirmation
Sunday School 10:30 am
Holy Communion 10:45 am
Tuesday
Pancake Supper 5:00 pm
Worship & Music Committee 7:00 pm
Wednesday ASH WEDNESDAY
Property Committee 10:30 am
Imposition of Ashes & Holy Communion 7:30 pm
Thursday
Choir 7:30 pm
Next Sunday 1st Sunday in Lent February 26
Holy Communion 8:45 am
Confirmation 9:50 am
Sunday School 10:30 am
Holy Communion 10:45 am
NEXT WEEKS’ SCRIPTURE READINGS
To help you prepare for next week’s worship you are invited to read the lessons before you arrive at church. These are the readings for next week – 1st Sunday in Lent: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10, 1 Peter 3:18-22, Mark 1:9-15
SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER
The Annual Youth Ministry Pancake Supper will take place this Tuesday February 21st - 5 to 6 pm
There will be no tickets, just a Free Will Offering
All are welcome, we just ask you to sign up on sheet located on the Youth Bulletin board in the entrance way. Monies raised will help to send youth to Confirmation Camp or National Youth Gathering, as well as to participate in other youth events.
UPCOMING WORSHIP
Ash Wednesday
Join us this WEDNESDAY (February 22) for a service of Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion. Worship time is 7:30pm.
Mid Week Lent
Our mid-week Lenten Services begin on February 29th as we worship using Holden Evening Prayer. Worship time is 7:15pm.
MID-WEEK LIFE LONG LEARNING
Who Is This Jesus?
During his life and death, Jesus' followers tried to make sense of who he was using images and characters from the Hebrew bible. We have taken many of these descriptions into our liturgies and hymns, perhaps without really understanding what they mean. On Wednesday evenings during Lent we will meet after Holden Evening Prayer to explore various portrayals of Jesus in scripture and worship, for example, Jesus as prophet or Jesus as Sophia. After learning what the image might have meant to the early Christians, participants will have a chance to ask who Jesus is to them. Please bring a bible.
Session 1 – Feb 29 Jesus as a Prophet
Session 2 – Mar 7 Jesus as Elijah
Session 3 – Mar 14 Jesus as the Messiah
Session 4 – Mar 21 Jesus as Sophia (Wisdom)
Session 5 – Mar 28 Jesus as the Suffering Servant
Session 6 – April 4 Jesus as High Priest, Sacrifice and Passover Lamb
Wednesday evenings beginning February 29th and continuing until April 4th. Contact Jackie Nunns for more info.
COOK BOOK
The Health Council of Mount Zion is preparing a cook book and would like you to share your favourite recipes. Please send them via email to Rita Schaus for publication. You might also want to suggest a title for the cookbook. The winner will be presented with a free copy of the cookbook. For those with no computer access, please write your recipes on the cards provided by Health Council members and slip them in Nurse Betty's mailbox.
UPDATE – MARY’S PLACE
Mary's Place is the first 2012 Adopt A Cause ministry highlighted by Mount Zion's Service Committee.
Mary’s Place is a 45 unit supportive residence/shelter. In 2010 880 people called it home and of those 191 were children. In 2011 Mary’s Place provided nearly 21,000 nights of emergency shelters, and served more than 73,000 meals.
On the table directly below the “Adopt a Cause” for 2012. banner is a box where you can deposit Wish List items you may want to contribute to Mary’s Place. (Additional copies of the Mary’s Place Wish List are available on the table.) Financial donations can also be made through your regular church envelope simply by putting the words “Mary’s Place”
Read family accounts in the Mountaineer.
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP - POTATO BLITZ
It is once again time for the House of Friendship Potato Blitz. The purpose of this project is to raise funds and potatoes to meet the annual need for emergency food supplies. With cash donations, they can purchase potatoes year around for a fixed price of 10 cents per pound from their supplier, Marhaven Farms of St. Jacobs.
Mount Zion members will once again be able to participate in this project TODAY. For $2 you will be able to place your name on a cut out potato which will be hung in the narthex. You are certainly welcome to pay for more than one potato.
JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM!!!
Throughout the Winter Mount Zion’s Health Council is sponsoring a “Journey to Jerusalem”. We will make the journey, in actual km, with the goal to reach Jerusalem by Palm Sunday. It is a combination of gentle exercise – including items that you are already doing - and spirituality. Your work is to keep track of time spent, convert it into km (we will help you with that), and report it back to the church each week
WHERE ARE WE NOW? The km for week 5 is 970 km for a total is 4,188 km. This means we are in the Atlantic Ocean, 2,201 km off Nova Scotia coast. The total km for the walk we need to reach is 20,312 km
IF THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL
The weather outside is frightful and you’re wondering whether a service might be cancelled. In that unlikely event, the information will be available on the home page of our website www.mzlc.ca The church’s answering machine will also carry news of the cancellation. We will try to have it listed on 570 News Radio on the A.M. dial.
