St. Andrew’s Anglican Church Sunday, March 31, 2019 Encountering Jesus Conference May 3-4 What does walking with Jesus in our everyday routine look like? Instead of relying on memories, how can we have fresh encounters with him? The Encountering Jesus Conference, which will be hosted by our Prayer Ministries Team at St. Andrew’s on Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, will address these questions, and more! We’ll lean into the fullness of God’s Please turn to the back L   S P

Above, Aruna and Sanjay Pais share with others at their table during the small group discussion time following Fr. Ron Baird’s teaching at last Tuesday’s Lenten Study Program. Deadly Sins Q Holy Virtues Our 2019 Lenten Study Program continues into its fourth week this coming Tuesday, April 2, from 6:15 to 8 p.m. If you’ve not yet had an opportunity to attend, Fr. Shane Tucker will be among the guest speakers at please join us this week, when we’ll be taking a look the Never In Vain Conference sponsored by Ignite at the sin of envy, and its contrary holy virtue, hope. Our City on Friday, April 12, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. There are also Lenten Study opportunities for women at Station 67, 379 W. Broad St., Columbus. His topic on Thursdays and Sundays. See last week’s Net, or our will be “‘Paternal Pioneering: Making a Way as a website, standrewspolaris.org, for details. Faithful Father.” Watch for details in next week’s — • — edition of “The Net,” and go to igniteourcity.com for We need folks to sign up to bring soups and salads more information, including where to get tickets. this Tuesday! Please check the sign-up sheet at the Information Desk in the Gathering Area to see what’s Pat Linder, who this weekend is serving with the Kairos #50 still needed. team at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, — • — Have you missed a session of the Lenten Study program? thanks members of St. Andrew’s, who collectively Catch up by downloading the weekly outline and study contributed $2,104 toward the team’s cost of putting on questions from our website, standrewspolaris.org. You’ll the weekend. Your generosity helped the team carry the find them by selecting “News” under the “Know” drop- Gospel message of the love of Christ to 42 women at the down menu. facility. — “I was in prison and you visited me.” (Matthew 25:36) Prayers for the Church Prayers for the Winkelman Anglican Church in North America: Moderator and Samuel Markhin and Vanderhoff families and the bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and people of the Church of We ask your prayers for two (United). members of the St. Andrew’s family Bangladesh was part of the state of , which was partitioned from who are mourning the recent deaths India in 1947. After the civil war between East and West Pakistan ended in of loved ones. 1971, East Pakistan became independent and was renamed Bangladesh. In Augustina “Gussy” Hermans- 1974, the (United) released the churches in Bangladesh Diederen, 93, mother of Monique to form a national church there. Those congregations, Anglican and English Winkelman, died Thursday, March Presbyterians, joined to form the Diocese of , then the only diocese in 14, in the Netherlands, where the . It is one of the four United Churches (all on the Monique is originally from. Former Indian subcontinent) in the . The Church is a full member members of St. Matthew’s in of both the Anglican Communion and the World Communion of Reformed Westerville may remember her, as she Churches. worshiped there several times when Since 1974, the church has grown and now has three dioceses with 20,160 she was here visiting Monique. baptized members from 4,764 families spread over 101 congregations. There are Angus Bond, 95, father of Peggy two communities of nuns and one of monks. Christians of all denominations Vanderhoff, died on Sunday, remain a small minority (about 1%) in this very predominantly Muslim nation. March 3. Angus was a familiar face at (Sources: Provincial website, Anglican Communion News Service, Wikipedia.) St. Andrew’s, as he often worshiped Please pray especially for the peaceful spread of the Gospel and for the new here with the Vanderhoffs. Moderator and Primate, who was consecrated just this past December. Please keep Monique and her Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes: Fr. Mark Engel and the people of daughters, Michelle and Nicole, Gateway Anglican Church, Canton, Ohio. in your prayers as they mourn the loss of their beloved mother and Parish Cycle of Prayer: Tony, Melissa and Josh Gutierrez; Frank and Jo Edda grandmother; and pray for Peggy, her Habeker; the St. Andrew’s staff; and our Prayer Ministries. husband Bruce, and their children John, Sarah, Peter and Hannah, as Encouragement for your prayer time with God they mourn the loss of their beloved Prayer focuses our attention on God and helps us to see that he is bigger and father, father-in-law, and grandfather. more powerful than any of our concerns. “Say to God, ‘How awesome are your Pray also for Gussy and Angus as deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you.’ “ (Psalm they begin their new lives in the 66:3) “Yet [Abraham] did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise nearer presence of our Lord and of God, but … gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power Savior Jesus Christ. May their souls to do what he had promised.” (Romans 4:20-21) — From the St. Andrew’s Prayer and the souls of all the saints rest in Ministries Team God’s peace, and may light perpetual Encountering Jesus Conference shine upon them. Continued from the front This week’s Daily Lectionary and next presence as we explore: Sunday’s Lectionary are available in • Who Jesus Is an insert at the Information Desk today, and online under the Scripture • How to Hear God’s Voice & Prayer drop-down menu at • How to Apply What God Says in Everyday Life standrewspolaris.org • A Five-Step Prayer Model Services livestreamed on Twitter • The Mind Renewed by the Holy Spirit As another way to reach out to our community with the Good The conference will be presented by a team from St. Luke’s Anglican Church of News of God in Christ, we are now Copley, Ohio. Friday’s session will be from 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturday’s session, livestreaming our 11:15 a.m. service from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is no cost to attend the conference, but a free-will (and sometimes our 9 a.m. service) on offering is welcome. our Twitter account — twitter.com/ To register, go to standrewspolaris.org. standrewsnet. This is a wonderful For further information, please contact Ann Schnapp, Prayer Team leader, at opportunity to share the music, [email protected] or 614-890-5896, or Fr. Wil Verhoff, Prayer Team member, at message, and rich tradition of Anglican 614-337-8278 or [email protected]. worship, so that folks who might not be able to get out to attend church can It's all about relationship. Come join us! worship with us from home.

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