June 7 – 12 Camp St. Mark
Senior High Campers
Entering Grades 9 – 12
June 14 – 19 Camp St. Barnabas
Middle School Campers
Entering Grades 6 — 8
June 21 – 26 Camp Trinity
Elementary Campers
Entering Grades 3 — 5
July 5 – 10 Camp St. Peter
Senior High Campers
Entering Grades 9 — 12
July 12 – 17 Camp St. Francis
Middle School Campers
Entering Grades 6 — 8
July 19 – 24 Camp St. Mary
Elementary Campers
Entering Grades 3 — 5
To register go to www.campwingmann.org or call 863-453-4800
Family CampSpend a weekend bonding with your family at a fun, Christian camp. Have a great time playing games and sports, kayaking, doing arts -n -crafts together, making a family sand castle on the beach, having s’mores around a campfire, gazing at the stars and singing together in chapel. Enjoy delicious home cooked meals that you don’t have to cook yourself! The family camp begins with registration at 5PM Friday (supper will be at 7PM) and ends Sunday after lunch. Lodging will be in Louttit Lodge and in cabins.
Special rate for families is $80 for all adults and teens, children are $55 (That’s a discount on regular rates.) Children 3 and under are free.
To register go on-line to www.campwingmann.org
or call Vicki Colman at Camp Wingmann 863-453-4800
“Tom Riley is one of the funniest, most inspiring persons I have ever met. He is an instant Faith Restorer.” The Rev. George Berlin, Rector, St. Philip & St. James, Denver, CO
FRIDAY
6pm – Pot-luck Dinner
6:45 – Session #1
SATURDAY
9am – Session #2
Noon – Lunch
1 pm – Session #3
SUNDAY
Closing Session
Free admissions to all / Love offering collected
Lifetree Café is a conversational café where people gather weekly to explore life and faith. Join us for compelling stories about fascinating people. Stories from the news. Stories from our own lives. The story of what God is doing in the world around us. At Lifetree Café, we explore all those stories and make sense of our faith and our lives. The Lifetree motto is…
You’re welcome just as you are. Your thoughts are welcome. Your doubts are welcome. We’re all in this together. God is here, ready to connect with you in a fresh way.
Admission to the 60-minute event is free. Snacks and beverages are offered. Come dressed casually, and bring a friend!
Thursday March 5th 7:15 PM
Coming Together: Finding Common Ground When It Seems Impossible
We’d be exploring how to overcome economic, racial, and other divisions in this session. The evening will features a screening of the lighthearted, award-winning South African short film “Kanyekanye.” The film follows the romance of a young man and woman who live in an imaginary town divided by a disagreement about what color apple is best. When Thomas, from the green-apple side of town, falls in love with Thandi, whose family favors red apples, tensions rise. Participants will consider what issues divide their own families and community and explore practical ways to overcome those divisions.
Thursday March 12th 7:15 PM
Zzzz…Practical Help for Getting a Better Night’s Sleep
Insufficient sleep has been called the number one killer in the western world. We will watch a filmed interview with Kat Duff, the author of “The Secret Life of Sleep”, who estimates that nearly 75 percent of adults experience sleep-disorder symptoms at least a few nights per week. Participants will get practical tips for getting a good night’s rest, explore the cost of insufficient sleep, consider benefits of a good night sleep, and discover the truth about common myths about sleep.
Thursday March 19th 7:15 PM
Only One Way to God? Can One Religion Really Have All the Answers?
Is there one true religion? Or many? These questions will be discussed. The evening features the filmed story of Valerie Winn, an American whose spiritual journey led her to a Chinese village where she encountered an underground church. Winn describes her encounters with various religions and how they shaped her. “I finally said, ‘God, would you just show me if you’re real?'” says Winn.
Thursday March 26th 7:15 PM
Be Happy
The program, titled “Be Happy,” features a filmed interview with Gretchin Rubin, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling book “The Happiness Project.” “Happiness isn’t a finish line; it’s a process” says Rubin, who shares a dozen specific suggestions for moving people toward greater happiness at home, at work, and in relationships.
Written by our Diocese’s own Fr. Charlie Holt, rector of St. Peter’s in Lake Mary, The Crucified Life: Seven Words from the Cross devotional provides a daily space in which we can meditate on Jesus’ final words from the cross. As we consider His words, we understand and identify with His suffering in a way that challenges us, transforms us, and ultimately brings us hope. This book is perfect for group study or personal devotion.
Special price: $16
Looking Through the Cross was Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s featured book for Lent in 2014. This book explores reconciliation, humility, identity, power, suffering, life and atonement. These are familiar themes for Lent, but in Dr Tomlin’s hands they are given exciting new meaning which will touch the hearts and minds of men and women in a turbulent modern world.
One enthusiastic reviewer writes: “At the end of Lent, the book will help readers emerge at Eastertide re-engaged with their Christian faith.”
Special price: $14
We also have a wide variety of devotional booklets for individuals and families for only $2.
Contact Information:
Bookstore Coordinator
Anne Michels
407-849-0680 x 218
amichels@stlukescathedral.org
We will also have them on:
May 31, 2015 (Trinity Sunday)
September 27, 2015 (St. Michael and All Angels)
November 1, 2015 (All Saints)
http://spacecoastdaily.com/2015/02/top-10-historic-sites-in-brevard-county/
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Citrus plantation owners and many of the earliest inhabitants of Brevard County were buried at this historic church on the north end of Merritt Island, just a few miles south of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Image courtesy of WikiCommons
From St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s official site: StLukesMI.org:
“In the 1870s, our founding families, the LaRoche, Porcher and Sams, settled in Courtenay, a community in Merritt Island. They were Episcopalians from the Charleston and John’s Island area of South Carolina. They worshipped together using the Book of Common Prayer in the home of John Sams. The Diocese of Florida established St. Luke’s Mission in 1886, and the first church building was built in 1888 with funds provided by Mrs. Lucy A. Boardman of Connecticut on land given by Mr. Edward Porcher. The men of the congregation did the construction. Lay members were responsible for Morning and Evening Prayer two Sundays a month, while Clergy from neighboring parishes, especially St. Mark’s in Cocoa and St. Gabriel’s.”
by Episcopal Florida
Bishop Gregory Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, at Ash Wednesday Eucharist, Feb. 18, 2015.
NEW TESTAMENT: 2 Corinthians 5:20b – 6: 10 (RCL)
2Cor 5:20 (NRSV) [W]e entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 6:1 As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says,
“At an acceptable time I have listened to you,
and on a day of salvation I have helped you.”
See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! 3 We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, 7 truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see–we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Summary: In his new blog, Sean McConnell, Director of Engagement, reflects on the legacy of past Episcopalians who have answered Christ’s call to feed the hungry, provide clean water for the thirsty, welcome the stranger, care for the sick and visit the prisoner. He shares how the legacy of Episcopal Relief & Development was built on the effort of the whole Church to love and heal a hurting world, and urges us now to continue in sharing this legacy.
Lord, when was it that
We saw you hungry and gave you food?
We saw you thirsty and gave you something to drink?
We saw you a stranger and welcomed you?
We saw you sick and took care of you?
We saw you in prison and visited you?
‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these
who are members of my family, you did it to me.’
—Matthew 25: 37-40 (NRSV)
The words of Matthew 25 are well known to Christians around the globe, but I believe they strike a special chord with those familiar with Episcopal Relief & Development’s work. This is because these verses were the very ones that inspired and encouraged Episcopalians 75 years ago to take action by feeding the hungry, welcoming strangers, caring for the sick and launching an effort to resettle the refugees who had been displaced from their homes by a rapidly escalating war in Europe.
As the season of Lent approaches, I find myself contemplating the values to which Christ exhorts us, and how I can best live them out. But in this 75th Anniversary year, as I look back at Episcopal Relief & Development’s history and our community, I also see that it’s not how I can best manifest Christ, but how we, together as a Church, carry these values out.
