[ECOTA] News and Notes: Week of Lent IV

Wed Mar 21 19:24:54 EDT 2007

Dear People and Friends of the Advocate --

I invite you to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination  
and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading  
and meditating on God's Holy Word. (from the Ash Wednesday liturgy)

Here's what's happening in the days ahead (new information is printed  
in PURPLE) For updates and further information, visit our website:  
www.ouradvocate.org.

Monday, March 19. Lenten Eucharist with Prayers for Healing.  7 PM at  
Ephesus Place. All are encouraged to take this opportunity to reflect  
on, and receive, God's healing and forgiveness through word, prayer  
and sacrament.

Wednesday, March 21
     	Contemplative Prayer at Ephesus Place. Open to all, seasoned  
and novice alike. Come and dwell with God. 6:00-6:45 PM.

	Book Study and conversation using Meeting Jesus Again for the First  
Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by  
Marcus Borg. This week: Chapter 4. Led by Gabe Lamazares and Terry  
Milner. at Ephesus Place. 7PM.

Saturday, March 17
     Welcoming the Sabbath   Please come if you are able to Ephesus  
Place at 8 PM -- this Saturday night, for the fourth of our Saturday- 
evening gatherings to welcome the Sabbath during Lent.   We will have  
Evening Prayer and a time to reflect on how we might "remember and  
keep" the Sabbath as part of our Lenten observance.

Community Engagement Survey is attached below. Please take some time  
in the days ahead to fill out this year's Advocate Community  
Engagement survey, which is attached below and will also be available  
at Church. Please consider the passions, gifts and willingness you  
have for engaging with the community around us, as George did so well  
in his life. Surveys can be returned in the offering basket at  
Church, or mailed to the PO Box in Carrboro by this Sunday, March 25.

Sunday, March 25           Lent Five

11 AM - 1 PM	A pastoral conversation between the Vicar and the Gay  
and Lesbian people of the Advocate. At Ephesus Place.

3:30 PM    		Set-up of worship space at the Kehillah and Rehearsal of  
music for the day.

4:00 PM   		Christian Education

     Toddlers - 5 and under Our littlest learners will meet with  
Elizabeth Lippincott and parent assistants for songs, stories and games.

     6-16year-olds will meet with Buck Cooper and with Laurea Glusman  
to enjoy fellowship, and to learn and reflect on some of the great  
stories of our faith.

     Adult Ed - The Adults will gather in the west wing for the fifth  
session of the series on "Tikkun Olam," a Jewish concept that means  
"repair of the world."  During the five Sundays of Lent, we will  
explore a variety of areas that cry out for repair.  This week:  
"Tikkun Olam and Jewish-Christian relations," led by the Rev. Liz  
Dowling-Sendor

5:00 PM    Holy Eucharist  The Vicar will Celebrate and Gabe  
Lamazares will Preach.  Child Care and Education for 1-5 year-olds  
during the Liturgy of the Word.

6:20 PM    Advocate Table Fellowship -- Please plan to stay for  
supper (provided by Dinner Group 6), fellowship and conversation.

7:00 PM     Head out into the world in Peace.

Other notes:

Monday, March 26
	12 Noon	Holy Eucharist to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation.  
At the Occasional Chapel at Ephesus Place.
	7 PM		Community Engagement gathering. All are welcome to come and  
participate in discussion about community engagmenet surveys the  
focus and emphasis for our engament with the community around us and  
the Advocate Tithe. At Ephesus Place

CROP Walk ahead. Sunday, April 15 at 2PM. Once again, the Advocate  
will participate as a community in this community event to raise  
consciousness about poverty, hunger and water. If you are interested  
in walking or supporting walkers of the Advocate (WOTA?), you can  
link to our team web page using the link on our home page, http:// 
www.ouradvocate.org. (Look on the bar on the right hand side of the  
page -- "donate" by walking or sponsoring.)
Let's try to get at least eight people to sign up on the web.  Those  
who the web team, can send e-mails to friends and family asking them  
to donate. Others can donate at Church or decide whether or not they  
are able to walk on April 15. All money raised goes to fight hunger  
worldwide and locally through the Interfaith Council.
Many of our friends in Haiti walk  at least one hour each day to get  
water for the day --  to do what we do by turning on the tap on a  
whim. By walking on the Crop Walk we can unite in spirit with them  
for a day.	For further information, please contact Barbara Rowan  
<btrowan at nc.rr.com>

The Millenium Devemopment Goals,the Advocate and Haiti. The Millenium  
Development Goals,  initially estblished by the United Nations, have  
been adopted by the Episcopal Church, the Diocese of North Carolina,  
and the Epipscopal Church of the Advocate. Among other things, the  
MDGs ask governments, organizations,  and individuals to donate .7%  
of their income to individuals or organizations in developing  
countries of the world. The Advocate will do this through our  
Advocate Tithe, this year giving 10% of the Tithe, (1% of our pledged  
and plate offering), $1000,  to St. Innocents School and Church on La  
Gonave Island in Haiti.  Individuals  and households of the Advocate  
can give all or part of their own MDG donation this year to St.  
Innocents, by writting checks to ECOTA with a memo for Haiti  
Partnership. Funds will be wired to Haiti in April, June, October and  
December.

Anti-Racism Work at the Advocate Continues.
	1) Tom Fisher, Frank Lombard and the Vicar will attend a Racism  
Awareness Workshop sponsored by the Dicoese of North Carolina in  
Raleigh this Friday and Saturday. Reports to follow
	2) A Yahoo chat room has been created for People of the Advocate to  
talk about Race. To join, contact John Barnhart at:  
johnnsandybarnhart at yahoo.com
	3) A list of films and novels that heighten our awareness about race  
is being prepared. To make additions, contact Lamar Bland at:  
blandl at elon.edu

Grant, most merciful Lord, to your faithful people pardon and peace,  
that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve you with a  
quiet mind; through Christ our Lord. (from the Book of Occasional  
Services Ash Wednesday blessing).

Lisa+

The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck
Vicar
The Episcopal Church of the Advocate
P.O. Box 9
Carrboro, NC 27510

web: www.ouradvocate.org
Cell phone: 919-219-4437
email: lgf at ouradvocate.org

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