February 27, 2025

SUNDAY SERVICES

8:00 and 10:00 am

The flowers for Sunday, March 2nd are given to the glory of God.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Last Sunday's Service

Sunday Sermon



If you would like to read Rev. Dave's recent sermon,

please click the link below:

Sermon: The One Who Gives Us Life Shows Us How to Live

MARCH CELEBRATIONS

Birthdays

Anniversaries

5 Justus Doenecke

10 Cade Sibley

16 Elijah Marshall

27 Bob Erker

21 Justus & Carol Doenecke

24 David & Sheila Eiss

PRAYERS

We Pray for our People

Shed the light of your healing love on all who are sick in body, mind, or spirit. We pray for those with chronic illnesses, Downs IV, Holden, Victoria, Kim, Barbara, Maria Christine, Caitlin, Dennis, Angie, Amy Jo, Carling, Michael, Ian, Joan and Diana. 

Send your healing light and joy on those who receive the care of skilled nursing, especially Timothy, Barbara, Kim, and Lou.

Send healing and peace to those going through cancer treatments, and those in remission, especially, Margaret, Downs III, Victoria, Alex, Connie, Douglas, Frank, Gerta, Lauren, TJ, Cara, Todd, Valerie, Violet, Joan, Nancy and Julie.

Be near to all who are in Hospice care, especially Jeanne.

For the repose of the soul of Anne Roberts and Don Judd.

May light perpetual shine on them.

A BRIDGE BETWEEN ALEX AND DAVE

Podcast: A Bridge Between



Episode 115: The Face of Jesus

(Feast of the Transfiguration)

Also available on Spotify:

Spotify: A Bridge Between

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Bridging Lent to Easter: What is Jesus Teaching Us

Our study of the five Lenten Gospel lessons begins on Wednesday, March 5th at 10 a.m. Bring your questions and a friend. All are welcome.

Bridging Lent to Easter - Week 1: "The Temptation of Jesus"

(1st Sunday in Lent. March 9th, 2025)

Pet Blessing!  

Saturday, March 8th, from 10:30 to 1 pm, All Angels will have a booth at the LBK Open House. Stop by and bring your pet, and a friend’s pet, for a blessing.

If you are interested in helping us with our booth, please let Fr. Dave know.

Memorial Services

The Memorial Service for Anne Roberts is on Friday, March 14th

at 10 a.m. 

The Memorial Service for C.J. Nager is on Sunday, April 6th at 1 pm. The reception for him is during coffee hour after the 10 a.m. service.

Gallery Artists

Our featured artist in March is iconographer Christine Hales. 

Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented local artist. Checks should be written to All Angels by the Sea.  

Christine will be hosting an open house after the 10:00 church service on March 16th to talk about her Icons.  

Choir News

Chancel Choir rehearsals are on Thursdays at 10 am.

Handbell Choir rehearsals on Thursdays 11:15 am.

New members are always welcome! Please feel free to join us!

Men's and Women's Discussion Groups

Next week, the season of Lent begins. In Lent, we are invited to take on something new or to give up something in order to deepen our faith. The "something new" for Lent will be a discussion of the upcoming Gospel lesson on Wednesday at 10 a.m. called, Bridging Lent to Easter, What Is Jesus Teaching Us. This means the Tuesday group will be open to everyone in Lent. 

Attached is the Tuesday reading - The C.S. Lewis Sentence That Could Change Your Life. The Wednesday discussion group - open to everyone - will discuss the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness and what Jesus is teaching us in our life. 

If you'd like to have a really holy Lent, feel free to attend both sessions (and bring a friend). 

For those in person, I'll have the coffee ready. For those on Zoom, here's the link: https://zoom.us/j/5955701807

To read the article, click the link below:

The CS Lewis Sentence That Could Change Your Life

Coffee Hour Hosts Needed

One of the most important things we do is gather after the service for coffee hour. If you are interested in hosting, the sign up sheet is on the Gallery table. If you would like help, sign up and we will find someone to show you how it is done. 

Online Giving

If you would like to give to the offering plate electronically, you can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:

AllAngelsLBK.org

Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day, at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time. 

REFLECTION

Knowing Prayer

What do you know for sure?

There is a difference between knowing prayer and knowing about prayer. Prayer-in-practice is knowing prayer. The other – knowing about prayer – is religion. Although I have formal education in religion, what I know for sure is prayer. Religion has historicity and is theoretical. Prayer, to me, is life; present, right now.

Think about it this way: knowing how someone breathes is science; knowing your breath is something different – it is life giving, centering, and breath is with us all the time whether we are conscious of it or not. Jewish spirituality has the concept that every breath is a prayer. It comes from the story in Genesis when God’s breath entered Adam and he became alive (or conscious). That breath – from God to Adam – is present with you right now, as you breathe whether you are conscious of it or not.

Prayer is breath. Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is also for when you have nothing left but a prayer’s chance. It’s a first resort; it’s a last resort. It’s for every stage in-between.

Speaking of last resort, as a chaplain, I was called into a hospital room with an agitated veteran who had very little chance of surviving the next few days. When I walked into the room, he pointedly asked me if I believe in God and in prayer. I said that I do. He said he does not believe at all. I smiled and asked why he called for a chaplain. He said, “I need someone who believes to pray for me because I do not believe.” I sat down on the chair next to his hospital bed, gathered my thoughts, and asked, “What do you want me to pray for?” He said, “Peace.” I asked, “What kind of peace?” He told me about how he had been in personal turmoil since the mid-1970s. Although he was successful in business, he could never be at peace. He always had to be doing something and have the radio or a television on; and he could never stay in a romantic relationship for very long. With his outstretched hand, he took my hand, looked me straight in the eye, and said, “I need peace, and I need someone who believes to pray for me because I cannot find peace on my own.”

I asked him to lay back, close his eyes and remember the earliest memory he could think of. His breathing started to slow down as he searched his memory. I saw the corners of his eyes smile. I asked, “What are you thinking of?” He said quietly, “I’m with my dad. We are fishing.” I then prayed out loud for God our Father to do as Jesus promised – to bring us peace, not as the world gives but as God the Father of Jesus gives. His whole body relaxed into the hospital bed. Without opening his eyes, he whispered, “Thank you.”

I believe his prayer was heard. 

- Fr. Dave