Dear Folks,

The Parish Day School is a principal ministry of The Church of the Redeemer. Founded 70 years ago with a commitment to the early childhood development of toddlers to preschoolers, last year the PDS Board and Redeemer Vestry committed to expanding this critical work through third grade. Former State Superintendent of Schools Nancy Grasmick helped us see that our program “completes early childhood education” by stretching to include nine-year-olds, and caught our enthusiasm for community engagement. As School Director Mary Knott and I described the on-going parish relationship with Govans Elementary School, just blocks from the Redeemer campus, Grasmick assured us that PDS already has what many independent schools only dream about. “Many speak about public-private partnerships,” said the seasoned educator and policy-maker, “but few actually realize this important and difficult work. You have something special. Build on the relationships you’ve already created through parish tutors at Govans, school to school exchanges at holidays, and BUILD organizing” with Sandi McFadden (Strong City’s Community School Coordinator). With a commitment to expand only if the school, the church, and the community benefit from the growth, excitement is growing.

Please join us in a service meditating on the Passion of Christ this Sunday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. in the church. The service will include the reading of the Passion according to St. Luke and congregational hymns responding to the readings. This will be a moving way to continue your journey from the Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday morning, through Holy Week.

2022 Vestry Nominations- Due today

The vestry has 4 vacancies to fill for a three year term ending in spring 2025. The vestry Nominating Committee seeks candidates with leadership skills, particularly people who are strategic and visionary thinkers. We also look for people who work well in groups with a consensus model of decision making. Please note: In accordance with our by-laws a vestry member must be a giver of record and a member of The Church of the Redeemer by baptism or letter of transfer. If you have questions about these requirements, please contact Ellen Chatard.  

Vestry nominations are due in the church office by April 7, 2022. The Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, May 1, 2022.

Click here for more information and a nominating form.

Join us around a big table in the parish hall with your own brown bag supper, recreating the first Eucharist with bread and wine, sharing experiences of hope and healing from our Lenten journey. Then we'll walk in silence to the church to strip the altar, an ancient preparation for Good Friday.

Click here to sign up to keep watch for one hour on Zoom, overnight from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday. 9:00 p.m. April 14 through 9:00 a.m. April 15 (Zoom link available in next week's e-Redeemer).

11:00 a.m. Walk Through Holy Week a hands on experience for children

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Good Friday Liturgy, a poignant service of prayers and silence.

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.  Stations of the Cross- a meditative and embodied adaptation of the traditional stations.

 

8:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter begins outside in the new columbarium as we kindle a holy fire and move together into St. Paul's Courtyard to tell the story of creation. Then we move inside for the great Alleluia of Easter, baptisms, and Communion!

7:30 a.m. outside in the front courtyard - Holy Eucharist

9:00 a.m. Church - Holy Eucharist with music by the Redeemer Choir, The Choir School of Baltimore, brass, and timpani

Easter Egg Hunt follows the 9:00 a.m. service on the day school playground

11:00 a.m. Church - Holy Eucharist with music by the Redeemer Choir, brass, and timpani

Palm Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-- This Sunday, April 10, is Palm Sunday! Our Acting in Faith teachers and Liz Kallmyer will be in the front courtyard before the 10:00 service, inviting children to help hand out palms to arriving worshipers. When the service begins, those children will return to worship with their families. Our children’s programs, “Story Time” and “Acting in Faith,” will meet as usual following the Gospel reading; children will return to their families during the announcements.

A Walk Through Holy Week:.

On Good Friday, April 15, beginning at 11:00 a.m., consider adding depth and meaning to your Easter by participating in an event designed to help children— and adults who learn best through watching, moving and listening— to understand what happened in Jesus’ life during Holy Week, and how it leads us into Easter. While this experience is designed for children, participants may be any age. We will meet in the front courtyard. This annual event is led by young people, and helps all participants to get a sense of why Holy Week, Good Friday and Easter are the pivotal events of our faith journey. We will walk with a guide, and observe scenes representing parts of Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem.

On Easter Sunday, at 10:30 a.m., following the 9:00 service, we will have our annual Easter Egg hunt on the Redeemer Parish Day School playground! Come around to the playground, near the raised courtyard, to hear directions and begin the hunt. There will be a section for children age 4 and under, and another area for children age 5 and above.. We look forward to seeing you at this fun celebration of Easter and spring.

Keep checking e-Redeemer, to stay informed as we figure out our next steps, and please register your children now, so we can keep in contact with your family. You can reach our 2021-2022 registration form by following this link.

~Jan Schroeder

Young adults at Redeemer (folks in their 20s and 30s) are invited to gather during the 7 weeks of Easter to read through the Gospel of Mark. At each meeting we will read a section of the Gospel and reflect on it. No academic expertise or experience in a Bible study required – questions and musings encouraged! Our desire is for the group to commit to meeting each week (recognizing, of course, that life happens!). If you would like to join us, send Rebecca an email to confirm so I make sure you get the relevant information. We’re also looking for folks to host, so if that is of interest, please let me know!

I’m struck by how often I hear folks talk about Baltimore as “The City” as if it were some remote place or abstract object. I invite you to participate in BUILD training to learn to engage people in meaningful one-to-one meetings, to sincerely listen to the needs of your neighbors, and to join with them in formulating and executing actions to effect real change.

If you do, I promise that Baltimore will have a new place in your heart as “My city, My People, Our City” .You will discover friendships and kindred spirits in ways and places you would not have thought possible. I have formed more inter-generational and cross-cultural friendships in the past 5 years because of BUILD than in the previous 50 years of my adult life.

During Lent our intercessory response is “This is the fast we choose”. If you haven’t yet, I would encourage you to read Isaiah Ch. 58 on the fast we are called to choose. Verse 12 particularly speaks to me about the reward that working for our city can bring.

The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

I ask you to take the first steps to claim your share of this blessing by participating in upcoming BUILD training and events. Keep watching this space for details.

To learn more about BUILD (Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development https://www.buildiaf.org/ ) and how you can become more deeply engaged in building a better Baltimore, contact any of our core team leaders. Patty McLean, Christina Way, Ted Winstead, David Cole, David Ware, Cristina Paglinauan, Peter Bain

Our partners at Johnston Square Elementary School could use more pencils, crayons & composition notebooks for students. If you can contribute, please drop off donations in cart in the front courtyard beginning this Sunday. Thank you!!!

Ruth’s Sisters (women navigating midlife transitions in body, mind and spirit together in community grounded in faith and spirituality): Save-the-Dates for our upcoming gatherings!

April 23 (4th Saturday of month) - Another opportunity to tour Healing and the Art of Compassion exhibit at American Visionary Arts Museum at 11 a.m.

May 10 (2nd Tuesday of month) - 5:45-7:15 p.m. - Sarah Hoover will be our presenter, more details in next week’s eRedeemer!

This working group is charged with research and discovery and to report to the congregation what the group has learned, inviting discussion and response. The Vestry invites you to participate in this important truth-telling by joining this workgroup. Please contact Keri Frisch for more information and/or to join the workgroup.

Calling all artists! It’s time to prepare for the fifth annual art show, “Rejoice in the Arts!”, which will run from the Feast of the Resurrection (Easter, 4/17) until Pentecost (6/5.) Once again, you are invited to help celebrate the 50 days of Eastertide by sharing works of art that evoke (broadly interpreted) themes of new life, Resurrection, creation, or God’s presence in our midst. Paintings, photography, fiber arts, collage, sculpture, and other visual arts are welcomed.

* This year’s show is open to artists of ALL ages. Parents, please speak with the young artists in your family about this opportunity to share their creativity with the parish!

* Artists who wish to do so will have the option of having their work marked for sale. In keeping with Redeemer’s commitment to community partnership, it is suggested that thirty percent (30%) of the proceeds from the sale of the art be donated to the Govans Elementary School for the purchase of art supplies.

1) There are SPECIFIC guidelines for all art being submitted. These guidelines will be available in print on the table in the Narthex, or electronically by clicking HERE or by emailing your request to Leigh Lowe. We will not be able to include any submissions in the show which do not meet these guidelines.

2) Artwork will be collected at the church between Sunday, April 3 and Sunday, April 10. Due to the time needed to curate and hang the show, the delivery deadline for all art is no later than 11:45 on Palm Sunday, April 10. This is a firm deadline.

3) Any questions or delivery issues? We’re here to help! Please be in touch with: Leigh Lowe or Lucy Sarris.

Click here to watch last night's presentation by Erica Green

Click here to watch last week's presentation of Cousins

Click here to watch the presentation by François Furstenberg.

Click here to watch the presentation in celebration of International Women's Day.

Click here to watch the presentation by Pádraig Ó Tuama.

As of March 31, 2022 we have received 378 pledges totaling $1,450,768 toward our goal of $1,500,000. Thank you to all who have made a financial commitment to Redeemer this year. If you haven't returned your pledge form yet please use the links below to make your 2022 pledge. Thank you!

If you requested offering envelopes they are available for you to pick-up in the front hallway on Sunday.

Read David's 2022 stewardship letter.

Download a 2022 pledge form or make your pledge online here.

FAQs about stewardship at Redeemer.  

Make a gift to Redeemer via online giving. (Please note: This is a new platform as of 11/16. If you already give online to Redeemer your current password will need to be reset.)

Questions? Email Ellen Chatard

Preacher & Celebrant: The Rev. David J. Ware

Scheduled to Serve:

LAY EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Lee Ogburn  READER Louise Pistell ALTAR GUILD James Cesarini FLOWERS The Flower Guild 

Holy Eucharist, Rite 2

Click here to join us for a livestream of this service on YouTube

Preacher: The Rev. David J. Ware

Celebrant: The Rev. Rebecca Ogus

Officiant: The Rev. Freda Marie Brown

Scheduled to Serve:

VERGER Margie Chandler LAY EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Peter Shafer, Penny Partlow

ACOLYTE Tucker Brown  INTERCESSOR Lee Kelly READERS Lynda-Marie Allen, Eleanor Green ALTAR GUILD Brenda Ehlers, Alex McMahon, Ann Warfield  USHER SUPERVISOR  Steve Skeen USHERS Kathy Dickinson, Michael Dickinson, Robin Dodd LENTEN ARRANGEMENTS The Flower Guild VESTRY GREETER Dixon Harvey

Music: Redeemer Choir

Click here to join on Zoom

Bible Study- Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. & 12 noon: Please contact David Ware to join the email list to receive Zoom information.

Click here for the February 2022 Vestry Minutes

Click here for minutes from the 2021 Annual Meeting.

Vestry Minutes from the last 12 months are available here.

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