In Case You Missed It

by Father Casey

At Annual Meeting this past Sunday, I shared about two major events in our church’s life. In case you missed it, I want to hit the highlights, as this affects everyone.

The first big thing you need to know is that we’ll begin renovating the church and sacristy in April. This the biggest and most complicated of all the projects associated with the Transfiguring Our Foundations campaign, and the work will include replacing old electrical systems, improving lighting and sound, repairing ductwork, replacing the pews, transforming the south transept into a side chapel, and totally renovating the sacristy from top to bottom. We’re even going to put in a wheelchair ramp to the chancel. Our last Sunday in the church will be the Second Sunday of Easter, April 7, and we hope to return sometime around Thanksgiving.

During those months we’ll be worshipping in Roper Hall. The staff and I, with the input of dozens of lay leaders, are already planning ways to foster beauty and reverence in that large, versatile room. We will offer our very best – we always do – but it will be different. So, I’m asking you to choose to see this as an adventure. Embracing these months with a patient and resilient attitude will help us not just endure, but actually grow as a community. These six months will be a chance for us to remember how God is with us everywhere we are gathered, and the holiness of our worship emanates from...

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In this E-news:

• Vestry on Retreat
• Parish Nurses and Peace Post
• Gather After The Table
• Meet & Greet Breakfast For Young Families
• It's FIGWORKS Sunday
• Folktales with Toni Simmon
• Fig Youth Book Drive
• Lent Begins: Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday
• Faith and Food

• Children's Lenten Program
• Lent Madness
• Newcomer Workshop
• Offices Closed for Presidents Day
• Second Half Lunch Bunch
• Mexico Pilgrimage 2025
• Transfigured Nights Presents
• Easter Outreach for Children
• VBS - Registration Open
• Support St. Hilda's

Vestry on Retreat

The Annual Vestry Retreat is taking place February 9 - 11. All Vestry Members, Clergy, and a significant portion of Church Staff will spend the weekend planning, praying, and building stronger bonds to lead our community over the coming year. Please keep them in your prayers. Also note that the Church Offices will be closed beginning at Noon on Friday, February 9.

Gather After The Table

A reminder that our monthly gathering following The Table will be this Saturday. Please plan to take a few minutes to join us for light refreshments and some time visiting with your others of your Fig Family.

Parish Nurses Health Screenings

Our regular Health Screenings for the first weekend of the month is this Saturday and Sunday, February 10 & 11. Our Parish Nurses will be available before and after services adjacent to the Labyrinth providing blood pressure check and consultation. 

Peace Post Next Sunday

This Sunday, February 11, we'll gather to write short notes to our elected officials regarding (among other issues): enabling a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza; defending the right in our country to apply for asylum; and opposing US financial support of the despotic and cruel administration of the Philippines. We'll be writing in the parish office from 10:00am until 1:30pm, and we hope you'll join us!

Meet & Greet Breakfast For Young Families

Families with young children are invited to a breakfast in the Parlor this Sunday, February 11 from 8:15am - 9:00am. We have been blessed to welcome many new families with children in recent months, and we want to help folks get to know one another and feel more at home at the Fig. This will also be a good way to connect with Figs with Kids, our wider ministry for families with school-aged children, which regularly meets for formation and fellowship. Childcare will be provided. 

For more info contact

Allison Blalock

It's FIGWORKS Sunday

Fig Works is a day of outreach when we actively commit ourselves to the work of seeing and addressing the needs in our community.

Join us in Roper Hall at 10:15am as we

• Make snack bags for children experiencing food insecurity
• Create toiletry kits for victims of human trafficking
• Assemble supplies for newly-housed folks setting up apartments

Folktales with

Toni Simmons

In honor of African American history month, join us this Sunday, February 11 at 12:30pm in Roper Hall to hear African and African American folktales from accomplished storyteller Toni Simmons. A light lunch will be provided to start. 

Fig Youth Book Drive

The Fig Youth are heading up the 100 Days, 100 Books campaign for Spring Valley Elementary School. Please help our Youth meet their goal. Click the button below to access the Amazon Wish List for the books requested by Spring Valley Elementary School. Our hope it to collect 100 books by February 14, 2024.

Lent Begins

Join us Tuesday, February 13 in Roper Hall at 5:00pm for our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, our joyful feast before Lent, sponsored by EMF.

Lent begins the next day February 14 – Ash Wednesday. There will be four services, each offering the Imposition of Ashes:

6:30am - Holy Eucharist

12:00pm - Holy Eucharist with Music

5:30pm - Holy Eucharist for Families with Young Children

7:00pm - Holy Eucharist with Choir

Food & Faith

This Lent at Transfiguration, we will be exploring how eating, something we do almost without thinking about it, is an act of discipleship. At Wednesday evening programs and Sunday morning Bible studies, we will discuss how our choices around food are related to abundance and scarcity, justice and equality, piety and hospitality. We hope you will join us around the table as we all strive to be better “companions” (ones who share bread) of one another and servants of God.

Food & Faith

Bible Study

Adult Sunday School during the season of Lent will be a series of five small-group Bible Studies. Please come and join one of the four rooms, all of which will cover the same material, and discuss how food and hospitality are woven into the stories of creation, sin, redemption, and salvation.



Wednesday Evening Program: Food & Faith

Please join us in Roper Hall on Wednesdays for a series of presentations on the ways in which what we eat, what we believe, and how we act inform one another. These sessions will be led by the clergy along with special guests including the Rev. Melody Shobe, local activist the Rev. Dr. Yvette Blair-Lavallis, and baker/author/theologian Kendall Vanderslice. 

Children's FaithFULL Lenten Program

Children ages Kinder through 5th Grade are invited to join in on our congregational reflection on food as we eat our way through Lent. Your child may come to one or all the sessions and will meet Wednesdays in Lent at 7:15pm in room S203.

There is no charge, but please register your child to aid us in the preparation of materials and volunteers.

Lent Madness XV

Lent is just two weeks away, and besides teeing up all the exciting formation opportunities that will be announced next week, we're getting ready for Lent Madness. Study up on the 2024 heavenly lineup of saints and check the bracket poster which will be updated weekly in the Gathering Space.

Newcomer’s Workshop

If you are new and exploring membership with Transfiguration, this is the workshop for you! We will focus on the Episcopal liturgy and traditions and Transfiguration's history here in Dallas. Come, learn, ask questions and meet some fellow newcomers in a relaxed and open environment Saturday, February 17 from 9:00am - Noon in the Vestry Room. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. If you are interested and want to know more or if you would like to attend, please let us know.

Contact

Gabby Guion

Office Closed for President's Day

Please make note that the Church Offices will be closed on Monday, February 19 in observance of President's Day.

If you have an urgent pastoral need

you can message the Clergy here or you can call 972-233-1898 & press option 9.

Second Half Lunch Bunch

This month our Second Half group will meet for brunch at Starwood Cafe on Arapaho Road.

We will meet on Sunday, February 18 at 12:30pm. Let us know your coming by registering.

Mexico Pilgrimage 2025

Join pilgrims from Transfiguration on a journey to the mountains of Mexico in 2025 to witness one of nature’s true wonders: the vast overwintering monarch butterfly colony. Led by Fr. Casey, this pilgrimage is tentatively scheduled for February 19-25 and will feature visits to three different parks in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Preserve, engagement with local culture and people, and a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The cost is $1,800 plus airfare. Most of the trip occurs at/above 8,000 ft of elevation, including hikes of several miles, so participants must be in very good health. If you have further questions, please contact Fr. Casey.

Transfigured Nights Presents

Eldred Marshall

Transfigured Nights presents pianist Eldred Marshall in recital on Sunday, February 25, at 7:00pm in the church. Dr. Marshall holds degrees from Yale University, SMU, and UNT, and has performed throughout the USA, Europe, and China. He serves as the Associate Director of Music at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, in Rockwall, Texas, as well as the Artistic Director/Conductor of the Mansfield Philharmonic Orchestra and other musical organizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His recital will include works by Debussy, Brahms, and Beethoven played on Transfiguration’s Petrof piano in the nave of the church. The recital is free of charge and open to the public.

Program

Claude Debussy – Images, Book 1 (1905)

Johannes Brahms – Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119

Ludwig van Beethoven – Variations on a Waltz, Op. 120 “Diabelli Variations”

Easter Outreach for Children

Help us bless refugee children being assisted by Gateway of Grace by donating empty Easter Baskets, filled plastic eggs, individual packaged snacks or a filled Easter Basket (no toys, max. value $25) for their Easter Celebration! 

Drop off at the Outreach Table in the Tower Cloister from March 2 - 17. 

Suggested items: crayons, coloring books, stickers, candy (must be Halal, so please no marshmallows or gelatin), cookies, chips, crackers.

The members of St. Hilda's Guild faithfully serve the Fig by staffing the Kay Andrews Bookstore and Gift Shop and the Clothes Horse Resale Shop.

The Kay Andrews Bookstore

Our Bookstore and Gift Shop, located in the hallway near the Memorial Garden and the Children's wing are making adjustments to their hours of Operation. Until further notice the they will be open and ready greet you at the following times:

Thursdays: 10am - 2pm

Sundays: 9am - 1pm

The Clothes

Horse

The Clothes Horse is a resale shop providing the community with a place to donate gently worn clothing and offering budget-minded customers a source of reasonably-priced, good-quality apparel. 

Tuesday: 10am - 2pm

Thursday: 10am - 2pm

Saturday: 10am - 2pm

Clothing donations are accepted at any time the shop is open.

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