February 5, 2012

            Quote of the Week

          “Count me in!!!!!”

                      Jo Carol Moffett

  This Week at St. Michael’s

All Angels Jazz Festival!

· Friday, February 3^, 7:00 pm: The Gospel Divas  with Horace Alexander Young

· Saturday, February 4^, 7:00 pm: The Hot Club of Hulaville  with Bruce Hamada and Jim Howard

Tickets are $30 advance and available online and in the church office.

· Sunday, February 5,^, 8:00 and 10:30 am:

Jazz Mass: “YES, LORD!”— A Gospel Tribute to Jo Carol Moffett featuring Barbara Johnson Tucker, April Hubert, Joan Hubert, Karen Dickinson, the Rev. Jimmy D. Hunter, & a 24 voice choir of Kauai’s finest voices & an All-Star Jazz Band directed by Randy Leonard and Hank Curtis.

9:30 am—Continental Breakfast

Join us in the Parish Hall

12:00pm—Cajun Brunch

Join us in the Parish Hall

Parking during Jazz Festival

If you are able please park at Wilcox School, just a two minute walk, for all Jazz Festival concerts & services. We are expecting 1,000 people to join us for the weekend!

Next Year’s Jazz Festival

Mark your calendar for February 1-3, 2013, for our Seventh Annual All Angels Jazz Festival. The All Angels Jazz Festival is always the first full weekend in February.

Feb 7-8-9

NET Workshop Offered in February

Father Bill will be offering his workshop titled NET: HOW REAL CHURCHES REALLY GROW on February 7, 8 and 9 from 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Please let your friends who may be interested in congregational development know about this unique opportunity. Registration and more information is available on the St. Michael’s website.

Father Bill’s “Virtual” Ministry Reaches Out!

Father Bill’s website is now live! You can read his bi-weekly blog on spirituality, get Twitter and Facebook updates, and follow his speaking schedule, including at St. Michael’s! The latest blog is “Why Are You So Happy?” Please send the link to your friends.

Gospel According to Sam on Facebook

Join “The Gospel According to Sam” Facebook page. On Facebook simply type in:www.facebook.com/The.Gospel.According.to.Sam and click LIKE. Then join us for inspirational stories, videos and quotes from the animal world.

Sam is also available on Amazon KINDLE, Google E-books and Barnes and Noble Nook.

    Coming Up

Fri., Feb. 10, 4:30-pau, Lydgate Park

Adult Friday Pau Hana

All adult church members are invited to the February Friday Pau Hana Gathering at Lydgate Park. Bring your own drinks, chairs, and a pupu dish to share. For more information, contact Nelson at 635-9929 or Terese at 241-1402. If you’d like to grill, contact Nelson.

Feb. 11-12

Father Bill’s Sixth Anniversary

We will celebrate Fr. Bill’s sixth anniversary at St. Michaels at all services Feb. 11-12. If you wish to honor his ministry, he requests donations to the St. Michael’s Endowment Fund—a gift of ministry that will make a difference for years to come!

Feb. 12 & 19, 8:30-9:30 am

Adult Forum Series

Goodale Center Conference Room

We are fortunate to have Joan Roughgarden a member of St. Michaels, a retired Professor of Biology at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawaii, offering a two-week class entitled Evolution in Faith to be held on Feb. 12 and Feb. 19 in the Goodale Center Conference Room from 8:30 am to 9:30 am.. We will be using her book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary for the class.  The book is available in Amazon.

• Feb 12: Evolution in Creation I. Evolution in the Bible. A discussion of what biological evolution is and how passages in the Bible convey the same concepts that biologists use to construct the theory of evolution.

• Feb 19: Evolution in Creation II. Intersection with Creationism. A discussion of several religious and/or skeptical assessments of biological evolution

Feb. 21

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

Our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper will be held Tues., Feb. 21^st from 5:30-7:00 pm in the Parish Hall. Your donations benefit Youth Ministries and God Camp. Join us for live dixieland jazz, all-you-can-eat pancakes and sausage, orange juice, mimosas and more.

Feb. 22

Ash Wednesday

Join us at 6:00 pm as we begin the season of Lent with an Ash Wednesday service. The service includes special music with cello and hymns from the Taize tradition in France, a homily by Fr. John Lambert, and the Imposition of Ashes.

ERD Lenten Devotional Books

Our Lenten devotional books from Episcopal Relief & Development will be available starting Ash Wednesday.

Feb. 25-26

First Sunday in Lent – ERD Sunday!

The weekend of Feb. 25-26 we welcome Robert Radke, President of Episcopal Relief & Development, as our guest preacher at all three services. We will also take up a special offering to support ERD in the mission of global outreach. Make checks payable to St. Michael’s and use the special offering envelopes provided.

Begins February 26th

Adult Education during Lent

Join us Sunday mornings in Lent starting February 26 from 8:30-9:15 am in the Goodale Center Conference Room for a series taught by Jim Jennings. The class will explore such topics as: What is Lent? What is the divine gift of consciousness? What does it mean to love God? How do we live into our faith questions? What is “the kingdom within”?

March 23-24

Discovery Weekend

Discovery Weekend, an opportunity to learn more about the Christian faith and the Episcopal Church will be offered at St. Michael’s in the Goodale Conference Center the weekend of March 23-24. Sessions go from 5:00-9:00 pm on Friday (includes dinner) and 9:00am and 3:00 pm on Saturday (includes continental breakfast and lunch). There are two books to read before the class, available in the church office. This class is for anyone who wants to become a member of St. Michael’s! For more information, contact Fr. Bill atfatherbill@stmichaels-kauai.org.

Poem of the Week

        Li Po

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last clouds drain away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.

        translated by Sam Hamil
                        The Enlightened Heart--an Anthology of Sacred Poetry

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