SPR Annual Parish Meeting - Sunday, February 23
SPR’s Annual Meeting will convene on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 11:15am in the Sanctuary. Please note there will be one, all-parish worship service at 10:00am that Sunday. Click here to view a PDF copy of the 2024 Annual Report.
Carnival Sunday - Sunday, March 2
Our annual bake sale returns to give us all a last chance to celebrate before Lent begins! Everyone is invited to contribute homemade muffins, cupcakes, breads, cookies, snacks, biscuits, and cakes. If you don’t bake, please consider helping on the day of the sale -- we need assistance with pricing and wrapping the goods, and with staffing the sales table. In addition, this year will be hosting the Shoesmith Elementary School children's choir at the 10:00 service -- all proceeds from the Bake Sale will go to support the choir and the whole music program at Shoesmith. Sign up in the narthex, email Twila Jones (tjones111922@gmail.com) or Kate Baldwin (akbaldwin@sbcglobal.net), or just bring your baked goods by on the day.
Ash Wednesday at SPR - Wednesday, March 5
Join us Wednesday, March 5 for the celebration of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. We will have three services that day: 12:00pm, 5:30pm, and 7:30pm. Ashes will be distributed at each liturgy. A simple Lenten supper will be served following the 5:30pm service.
Lenten Season Adult Formation at SPR
Lent 2025 Adult Forum: Entertaining Angels Unawares-The Spirit of Hospitality
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - Hebrews 13: 2
The Christian season of Lent is a time set aside for self-examination, prayer, and the study of Scripture in community and individually. For four Sundays—March 9, March 16, March 23, and March 30—from 11:15am to 12pm in the Parish Hall, you are invited to engage these spiritual practices with your church community. The Rev. Wes Smedley, Interim Rector, will facilitate conversation. You are also invited to join one of the small groups led by SPR parishioners which will meet in person or by Zoom on different days of the week for four weeks. Registration with dates and times to choose from will be available soon.
The focus of this year’s Lent forum is the spirit of hospitality in Scripture, tradition, spirituality/theology, and practice. By the final session, you will have created your own “ethic of hospitality.” Handouts will be available for all participants with readings from Henri Nouwen, Cynthia Bourgeault, Richard Foster, The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, and a chapter called “Entertaining Angels Unawares—The Spirit of Hospitality” from the book Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, by Marjorie J. Thompson. If you have any questions, please reach out to the church office or to the Interim Rector.