Emmanuel Episcopal Church

"AMAZING STORIES, UNEXPECTED STORYTELLERS" CONTINUES TODAY. Thursday, August 6th (and next Thursday August 13th, too)

Bring your elementary-aged children to pick up a bag full of information, crafts and supplies related to each week's bible story.

 

Each bag will have information on how to watch the online storyteller tell the story of the week.

 

Last week was Faith - God calls us to be heroes (David and Goliath)! This week is Hope - Jesus with Us (The Woman at the Well) and next week is Love - Lead with Jesus (Dorcas)

 

It's free - this is our gift to you!

 

Please stop by Emmanuel's churchyard TODAY - THURSDAY, August 6th between 5 - 6 pm and pick up your bag. If you didn't receive one last week, we have a few of those for pick up as well.

Service for the Fourth Sunday in Easter

Our door step to yours: Palm Sunday to Easter

Flowering the Cross on Easter Morning

Easter Sunday at Emmanuel

Bishop Haynes' Easter Message

Worship from St. Stephen's: Palm Sunday

Worship from St. Stephen's: Palm Sunday from StStephensRVA on Vimeo.

Join Presiding Bishop Curry live online today at noon to pray the Lord's Prayer

Join Presiding Bishop Curry live online today at noon to pray the Lord's Prayer

 

In response to a call from both Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will be praying the Lord's Prayer (via Livestream and Facebook Live) TODAY, March 25, at noon Eastern Time. He invites you to join with Christians around the world to offer this prayer in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
 
To join Bishop Curry live today, March 25, at noon Eastern Time, click here:

Livestream

The Episcopal Church Facebook page

Presiding Bishop's Facebook page 

 

Habits of Grace: An invitation for you, from Presiding Bishop Curry

Habits of Grace: An invitation for you, from Presiding Bishop Curry

[March 23, 2020] As we learn how to adjust our lives given the reality of the coronavirus and the request to do our part to slow its spread by practicing social distancing, I invite you to join me each week to take a moment to cultivate a ‘habit of grace.’ A new video meditation will be posted on Mondays through May.    March 23, 2020:  Pandemic

Hello. This past week I came across two passages, one from the Bible, one a poem. The one in the Bible, I was just reading through parts of Matthew's gospel and was reading through the Sermon on the Mount and got to chapter seven where Jesus says, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."   In this time when we are all called to physically distance from each other, physical, not social, but physical isolation for the good of each other. I'm mindful of the words of Jesus when he said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Maybe that's a frame for having to live in a time of physical isolation.

Presiding Bishop Curry's Christmas Message 2017

Have a blessed Christmas, a wonderful New Year,
and go out and make music in the heart of the world.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Christmas Message

News from The Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Christmas message "This child came to show us how to change the world," Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in his Christmas Message 2016. "So this Christmas, make room for Him to change us. This Christmas help us change the world." Click here to watch Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Christmas message. Click here to read his message (available in English and Spanish).

Stop Hunger Now ships meals to Dominican Republic

Stop Hunger Now indicates shipment of the ten thousand meals we purchased and packed has been sent to the Dominican Republic.  Thank you for helping.

 

Fr R Christopher Heying

 

 

Friends of Stop Hunger Now,

 

We are delighted to announce that meals from your meal packaging event have been shipped in a container with 285,120 meals from our Lynchburg warehouse. The meals will be received by our in-country partner CitiHope International.

 

With 42% of the population below the poverty line, food shortage is prevalent throughout the Dominican Republic. CitiHope provides food and other resources to schools, orphanages and other needy people and takes an active role in the distribution and monitoring. CitiHope supports sustainable educational and development programs that empower locals to create strong, self-sufficient communities. 

 

Citihope's country director in the Dominican Re

​public says,

"We consider this not to be 'charity' but a real investment in humanity. The school and orphanage programs help our country so much by creating a future of responsible citizens that contribute to the improvement of our society. These children come from families that cannot supply even one meal a day for their children and don't understand the purpose of education. So the motivation comes from the food!...These SHN donations are a defining component that heals a nation, multi-dimensionally."

 

For more information, please visit:  http://citihope.org/

 

Visit www.stophungernow.org for more information on how to continue your involvement in the fight against hunger and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophungernow for updates, videos and photos from the field.  

Thank you for generously donating your time as a volunteer with Stop Hunger Now. 

Stop Hunger Now Meal Packaging Event - May 3rd

Meal Packaging

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Countless congregations, civic organizations, corporations and schools have enjoyed organizing and participating in a Stop Hunger Now meal packaging event.

What is a Meal Packaging Event?

It is an immensely fun, hands-on and rewarding experience for anyone of any age. A group of 40- 50 volunteers can package 10,000 meals in just two hours. To get started in organizing your packaging event, set a goal for the number of meals you will package and contact your local program coordinator. Start to recruit volunteers based on the number of meals you plan to package. Then you can begin to fund your event. All you need to raise is 25 cents for each meal you package.

Stop Hunger Now meals are nutritiously sound. Every dehydrated rice/soy meal is fortified with 21 essential vitamins and nutrients. Research has shown that one in three people in developing countries are adversely affected by vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Addressing the problem of hunger is the single point where we can leverage relief for all humanitarian issues.

With your support, relief organizations such as Stop Hunger Now have the means to deliver to ongoing school feeding programs that sustain lifelong change. Providing a hot meal during school gives parents an incentive to send their children to school. Through receiving a primary school education, the cycle of poverty can begin to be broken by leveraging change in many other issues including education, maternal health, childhood mortality, gender equality and combating HIV/AIDS. We currently require that our in-country partners report on the impact of the Stop Hunger Now shipments they received. Our strategic plan recognizes the challenges of getting impact reports from our in-country partners, and we are working to improve that process.

YOU CAN HELP END WORLD HUNGER! PACK 10,000 MEALS FOR STOPHUNGERNOW.ORG ON SATURDAY, 3 MAY 2014 STARTING @ 10 A.M. IN CHATHAM BAPTIST.

LOTS OF FUN FOR PERSONS OF ALL AGES. CALL FATHER CHRIS HEYING FOR MORE INFORMATION: 434.710.0329 OR [email protected]

Emmanuel Sponsors Blood Drive

On Friday, February 22, Emmanuel's Parish Hall resembled a M.A.S.H. unit as we worked with the Red Cross to sponsor a community blood drive.

Many Emmanuel hands were on deck -- before during and after -- to get the word out, move furniture, prepare food to restore the strength of donors, register those who came to give the gift of life, and put the place back in order when the drive ended.

Parishioners also generously donated blood, giving the gift of life, and the Red Cross representative was pleased with the number of blood donations made.

Many thanks to all who chipped in to help those undergoing surgical operations, cancer and other disease treatment, and those suffering traumatic injuries.

This was a significant manifestation of the Lenten spirit!

Small Church, Big Impact

The new issue of The Diocesan Connection bulletin insert highlights a small church making a big impact in their community. 

Good Samaritan Episcopal Chuch in Virginia Beach participates in Spring Community Day with other members of the Western Bayside Churches United. Approximately 2,500 people were fed and provided with non-perishable groceries. Other members include Heritage United Methodist and Enoch Baptist. Click here to read the article.

Two "New Wine" Regional Meetings Remaining

Diocesan eNews

It's not too late to participate in one of our New Wine regional conversations. Two sessions remain, both on Saturday, April 9: St. John's, Chester, from 9 a.m. to noon and Trinity, South Boston, from 1 to 4 p.m. 

 

Register to attend by clicking on the meeting of your choice:

St. John's, Chester, April 9, 9 a.m. to noon
Trinity, South Boston, April 9, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Parish News & Events - Diocese of Southern Virginia

Epiphany, Danville, Hosts Habitat for Humanity Volunteers

For several weeks, Epiphany, Danville, is hosting students from Villanova University, The University of Miami and other universities who are in Danville working on a project for Habitat for Humanity. The volunteers come to Epiphany three days a week and are served lunch in the cafeteria at Epiphany Episcopal School. The volunteers and Epiphany's students gather at tables and share lunch together - go to our Facebook page for a photo. This is a creative way for Epiphany to share in the work of Habitat for Humanity and to share that ministry with the students of Epiphany Episcopal School. This should prove to be the beginning of a wonderful new ministry for Epiphany as they are preparing to form a chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Danville.

  

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Pray for Those Devastated by the Japan Earthquake

The Pruden Parish Press for March 2011 Is Now Online

The March 2011 issue of The Pruden Parish Press, a periodic newsletter containing news and information for parishioners and friends of Emmanuel, was published this week. The current issue includes:

• Janet Phillips, Carmella Fisher Play Emmanuel,

• Bishop Hollerith Addresses 119th Council,

• Vestry Notes from the New Senior Warden

• Calendar Notes for March - May 2011,

• Spotlight on the Vestry - Vic Millner,

• December Outreach at Oak Grove,

• Bishop Hollerwith Calls Us to Action, and

• Spotlight on the Vestry - Ron Irby.

Click here to read the March issue online.

Earlier issues may be viewed at The Pruden Parish Press.

To receive future issues by mail, please call or email the Parish Office.

New Wine: A New Vision & Mission for the Diocese of Southern Virginia

"Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved." - Matthew 9:17 The parishes of Southern Virginia are a diverse group-urban and rural, small and large, contemporary and traditional. Together we are the Diocese of Southern Virginia. We are enriched, and at times challenged, by our differences. Yet we share a common mission and each of us brings particular, vital gifts to that mission. The world is changing at an unprecedented pace and our diocese hasn't been immune to that change. It's time to take a look at our mission, to listen and talk about who we are and what we are called to do and to be.   The first step in this process is listening to the members of our congregations. Six regional meetings will be held. Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend. The information gathered at the meetings will be reported back once all the meetings are complete and will be the material from which our new mission will be developed. Come, listen and be heard. In order that host churches may plan appropriately, please register to attend by clicking on the meeting of your choice.  March 12, 2011 Emmanuel, Virginia Beach - 9 a.m. to noon Holy Trinity, Onancock - 1 to 4 p.m. March 19, 2011 St. Christopher's, Portsmouth - 9 a.m. to noon St. Stephen's, Newport News - 1 to 4 p.m. April 9, 2011 St. John's, Chester - 9 a.m. to noon Trinity, South Boston - 1 to 4 p.m.

The Pruden Parish Press for May 2010 Is Now Online

The May 2010 issue of The Pruden Parish Press, a periodic newsletter containing news and information for parishioners and friends of Emmanuel, is being published this week. The current issue includes:

• David Smith Appointed Chaplain at Woodberry Forest School,

• Chatham Concert Series Stages Grand Finale

• Vestry Notes from the Senior Warden,

• Calendar Notes for May - July 2010,

• Around the Parish

• Looking ahead...

• Thank You! by Dr. Smith, and

• A Coffee Hour Birthday Party.

Click here to read the May issue online.

Earlier issues may be viewed at The Pruden Parish Press.

To receive future issues by mail, please call or email the Parish Office.

The Pruden Parish Press for November 2009 Is Now Online

The November 2009 issue of The Pruden Parish Press, a periodic newsletter containing news and information for parishioners and friends of Emmanuel, is being published this week. The current issue includes:

• Emmanuel Celebrates a Blessing of Animals,

• G2R studying The Great Emergence,

• Vestry Notes from the Senior Warden,

• Outreach Continues at Oak Grove,

• Calendar of Parish events for Nov. 2009 - Jan. 2010,

• Blessing of Animals in Photos,

• Keeping Our Souls Afloat by Dr. Smith, and

• Emmanuel's Treasures.

Click here to read the November issue online.

Earlier issues may be viewed at The Pruden Parish Press.

To receive future issues by mail, please call or email the Parish Office.

Lessons from South Africa

Upon our return from the recent Chatham Hall service trip to South Africa, someone asked me if I would ever go back.  My answer was swift and certain - Yes, yes and more yes! 

The people on the African continent are joyful, remarkably optimistic, and spiritually vital despite the political, economic, military and cultural uncertainty that seems to be everywhere.

Continue reading at Daily Musings ...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Shane Claiborne was a young Methodist who grew up in the Bible Belt, became a Jesus freak, and moved to Philadelphia despite his family's misgivings, helping the homeless there. Then in his early twenties he boldly requested an internship with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. She simply responded, "Come."

Besides illuminating his own faith journey, Claiborne is insightful on the huge U.S. cultural and economic divide: the problem isn't that wealthy Christians don't care about the poor, he says, it's that they simply don't know the poor.

Read the reviews. Order the book.

Focused outward, Falls Church parish re-groups

Lay ministry highlights continuing community's growth

By Mary Frances Schjonberg January 14, 2009 [Episcopal News Service] – excerpts:

Just more than two years after the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia parish of the Falls Church split in a theological dispute, the remaining Episcopalians…are learning that a church is more than a building.

"You definitely feel the Holy Spirit moving through the place," said Matt Rhodes, who joined the parish with his wife and two young daughters about six months [ago]…. "There was a tremendous sense of fellowship" and "this overwhelming sense of vitality."

Members of the parish, who now average about 80 in attendance on Sunday, have pledged $250,000 for mission and ministry this year, according to priest-in-charge, the Rev. Michael Pipkin. Ten percent of that budget will go to work with local outreach agencies….

…"the driving focus," as Rhodes called it, is on outreach and how the parishioners can serve the wider community of Falls Church, Virginia.

Read the complete article.

Outreach Committee Sponsors Linen Drive

The Emmanuel Outreach Committee is sponsoring a Linen Drive to benefit the residents of Oak Grove Assisted Living Lodge. Parishioners and friends may participate by donating blankets, quilts, and sheets for the twin beds at Oak Grove. Collection boxes have been placed in the Narthex and the Parish Hall. The Linen Drive will continue through January after which all donations will be delivered to Oak Grove.

Oak Grove is a non-profit assisted living facility housing approximately 52 men and women from all over Virginia. The facility is staffed 24/7 and supported by residents' Social Security checks and private donations. All donations are greatly appreciated.