Music for Sunday, February 9

It’s Black History Month, and one way we are honoring and celebrating the achievements of the African diaspora is through our music choices. This Sunday, February 9, at 9:00 am, the St. Michael’s Singers will offer an arrangement of the African-American spiritual “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” by Dr. André J. Thomas.

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Many & One, In the Spirit / Muchos y Uno, en el Espíritu

As I spoke on briefly in my sermon this morning, the First Epistle to the church in Corinth was written to a fledgling Christian community, struggling to come to into its own identity with core theological understandings, values, organizing principles, and commitments—and situated within the context of a secular society based on extreme hierarchy exercise of power to maintain order.

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No 11:00 Service on Feb. 9 – VSC All-Parish Gathering at 10:15

The first important event of our year-long Strategic Visioning process is happening on Sunday, February 9, from 10:15 am to 12:45 pm. This is the first parish engagement (of three this year), and it is very important to have your experience, your perspective and your voice contributing to this work.

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2025 Annual Meeting

All St. Michael’s members are encouraged to attend our 2025 Annual Meeting at 12:15 pm in the nave on Sunday, January 26. The meeting will include approving the 2024 Annual Meeting minutes and the 2024 Annual Report.

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Evensong for Candlemas

The St. Michael’s Singers will present a Choral Evensong for Candlemas (also known as the Presentation of Christ or the Purification) on Sunday, February 2, at 5:00 pm.

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To Seek and Serve God in all Persons

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger people for the living of life! Do not pray for tasks equal to your gifts. Pray for the gifts to meet the work in front of you! Then the doing of your work will not be the miracle. But you shall be the miracle. And every day you shall wonder at the grace, mercy, love and power that has come from God through you into the world.”

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Guest Preacher on Jan. 19

The Rev. Ernestein Flemister serves as Missioner for Racial Reconciliation on the Bishop’s staff for the Episcopal Church in Western Oregon. We are very glad to welcome her to St. Michael’s on Sunday, January 19. She will preach at the 9:00 and 11:00 am services.

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Ensemble Boulanger Recital

Please join St. Michael’s Music Director & Organist Hannah Brewer in the Nativity Hall on Saturday, January 25, at 4:00 pm as she collaborates with her Episcopal musician colleague Emma Mildred Cowell in a program of vocal and piano music by Hungarian, Czech, and Polish composers.

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