ANNOUNCEMENTS
   Week of March 8th, 2010 


CURRENT

EMERGENCY PASTORAL CARE        

Anyone with a Pastoral care need should contact:

             Jennifer Catalan               513/7774525     

   She will contact a priest as needed.

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Parish office-Please welcome our new parish secretary, Donna Schoonmaker. Donna will be in the office 9-1 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Our bookkeeper, Frances Casson will be in the office Monday and Wednesday 9-4. In an emergency, you can contact Elaine on her cell phone: (513) 217-6117

Daylight Savings - Please remember that Daylight Savings goes into effect next weekend! Clocks go forward one hour.

The Episcopal Church Women's Meeting-Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:30 sharp in the little hall. Prepared luncheon with $5.00 charge. We will be making
Easter bags for sick and shut-ins. Please bring some goodies to the meeting for the bags. We will also have a guest speaker. Please come and join the fun. We
are also making Easter Eggs again this year. We will sell chocolate, vanilla and peanut butter. The charge will be $3.00 each. They will go on sale Palm Sunday
in the little hall after church. If you would like to order in advance, please see one of the ECW board members.

Spare yarn needed-Have yarn you don't need? Please put it in the box in the Little Hall. ECW members are making Prayer Shawls for critically ill patients. If you would like to knit or crochet a shawl, or need more information, see Betty Kibbey.

Property Work Day- Saturday morning, March 13th at 9:00 a.m.

Free Guitar and Voice Concert-Wednesday March 10, 2010. The Midday Music in Oxford series presents a free concert by the Lentini Duo at 12:00 p.m. at the Oxford Presbyterian Church, 101 N. Main Street in Oxford. A husband and wife team, soprano Dana Lentine and guitarist/composer James Lentini, the Dean of Miani's School of Fine Arts perform their first public program in Oxford. Music from the 16th century to the present, including works by Dr. Lentini and Leonard Bernstein will be heard. For information, call 513-523-6969.

Concert-Friday, March 12th at 7:30 p.m. at St. Anne's University of the South & Sewanee's School of Theology in West Chester. Musicians Robert Delcamp and Susan Rupert will be performing. For more information, call 779-1139.

Stations of the Cross-Join us in Walking the Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent at 6:30 p.m. This simple, moving service takes about a half-hour and is a nice way to end your hectic week.

Food Pantry- The Food Pantry is open Fridays from 10 am-12 pm and on Tuesdays, from 5 pm-7 pm. We appreciate volunteers help at these times. Please give generously of food or money. The Food Pantry runs out of food nearly every week.

Altar Flowers- Please sign-up to provide flowers for the altar in memory of or to honor loved ones. The Flower sign-up is in the Little Hall. Thank you.

Calendars-Please pick up your 2010 Church calendars in the Narthex.

Refresh Your Soul Conference -"Medicine, Religion and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet." Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. Watch the Epistle for details.

Youth Activities

Diocesan Youth Retreat-Register NOW! Ask Rachel Eve Ginter.

Exodus 7 Retreat for youth 9-12 grades will take place Feb. 12-14 at St. Patrick's, Lebanon. Cost is $30; scholarship help available, see the rector.

See the diocesan website http://youth.diosohio.org/

Christian Education

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Adult Forum

9:30 AM - 10:AM   Sunday School

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM KIDSZONE

This area is located downstairs and is open to all children.

Sunday School rooms and Nursery are located downstairs.
Stairs are located to the right of the Little Hall glass double doors    

REMEMBER

Remember where your loose offering is going.

                 1st Sunday of the month- Rector’s Discretionary Fund.

                 2nd Sunday of the month- Building Maintenance Fund.

                 3rd Sunday of the month- Ascension Food Pantry

                 4th & 5th Sunday of the month- Operating Fund.

                 5th Sunday of the month- Our Seminarian Support

Activity Clipboards are available in a basket in the Narthex for children. These age appropriate (ages 3-6 & 7-12) clipboards consist of an activity sheet, crayons and a piece of plain paper. Children should use these to write or color on instead of the attendance pads in the pews. Parents, please return the clipboards and crayons back to the basket in the Narthex after the service. Thank you!

Please note* Deadline for Bulletin articles and announcements are due by Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.

E-Mail Addresses you should note:

       Church of the Ascension:               ascension@ascension-middletown.org

       Treasurer                                        Treasurer@ascension-middletown.org

       Bookkeeper                                    Bookkeeper@ascension-middletown.org           

       Epistle Editor:                                 Epistle@ascension-middletown.org

       Webmaster:                                    webmaster@ascension-middletown.org

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