On Thursday, we launched our St. Mary Anne’s History Group. Participants included Nancy Ball, Bishop Bud Shand, Fr. Sam Hartman, Barbara England, Dru Torregrossa, Janice Flood, Diane Cattrell, and Father John.

The group’s focus is to begin to compile a comprehensive history of St. Mary Anne’s Church; to care for and organize our records dating back to the 1700’s; to offer genealogy research when requested; and to organize and digitize our archive of photographs. We’ll also be interviewing people for an oral and visual history of our historic church.

We need more help! We look for other people who wish to be a part of this large endeavor. There are no planned group meetings, so you can work on your on schedule. If you have a love of history and of St. Mary Anne’s and want to help, please contact Fr. John.

Faith & Recovery Service

Join our Faith & Recovery 12-Step Eucharist Service this Sunday, February 5th at 6:00PM.

Those in recovery and support groups are encouraged to attend, as well as family and friends. A light supper, in the Parish Center, follows the service. A testimonial, praise music and the 12-steps for those in recovery are part of the service. Please come. There’s no football on Sunday!

Let us help strengthen those in recovery with the message of hope, redemption, and God’s grace. Get the word out!

Last Sunday, parishioners and the public were treated to a phenomenal Young Performers Concert at our church! The violin\viola students accompanied professional string musicians and performed classical selections from Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more! The young students ranged in age from 9 to 16, but you never would have known it by their incredible talent and poise.

String Studio faculty Daniel Seymour and Joel Alarcon, and other string musicians who played, are ramping up the St. Mary Anne’s String Studio and hope to have more concerts and more opportunities for these young students to flourish. We hope you can attend future performances and support this music ministry effort!

Donations to grow music scholarships are always appreciated. You can donate online here, please put SMA String Studio in the memo.

The Autumn Lake Service

Each month, Father John and Eucharistic Visitor Linda Gibeck hold a service at Autumn Lake (formerly known as Calvert Healthcare). Typically, they’ve had five or six residents (a few are SMA parishioners) attend. Our service is now growing! The January attendance was 18!

This is a wonderful growing senior ministry!

The Mission Committee committed to another 8 month’s of meals for the Paris Foundation, beginning in April 2023. We will provide meals on the first Tuesdays of April, May, July, August, October, and November (2023), and January and February (2024).

To assist with this effort, we need volunteers to sign up to join a “team” of 2 bakers (50 desserts each) and 5 sandwich makers (20 sandwiches each). Each team provides the food for some number of months (depending on how many volunteers we get) on a rotating schedule.

We hope you will consider joining us in support of The Paris Foundation as they help supply food. The Paris Foundation is a Christian non-profit ministry in Elkton that serves the poor and homeless.

 

To help volunteer, Email Rick Waterhouse: wate6585@zoominternet.net