Archive for the 'Education' Category

Snow

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

As winter weather has come upon us, I want to remind you of our policy about activities and meetings at Redeemer in uncertain weather:

If the Northshore School District is closed because of weather, there won’t be any liturgies, activities or meetings held at Redeemer that day and evening. (e.g. if the Northshore schools are closed on [...]

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Adult Education Series

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

[ January 15, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. January 22, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. January 29, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. February 5, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. February 12, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. February 19, 2012; 9:30 am to 10:15 am. ] This coming Sunday (Jan. 15th) at 9:30 AM, a new six week Adult Education series begins. The series is entitled: Epiphanies of Grace: The Christian Journey & Sacramental Life.

The sacraments exist to undergird and transform our journey through life.

This series will explore the meaning and spiritual effect of five sacraments, as they occur in [...]

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Why is Redeemer’s door red?

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Link: Why is the church door red?
Fresh paint has livened up our red front doors. Turns out there are several reasons for painting the doors this color, starting with red signaling a place of safety and refuge from real or spiritual dangers in the early church.
The color still symbolizes a place of refuge and safety, [...]

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Annual Women’s Retreat March 11 – 13

Friday, February 11th, 2011

[ March 11, 2011 to March 13, 2011. March 11, 2011 to March 13, 2011. ] Please join us March 11-13 for our annual retreat at St. Andrew’s House on beautiful Hood Canal. Sister Cathy Beckley is our facilitator for “Spiritual Ennea Grams and Prayer.” Make your checks out to Church of the Redeemer for $225.00 and give them to myself, Laina Molbak or leave it marked “Retreat” in the offertory [...]

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Visions of the Kingdom

Friday, October 29th, 2010

This is the text of a handout prepared for the Adult Education class, October – November, 2010. (A hard copy will be passed out in class.)
Click the link to download a copy:   Visions of the Kingdom
Visions of the Kingdom
The last four Sundays of the Liturgical Year comprise a season within a season. The first of [...]

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Why be a catholic Christian?

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Below are the notes for a talk given by the Rev. Canon John F. Fergueson as part of the “WHY?” series of Adult Education classes at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore.
Why be a catholic Christian?
Introduction
The Book of Common Prayer Office of Instruction (Catechism), using the word catholic as a descriptor of the Church, [...]

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The kids need your yarn and fabric scraps!

Monday, October 19th, 2009

The church school needs any remnants of yarn or fabric in Advent colors that you may have. They don’t need to be large or homogeneous at all–variance will probably make the project more interesting.
If you have scraps or ends to donate, please leave them in the school alcove or give them to Anne Walton, Susan [...]

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Why Be A Christian?

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Below are the notes for a talk given by the Rev. Canon John F. Fergueson as part of the “WHY?” series of Adult Education classes at Episcopal Church of the  Redeemer, Kenmore.
Why Be A Christian?
Introduction
As I set out to write what I want to say to you about why a person would be a Christian, [...]

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Help out with children’s Sunday school!

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Do you like playing games? Doing art projects? Reading Bible stories to young children? The church’s children need your help with this year’s Sunday School classes!
We will have 2 classes running this year: a preschool class from 10:30 to 11:30, and a 1st – 6th grade class from 9:30 to 10:30 (arts/games/activities) and lessons from [...]

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Fr. John speaks on “Encountering Evil”

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

[ May 14, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Rev. Canon John Fergueson will be speaking at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Longview, WA on Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. His topic for the evening is Encountering Evil — The “Three R’s” of our Baptismal Covenant: Resisting, Repenting, Returning.

A former member of a Marine Counterintelligence Team in Viet Nam, and nationally known [...]

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