This Wednesday night the newest offering, “The Way of the Master” will continue.  The class on the Gospel of Luke will also resume. Adults may choose their class. The youth will attend “The Way of the Master.”

We made another $10,000 payment on the land this week. Thank you for your faithfulness in giving, and thanks be to God for His provision and blessing.

On Ash Wednesday, February 17th, there will be two services held at 7am and 7pm. Since Ash Wednesday is a fasting day in the Anglican Church there will be no pot-luck dinner. Also there will be no classes that  evening. There will be a nursery provided for children 3 years old and younger at the 7pm service.

Mark your calendar for February 19th & 20th for the Silent Retreat. It will be at the Catholic Conference Center, 901 S. Madison Ave, Dallas, 75208, beginning at 7pm on Friday Feb.19th and ending at 4 pm on Saturday, the 20th. You may arrive any time after 3pm on Friday. Meals will be provided. The cost of lodging and meals is $30. Deacon Sheri will be leading the retreat. Please let us know if you plan to attend, as this is the last chance to do so!

The Bible Study for this session is Covenant by Kay Arthur. It is a five-week study that ends March 25th and 27th, at 10AM each day.  If you plan to attend the Covenant Bible Study, please add your name to the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board by the kitchen. Child care is provided.

If you have a vehicle and can provide a ride for one or more young people, your assistance is needed. We have a large number of youth that need a way to get to church and you can help. If you’re willing to help (maybe on a rotating basis), please see Matt Olszewski. Also, if you can provide a simple meal even once during the coming months for their youth meeting held after the 10:30am service, please sign up on the sheet on the bulletin board outside the kitchen. The kids will thank you and the Lord will bless you!!

Christ the Redeemer Church will host a six week educational and support program for persons experiencing grief from the loss of a loved one. The class will be led by Sharon Nelson who came to the Grief Recovery Seminar after suffering her own loss.

This is not group therapy or counseling but simply a safe place to receive comfort and understanding for those who have suffered the loss of loved ones due to any kind of separation and to share our experiences and help one another. Please feel free to join us.

Seminar begins Saturday, Feb. 13 and ends Saturday Mar 20.
Meetings are from 1 pm to 3 pm at Christ the Redeemer Church
Registration fee is $15 to cover cost of materials.
New participants will be accepted only through Feb. 20.

Please contact Sharon at 972-533-4287
Or email to sharon.tmartin@farmersagency.com
to pre-register and reserve your materials
or if you have any questions.

A new year is upon us. And with this new year comes some changes to Christ the Redeemer. One of the most prominent is a change to our website. Our webservant, Joe Siegler, has been working hard on our new website which is unveiled today, the day of our Annual Parish meeting. The new web site has a new look and I believe will be easier to navigate. It is also friendlier to visitors and newcomers with a section dedicated solely to those who are looking for a new church home. I hope you will enjoy the new look and spend some time exploring the depths of this electronic marvel. If you have comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to write me and let me know what you’re thinking.

But in this new year, there are other changes as well. We have a new coordinator for our Greeter’s/Newcomer’s ministry. Niki Jones has agreed to take over this important ministry and find ways we can be more effective at greeting, informing and incorporating newcomers into Christ the Redeemer. We also have a new paid staff member. After years of dedicated volunteer service to our youth, Matt Olszewski comes on board as a paid member of staff ministering to our teenagers. We look forward to a growing and fruitful youth program in 2010.

After reviewing the gifts to the Promised Land Campaign in 2009 and looking to our future building campaign on the Rowlett campus, I believe 2010 can be the year we pay off the loan on our Miller Road property. We still have over $200,000 left on our note, but as we look to the call God has given us, part of that mission is reaching out to those who need the Good News in Rowlett. Let us pray together that God will grant us the Promised Land so that we can glorify Him in our mission to proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

The family at Christ the Redeemer has grown considerably in the past two years and there is much more for us ahead. May God give us the grace and strength to continue to know Him and to make Him known.

Joyfully Yours in His Service,

Fr. Lawrence+

Anglicans have donated more than $70,000 through the Anglican Relief and Development Fund to support immediate relief in Haiti in the first week following the earthquake that struck the impoverished island nation on January 12. According to Nancy Norton, executive director of Anglican Relief and Development Fund, the organization is partnering with World Relief, a large and well established evangelical Christian relief agency.  Working with World Relief ensures that these donations have an immediate positive effect in Haiti, where current estimates are that more than 200,000 have died and more than a million people are without shelter in the aftermath of the earthquake. World Relief has had a long presence in Haiti, empowering the local church with health, economic and social development projects.  World Relief’s Disaster Response team is providing urgent medical care to hundreds of injured people at the Kings Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s devastated capital.  They have also set up feeding centers in partnership with local churches, providing thousands of hot meals to hungry earthquake survivors.  Volunteers from local Haitian churches are operating the centers.  World Relief can feed a person two meals a day – lunch and dinner – for less than $2.  It costs approximately $375 to feed 200 people rice and beans at lunch and milk porridge for dinner. Donations for our continued work there can be made online at www.anglicanaid.net or by sending a check to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund at:

ARDF
PO Box 3830
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-3830

Anglicans Mobilize for Relief

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, January 11. The quake was centered southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants. Aftershocks have sparked fear and panic. Reports indicate that most buildings—including hospitals, relief agencies and churches—have collapsed or are unsafe. There is extensive loss of life, and unimaginable injury. The Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF) is working with our partners to respond with assistance to the victims. “Having led several medical missions to Haiti in the 1970s and 80s, I am particularly concerned for our response to those good and suffering people in our hemisphere’s poorest country. We Anglican Christians need to respond to the devastation both with our prayers and resources,” said Archbishop Robert Duncan. You can help Haiti now. Please give generously to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund: www.anglicanaid.net or checks maybe sent to: The Anglican Relief and Development Fund, P.O. Box 3830, Pittsburgh, PA 15230-3830. On your Memo line please write, “Haiti”.