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Outreach

Paul Jordan

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Please do call or e-mail me at anytime if you have questions about any of this or additional ideas for Christian service to our community.

Paul Jordan 218-5815 or rimaps@verizon.net 

Feeding the Hungry:

Something new and exciting is coming to Ascension this fall.  Beginning on Sunday, October 2nd, we will be offering a 4:45 pm Evening Prayer Service.  The impetus for this was the recent revelation that many of our Sunday supper guests have come to call Ascension "their church" even though they may never have set foot beyond the Parish Hall.  Keeping with the newly developing Diocesan mission focus on feeding the hungry, a number of us began to realize that our guests come not only for a meal, but for companionship and conversation and that perhaps they have unmet spiritual hungers as well.  

Our first response to this was to combine the annual summer picnic with Sunday supper.  

What started out cautiously, with two groups either measuring up or studiously avoiding the other, soon turned into a real party.  We had good food, live music, dancing and a much needed coming together of two previously  unmet Church families.  

We now open up the Church for our guests to visit before or after their meal and perhaps find themselves a moment of God's peace.  We hope that some will want to join us in saying evening prayer each week just before dinner.  This is an opportunity for all of us to worship in a new way, to share our faith, and to feed the hunger of others or to be fed ourselves.  Please join us on October 2nd and maybe even stay for dinner!