March Calendar Notes & Notable Mark Your Calendar!   Ash Wednesday Worship Wednesday, March 5, 2003 At 7:30 a.m., 12Noon, 7:30 p.m. Market Mass 8:30 - 9am every Wed. Women's Retreat April 25 - April 27, 2003 at the Mary & Joseph Retreat Center in Rancho Palos Verdes 1st (hopefully) Annual Men's Retreat Friday, May 30st & Sunday, June 1st, 2003 at The Mary & Joseph Retreat Center in Palos Verdes Estates

Published by and for The Members and Friends of
St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church

March, 2003 - Volume 34, Number 3 - ARCHIVE

Welcoming churches: More and more, churches are emphasizing hospitality.
(Reprint from Episcopalife)
The Rev. Stephen Smith, rector of Christ Church in Hudson, Ohio, knows that most visitors who walk into Episcopal churches are not traditional Episcopalians. ... MORE

We Love Gaby Fund -
by Elissa Tognozzi, Director of Children's Ministries
During the Lenten season of 2003, the children and youth of St. Augustine's will be undertaking a special discipline. They hope to start a WE LOVE GABY FUND. Gaby is the seven year old adopted daughter of Elizabeth Needham-Plumblee ... MORE

Nonviolence in a Time of Saber-Rattling
A Statement from the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF)
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship calls upon Episcopalians and all other people of faith to renounce violence and militarism, and to embrace the way of nonviolence in seeking peace with justice ... MORE

So You Think Your Church is Too Big?
A Thinking Person's Guide to Downsizing the Church -
by James R. Adams
If you diligently follow these ten simple rules, you will never again have to worry about your church getting too big. ... MORE

Lenten Program: A Survey of Faiths -
by the Rev. Joyce Stickney
This Lenten season we are offering a program which will introduce us to a variety of faith traditions. The junior/senior high Sunday school class has been studying Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and currently Islam, including site visits and conversations with religious leaders ... MORE

Forum With Kelly Hayes-Raitt About Her Trip To Iraq
by the Rev. Joyce Stickney
Kelly Hayes-Raitt has recently returned from a visit to Baghdad as one of 10 American women traveling through Iraq ... MORE