MOVING PAST PAIN ONE CREATIVE STROKE AT A TIME, June 9 and 16, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, St. Luke’s Church, 1200 Old Rixeyville Rd., Culpeper. Are you stuck in the pain of loss or chronic illness? Learning to tap into your creativity can be the beginning of a healing journey. Meet others who share the experience of grief or illness but also the desire to begin a journey towards joy again. No artistic abilities required, only a willingness to experience art. 18 years or older. Free. Sponsored by Spiritual Care Support Ministries, 76 W. Shirley Ave., Warrenton. To register call Susan Izzie at (540) 349-5814.
Author: Pastor Kate Costa
2014 VBS Registration OPEN!
Registration for Vacation Bible School 2014 is now open!
Put on your hard hat and grab your hammer! St. Luke’s VBS is going “Under Construction!” from July 13-17, from 5:30-8:30pm. Each evening will begin with a light dinner. We have a great week of fun, faith, crafts, songs, and snacks planned for kids from 3 years old to 6th grade to learn about faith and serving others. Older youth are welcome as volunteers!
This great curriculum is brought to us by Habitat for Humanity, and some of our projects will benefit their work. We can’t wait for you to join our “Building site!” 
To register a student, click here.
To register to volunteer, click here.
Join us on April 20 for Easter Worship!
You are invited for worship on Easter Sunday, 2014! Bring your family and friends for this special day in the life of the church- and in your life as a child of the living God! Worship will be at 10am, with breakfast and fellowship at 9am. Click for FAQ’s and directions. Join us as we proclaim loud and strong: Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia!
VBS Volunteers!
We are planning for another great VBS at St. Luke and are looking for volunteers! Our theme this year is “Under Construction” and will support Habitat for Humanity.
To sign up to volunteer, click here.
Wednesday Night Lenten Service Sermon- Praying for Healing
As I was thinking and praying about the story of the healing of the blind man from the gospel this week, and our theme, “Praying for Healing”, I did a bit of reading on Florence Nightingale. We know her as a woman of strength and compassion- a wartime nurse, the founder of modern nursing, “The Lady with the Lamp” who made tireless rounds at night, a woman who was as fiercely committed to her ideals as she was kind to her patients. I was surprised, though, to learn that she was also a mystic and a woman of deep, if not always orthodox, faith. 
When she was a young woman she wrote in her diary, “God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him alone without reputation.” What a simple, remarkable way of expressing God’s call! Later, she studied at a Lutheran religious community in Germany, where watching the work of the pastor and the deaconesses in caring for the sick and aging further encouraged her to go in to nursing in the Crimean War, at a time when women were rare in hospitals, and even rarer on the battle field.
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2014 Power Pack Golf Tournament
It’s time again for the Power Pack Golf Tournament and Silent Auction. This is a large part of the funding for the Power Pack Program, which provides food for the weekend for children in need in the county of Culpeper.
For more info see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByHrmTrVi9GNMUhIclBIVWVUM09JWURLa3BoQnFoX1pwU0Zn/edit?usp=sharing
There will also be silent auction on June 1, 2014 from 8am-12:30 pm at Culpeper United Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall. The auction is open to anyone. At 12:30 the items will be moved over to Fauquier Springs Country Club for the following day golf tournament. The auction will close at 2pm on June 2.
Lenten Worship Schedule
March 5- 7pm Ash Wednesday Service, Sanctuary
March 12- 6:15pm Soup Supper (Social Hall) , 7pm Prayer Service (Sanctuary)
March 19- 6:15pm Soup Supper (Social Hall) , 7pm Prayer Service (Sanctuary)
March 26- 6:15pm Soup Supper (Social Hall) , 7pm Prayer Service (Sanctuary)
April 2- 6:15pm Soup Supper (Social Hall) , 7pm Prayer Service (Sanctuary)
April 9- 6:15pm Soup Supper (Social Hall) , 7pm Prayer Service (Sanctuary)
Shrove Saturday Pancakes?
Extraordinary grace is in need this year! Since the parking lot is still pretty treacherous, we will have pancakes at 6pm this Saturday, instead of tonight. Please plan to join us then, and bring a friend!
Shrove Tuesday Pancakes!
Join us for Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at 6pm on March 4!
Snow Schedules
Our church will follow the Culpeper County School System for closings tomorrow (Feb. 13, 2014). Thus, if school is cancelled, Yoga and Bible Study will also be cancelled.
Our Church Council Meeting is cancelled for this evening (Feb. 12, 2014).
If you have questions, please check our weather policy. Please be careful in this weather and check on your neighbors!
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:10-12
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