February 22, 2026

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Sunday the Holy Eucharist is celebrated at 8:30 and 11am. The 11am service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and remains available there. 

 

Morning and Evening prayer services: are held at 8:30 and 4:45pm, Monday through Friday in the sanctuary.

 

Nursery Services: Infants and toddlers through three years old are invited to gather downstairs in Claiborne Hall. Cara Kitzrow and Simon Travis will be supervising the nursery.

 

SCC Garden Work Day: will be Sunday, February 22, from 1:00-4:00pm. We welcome anyone interested in helping! We could use volunteers for a variety of things: Heavy lifting/manual labor, moderate moving/manual labor, child minding, providing snacks. Use this link to the sign up: https://forms.gle/U2AnLQYUNnB2yYgR8

 

Sunday Forum: The speaker at Sunday Forum this week Dr. Hannah Matis, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Theology. She will talk about “Social Justice in the Anglican Tradition”.

 

Matis is a church historian specializing in early medieval biblical interpretation and the church in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. She teaches courses in the history of spirituality, Anglicanism, the Episcopal Church, and the experience of women in Christianity. She is also the author of The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages (Brill, 2019) and The History of Women in Christianity to 1600 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022). She is a graduate of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Durham in the U.K.

 

Sunday Forum meets in Kennerly Hall at St. Mark & St. Paul, 9:45-10:45. Next week, Dr. John Gatta will present a lecture on “Stowe's Clarion Call for Justice in Uncle Tom's Cabin”.

 

Lenten Soup Series: Living Faithfully with Technology

Wednesdays, Feb 25-Mar 25, 5:30 Simple Lenten meal in Kennerly Hall followed by the presentation and discussion 6:00-7:00

 

What does it mean to live faithfully for Christ in an era of constant media feeds, multiple mailboxes, and the exponential growth of AI? How should the church respond to these growing opportunities and threats? What about our personal lives, and our children? Is it possible to make your device a personal digital assistant to serve your needs rather than serving the demands of an algorithm? Can technology be used to save our ecosystem rather than destroy it?

 

Join us for Wednesday nights between (and excluding) Ash Wednesday and Holy Week, as we gather to confront and transform the impact of digital technology on our lives.

Feb 25 – Rob Lamborn - Electronic Devices and the Internet: Tools that can entice us into dependence

Mar 4 – Ross Sowell - The Implications and Ethics of AI

Mar 11 - The Hildegard Guild on technology and environmental responsibility in the parish

Mar 18 – Parenting in a digital age

Mar 25 – Digital resources for spirituality



Sunday March 1 is CAC Pantry Sunday. This month CAC is in need of: pancake mix, granola bars, jelly, toilet paper, laundry detergent (pods preferred), and dish soap. CAC serves those in need with food and in other ways 9 to 11am, Monday through Friday. Please call 931-598-5927.

 

Community Meal

The CAC student leaders are happy to welcome back Community Meals for the spring semester! We hope you will join us on Friday, February 27th at 12:00 PM for a free lunch of chicken pot pie hosted in Kennerly Hall. 

 

The 40 Days

We are offering a calendar to guide us through prayer and almsgiving during the season of Lent. Each day of “The 40 Days” invites us into simple, faithful practices that connect our spiritual lives with care for our neighbors. Calendars are available in the back of the church. All items collected throughout the journey will fill Easter Meal Baskets for CAC families. We hope you will join us as we walk this Lenten path together.

 

The Flower Guild works behind the scenes each week to beautify our sanctuary. They are looking for volunteers who enjoy flower arranging or have a desire to learn. Please contact Betty Barton Blythe bbblythe43@gmail.com if you are interested or want to learn more.

 

Centering Prayer Group: Mondays at 7pm and Tuesdays at 2:30pm, both in the sanctuary.

 

Lectionary Bible Study: meets every Tuesday at 3:30 pm in Brooks Hall. The class begins with a brief prayer and a reading of the Gospel lesson appointed for the coming Sunday.

 

Adult Choir: Adult choir practice is Sundays 12:30-1:30pm.

 

Children’s choir rehearses on Wednesday after school. To enroll your child contact Wyatt Poe at:  music@stmarkstpaul.org

 

Godly Play continues this Sunday at 9:45 am for children (3 years old through 5th grade).

• Godly Play 1: Mystery of Easter, Storyteller — Wendy Prothro Howard, Doorperson — Jori smith

• Godly Play 2: Parable of the Sower, Storyteller — Kelly Moody, Doorperson — Reed Carlson

• 4th/5th: (Meets in 1st floor Brooks Hall) — Julia Bates, Matthew Mitchell

• Youth Sunday School: (Meets upstairs in Brooks Hall).

 

Rite-13 and J2A: Young people in grades 6-10 are invited to participate in Rite 13 and Journey to Adulthood (J2A) on Sunday afternoons. Please contact Hilary Bogert Winkler (hbwchurch@gmail.com) for details.

 

Folks at Home Caregivers Support Group is resuming weekly meetings on March 3rd from 1pm-2pm. The facilitator for the group will be Sewanee's own Thomas Gildemeister. Here is Tom's vision for the group:

 

"A support group for caregivers. Caring for someone who requires significant help is both a privilege and a burden. It creates a precious bond that is unique in the human experience, but it can be lonely and thankless.

 

Our group will gather to share our experience, our strength, and our hope — the experience of the highs and lows of our day-to-day life, strength derived from the emotional and spiritual support we have found helpful, and hope that our relationship with our care partner will be rewarding, redemptive, and gratifying. To be clear, this experience will not be group therapy. Our facilitator will ensure that every member who needs to share will have an opportunity to share. Each person will be asked to make a promise of confidentiality. Our group must be a safe place."

 

Space is limited so please register in advance at: folksathomesewanee@gmail.com