The April 2012 issue of the St. Barnabas Encourager has been published. The calendar is on our web site at http://www.stbarnabas-sbnj.org/calendar/. This calendar gets updated frequently as events are added or changed.

The following is our upcoming schedule of services for Holy Week.

April 1^st Sunday

8:30 and 10:30am – Palm Sunday Services

April 2^nd Monday in Holy Week

7pm-8pm – Walk the Labyrinth

April 3^rd Tuesday in Holy Week

7:30pm – Stations of the Cross

April 4^th Wednesday in Holy Week

7:30pm – Tenebrae Service

April 5^th Maundy Thursday

6pm – Agape Supper
7:30pm – Holy Eucharist with foot-washing
Overnight – Youth Group and Confirmands Lock-in

April 6^th Good Friday

12-1pm – Good Friday Service (church open until 3pm for meditation and devotions)
4:30pm – Children’s Service
7:30pm – Good Friday Service

April 7^th Holy Saturday

12pm-3pm – Labyrinth available to walk
8pm – The Great Vigil of Easter

April 8^th Sunday of the Resurrection

8:30am – Holy Eucharist
10:30am – Festive Holy Eucharist

A “help your neighbors” benefit concert for Christ the King sponsored by the South Brunswick Clergy Association will be held March 25^th at 4pm in the Christ the King fellowship hall with a reception to follow.  See the attached flyer. 

Performers will include Lachlan Glen, master’s student of collaborative piano at the Juilliard School in NYC; The Rev. Osy Nuesch, pastor of Six Mile Run Reformed Church, trumpeter; Conrad Herwig, world-class jazz trombonist, Cantor Bruce Rockman and the Sons of Tikvah Band from B’nai Tikvah Synagogue; the. Rev. Beth Scibienski, vocalist, and Peter Reimann, pianist, Community Presbyterian Church; and Kitty Solomita, vocalist, and Pastor Kim Carlson, flutist, from Christ the King.  A free-will offering will be collected.

If you would like to serve on the Nominating Committee for our Convocation, please let Rev. Valerie know.  This is separate from the diocesan Nominating Committee.  This group puts forth names for the various Convocation offices that will be elected in the Fall.  We need at least 3 clergy and 3 lay people to run.  Names for the Nomination Committee can be submitted from now until April 18.

To express your opinion about Vacation Bible School at St. Barnabas, please click on the following link:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GV2SB6C.  Your input is needed and appreciated.

The March 2012 issue of the St. Barnabas Encourager has been published. The calendar is on our web site at http://www.stbarnabas-sbnj.org/calendar/. This calendar gets updated frequently as events are added or changed.