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THE ADVENTURER
MARCH 2 0 1 6
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In the liturgy of the Church, the three day period between
Maundy Thursday evening and Easter Sunday, is known as the
Paschal Triduum. It’s a time both chronological and liturgical,
marking the climax of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. During
the Pascal Triduum, Jesus experiences the depths of his betrayal
and crucifixion and through them the great and eternal victory of
his resurrection. The Paschal Triduum is a time when the great
symbols of both the Scripture and the church, strain to convey
the mystery of Jesus’ emptying and rebirth. Peter Mazur, writing
on the Triduum, notes that the first day between sunset on
Maundy Thursday and sunset on Good Friday, echoes the
creation of humanity on the sixth day of creation. In dying, Jesus
falls asleep – and like Adam, we are formed from the lifeless clay
of his body. In his death, Jesus accomplishes a new creation.
We in turn come before the Cross, much as Adam and Eve live
before the tree of life in the Garden of Eden.
The second day of the Triduum, extends from Good Friday
sunset to Saturday sunset, the seventh day of God’s creation.
This is the Sabbath, the day of rest. In his burial, Jesus rests and
we rest with him. In death, we sense the ‘formless void’ of the
first creation. This is a time of watchfulness and waiting, a time
of nothingness before God.
The third day, beginning at sunset on Holy Saturday, is the
great reversal. The Light of Christ shines in the darkness and the
darkness has not overcome it. On the third day, the crucified
lamb rises from the dead to become our good shepherd,
accomplishing the life giving purpose of the Almighty. In Christ’s
resurrection, the Paschal Triduum is for the Church a three day
Passover. In these three days, we gather in the holy confidence
of God’s victory over the world.
MAUNDY THURSDAY – SEDER 6:00 PM, SERVICE 7:30 PM
GOOD FRIDAY – STATIONS OF THE CROSS 12:00 NOON,
TENEBRAE - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY - EASTER VIGIL – 7:30 PM
THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD – 8:15 AM & 10:45 AM
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Bowser
COUNCIL CHRONICLES
LENTEN MID-WEEK WORSHIP SCHEDULE
from February 6, 2016
“Restored in Christ”
1) We extend our gratitude to outgoing council members Kent Brusstar and
Walt Dauber. We are excited to welcome our newly elected members; Danielle
Dreisbach, Sam McKee, Ed Patches and Darius Poniatowski.
Lent 3 Mid-week
Lent 4 Mid-week
Lent 5 Mid-week
March 2
John 6:48-58
“Broken Bread”
March 9
Matthew 26:69-75
“Broken Promises”
March 16
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
“Broken Justice”
Maundy Thursday March 24
2) New Council officers for 2016 are June Shultz President
Sam McKee Vice President
Vern Grant / Nick Rossos Co-Treasurer's
Danielle Dresibach Secretary
3) The presented proposal for railing to choir loft in sanctuary as obtained by
Mike Heim of $4,982.00 was approved. Allow 6-8 weeks for production.
Services throughout Lent will be held at
Ascension, Willow Street
Soup Fellowship 6:30 pm – Worship Service 7:30 pm
Maundy Thursday – Seder 6:00 pm –
Worship Service 7:30 pm
VOLUNTEER DRIVERS
Marvin Stouffer
(Willow Valley Manor)
Ralph & Gail Hamilton
Cindi Foster
Jane Witte
Jay Obetz
Sam McKee
Lydia Willig
Elle Young
(Willow Valley Lakes)
464-1748
Saturday Service
517-8174
284-3522
682-0362
464-4965
464-6634
413-3558
951-6108
Saturday Service
Saturday Service
Saturday Service
Sat. or Sun. Services
Sunday 10:45
Sunday 10:45
Sunday 10:45
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LYDIA CIRCLE NOTES – Rhonda Miller will take us on a trip
back in time to learn about Mary Magdalene's relationship with
Jesus. She was an early follower of His who certainly deserves to
be called a disciple She traveled with Him, along with the others,
and was present at the crucifixion as well as being the person
who discovered the empty tomb.
Please join us on Tuesday, March 8th at 7:00 to learn more
about this faithful follower of Jesus.
We will also be making our Easter gifts for Red Rose manor.
WASS LUNCHEON – March 16, 2016 at Red Lobster, East
Towne Mall, Lancaster, PA. If you cannot sign the sheet, please
call Edith (291-0210) by March 15th.
SOLANCO FOOD BANK NEEDS: broth, saltines, syrup, 24 oz.
SPRING BIRDWATCHING
Ascension’s birdwatching program resumes on March 5. We meet on
alternate Saturdays to go birdwatching in the several beautiful parks
within a few miles of the church, with a couple of trips a little further
afield. Each walk lasts approximately two hours, plus traveling time.
The complete calendar as currently scheduled:
Scheduled bird walks: (weather permitting)
applesauce, juice bottles, spaghetti
For the SWEEP program -mashed potato pouches, single-serve juice
boxes, pop tarts, chicken Rice A Roni, canned chicken
March 5 and 19
MAINE SERVANT EVENT UPDATE!
May 14 and 28
Registration for this year’s
Maine Servant Event begins February 29. Please let Ellen Russell or
Dave Hamric know by then if you will be attending. There will be a
cut off as to how many can attend and we certainly do not want to be
left out! Please contact Dave (314-8184) or Ellen (371-1023) with any
question. In addition, there will be more info and a signup sheet on
bulletin board in the narthex.
JOSEPH’S TABLE/PLANNING SESSION
- Thursday, March 17th, 7PM in the
Fellowship Hal. All are welcome to join us
as we continue to see this new outreach
from Ascension become a reality.
Questions? Contact Rhonda Miller
786-1674.
April 2, 16, and 30
June 11
Most walks will begin at the church at 7:30 a.m. and we will then
carpool to the destination. Because most locations are chosen only two
days in advance, it’s important to be on our birdwatching email list so
you can be contacted with details of time and destination (and travel
directions in case you prefer to drive yourself.)
If you are not already on our list, please sign up on the Narthex bulletin
board or email temercer@juno.com
MARCH BIRTHDAYS
1 Susan Linde
Scott Stephan
2 Mary Beth Brockett-Olson
3 Emily Bennard
Megan McNaul
Ally Monborne
4 Rosanne Wilson
Michael Ariano Jr.
5 Kathleen Seivard
6 John Long
William Lehman
8 Matthew Shockey
Chad Frankford
Benjamin Devine
10 Chase Monborne
Ellie Parido
11 Karen Raught
12 Doris Spickler
13 Bonnie Matheny
Norma Spangler
Kathryn Spangler
14 Diane Wenthe
15 Judy Johnston
John Olson
16 Kelly Shelley
Kelly Moore
Kathy Mann
17 Lisa Lawson
18 Daniel Karlow
Kristoffer Seiverd
19 Kevin Goff
20 Kenneth Seiple
21 Christopher Christensen
Jessica Richardson
Dylan Swope
22 Pamela Minnick
Ronald Mentzer
23 Journey Perez
24 Brynne Baker
27 Floyd Carlton
Rachel Shelley
Cadence Brusstar
28 Susan Dawson
Joshua Lewis
30 Lavina Patten
Cheryl Gaukler
SUNDAY
MARCH 13th
Ascension Youth Ministry
CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS
June Shultz, President
Sam McKee, Vice President
Danielle Dreisbach, Secretary
Vern Grant, Co-Treasurer
Nick Rossos, Co-Treasurer
786-4120
464-6634
333-9993
872-4467
392-6291
Pastor Steve Bowser
Gretchen Clark
Scot Crain
Rhonda Miller
Ed Patches
Darius Poniatowski
Ellen Russell
Doug Verwey
464-5683
464-1395
464-1965
786-1674
288-2273
435-8965
371-1023
687-7956
Spring 2016 Calendar
Interested in volunteering for Peanut Butter Eggs?
Contact daveh@ascensionws.org
March 2 – Café Conversations – Café One Eight in Downtown
Lancaster – 7 – 9 p.m.
March 9 – AYM does Lenten Supper & Worship – 6:30 p.m.
Join Ascension and your friends at Youth Group for Mid-week
Lenten service! We’ll share a meal and worship together as a
group and with our church peers!
March 18-20 – Camp Nawakwa Spring Retreat (Sign up with
Molly by March 13th)
Cost = $30/student *Contact Molly for registration materials
Depart Lancaster on Friday– 6 p.m.
Arrive in Lancaster Sunday – 3 p.m.
SAVE THE DATES:
April 2 – Haitian Festival – Are you in need of volunteer
hours? Interested in supporting the Church’s Haiti Festival?
Volunteer with us! Details to follow.
April 10 – Youth Night, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
April 13 – Café Conversations, High School – Place TBD,
7-9 p.m.
April 24 – Youth Night, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
May 8 – Youth Night, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
May 11 - Café Conversations, High School – Place TBD, 7-9
p.m.
*Keep your eye out for a May Service Project!
June 5 – End of Year Celebration – Details TBC
Questions about Youth Ministry at Ascension? Interested
in volunteering? Contact Molly at mollyc@ascensionws.org
Find us on Facebook: Search Ascension Youth
Ministries Willow Street PA
Follow us on Instagram: ascensionyouthministries
Peanut Butter Eggs
In 2009 a peanut butter eggs sale was held to help
support ten youth who were going to travel to New
Orleans for the ELCA Youth Gathering. Youth, their
parents, and several other friends from the
congregation gathered on a Saturday morning to make
over one hundred dozen eggs. It was a success and has
continued to grow each year. Our best year we made
over four hundred dozen!
The sale isn’t just about raising funds to help support
our youth. The original fundraiser proposal that was
submitted to church council listed a number of other
benefits including outreach, fellowship, and building
community.
For outreach, each carton of eggs is an invitation to
come to worship, a list of all of the services for Holy
week is attached to each carton. So reach out and share
a carton of eggs with a friend or neighbor, or even a
stranger.
Fellowship and community building sort of go hand in
hand. As much as we want members of the
congregation to buy eggs, even more so you are
encouraged to support the efforts by coming out and
helping with making the eggs. This has definitely
become an amazing time of fellowship and community
building. Personally, I meet folks each year that I have
not met before and over the years I have fostered some
wonderful and lasting relationships. It is the one aspect
of the peanut butter egg sale that is most meaningful to
me.
This year we will be making eggs on March 10 and 11.
We start around 8:00 in the morning and work till about
9:00 at night. Whether its one hour or four, any time
you have to give is appreciated. There are signup sheets
on the bulletin board if you know what time you can
commit to. This helps in planning each day. If you are
unsure of you availability you can just stop in whenever.
I would like to thank everyone who has helped in the
past and those who plan on joining us this year.
An order form for eggs will be on the bulletin board
until March 6 and orders should be picked up after
worship on March 12 and 13.
In God’s service,
Dave Hamric
Chairman
Peanut Butter Egg Sale
Seminary Partnership News Update
Happy New Year! What an incredible year it has been! A few days ago,
our beautiful daughter Olivia turned one year old. It is so hard to believe
how fast she is growing. My husband and I are truly blessed, and we
are ever thankful for our daughter and for one another.
We were also blessed with the ability to go on our first real family
vacation this month. It was great to be able to have a full week together,
and I really enjoyed spending my break between terms with my family.
Now we are getting back into routine, with Joe back at work, and us
trying to get Olivia back on a regular schedule!
It is exciting to be returning to my studies as well! This term I am taking
a course on the Apostle Paul and his ministry, and another course on
continuing Biblical study and theology. I am also enrolled in an
independent study course in education, focusing on curriculum design.
And finally, I am continuing work on my capstone project. This will be a
very busy term, but well worth it! As I rely on the Lord for strength this
term, I hope to be successful in completing my degree and graduating
in May! Thank you so much for your support throughout my seminary
studies, and I ask that you continue to support and pray for me as my
studies through Gordon Conwell come to a close. May God bless you
throughout this year as well.
Thank you,
Jennifer Scotti
WEATHER ANNOUNCEMENT
During the blizzard this past month, we received a number
of calls asking if worship services were being held or
cancelled. Normally we have this information on our
answering machine, but this time the weather was so bad
we could not get to the office to update the cancellation.
Please to not feel obligated to put yourself at risk when
conditions are clearly hazardous, especially if you are
serving in a leadership role that weekend. Take care and
put safety first on those few occasions where the weather
becomes a problem. God understands, and so do we!
Introducing Joseph's Table
An energized group of people attended the Jan 13th meeting to
organize the newest outreach from Ascension, a free Community Meal
to be served once a month. Several decisions came from this
gathering.....here they are:
-We have chosen the name "Joseph's Table" (Joseph, Jacob's sonfind his story in Genesis. He fed his brothers during the famine of
Egypt, even after they sold him into slavery)
-We will serve a free community meal every 3rd Thursday of the
month from 5:30 to 6:30 beginning April 21, 2016
-We will have three stages of opportunity to serve during each
meal;
prepare food and begin set up
complete set up and serve
clean up and restore space to original setting
In preparation for this event the paperwork for the Pa Dept of
Agriculture to Certify our kitchen space is underway. Eighteen persons
attended a "Cooking for Crowds" workshop Feb 3 presented by a Penn
State Extension representative. Requests for financial support have
been made. We will advertise our event in the Willow Street area.
Did you know that we will be the third congregation in Willow Street
to serve a free community meal? Quarryville has the "Flowing Oil Cafe"
providing meals two Saturdays each month at several locations with
multiple churches and organizations providing food. Lancaster city has
three meals, seven days each week provided by a network of churches.
How exciting for Ascension to become part of this important outreach.
Acts Ch. 6 speaks about the disciples choosing people full of the Spirit
and wisdom to assist in the task of food distribution as an important
part of the early church. What a blessing to carry this tradition forward.
How can you help? Attend our next meeting Thursday March 17 at
7pm, as we continue to plan our debut meal. Look for and sign up to
help or provide food each month. Most importantly, Pray for us as we
prepare to set "Joseph's Table"! Contact person is Rhonda Miller 786-1674
MARCH VOLUNTEERS
ASSISTING MINISTERS
6:00 p.m.
5
12
19
26
Pete Schwebel
Tom Fulton
Scot/Elena Crain
Tom Crain
8:15a.m
6 Norma Spangler
10:45a.m.
7
Anne Lewis
13 Barb Bowser
14
Sundae Lausch
20 Sundae Lausch
21
June Shultz
Maundy Thurs. 24 - 7:30PM - Rhonda Miller, Kent Brusstar
Fri - 12:00PM 25 Carol Shafnisky
7:30PM 25
Easter
27 Anne Lewis
Judy Johnson
8:15 a.m
6 Riley Lewis
13 Jarrett Daveler
20 Jenna Daveler
27 Erin Kuntz
8:15 a.m.
10:45a.m.
The Smith Family
The Brusstar Family
Kent Brusstar
Boy Scouts
Miriam McKee
Rhonda Miller
Holly Pugh
Don Seiverd
Dee Grant
Miriam McKee
27 Holly Pugh
Ed Patches
ACOLYTES
10:45a.m.
6 Molly Patches
13 Ellie Parido
20 Isaiah Parido
27 Bethi Linde
USHERS
ALTAR GUILD
8:15a.m.
EASTER
6 Marilyn Erb
Deb Wolf
13 Rebecca Martin
Carol Fricke
20 Sue Hinden
Bonnie Schuler
27 Nancy Obetz
Lyn Daveler
6 Barb Bowser
Rita Smith
13 Dee Grant
Ellanora Young
20 Fran Neupauer
Christina Zeitler
27 Edith Hiller
Donna Grant
Haitian Festival April 2nd 2-5 pm
MARCH VOLUNTEERS
GREETERS
6:00 p.m.
5
12
19
26
Ralph & Gail Hamilton
Tom Mercer
Tom & Carol Fulton
Harold & Betty Pleger
8:15 a.m.
6
13
20
27
Frankford Family
Kaschak Family
Sellers Family
Betty McCardle
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10:45a.m.
NURSERY
6
13
20
27
Gail
JL
Erin
Tyler
FELLOWSHIP
10:45 a.m
6
13
20
27
Karau Family
Todd Family
Heim Family
Easter
BREAD
Ruth Terrill, Sue Kirsch
6
13
20
27
Brubaker Family
McKee Family
Connin Family
Dale Schneider
More ways to support the event:
Help before and/or during the event! Signup
sheets in the narthex.
Invite your friends! Go to our Facebook event
page and invite all your
friends! https://www.facebook.com/events/15578
78597872555 or you can get to it from the church
website www.ascensionws.org
Catch us live on WJTL- 90.3FM
Tues. March 29th from 7-8 am
As the Haitian Festival approaches, there are several ways you can
help:
Rice and Beans Cook-Off
Enter a crock pot of your best rice and beans into the cook-off. Prizes
for best rice and beans and most Haitian rice and beans (judged by
Jean and Karl)
Work a shift at the Event
Lots of help needed to make this event a success. Sign-up sheets will be
posted in the Narthex the month of March
Silent Auction
Suggested items include event tickets, hotel stays, weekend getaways,
electronics, and any number of services (host a dinner party, clean a
house, paint a room, babysit etc).
Sponsors
Looking for individual and business sponsors. Information is on the
welcome table in the Narthex.
Graduate Level – you’re a lead sponsor! $2,500
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Your name/logo will be prominently displayed at the event
and in our publicity.
You can provide a banner or we will print a sign.
You will also receive 6 tickets to the event.
Junior Level - $1,000
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Your name/logo will be prominently displayed at the event
and in our publicity.
You will receive 4 tickets to the event
Sophomore Level - $500
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Your name/logo will be listed at the event.
You will receive 2 tickets to the event.
Freshmen Level - $100
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Your name will be listed at the event
For questions contact one of the committee chairs:
Coordinator- Anne Dunnenberger anerdunn@comcast.net 717-471-9625
Auction and Sponsorship-Robin Smith robewash@aol.com 717-475-3360
Food-Rhonda Miller 717-475-3360Decorations-Lesley Troup 717-951-3976
Entertainment-Diane Heim russheim@comcast.net 717-669-8761
Publicity-Kelly Moore kellylmoore@comcast.net 717-538-1496