Hello and Be Well Beloveds!
Be of good courage! While we cannot live stream services from church, we have found a way to pre-record services from home. So we WILL have Palm Sunday Morning Prayer, and Easter Morning Prayer, (Sundays at 10:30am) with musical video meditations and sermons. (Yay!) The Easter morning sermon will still be from our very own +Bishop Robert Wright. We will also have compline each day, Monday through Saturday at 7:30pm, done by various folks in our congregation. These will be available both on our Youtube Channel (yes, we have one!) and on our Facebook page. (Again, you do not have to be a member of Facebook to watch services on our page. If they ask you to sign in, just DON’T and keep scrolling.) All the services will be on both platforms from now until Jesus comes back so if you don’t catch it at exactly the time of the ‘premiere,’ know that you can always watch it later. You won’t miss a thing. You can get to everything from our webpage, https://www.stgregoryathens.org/
Huge thank you's to all our staff, Terri Tillman, Anthony Barkdoll, Missy Hamlin (lovely congregation art in my home office...you'll see what I mean), Jonathan Klein, Dakota Hamlin, David Stooksbury, and all who are leading Compline for us.
Also, our sisters and brothers at Emmanuel Episcopal Church worked late into the night, this past Thursday night to pre-record Eucharists for Palm Sunday and Easter, to my knowledge. So please know that worship is available there as well. http://www.emmanuelathens.org/
And we'll keep you posted on any updates on our corporate worship as changes come. And always remember this:
Romans 8:31-39 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
God's Love in Christ Jesus
31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.[a] 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
"For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Christ's Blessing, Healing, and Peace to you,
Mother Nikki+