ST. BEDE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON
JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY SERVICE:
Sunday, February 16th at 10 am
The Sixth Sunday of After Epiphany!
Join In Our Joyous Service!
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9:45 a.m. - GODLY PLAY is BACK for the school year!
10:00 a.m. – EUCHARIST SERVICE
(Join us in our Refreshed Church Facility!)
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WE HAVE RESTORED OUR LIVESTREAMED SERVICES! We livestream recently our 10 am Services! Please be patient with our audio if delayed. See LIVE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StBedeChurchPortOrchard
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Masks are optional and those with health concerns are encouraged to wear them. To protect our most vulnerable members, we reserve the right to change our mask recommendations.
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St. Bede's Now Has A New, Larger Little Pantry Box! Donations Needed More Than Ever!
Thank you to our Coffee & Grounds Group (aka Men's Group) who installed a new and much larger Little Pantry Box at St. Bede's to replace our old, 2.5 cubic feet box. Our new box was built by Senior Warden Don Little. Through Don's efforts, our new box is 10 cubic feet! This allows for significantly more food (and some books) to be available at St. Bede's to community members in need. A special thanks to everyone who donates funds or non-perishables to the Little Pantry, including Grace Baptist Church and others from the community. If you have questions about how you can help, contact St. Bede's via email.
Thank you to our Coffee & Grounds Group (aka Men's Group) who installed a new and much larger Little Pantry Box at St. Bede's to replace our old, 2.5 cubic feet box. Our new box was built by Senior Warden Don Little. Through Don's efforts, our new box is 10 cubic feet! This allows for significantly more food (and some books) to be available at St. Bede's to community members in need. A special thanks to everyone who donates funds or non-perishables to the Little Pantry, including Grace Baptist Church and others from the community. If you have questions about how you can help, contact St. Bede's via email.
OUR EVENTS/ GROUPS:
- St. Bede's Brown Bag Luncheon: All Are Welcome! Next meeting on Tuesday, February 18th, 11:30 am, We provide Coffee & Tea. Meets monthly on 3rd Tuesday.
- Coffee & Grounds Group: (All are Welcome!) Next meetings are February 13th & February 27th for Coffee & Chatting, then work on projects for Church grounds & maintenance. Meets on 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month at 10 am beginning in Parish Hall.
St. Bede Helps:
FAMILY KITCHEN: WE COOK & SERVE A DINNER TO THE HUNGRY IN OUR COMMUNITY! Our next date for Family Kitchen will be February 17th (one Monday a month). Family Kitchen is held at the First Lutheran Church using their excellent kitchen and large hall. We very much appreciate our robust crews the last few months as we set up, prepare, serve and clean up after the sit-down dinner. We begin at 11:00 am; Meal service starts at 5:00 pm; We are ALL done with clean-up between 6-6:30 pm. Please contribute ANY amount of time as you are able - come early and help set the tables or come letter to cook & serve. Please direct any questions to Fran Valley. About St. Bede's
We believe that Jesus Christ came to reveal the fullness of God's love for us, and we celebrate that love through praise, sacraments, service, and community. Get Involved
Our church offers a wide range of ministry opportunities. Whether you'd like to learn more, pray more, or serve more, we have a ministry for you. Support St. Bede's Making an offering of your financial resources is an integral part of what it means to be a Christian. We have a variety ways to make it easy for you to support our church. Presiding Bishop in Cathedral Sermon: Jesus Puts the Marginalized at Center of His Kingdom - By David Paulsen, Posted Feb 3, 2025[Episcopal News Service]
Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, in a sermon Feb. 2 during his ceremonial seating at Washington National Cathedral, spoke out against contemporary political divisions as “not of God” and lifted up immigrants, transgender people, the poor and other marginalized communities as central to the kingdom Jesus envisioned. “We live in a world in which the enemy is bound and determined to sow division among us, to make us forget who we are and to what kingdom we belong,” Rowe said in his 15-minute sermon. “God did not come among us as a strongman. God came among us as a child.” Invoking the day’s reading from the Gospel of Luke, the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Rowe highlighted how the temple’s elders recognized that this “poor child born in a backwater to peasant parents” would upend the top-down order upheld by the authorities of Jesus’ time and our own. Click on the link below to read the whole article: https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/02/03/jesus-kingdom-centers-the-marginalized-presiding-bishop-preaches-at-his-cathedral-seating/ |
Our Common, Weekly Worship:
Getting Crafty: New Latch Hook Cross Adds to St. Bede's
Parish Hall Long-time Parishioner and LEM, Don Little, created and donated a lovely latch hook cross wall hanging. This cross now graces St. Bede's parish hall - just above the baskets for donations. Thank you, Don! READ PRESIDING BISHOP'S FULL SERMON FROM FEBRUARY 2ND - CLICK ON LINK: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/presiding-bishop-sean-rowes-sermon-at-washington-national-cathedral/
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Presiding Bishop honors Absalom Jones at Philadelphia's historic Church of St. Thomas
![]() Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, left, and the Very Rev. Martini Shaw celebrate the Eucharist during a Feb. 9 service celebrating the Feast of Absalom Jones. Photo: Kirk Petersen/Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service] To celebrate the Feast of Absalom Jones, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe traveled to the spiritual home of the first Black Episcopal priest: the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1792, with Jones as its first rector.
“We have all heard the many wonderful stories of Absalom Jones,” Rowe said in his Feb. 9 sermon. “He transformed the church, transformed the world around him … he changed lives by his mild manner,” and built a church of 500 people in only a year. Rowe began by quoting from the Gospel of John, where Jesus said, “I am the vine, and you are the branches,” a metaphor the presiding bishop returned to several times. “Absalom Jones built a community, and didn’t build it because he himself was a great man,” Rowe said. “He built it because he himself knew that he was to be connected to the vine, and from where his power came, and from where the glory of God would go forth through him in that place.” Click on link below to read full story: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/02/10/presiding-bishop-honors-absalom-jones-at-philadelphias-historic-church-of-st-thomas/ |
St. Bede's Episcopal Church
1577 SE Lider Rd Port Orchard, WA 98366 360-876-1182 [email protected] Mailing Address PO Box 845 Port Orchard, WA 98366 |