Celebrate St. Barnabas! If you were asked what part of St. Barnabas keeps you coming back, what would you answer? Father Jeff asked Nancy Kimbrell and Bob Gates, both long-time members, just that question. Their answer, “The people!” We all remember the nursery rhyme: with hands held in prayer, we said, “Here is the church and here is the steeple. Open the doors and here are the people.” Truly a church is not a building; it is the people who worship there, serve there, build friendships there, grieve and celebrate there.
SEPTEMBER 2016 EUCHARISTIC LECTIONARY YEAR
SUNDAY WORSHIP 7:45 AM 9 AM 11 AM
St. Barnabas is unique in Fredericksburg in that it doesn’t have many multigenerational families – members whose families have worshipped in the same church for generations. Our collective memory rests primarily in the memories of several long-time members. On August 17, Father Jeff interviewed Bob Gates and Nancy Kimbrell, invoking their memories of the earlier years at St. Barnabas. Bob has been active at St. Barnabas for over 40 years and Nancy, for over 30 years. Jeff explained that this interview is part of “Celebrate St. Barnabas,” the theme for this year’s stewardship campaign. Future interviews will feature members with different C time-frames of experience at St. Barnabas.
Holy Eucharist Rite I Holy Eucharist Rite II Holy Eucharist Rite II Children’s Chapel
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 10 AM
Adult Classes First Communion Deep Blue One Room Encouragers
WEEKDAY WORSHIP 6 PM
Wednesday, Holy Eucharist Rite II
12 pm
Thursdays Holy Eucharist & Healing (Chapel)
Both Nancy and Bob stressed the strength of commitment, the energy and enthusiasm of everyone at St. Barnabas in their early days. “Everything we did we did together as a community of faith,” Bob explained. Nancy added, “Everyone had all this energy – a feeling of real joy in everything we undertook.” Nancy was introduced to St. Barnabas by her life-long friend Nancy Wareing, “Everyone was so friendly. If you walked in a stranger, you didn’t walk out a stranger. I came to this church through the barn – the Bargain Barn, that is.” The Women of the Church collected used items—mostly clothing and sold them to finance the church’s outreach efforts. “I loved it! We had so much fun! We put on style shows wearing the donated items. Fran Hubbard and I wrote the scripts. They were silly and outrageous, but fun and hilarious.”