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We meet each Sunday in the Payne Education Center from 10:10am to 10:50 in rooms 207-209. We have coffee, donuts and fellowship waiting for you!

Retiring Senior Warden Scott McLean calls the St. Martins Annual Parish Meeting to order. There was no class this week, and all the photos here are from the meeting.

This was the scene at the annual parish meeting. Scott McLean is at the podium.

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Mentor

To be announced in February!

Leader

St. Martins Rector the Rev. Larry Gipson speaks in front of the gift table to recognize service by parishioners.

Some of our incoming leaders are introduced to the parish.

Here is a table view of the proceedings!

The Lesson for Sunday, February 5th is titled "A Heritage of Faith"

Key Verse:  2 Timothy 1:5

Focus of the Lesson:  People are often shaped significantly by their heritage and seek to stay true to it. What constitutes being true to one's Christian heritage? Paul reminds Timothy to follow the correct teachings that he received from his mother and grandmother and from the apostle, and to let the faith and love of Christ be his model in life.

The reading is 2 Timothy 1:3-14. This text is from the New International Version^®.

   3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

   5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

   8 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, 9 who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11 And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.

   13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

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