Feb. 4-11
Season of Epiphany
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel
472 Rose St.
(On the UK campus)
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IGNITE welcomes all college students into an open and supportive Christian environment as people of God. IGNITE PROVIDES +++Spiritual, social, and service opportunities. +++Exploration, questioning, and responses to issues of faith. +++A gathering place to rejoice in worshipping the living God.
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+IGNITE’s HAPPENINGS CALENDAR
IGNITE VOLOUNTEER
Lindsay Allen
FOOD 4 BODY & SOUL
THIS SUNDAY, because of Super Bowl, we will not gather.
ANNUAL SKI RETREAT SCHEDULED
FEB. 4, 2012
+WORD 4 THE WEEK
YOU R SALT!
+LUTHERAN CHURCHES/LEXINGTON
+FREE Wi-Fi available at St. Augustine’s Chapel, 472 Rose St.
+LCM’S website: www.ignitelcmuk.org
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WELCOME!!
IGNITE extends a welcome to all students! As you receive this newsletter for the first or 40th time, IGNITE hopes it will provide you with useful information as you continue your spiritual journey on the UK campus.
A friendly reminder: ALL events and activities are bring-a-friend, so you don’t have to come alone.
We pray you will make IGNITE ‘your home away from home’.
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IGNITE VOLUNTEER
This Sunday, Ignite will welcome Lindsay Allen who has volunteered to provide leadership for our ‘Servant Sundays’, meet with students, and assist in worship. Lindsay is a first year student at Asbury Seminary and had been involved in campus ministry while in college. We welcome Lindsay to Ignite’s ministry!
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SKI RETREAT
IGNITE’s annual ski retreat is being scheduled for THIS Saturday, Feb. 4. If you have an interest in participating, let Pr. Barry know. Scholarship funds are available. This is a one day event and we will meet at St. Augustine’s Chapel, 9am, and venture to Perfect North outside of Cincinnati.
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SPRING BREAK OPPORTUNITY!
Are you interested in joining Lutheran campus ministries from Purdue and Indiana University in a spring break to Ocean Springs, MS.? If so check out the following information and Purdue Lutheran Campus Ministry’s website <plm.org/upcoming/springbreak>. Ignite will provide financial support to those who participate.
Purdue Lutheran Ministry is headed south to the gulf coast during spring break to work on Habitat for Humanity houses (and some frolicking in the Gulf as well.) We’d love for you to join us. You’ll stay in dormitories at Camp Victor Ministries– and receive three meals a day.
Most of the time will be spent on recovery work, but we will have time to enjoy some sights in the area. The details have yet to be firmed up.
Suggestions from a local resident, include:
- New Orleans
- Shipyards in Pascagoula, MS
- Shrimping Featured in Forest Gump
- Battle Ship, Alabama
- Blackbird CIA Planes
- USS Drum, WW2 submarine
- Great food – Felix’s Fish Camp
- Pensacola Air Naval Museum
- Pre-civil war home tours
- Vicksburg Battlefield
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FOOD 4 BODY & SOUL
Join sisters and brothers in Christ at Ignite for our weekly scheduled ‘Food 4 Body & Soul’ gatherings, SUNDAYS, 5:35PM, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel, 472 Rose St., on the UK campus.
We meet for worship and following we gather for a communal meal which most often is ‘home-cooked’ by members of the Lutheran churches in Lexington. Join us SUNDAYs for a ‘home-cooked’ meal.
Ignite invites you to bring a friend as we gather as God’s people. All are welcome, no exceptions. There is a place for YOU at the table.
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WORD 4 THE WEEK
Jesus says,
“You are salt…. ”
Matthew 5:13a
Dear student, I suspect you have been called a number of things, but ‘salt’ is probably not one of them.
Isn’t it just like Jesus to call us a name which sounds so ordinary, but also confusing?
Doesn’t salt seem like such a little substance? Even ‘child’ of God gives seems bigger, more profound, than salt!
Yet, ‘salt’ is what Jesus calls the disciples sitting in the pew as he preached his sermon atop a mountain. Being called salt would just want to make the disciples to run right down the mountain and tell everyone their new name….. not!
However, we know salt has various characteristics which create different purposes: seasoning, preserving, cleansing, and yes, even putting out fires.
Jesus calls and sends disciples out as salt to season, preserve, and cleanse our world with God’s gifts of mercy, justice, peace, renewal, reconciliation, and all other good gifts of God’s Spirit Holy.
Dear student, Jesus calls you salt, so, where are you the salt of Jesus’ seasoning? When have you been salt for others? When have you been a recipient of Jesus’ seasoning by others?
‘You are salt’, Jesus said it, not me and it is what you are, not something you create.
Salt is what you are, so go shake the love of Jesus in your world!
Please pray with me: Jesus, you call these students salt and that is what they are. Season them with your compassion, mercy, and forgiveness, to be your salt in the world. Use their lives and saltness to flavor their worlds in such a way that others will be seasoned with your kingdom’s presence. amen
Held in God’s loving grip,
Pr. Barry+
Ignite-Lutheran Campus Ministry
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel
472 Rose St.
Lexington, KY 40508
859-489-1222 (TEXT or call)
lcm_uk@qx.net
www.ignitelcmuk.org
“The Holy Spirit is no respecter of our comfort zones!” Madeleine L’Engle
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THE WEEK AHEAD
SUNDAYs (NOT THIS SUNDAY)
5:35PM FOOD 4 BODY& SOUL (worship/meal to follow)
MONDAYs PR. BARRY’s SABBATH
Tuesday thru Friday Pr. Barry @ Washington State University for Review
WEDNESDAYs 11:30-1pm Pr. Barry on Campus @ Student Center Starbucks
10:30-4 Pr. Barry on campus/at chapel
FRIDAYs 10:30-4 Pr. Barry on campus/at chapel
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LUTHERAN (ELCA) CHURCHES IN LEXINGTON
Faith Holy Communion 8:30, 11, & 6pm
1000 Tates Creek Rd. 266-7621
Gethsemane Holy Communion 9:30am
2185 Garden Springs 277-6096
Word of Hope Holy Communion 8:15 & 10:45am
1870 Armstrong Mill Rd. 272-8515
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