St. Matthias' Church

04/02/2026

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03/20/2026

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Email from St. Matthias' Church   25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, John 11:25 (ESV)   Updated Calendar may always be

03/12/2026

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Email from St. Matthias' Church 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” John 9:1-2 (ESV)

03/06/2026

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Email from St. Matthias' Church 20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that hav

02/27/2026

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Email from St. Matthias' Church Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. John 3:5 (ESV) Updated Calendar may alw

02/24/2026

Happy Feast Day of Saint Matthias! We will celebrate with Holy Eucharist this evening beginning at 5:30pm.

Come and join us tomorrow evening for the start of our Lenten Series 'Walking our Path' with the topic so central to our faith and culture today - CHRISTIAN IDENTITY. We will have a light supper available beginning at 6:00pm, teaching will begin at 6:30pm and will conclude at 7:30pm. Children are invited to join us and participate in the various activities associated with our study.

Hope to see you this evening and tomorrow evening!

02/20/2026

Bishop Lawrence visits this Sunday. Covered-dish Luncheon follows worship (meat provided, bring a side and/dessert). See ya Sunday!

Email from St. Matthias' Church Covered-dish Luncheon   Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Matthew 4:1 (ESV)   Updated Calendar may always be found her

02/19/2026

This week’s theme is “Left Overs”!!!

And we are loving it!! 😍 😅😊

Thank you St. Matthias’ Church for donating your extra pancakes and sausages back into our community!

Who doesn’t love breakfast for dinner🩵

We can’t wait to pass these out!

02/18/2026

From Bishop Edgar:

Lent that is just asceticism is of no value if..... Watch for a special Ash Wednesday message from Bishop Chip Edgar.

02/18/2026

FOR ASH WEDNESDAY AND THE BEGINNING OF LENT:

From Dust

From dust we are made.
Not marble.
Not steel.
Not the kind of thing that pretends it will last forever.

Dust.

The soft language of beginnings.
The quiet grammar of God’s hands.
A palm pressed into earth,
a breath leaning low enough to stir the ground
into something that could stand
and say I am.

We rise fragile.
Skin stretched over borrowed bones.
Hearts beating like borrowed drums.
Every inhale a reminder
that life is not owned—
it is received.

And yet how fiercely we live.

We build houses as if storms don’t exist.
We love as if goodbye is a rumor.
We argue, forgive, kneel, and rise again—
dust learning how to hope.

I have seen dust weep
at hospital beds.
I have seen it laugh
around kitchen tables.
I have watched it bow its head in pews,
ash traced on foreheads,
a smudge that says
remember.

Remember you are not permanent.
Remember you are precious anyway.

From dust we are made—
but what mercy
that breath was added.

What mercy
that the Maker did not leave us as soil,
but filled us with longing,
with hunger for goodness,
with the ache that reaches past the grave.

And when we return—
when the body loosens its grip
and the breath goes back where it came from—
we will not fall as strangers.

We will return
like children brought home after a long day,
dust on our sleeves,
stories in our mouths,
hands still smelling faintly
of the garden we were trusted with.

From dust we came.
To dust we return.

But between those two silences,
we are given the holy work
of becoming more than we were—
of loving while we can,
of forgiving quickly,
of planting trees whose shade
we may never sit beneath.

Dust, yes.

But dust
that was once touched by God.

By

John Martin Perry Reed
1st Lieutenant, US Army

02/10/2026

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