IMMANUEL HIGHLANDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Immanuel Highlands Episcopal Church

All are welcome.

2400 W. 17th Street, Wilmington, DE 19806

PHONE: (302) 658-7326

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We are a welcoming community, celebrating and sharing the good news of Jesus
through worship, prayer, learning, and service.

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH

ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING INFORMATION
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THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH

Sunday, January 23. ONE SERVICE ONLY

9:30 am - Holy Eucharist
11:00 am - Annual Meeting

All doors to the sanctuary are open! Ushers will greet you and hand out service bulletins at all entrances to the sanctuary. The name tags will be in the back of the church, and you are encouraged to wear yours.

COVID GUIDANCE FOR WORSHIP – Guests and Parishioners
Given the rising rate of infection due to the Omicron variant, our guidance for worship has changed as follows:

All people should wear a face-covering during worship and in the church building, whether or not they are vaccinated.
Maintain a social distancing of 3-6 feet.
When greeting one another with a sign of God’s Peace, please remain in your pew and greet those nearest you.
During Communion, come forward with face covering. Receive the Host in your hand and return to your pew and consume there.

The Riverview Avenue and Parish House doors to the sanctuary are open!
Out of love for one another…….

Coffee Hour Suspended

Due to rising cases of highly transmissible COVID, Immanuel Church, Highlands has temporarily suspended Coffee Hour. We hope to resume Coffee Hour as soon as it is safely possible. Thank you for your understanding!

Gustave Doré 1832 – 1883
Ezra Reads the Law to the People
engraving — 1865
Gustave Doré biography

Led by Nehemiah, the Jews had rebuilt the city walls of Jerusalem. A few months on the chief priest Esdras (Ezra) reads Moses' Law, at the request of the crowd. Priests and people thus entered a covenant to uphold the Law.

THIRD SUNDAY
AFTER THE EPIPHANY
January 23, 2022
Year C

SERVICE IS ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE

LECTIONARY READINGS

THE COLLECT
Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

T H E R E I S A P L A C E
F O R Y O U H E R E.

New to Wilmington? Unfamiliar with the Episcopal Church, or Christianity? Welcome!

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your spiritual journey, our parish members hope that your experience here will strengthen and encourage you.

Browse our website to learn more about us. We invite you to join us at church. We have been given permission by the diocese to have in-church services once again. Or, view the service on-line on our Facebook page.

Subscribe to our weekly emails--there is no cost, no obligation, and we will not share your email with outside groups.

Do as much or as little as you like. There are no requirements for being a part of our community of faith. If you want to be baptized, confirmed, or transferred from another Episcopal parish, we would love to have you--but, it's not required. Everything we do is open to all.

Please complete our online visitor card. It is not required, but if we know more about you, we can be more responsive to you!

W O R S H I P

In-church services are now being offered. Let us celebrate together, as a community:

Registration is no longer required.
Fully vaccinated people are not required to wear face coverings inside the church building
Non-vaccinated people must wear a face covering in the church building
Social distancing of 3 feet is suggested
All doors to the sanctuary are open

SERVICE TIMES
We will also continue to live-stream Sunday worship from the church on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Steven Patchell will provide beautiful music for our worship, and we will sing hymns. The Rector will lead worship and offer a sermon. A lay reader will present the lectionary readings.

We send bulletins electronically on a weekly basis. See the link at the top of the page to read the most recent issue. Also, see the link to our worship service so you may worship from home.

Please share this information with anyone you know who might be interested to "attend" our service. If you are able to help someone who is technologically challenged access the service, please do so.Since we are a community, we welcome newcomers as much as we welcome each other. This flows from a knowledge that each person brings incalculable value to the human family and that our parish in enriched by each person who enters.

A Prayer for Those Affected by the Coronavirus

Keep us, good Lord,
under the shadow of your mercy.
Sustain and support the anxious,
be with those who care for the sick,
and lift up all who are brought low;
that we may find comfort
knowing that nothing can separate us from your love.
In Christ Jesus our Lord.
Amen.
From the Archbishop of Canterbury