February 8

Second Sundays at St. Andrew's!

The 8:00 am service will feature musical offerings from our Director of Music and Organist Deborah Friauff.

Blood Pressure Screening: The Episcopal Health Ministers will provide blood pressure screenings in the church office after both services.

Upcoming Events

Centering Prayer & Psalms

Wednesdays | 10:00 am | Chapel & Zoom
Please join us on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 am in the Chapel. We will spend about twenty minutes in silence, read and reflect on a psalm together, and then return to silence. If you are unable to join us in person in the Chapel, you can join us on Zoom (meeting link ), or sit in silence at home. On Wednesday, February 11, we’ll read and reflect on Psalm 99, found on page 728 in the Book of Common Prayer. All are welcome.

Celebrate with us at Carnivale!

Sunday, February 15 | 11:15 am | Parish Hall
Don’t miss this special coffee hour celebration! We’ll have a pancake breakfast with sausage, applesauce, coffee, and orange juice; great live music, mask making and parade, games for kids, and a cake walk. If you’d like to help by donating a cake for the cake walk please contact Linda Hastings at 734-665-8112.

Choral Sundays: God’s Trombones

Sunday, February 15 | 4:00 pm | Church
The St. Andrew’s Adult Choir and the Saint Andrew’s Players combine to present a creative alternation of various settings of African American Spirituals with readings from Negro sermons in verse written by James Weldon Johnson.

The Book of Ruth

Thursday, February 19 and 26 | 5:30 - 6:30 pm | Chapel
Our discussion on the Book of Ruth will continue next Thursday, February 19. Ruth is a short book, but a remarkably rich one—full of tenderness, daring faithfulness, and surprising turns. Together we’ll look closely at the text in its original Hebrew, explore how Ruth has been read in both Jewish and Christian traditions, and consider what the author’s original intentions may have been. Along the way, we’ll ask what this ancient story of loyalty, risk, and love has to say to us today. Whether you know Ruth well or are encountering it for the first time, this series is designed to be accessible, thoughtful, and engaging. Please RSVP to Fr. Paul at pfrolick@standrewsaa.org so we can plan for food.

Outreach and Social Justice Meeting

Sunday, February 22 | 11:15 am | Chapel
All are invited to discuss recent events in Minneapolis, local efforts, and upcoming plans for the group.

Leslie Stainton Book Event

Monday, February 23 | 7:00 pm | Sanctuary
Please join us for an evening of conversation with parishioner Leslie Stainton about her new book Scarlett: Slavery’s Enduring Legacy in an American Family, which traces the long shadow of slavery through her family, weaving together history, memory, and personal reflection to explore how the past continues to shape the present. Leslie will be joined in conversation by fellow parishioner Chris Watson. They will speak for about an hour, including Q & A, followed by book signing.

Offered during Black History Month, this event explores the enduring personal and national legacy of slavery through family history and careful research. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event from Literati Bookstore. If you can’t make the event but still want to order a book, call the bookstore at 734-585-5567 to reserve a copy, request that it be signed, and specify how you would like it personalized.

Music for Meditation: Christa Rakich, Organ

Sunday, March 1 | 7:00 pm | Church
Oberlin Organ Professor and early music specialist Dr. Christa Rakich performs a recital of Lenten organ music. This concert is free and open to the public.

Come early! Compline will be sung at 6:30 pm by the St. Andrew’s Early Music Ensemble and Compline Choir. Don't miss this meditative offering of thanksgiving to God for the blessings of the day and appeal for protection through the night! 

Book Discussion: "For Such a Time as This"

Thursdays, March 5, 12, & 19 | 5:30 pm | Chapel
Barb Kelly and Fr. Paul have been reading "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" by Hanna Reichel. Published in 2025, this thoughtful devotional offers short reflections rooted in Scripture, historical wisdom, and the core commitments of Christian faith to help ordinary Christians consider how to live faithfully in extraordinary times. Drawing on stories of courageous witnesses from church history and offering practical, spiritually grounded insights, Reichel’s book gives us rich material for conversation and discernment. Please RSVP to Fr. Paul at pfrolick@standrewsaa.org.

Volunteer Opportunities

Rotating Shelter Hosts Needed: February 22 - March 2

St. Andrew’s will be hosting the Rotating Shelter program of the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County from Sunday, February 22 to Monday, March 2. This program provides overnight shelter to 25 men due to over-crowded conditions at the Delonis Center. The men are screened and transported to St. Andrew’s at about 7:00 pm each evening.

Each night, we will provide two volunteers (college age and above) to serve as overnight hosts from 6:30 pm until breakfast the next morning. Additionally, we will be providing dinner this year, and need many donations of food, as well as at least three serving/cleanup volunteers (age 14+) each evening. Training, recipes and other information will be provided.

You can sign up online via the links below or contact Kim Hudolin at KimHudolin@gmail.com. If you are unable to volunteer or donate food, cash donations are also welcome (payable to St. Andrew’s with the notation “Rotating Shelter”). Thank you for your consideration.

Sign Up: Volunteer Hosts & Servers

Sign Up: Food Donations

Community Events

Division Street Pipes

Thursdays | 12:15-12:45 pm in the Church
This event is free and open to the public.
Join the University of Michigan Organ Department for “Division Street Pipes,” a weekly series of 30-minute recitals at St. Andrew’s, featuring performances by UofM organ majors and professors.

Join us this Thursday, February 12, for a recital by Lucia Skrobola. Lucia is Junior studying Organ Performance and Sacred Music at SMTD under Professor Nicole Keller. She is a Michigan native, having grown up first in Kalamazoo and then in Chelsea. Lucia will bring a program of Viennese, Dutch, and German music by Mozart Organ Fantasia in F minor K608, Buxtehude Chaconne in e minor BuxWV106, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata no. 2. We hope to see you there!

This recital series is a unique opportunity to hear not only young, talented, and passionate organ students perform, but also the exceptional playing of their highly acclaimed professors!

Announcements

Worshiping Virtually?

The 10:00 am Holy Eucharist will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel and the bulletin is available in the Publications section of this site.

February Rota

The rota for February is available. If you are unable to serve as assigned, please contact the scheduler for your group.

Rota: February 2026

Help Us Help You!

Please make sure the parish office is notified about hospital and nursing home stays and requests for pastoral care! If you have a request or update, please leave a voicemail at (734) 663-0518 or email Jonathan at jgardner@standrewsaa.org.

Sunday School Announcements

Music Notes

LEVAS 221: This little light of mine

We think of this sprightly song as a Sunday school favorite, and so it functioned in the mid-20th century, after being arranged and published in the 1940s by Harry Dixon Loes. But the song had been sung widely in the Black community before then; it was collected by John Lomax in the early 1930s. Later, it became an anthem of the civil rights movement, adding verses and new tunes along the way. That activist tradition continues, including protests in Baltimore in 2015 and in Charlottesville in August 2017. Small but mighty, this little song still shines. - Donna Wessel Walker

My Lord What a Mornin’

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form. In 1892, he was accepted to study at the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. His excellent baritone attracted the attention of the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, the Conservatory’s Director. “I sang our Negro songs for him very often,” Burleigh later reminisced, “and before he wrote his own themes, he filled himself with the spirit of the old Spirituals.” Dvorak himself later acknowledged that, “[i]n the negro melodies of America, I discover[ed] all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.” The closing flute theme of the first movement of Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony, colloquially known as the New World Symphony, for example, is remarkably similar to "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". - Dennis Powers

Revised Common Lectionary (The RCL)

Sunday, February 1 - Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8   •   Psalm 15   •   1 Corinthians 1:18-31   •   Matthew 5:1-12

Sunday, February 8 - Epiphany 5

Isaiah 58:1-9a   •   Psalm 112:1-9   •   1 Corinthians 2:1-12   •   Matthew 5:13-20

Sunday, February 15 - Epiphany Last

Exodus 24:12-18   •   Psalm 99   •   2 Peter 1:16-21   •   Matthew 17:1-9

Wednesday, February 18 - Ash Wednesday

Isaiah 58:1-12   •   Psalm 103:8-14   •   2 Corinthians 5:20b - 6:10   •   Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sunday, February 22 - Lent 1

Genesis 2: 15-17, 3: 1-7   •   Psalm 32   •   Romans 5: 12-19   •   Matthew 4: 1-11

Looking ahead?

Please visit The Lectionary Page. St. Andrew's generally follows Track Two.

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