Look no further! The St. Martin's Prime Timers welcome you to our group!

Please join us each Sunday in the Payne Education Center from 10:10am to 10:50 in rooms 207-209. You are invited for coffee, breakfast treats and currently a new section on the Old Testament, starting with reading some of the Psalms. It sounds like the perfect time for you to hop in!

Yes, that's Caroline Maryan in front of Henny Penny gone wild! From the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper of course.

I think this is a boat for the fisher of men. Is that a shell game Rev. Chris Bowhay is playing with those red buckets?

The Rev. Stuart Bates in an Olympic themed float at the St. Martin's Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper.

Henny Penny is the Prime Timers Good News Chicken!

For $1 to the chicken you can tell us what you would like at the beginning of our class. This morning Kate Given gave thanks for several things in her life and reminded us that the shawl she was wearing was available to anyone who needed some comforting.

Anna Joffrion brought the good news that her son Matt got a job that actually pays him with Vanity Fair!

God Made Us Special

Today's vocabulary word is sapiential. This is another word for wisdom. Our readings for the next couple months come from what is know as the Wisdom, or sapiential Literature in the Bible. This is the Book of Job, the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticle of Canticles, the Book of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus.

These books were intended by the Jews to be an oral tradition. For the most part people were illiterate, few could read or write, so these books were meant to be memorized.

The Psalms themselves are poetry, each containing a single theme. Each is a core scripture for the reader to begin to meditate. These are NOT narrative like many other parts of scripture but rather carry a message : "I will tell you what I am seeing (theologically) so that you can look around in your day and time and see things (through the Psalm) as they really are."

We will spend the next couple weeks with the wisdom of the Psalms. Teacher Skip Maryan presented Hermann Gunkel's Five Categories of the Psalms: songs of praise, community lamentations, Royal Psalms, individual lamentations and songs of thanksgiving. Today's reading is a psalm of praise.

Instead of having a member read the passage Skip had the class as a whole read Psalm 8. The Psalms were described as having a "Churchilian" (as in Winston Churchill) metric.

Skip Maryan then led the class in our healing prayer and delivered a benediction prior to closing the session.

Prime Timers Contact names and numbers

Mentor

Rev. B. Massey Gentry
mgentry@stmartinsepiscopal.org

Leader

Don't forget to click! Today's photos are all "clickable". See what happens when you click one!

Believe it or not this is our own Rev. Dr. John K. Graham!

Who is this man? Its the Rev. Larry Gipson at the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper!

Yes its the Pope-mobile, with Rev. Ron Morris at the St. Martin's Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. He was giving out Pope-corn!

What can you say except its Rev. Bentley's Bentley!

These musicians played for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper.

The Lesson for Sunday, March 12th is titled "God Created Wonderful Things"

Key Verse:  Psalm 104:1

Focus of the Lesson:  People often experience awe and wonder in response to the natural world. Who created the creatures and landscapes that cause such feelings in us? The psalmist praises God for being the Creator of all living and nonliving things, seen and unseen on earth.

The reading is Psalm 104:1-13. This text is from the New International Version^®.

1 Praise the LORD, O my soul.
O LORD my God, you are very great;
   you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

2 He wraps himself in light as with a garment;
   he stretches out the heavens like a tent

3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on|
    their waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot
   and rides on the wings of the wind.

4 He makes winds his messengers,
   flames of fire his servants.

5 He set the earth on its foundations;
   it can never be moved.

6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
   the waters stood above the mountains.

7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,
   at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

8 they flowed over the mountains,
   they went down into the valleys,
   to the place you assigned for them.

9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
   never again will they cover the earth.

10 He makes springs pour water into the ravines;
   it flows between the mountains.

11 They give water to all the beasts of the field;
   the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the air nest by the waters;
   they sing among the branches.

13 He waters the mountains from his upper
  chambers;
 the earth is satisfied by the fruit of his work.

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