Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
	Incarnation Spring Calendar
	Saturday night, May 19th at 8:00p.m. at Incarnation, The Spirit Singing Band will be performing. The band performs soul jams that merge familiar songs, sacred chant, and improvisation. The audience becomes part of the band, and the music springs from the moment. The band is composed of Kath Roos, Lori Fithian, Sam Clark, Aron Kaufman, Stephen Morris, and you! Listeners, meditators, dancers: welcome all.
	May 24th-27th: Emergent Arts is doing Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple" at the Arthur Miller Theater. $10 adult/$8 Senior/student tickets (half price!) available for folks from Incarnation and their friends. All proceeds will go to Incarnation. Shows are at 8:00p.m. May 24th-26th and 2:p.m. May 26th and 27th. Please contact Joe for reservations: Call him at 846-3578 or email him at: jsummers@umich.edu.
	Saturday, May 26th at 7:00p.m. Slam for Justice, Slam for Peace, Slam for Humanity: A benefit for the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, featuring some of Ann Arbor's finest young poets, including: Amelia Diehl, Sarah Kerson, Hind Omar, Adam Hagopian-Zirkel, Haley Patail, Alia Persico-Shammas, and others. At Incarnation Church.
	Sunday Mornings: Youth Ministry. We plan to have three age groups meet on Sunday mornings: a pre-school group, a grade-school aged group, and a Middle and High School aged group. The youngest group will use "Living the Good News", which is based on the Episcopal Lectionary and "Godly Play" , which is a Montessori-based curriculum. The Grade School aged group will use the Presbyterian Curriculum "I Know My Bible" and "Living the Good News". The oldest group will use lessons drawn from "Confirm Not Conform".
	Between July 15th and July 30th, 2012 A ten-day Nicaraguan mission trip for older youth is being planned. Again and again youth say that it is this kind of experience that they found most meaningful to them and their faith. The plan is for the mission trip to be something like a summer camp experience with several hours a day of volunteer work combined with times to come to know the people and country of Nicaragua and time to reflect on and discuss the experience. In preparation for this trip we are planning to have the Middle School/High School aged youth meet twice a month on the first and third Sundays of each month from 3:30-5:00p.m. Included will be pizza dinner and worship. These sessions will use Nicaragua as a way to begin to focus our questions and how we might go about answering them. Whether or not youth plan to go on this trip, they will be encouraged to participate in these gatherings.
	NOTE: If you would like to contribute to individuals and families in need, you can do so by making checks out to the church and marking them "VDF". These funds will be used to help people dealing with grave financial difficulties.