This Week at Tabernacle
THIS WEEK AT TABERNACLE CHURCH, UCC
February 15th, 2026
PANCAKE BREAKFAST THIS SUNDAY!!!
Join Us this Sunday, February 15th for our Worship Service in the Sanctuary as we welcome Rabbi Allen, a faith-based community organizer at ECCO as our Guest Preacher.
Following our service PANCAKES will be served in the Bigelow Room.
BE SURE NOT TO MISS THIS SPECIAL MUSICAL EVENT
This Sunday, February 15th at 3:00 p.m.
Please be sure to use Federal Street Entrance to the building
Please join us on Sunday, February 15th, at 3 p.m. for a fabulous salon concert.
“Gershwin and Porter” will feature duets and solos from well-known George Gershwin and Cole Porter musicals,
performed by the Boston-based singers Mary Alexandra Onstad (Soprano) and Cameron Dobson (Sopranist).
Donations taken at the door are $20 for adults, and $10 for seniors and youth under 18.
Please email Mary Jodice for more information and questions at maryjodice1@gmail.com
Please use the Federal Street entrance.
A Message from Reverend Joe
Dear Members and Friends,
Big Sunday ahead!
This is the end of our Epiphany Season and next week Lent begins. Shrove Tuesday is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession, the ritual burning of the previous year’s Holy Week palms, finalizing one’s Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets. We’ll have a pancake breakfast following worship this Sunday as our observance of these traditions.
Rabbi Allen Lipscomb from ECCO will be bringing our sermon this Sunday at 10 am. As far as I can research, this may be the first time, at least in recent memory, that we have had a Rabbi preach from our pulpit! Rabbi Allen is a community organizer for ECCO. We haven’t had an ECCO update in a long time, so when Rabbi Allen contacted me and asked about coming, the longer we chatted, the more I thought, why not preach? ECCO has been an important community partner for immigration and low-income housing issues. Be sure to come and hear what else is going on with our partner on community justice issues.
So, after being fed spiritually in worship, physically with pancakes, come on back to the Bigelow Room in the afternoon where three of our talented Jubilate Choir members will be providing a Cole Porter and George Gershwin concert. They are donating half of their proceeds to Tabernacle, so we get to enjoy great music and help support our own mission as a congregation.
See you in church or on zoom, and for pancakes and again for great music.
Reverend Joe
Sad News….
We have learned of the passing of Rosina Stark, the 103-year-old
Mother of Linda Stark.
Notes of sympathy and condolence may be sent to Linda at her home:
11 Church Street, Unit 305, Salem MA 01970
Please keep Linda and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
The Deacon for the month of February is Jan Roberts-Breslin
The lighting of the Steeple for the month of February is provided by Doug and Jean Karam “in loving memory of our loved ones.”
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
FREE CONCERT! Under the Direction of our own Cyndi Napierkowski
Some members from our Tabernacle Community will be participating in this event.
Come on down and join in the fun and food!!!
March 7th, 11 am to 2 pm. At First Church of Swampscott.
NEW ITEM TO COLLECT FOR THE SALEM PANTRY
GOD BLESS YOU!!!
For the following months of February and March, Missions will be collecting boxes of Kleenex to donate to the Salem Pantry.
Baskets for the items are in the Narthex.
Bless you for your contributions!
Missions Group
Steeple Lighting Opportunities for 2026!!
Call or email the office for months that are available if you would like to celebrate a special occasion or remember or honor a loved one.
March, April, June, August and September are available
Call or email the office to reserve your month now!
Cost is 150.00 for the month. Phone: 978-744-3164,
email: office@tabernaclechurch.org
WE NEED HELP SERVING LIFEBRIDGE MEALS
CHOOSE YOUR MONTH TO SERVE
4-6 P.M. the fourth Monday of the Month
Sign up Sheets are on the board in the Bigelow Room
Or CONTACT MARTHA BAGBY (mhbagby@gmail.com)
WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS WE CANNOT MAKE THIS MOST IMPORTANT COMMUNITY SERVICE HAPPEN!!
AND WE ARE STILL COLLECTING …..
Missions is collecting plastic tabs from bread and fruit bags, and the pull tabs from cans. Collection Jars are in the Bigelow Room.
Calendar
Sunday, February 15th, 2026
10:00 a.m. Worship Service with communion in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Pancake Breakfast in the Bigelow Room
3:00 p.m. Porter and Gershwin Concert in the Sanctuary
Monday, February 16th, 2026 President’s Day
Office is Closed
7:00 p.m. Alanon Meeting downstairs in the dining room
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
6:00 p.m. Zilber Beatles rehearsal downstairs classroom
7:00 p.m. Council Meeting via Zoom
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Jubilate Choir Rehearsal in the Bigelow Room
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 Ash Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Bible Study via Zoom
Friday, February 20th, 2026
6:30 p.m. AA meeting downstairs in the dining room
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
7:00 p.m. Free Concert – North Shore Concert Jazz Band
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time in the Bigelow Room
BIBLE STUDY
February 11th, 2026
7:00 pm via Zoom
HEBREW BIBLE READING
Leviticus 25:39-43
“‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.
Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God
CHRISTIAN TESTAMENT READING
Galatians 5:1, 13-15
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command:
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.