This document provides an overview of upcoming events at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, including a series of lectures on Christianity and ethics from April to June. It also summarizes sections from the book "The Coast", describing a boy's journey with his father to see the ocean, their discovery of disappointment upon arrival, the passing of responsibility from the father to son, and ultimately the father's death. The summary concludes by noting an Easter message about new life and family after loss.

1. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
The Road – March 22, 2015
5th Sunday of Lent
 The Coast: Love’s Embrace

2. A Prayer for the Future of the
Human Race
BCP p. 828
 O God our heavenly Father, you have
blessed us and given us dominion over
all the earth: Increase our reverence
before the mystery of life; and give us
new insight into your purposes for the
human race, and for wisdom and
determination in making provision for its
future accordance with your will; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

3. A People’s History of
Christianity
 April 12 – Christianity as a Way of Life & Devotion: The Love of
God
 April 26 – Ethics: The Love of Neighbor
 May 3 - Christianity as Spiritual Architecture & Devotion:
Paradise Restored
 May 10 – Ethics: Who is my Neighbor?
 May 17 - Christianity as Living Words & Devotion:
Speaking of Faith
 May 24 - Ethics: Walking the Talk
 June 7 - Christianity as a Quest for Truth
 June 14 - Devotion: The Quest for Light
 June 21 - Ethics: Kingdom Quest
 June 28 - The River

5. The Coast
 The boy has never seen an ocean with
his real eyes. He believes that when his
father and he finally arrive, there will be
other children and families.
 Like Huckleberry Finn or the The
Odyssey, the purpose of the story is not
the destination, it is what transforms that
characters on their journey.
 In almost everyway the coast is a
disappointment (Read p. 215 – 219)

6. The Coast
 It is at the coast where the mantle of
tradition is passed onto the next
generation. The father’s health is
declining and he can no longer go on.

7. The Coast is the destination,
but it is not the end of the story.
 They find a boat, the name of which hin
English, is the “Bird of Hope,” and it is
there that the father, after swimming
toward it finds all kinds of plunder.
 He swims back to the coast with some
of what he’s found and the father and
son have a conversation (Read pp. 242-
246).

8. The Death of the Father
 Read p. 281 – 286
 Watch 1:33 – 1:44

9. Easter
 The Third day after the Father dies, the
boy encounters a resurrection – in the
meeting of this new family, who take him
in and love him.

10. I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4: 7