December 28, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Led by the Holy Spirit,
St. John's mission is to inspire people to grow into the heart and mind of Christ by engaging together in worshiping, serving, and spiritual formation.

 
 
 
 
The St. John's office will be closed December 24th through January 6th, reopening January 7th.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Installation of new DOK chaplain
The Daughters of the King are pleased to announce the installation of their new chaplain, The Rev. Amy Lythgoe, at the 930am service on December 30th. The thirty members of St John's chapter of the DOK maintain a daily ministry of intercessory prayer, service, and evangelism.
 
 
 
 
 
Feast day of St John
In honor of our patron saint, John the Evangelist, (whose feast day is December 27th) the clergy will bless unopened bottles of wine (or your favorite celebratory beverage) that you bring to church (either service) on Sunday, December 30th. You are then invited to enjoy your blessed beverage on January 1st, to consecrate the year to come!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All Youth Programming will Resume on
January, 6th 2019
Have a safe and wonderful holiday!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
COMMITTAL SERVICE

A Committal Service will be held on Wednesday, January 9th at 3:30 pm at the Columbarium to inurn former parishioner Jean Taylor's ashes. Jean died in December 2015, and her family has asked us to hold a service. If you knew Jean when she was an active member at St John's you are encouraged to attend. The service will be filmed so it can be shared with her daughters who live out of state.
 
 
 
 
 
CATHOLIC CONNECTIONS DISCUSSION GROUP

SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, January 13th    

Are you a former (or current) member of the Roman Catholic Church who is attending St John's? You may be surprised to know that a number of former Catholics worship at our church. If you'd like to learn about the similarities and differences between our two denominations, and if you'd like to talk with other former/current Catholics at St John's about this new and unfolding season in your spiritual life, please join clergy and Cate Colburn-Smith (a former Roman Catholic!) on Sunday January 13th at 11:20am for the first of a four-session series. To get on the mailing list for this series or if you have questions, please contact Cate at colburnsmith@gmail.com

 
 
 
 
ONGOING
 
 
 
 


If you have shopping to do, please remember when you use Amazon, you can choose St. John's to be your charitable beneficiary for any approved purchase. Note that sometimes Amazon does not remind you, and you need to change from amazon.com to smile.amazon.com. It is easy to set up St. John's as your designated charity; email kathelujan@comcast.net if you have questions.
 
 
 
 
 
GROCERY CARD MINISTRY
Hello St. John’s!  Get creative with groceries!! Are you drawn to pistachios? Do carrots bring out your green eyes, or are you more of an eggplant person? Do you find inspiration in split pea soup? The possibilities are as endless as the varieties of plastic bags… Take a selfie in a grocery store and send it in for use in the w-Eagle’s announcement of grocery card ministry donations.

Take a selfie in a grocery store and send it to Heather Dudok                   (hdudok@stjohnsboulder.org) for use in the w-Eagle’s announcement of grocery card ministry donations—and have a good time!!
 
 
 
 
 
St. John’s Whittier Pantry

Thank you to parishioners of St. John's for your help in stocking the Whittier Pantry!!!  We opened on September 6th and had 7 families come. We will host up to 30 families this school year.  We appreciate your donations of items or of checks (with Whittier Pantry in the memo).

Current needs: Kleenex and toilet paper.

Sincerely, Deacon Jan and volunteers.


 
 
 
 
 
Whittier Elementary Children need Coats.

The Whittier Pantry is collecting gently used clean children's coats. Any size that would fit an elementary or middle school child will be repurposed and loved by another child. As you are cleaning out your closets preparing for winter, keep this in mind. Coats may be dropped off at the Whittier pantry. Thank you so much.

Deacon Jan
 
 
 
 
 
Retreats at Cathedral Ridge
 
 
 
 
BALANCE & BEAUTY WOMEN & GIRLS RETREAT
January 4-6, 2019
Invite your mother, friend, daughter, or granddaughter to a weekend of inter-generational fellowship, faith-deepening, and fun before school recommences. There will be large and small group presentations, crafts, worship, healthful meals, and time for self-care and pampering. This retreat makes a wonderful Christmas gift. For girls Grade 6 and above, and women of all ages. Cost: $175/$100 (adults/youth)


Retreat leaders: The Rev. Amy Underhill Lythgoe, Assisting Priest for Family Ministry, St. John’s-Boulder and Elizabeth Cervasio, Director of Children & Youth Ministry, Office of the Bishop
 
 
 
 
 
FATHER & SON RETREAT
January 18-20, 2019


Come enjoy a weekend with your father or father figure, or bring your son or young person you’re mentoring. This is for men looking for activity, play, and rest in the beautiful mountains of Cathedral Ridge. We will have activities indoors and out, games, music, presentations, worship, and table fellowship. For fathers and sons of all ages. Recommended for boys Grade 1 and above. Cost: $175/$100/$60 (adults/youth/children)

Retreat leaders: The Rev. Nicholas Myers, Rector of St. Timothy’s, Centennial, and Grae Dickson, Executive Director of Cathedral Ridge
 
 
Click Here For Retreat Reservations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dear Friends in Christ,
As we contemplate the prayers of Advent: Love, Hope, Joy, and Peace, our hearts and minds are drawn to what we, as part of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, can do to join forces with our National Church on the important issues of justice and truth. With that in mind, we are drawn to focus on issues:  Climate Care and Refugees ~ Immigration. At the General Convention in Austin, there were resolutions considered and passed addressing both. To that end, we share two articles of information which immediately follow.

We feel such gratitude in the knowledge that we belong to such a church that cares about human rights and the stewardship of the earth, “our island home.”

The Social Action Ministry
Advent 2018
 
 
 
 
 
Episcopal Relief & Development supports migrants in Mexico

Episcopal Relief & Development is supporting the work of the Anglican Church in Mexico to provide shelter, food, water, and other basic needs to migrants from Central America seeking asylum in the United States. As part of a joint-proposal sent to and funded by a collective of Anglican Alliance agencies, the efforts help meet immediate and long-term needs, beginning with a ministry through San Esteban Anglican Church in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the border from Donna, Texas.
CONTINUED...
 
 
CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE
 
 
 

A Simple Action You Can Take to Help End Gun Violence In Colorado: 
Join St. John’s Rapid Response Network


With a new State House of Representatives and a new State Senate preparing to convene for the 2019 session in early January, we are developing a list of congregants interested in joining our Congregation’s Rapid Response Network.  This network would be activated each time a bill is introduced that relates to guns.  The ask will be brief and simple.  Talking points will be provided and you will be asked to contact your legislator(s) or members of the committee hearing the bill.


Last year, CFCU was able to have members testify at each legislative hearing that dealt with gun bills.  Many more CFCU members contacted their legislators and we were successful in preventing any of our good gun bills passed in 2013 from being repealed.


We hope you will consider joining our network and being part of our witness on this important public health issue. We suspect we will need the help of every single one of you in the coming year.


Contact Kathy Ashworth at kathleen687@comcast.net if you are interested in joining. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EVENSONG WILL RESUME
JANUARY 9th 2019
 
 
 
 
JOIN US FOR EVENSONG               
Wednesdays at 6 pm

Contemplative Evensong meets every Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. from September through May.  Participants are welcome to join the cantor in the beautiful, meditative chant. Includes short periods of silent prayer. Please contact the office at 303-442-5246 for more information.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Weekly Services
Saturday            5:00p.m.       Holy Eucharist, chapel



Sunday               7:30 a.m.      Holy Eucharist, chapel
                            9:30 a.m.      Holy Eucharist, church
                            10:50 a.m.    Children's Eucharist, chapel (when Sunday school meets)
 
Tuesday            8 a.m.        Morning Prayer, chapel
                         
Wednesday      8 a.m.         Morning Prayer, chapel
                           10 a.m.        Holy Eucharist, chapel
                           6 p.m.         Evensong, chapel
                         
Thursday          8 a.m.        Morning Prayer, chapel 
                           Noon         Holy Eucharist and Service of Reconciliation, chapel

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thank you!

Paul often affirmed members of the churches he shepherded by telling them he was thanking God for them. In Philippians 1:3-5 Paul writes, "I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now."

  • A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MADE THIS CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY A HUGE SUCCESS!!!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
READINGS
Isaiah 61:10-62:3
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my whole being shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the earth brings forth its shoots,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all the nations.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
until her vindication shines out like the dawn,
and her salvation like a burning torch.
The nations shall see your vindication,
and all the kings your glory;
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Psalm  147:13-21

13 Worship the Lord, O Jerusalem; *
praise your God, O Zion;
14 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; *
he has blessed your children within you.
15 He has established peace on your borders; *
he satisfies you with the finest wheat.
16 He sends out his command to the earth, *
and his word runs very swiftly.
17 He gives snow like wool; *
he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
18 He scatters his hail like bread crumbs; *
who can stand against his cold?
19 He sends forth his word and melts them; *
he blows with his wind, and the waters flow.
20 He declares his word to Jacob, *
his statutes and his judgments to Israel.
21 He has not done so to any other nation; *
to them he has not revealed his judgments.
Hallelujah!

Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7
Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.

John 1:1-18
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. (John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

 
 
 
 
 

Please use this list today and throughout the week, praying with special intention for:

All who are suffering in the wake of violence or natural disasters, all who are serving in the military, all who are distressed in mind, body, or spirit, and members of our parish family including:

Short-term: Kate Dodson, Pamela Clare, Sallye Howard, The Rev. Kimberly (Kym) Lucas, Christopher Turner (Skala), Robert Schwartz, Alan Wells (Lee), Ginny Pine.
Long-term: Charlie Skala, The Prellberg Family (Stewart), Deacon Lorine Williams, Janet Brennan, JoAnn Brown, Addie Heuston, Millie Heitman, Don Shields

Please notify Heather in the church office
(303-442-5246 or hdudok@stjohnsboulder.org)
if there are people who should be added to
 or removed from our prayer list.

THIS WEEK:

We pray for the repose of the souls of:

Viola Emily Huddleston, Elizabeth Shaffer Hudson, Barbara Ann Gorman, Jane E. Hanson on the anniversary of their deaths.  

We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays:

JT Mink, Pete Jackson, Andrew Cousin, Asmita Idate, Aaron Gilbert, Jack Ashbaugh, Julia Reynolds, Elise Wobus, Cassie Anderson/Houtz, Joyce Kull, Matteo Murphy, Julie Annear, Danielle Crisman, Sarah-Frances Laracuente, Tom Morgan, Morgan Wall.


We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:

Tom Becherer,  Terzah & Dan Becker, Jean Bedell, Valerie Behrens, Jon & Kathryn Bellish, Sally Benjamin, Alisha Bennett, Tim Benton, Joyce Bergmann/Tanis, Frances Berry.





 
 
 
 
 
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