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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.
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Capital Campaign Update
The Rector and Vestry are pleased to announce that $260,115 in pledges have come in for the Capital Campaign. Thank you to everyone who has joyfully and generously stepped forward to help so far! At its June meeting, the vestry voted to designate the chapel bathroom remodel, sanctuary roof repairs, and the new exterior door security system as first priorities. The next priority on the list is interior first and second-floor education wing partitions and doors to separate the classrooms from the common hallways of the church. The next priority after that is the roof extension over the walkway on the east side of the sanctuary.
You can help your church be able to do ALL of these projects as part of Phase One of the campaign by making a pledge or giving a gift prior to July 31st, 2018. On that date, we'll cease capital campaign fundraising for this year and do those projects we have raised the funds to do. You can give by:
+ Writing a check to St John's with "capital campaign" in the memo line
+ Emailing Pastor Susan or Senior Warden Joanie Heard with your pledge [sspringer@stjohnsboulder.org or joanieheard@me.com]
+ Fill out a pledge card (available in the narthex, in the office, and in the chapel)
If you wish information on the campaign in addition to what was supplied in the late May mailing from our wardens, or if you didn't receive that information, please contact Pastor Susan or Joanie Heard. We'll be happy to answer your questions!
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It was a rich and joyful experience to come back to St. John's for the first time in more than 40 years! When I came to Boulder in 1975 (at age 22) to pursue the Master of Music degree in Organ Performance at CU, it happened that St. John's was in need of an organist at just that time, and I was hired. I served as organist from about September 1975 until sometime in the summer of 1977. The organ was smaller, and the console was positioned such that the organist's back was to the altar. What a pleasure last Sunday to hear the expanded, more complete organ, and also to be able to see the organist!
After completing the MM degree (and my tenure at St. John's) I headed to Germany on a Fulbright scholarship, where I continued organ study (and traveled around Europe!) for two years. Then for five years I held a full-time church music position in Midland, Texas and served as an instructor of organ at Midland College. During those years in Midland, my vocation began to come into focus, and I headed to Rochester, New York to pursue the DMA at Eastman School of Music (also in Organ Performance), in order to prepare myself more fully for college teaching. For the past 27 years, that is exactly what I have done: It's been my great joy to serve as Professor of Organ and College Organist at Houghton College in Houghton, New York, a small Christian liberal arts college that nurtures a strong music curriculum.
When I came to St. John's in 1975 the Episcopal liturgy was new to me. Back in those days, we had Eucharist just twice a month, so I became well-acquainted with both Morning Prayer and Eucharist and was blessed by the beauty and depth in both services. In the years since I have taken countless opportunities to worship in Episcopal churches (sometimes weekday services, when I was serving as organist in other denominations). In 1992 I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, and for many years served as Organist/Choirmaster at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Olean, NY alongside the college faculty position.
What began for me at St. John's in Boulder--a vocation in church music and a connection to the Episcopal Church and the Anglican tradition--has been with me ever since, and I am more grateful than ever for the hospitality and nurture I received there as a very young organist. Coming back to visit after so many years I was impressed with the vitality of the church: New buildings, emphasis on Christian formation and service, warm hospitality, a full congregation (even in the middle of summer) that included people of all ages! In a time when many traditional churches around the country are diminishing and even closing, how I thank God that St. John's appears to be flourishing--more alive than ever. May God continue to bless the congregation, its people, and its ministries to the Boulder area and beyond!
Sincerely,
Judy Congdon
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Coffee Hour
Please join us after the 9:30 service for liquid refreshment!!
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 2018 MINISTRY FAIR
is right around the corner!! Sunday, August 26th we will be honoring all of St. John’s wonderful ministries and inviting everyone to get involved!! If you are a ministry leader now is the time to get to work on a banner for the procession. There are some retired banners that can be re-purposed. Just contact Diane Wells at dwells@stjohnsboulder.org or 303-442-5246 if you are interested in making a banner for your ministry.
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This month St. John's received
$472.19
from folks in our grocery card ministry—
And all they did was buy groceries and gasoline!
You can help—it's easy.
CLICK HERE
Or contact Janice Moore, Jim Podolak,
or Caryl Stalick for more information
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ACTION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
At our Baptism we are asked “ Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?” and we answer, “I will with God’s help” (BCP p. 305)
Every day, when we hear the cries of suffering in our midst and we acknowledge the trauma caused by these personal human tragedies, our hearts break. The challenges of our time are daunting. Parents seeking a safe home for their children, in the land-of-the-free, watch helplessly as their babies are taken from them; students, living in fear that this might be the day that their school is in some gunman’s site; parents worried that some child close to them could die from an opioid overdose. We ask, What can I do? And What difference can one person make anyway? We feel hopeless and helpless. All of these feelings make perfect sense. But what can we do?
As Christians, we know there are actions that all of us can take in the name of justice, and that one person…multiplied by many… can make a difference. We don’t have to look any further than the vow we all took (or loving Godparents took for us) at the time of our Baptism. In it, we hear a clear call to action… or at least to strive, “for justice and peace…and respect the dignity of every human being” And, in this spirit, our Social Action Ministry would like to offer some ideas. These will be a regular weekly feature in The E- Eagle and will be devoted to calls to action for justice.
The focus of this new feature will change periodically, as we address the social and environmental challenges of our time. The ideas will be researched and provided by the Social Action Ministry as we all set our hearts and souls on making the world a better place.
Blessings,
Kathy Shields, Chair, Social Action Ministry
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The loose plate recipient for the rest of July is RAICES [Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services], a non-profit founded in 1986, which offers free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees at the Texas/Mexico border.
For more information:
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The St John’s Welcome Ministry Needs You!
Top TEN REASONS to participate in the Welcome Ministry:
10 We have an amazing number of visitors in one year… averaging more than two (families) a week at the 9:30 service!
9 Many of our visitors are going through situations that make them more responsive to God. Our connection to with them helps them connect to God.
8 A visitor attending one of our services may be an answer to someone’s prayer.
7 Our visitors assess very quickly whether or not they will come back, so we want to make a good impression as a parish.
6 We are asked by our Presiding Bishop to: discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love (royal wedding sermon). We must show our visitors!
5 Studies show that visitors will talk about their initial experience at a church 8-15 times with other people, so we want to make a great impression.
4 The welcome ministry is a great way to get initially involved at St. John’s. Little training is needed!
3 Having a great welcome ministry nourishes a culture of hospitality as our presence reminds the entire congregation: Visitors Matter!
2 While participating in the Welcome Ministry we strengthen all other ministries at St John’s by directing visitors to those ministries.
1 We are commanded in Scripture to be hospitable!
Welcome ministry duties currently include: Setting up the welcome table before the 9:30 service, greeting attendees and visitors before, during and after the service; visitor follow up. We are a newly re-formed team and would love for you to be a part! To sign up contact the Church office or reach out to Kathy Fox at kfox.tn@comcast.net.
Thank you!
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Opportunity to Volunteer for Gun Violence Prevention
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St. John’s has been invited to join Congregation Bonai Shalom on Saturday, August 4th AND Sunday, August 5th at their Gun Violence Prevention table at the Boulder County Fair. Can you volunteer to sit at the table for one of the 2-hour shifts? Thank you for those who have volunteered so far. We could use another person on Saturday from 4 to 6 and Sunday either 12 to 2 or 2 to 4. St. John’s has been co-sponsoring this effort with Bonai Shalom for two years. We will have brochures and fact sheets on how to prevent gun violence. If you would like to sign up for a shift, please contact Kathy Ashworth (kathleen687@comcast.net). |
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Are you traveling much this summer?
Travel size toiletries are needed for homeless clients.
St. John’s Soup kitchen provides the best homemade meal in the city. St. John’s and St. Benedict’s Health and Healing Ministry pass out travel size toiletries if the clients need them. Last Soup Kitchen Sunday, Deacon Jan gave away 72 items.
You may donate your small toiletries to St. John’s and SBHHM and we will see that the clients receive them at Soup Kitchen. There will be a bag in the office to collect items.
Items needed are toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, conditioner, hand lotion, lip balms, and small deodorants for men and women.
Thanks so much, Deacon Jan
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JOIN US FOR EVENSONG
Wednesdays at 6 pm
EVENSONG WILL BE ON HIATUS FOR THE SUMMER
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.
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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
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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."
- Thank you to Heather Mellish for her help with Summer Sunday School.
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Sunday Volunteers
- Welcome: Kathe Lujan
- Lectors: Alan Nelson, Charles Lujan
- Intercessor: Charles Lujan
- Ushers: Evan Landvik, Charlotte Landvik, JoAnne Foster
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Acolytes: Chocie, Grace, Harry
- Eucharistic Visitors: Mhari Peschel
- Healing Prayer Ministers: Nancy Iverson, Kathleen Ferguson
- Vergers: Mhari Peschel
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Readings
Jeremiah 23:1-6
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord. Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”
Psalm 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd; *
I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures *
and leads me beside still waters.
3 He revives my soul *
and guides me along right pathways for his Name's sake.
4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I shall fear no evil; *
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5 You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; *
you have anointed my head with oil,
and my cup is running over.
6 Surely your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, *
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Ephesians 2:11-22
Remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision” —a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
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Prayers of Intercession
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:
The Prellberg Family (Stewart), Dorothy Mahon (Ralls), Gretchen Sliker, Pam Millener (Maddock), Ryan Geisler (Tracy), Donna Jackson (Burnsed), Deacon Lorine Williams, Janet Brennan, JoAnn Brown, Addie Heuston, Millie Heitman, Mark Odeen, 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:
Rt. Rev. Robert McConnell Hatch, Janis Rosenthal VanZante, and Thurston (Ted) Manning on the anniversaries of their death.
We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays:
Ethan Harrington, James Avery, Josephine Furst, Kathi Frider, Sarah Kiehafber, Anna Northrop, Carolyn Marino, Chloe Moore, Liliana & Meredith Stewart/Panzarella, Terrie Clark/Lembitz, Anna Marshall, Peter Vellandi, Claire Stumb, Alex Merryman Graham, Olivia Shaw, Nancy Iverson, Megan Quinn, Stephanie Simkins, Charlie Skala.
We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:
Jennifer & Troy Rosen, Anne Ross, Frank & Carol Ross, Else Roth, Skylar Rotholtz, Bobbi Rowe, Art & Sharon Rowley, Howard & Jennifer Rudnick, Barbara Rumsey, Mark & Melissa Rupert
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