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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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We are pleased to report that as of noon on Thursday, October 4th, nearing the end of week 1 of our fall pledge campaign, 56 households have pledged for a total of $188,000! We are well on our way to our parish goal of $900,000 thanks to your generosity!
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Join us this Sunday as we continue our fall adult formation series "The Great Spiritual Migration", based on the book by Brian McLaren. This will be Session 3 of 5, and we will discuss material that was published in the August 21st issue of The Rector's Pen, which is also available on our website. |
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"Third Grade Bibles"
This year, the Bible class will be held on Sunday, October 21st from 11:00 - 11:45 am in the St. Francis-St. Clare Room upstairs in the education wing.
St. John's third graders (and older children who haven't participated before), learn about the history and structure of the Bible and receive a Bible of their own from
St. John's.
Parents have the opportunity on Sunday, November 4th, at 11:00 am (optional) to personalize their child's Bible by highlighting verses and adding stickers and decorations, and children receive their Bibles during a Second Sunday on Sunday, November 11th service from the hands of their parents.
PLEASE RSVP so we can order a Bible for your child!
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Thank you to everyone who donated for our college care package project, and to the Youth Group for their enthusiastic help in putting the gifts together. We sent 20 boxes out across Colorado and the country to students who are dear to our community and our hearts. We'd love to hear how they were received if you know one of the recipients. We hope to make this an annual Fall tradition.
*No Eagle's Nest or Youth Group this Sunday, 10/7, while Mother Amy and our members attend Quest in Buena Vista.
Nursery care, Weaving God's Promises levels 1-3, and Children's Chapel will still occur as planned.
On Sunday, 10/14, the Youth Group is going on a field trip to the Boulder Humane Society to donate the dog and cat food we collect that morning as part of our Blessing of the Animals service. We are looking for volunteer drivers to help shuttle us there and then to lunch at Snarf's near Arapahoe and 55th. We will leave following the animal blessings, about 11:00 am and pick-up at Snarf's will be at 1:00 pm. Please contact Mother Amy (altythgoe@stjohnsboulder.org or 303-442-5246) with questions or to volunteer. Thank you!
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Blessing of Animals to include
Pet Food Donations
This year the October 14th Blessing of Animals will include an invitation to bring unopened cans or bags of cat or dog food to church. Each pet food donor will receive a heart themed bandana for their pet, and the food collected will be shared with the Longmont and Boulder Humane Societies. This is a great way to honor your pet, who freely gives you their love. Spread that love and help support a pet looking for a human to love forever. We’ll also bless veterinarians at this service. Please help us spread the word by telling your favorite veterinarian!
Children who do not share their homes with live animals are invited to offer instead a stuffed animal friend or photo for a special blessing.
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You are invited to a skill-building workshop:
In these deeply divided times, Connecting Communities, a program of The Institute For Sustainable Peace, is building a coalition of courageous Americans of divergent views saying no to fear and yes to understanding each other’s points of view.
To that end, Connecting Communities is working with a growing group of community organizations to offer a series of skill-building experiential learning workshops for community-minded people from the Denver/Boulder region. The focus will be on building skills enabling participants to engage in effective and meaningful dialogue to develop and deepen understanding across our differences.
Date/Time: Nov. 10, 2018 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: First Congregational Church
1128 Pine St., Boulder, CO 80302
Cost per person: $20 online registration by Nov. 8, $30 at the door
Cost includes lunch & refreshments
Register at www.eventbrite.com; insert event (Connecting Communities)
and location (Boulder, CO)
What you can expect: Our experiential learning workshop will begin with an experience in dialogue focused on what makes these conversations so difficult and what we can do about that. Via teach-ins and group exercises we will cover essential practices that make constructive conversations possible among people with divergent views and backgrounds: Suspending, Reflection, Listening, Empathy, Respecting, and Voicing.
About the facilitator: Randall Butler, J.D., CEO of The Institute for Sustainable Peace has over twenty years experience in mediating disputes and training leaders in America and Internationally in dialogue and conflict transformation. For more information about the work of The Institute for Sustainable Peace see www.sustainablepeace.org.
If Not Now, When?
We face unprecedented division across culture and politics. If we fail to act, we risk irreparable damage to our common life together and the future of our democracy. Fortunately, there are clear, simple approaches that can help us overcome our differences and build a better future. And it starts with better conversations. We invite you to join us.
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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 eEagle’s announcement of grocery card ministry donations—and have a good time!!
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St John's
Foyer Dinner
Fall Sign Ups for 2018-2019
Now’s the time to sign-up for your spot in the St. John's Foyer Dinners; groups will be forming at the end of October and kicking off their joint dinners this winter. What’s Foyer Dinner? Six to nine St John's folks (couples and singles) who get together monthly at each other’s homes for potluck dinners and good company. A great opportunity to meet new friends in Christ’s family at St John's and get to know old friends better. Sign up by calling or emailing Bill Ashworth (720-352-6456; washwort@gmail.com) by the end of October... Buon appetito!
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Items needed are:
toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, conditioner, hand lotion, lip balms, and small deodorants for men and women.
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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.
Thanks so much, Deacon Jan
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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: Men and Women's deodorant, dental floss, kid's shampoo.
Sincerely, Deacon Jan and volunteers.
P.S. WHITTIER PANTRY IS LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD VOLUNTEERS! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER, PLEASE CONTACT DEACON JAN! Shifts are Thursdays from 2:45pm-4:30pm
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The St Jude Young Adult's Group at St Aidan's offers fellowship and theology to young adults from the Episcopal Churches of Boulder. In their words:
-Pub(lic) Theology: On the second Thursday of the month, we meet at a local brewery to discuss a wide range of topics from death to the Prosperity Gospel. Upcoming topics are Demons and Satan on October 11th and The Saints (hopefully featuring Saints Mary Magdalene, Ambrose, John, and Aidan) on November 8th.
- Bible Study: We're launching a monthly bible study starting in October on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 5 pm.
-Service: We make a point of serving our parish and city communities on a regular basis.
If you are interested in checking out this group, please contact Durango Jenkins at St Aidan's: djenkins@saintaidans.org
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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)
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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Presiding Bishop, church respond to further cuts to the US refugee resettlement program By Lynette Wilson
Posted Sep 18, 2018
Episcopal News Service
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The United States was a worldwide leader in refugee resettlement just two years ago when more than 80,000 refugees were welcomed into the country with help from the nine agencies with federal contracts to do that work, including Episcopal Migration Ministries. That number has dwindled under the Trump administration, which announced Sept. 17th it would reduce resettlement further, to just 30,000 a year.
The Episcopal Church has a long history of standing with refugees, people who are fleeing violence, war, and political and religious persecution, and on Sept. 18 the church expressed its disappointment at the reduced cap on the number of refugees.
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“Don’t Breathe”
(But Please Do Vote)
This article has been excerpted from an essay by Nicole Wetsman whose work recently appeared in the Health section of Newsweek Magazine.[1] Not intended to scare the joy of living out of you, but I believe that, as loving and seeking people, all of us would want to be mindful of this revealing information about our rapidly changing climate: that the threats of unmitigated climate change are more imminent to our children’s health and ours than many of us may have considered. [39]
The author lays the groundwork by reminding us of the fallout from recent (and anticipated) rollbacks of environmental protections. She sheds light on the very meaning of air pollution as a “hodgepodge of chemical particulates made up of toxic metals like lead, iron, and zinc, 2.5 micrometers in diameter”. These are the “big components of emissions from vehicles and power plants”. She continues…and this is one of the scary parts…“These particulates enter the lungs and pass into the bloodstream…through the nasal cavity to the brain”. “They speed cognitive decline in the elderly and contribute to Alzheimer's disease and dementia”. Wetsman gives the example of how “new rules” for coal-burning power plants could “cause an additional 1400 deaths per year” as well as “increased rates of lung cancer and heart disease.”[39] In addition, “a study of 1.7 million veterans… with exposure to these pollutants…found an increased risk of diabetes” [39].
Unfortunately, Children are especially vulnerable to this toxicity, Wetsman tells us because they “breathe faster than adults” and therefore “they absorb more pollutants, relative to their body size”. This exposure hampers neuropsychological development and is “linked to memory and attention disorders”, as well as “delinquent behavior and poor performance on intelligence tests”[39]; moreover, “rates of asthma could rise quickly”. Worse yet, “exposure can increase the risk of respiratory illness in infants, including sudden infant death syndrome”.[39]
But WE ARE NOT POWERLESS. So, What can we do? With new awareness comes new resolve to step up what most of you are probably already doing: continue modeling vigilance of any of our behaviors that may contribute to the pollution of our air, water or land; continue teaching our children and grandchildren by the example of our love for this earth and of all living things whose lives depend on it; pray like our lives depended on it, because they do.
With hope and faith,
Kathy Shields, Chair
St John’s Social Action Ministry
[1] Newsweek Magazine, p39, 9/14/18
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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.
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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 all who donated items for our college care packages, and to the Youth Group members who helped assemble them. Twenty boxes were mailed all across the U.S. on Tuesday.
- Thank you to our Saturday evening Worship Coordinators for providing another wonderful summer outdoor reception series following our Saturday PM Bluegrass Worship service. (Although the outdoor concerts have ended until next year, Eucharist with Americana music continues every Saturday at 5:00 pm in the Chapel.)
- Thank you to Eli, Dudok and Mary Beth Sullivan for serving in Sunday School.
- Thank you to the Wednesday Morning Bible Study participants for a lovely 95th birthday celebration for Fr. Andy.
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Sunday Volunteers
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Welcome Table: Anne Greigg, Jean Roche
- Vestry Welcome: Sue Morse
- Lectors: Helen McKeown, Janice Moore
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Intercessor: Anne Greigg
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Ushers: Steve Tilson, Sally Johnstone, Mark Burnett
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Acolytes: Clara, Will, Ruth, Abigail, James
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Eucharistic Visitors: Anne Greigg
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Healing Prayer Ministers:Laura Ferenc, Diane Rex
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Vergers: Tom Brewster, Steve Tilson
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Guardian: Jim Ferenc
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Genesis 2:18-24
The Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field, but for the man, there was not found a helper as his partner. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the man said,
“This, at last, is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Psalm 8
1 O Lord our Governor, *
how exalted is your Name in all the world!
2 Out of the mouths of infants and children *
your majesty is praised above the heavens.
3 You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *
to quell the enemy and the avenger.
4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *
the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
5 What is man that you should be mindful of him? *
the son of man that you should seek him out?
6 You have made him but little lower than the angels; *
you adorn him with glory and honor;
7 You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *
you put all things under his feet:
8 All sheep and oxen, *
even the wild beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *
and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord our Governor, *
how exalted is your Name in all the world!
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. But someone has testified somewhere,
“What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
or mortals, that you care for them?
You have made them for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honor,
subjecting all things under their feet.”
Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason, Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, saying,
“I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters,
in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you.”
Mark 10:2-16
Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Then in the house, the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them, and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
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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:
Short-term: Ann Pierce (Newell), Bill Ruggles, The Gillis Family (Kimberly), Brenda Kroge, Lynelle Stewart, Dr. Kyra Toledo (Clarke), Donna Jackson (Burnsed), Charlie Skala, Bob Schaffner, Jackson Furst, Rose Ayars, Trudy Morron
Long-term: The Prellberg Family (Stewart), 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:
Elizabeth A. Seely, and John Andrew Elaisson, on the anniversary of their deaths.
We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays:
Arisa Gilbert, Ruthie Clements, Michael Spacone, Sam Boyd, Karen Nieb, Sarah Thompson, Kay Cook, Paula Schulte, Joyce Bergmann/Tanis, Beth Mason.
We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:
Bill & Jan Treadwell, Kim & Jason Trenbath, Ronan & Katie Truesdale, Spencer & Linda Turner, Gordon & Karen Van Dusen, Rebekah Van Sweden, Leonard Velick, Henry & Beverly Vellandi, Phillip & Emily Verplanck, Robert & Debra Ann Vickery.
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