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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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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 2 of 5, and we will discuss material that was published in the August 14th issue of The Rector's Pen and which is also available on our website. |
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Join us, after the 9:30 service, in the Parish Hall for Coffee Hour.
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Please bring donation this weekend!
Care Package Items for St. John's College students
The Youth Group will be compiling care packages this Sunday, September 30th at 11 am in the St. Francis room for St. John's kids who are away at college.
*If you have a college student away at school that would like to receive a care package, please send us an email with their name and address cmelby@stjohnsboulder.org
Please donate any of the following:
Individual snacks- gummies, granola bars, protein bars, chocolate. Packaged drinks- hot chocolate, tea, water flavor-enhancer. Other items include- Ramen, Cup o' Soup, mac and cheese, individual boxes of cereal, pens, pencils, highlighters, note cards, stamps, holiday decorations, window clings ...
Donation boxes will be located in the office or at the Welcome table on Sunday morning
(don't have time to shop? we happily accept monetary donations and we will do the shopping for you! )
A pizza lunch will be provided!
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Reminder!
Sunday School meets every Sunday at 9:30 am in the education wing next to the Parish Hall
except for the Second Sunday of the month when we have our Family service.
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BIG Announcement!!
'Choristers', our Youth Choir led by Tom Morgan, will now practice on Sunday mornings at 11 am.
By moving practice from Wednesday nights to Sunday mornings, we hope that more children will participate. Our Chorister program has been active for 25 years. The children sing and play instruments at our Family-friendly Second Sunday service each month. Choristers will begin September 16th at 11 am.
No Registration Needed!!!
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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!
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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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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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A CALL TO ACTION
Parishioner Bill Woodward, of the CU Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, gave this tremendous TEDx talk recently. You may find it of interest if you are concerned about preventing school shootings and teen suicides. It's often said that the problem is "too big" to tackle, but Bill shows that we can indeed tackle it, and offers proven strategies for doing just that. Please share this with your friends and colleagues.
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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 Charlie Lujan for his help in the front office during Diane's absence.
- Thank you to Noreen Reeder and the Hiking Group for a great coffee hour.
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Sunday Volunteers
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Welcome Table: Kathy Fox, Jean Roche
- Vestry Welcome: Steve Christoper
- Lectors: Alan Nelson, Steve Tilson
- Intercessor: Steve Tilson
- Ushers: Steve Tilson, Sally Johnstone, Kathleen Ferguson,
Eric Klassen
- Acolytes: Drew, Harry
- Eucharistic Visitors:
- Healing Prayer Ministers: Helen Melody Witherill, Laura Ferenc
- Vergers: Tom Brewster
- Guardian: Tom Brewster
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Readings
Numbers 11:4-6,10-16,24-29
The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the Lord became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,’ to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”
So the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.
Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!”
Psalm 19:7-14
7 The law of the Lord is perfect
and revives the soul; *
the testimony of the Lord is sure
and gives wisdom to the innocent.
8 The statutes of the Lord are just
and rejoice the heart; *
the commandment of the Lord is clear
and gives light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is clean
and endures for ever; *
the judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
more than much fine gold, *
sweeter far than honey,
than honey in the comb.
11 By them also is your servant enlightened, *
and in keeping them there is great reward.
12 Who can tell how often he offends? *
cleanse me from my secret faults.
13 Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins;
let them not get dominion over me; *
then shall I be whole and sound,
and innocent of a great offense.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart be acceptable in your sight, *
O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
James 5:13-20
Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.
My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner's soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Mark 9:38-50
John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
“For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
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Prayers of Intercession
Short-term: 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:
Fr. Rolland William Hoverstock, Penfield Wallace Tate II, and Ruth Watson Martin on the anniversary of their deaths.
We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays:
Alexandra Brodnicki, George Coupounas, Laura Martin, Suzanne Myers, Kristina Robinson, Carrie Taylor, Phillip Verplanck, Maddie Weisz, Mark Burnett, Nancy Johnson, Sean Zender, Ellie Amelang, Teri Lee, Andrew Pasini, Blade Hanak, Rob Van Dusen, Erika Rupert, Phineas Bundy, Ken Dutro, Sarah Hartzell, Darcy Kitching, Jon McClurg, Lucy Coker, Kristin Swenerton
We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:
Karl & Sarah Thompson, Lee Thompson. Rich & Vanessa Thorsten, Lloyd Thrall, Catherine Tillery, Steve & Sally Tilson, Corey Tollerud, Adrianne & Chad Tracy, Shem & Karla Trapp, James Traut
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