Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm 1
1 John 5:9-13
John 17:6-19

Our early service is unaccompanied by music and usually lasts about 50 minutes. Coffee and fellowship are offered before the service begins in the parish hall, while the sanctuary is available for quiet prayer. Another coffee hour follows the service.

This Eucharistic service is accompanied by our choir of mixed adult voices and organ, or on second Sundays of each month by Soul Purpose, our contemporary band. Nursery care and children's education are available during this service. A festival reception for kids and adults follows the service.

11:30am: Music rehearsals
Following the worship services, our musical groups gather to prepare for the next weeks' offerings.

 

 
Feel like enjoying a bike ride in the nice weather this weekend? Join your fellow parishioner peddlers at the  East Puyallup Trailhead of the Foothills Trail tomorrow at 5pm. As it's a holiday weekend, we're planning to have a bit of a picnic in Orting before riding back home. This evening ride time is a change from last year's morning schedule in hopes that more folks will be able to join us. We're trying it out for a few weeks, so if you're interested come on out! Let's ride!

United Thank Offering ingathering will be this Sunday, May 24th: UTO is a ministry of the Episcopal Church. Through the United Thank Offering, men, women, and children nurture the habit of giving daily thanks to God. These prayers of thanks-giving start when we recognize and name our many daily blessings.Those who participate in the UTO have discovered that thankfulness leads to generosity.
  A short prayer of thanksgiving leads to an offering in the United Thank Offering box. All offerings are used to support grants for ministries at home and overseas as an outreach of the Episcopal Church. Prayers and offerings make it possible for the UTO mision to stretch in unexpected ways.
   If you have never had a 'little blue box' and would like to be part of the United Thank Offering, here is what you do:
·    Offer thanks and prayers as a part of your life in Christ
·    Take the opportunity to put an offering in your UTO box
·    When the yearly ingathering comes, roll your coins, and put the cash or a check into the UTO envelope and put it in the alms basin
   There are UTO boxes and pamphlets titled 'UTO and Me-Shared Blessings' and 'Home Devotional Guide' next to the Welcome table in the Parish Hall.

The Church Office will be closed on Tuesday, May 26th, following the Memorial Day Holiday.

Sunday breakfast, June 7th, 9-9:45 am hosted by the women of Christ Church. This is a fund raiser, with donations going to fund scholarships for the October 23-25th retreat at St. Andrew's House.