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Portsmouth's 43rd Annual Seawall Art Show will be held at the High Street Landing this Saturday and Sunday, August 24 & 25. Move into the neighborhood and support both our local community as well as artists from around the region! See the festival website for more details.
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Blessing of the Backpacks is this Sunday!
The Blessing of the Backpacks will be this Sunday, August 25. Please bring school supplies for those in need and place them on the back pews of the church. All students, teachers, and school personnel-make sure to be in worship this Sunday to begin the new school year with some divine inspiration!
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We need your recipes in the St. John's Cookbook
St John's Cookbook needs your help to get completed! Let's try to finish this month, August!! Currently 45 recipes have been submitted... we need a lot more recipes... we need 300-400 for a cookbook. If everyone could enter/submit 5-10 recipes (or more) we should be able to make our goal. I know there are many wonderful cooks at St John's. Think about recipes you love to make and share with others. To enter recipes online, see instructions here. If you're not able to enter recipes online, please place a written copy of your recipe in the Crock Pot in the parish hall... someone on the cookbook committee will enter it for you. Brenda Wolter
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Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Training for Level I
(3-6 years)
It's not too late to join in the training for the new Christian Formation process being offered to our youngest members beginning in September.
A dozen people have already finished their first seven days of training and will begin the final nine days of training in September. For the 2013-14 academic year, we will once again gather on the second Saturday of each month from 9am-3pm.
For those who would like to join us, you are invited to attend the make-up sessions for those who have already begun the training process. If you are currently in the training process and have missed any lectures, please use this time to get caught up! Sessions will be offered each day from 9:30am - 2:30am. Bring a bag lunch. Click here to let us know which session(s) you will attend.
The 2012-2013 make up schedule is as follows: November 2012 session on Thursday, 8/22; December 2012 session on Friday, 8/23; January 2013 session on Saturday, 8/24; February 2013 session on Tuesday, 8/27; March 2013 session on Wednesday, 8/28; May 2013 session on Thursday, 8/29; and June 2013 session on Friday, 8/30.
Any questions, please contact Clifford King Harbin after August 18 @ 704-575-8594.
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Miscellany
A St. John's Shout Out to Jeff Fremeau, MIck Kauffman and Linda Kauffman for their work on the ramp and new fencing in the Memorial Garden; to Martha Rush and Linda Buchanan for painting the Story Telling & Music/Vesting rooms; to Della Stearns and Mark Stearns for the beautiful new cabinets in the Music/Vesting room; to Jennifer Morrison for her help painting the windows in the sanctuary; to Joe Ryder for repairing lighting throughout the building and to Shawn Timm for re-plastering the second floor ceiling in our educational building. Well done, good and faithful servants!
Intergenerational Sunday Forum continues this week @ 10:10am in the Parish Hall. Join Sister Heather Rollins as we explore great hymn texts of our faith. Bring your kids! Bring your grandkids!
Detour to Church? The westbound lanes of Interstate 264 through the Downtown Tunnel (from Norfolk to Portsmouth) are now closed on weekends, except holiday weekends, through the Spring of 2014.
Going to College? Please email us with your new mailing address and other electronic contact information.
Contribute by PayPal. Our website now offers a PayPal option to receive contributions. Click here or at the bottom of the homepage.
The Parishioner Corner of our Website has news you can use. Here you can access the latest parish directory, parish handbook, access worship ministry schedules and read approved minutes of vestry discussions and actions. Need or don't remember the password? Click here.
If your child is toilet trained and will be 3, 4, or 5 by 12/31/2013, please be watching your email for an invitation for Orientation for your child to be welcomed to the new Good Shepherd Atrium which will open on September 9. This new Christian Formation process, called the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, is based on the child's developmental needs for their religious and spiritual abilities. Using New Testament stories and presenting vocabulary about how we worship, the child is exposed to a new meditative and contemplative way to interact with Jesus, the Good Shepherd.
A Choir is Forming for the Diocesan Service of Repentance & Reconciliation at Christ and St. Luke's, Norfolk, on the Feast of All Souls, Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. The choir will be open to all singers who wish to participate. There will be two rehearsals held at Christ and St. Luke's in Norfolk. There will be no audition for the choir, but it comes with the understanding that singers will prepare the music before the rehearsals. If you are interested in being part of this special event, please email Kevin Kwan at Christ and St. Luke's. Please include your name, parish and voice part.
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Parish Calendar
Click here to access our Parish Calendar
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In our Prayers this Week
If you would like to add a name to the prayer list, please contact the parish office. Prayers for the Church Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury; Katherine, the Presiding Bishop; Holly, our bishop Derek, our priest; our parish staff, wardens and vestry For Justice and Peace Barack, our president; Bob, our governor; Ken, our mayor; Erin Elliott-Carrico; Robert Gonzalez; Will Oast, Dariana Torres and Bill Wolter who are serving our country overseas or away from home; for the Coast Guard Personnel on watch and on patrol from Coast Guard Base Portsmouth For those in any Need or Trouble In our Parish: George Booth; Donald Bowles; Mary Colby; Anna Cope; Janice Cuneo; Bill Edwards; Mavia Hudgins; Linda and Russell Mathews; Arlene Peterson; Carol Phipps; Alice Robbins; Martha Rush; Fran and Al Taylor; Jennie Todd; Lauren Weaver; Greg Wellstead; Cory and Patti Williams Related to our Parish: Bill (brother of Arlene Dragseth); Laura (friend of Doreen Sheler); Matthew, Melissa, Ryan & Corey (friends of Reese & Dody Johnson); Patti (cousin of Diane Booth); Ellen (friend of Brenda Wolter); Denise (sister of Shari Bishop); Hank (Sandy Stip's father); Clay (friend of Andre Williams); Naval Hospital Patients Thanksgivings
For Evelyn & Eric Stallings and Sarah & Jon McCorkill who are expecting a child
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The Rev'd Dr. J. Derek Harbin, rector
Keith Byers, bookkeeper
Philip Goodrich, sexton
Scott Rollins, organist and choir director
Sr. Heather Rollins, technology
Stephanie Ryder, publications
Welcome to our Sunday Worship Services
Contemplative Eucharist, Rite I at 8:00am
Contemporary Eucharist at 9:00am
Traditional Eucharist, Rite II at 11:00am
Wednesday Healing Eucharist, 6:30pm
Holy Days as Announced
You'll find us at 424 Washington Street, Portsmouth, VA 23704 or by phone at 757-399-4967
Our office hours are 10:00am - 1:00pm M-F. We look forward to seeing you!
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