www.stjohnsportsmouth.org6 March 2014

Lent  

 

  

It is good to be last not first,

   Pending the present distress;
It is good to hunger and thirst,
   So it be for righteousness.
It is good to spend and be spent,
   It is good to watch and to pray:
Life and Death make a goodly Lent
   So it leads us to Easter Day.

 

Christina Rossetti

 

Contemplative Prayer 


We gather every week to worship God, using words, music, and our bodies; Contemplative Prayer is a way of praying through listening, learning to go beyond words so that we can simply be present with God.  St. John's offers Contemplative Prayer this Lent on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm in the Founders' Chapel, beginning March 11.  After an introduction to quiet prayer, we will sit in silence with each other and with God and then share a brief reflection on our prayer experience before finishing around 7:15.

 

The Choir invites you to lunch! 

St. John's Choir would like to invite anyone who would like to make a short commitment to sing with the 11am choir during Lent and Easter to come to a luncheon we have prepared for you on Sunday, March 9th at 12:30pm.

 


IKE @ St. John's  

 

On Friday, February 28th, nine sailors from the USS Eisenhower--including St. John's own Joseph Ryder--spent a day of community service replacing the sixteen, non-functioning can lights in the ceiling of Chisholm Hall with new LED replacements in time for the next day's Community Mardi Gras Party.  Not only do these fixtures provide a softer light for gatherings in Chisholm Hall, they will use far less energy than fluorescent fixtures and the bulbs should last for over a decade.  Thanks to Jeff Fremeau, Joe Ryder, Franklin Marzullo, and Walter Short who kept the project on task and these nuclear sailors well fed!

 

Miscellany

  

Christian Formation for all ages continues this Sunday.

 

Parish Office volunteers needed: St. John's is in need of volunteer assistance to answer the phones and door from 10am-1pm.  If you are willing to assist, please contact Fr. Derek.

 

Mardi Gras images are online!   Upload and share your images to this link and download images you want to keep.  The password is mardigras. 

 

The Daniel Plan is underway...but there is still time for you to join!  Join the St. John's Daniel Planning Team and experience the 40-day program to a healthier life by Rick Warren and his team.  Getting healthy is a choice.  The Daniel Plan is a lifestyle change that will leave you feeling better and more energetic than you have been in years.  We will explore together how we should live in light of God's word.  Join us for our second gathering on Tuesday, March 18 from 6:30 - 7:45pm in the second-floor Community Meeting Room.  You can join any time.  Call Dick Devers (630.6884) or Della Stearns (309.7586) for information.  See you there!

 

Sign up to prepare a meal for this year's Pilgrims in Christ group using the sheet posted in Chisholm Hall.  Use your gifts of hospitality while you fulfill your baptismal promise to "do all in your power to support these persons in their life in Christ." 

 

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 as well parish financial reports.  Need or don't remember the password?  Click here.  

 
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 prayer chain.

 

For the Church

Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury; Katherine, the Presiding Bishop; Holly, our bishop

Derek, our priest; our parish staff, wardens and vestry

 

For those to be baptized

Catechumens Niki Park & Rashaun Tuttle; Matthew Pope, Ava Park, Clara McCorkill, & Emily Stallings (Great Vigil of Easter, 4/19)

 

For Justice and Peace  

For Barack, our president, Terry, our governor; Ken, our mayor; Erin Elliott-Carrico; Roberto Gonzalez; Nate Kingsbury; 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: Diane Booth; George Booth; Donald Bowles; Steve Buell; Mary Colby; Ted Colby; Courtney Devers; Bill Edwards; Gina Fremeau; Regina Guerra; Vivian Hillman; Mavia Hudgins; Linda Mathews; Arlene Peterson; Carol Phipps; Alice Robbins; Martha Rush; Barbara Stearns; Jennie Todd; Gary Wiggins; Joy Young

Related to our Parish: Patricia Smith family (friends of Kelly Gillerlain); Tom & Barbara (parents of Dody  Johnson); Dresden (friend of Betty Jo Ross); White family (friends of Alice Taylor Smith); Glenn (brother-in-law of Mick & Linda Kauffman); Horace (friend of Mick & Linda Kauffman); Verlene (sister of Carolyn Colon); Tom (friend of Reese and Dody Johnson); Shawn (son-in-law of Sherry Clem); Tim (cousin of Emily Schultz); Mary (sister of Dody Mason); Nancy (mother of Andy Gray); Michael (sister of Sherry Clem); Walter (cousin of Dody Mason); Sally (mother of Fr. Derek); Tom (brother-in-law of Lindsey Hicks Thornton); Dylan (friend of Miles Harbin); Carolyn & Kevin (sister and brother-in-law of Brenda Wolter); Barbara (mother of Dody Johnson); Andy (father of Ray Symmes); Mary (friend of Alice Taylor-Smith); James (father of Bonnie Scott); Patients of the Naval Hospital & EDMARC hospice for children. 

 

Thanksgivings  

For Joe & Stephanie Ryder who are expecting a child

 

Stewardship of God's Resources for the week of 3/02
 
Ministry/Worship Attendance: Sunday 8am (12), 9am (76), 11am (114); Ash Wednesday (109)
 
Worship Offering: $10,860
Income needed for ministry expense each week: $6,678

This Sunday in Worship
 

The First Sunday in Lent: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 & Matthew 4:1-11   

 
The Rev'd Dr. J. Derek Harbin, rector

Rick Bishop, kitchen manager
Keith Byers, bookkeeper
Philip Goodrich, sexton
Ellison Gregg, staff photographer & twitter
Clifford King Harbin, associate to the rector
Rebecca Mina, creation atrium coordinator
Sr. Heather Rollins, technology & facebook  
Scott Rollins, organist and choir director
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

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