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Focus on Faith is a small group experience to learn more about the Episcopal Church and its beliefs. The program is designed to prepare adults for baptism, confirmation, reception, or reaffirmation of faith.  It is also a time to connect with others on your Christian journey.  The program is led by Mother Alice Sadler, Associate Rector. Click here to download a brochure about Focus on Faith, or contact Mother Alice.  

For those interested in youth confirmation, please meet Chaplain Harrison-Quillin on Sunday, December 7, after the 9:15 a.m. service in Discovery House for a session regarding expectations and an introduction to the process. At that session, parents and confirmands will also receive the schedule for the spring. Confirmation is May 3 in St. John's. Contact Chaplain Harrison-Quillin at mharrisonquillin@stjohnseagles.org.

Please note that the parish offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 27, and Friday, November 28. They will reopen for regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) on Monday, December 1.

The Choir Guild is in need of assistance to support the upcoming reception following the organ recital on November 23.  The list below includes our current needs.  Food items may also be supplemented with any creative ideas and favorite entertaining recipes.

 

Set Up: 

Meet in the Parish Hall from 3:00 to 4:30 to set up tables with minor decorations, prep food trays, and set up drink stations. (Need 3-4 people)

 

Clean Up: 

After the reception, assist with cleaning reusable food trays, box up decorations and left over items, take home tablecloths to wash & return. (Need 2-3 people.)

 

Food Donations:  

3-4 desserts (brownies, cookies, mini-cupcakes)

 

4-6 trays of finger sandwiches (any variety or Cubanitos)

 

4-6 trays of cheese & crackers, hummus & veggies, chips & salsa, or bread bowl with spinach dip.

 

2 bottles each of coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Diet Sprite

 

3 bottles of white wine (Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio)

 

If you are able to help by providing any of these, please contact Kris Angiulli at kangiulli@msn.com or via cell phone at 310.7653.

Based on the Living Compass work by Scott Stoner, the Living Well Through Advent app provides daily encouragement for the season of waiting by incorporating "heart, soul, mind, and strength" into a daily spiritual practice for all ages.

Upcoming Events

6:00 p.m.  Blessing, covered dish dinner begins (note early start time)

6:35 p.m.   Movie begins

8:37 p.m.  Movie ends 

Mark your calendars for January 6 when the St. John's Men's Ministry starts its 2015 program with some impact. We will be hosting Rob Greenway, a retired senior intelligence officer at the US Central Command currently working as a civilian in the Defense Intelligence Agency. Based on first-hand experience through deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rob provides an in-depth perspective on Islam, and how the religion has garnered the attention of the world in its spread through the Middle East and beyond. While Rob continues to serve our country as a civilian, the views and perspectives he offers are his alone, and offers them from a solid Christian perspective. We've asked him to condense a couple of centuries of history in a short presentation-a big challenge. 

 

To accommodate the extensive program, we will start social time at 5:00, serve dinner at 5:30 p.m. sharp (that's 1730 for Cary Brown) and we'll let Rob take the floor shortly thereafter. You don't want to miss this one. RSVP to Dallas Coffield at dcoffield@gmail.com.

Tour beautiful historic homes that are nearly 100 years old as you walk along South Orleans Avenue between Swann Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard. The tour begins at the intersection of Morrison Avenue and South Orleans Avenue.

  

The flowers at the chapel altar are available for Thanksgiving Day, November 27. If you would like to take this opportunity to support St. John's and honor a loved one, please call 259.1570 or email parish@stjohnstampa.org.

This Week at St. John's

"I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith."  -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

The Men's Interactive Bible Study and Lunch group will continue their fall series on alternate Thursdays at 11:45 a.m. in the Peterson Room. Lunch is sandwiches at $5 per person. RSVP to dlrncrtpa@verizon.net if you would like to partake.

The Contemporary Women's Bible Study (CWBS) group is continuing a new study of the Synoptic Gospels.  All women of St John's and their friends are invited to attend.  The group meets each Tuesday morning from 6:45 to 8:00 a.m. in the Peterson Room on the Middle Division Campus at Platt Street and Plant Avenue.  Coffee and a light breakfast are served. Join us for lively discussion as we discover the meaning of scripture in our lives. Please contact Kathleen Moore at 221.6253 or kathleenmarymoore@gmail.com for more information. 

No Meeting: Wednesday Nights at St. John's 

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