March 15, 2018     
Picture of the Week
#roomforeveryone 
Worship Schedule
Sunday
  • 8:00 am  Holy Communion Quiet, spoken and traditional 
  • 9:30 am 
      Holy Communion with choir and children's programs
  • 5:30 pm 
     Celtic Eventide...contemplative,      musical and prayerful
Monday

5:00pm  
Centering Prayer
Clergy and Music
 This Sunday
  • The Rev. Tim Boggs will be celebrating and preaching at 8:00 and 9:30 and officiating at 5:30
  • Jim Strand at the organ bench.
Meetings & Events


3/18          Blood Pressure
3/25          Palm Sunday/Bishop                                     One Service at 9:30 only
3/25          Easter Garden Making
3/25          Fold Palm Crosses
3/25          Haiti Marketplace
3/26          Holy Eucharist
3/27          Holy Eucharist
3/27          Vestry Meeting
3/28          Holy Eucharist
3/29          Maundy Thursday
3/30          Good Friday
3/31          The Easter Vigil
4/1             Easter Sunday
4/8             Parish Breakfast

Children's Formation
THERE IS STILL ROOM!
SIGN UP TODAY!

 
Camp St. Alban's 2018

August 6th- 10th
9am-12pm Monday-Thursday
NEW
4pm-7pm Friday Family Night

Join us this summer for a fun filled week of games, arts and crafts, music, stories from the Bible and more!

Introducing....Friday Family Night
Families are invited to jump into the excitement of Camp together for an evening of fun and formation!
Dinner will be included.

Please Contact Katie Holicky with questions:  [email protected]

Youth Group
News
 
High School 
Youth Group 
On the first and third Sundays of the month from 3:30-5 pm, our high schoolers gather to spend time with one another.
 
Our gatherings make space for getting to know one another and to explore our faith through times of fun and games, food and fellowship, and conversation and prayer. The High School Youth Group goes on retreats, spends extended time together in overnights at the church, and participates in mission trips. 

Holly Clark, Anne Sedlack, and Peter Durin are the adults primarily involved with our high school youth group. 

Health Ministry
March 18th
after the 9:30 service 
a member of the Health Ministry will be on hand to check your Blood Pressure. If you would like to bring your own equipment to be checked bring it along.
Be part of the 
Meals Ministry

Imagine you are recovering from a hospital stay or some other reason you are having trouble cooking for yourself.
We are here to help. 
Join the Meals Ministry to help our neighbors in time of need.
Contact Linda Card to find out how  [email protected]

To sign up to take a meal click on the link below:

It's a 
Beautiful thing.
Join the Altar Flower Committee
Contact Priscilla Harrison for more details.
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Last evening more than twenty of us gathered for the third of our series, Taking the Bible seriously...but not literally.  I think we enjoyed being together and looking at the breadth and depth and beauty of the Gospel of Luke.

We focused in part on the words of the story of The Prodigal Son. (Luke 15: 11-32) If you have five minutes, take out your favorite Bible now and read this story Jesus told to his followers. Or click here for a digital view. Try reading it slowly aloud, alone or with a loved one.

We know this is a story about returning. It has captured the imagination of writers, thinkers, even Rembrandt. And, I hope, you and me. I think we relate to this story, because as Henri Nouwen says, "Returning is a lifelong struggle."  

With Luke's story, we may fuss at the behavior of the errant youth who ran away, we may questions his father's immediate forgiveness, we may feel badly for the older, well-behaved son...but we all resonate with the good news that the boy has returned home.

In these last days of Lent, I wonder what it is I need to return home to. What have I unfaithfully left behind? To whom might I return, asking forgiveness? And who might I welcome on his or her return?

We think and plan and spend a lot making forward motion, moving on in life. I wonder what we together could faithfully return to?
 
 
Palm Sunday, March 25th
All are welcome
Create an Easter Garden and fold a Cross
Easter Gardens... All are welcome to come to the Co
nnect classroom off of Bonoff Hall  during coffee hour on 3/25 to make your family's Easter Garden.
Create a garden that is sure to remind you of the growth and newness of life that the resurrection brings!
Folding Palm Crosses... stop by the palm cross table and learn how to fold your palms into crosses to carry your through your
Holy Week journey.  
 
 Palm Sunday
March 25th
One service only on this special Sunday as we welcome The
Rt. Rev. Stephen Lane.
 
Sunday of the Palms and Passion of Christ with the Bishop of Maine, presiding. 9:30 am -  Holy Communion begins with an outdoor palm procession, banners & brass. Families, make an Easter Garden to take home.   

Haiti Spring Bazaar
 
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The first Sunday of Spring! 
 
Following our gracious Palm Sunday worship on  March 25th....a fresh chance to purchase a gift from Haiti and share in the joy of sustaining 
St. Luc's School
 
Welcome our Summer Seminarian!
After good reflection and prayer on this, Tim has called Shawn Evelyn to be our summer
Shawn Evelyn
seminarian. Shawn will be a rising senior at Virginia Theological Seminary and is a postulant for Holy Orders from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He expects to be ordained a deacon and then priest and to serve in parish life
 
Shawn will be a terrific addition to our parish life this summer. His exact dates and plans are being determined now.
 
Shawn, a single man, will need housing from the parish for his ten weeks with us. Please contact Tim. 
 
 
Giving Back

Helping with Coffee Hour is a simple and fun way to support
our Saint Alban's community!
 
Be a HOST Hosts need only bring cream for coffee and fruit.  Everything else provided.  Hosts set-up, maintain coffee, and clean up afterwards. 
 
Not up to hosting just yet?  That's okay, too!
 
Be a BAKER  Bakers are essential! Provide two baked items such as a banana bread, cookies or brownies.  (Feel free to drop off any time during the week)  
 
 WASH A LOAD OF LAUNDRY
 Volunteers are needed to do just one load of laundry before the following Sunday.  Table cloths and hand towels need cleaning.   No ironing required! Phew! 
 
Adult Formation...not tonight but next week!
Taking the Bible seriously...
but not literally.
with Father Tim  & some superstars!
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You are invited on a six-part adventure into reading and appreciating the Bible in a new way on Wednesday evenings in 
February and March.
 
We will dig and explore with the help of a stimulating course that draws on some brilliant Protestant theologians, plus our own reason, experience and tradition...and maybe, just maybe, some fresh understandings!
 
Tim is excited and hopes you will be, too!
 
We will meet Wednesdays from 
6:30 -8:00 PM on
 March 21 & 28
To sign up and for more info email