Picture of the Week
Jim Strand and some young friends playfully making music!
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Quote of the Week
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
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- 8:00 am Quiet, spoken and traditional
- 9:30 am Holy Communion with choir and children's programs
- 5:30 pm Celtic
Eventide...contemplative, musical and prayerful
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Clergy and Music
This Sunday
- The Rev. Timothy Boggs will be preaching and celebrating at 8:00, 9:30 and celebrating at 5:30.
- Jim Strand at the organ
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St. Alban's Choir returns.
Music Director, Jim Strand would love to talk with you about adding your voice to this much-loved ministry.
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Has anyone borrowed the box of children's percussion
instruments?
They are in a black plastic box with a lid. There are little drums, toy tambourines, toy bells etc in the box.
If you know the whereabouts please contact Dr. Jim Strand 899-4452 or
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Meetings & Events
9/22-24 Heifer Weekend
9/29 French Dinner
10/9 Office Closed
10/10 2nd Monday Lunch
10/10 Vestry
10/10 Book Club
10/21 Theater Party
10/29 Long John Sunday
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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.
We are excited for the year ahead and all the possibilities it holds.
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Fall Children's Offerings
Please register all children ages 4- grade 12.
Forms can be found near the Children and Youth bulletin board in Bonoff Hall, and online at our website!
Godly Play:
A program of wonder and storytelling for children ages 4 and 5. Come explore God's story through fun and "feast"!
Our Place:
An experiential program of Bible exploration for children grades 1-4. Come splash into the Baptismal Covenant through rotated stations like, Thou Art, Show Me Cinema, and St. Alban's Playhouse.
Connect:
God's story meets our story, every week, with games, artwork and fun. For youth in grades 5-6.
Rite 13: A program for youth in grades 7-8 which emphasizes finding God at work in our real lives. We begin in church at the
9:30am
Sunday
service, and then following the Peace we continue upstairs in the youth group room.
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Health Ministry reminder...
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It's that time of year. Fall is the time to get your FLU SHOT.
Do it for your health!
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This week, the heavens have been in the news...and it has been humbling to be reminded once again of the vastness of creation and the smallness of my place in it.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the intrepid explorer of Saturn's magnificent beauty, ended a journey of 20
years on Friday like a shooting star streaking across Saturn's sky. By design, the probe vanished into Saturn's atmosphere, disintegrating moments after its final signal slipped away into the background noise of the solar syste
m. Until the end, new data streamed one billion miles back to Earth, preceded by the spacecraft's last picture show of dazzling sights from around our sun's sixth planet.
And here on Earth, we have been humbled by creation's earthquakes, winds, floods and fires. Into these howls we have shouted our prayers for life and hope. We have been reminded that when trouble comes, as it will, we must look for God's love...even in the blackouts and the loss, for that's where God will be found.
This week, with humbling creation in mind, I have changed the common prayer we will make at our Sunday Communion table. We will use an odd and wonderful one, known as Prayer C. I like its poetry ..and I like its humbling clarity. It especially honors God's power and role in creation and reminds us of his Grace and hope. It distinctively calls us to a place of unity in the Spirit, needful and beloved.
Come pray it with each other!
See you in church.
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Make a difference in young lives...
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St. Alban's
Long Creek Volunteers
are making a difference in the
lives of young folks from Maine.
A small, dedicated dedicated team from St. Alban's visits the girls' residential unit at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland monthly. Through conversation, play and social interaction, our team is engaging these young women, each of whom struggles to realize her full potential. The volunteers report they too get so much out of this caring ministry. If you too would like to reach out and make an important difference in the lives of some young Mainers, please chat with: Michelle Whitney, our coordinator, at
[email protected]
, or Fr. Tim at [email protected]
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ERD is leading the way in...
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French Dinner..tickets now available
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Benefiting
all our ministries!
Friday, September 29th - All are welcome!
Aperitif included
BYOB for dinner
Tickets on sale now
Contact Lisa Newbold 831 9545 or
Joan Hankinson 767-8152
for more information and tickets
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Welcome New Vestry Member
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With the retirement of Mike and Janie Watson and their move to Texas, Mike's seat on the vestry was made vacant and to fill out his term your vestry has selected:
Sara Choi.
Sara offers us this sketch of herself!
I've spent most of my life in Maine, moving here when I was 7, then away for college in Pennsylvania, and a handful of years in the Boston area where I met John and had my first son, Ted, then back to Maine. I was baptized into the Episcopal Church in San Diego, and have been attending church ever since, becoming a member of St. Alban's in 2002 when we moved to Cape Elizabeth. My two younger sons, Chris and Andy, were baptized here, and over the years, all three boys have participated in the youth programs. I have been involved in many different ministries at St. Alban's, including youth programming, bread baking, needlepoint, newcomer committee, and am also a convention delegate. Now that the boys are in middle and high school, I work at Pond Cove Elementary here in Cape Elizabeth, as a secretary in the front office.
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Long John Sunday
October 29th
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Jubilee Center/Essentials Pantry
Ahoy! The crew from the Jubilee Center/Essentials Pantry ministry is collecting long underwear to keep our neighbors from far off ports of call (where no snow ever falls) warm this winter.
While local store supplies are fresh,
please purchase a package or two of thermal or insulated tops, bottoms, or socks for women, children or men. Any size or gender of long johns are welcome! Our Essential Pantry neighbors come in all sizes!
There are alternatives for landlubbers:
Order items in the "Heat Tech" line from Uniqlo at
www.uniqlo.com/us or
order from other companies on-line.
Or...donate "pieces of eight" by writing a check: made out to St. Alban's Episcopal Church with memo line, "Long John Sunday"
No one need fear walking the plank. Drop off your purchases in the treasure chest at church during the next six weeks.
On "Long John Sunday," October 29th, our gifts will be received, blessed and sent on their warming way!
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St. Alban's Ministry with Greater Portland
Thanks to everyone for the
time, energy, talent, and prayers that supported a very successful first experience of providing housing for homeless families along with the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church and St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church through the Greater Portland Family Promise program.
Upcoming dates to keep in mind:
- The weeks of October 29 and January 28, our future dates of helping to host families at CEUMC
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