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Palm Sunday Worship Schedule
 
9:30 am Palm Sunday
  •   Holy Communion with choir and    children's programs
Monday March 26th

5:00pm  
Centering Prayer
Clergy and Music
 This Palm Sunday
One service only.
  • The Rt. Rev Stephen Lane, Bishop of Maine will be celebrating at
    9:30 AM.
  • The Rev. Tim Boggs and seminarian Holly Clark will be assisting.
  • Jim Strand at the organ bench.
Meetings & Events

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
4/17           Book Group

Adult Formation
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 
 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 Wednesday from 
6:30 -8:00 PM on
 March 28
To sign up and for more info email  
 
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:  kholicky@stalbansmaine.org 
 
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. 
 
Flowers, Meals, Books
It's a 
Beautiful thing.
Join the Altar Flower Committee
Contact Priscilla Harrison for more details.
All levels welcome. 
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  lindacardme@gmail.com

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

Be part of the 
Book Group

Tuesday April 17th at 7:30 pm in Bonoff Hall
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
Wednesday May 16th at 7:30 pm in Bonoff Hall
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
If you order the books from Nonesuch Books and  mention Saint Albans book group there is a
20% discount.

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Even this humble, weekly e-news is one of the myriad ways we stay plugged-in.  
 
Work emails, texts, and family messages, keep us all plugged-in all the time. And of course the world's headlines are now popping into our view all day and all night.
 
Beginning this Palm Sunday, I'd like to invite you to check-out from your normal hectic connected days (just a bit) in order to plug-in to Holy Week. This is a rich gift of formative time designed precisely for you and your life...a time full of less information and more wonder, less process and more genuine, sacred experience.
 
I am confident the powerful story of this unique week is best known and absorbed when we interrupt the ordinary and make room for the extraordinary.  Please see all the details below, and plug into a sacred story that has a place at the table for you!
 
Peace,
  
 
Palm Sunday, the Bishop's visit,
Easter Gardens,
Haiti Bazaar and more ... 
   

Haiti Spring Bazaar
 
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THIS SUNDAY! 
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
 
Palm Sunday, March 25th
All are welcome
Create an Easter Garden and fold a Cross to take home  
Easter Gardens... All are welcome to com e 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.  
 

This Sunday
Please remember to wear your
name tag
 
Celtic Eventide Survey
Learning About Your Experience of Adult  Spirituality, Religious Identity, and the Celtic Eventide Service
 
Holly Clark our seminarian, is interested in learning more about the experience of adults in the Celtic Eventide service as a part of her studies at Yale Divinity School. The purpose of the study is to better understand the function of the Celtic Eventide service in adult spirituality and religious identity. She will use an online survey, hold a reflective writing activity after a Celtic Eventide service one evening, and conduct several interviews as a part of this project.
Please go to:  this website 
to read the consent form and to volunteer to take the survey. In the survey, there will be an opportunity to volunteer for the interviews and/or reflective writing activity. 
If you prefer not to take the survey online, you may obtain a hard copy of it from the table in Bonoff Hall starting on Sunday, March 25 and return it to Holly's mailbox in the office by Thursday, April 5. Handwritten responses will be collated with the online surveys

We're looking for housing for our Summer Seminarian 
We have called Shawn Evelyn to be our summer 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 .
Thank You and an opportunity!
Special Thanks to the Haiti Committee for  
Hosting the Coffee Hour  
this Sunday March 25th



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!