- 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. Tim Boggs will be preaching and celebrating at 8:00 AM, 9:30 AM and celebrating at 5:30 PM.
- Katie Holicky will be reflecting at 5:30 PM.
- James Strand at the organ bench.
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Meetings & Events
4/22 Youth Trip to Church of the Woods in Canterbury, NH for Earth Day
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Celebration and Thanksgiving
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A Celebration
and Thanksgiving
for the Life of
Shirley Grange
Saturday, April 21st at 11:00 AM
Your prayers and presence are most welcome
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Save the Date
May 13th
Blood Pressure Screening
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Camp St. Alban's Registration
Is Open!
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.
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This month we will be meeting 2nd and 4th Sundays and
not our usual days of the month
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.
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Be part of the
Book Group
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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Again, I have warm thanks to offer.
I know the wind and sleet and school break kept some of you away from St. Alban's last Sunday, but a terrific crowd gathered to enjoy prayer, preaching and Holy Communion led by the Revs. Audrey Delafield and Tom and Mary Cushman. I've heard from them and many of you what a treat it was to worship together.
Big thanks to each of them for stepping out of the comforts of retirements to creatively share the Word and Sacraments in their unique styles.Wonderful!
And...thanks to St. Alban's and the Church Pension Group for supporting me in last week's fruitful retreat led by the CREDO team. At a beautiful center in the hills of Arizona, I was guided in a wellness program that focused on spiritual health, vocational vibrancy, financial planning, and well-being in body and mind.
It was both a stimulating and restful time, led by national experts and included wonderful priests, young and old, men and women from around the country. CREDO is offered by the church to priests every seven years, and I really appreciated the opportunity! Thank you
I'm back refreshed and delighted to engage with you in all that God calls us to be in this good place.
Blessings and thanks.
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Enriching our Worship
A parish project to enhance our
fine liturgy, worship and music
for the days ahead.
Your parish leadership invites you to join in the kick-off of an exciting inquiry at
St. Alban's on May 5th 9:00 AM-2:00 PM
Healthy lunch served and great conversation promised.
Your voice and presence are called for!
We will talk and listen, sing and pray as we
look joyfully at what we do in worship and why we do it...and then we will wonder
how God calls us forward.
Led by Ellen Johnston, Director of the Center for Liturgy and Music
at Virginia Theological Seminary
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Family Promise Host Dates
Want to make a difference in the life of a young child, teen or adult? Feel like you need to give back to a good cause?
Well the opportunity is coming up soon: Our new families through the Greater Portland Family Promise program will be arriving for the week on
Sunday 4/22 to Sunday 4/29. For more information
click here.
If you have any questions or need help, please contact Debbie Phelan
207-650-1927
, Ruth Dodge, or Holly Clark.
Again, thank you in advance for your commitment
to this ministry!
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Please join the
St. Alban's Green Team
in recognition of Earth Day 2018.
Members of our church will be joining other community volunteers working to clean up local beaches and parks.
The event, organized by the South Portland Land Trust, will take place on
Saturday, April 21, 2018 (rain date 4/28)
Meet us at the St. Alban's church parking lot
at
9:00 AM
or
at Mill Creek Park (opposite Hannaford) at
9:15 AM
.
Participants will be given gloves and bags and our assigned location. City workers will pick up the bagged litter when we are done!
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Special thanks to the Youth who are hosting coffee hour this week and next!
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!
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YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY!
Celtic Eventide Survey
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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 th
e 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 and return it to Holly's mailbox in the office b y Thursday, April 19. Handwritten responses will be collated with the online surveys.
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