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Picture of the week
Reader at the Family Service
on Sunday.
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8:00am Rite 1 Holy Eucharist
9:30am Rite 2 Holy Eucharist
5:30pm
Celtic Eventide
Monday
5:00 pm -
Centering Prayer
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Meetings & Events
3/27 Feldenkrais
4/2 Sabbatical Celebration
Parish Breakfast
4/2 Return Lenten Heifer Boxes
4/2 Easter Flower envelopes due
4/8 Preble Street
4/9 Palm Sunday
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ARE YOU MISSING A BICYCLE?
A bike has been found in our parking lot. If you are missing it please
see Reed.
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Looking for more ways to dig deeper with God this Lenten season?
Stop by the Children and Youth bulletin board and explore Lent with a few different activities.
Come one, come all, come grow with God!
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HELP WANTED!
Godly Play and Our PLACE need teachers!
It's richly rewarding and so very important to teach the stories of our faith to the next generation. We ask for a three week commitment; teacher training and all supplies and materials are provided. Not able to make a three week commitment? No problem! Subs are always needed as well.
for more information and to select the month that works best for you.
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Thinking about
Summer Camp?
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Children's & Youth
programs on Sunday during 9:30 worship.
Come check'em out!
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The Lessons and Questions for Lent IV, Sunday, March 26, 2017
Most people no longer think of blindness as the result of sin. Are there illnesses that you do consider a result of personal, moral failure?
The turning point of this week's Gospel is when the man born blind confesses his faith as a result of his new found sight. Where have we felt blind in our lives and then experienced a sense of new sight, new life, a new chance to be the persons we have been called to be?
"...The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." I Samuel 16:7 How does God's perspective differ from our own? The core place that God looks is "on the heart." What does this evocative phrase mean to you? When God looks "on" or into any of our hearts, our core being, what does God see?
Jonathan,
Assisting Priest at St. Alban
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Join The Rev. Jonathan Appleyard
on March 26th
Late Winter Reflection,
Sunday Mornings after coffee
An opportunity to reflect during a season of conflicting forces: ice hardening and earth stirring; staid habits and demonstrations of hope; doors closing and doors opening.
As people of faith, we wrestle with the question, "How do we put faith ("To act justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with your God," Micah 6:8) into practice."
Jonathan Appleyard will gather with us in the pews as we share with one another and look for signs of God's movement.
You are welcome to come on Sunday morning
after coffee on March 26th.
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The central principle to modern dream interpretation rests on the idea of compensation. That means our dreams come via the Holy Spirit to compensate for our blind spots. Fortunately, our dreams don't make us defensive. Dreams always turn out in some way to be very Good News. Consider the famous dream of Jacob's Ladder, where angels were climbing up and down the ladder connecting the earth to heaven. Jacob called this place Bethel, meaning "the house of God." In the dream, God promised to be with him. Now to get the compensation, you have to remember the name Jacob means "deceiver". He had just stolen his brother's birthright, lied outrageously and wantonly to deceive his father. We may surmise that Jacob may have been feeling terrible about himself. Jacob must have been astonished by this compensating dream promising God's undying love. Naturally this powerful story speaks to us too. Just as we are, God is "nuts about us."
There will be a Dream Study Group
offered during Lent
through Palm Sunday (4/9)
The group will meet at the church
Sunday afternoon 3- 5pm
Please call Tom Cushman to register 846-6263
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Verbally guided
AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT®
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On March 26th
The Haiti Ministry invites you to hear the presentation on this year's Haiti trip
The youth and adults who traveled will have a short presentation, discussion and slide show immediately after the 9:30 and Eventide services this Sunday during coffee hour.
We hope you will stop by to hear the updates of the projects going on at St. Luc's School and Church.
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NEWS FROM THE
ESSENTIAL PANTRY MINISTRY
Thanks to all you coffee drinkers for your generosity in dropping dollars in the jar last Sunday.
Your donations will allow the Essentials Pantry Ministry to purchase a large quantity of needed dictionaries and diapers for our neighbors in Portland who come to the Essentials Pantry.
Merci Shukraan Thanks Gracias Obrigado
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Here's a rich experience for those who would like a calm, candle-lit way to start their week. Celtic Eventide is held every Sunday at 5:30pm at St. Alban's Episcopal Church. Come for the quiet; come for the music. Come.
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