February 15, 2018     
Picture of the Week
Ash Wednesday Service 
for Children
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
  • Holly Clark, Seminarian is assisting
  • Jim Strand at the organ bench.
Meetings & Events

2/15          Civil Tea
2/18          Blood Pressure
2/18          Sermon Talkback
2/19          Office Closed
2/20          Jubilee Ctr
2/20          Book Club


Children's Formation

Family Formation
 Lent in a Bag
All are invited to step more deeply into Lent by creating your very own Lent in a Bag set. This activity is one that can walk with you through your entire Lenten journey. We will take a few moments to gather some items that will encourage us to look inward for growth and change this season, arriving to a deeper relationship with God. I look forward to creating these meditative bags with you this Sunday, after  9:30am worship. -Katie Holicky, Minister for Children and Families 

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
Reminder that on February 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.
Flu Season is here!
Did you get your 
flu shot yet?
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:

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A thought on Lent... a season fro growth
 
One of the beautiful things about the church calendar is that each season gives us a fresh invitation into some key feature of Christian life.

Lent holds up for us our own ongoing need and hope to turn and return to God--and the perpetual welcome, forgiveness and inspiration we find when we do. The ways Christians have traditionally done this are illustrated in the priest's invitation in the Ash Wednesday service: "self-examination and repentance; prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and reading and meditating on God's holy Word." 

But no matter how we chose to come closer to God during Lent, the point should be precisely that: to draw closer to God. Not to impress ourselves with a discipline, or beat ourselves up for our wrongs, or look especially holy. The point is to be open to coming closer to God, to better feeling and understanding his great love for us--which God has for us no matter who or where or how we are! 
 
May you have a fruitful Lent.

 
THIS Evening!
You are invited to tea!
 
A CivilTea...in which we are going to relearn and practice the ways of civil discourse and listening to each other.
 
Thursday, February 15 th 6:30-8:00 pm at St. Alban's.
 
Tea and crumpets will be served at a CivilTea, led by girls from the Maine Girls' Academy, who've been trained in a program of their own creation!
 
CivilTea is a program where the girls guide us as we sit and talk, really talk, over a cup of tea and a few crumpets. Led by life-long St. Alban's member Candy Anderson-Ek, Director of Admission at the Academy, these girls are amazing! Candy brings them
 to us. 
 
As student facilitators, they have led their own peers in building mental muscle to listen, to hear another, and to learn. And now they're bringing their skills to us for a fun and engaging evening, doing something truly important...refining our gifts for civility in a world that sorely needs it, our own world!
 

February 18th
Please join 
The Rev. Tim Boggs,  for a sermon talk back
during Coffee Hour

All ideas and questions welcomed
Be sure to watch your inbox daily during Lent for  a Word from a Brother
A short, wise word, prepared by the Brother's of St. John the Evangelist, an Episcopal ministry in Cambridge.
Giving Back At St. Alban's
 
  Jubilee Center/Essentials Pantry
We have been asked to donate warm, winter weight blankets and comforters for  new Mainers who need our help.  Throws are not needed, but new, and gently used and clean, wool and down products for all bed sizes are requested.

In addition, cutlery sets, place settings of knives, forks and spoons for four, are always needed for Starter Kits that are given to newly arrived families.

            Thanks to everyone for your continuing generosity to this ministry.
The next day we serve at the 
Essentials Pantry will be  February 20th .  
It's a 
Beautiful thing.

Join the Altar Flower Committee


Contact Priscilla Harrison for more details.
 
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
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
February 21, 28 & March 7, 14, 21 & 28
To sign up and for more info email