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Picture of the week
Camp St. Alban's
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Clergy and Music
This Sunday
- Tim will be celebrating and preaching at 8:00 and 9:30.
- Dr. Strand will be at the organ bench!
- Lisa Newbold will be officiating at 5:30
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Quote of
the Week
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
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8:00am Rite 1 Holy Eucharist
9:30am Rite 2 Holy Eucharist
Monday
5:00 pm -
Centering Prayer
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Meetings & Events
July 18: Book Club, The One in a Million Boy, by Monica Wood
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Children's & Youth
SUMMER
Sunday School
9:30 am
Summer Fun and Formation
Godly Play and Our Place kids, join us Sunday mornings in Thou Art as we pray, encounter some of this week's scripture and reflect,
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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 Service
every Sunday at 5:30pm
at St. Alban's.
Come for the quiet;
Come for the music.
Come for the Spirit.
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Blood Pressure Screening
July 16th after 9:30 service
Health professionals from St. Alban's Health Ministry will be on hand to offer blood pressure screening following morning services.
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Remember to use
SUNSCREEN
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Bible Appreciation
Date Change and
Other News
Because of a conflict with the original dates for several people participating in the Bible Appreciation study for adults, the remaining two sessions will be held on
Thursday, July 20 and Tuesday, July 25 from
10 am to 11:30 am in the "Upper Room."
If you would like to join Holly Clark, our summer seminarian who is leading the Bible Appreciation series, for Morning Prayer before these sessions, please join her by the altar by
9:15 am on
July 20 and 25. No prior experience with Morning Prayer is necessary. All are welcome to join this brief prayer service, which includes a reading of the daily lectionary and some time of reflective silence.
Also, if you are participating in the Bible Appreciation and still need a copy of the black journal that accompanies the materials we are using, you can pick one up from Holly's desk the next time you are at the church.
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Save the date! All are welcome!
Friday, September 29th at 6 pm
To Celebrate
St. Albans' JOIE DE VIVRE!
More info to follow and tickets will be available starting August 29th
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A great thing about having a summer birthday is that friends give me books to read, confident that I'll have some free time and then we can talk about what we've each been reading. I like the whole concept!
My twin brother, Tom gave me Alan Alda's new book, "If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?" Alda, the actor, calls it his adventures in communicating. My brother's been bugging me to tell him how I like the book, so I've been digging into it.
I like it a lot. It speaks to the hope we have that we will truly listen to and know and even love each other, particularly those whom we don't understand or appreciate.
Alda tells us a story about the famous director Mike Nichols directing him and Barbara Harris in The Apple Tree on Broadway. Nichols complains that they are relating as though relating is "icing on the cake." 'It's not." Nichols says, "Relating is the cake."
It takes Alda years to understand this relating business. For him, it's like this: "It's being so aware of the other person that, even if you have your back to them, you're observing them...their tone...their posture...how they occupy a chair...being with them. Relating is letting all that seep in, so you can respond in truth.
Relating he says permits listening. And listening, he says, permits him to be changed.
Awareness to relating to listening to change. Hmmm...I thought this was going to be light summer reading!
So what if in my ordinary summer day, I tuned up my awareness muscles, let other's presence seep in, so I could truly listen? So I could be changed. That'd be a good thing for priest.
But it'd be an amazing thing for my ordinary guy life, too. What if, borne of our awareness and relating, we listened in such a genuine way that we changed each other? Alda learned this all on stage, that intense laboratory of relating and changing and coming alive. He reminds us that none of us is on our stages alone, opportunities for awareness, relating, listening and change abound.
What are you reading?
See you Sunday!
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All are welcome!
Camp St. Alban's Family Service
Join us
this Sunday
for our joyful celebration in the style of a Family Service as we celebrate a fun filled week of Camp St. Alban's. This service is made unique by the lifting up of our kids and youth into all corners of liturgical participation.
With Joy,
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Please Help! The need is great!
Imagine if you just got home from the hospital or are having some other issues.
You are healing your body and spirit and maybe you are unable to cook.
Then someone shows up to your home with a homemade meal...
You can help your fellow parishioners by volunteering to cook a meal (or more).
If you would like to help (even one meal) please
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Helping Local Homeless Families
Thank you to those who have already brought in donations of twin sheet sets (8 1/2" deep pockets) and twin blankets / comforters. As of
Thursday, we have collected 10 of the 20 sheet sets and 4 of the 20 blankets.
Many of you have expressed interest in volunteering for one of the shifts of care on August 13, 14, and 15 when the families will be spending the evening and overnight and eating breakfast at Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church. Please sign up when you are at church on Sunday on the forms in Bonoff Hall.
Family Promise is a national ecumenical organization that provides temporary shelter, meals, and support services to local families who are experiencing temporary homelessness.
The goal is to support families through this difficulty time so that they can regain independence as soon as possible. The families that participate in this program have a very high success rate of meeting this goal within several weeks.
When? St. Alban's is collaborating with other local churches on Family Promise from Sunday, August 13 - 15. We will serve three other weeks in the next program year.
Who? The Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church (CEUMC) is the physical site where the families will be hosted. Cape Elizabeth United Methodist and St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church, Cape Elizabeth are our partners for this ecumenical, community project.
How can you help now?
1) Donate twin blankets/comforters and twin 8 1/2 inch deep pocket twin sheets sets. Our goal is 20 blankets or comforters and 20 twin sheet sets. Please put them in the bins in Bonoff Hall.
2) Sign up to help host the families at CEUMC. There are a variety of ways to help to support the success of
these families. See the sign up sheets in Bonoff Hall.
See Holly Clark (our summer seminarian), Debbie Phelan, Margot Brill, or Ginny Secco with questions.
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All are welcome!
There is still time to come along!
St. Alban's Summer Youth Events
Come join us for connection and fun!
July 22nd 830 am - 230 pm
A Day at the ropes
course doing team building activities
Cost: 20 Dollars, Scholarships Available
August 4th - 5th
A Full 24 hours of camping,
service projects and tubing down the Saco
River
Cost: 40 Dollars, Scholarships Available
To RSVP and for more Information please contact:
All Summer Events are open to 5th-12th graders, as a chance to know each other better in Play and
Service, especially as kids prepare to jump into new age groups in the Fall!
Come jump i
n!
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