Welcome Bishop Diseko!

This Sunday, June 15th, we will welcome Bishop Steven Diseko of the Diocese of Matlosane in South Africa.  Bishop Diseko will share the pulpit with Pastor Susan and will attend our special coffee hour hosted by the group that traveled to South Africa last fall.  Please don't miss this special event!

Farewell, Kristina!

KRISTINA MURRAY'S LAST SUNDAY IS THIS WEEK -- JUNE 15th!  Our director of children's ministries is off to Nashville to pursue her music career.  Please plan to join us on Sunday as we gather to wish her well in her new endeavors.  (P.S.  We'll have cake!)

Copies of Kristina' CD, Unravelin', are available from Amazon.com.

LOOK FOR INFORMATION IN THE JUNE-JULY EAGLE AND FUTURE E-MINISTRIES AND SUNDAY BULLETINS ABOUT THE SEARCH COMMITTEE THAT WILL RECRUIT KRISTINA'S SUCCESSOR.

Office Changes

On Monday, June 16th, Pam White will move from the front office and her job as communications coordinator to Kristina's old office and a position as interim director of children's ministries.  Pam was director of children's ministries for seven years, 1997-2003, and will reprise her role while a search committee finds someone to fill the position permanently.  Pam is certified catechist for both level 1 and level 2 of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, and has extensive experience with other children's faith formation curricula as well.  She is a firm believer in a two-track Sunday school and plans to continue with both Catechsis of the Good Shepherd and Joyful Journey.  If you have thoughts, ideas, or concerns about children's ministries, please feel free to contact Pam at 303-442-5246, ext. 107, or children@stjohnsboulder.org.  She'd love to hear from you!

At the same time, Sarah Kiefhaber, who has been volunteering in the office on Tuesday afternoons, will come on board to serve as interim communications coordinator.  She'll be producing bulletins, E-ministries, and Eagles (among other things!), so send all your St. John's news to Sarah at skiefhaber@stjohnsboulder.org.   You can also reach Sarah on the office phone, 303-442-5246, ext. 101.

Youth Group Pizza Fundraiser

 

Tap-House Theology

 

Summer Evensong

Contemplative Evensong will continue through June and July on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the chapel.  This is possible because the chapel is cooler thanks to the air conditioning installed last year.  The evensong service offers respite from the cares of a busy and hectic week with elements of traditional evensong and contemplative prayer.  Please join us!

Reading Camp Thank Yous! 

Many thanks to all who gave talent and treasure to our literacy camp for Whittier students the first week in June, especially Nancy Iverson, Karen Van Dusen, Eben Carsey, Lynn Gilbert, Fran Dutro, Jim Podolak, Pat Peterson, Cindy Bigelow, Robert  Schwartz, Kathy Manting, Ann Cairns, Bea French, Liz Burr, Caroline Burr, Christina Booth, Stephanie Vaughn Simkins, Maggie Cox, Joe Domko, Diane Wells, Angela des Cognets, Cathy and Charlie Skala, Scott Chiles,  Eleanor Nay-Chiles, Sara Everhart, Matt Russell, Emma Gorsuch, Halin Marcil, Claudia and Charles Holland, Linda Black, Brad Van Brauman, Ginny Pine, Marjorie Shaffner, Jan Dewlen, Kristen Russell, Judy Reid, and all of our kitchen volunteers and counselors. 

We're still in need of financial donations to help offset the cost of Reading Camp. To help, please make your check out to St. John's with READING CAMP in the memo line and drop it in the collection plate or in the mail.  Thank you, everyone!

Also, please take a look at the thank you notes to St. John's from the children who attended Reading Camp.  The notes are posted on the parish hall bulletin board.

Upcoming Baptism Dates

Please call the office, 303-442-5246, if you are interested in baptism for yourself or your child(ren) on Sunday, September 7th, and Sunday, November 2nd.

Please note that attendance at a preparation class is required prior to baptism.  Exact dates and times for the classes are TBD.

WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY

June 15, 2014

The First Sunday after Pentecost:

Trinity Sunday  

Liturgical Color:  WHITE

Lectionary Year A

7:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist in the chapel

9:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist in the church

Readings

Acts 2:1-21

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine." But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 'In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'"

Psalm 104:25-35, 37

25 O Lord, how manifold are your works! *

in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

26 Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number, *

creatures both small and great.

27 There move the ships, and there is that Leviathan, *

which you have made for the sport of it.

28 All of them look to you *

to give them their food in due season.

29 You give it to them; they gather it; *

you open your hand, and they are filled with good things.

30 You hide your face, and they are terrified; *

you take away their breath, and they die and return to their dust.

31 You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; *

and so you renew the face of the earth.

32 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever; *

may the Lord rejoice in all his works.

33 He looks at the earth and it trembles; *

he touches the mountains and they smoke.

34 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; *

I will praise my God while I have my being.

35 May these words of mine please him; *

I will rejoice in the Lord.

37 Bless the Lord, O my soul. *

Hallelujah!

1 Corinthians 12:4-13

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

John 20:19-23

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

Today we pray with special intention for:

Jane Cummings, Pamela Clare White, Eddie Snowdon, Trudy Morron, Joseph Domko (father of Joe Domko), Sarah Hartzell, Leslie Chapman, David W., Mark, Marilyn Woods, Lacey and Nora Grace Coleman, May, Eli Dudok, Heather Coleman, Mike, Tom, Ted Hildebrandt, Katherine, JoAnn Brown, Kathy Rigsby, Addie Heuston, Mimi Roach, Don Shields, the Rev. Gayle King, the Rt. Rev. Tom Shaw, the deBartolome family, Penni Pearson-Beuf, Lorna Naegele, Benjamin Brewer, Jim Spelman, Fay Graziose, Sallye, Fiona Wilcher, Terry Keepers, those who are suffering in the wake of violence or natural disasters, those who are serving in the military, and those who are in any way afflicted or distressed in mind, body, or spirit.

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:

Susan Everhart, Caroline Hager, Katherine Sitton, Madeleine Sitton, Parker Sitton, Bob Simmons, Roger Hedrick, Marlo Krumbhaar, Caroline Thompson, Kathryn Frebel, Lee Ryland, Charlotte Hogenson, Thomas Morley, Sam Hager, Evers Pund, Joanie Heard, Sharon Monroe, Sherelyn Jackson, Kaitlin White, Jack Devincenzi, Elizabeth Horton, Linda Weatherwax

 In St. John's cycle of prayer, we give thanks and pray for:

William Bowen, Ron & Peg Bowles, Patricia Bowman, William Bowman & Jenifer Hall-Bowman, Norrie Boyd, Stephanie Braitsch, Jennifer Braun & Jody Shevins, Janet Brennan, Jay Brewer & Emily Wheeler, Gillian Brewster

Please notify Pam in the church office (303-442-5246 or pamelabwhite@comcast.net) if there are people who should be added to or removed from our prayer list.

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