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Picture of the Week!
"Soup"er Bowl of Caring!!
Presented by the St. Alban's High School Youth
The high school youth group is organizing for the second year the project The Souper Bowl of Caring for the benefit of the community. This is a soup/broth drive that will benefit the Preble Street Soup Kitchen and local food pantries. We hope to raise more than the 83 items of food that we donated last year. Please help us break of goal for this year of collecting 100 cans of broth or stock.
These cans of stock, broth, and soup will be collected in the boxes in Bonoff Hall and will be distributed to the pantries by the youth.
If you would prefer to bring in money rather than shopping for canned soup and broth, you can do that, too. The youth will use the money and go shopping for cans on the due date for all money and cans, which is Super Bowl Sunday, February 3, 2019 by noon. To learn more about The Souper Bowl of Caring, please visit:
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In case you missed it...
Homily of the Week
The Rev. Tim Boggs
The Epiphany
January 13th sermon
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Music of the Week!
Come, My Way,
My Truth, My Life
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Readings of the Week
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
January 20th
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- 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 preaching and celebrating at 8 am and 9:30 am and celebrating at 5:30 pm.
- Jim Strand is on the organ bench.
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Meetings & Events
1/14 New Nametag Order Placed
1/20 Blood Pressure
1/21 Office Closed
1/27 Annual Meeting & Pot Luck
2/10 Safe Church Training
2/11 2nd Monday Lunch
2/13 Newcomers Dinner
2/14 Valentine's Day
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Save The Date
Contemplative Knitting
All are welcome
Every 2nd and 4th Friday
of the month at
St. Alban's
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Overview of Children and Youth Programs
Children's Chapel
Ages four through sixth grade! A space of welcome, music, and prayer before lessons in our age groups. 9:30am, downstairs in Godly Play.
Nursery
: During 9:30am worship for babies and toddlers.
Godly Play
: ages 4- grade k
Wonder and storytelling with inviting object lessons.
Our Place
: grades 1st- 4th
A rotation based program of Bible exploration.
Connect
: grades 5th -6th
God's story meets our story with games, artwork and fun!
Rite 13
: grades 7th- 8th
Focusing on God at work in our lives through service and formation.
Debbie Fisher, Interim
Minister for Children and Families
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High School Youth
Gatherings
REMINDER:
There is no youth group meeting this Sunday.
Our usual meetings for fun, food, fellowship, and prayer are on the first and third Sundays of each month at 3:30 - 5 pm.
The adults involved with leading the high school youth group are the Rev. Holly Clark, Anne Sedlack, and Peter Durgin.
If you would like to be added to our email list to learn about upcoming high school youth events, please contact the Rev. Holly Clark at
[email protected].
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Have you blood pressure screened by one of our Health Professionals on
January 20th
after 9:30 am service.
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If you are getting away from the Maine winter to a warm and sunny place
remember your sunscreen.
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PLEDGE ENVELOPES WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH AFTER ALL SERVICES.
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It's always a particular privilege to step up into St. Alban's pulpit. Over the decades so many fine preachers have shared their words and God's love from there.
When I open my mouth, I pray to meet their high standards, and yours.
When I served as the Provost of the National Cathedral, I said the same little prayer any Sunday I humbly stepped up into the awesome Canterbury Pulpit. There's a small plaque near the stairs that only the preachers can see. It notes that the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his last Sunday sermon from that pulpit... setting an impossible standard for any who have followed, certainly me.
But, I've read his words from that sermon again and again. He said, "Through our...genius, we have made this world into one small neighborhood and yet...we have not had the ethical commitment to make it a brotherhood. We will do this...we will learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, in an inescapable network of mutuality."
He seemed to be saying, we have received in our life and faith an important gift, an invitation to relationship. Relationship with God and with all of God's people. And during his years...and these days in our own times, it is seems particularly important that we open this invitation and grasp it in our hands and act on it with all our hearts.
We have received in our faith an invitation to relationship. It is an invitation we dare not ignore. Let us nurture relationship, right here, right now.
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Meet the Nominees: Walkabouts Begin January 18th
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veryone is invited to attend the Walkabouts, which provide an opportunity for clergy and lay members of the Diocese to meet the Nominees, hear their responses to questions, and allow them to learn more about our Diocese.
For dates, times and more information click here.
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Annual Meeting and Breakfast
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Save the Date
January 27th
All are invited to attend the
Annual Meeting of Saint Alban's
immediately following the 9:30 service.
We will review 2018, vote on new Wardens and Vestry members and review our finances.
Families with last names beginning with A -L are asked to bring a main dish.
Families with last names beginning M - Z are asked to bring a fruit/side/dessert dish
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Nominating Committee Report
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Report of St. Alban's
Parish Leadership Nominating Committee
January 2019
The members of the Committee are: Sara Merrill, Lisa Newbold, Doug Jones, Beth Callaway, Liz Davy, Grace Kimball, Julie Merriam, the Revs. Holly Clark and Tim Boggs
The Committee met and reviewed dozens of suggestions from the parish, and unanimously nominated the following candidates for election to leadership positions in the parish.
This slate will be presented at the Annual Meeting on January 27, 2019. Nominations may also be made from the floor.
Officers for 2019
Sara Merrill, Senior Warden
Christopher Pezzullo, Junior Warden
Doug Jones, Treasurer
Vestry
Heidi Larson and Terry Ann Scriven, term to expire end of 2021
Diocese of Maine Convention Delegates for 2019
Lisa Leighton
Lynn Lovett
Tim Queeney
Anne Sedlack
Red Sullivan
Continuing Vestry members: David Stankiewicz, Bill Bell, Sarah Choi, Maryann Sedlack, Sheila Zimmerman, Joan Hankinson, Katie Payson
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Teachers Needed! Please help out!
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Debbie Fisher Says THANK YOU ... But We Still REALLY Need Teachers.
Three people recently signed up to teach in Godly Play and  Our PLACE, which is terrific and greatly appreciated. But ... teachers are still needed in all three programs (Godly Play for 4 & 5 year olds, Our PLACE for 1st-4th graders, and Connect for 5th & 6th graders). You decide which age group you'd like to lead, determine three or four Sundays you're available between now June 9th,
We provide all supplies & materials and teacher training as well. It's fun, worthwhile, and a great way to get to know the children of our parish. Thank you!
Please help out! It's fun, rewarding and necessary. See Debbie after church, call her @ 799-4014,
e-mail her @
Thank you!
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Parent's Meeting Sunday, February 10th.
Save the date for an important meeting regarding children's programming after the 9:30 am service.
Grab a cup of coffee and join Father Tim and Debbie Fisher to discuss Godly Play, Our PLACE and Connect, our programs for children ages 4 - 6th grade.
We'll share how we've incorporated several ideas and imaginings envisioned during two brainstorming sessions held last autumn, and are eager to hear other input and suggestions.
(Naturally, there will be an opportunity to sign up to teach.)
Please join us!
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Important Announcement and Training for Celtic Eventide
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Dear Celtic Eventide community,
Happy 2019!
I hope you all enjoyed some amount of rest, peace and time with family and/or friends during the busyness of the holiday season.
Among the many wonderful things that are true about our Celtic Eventide experience is that we have all stepped up leaders of the various aspects of this great weekly gathering. It has been a joy being the coordinator. But I seem to have worked myself out of a job!
I am writing to let you know that I will no longer be over-all coordinator of the Celtic Eventide Service. It's good news because it means all of you who participate in the service are stepping up to the plate and taking ownership. Read more and a message from Father Tim+
here.
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Joyful
Thankful
Useful
Hopeful
In recent years this is how St. Alban's has described who we are. These words reflect both our experience of this good place and our aspiration of who God is calling us to be.
We hope your experience here has begun to reflect this as well!
And we invite you to get to know your new church more deeply.
Please accept a warm invitation
Newcomers' Dinner
Wednesday, February 13th
6:00 pm
At
St. Alban's Church
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Save the Date
Mandatory Training
February 10th
This fall our Vestry passed a resolution expressing our commitment to following our diocesan Safe Church Guidelines. You can read the resolution here.
While the training is available to all, it is required for all clergy, paid church staff, regular pastoral visitors, Eucharistic Ministers and Visitors, Worship Leaders, and adults who supervise children and youth on and off church premises.
Safe Church certification remains current for 4 years.
To learn more about the Safe Church training requirements or to complete the online training, see the directions found here. We are hosting a training on Sunday, February 10 after the 9:30 worship service for anyone who needs technical assistance completing the online training. See the clergy or staff with questions.
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Our Assistant Rector, Holly Clark, and her fiancé, Jonathan Hoffmann, are getting married on Saturday, January 19 at 1 pm at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke at 143 State Street, Portland. Bishop Stephen Lane and Fr. Thomas Murphy of All Saints Parish, Brunswick will be the officiants.
The St. Alban's community is invited to the wedding and the simple reception to follow in the parish hall. If you plan to attend, please let us know by
email, so we can hope to have enough cake for everyone!
Can't make it to the service? You can watch the live stream here.
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The holidays are over, and now it's time to remind you all about the
January 22nd Book Club meeting.
Since the December meeting was cancelled, I hope it's still agreeable to discuss both "The Summer House," and "The Trouble with Goats and Sheep," on the 22nd.
Whether you've read both books or just one, it will be good to get back together to launch another year!
Also, please think about some titles we can consider for 2019.
if you have any questions.
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