May 23, 2019
Picture of  the Week!

Last Week with Gratitude for  
Dr. Strand
Readings of  the Week at 8:00 am
at 9:30 Baptismal lections
6th Sunday of Easter
May 26th
Music of the Week 
O God Beyond All Praising - Our hymn of praise!  


Sermon of the Week  
The Rev. Tim Boggs
Sermon from the 5th week of  Easter May 19th 
 
Worship Schedule

Sunday
  • 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      
  
Monday
  • 5:00 pm Centering Prayer
Clergy and Music
 This Sunday .
  • The Rev. Tim Boggs will be  preaching  at 8 am and 9:30 am and 5:30 pm and celebrating at 5:30 pm
  • The Rev. Holly Hoffman will be celebrating at 8 am and 9:30 am
  • Jim Strand is on the organ bench.
  • The Rev. Holly Hoffmann is on vacation!
Meetings & Events  

5/26       No Youth Group Meeting   
5/26       No Rite 13
5/26       No Sunday School 
5/27      Memorial Day/ Office Closed
6/2        Parish Breakfast
6/2        Puppet Show 
6/5        20/30 Dinner
6/5        Caregiver Meeting 
6/5        Yoga
6/12      Yoga 
6/14      Last Knitting Group til Fall
6/19      Yoga
6/19       Caregiver Meeting 
6/22       Consecration of Bishop  
6/26      Yoga
7/4         July 4th / Office Closed
 

All Are Welcome

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, Director of Children and Family's Formation 
Youth Group
News
High School Youth Gatherings
*** Note there will be no youth group meeting on May 26th ***  
  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 Hoffmann at [email protected].   
 
Health Ministry


Caring for the
Caregiver Group
Every other Wednesday at 10:30 am St. Alban's will provide an opportunity for those caring for others to come together weekly for support. To learn more about this upcoming opportunity, please contact Liz Davy at [email protected]

A reminder from your
Health Ministry
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Remembering is a key part of our task as Christians. As a people who deeply value tradition, as well as the witnesses and saints who went before us, we remember. We are also called in our sacrament to act "in remembrance of" Christ's presence and sacrifice. In this sacred setting, remembering is not just about recalling past events...it's about being in relationship with, engaged with...in a true memorial with... the new thing God has done in our midst, holding this heartfelt connection in reverence and understanding of its ongoing power.   
 
Memorial Day is a time we do some powerful remembering in our national world. As a people, we do more than merely recall those who sacrificed for us and our safety. We actively step up and celebrate them. And, through story-telling and naming of names, we become engaged with those who went before. We tell again their stories and connect them to our ongoing story. In a true memorial to them we acknowledge our debt and our shared visions and dreams. And then we move forward... fed, inspired and hopeful.  
 
So it is in our spiritual lives...our faith calls us to remember, and then points us, and indeed urges us, to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and music and art and philosophy and education and poetry and action the historically-rooted but future-focused Christian challenge, leading the way...with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and wisdom.
 
We look back and remember with care...and then we move forward with faith. May it be so as a people and a church.
  
The Rev. Timothy Boggs
Camp St. Alban's
There is still room, please visit our website for more information  
and to sign up.
 
Please Help
Coffee Hour is hosted by us all!
Would you like a turn?
Your help would be most welcome!
Hosts make coffee (supplied by the church), provide cookies, coffee cake or someth ing similar, cream, and their time on the scheduled Sunday morning.

Detailed information is provided to hosts well in advance.

We now use this link to schedule coffee hour! Simply click this link to find an available Sunday that fits your schedule.
Plug In to a Nourishing Word
Missed a sermon?  Want to listen to a certain preacher, date or week ? You can find them on our website. But now we have a new offering:

Introducing our Podcast channel called
A Nourishing Word 
For more information and directions  

20s and 30s
SAVE THE DATE!
 
2 0s / 30s Dinner and Conversation, Wednesday, June 5th  at 6 pm

If you are in your twenties or thirties, you are invited to a simple dinner on May 1 at 6 pm in Bonoff Hall to get to know one another better and to discuss how St. Alban's could support you in your faith journey even more. If you have questions, please speak with the Rev. Holly Hoffmann or Vestry member David Stankiewicz. Please RSVP to [email protected]
by Sunday, April 28.

Breakfast For All
All are welcome
Parish Breakfast
June 2nd after 9:30 am  service


 
Join us for a  Parish Breakfast June 2nd
Served after 9:30 service
Enjoy a delicious breakfast accompanied by juice and coffee and wonderful fellowship! $ 5.00 Donation, please.
Feel free to chip in for a friend
or a stranger
Volunteers are always welcome! Especially for clean up!

PLUS AN EXTRA SPECIAL
PUPPET SHOW.
 

Yoga For All
Yoga at St. Alban's: Wednesdays
in June, 
9:30-10:45 am 


 
All Levels Yoga is suitable for continuing and beginning students. Our focus will be on cultivating a clear, intelligent and balanced practice of postures, breathing techniques and relaxation.  Class size is small and props are used to individualize student's needs / abilities. The yoga props will be provided. If you own a yoga mat, please bring it with you.

Holly Hofmann
(a local yoga teacher and not our Associate Rector) is a compassionate, experienced and certified  yoga teacher who encourages patience, humor and kindness as the body naturally unfolds.   
 
  The contemplative practices of yoga can bring an inner calm and peace to daily life.  Or as poet Galway Kinnell so beautifully expresses, a form of "self-blessing" --- "The bud stands for all things, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing".  To sign up, email [email protected]  and then bring a check payable to St. Alban's for $60 to the office at St. Alban's by the end of May. Note in the memo line that the check is for yoga class. 


St. Alban's Episcopal Church
885 Shore Road
Cape Elizabeth, Maine  04107
(207) 799-4014


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