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Picture of the Week!
The Rev. Holly Hoffmann and others during the Palm Sunday procession
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Readings of the Week
Easter
April 21st
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King's College Cambridge Were you there
arr James Whitbourn
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Worship Schedule
Maundy Thursday
- 7:00 pm Holy Communion and foot washing
- 7:00 am
- 9:00 am
- 11:00 am
- 5:30 pm
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Meetings & Events
4/18 Maundy Thursday
4/19 Good Friday
4/20 Easter Vigil
4/21 Easter
4/21 Blood Pressure
4/27 Spring Clean Up
5/1 20/30s dinner
5/5 Celtic Eventide Supper
5/5 Family Service
5/5 Parish Breakfast
5/5 Haiti Bazaar
5/12 Mother's Day
5/13 2nd Monday Lunch
5/15 Jim Strand with Gratitude
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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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Dear Youth and Families,
We have had requests from several families to offer a Confirmation class that would include our teens.
Confirmation is a rite in which a person makes a mature commitment to Christ and declares their interest in practicing this commitment within the Episcopal tradition.
We need your help in picking when to start this class. It would most likely be a class offered in 8 sessions.
Please take this short, quick survey to give your input and to express an interest in this class for yourself or on behalf of your child.
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High School Youth
Gatherings
Gatherings
Our usual meetings for fun, food, fellowship, and prayer are on the first and third Sundays of each month at 3:30 - 5 pm.
THIS MONTH WE ARE NOT MEETING ON THE THIRD SUNDAY DUE TO EASTER.
SEE YOU NEXT MONTH ON MAY 5!
The adults involved with leading the high school youth group are the Rev. Holly Hoffmann, 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
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Caring for the
Caregiver Group
Starting this spring, 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]
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May 9th
Plan on attending this special event for Caregivers
Scott Simon from NPR Weekend edition will be speaking on May 9th at Hannaford Hall, USM about
"A Resilient Spirit: Living and Caregiving Through the End of Life'
For more information at
or 207-289-3643
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April 21st
Blood Pressure Screening
after 9:30 am service.
A reminder from your
Health Ministry
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May 13th
Noon to 1 PM
Good for your body and soul.
A reminder from your
Health Ministry
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Always apply sunscreen before you go outside.
A reminder from your
Health Ministry
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Contemplative Stitching
All are welcome
Any level of handwork
quilting, embroidery anything.
9 am - 10 am
Every 2nd and 4th Friday
of the month at St. Alban's
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And now, we bring ourselves to the crux of the matter...the beauty, heartache and restoration offered in the final days
of Holy Week and Easter.
Please bring yourself and those you love!
Maundy Thursday Holy Communion and the power of Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet. Tonight at 7:00. The children bake bread at 6:30.
Good Friday from noon to three o'clock we gather. First hour we are with the seven last words of Christ, then a special hour of musical interlude for reflection and prayer, closing in the final hour with the Passion and the prayers.
Easter Vigil The rekindling of the Easter fire in one of the most beautiful evenings of the church year. This is the night the cantor sings. Families are most welcome at 7:00 for the hour long service.
Easter Sunday a festival of joy and celebration at all four services. 7, 9 and11 in the morning and 5:30 pm for Celtic Easter. Come flower the cross and sing the resurrection!
Bringing ourselves,
The Rev. Timothy Boggs
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With so much going on this
coming week
visit our website for more information
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Bring a donation Maundy Thursday
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At our 7 pm Maundy Thursday service the children will be baking the bread AND adults will have the opportunity to bring a bottle of Taylor or Fairbanks brand PORT WINE for Communion to be blessed with the bread.
Be a part of this rich, engaging hour.
Bread and wine symbolize a wonderful cooperation between God and humans. We lay upon the altar not only creation's goods but ours, too. The gifts are not mere wheat and grapes, but "the work of human hands." Symbolically, that's us on the altar, offering ourselves to God. In the Eucharistic prayer, we ask God to send the Spirit to change the gifts and change us as well.
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Join St Alban's Volunteer's for an
Earth Day Cleanup
Saturday, April 20, 8:30 AM
Mill Creek Park (Across from Hannaford's)
Sponsored by the South Portland Land Trust
Check in at Mill Creek Park between 8:30 -11:30 AM to sign in and find our assigned location. Gloves, bags and refreshments are readily available. If you arrive a little later, please come join us at our assigned sight. Stay as long as you wish. Call Peter Merrill at 239-9445 for more details.
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Spring Clean Up
April 27th
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Please plan to take part!
Spring Clean-up...
April 27TH
Join the Building and Grounds Committee
with spring parish yard clean ups.
Many hands make light work.
Families encouraged. Refreshments provided.
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Please bring fan rakes, tarps, blowers
Your B&G committee thanks you
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0s / 30s Dinner and Conversation, Wednesday, May 1 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.
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Connect With God In Nature
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Sacred Stroll:
Connecting with God in Nature:
Saturday, May 4,
9 - 11 am
Walking prayer and conversation with moments of quiet reflection; an opportunity to connect with God through nature and one another through contemplative moments of poetry, prayer, silence, and creative individual and group activities. This is the first event of a series of outings that will be offered once a season. For more information and to RSVP click
here.
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Family Service on the
First Sunday in May!
As part of our commitment to have children be familiar and comfortable with our rich liturgy, we're pleased to offer the third family service of the 2018-2019 church year.
Children and youth will serve on Sunday, May 5th at the 9:30 am service, as we highlight our on-going, loving relationship with St. Luc's School in Trou du Nord, Haiti. Child friendly sermon and hymns, fishing for people ... and perhaps even a dinghy, too! Plan to come - it will be fun!
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Spring Fundraiser for St. Luc's School in Haiti.
Unfortunately, political unrest forced the cancellation of our annual winter trip to St. Luc's School in Trou du Nord, Haiti ... but not our continued love for our sister parish and school. We remain committed to fulfill our obligation to help fund teachers' salaries and modest improvement projects to the school's restroom facility. The recent civil uprising has made an extreme need even more dire.
On May 5th and May 12th, please visit the Haiti Marketplace in Bonoff Hall and give generously to help support our friends at St. Luc's.
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Registration now open
www.stalbansmaine.org
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2019 Spring Training: Diocesan Workshop Day on Saturday April 27
Gather with Bishop Lane and Episcopalians from all across the diocese for a day of learning, sharing and growth. With 22 diverse workshops to choose from, you'll find what you're looking for. It will be held at South Parish Church in Augusta. Coffee begins at 8:30, workshops are at 9:30, and we'll gather together at mid-day for worship and an address by Bishop Steve. There's no charge. But
registration by Easter is required.
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Our next
host date
for Greater Portland Family Promise is May 12-19.
In order to volunteer directly with the families, you need to have completed a training offered by GPFP.
In May, GPFP will be offering a new training that they are calling Volunteer Training 2.0. The training will be offered on Saturday, May 4 from 9:30am-12pm at HopeGateWay. This training will be open only to volunteers who have already been trained and are looking for more in depth information about the following topics: the basics of housing, financial assistance programs, and the asylum process.
They will also reexamine and look deeper into the concepts of hospitality and volunteer roles. Please consider attending if you are an active and already trained volunteer for the Family Promise ministry at St. Alban's and are looking for ways to go deeper in helping to support families experiencing homeless in our greater Portland area community. If you have questions about this life-changing ministry, please speak with Debbie Phelan
[email protected]
or David Klimkowski
[email protected]
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