ALTAR FLOWERS - can you help?
We are forever welcoming your donation of altar flowers at any time during the year. Altar flowers are a wonderful way to honor those who are present in our hearts!
It is a sign and symbol of our love.
Please speak with Lynne Goepper to schedule and plan your gift.
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EVERYONE!!!
New Church Directory INFORMATION NEEDED!
From Darcey Hale -- A special thank-you to those of you who have sent your directory information. To contact Darcey, send her an email at
twoocelots@gmail.com
If you have not done so, please send the complete information listed below. If I only get part or you say "just like last year" it means that I have to go into the directory and retype it. Because of the difficulties that we had with the last directory (our first with pictures, etc.) I cannot do a simple cut and paste. Producing the directory is a very time-consuming process and having you send me the information as requested will save me a huge amount of time. Many thanks.
Please include:
Name(s) last name first
Address
Winter address (if you have one)
Phone number
Cell phone numbers (if you have them)
email address
birthdays (without year)
Picture(s)
Reaching Out Towards "The Stranger"
Adirondack-Friends-of-Refugees is sponsoring upcoming events in June - we hope you will attend and support them!
June 2nd 4 pm
Albany Diocese Convention
Father Craig, Carole Harsh, Bobbi & Dick Perez, Jan & Harold Bedoukian, Darcey & Bruce Hale and Eve Ticknor are excited to join parishes all across the Albany Diocese to celebrate the diocese's 150th anniversary. We are eager for a weekend of worship, speakers, fellowship, entertainment, youth activities and workshops to help us learn how to live the life that Jesus is calling us to live!
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is joining us to celebrate this special milestone.
Did you hear Bishop Curry's dynamic sermon at the Royal Wedding? Bishop Curry joined Prince Harry, Megan Markle and 600 guests to celebrate God's gift of love.
Our world is talking about us!
Click here to experience it for yourself:
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Sunday, June 10th 4 pm
Daily Devotional Readings Available (free)
If you would like to greet each day with a devotional reading from the Society of St. John the Evangelist, please go to their website at
http://www.SSJE.org/word
and hit the SUBSCRIBE button to receive their daily email devotional reading.
NEW INFO -- Another alternative is Richard Rohr's site called Center for Action and Contemplation, for more in-depth and profound insights. Please go to
www.cac.org to sign up to receive these.
These are powerful daily spiritual messages and inspirations that can help you "set your sails" for the day and raise up a mundane day into a path of devotion.
More to come, please keep checking on our progress.
"Coming Together in Prayer"
Next meeting- June 4, 9:45am - St. John's
Please join us for the next meeting for the Ecumenical/Regional Retreat Planning on June 4, at 9:45 am, at St. John's.
All are invited to attend!
Save the Date - July 8 - Holy Listening Session
Eric Davis, part of Bishop Ely's Discernment Committee, will be conducted a Holy Listening Session here on Sunday, July 8th, during coffee hour.
I encourage everyone to attend this session
because our needs as a DEPO parish (Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight) will be discussed and addressed.
This Holy Listening Session is part of a new bishop-discernment process for the Diocese of Vermont. Bishop Ely is retiring within the next 18 months.
Bless all whose lives are closely linked with ours, grant that we may serve Christ in them, and love one another as he loves us. We give thanks for other blessings we now share...
Comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, mind, or spirit; give them courage and hope in their troubles and bring them the joy of your salvation. We pray for those who are ill:
For James Graves; Bruce; Dottie Hall Swinehart's son, Kent; Jill; Teresa's sister Vivian; Pam's friend Bryce Newcomb; Laura Steenburg; Judith Moore; Dottie Hall Swinehart; Helene Gray; and others known to us....
We commend to your mercy all who have died.
Scribbles from Father Craig's desk.
Have you ever thought of the Trinity as a prayer experience of unity and diversity rather than a theological "model"? When I pray and feel a deep, intimate reality within my soul
without losing my personal identity, I wonder if this is not the Trinity. This might be the basis for the doctrine
of the Trinity.
Please remember all doctrine is based on an experience.
Just a thought.
Remember, we are never alone. God is always with us and loves us and cares for us regardless of the situation we are in.God's love is always greater than our circumstances.
Lonely shoes looking for the bare feet that walked the beach. Looking for their sole-mate. Could it be you? If so, come and be reunited with your shoes which
await you in the church office.
Father Craig Contact Information
Here are the ways you can reach Father Craig:
Church Phone: 518 - 963 - 7775
Rectory Phone: 518 - 963 - 4657
Cell Phone: 207 - 595 - 2697
email: frcraigstjohns@gmail.com
If you are unable to reach him at the Church, please call the Rectory and leave a message if no one answers.
And please note, the Rectory is always open for emergencies.
~ Looking Forward to Seeing You
in Church 9:15am Trinity Sunday
May 27, 2018 ~
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