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This Week at St John's
September 25th, 2016
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The readings for Sunday Sept 25th 2016:
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost:
Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15; Psalm 91:1-6,14-16; 1 Timothy 6:6-19; Luke 16:19-31
To Remember this Week in Prayer
Our Clergy
Beth, John and Michael.
Our Diocese
St John’s, March, St Paul’s, Dunrobin, St Mary’s, North March, The Reverend Karen Coxon and The Reverend Mervyn Dunn; All parish secretaries and administrators in our diocese.
Our Companion Diocese of Jerusalem
Salt Training and Resource Institute for Disability, Salt, Jordan.
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
Bishop Barbara Andrews, the people and clergy of the Territory of the People.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)
The dean, council, and congregations of the Lower Fraser Valley Conference of the British Columbia Synod.
Flowers at the Altar
Given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Alice and Roy Fletcher by John Fletcher.
Parish Prayer Chain
If you wish to have someone prayed for, please call (613) 232-4500 ext 21.
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Life of the Parish and beyond
Associate Priest
Please note: Fr. John is away from Wednesday, September 21st through Monday, October 10th.
Community Thrift Shop Closure
Sunday, September 25th – Wednesday, September 28th
It is fall “change over” time! Other than these change-over days, The Shop is open for the regular hours of noon to 4 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
Sunday Oct. 2nd at 10:15
Let's welcome The Reverend Dr Elizabeth Mackinlay, founding and now retired Director of the Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies, St Mark’s National Theological Centre, Charles Stuart University, Canberra, Australia.
Urgent need!
Husam and Lina Abbas and their three children, Harith, Taym and Aysar, were sponsored to come to Canada from Iraq by St. John's. Recently, Husam's parents arrived as government sponsored refugees and are now living with Husam and Lina. They have moved into a rented house so that they can all live together, but they now are in need of furniture for the larger place. If anyone has any furniture they can donate or knows of any good quality used furniture, please contact John Campbell at 613-823-8928 or E-mail him at john@bionbiometrics.com
Thanksgiving Fruit and Vegetables
Please help the Altar Guild to decorate the church for Thanksgiving. A couple of people are needed to pick up the fruits and vegetables on the Friday. A suggested list will be provided. Monetary donations are also being accepted and you can make out your cheque to St. John's with “Thanksgiving” in the memo line or donate via the website. The fruits and vegetables will be donated to The Well after the Sunday service. Contact Vicki Milnes for more information vickimilnes705@rogers.com Thank you!
Bridgehead Coffee
Monthly sales have now been discontinued at St John’s. Please continue to shop directly at Bridgehead locations and support the fair trade coffee and tea farmers
Please see information on many Parish and Community activities in the items below
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Sunday, September 25th – 9 to 9:45 am, Budget Update Meeting
Sunday, October 2nd – Noon to 2 pm, Appreciative Inquiry Potluck - see more info below
Wednesday, October 5th – 7 to 9 pm, Appreciative Inquiry Reception
Thursday, October 6th – 10 am to noon, Appreciative Inquiry Coffee
Friday/Saturday, October 14th/15th – Grounded: A Women’s Retreat - see more info below
Wednesday, October 19th – 5.30 to 7 pm, MHI “The Haven” Wine and Cheese Fundraiser - see more info below
Thursday to Saturday, October 20th to 22nd – Diocesan Synod
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Godly Play
Please follow the children’s cross during the opening hymn to the Sunday school rooms.
An additional teacher and a couple of assistants are needed to help with this valuable program. High School students wishing community service hours are welcome. Adults will require a police check for vulnerable people. Training is available. Please email Mary Ann Varley for more information varleymaryann1@bell.net
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Budget Update Meeting
Sunday, September 25th 9 to 9.45 am, Parish Hall
Come and hear how we are doing financially. Please note that choir practice will begin at 9.45 am on this day.
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PWRDF Ride for Refuge
Saturday, October 1st – 8 am
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This year PWRDF riders (or walkers) will help raise funds to provide bicycle and motorcycle ambulances for health-related projects in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Team Ottawa, the most successful PWRDF Ride for Refuge fundraising team in 2015, is aiming to raise $3,000 this year. If you, or your children/grandchildren would like to join the team to register for the ride and donate to our team, please access the link www.ride.w-ith.me/PWRDFhealth or contact Tony Lovink (alovink@rogers.com). Thank you so much for your support!
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Appreciative Inquiry Events
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Potluck – Sunday, October 2nd – noon to 2 pm, Hall
Reception – Wednesday, October 5th – 7 to 9 pm, Chapel
Coffee – Thursday, October 6th – 10 am to noon, Hall
The last time St John’s did some serious thinking about the future was with Moving Forward about 5 years ago, and what we accomplished based on that process is impressive.
Now it’s time to think about the next 5 years. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an approach that builds on strengths rather than problem identification, so the questions we will seek to answer at these initial sessions will be: When is St John's at its best? What does that look like and how do you experience that? We will be doing the same thing at each session. The idea is to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to participate. You can come to more than one session if you want to.
If you are coming on Sunday, October 2nd, please bring some food to share if you can. The Parish Hall will be set up so you can leave a dish on the tables or in the fridge. Once information is gathered from these sessions, we will move on to the next step of looking ahead to the next five years. If you have any comments, questions or concerns, please speak to Beth (beth@stjohnsottawa.ca) or to Margot Cameron, our facilitator (margot.cameron@magma.ca).
Three sessions are planned to try to make the process as available as possible. Please plan to attend one of them!
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Grounded: A Women’s Retreat
Friday Evening & Saturday, October 14th & 15th,
Galilee Centre in Arnprior
Led by The Reverend Monique Stone, the theme of the retreat will focus on our relationship with the soil and creation. We will examine God’s invitation for us to consider our call to be grounded in our environment, our community, our faith journey and the world around us. We will ground ourselves in theology (discussion), worship (Eucharist), prayer (Anglican rosary making), movement (yoga), reflection (Bible study), quiet (walks) and conversation (social time). The cost, including all snacks and meals, is $150 (single room) or $130 (shared room). Some subsidies are available, please contact Beth Bretzlaff (beth@stjohnsottawa.ca). Registration forms are in the parish office, on the bulletin board and at the back of the church. We are opening up the retreat to women of the diocese so please register early – the final deadline for registration is October 5th. Contact Vicki Milnes for more information vickimilnes705@rogers.com
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Centretown Emergency Food Centre Walk-a-thon
Register by October 6th
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Sunday, October 16th – 2.00 pm at City Hall
Please register by October 6th for this 3 km walk to raise funds for this project of the Centretown Churches Social Action Committee. Please see the poster on the bulletin board, or on-line at this link: http://centretownchurches.org/walk/
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Multi-Faith Housing Initiative Wine & Cheese Event
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October 19th, 5 – 7 pm here at St John's
A Wine and Cheese Reception sponsored by St. John’s
Ottawa has an affordable housing crisis
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Did you know that The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa has established a Working Group on Homelessness and Affordable Housing and that Gay Richardson from St John’s sits on this group as a representative of MHI (Multifaith Housing Initiative) of which St John’s is a member?
Come to our wine and cheese to learn about the goals and actions of the Diocesan working group and how St. John’s can get involved.
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Tuesdays at The Cathedral @ 414 Sparks Street
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St John's Choir
The choir season is underway with rehearsal
at 7:30 pm on Thursday evenings.
This is the perfect time for new members to consider joining the choir. If you or someone you know would be interested in participating in St John's Choir, please contact Gordon gordon@stjohnsottawa.ca 613-232-4500 x11 for further information.
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St John the Evangelist
Bridge Club
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The new season is launching this month and The Bridge Club invites players of all levels to join the existing teams and enjoy this exciting game in a relaxed atmosphere. For information, please contact Alain Lanoix lanoix.alain@gmail.com
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Music at St John's
The handbell ensemble rehearses Mondays at 12:00 noon, and there is room for new members. No previous experience ringing bells is necessary, but it is important to be able to read music. Interested? Please speak with Gordon.
Have you ever wondered about learning to play the harp? This may be your chance! This fall we plan to start a small harp ensemble at St John's. The group will meet once a week to learn basic technique and musical skills, and members will be expected to practice on their own at least one other time during the week. No prior experience is required. Harps will be provided; the instruction book is available for purchase at The Leading Note. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please contact Gordon gordon@stjohnsottawa.ca 613-232-4500 x11 for further information.
Music, music everywhere!!
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Survey Results
Summer Worship Schedule 2016
Thank you to all who took the time to respond to our survey about the new summer worship and refreshment times. We very much appreciate your input. An executive summary of the results will be available at the back of the church as of Sunday, September 25th. The full report, including the questions and all of the narrative comments we received, will be available on our website or you can ask the office for a paper version.
Briefly, the results show that many people appreciated the opportunity to meet and mingle with people from the service they do not usually attend, but a larger number of people found that 9 am is too early for them, both as a service time and as a refreshment time. As to changing the refreshment time to 9 am during the rest of the year, a significant number of people were concerned that this would prevent choir members from participating.
Thank you to all parishioners for your willingness to try something new for the summer! Parish Council will be discussing what worked and what didn’t at their September meeting.
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PWRDF South Sudan Emergency Response
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UN reports place the number of internally displaced people in South Sudan at 1.6 million, food insecure people at 4.9 million and the number of South Sudanese who have become refugees since December 2013 at 900,000. Shortages of food and water, and the outbreak of disease are facing those who have been forced to seek safety elsewhere.
You may contribute through St. John's with a cheque to "PWRDF South Sudan Emergency Response" or online at: http://pwrdf.org/donate.
Due to the increased violence and displacement, PWRDF continues to support those in South Sudan and has sent an initial grant of $20,000 to the Sudanese Development and Relief Agency (SUDRA) of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, to respond to the immediate needs of internally displaced people. PWRDF sent a further grant of $30,000 through the ACT Alliance appeal for South Sudanese in Uganda. Those funds will go towards the provision of hygiene items, blankets, clothing, kitchen kits. They will also help to build community and school latrines and communal shelters for the most vulnerable PWRDF partners continue to accompany the South Sudanese in Kenya and Egypt. Please support PWRDF’s response to this ongoing emergency.
Thank you for your support!
St. John's PWRDF Committee.
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Thank You to our Sponsors
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If you get a chance this autumn, please support the generous sponsors of our event which attracted about 30 people into our nave on Sept 17th and raised $255 for our ministries.
Our sponsors were the Wine Rack next door, Nat's Bread Company, The Unrefined Olive in The Glebe and Kanata, Chateau des Charmes on Laurier Avenue, plus Southbrook Vineyards and Flat Rock Cellars in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
If you missed the event and would like to sample a bottle of white or red wine in return for a donation, please contact Adrian Cloete (cloete.adrian@gmail.com).
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St John the Evangelist Anglican Church
www.stjohnsottawa.ca
154 Somerset St. W., Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
613-232-4500
office@stjohnsottawa.ca
The Reverend Beth Bretzlaff, Rector
BGen (Ret’d) The Venerable John Fletcher, Associate Priest
The Reverend Michael Hicks, Honorary Assistant
Dr Gordon Johnston, FRCCO, Organist and Choirmaster
Laura Macdonald, Parish Administrator
Audrey Starkes, Rector’s Warden
Wendy Williamson-Scrim, People's Warden
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