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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: PHASE 1 - DISCERNMENT

We're inviting one and all to gather as friends, share hospitality, and then discuss ideas, dreams and passions for the future of the church. Each meeting will have a parishioner who has volunteered to facilitate discussion and capture notes.
 
We want and need to hear from everyone to be our very best in the years ahead. Click below and email which meeting is most convenient for you to attend. There will also be sign up sheets available at the Annual Meeting.



 
Pledge Drive Update
2017 Annual Pledge Drive
As of 1/19/17,
249 parishioners have donated
for a total of $485,434.00.
Thank you!!
We are so close to meeting our
2017 budget goal of $510,000.00!
The secondary goal is to have
300 parishioners participate in pledging
(a goal we have come close to but have never met).
We need $24,566.00 in pledges and 51 pledgers
to meet both goals.
We need your participation!
Pledge Online
Click on the link below to send a secure email to the office with your 2017 pledge.  Just answer the two questions and DONE!
 
END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER
Your Help Continues for
68 Hours of Hunger
Thanks for your generous support to the program for seacoast childhood hunger.

This month we will collect

6-8 oz. boxes of MACARONI AND CHEESE
(not cups)
 
Please place your food donations in the green box in the parish hall or in the box at church (in the vestibule).  

Thanks, Judy Roberts and Cathy Hunt

ADULT FORMATION

Adult Formation Offering
Wednesdays, beginning January 11
7:00 - 8:30 in the Philbrick Room
 
For our formation time leading us to Lent, we'll "read, mark, and inwardly digest" The Lord's Prayer using John Dominic Crossan's work The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of The Lord's Prayer. We'll read a chapter each week - about 20 pages - and come together for conversation and reflection.
 
Copies of the paperback book are available from Charlie Nichols or Anne Williamson for a $10 donation. The book is also available for Kindle and in audiobook format.  
A WONDFERUL EVENT TO SUPPORT COMMON TABLE
Great Chefs Tasting Party
The Regatta Room, Eliot, Maine
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Doors Open at 5:00 PM
 
Proceeds to benefit Piscataqua Chapter Educational and Scholarship Programs and Local Seacoast Nonprofit Organizations.
St. John's Common Table receives $10 for each ticket we sell.
Tickets are available in the office.

PRAYER
 
Dear Friends,

Today, on the eve of the inauguration, I invite you into prayer for our government and our nation, with a prayer from our Book of Common Prayer:

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure manners.  Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.  BCP p. 820
 
Epiphany blessings,

Anne
 



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