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2017 Annual Pledge Drive
As of 1/12/17,
247 parishioners have donated
for a total of $481,434.00.
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 $28,657.00 in pledges and 53 pledgers
to meet both goals.
We need your participation!
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Click on the link below to send a secure email to the office with your 2017 pledge. Just answer the two questions and DONE!
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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
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It's time to renew our prayer list, and build a fresh list of names to be prayed for during the Prayers of the People in our weekly services.
As of January 1, 2017, the current list will be erased. If you wish to have someone on the list, please let Joanne in the office know and she will compile a new list. You may contact Joanne at 603-436-8283 or administrator@stjohnsnh.org
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The next book the Thursday night Women's book group will be reading is
Hillbilly Elegy
. Please join us on January 5
th
to discuss this important book. A paragraph from the review in the NY Times is below. Any questions please call: Conni White, 603-498-7605 or email conni@senh.biz.
"Mr. Vance offers a compassionate, discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass that has helped drive the politics of rebellion, particularly the ascent of Donald J. Trump. Combining thoughtful inquiry with firsthand experience, Mr. Vance has inadvertently provided a civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election, and he's done so in a vocabulary intelligible to both Democrats and Republicans."
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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.
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Annual Report Ministry submissions need to be in by Wednesday, January 18th in order to be formatted and printed for the meeting. Please email Joanne at administrator@stjohnsnh.org
what you'd like to be included in the report.
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As we lean into the joys and challenges of this new year, I offer to you 'A New Year Blessing' by
John O'Dononue, the late Irish poet, priest and philosopher:
On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.
And when your eyes
Freeze behind
The grey window
And the ghost of loss
Gets into you,
May a flock of colours,
Indigo, red, green
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
In the currach of thought
And a stain of ocean
Blackens beneath you,
May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.
Whatever 2017 brings our community, our nation and our world, I pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and then fellowship of the Holy Spirit* be with us all, now and always.
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