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June 7, 2018
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This Week
at
St. Martin's
Guest Preachers - Josh Penny, Elizabeth Pettit, Julia Nigro
Rite 1 Quiet Worship
8:00 a.m.
Choir Rehearsal
9:00 a.m.
Rite II Worship with music -
RECOGNITION
SERVICE
10:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
12:15 p.m.
Bible Study
7:00 p.m.
AA Meeting
7:00 p.m.
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Greeting
Photo credit: Sherrill Rowland, Property Manager
Peace & Blessings
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THIS SUNDAY!
Students, graduates, and teachers will be recognized this Sunday, June 10th at the 10 a.m. service. Appreciation will be shown for their efforts this year. Please plan on attending to share in their successes. If you'd like to help with refreshments, please call the main office at 610-688-4830 or email Deb Parker at [email protected].
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New month, new venue for Bible Study! For the month of June--we will meet at St. Martin's each Wednesday night at 7 p.m. St. Martin's is located at 400 King of Prussia Rd., Radnor. Our meeting space is in the large Sunday School Room at the end of the first floor hall (past the restrooms).
We continue in the summer to read the 3 synoptic Gospels and look forward to having both those who have attended in the past, and new voices. Each Wednesday night stands alone so no preparation or homework are needed. You are invited to come and be part of these Gospel explorations. Contact Deb Parker (
[email protected]) if you would like to learn more.
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THE LAST SUNDAY FOR THE
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE COLLECTION
 The three Confirmation youth selected Ronald McDonald House for their outreach project this spring. They thank everyone who donated soda or tennis ball pop tops, toiletries, art supplies or anything else. Sunday June 10 is the last week where they will be collecting items--Now is your last chance to bring items in. The youth will take a pilgrimage to the Ronald McDonald House at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to give them everything St. Martin's Collected. Thank you for your generosity.
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Thanks to So Many for a Wonderful Year!
 June 10th is the last Sunday in the 2017/2018 Program year. Children and youth will be with the whole congregation in worship, so there will be no Sunday School. For parents of young children, Megan will be in back with toys and coloring pages so even our youngest members can be part of the service.
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Mass on the Grass
The Summer Schedule Begins
St. Martin's summer schedule starts on Sunday, June 17th with one combined outdoor service at 9:30 a.m. This also happens to be Father's Day, so bring any and all fatherly types to church with you and
start the day off by giving thanks with prayer!
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Arts Camp: Summer Sunday VBS
Starting on June 17 St. Martin's will have one combined service at 9:30 a.m. Children are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes early to relax and enjoy the summer on St. Martin's beautiful grounds. We will be outside (whenever weather permits). Each week we will create something new as part of this Vacation Bible School (VBS) approach. After the outdoor bible story and arts activities, children will join their families for the balance of the worship service.
The theme ARTS CAMP can be interpreted very broadly and Ms. Deb invites any adults with an interest in any of the arts to join us at some point during the summer. We will explore a variety of arts--from sidewalk chalk art to drama, music, recycled creations, dance, photography, cupcake decorating, and of course painting. Each Sunday will stand alone and you are invited to bring children who are friends, neighbors, summer guests or extended family members. Toward the end of the summer we tentatively are planning a field trip to the Philadelphia Art Museum so those of you who are young at heART will be welcome to join us for that excursion, too!
Please contact Ms. Deb ([email protected]) to offer suggestions or for more information.
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Laptop Needed
St. Martin's is looking to "repurpose" someone's old (5 years or so) laptop to create a "drop-in" workspace for volunteers on special projects. If you happen to have a spare laptop that could use a new home, then please call the main office at 610-688-4830 or email [email protected] to arrange a drop-off time. Thank you!
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Upcoming Events
Recognition Sunday and Final Celebration of the Sunday School Year
THIS Sunday, 6/10, Confirmation Youth will preach at the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. services. Followed by a festive coffee hour.
VBS Arts Camp
Summer Sundays starting on 6/17 at 9:15 a.m.
Summer Schedule Begins/Father's Day/Mass on the Grass
Sunday, 6/17 at
9:30 a.m. service only
Vestry Meeting
Monday, 6/18 at 7 p.m.
Worship Planning Meeting
Tuesday, 6/26 at 5:30 p.m.
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Read and Ponder
this Week's Scriptures
The scripture readings for this Sunday are:
1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)
And special readings based on the preaching of our three Confirmands - Josh Penny, Elizabeth Pettit, and Julia Nigro
The Collect
O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)
All the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, "You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations." But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. Now then, listen to their voice; only-you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them." So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; [and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.] He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day." But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, "No! but we are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles." [Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship." So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.]
SPECIAL READINGS
JOSH PENNY
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. ~ 1 Peter 1:18-19
1 Peter 1:18-26
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers,
and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord endures forever." That word is the good news that was announced to you.
ELIZABETH PETTIT
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. ~ John 15:12-13
John 15:7-17
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servantsany longer, because the servantdoes not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
JULIA NIGRO
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
~ Mark 3:25
Mark 3:19-27
Then he went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind." And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons." And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
Optional parts of the readings are set off in square brackets.
The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
The Collects, Psalms and Canticles are from the Book of Common Prayer, 1979.
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