At St. Alban's Episcopal Church we seek to be transformed by the Holy Spirit by welcoming the stranger, striving for justice, loving God and neighbor, and promoting peace.

In This Issue

New Information:

Worship this Sunday, April 14, two services

Sunday Worship Service Booklets, Bulletin & Hymns

Studying the Scriptures with Link to Readings

Prayers of the People

Altar Flowers

Caring and Sharing Partner: B.R.E.A.D.

Leaders on Retreat with Pan Adams-McCaslin

Recurring Information & Reminders:

Church Directory

Meet and Greet Opportunities

The Book Club

Upcoming Meetings

Ministry Scheduler

Visit our Website

Pledge Payments & Donation Links

Worship Services:

8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.: Two Services 

Holy Eucharist - In Person - In the Church

EasterTide Worship Booklet

Sunday Service Bulletin

Hymns

Studying the Scriptures

Prayers of the People

CLICK here for the Prayers List

One thing we do here at St. Alban’s is pray, which is a good thing. However, our Sunday prayer list is getting rather lengthy. In an effort to stay on top of our prayer list, we will keep folks on our Sunday morning prayer list for a month at a time. We ask that you inform Ernestine Ujah, our pastoral associate, if you wish to keep a person’s name on the list for the next month and we will add their name to the “continued prayers for” section. Please do let us know when healing has occurred so we can give thanks for that! 

Questions? 

Please contact Ernestine at

pastoralassociate@stalbans-bexley.org 

Thank you!

The Leaders of St. Alban’s on Retreat

Friday Evening and Saturday, April 26-27

The Vestry and Rector will come together in a weekend retreat to fully onboard new members, to revisit and remember our mission and the resilience of St. Alban’s, and to resume forward movement on our strategic plan now that Pastor Beth is with us. This gathering will be held at the church. 

Our event facilitator is Pan Adams-McCaslin. A lifelong Episcopalian, Pan serves the Church on a national, diocesan, and local level in the roles of congregational and vestry consultant and retreat leader. She holds a BA and MA from Sewanee and the School of Theology, along with degrees in nursing and counseling from the University of Arkansas. As a seven-time deputy to General Convention, Pan has chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance and recently completed a seven-year term as chair of the Episcopal Church Board of Archives. The Episcopal Women’s History Project is a heart-centered project for her; she serves the initiative as a board member. For fun, Pan is a free-lance writer, clergy spouse, mother of three and “GranPan” to four. 

Look for more information about this event from your Wardens and Rector next week.

Caring and Sharing

April Partner: B.R.E.A.D. =

Building Responsibility Equality And Dignity

St. Alban’s Social Concerns committee designates a Sunday each month when the loose plate offering is given to support a particular agency. However, contributions can also be made at any time during the month.

What is B.R.EA.D. and what does it do? 

The mission of B.R.E.A.D. is to do justice by building the power of people of faith to solve local community problems. B.R.E.A.D. provides a vehicle for its member congregations to practice justice by joining together large numbers of people. These large numbers of people have power to hold key decision makers accountable for protecting the weak and enable us to "do justice."

For more information visit their website: https://www.breadcolumbus.com/

Recurring Information & Reminders:

Church Directory

The church directory has been updated.  For those with Realm accounts, you may access the information online. Realm is password protected and restricted to St. Alban's church community.

If you don't have the ability to access the directory online, we can print one for you! For a hard copy, please contact the Parish Administrator at 614.253-8549 or admin@stalbans-bexley.org to set a date and time for pick up.

Marcy R. Edwards

Parish Administrator

Meet and Greet Opportunities

The Transition Team is organizing a series of Meet and Greet meals with our Pastor, Beth Turner.  Members of the congregation have volunteered to host and all parishioners are being invited to attend one of these small gatherings to get to know Pastor Beth and she can get to know them.

Our first dinner was March 5th and was enjoyed by all who attended. Since we are trying to keep the gatherings small, there will be 17 of them, between now and June. We will be skipping Holy Week and the following week. All parishioners will be invited, watch for your invitation.

Charlene O'Donnell and The Transition Team

The Book Club

The Book Club’s selection to read for the next three months are:

• MAY 13  Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• JUNE 10   Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel by Shelby Van Pelt 

UPCOMING INFO:

There was great interest in reading The Women by Kristin Hannah. Due to its popularity and the long hold lines in the Columbus library system, it was decided to make it our selection for September 9.   So place your hold early. 

Rachel M. Barnes 

rmbarnes@protonmail.com 

714-267-4782

Upcoming Meetings

Ministry Scheduler

If you have trouble with the pledge links, please contact Janet Lewis, our Finance Administrator.