SCRIPTURE READINGS
Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17
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TO REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Those On Our Hearts
Brigid, Mike, Gillian, Nellie, Andrew, Stephen, Michelle, Marianne, Liz, The Reverend Tim Taylor and the parish of St Anne's, Toronto, The Reverend Gary van der Meer, The Reverend Dr. Caroline Ducros, The Reverend Michael Hicks, Gordon, Gregory and all who minister at St John's.
Our Diocese
The Area Parish of the St. Lawrence including Trinity, Cornwall; Christ Church, Seaway; St John’s, Lancaster; The Venerable Peter Crosby, The Reverend Adam Brown and Deacon Richard Matthias.
The Area Parish of South Carleton including Holy Trinity, North Gower; St John’s, Kars; St Paul’s, Osgoode; The Reverend Carolyn Seabrook and The Reverend Allan Budzin.
Our Bishop, The Right Reverend Shane Parker, our Metropolitan, The Most Reverend Anne Germond and our Primate, The Most Reverend Linda Nicholls.
Our Companion Diocese in Jerusalem & the Middle East
The Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and for peace in the Middle East.
Archbishop Hosam Naoum.
Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
The Right Reverend Andrew Asbil, Bishop; The Right Reverend Kevin Robertson, Suffragan Bishop; The Right Reverend Riscylla Shaw, Suffragan Bishop, and the clergy and people of the Diocese of Toronto.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)
The Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute in Outlook Saskatchewan.
Our Sisters and Brothers in the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and their Bishop, Michael Pryse.
Parish Prayer Group
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SUNDAY SERVICE
Trinity Sunday
Sunday, May 30 at 9:30am
Join us here at St John's for online worship this Sunday. Part one of the service will be on YouTube followed by part two on Zoom. Once the service is finished we will have our regular Sunday Coffee Hour.
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PARISH COFFEE HOUR
Wednesdays at 10am on Zoom
Every Wednesday at 10am you are invited to join Gary+ and your fellow parishioners (new, past & present) for coffee and conversation on Zoom. All are welcome!
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2021 TULIPATHON
MULTIFAITH Housing Initiative’s annual Tulipathon Walk will be virtual again this year: a 3 km. solo walk or household hike at 2 p.m. on May 30, 2021. Please donate to the St John’s team online. Click here to donate. Your donation will support rent subsidies for MHI tenants.
Cheque donations (with "St John's" in the comment line) can be mailed to:
MULTIFAITH Housing Initiative, 206-404 McArthur Ave., Ottawa ON, K1K 1G8.
If you would like to walk, please join the St John's team and receive a free MHI mask. For more information, visit MHI at Tulipathon or contact Gay at gay@sympatico.ca
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JERUSALEMA DANCE CHALLENGE
Postponed Due to Pandemic Safety Restraints
We hope to reschedule and send our video as a gift to the new Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum, in celebration of his consecration on May 13, 2021. Stay tuned for revised dates for two sessions, the first a practice and the second for recording.
Check out the tutorial videos below by clicking on them.
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ONLINE WORSHIP CONTINUES
As the province of Ontario has been given the Stay-At-Home-Order, the Bishop's office continues to keep us apprised of safety restrictions. All services will take place online. However, we hope to see you during our fellowship after Sunday services on Zoom. See the link above or visit our YouTube Channel to watch our services online.
Please get vaccinated as soon as you are eligible!
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WAIVING COVID-19 VACCINE PATENTS
The People’s Vaccine Alliance, which includes organizations such as Amnesty International, Frontline AIDS, Global Justice Now, and Oxfam, report that at least 90% of people in 67 low income countries stand little chance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2021 because wealthy nations have reserved more than they need, and vaccine developers will not share their intellectual property. It could be years before billions of people around the world, especially in developing countries, receive a vaccination. The World Health Organization COVAX program, set up to provide vaccines to poorer nations, is still vastly underfunded. WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week that the world has reached a situation of “Vaccine Apartheid.” The big problem is a lack of sharing.
Many of the pharmaceutical companies received substantial public funding to develop the COVID-19 vaccines. There is a growing movement to have Intellectual Property (IP) rights or the patents waived to the COVID-19 vaccines. The good news is that the U.S. Biden Administration has come out in support of an international waiver on patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines. The members of the World Trade Organization remain very divided on the issue, Canada among them. Prime Minister Trudeau states that Canada is working with others at the World Trade Organization to find a “consensus solution.”
We all know that we won’t rid the world of COVID until the majority of populations around the world are vaccinated. If you feel strongly about this issue please write to P.M. Trudeau and other key ministers, expressing your support for a waiver of the patents to COVID-19 vaccines. Jane Maxwell's letter is attached with the email addresses of key ministers. Please feel free to use Jane's letter as a template. Do include your own M.P.
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PARISH ADMINISTRATION AT ST JOHN'S
In the interim, administrative duties will be as follows:
Our music director Gordon and Cara Gilbertson will manage parish communications (Sunday bulletins, This Week at St John's e-newsletter and the website).
Secondly, a roster of volunteers comprising Vicki Robinson, Emmy Verdun and Bea Robertson will cover most of the day-to-day administration tasks including handling correspondence such as email, regular mail, phone messages, etc., procuring church supplies, coordinating activities of various church groups, and so on.
Finally, Ted Reeve, a member of our newly established Property & Building Committee will look after rentals. Many thanks go to all those who have agreed to help out.
We look forward to completing the search process and welcoming a new parish administrator at St John's soon.
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CALL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SUBMISSIONS
Some of you may have noticed a great deal of activity on St John's Social Media pages this past week. One of Cara's new projects is to help St John's inspire and engage our Church Community, the Community of Centretown, and the greater Ottawa Community. Our goal is to grow St John's' online presence in the hopes to attract new members and to build stronger relationships with people, organizations, and businesses within our community. And we also want to celebrate submissions from you, our parishioners!
For those of you who are new to social media, we recommend that you sign up for a facebook and/or instagram account and follow us by clicking the icons below. If you already have an account, please check our pages each day and "like" our posts!
The more "likes," "shares" and comments we receive, the more our posts will be shared with the wider community.
Ideas for submissions:
- Garden photos
- Photographs taken on walks in the area
- Cooking/Baking photos
- Artwork
- Recipes
- Inspirational Scripture & Quotes
- Christian Jokes
- Travel Pictures
- Pictures of Past Events/Occasions
- Pets & Animals
Let's flood our social media with a rainbow of colour and inspiration from St John's!
If you have a photo/submission you wish to share, please send it to Cara at
caragilbertson@yahoo.ca
Submissions will be featured in future newsletters and on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Please keep in mind that Cara might use discretion on what/where/when to post...for example: "Sorry Wendy W-S, we will not publish pictures of your Christmas Trees and Snowmen Armies in May!"
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FOLLOW ST JOHN'S ON
FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE
Congratulations, St John's...one of our Facebook posts went viral this week! Thank you for "liking" and "sharing" our posts!
Please click the icons to link to our social media pages.
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(From Top Left): Iris at Knox - Vicki & Glen Robinson;
Tulips - Jo Cassie; Blushing Blossoms - Jill Courtemanche.
(From Bottom Left): Rhododendron- Detlef & Barb Dransch;
Family of Geese- Alex Bissett; Majestic Trees - Barbara Dorrell.
(Title Photo: Apostle Iris - Mary Ann Varley)
(Social Media Title Photo: Arboretum Blossoms - Caroline Ducros+)
To see more submissions, check out our Facebook & Instagram pages!
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NEXT SUNDAY - JUNE 6
CORPUS CHRISTI
Exodus 24:3-8; Psalm 116:12-18; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26
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ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
ANGLICAN CHURCH
154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
613-232-4500
office@stjohnsottawa.ca
The Reverend Gary van der Meer, Rector
The Reverend Dr Caroline Ducros, Deacon
The Reverend Michael Hicks, Honourary Assistant Emeritus
Dr Gordon Johnston, FRCCO, Organist and Choirmaster
Detlef Dransch, Rector’s Warden
Stephen Giles, People's Warden
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