THIS WEEK AT
ST JOHN'S
SPECIAL EDITION
LOOKING TO TEXTS FOR COURAGE
IN TIMES OF STRUGGLE
JOIN RABBI DANIEL & THE REVEREND GARY
Wednesday, May 26 - 7:30pm

Starting a new clergy position often entails learning the customs of a community, getting to know the congregational family, settling into a new home etc. For Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg of Temple Israel and The Reverend Gary van der Meer, Rector at St John the Evangelist Anglican Church, their new beginnings also included a global pandemic!

The unique challenges of “going virtual” have been trying at times, both have had to look to faith for strength – faith in one another, themselves and the Eternal. One year in, let’s learn about the traditional textual sources that have given them hope and grounding.

This is the advance preparation video for our shared study on Zoom. For our discussion here, we invite you to observe our process and dialogue on the texts we have chosen:

RABBI DANIEL MIKELBERG: Exodus 18
THE REVEREND GARY VAN DER MEER - Romans 8

We invite you to prepare for the shared interactive study by considering the following texts:

RABBI DANIEL MIKELBERG: Psalm 121
THE REVEREND GARY VAN DER MEER: Isaiah 55

Pre-Register to Participate in this Shared Study by emailing:

We invite you to grow in learning and friendship,

Daniel Mikelberg - Temple Israel, Ottawa
Gary van der Meer - St John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Ottawa
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

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!"
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