Family Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is on Saturday, April 9, at 1 p.m. We will meet in the Family Life Center, but weather permitting, we will hold the hunt outside. All children are welcome, invite your friends and family! Bring your baskets, friends, and cameras! We need help from our youth to prepare the hunt and help the young kids find eggs, so please let Pastor Tiffany know if you're interested in helping.
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Palm Sunday Journey to Chimayo on Sunday
Palm Sunday journey to Chimayo - Please join the youth as we take a holy journey to the Sanctuario de Chimayo on Palm Sunday. We will leave the church at 2 p.m., Sunday April 10. Please contact Pastor Tiffany (thollums@stjohns-abq.org) if you are interested in joining us (we are looking for parents who would volunteer to drive) or if you need a permission form. There will be no Youth Group at 4 p.m. that Sunday.
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St. John's Jammers Takes a Break
There will be no St. John's Jammers gathering on Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday. Our next gathering will be Sunday April 24, at 2:30 p.m. It is the last Sunday of April so we will focus on the ukulele, but as always all instruments are welcome.
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Jolly Elders Meet April 13
Our next meeting of Jolly Elders will be on Wednesday, April 13, at 11 a.m. in Room 245. Adults of all ages are cordially invited to come to our next meeting of Jolly Elders, where we will have Shauna Frost, Executive Director of Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque as our program speaker. Her program topic will be: “The Mission of Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque". Nationally, Meals on Wheels has been guided by a single goal since the first known U.S. delivery by a small group of Philadelphia citizens in 1954 – to support our senior neighbors to extend their independence and health as they age.
The meeting will end by Noon to allow everyone to depart church for lunch elsewhere. Wearing facemasks are now optional in Room 245 at the meeting. But if you wish to visit the Church Office wearing a facemask is still required there. Due to new church security regulations for this weekday mid-day meeting, everyone must park their vehicles and enter St. John's United Methodist Church on the west side (the 2626 Arizona Street NE side) of the church.
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POLO is Back! Meets on April 19
We encourage you to join us as we "wheel on down" to The Wheels Museum, located at the Railyards (1100 2nd Street SW), on Tuesday, April 19. We'll meet at the museum at 10 a.m., and Leba Freed, president of the museum, will provide a short presentation prior to our tour. Parking at the museum is somewhat limited, so you may want to arrange carpooling with others. There is no admission fee, but the museum relies heavily on donations, so please consider what you can give. For those interested in "doing lunch" after the museum, we'll let our wheels take us over to the Sawmill Market, 1909 Bellamah Ave. NW, which offers a variety of food courts and plenty of dining areas. POLO is "Persons of Leisure and Others", so if you fall into that category, please join us for some reminiscing about where the wheels of our lives have taken us! We'd like to know how many people to expect, so please sign up on the "Wheels Museum" sign-up sheet in the Hospitality Center. "Wheels" hope to see you there!
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Holy Saturday Easter Vigil on April 16
Join us as we create prayer stations journeying to the cross with Jesus. Saturday, April 16 the congregation is invited at 6 p.m. At 9 p.m. the youth will begin their night watch as we pray hourly until Easter morning. Youth are also invited to come early on that Saturday at 2 p.m. to help hide eggs for the Easter egg hunt and then stay through the Easter Vigil. Youth will stay through the night and then wake up early Easter morning to shower at the church and attend and sing at the 8:15 a.m. service.
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Bible Sunday is April 24
Please email Pastor Tiffany at thollums@stjohns-abq.org if you would like to receive a 3rd grade Bible. We are offering this also to 4th and 5th graders who missed receiving their Bibles due to COVID! Bible Sunday will be Sunday, April 24 during all 3 services, so please also let Pastor Tiffany know at which service your child would like to be presented with their Bible.
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Free Summer Caregiver Stress-Busting Program
Do you provide care for a loved one living with a chronic illness? Western Sky Community Care along with UT Health San Antonio are offering a free, online, 9-week course for families or individual caregivers of adults living with chronic illnesses. The program will teach stress management techniques, and relaxation and coping strategies. This program is in a small, closed group setting, and is offered several times throughout the summer. Click here for more information.
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Interested in a Business Manager Position with the Church?
Dear St John’s Family,
As many of you know, Janice McCrary is retiring as the Executive Director/Business Manager. She has been an essential part of St John’s tremendous success in overcoming the challenges of the last 5 years, sustaining us through the pandemic, while enabling the trustees to rebuild the church infrastructure and the staff to create our vibrant virtual ministries.
We have been truly blessed to have her vision and leadership, expertise and commitment to task guiding and underpinning our church and ministries. However, she has other priorities that require her attention and we have delayed her departure already. Janice came to us from the congregation and we would love to have another congregant succeed her in the critical staff position of the Business Manager.
So if you have experience with finance and budgets, staff and payroll, or a strong interest in developing these, we want to talk to you. Please contact Stan Mortimer (srmortimer1@gmail.com), Pastor Randall, Joy in the office or send an email to SPRC@stjohns-abq.org.
Also if you are interested helping in this transition but past the wage earning point in your life, we may also need you so please let us know.
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Mobile Food Pantry Manager Needed
The search is underway for a St. John's Mobile Food Pantry manager, to replace Beth and Don Zerwekh, who have faithfully served in this position for several years. Our St. John's Mobile Food Pantry is scheduled for the third Saturday of each month, and the time commitment is approximately 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. On pantry day, the duties include: being available when the Roadrunner delivery truck arrives around 9 or 9:30 a.m.; supervising the placement of food in the FLC; working with volunteers; overseeing the loading of food into clients' cars; minimal follow-up paperwork, and communicating with Roadrunner Food Bank, as needed. The completion of a simple, online food training course is required. Substitutes are available if the manager is out-of-town or on vacation. Beth and Don will be available until August to help train a new manager, but we'd like to get that person(s) on-board, as quickly as possible, to allow time for training. For questions, please contact Beth at craftylady2331@comcast.net.
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New Series by Pastor Tiffany: Soul Care
Associate Pastor Tiffany Hollums has begun a new article series on our blog called Soul Care in Trying Times. In these articles, Pastor Tiffany discusses different difficulties that we face in our lives like loneliness, grief, and anxiety, and the ways we can handle these situations and turn to God. Click here to read her first article, "Soul Care: You Are Not Alone" and check out our blog for this series and others series written by our pastors and congregation members.
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Frank Roberts Has Passed
Frank Roberts, St. John's member since 1978, passed away on April 2, 2022 at the age of 98 years old. Frank has no close remaining family other than his cousin Cliff Osburg who lives in Texas. Anyone who would like to send condolences can send cards to St. John’s (2626 Arizona St. NE, Albuquerque, 87110) and we will pass them along to Cliff.
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Join Us for Easter Sunday Lunch
The St. John’s Food Ministry is getting back to having dinners at the church! Come enjoy mouth watering SlowRoasted Pit Ham Carved to Order by Chef Tim and his Kitchen Crew in the Family Life Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Easter Sunday. Just $12 for adults, $6 for ages 12-17, $3 for ages 5-11, and under 5 is free. Bring your family and friends, and enjoy fellowship around the dinner table as a church family.
With the Covid disruption, we have lost touch with many of our regular Food Ministry volunteers. Please sign up to help by clicking on this link: Easter Church Dinner April 2022 or text or call Nancy Douglas de Baca at 505-238-5895.
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Care and Communion Team
We are forming two new teams to help us to care for one another well: a Care team and Communion Team.
The Care team: we will meet once a month as a team to check in on our elderly/homebound and check in on these special people in our church family either through calls, visits, or even writing notes. There are so many ways to care and serve.
The Extend the table Communion Team: We want to intentionally 'extend the table' of Communion with those who worship with us online or are homebound. If you are interested in delivering communion, helping offer drive through Communion, or putting together the Communion packs-please contact Pastor Tiffany.
If you are interested in joining the Care team or the Communion team please contact Pastor Tiffany at thollums@stjohns-abq.org.
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The GLAD Project
We will be delivering Gladiola bouquets to our elderly and homebound once the 'glads' bloom under Dale Amend's loving care! If you are interested in helping to create and/or deliver some 'gladness'-please contact Pastor Tiffany at thollums@stjohns-abq.org.
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Prayer Shawls are Back
With the Covid shutdown, the Prayer Shawls were not available. But now, the basket is back in the Hospitality Center and we welcome anyone to pick one up for someone who needs to know we care. We never quit knitting, so please stop by and surprise a friend or loved one with a shawl.
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Lenten Offering: Special Offering for April
Lent is the time of preparation, a time of sacrifice, a time of renewed focus on God, a time of giving. Traditionally at St. John's, the Lenten Offering goes to support many and varied local ministries. In the past we have supported such ministries as, the Mobile Food Pantry, Hopeworks, the Ramp Project, Asbury Pie Cafe, Wesley House, McCurdy Ministries, Barrett House, Silver Horizons, Zuni School, lunch bags for the homeless and many more.
During the pandemic these past two years, St. John's has been very generous in supporting ministries that help our community, the need being greater than ever. So as we think of Jesus's great sacrifice for us, may we sacrifice in our own small way and continue to give generously to those in need.
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Generous Love for Silver Horizons
We all know that Silver Horizons supplies much-needed food to low-income seniors in our community, and they occasionally receive grant money to help with those purchases. But, grant money is strictly designated for food purchases only, which means that non-food supplies that the seniors need must come from other sources . . . us, for example! Therefore, in April, we're hoping to fill the shelves at Silver Horizons with new, full-size hygiene products: shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, denture cleaner, toothpaste, toothbrushes, lotion, and disposable razors. Please place your donations in the wire bins located in the Hospitality Center anytime during the month, and we'll promptly deliver them to Silver Horizons. (Please remember that we cannot use products that have been opened and/or partially used). Jesus teaches us generous love --- here's our chance to respond out of gratitude to God! Thank you for your donations.
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Zuni Summer Reading Blessing
We are collecting children's books for kids from Zuni Elementary for summer reading blessing bags. Please bring new or gently used children/young adult books to the Hospitality center.
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These three prayer quilts are given with recognition and appreciation of the dedicated service and leadership to the following retiring chairpersons: Jim Hickman, Trustees; Karen Tidler, Staff-Parish Relations Committee; and Linn Reece, Church Council.
In lieu of tying knots, please pray this prayer (or your own prayer) for Jim, Karen, and Linn: "Father, we come to you in gratitude for Jim, Karen, and Linn who put in a vast number of hours to support the ministries, staff and congregation of St. John's. May you bless them as they find other ways to serve you in the church. Amen.”
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St. John's United Methodist Church
2626 Arizona Street NE | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110
Office Hours (call only): Monday - Thursday, 9a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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Pastor 24-Hour Hotline | (505)585-5435
Pastor care is available for after hours emergencies. Any congregational care needs, please send those to Pastor Tiffany at thollums@stjohns-abq.org as we all work together to love one another well. Also, if you are interested in being a part of a congregational care team, please contact Pastor Tiffany.
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