Holy Week and Easter Services
As we come to the end of Holy Week, there will be several additional worship services and chances for us to pray together as a community. All worship services will be in-person and online. Click here to visit our online worship page to join in worship from home.
Good Friday Worship Service
Today at 7:30 p.m.
This is a powerful service of darkness, with the reading of the Passion narrative, featuring the St. John’s Chancel Choir with special guest musicians: Olga Perez Flora, mezzo-soprano, Ruxandra Marquardt, violinist, Kimberly Fredenburgh, violist, and Joel Becktell, cellist.
Saturday Holy Vigil
Saturday at 6:00 p.m.
Join us as we create prayer stations journeying to the cross with Jesus, Saturday at 6 p.m. At 9 p.m. the youth will begin their night watch as we pray hourly until Easter morning. This is not a traditional worship service, but rather a time for reflective prayer, and will not be live-streamed.
Easter Sunday Worship Services
8:15 and 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Come celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with a traditional worship service in our Sanctuary. These services will feature choir, organ and the UNM Faculty Brass Quintet.
9:30 a.m. in the Family Life Center
This is a contemporary Easter service, featuring music from St. John's Praise Band.
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Join Us for Easter Sunday Lunch
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.
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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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"Music at St. John's" Concert April 24
“Music at St. John’s” presents soprano Adrienne Danrich, in recital with pianist Amy Greer on Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m. Praised by Opera News as having “a voice like fresh liquid silver,” Ms. Danrich is fresh from appearances at Lincoln Center and San Francisco Opera. Her Albuquerque program will include music of Rachmaninov, Wagner, and Boito, as well as Broadway standards and African-American spirituals, and will also feature the St. John’s Chancel Choir! You can enjoy the concert live or by livestream There is no admission charge, but a free will offering will be gratefully received. More information at musicatstjohns.org.
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Bible Sunday is April 24
Bible Sunday will be Sunday, April 24 during all 3 services. Please also let Pastor Tiffany know at which service your child would like to be presented with their Bible.
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Next Mountain Cathedrals Hike on April 30
Join Mountain Cathedrals on our next hike on Saturday, April 30. We will enjoy a morning hike in the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, a section of the Rio Grande Bosque east of the river and about a mile north of the Isleta Resort. We will meet in the St. John's east parking lot at 8 a.m. and plan to be back by 12:30 p.m. Details including location are tentative, more information will be coming next week. Please contact Mike Furnish (505-884-6626; mdfurnish@comcast.net) for more information.
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Bible Study on the Gospel According to Luke Starts May 2
Join the St. John's email Bible study as we read through the Gospel of Luke. Who was Luke? Where did he get his information? How does his gospel differ from the other three? What stories and parables of Jesus are only found in the third gospel? These and other questions will be the focus of a study beginning on May 2.
The email Bible study originated in 2007 at St. John’s and is our largest continuing Bible study. About half of our fellow-readers belong to other UMC congregations and to other denominations around the world. A scripture passage and a brief study tip are distributed to most participants by email five days a week. The study tips are made available outside our walls through an archive at www.daily-bible-study-tips.com. We each read at a time and place of our own choosing. Answers to reader questions and other supplements occasionally come out on Saturdays. To receive daily study tips by email, write or call Regina Hunter at drhunter@nmia.com or 294-2877, or you may pick up a study guide in the Welcome Center on May 1.
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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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Hosanna to the Living Lord!
A Palm Sunday Reflection by Dee Billops
Palm Sunday has a special place in my heart. I went totally blind after a stroke hit my optic nerves 14 years ago. There was no pain, no blinding light. One day I just woke up and could not see! I told myself that if the cat was not sitting on my face, something had happened to me during the night. The cat was not sitting on my face. Five surgeries on my eyes over the course of a year, and I regained some sight but it was all shades of gray and people’s features were fuzzy.
Then came Palm Sunday. I was preaching at a small church in the South Valley. Something was different. I walked in and looked around. I SAW GREEN! I saw green palms and green altar clothes and green plants! I could not contain my excitement and started yelling “I SEE GREEN!” A nice lady came up and said “Yes dear. It is Palm Sunday, so there is a lot of green today. Do you think it is too much?” I started twirling around. “You don’t understand. Once I was blind, but now I see. I can see color; I see green!”... click here to read the full article.
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Interested in a Business Manager Position with the Church?
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. 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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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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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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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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