SCRIPTURE READINGS
Acts 1:1-11; Psalms 47; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53
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TO REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Those On Our Hearts
Brigid, Mike, Judith, Bruce, Bashira, Gillian, Nellie, Andrew, Stephen, Michelle, Liz, Michael, Michael, The Reverend Tim Taylor and the parish of St Anne's, Toronto, The Reverend Gary van der Meer, The Reverend Dr. Caroline Ducros, Gordon, Gregory and all who minister at St John's.
Our Diocese
St Bede’s Nolan’s Corners, The Venerable Brian Kauk and The Reverend Canon Mary Ellen Berry.
All custodial staff serving within the parishes and ministries of the Diocese of Ottawa and vocations to the diaconate, priesthood and religious life.
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 clergy and people of St Peter’s Church, Birzeit, West Bank and Archbishop Hosam Naoum.
Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
The Right Reverend Michael Oulton, Bishop, and the clergy and people of the Diocese of Ontario.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)
Bishop Syd Haugen, the people and rostered ministers of the Saskatchewan Synod.
Our Sisters and Brothers in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and their Bishop, Michael Pryse.
Parish Prayer Group
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SPECIAL 8AM SERVICE
Ascension Sunday
Sunday, May 16 at 8am
This Ascension Sunday, in addition to the 9:30am Video on YouTube, you are invited to a live Zoom service at 8:00am. This brief worship service - in the language of the Book of Common Prayer as customary at the St John's 8:00am service - will include the Ascension readings and prayers followed by visiting. Bring your coffee for the whole service!
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SUNDAY SERVICE
Ascension Sunday
Sunday, May 16 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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LOOKING TO TEXTS FOR COURAGE
IN TIMES OF STRUGGLE
Wednesday, May 26th - 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 event will include an advance video and a shared bible study on Zoom for members of Temple Israel and St John the Evangelist - and friends. Register in advance to receive the Zoom Link by sending an email to gary.vandermeer@stjohnsottawa.ca.
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BISHOP'S GALA 2021
Thursday, May 27 at 7pm
The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa is pleased to present the 38th Annual Bishop’s Gala & Silent Auction virtually in 2021!
This event will be raising funds for two initiatives serving vulnerable children and their families in Africa and the Middle East:
All Mothers and Children Count is a comprehensive health, food security, and nutrition program in rural Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Mozambique undertaken by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund in partnerships with local agencies in each country. This initiative addresses a high rate of malnutrition among children (94%) and enables the distribution of food programs to HIV-positive women, pregnant and lactating women, and malnourished children. A Covid-19 Extension Fund is now in place to ensure that effective PPE and medical support are available for medical staff serving the mothers and children. Of significant interest is that Global Affairs Canada will be matching donations 6:1 until the end of June!
Virtual Therapy for Disabled Children is an urgently needed service of the Jerusalem Princess Basma Center – a ministry of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem that serves disabled Palestinian children who live in the West Bank, most of whom are Muslim. The Center is the only treatment option for these children, but poverty, conflict, and travel restrictions make it very difficult to get to Jerusalem. The Center’s virtual care model of therapy enables 150 children and their families to receive assistance from a multi-disciplinary team. The cost of providing this service to one child is $1,600 a month.
The purchase of your ticket includes a swag bag hand-delivered to your home and early access to our silent auction! The show will be streamed live on Facebook & YouTube; links will be emailed out to all ticket holders and donors prior to the event. Please click the link below for more information and to purchase tickets.
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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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PWRDF RESPONDS TO INDIA
PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, black-market oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region are working night and day to provide emergency services and relief, including the Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA).
Parishioners can donate online at https://pwrdf.org/give-today/. Go to Emergency response and indicate funds are for INDIA. Or call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083. Thank you for your support.
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BILL C-15: UNDRIP
United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Bill C-15 has passed the House of Commons and is now before the Senate for their consideration and, hopefully, approval. Bill C-15 would begin the process of aligning Canadian law with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - UNDRIP. The Government of Canada sees this as a key step in renewing Canada’s relationship with our Indigenous peoples. The Bill follows Bill C-262 which MP Romeo Saganash introduced to the House of Commons in December 2015. It successfully passed the House of Commons but died in the Senate when an election was called in 2019.
Time is short before Parliament will rise in June. An election will likely take place in the fall so there is some urgency to contact and persuade Senators to pass the UNDRIP legislation quickly and not run out the clock. With the Bishop’s support the diocesan All My Relations Working Group is encouraging Anglicans to write a supportive letter to the Senators. The Truth & Reconciliation Commissioners strongly support the legislation and have urged the churches to advise senators of their strong support for Bill C-15.
Please visit the Faith in Action Website for further information and a copy of a template letter. You can also find a copy of a letter Jane Maxwell wrote, with all the necessary email addresses at the link below. Feel free to use Jane Maxwell's letter and make the necessary changes of names and coordinates.
Thank you for your support. Our letters do count!
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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): Forest Bloom - Christine Binns;
Robin's Margherita Pizza - Barbara Dorrell; Hungry Baby Robins - Ian & Michelle.
(From Bottom Left): A Trinity of Wisdom - Reed Smith;
Forest Fowl - Alex Bissett; Neighbourhood Trees - Detlef Dransch.
(Title Photo: Turtle's Ascending - John Turner)
(Social Media Title Photo: Mud Lake - Alex Bissett
To see more submissions, check out our Facebook & Instagram pages!
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NEXT SUNDAY - MAY 23
PENTECOST SUNDAY
Acts 2:1-21; Psalms 104:25-35, 37b; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15
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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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