St. John's Episcopal Church

 St. John’s Episcopal Church 

 

Lenten Tidbits: “Jesus is the revelation of God’s unending, unconditional love for us human beings.  Everything Jesus has done, said, and undergone is meant to show us that the love we most long for, the love that will complete us is given to us by God alone, not because we deserve it, but because God longs for us; because God is the God of love and we can do nothing and achieve nothing to earn his love.  This pure and holy grace was freely offered from the Cross.”               Thomas Merton

 

We are having a service this year on Friday, March 25, at NOON, Feast of the Annunciation.  Rev. Russ Snapp will be our guest priest in the church.  Everyone is invited.

Social distancing will be practiced in church and temperature checks are available as you enter.  Ushers will direct congregation to the altar rail pew by pew for communion to promote social distancing.  Masks are required during singing.  The church is professionally sanitized each week using an ozone generator. Thank you for your help.

 

Dates to mark in your calendar:

Lenten midweek evening prayer each Wednesday at 5:30.

March 25….Feast of the Annunciation service at NOON (Rev. Russ Snapp)

April 10....Palm Sunday

April 13….Stations of the Cross at 5:30 pm in the church

April 14....Maundy Thursday service at 6:00 pm in the church

April 15....Good Friday service at noon in the church

 

WORSHIP AND EDUCATION NEWS:

Worship:  March 20, the Holy Eucharist, Rite I, with Rev. Teresa Cantrell

Readings: Third Sunday in Lent: Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9

 

PASTORAL NEWS:

Please keep the following in your prayers: Debra Richardson, Kathy Sullivan, Parker Pace, Courtney Turner, Jo Boone Wild, Kathleen Gibson, Cole Jefferies, Carol Spencer, Bonnie & Charles Rowland, Jo Liddy, Janet Juengel, Jim Howe, Cliff Clark, Sylvia Ross, Linda Dowling, Susan Taylor, and the families of Lisa Audirsch.  

 

OUTREACH NEWS: 

 

CHURCH OFFICE NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Memorial service for Lisa Audirsch will be 1:00 Thursday, March 17, at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery Pavilion.

March 16, Wed, at 5:30 pm, Lenten Evening Payer at St. John’s Episcopal Chapel

LEM:  Gina Miles

 

March 20, Sunday, at 10:30 at St. John’s Episcopal Church

Lay Eucharist Minister:  Ben Pittman

Acolyte: Ben Pittman

Altar Guild:  Maureen Jones

Ushers: Lorraine Ferryman & Brooke Tappan

Video - Facebook:  Melody Rogers

Altar Flowers:  Tait Owens

 

March 21, Monday, Vestry will meet in the undercroft at 5:30 pm.

 

Lenten Listening Wed. noon at FUMC. Walter Morris is speaker & music by Julian Johnson

 

Lilies order form attached.

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For those that cannot attend in person, there will be live streaming on Facebook. 

The link for Sunday service is:  https://www.facebook.com/   

Facebook Group:  Events and Pictures of St. John’s Episcopal Church; Helena, AR

 

St. John’s Church Office:     

Phone:  870-338-8115

Email:   office@saintjohnshelena.org