Good
News, Everyone!
Celebrate St Valentine's day with your
sweetie at St John's Saturday 11 February at 5 pm. Menu will
feature "dishes that we love", our favorite dinners and desserts.
Adults $12, children five and under, free.
January issue of Voice
in the Wilderness, our church newsletter
is here! See photos of the Christmas Pageant and read Walt's eulogy of
Freddie Boughton.
Condolences go out to Babs and Hank Croteau as well as
extended family and friends on the passing of Babs’ mother Bea
Baxter on January 8.
Explore Epiphany
themes in our Lectionary Bible Study:
Join us Tuesday
evenings at 7 pm in the rectory for our Lectionary Bible Study. Prepare
to be inspired as we unpack the riches of the scriptures to be read the
next Sunday morning!
As these photos
show, our belltower is
badly in need of repair. We have received generous donations
from the New York Landmarks
Conservancy, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Trinity
Wall Street,
and many parishioners and friends. Recent gifts in the memory of Bea
Baxter and Fred Boughton have brought the total to $47,500.
Read Fr John's Sermon
of 13 November.
Divine Reading/ Contemplative Prayer Group:
Put Wednesdays at 3 pm on your calendar and gather with us in the
rectory for the Divine Reading/Centering Prayer Group. This
meditative approach to scripture will bring peace to your soul.
Sunday School classes have begun, with an exciting new
program. Contact Wendy
Langois if you would like your child enrolled.
At the Annual Meeting, we elected new members
of the Vestry. See the Leadership
of the church for the next term.
If you would like to receive occasional emails
from Fr John on church activities, request a subscription at info@stjohnw.org.
Have
you checked the St John's Photobook? Several new faces have been
added. Welcome all!
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Jesus and his disciples went to Capernaum; and
when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. They were
astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority,
and not as the scribes. Just then there was in their synagogue a man
with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, "What have you to do with us,
Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the
Holy One of God." But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come
out of him!" And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a
loud voice, came out of him.
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