Bulletin Board

Sunday Services

and Week Day Services are listed in

Times of Services

 

Family Album Pictures

will be taken after church on Sundays

If your picture is not yet posted on the Family Album wall outside the Walter Lord Room - See Lynn Williams to get yours added there.

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Gentle Moves

a gentle dance, yoga and pilates class

taught by Suzanne Evans

Meets Wednesdays from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. 

In the Walter Lord Room  $5 per session.

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Thursdays

Adult Bible Study

Thursday Mornings 10 a.m.

Walter Lord Room

(Lower level of Parish Hall)

 

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Sundays

Adult Bible Study

Sundays at 9:30 a.m.

Bishop Spong Classroom

(Parish Hall Lower Level seen sign on door next to Walter Lord Room)

Read and discuss lessons used at Sunday Services. This is a relatively informal group. You may join it any Sunday

Bring the Sunday Bulletin with you to this discussion group.

 

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Sunday Morning

Adult Education & Discussion

Sundays

12:00 noon to 12:45 p.m.

(Rooms on Parish Hall Lower Level: near Walter Lord Room: See Signs which identify classrooms)

 

Current Offerings

Adult Study Groups 12:00 noon to 12:45 p.m.

Sunday Cinema: View a ten minute DVD from the Nooma series by Rob Bell. The DVD introduces a Christian perspective on the spiritual direction in our lives. Discuss these topics and “issues that we care about, that we want to talk about, …”  Facilitated by Stacey Miner.

        A New Christianity: Bishop John Shelby Spong is a best selling author and major spokesperson for reframing Christianity for the 21st Century. Discuss the challenging issues raised in Bishop Spong’s weekly internet question and answer series. Facilitated by Carol Brothers and Rob Petersen.

        Social Issues: 3rd Sunday of each Month facilitated by Bill Roberts. Next Session June 15, 2008

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ST. JOHN’S-GRACE ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION

 

·         First & Third Sundays of each month at 7:30 p.m. - Adult Discussion Group

the Sunday Night
ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP
First and Third Sundays of each month
7:30 p.m.

Meeting dates in August are Sundays: August 3rd and August 17th

(Note: August 17th book for discussion is noted below the schedule for reading the Pagan Christ.

The Pagan Christ

by Tom Harpur

 

Starting on Sunday, April 6, the Sunday Night Adult Discussion Group at St. John’s-Grace will be starting a new book, The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur. Harpur is a former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and New Testament at the University of Toronto. Publisher’s Weekly says of this book, “A radical reinterpretation not just of the Bible but of the nature of the Christian faith and its links to the world’s great spiritual traditions.”

 

The Pagan Christ explores the origins of Christianity in a variety of faith traditions of the ancient world. Harpur highlights the following quotation from St. Augustine: “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian.” (from Retractiones)

 

Come join us as we seek a deeper and more balanced understanding of our own faith tradition. Our first discussion session will be at 7:30 p.m. on April 6 downstairs in the Walter Lord Room. Then discussion continues at 7:30 p.m. on the first and third Sunday evenings of each month  –  approximately one chapter per session. Come to all or any of these discussions. We want to hear your views whether or not you agree with the author. The rules for discussion require that everyone’s ideas are their own, and no one’s ideas should be criticized or dismissed. So come and tell us yours!

 

Copies of the book are available from Rob Petersen for $12.00, or call the church office at 885-1112. Here’s the schedule for discussion..

 

 

4/6   Chapters 1 and 2: A Bible Story I’d Never Heard Before and Myths Aren’t Fairy Tales

4/20 Chapter 3: Christianity before Christianity

5/4   Chapter 4: How a Spiritual Christianity Become a Literalist Christianity

5/18 Chapter 5: It Was All Written Before -- in Egypt

6/1   Chapter 6: Convincing the Skeptics

6/15 Chapter 7: The Bible – History or Myth?

7/6   Chapter 8: Seeing the Gospels with New Eyes

7/20 Chapter 9: Was There a Jesus of History?

8/3   Chapter 10: The Only Way Ahead: Cosmic Christianity

Please read the portions of The Pagan Christ before the discussion session on Sunday evenings as listed above

The next book for this Adult Discussion Group will be Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice  by Curtiss Paul DeYoung

The schedule for reading this book will be announced soon

First Meeting for the discussion of this book will be on

Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Lord Room

The adult discussion group has also read

o        The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

o        The Kingdom of God Is within You by Leo Tolstoy

o        Living Buddha, Living Christ  by Thich Nhat Hanh

o        The Left Hand of God by Michael Learner

o        The I of the Storm by Gary Simmons

o        A People Called Episcopalians, A Brief Introduction to Our Peculiar Way of Life by The Rev. Dr. John H. Westerhoff

o        Original Blessing by Matthew Fox

o        The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg

o        A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying and How a New Faith is Being Born by Bishop John Shebly Spong

o        Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels

o        Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon

o        Why Christianity Must Change or Die by Bishop John Shelby Spong


The conversation has been stimulating, revealing, wide-ranged, unorthodox, deeply personal, challenging, reassuring, and very rewarding.

The group will continue to meet on the first and third Sundays of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Lord Room (downstairs in parish hall).

Please read at least the chapter(s) of the book according to the schedule above.

Come and join us for any or all of these sessions. The rules for discussion allow each to present her or his own ideas without criticism from the other participants. We crave a wide range of views, so come and tell us yours! For more information contact Carol Brothers (carolbros@adelphia.net) or John Schimminger (johnwschimminger@hotmail.com).

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CHOIR

REHEARSAL

Will Resume in September

Thursdays

7:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Talk to David Mathewson, Organist/Choir Director for more details

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National Night Out

Tuesday

August 5, 2008

7:00 p.m.

Pot Luck Supper

&

Pork Sandwich

$2.00

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Elwood Festival of the Arts

Saturday and Sunday

August 23 and 24, 2008

Saint John’s-Grace will have a booth

At this festival

On Breckenridge Street

Come to the Festival

And stop at the SJ-G Booth

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PRAYER CHAIN

Tuesday August 26, 2008

7:00 p.m.

In the Church

And the 4th Tuesday of each month thereafter

 

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FOOD FAIR

Saturday

September 20, 2008

11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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DIOCESAN YOUTH CONFERENCES

Senior High: June 29 to July 5, 2008

Junior High: August 10 – August 16, 2008

Sleep Away Camp: August 20 – August 23, 2008

Contact: Jay Phillippi at

jayphillippi@episcopalwny.org

or call Saint John’s-Grace Office: 885 - 1112

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Dream Work

Workshop

Jeremy Taylor

October 18, 2008

The book by the same title and author is

Available for $12 at the Church Office

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Stewardship Campaign

Pledges for 2008

Campaign in November and December 2007

Letters went out Monday, November 19, 2007

 

As of 3/16/08

59 pledges received pledging $94,807 for 2008

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