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A Meditation on Grace: Thirteen years ago Grace, our beloved Yorkipoo, entered my family’s world, and like God’s grace, turned our world upside down by offering unmerited favor and unconditional love. Two weeks ago our best friend Gracie crossed the rainbow bridge, and the most fitting headstone/Facebook engraving I could offer to sum up her…
“oo-koo-LEH-leh” = UKULELE Next month, St. John’s Episcopal Church will kick off an inaugural summer arts camp: UKULELE ADVENTURES 2022. From June 20th through the 24th, campers ranging in age from “rising” 2nd graders through Middle School, will have the opportunity to experience a week of music learning and mastery of this fun little instrument. Here are a few facts…
Spring has indeed arrived here at St. John’s Preschool. Our classes are taking walks around our beautiful grounds on scavenger hunts looking for signs of spring, bugs, flowers, and birds. The Three and Four Year Old classes will receive two lessons from the Creation Care Committee. This week the lesson was on “Birds and Their Beaks” and next…
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Four years ago Roxanne Johnson and I led a weekly Lenten study entitled “Becoming Beloved Community.” This was a relatively new term for us at St. John’s but we were guided by the Episcopal Church’s structure for a Lenten study by the same name. We provided weekly readings, videos and centered content from the podcast series…
Bulletin for Gail Goforth Calhoun
Look around. If you are in your kitchen right now, there’s probably a bit of treasure within finger tip reach. That slimy banana peel left over from breakfast? A greasy pizza box from lunch? Chicken bones from last night’s supper? Molded yogurt from who knows when? They all hold the promise of GOLD…black gold, that…
Learn to Create Ukrainian Easter Eggs (Pysanky) For thousands of years the Slavic people of Eastern Europe have decorated eggs. In Ukraine this art is known as Pysanky. In pre-Christian Ukraine these eggs were decorated in an effort to gain the good will of the many nature gods worshiped by the people. Egg designs were…
“I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.” Prayed during the Ash Wednesday liturgy, these words bid the church enter into Lent’s season. They are both beautiful and…