Welcome

Welcome to St. John’s Episcopal Church! Holy Eucharist is celebrated on Sundays at 8:00 am & 10:00 am.  Choral Evensong is offered on the first Sunday of each month at 4:00 pm, during the academic year.  (Nursery care is provided during the 10:00 am service and during Choral Evensong).      

Since 1835, the Parish of St. John’s has been worshiping and serving God, both from within our Church family and within our community of Bangor, Maine.  We conduct traditional Episcopal services in our historic gothic building high atop State Street Hill at 225 French Street.  We have a notable choir who has a reputation for fine music-making in the Anglican choral tradition.  Please join us as we worship in prayer and song!        

Announcements

The 2009 Annual Report will soon be available online.  To view Click Here.

Shortly before sundown on Tuesday, January 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. The quake was centered about ten miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. At least 28 aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or greater shook the country in the hours immediately following the quake. Episcopal Relief & Development has reached out to its Haitian partners in an effort to determine the extent of the damage and coordinate a swift response. “Even under ‘normal’ circumstances, Haiti struggles to care for her 9 million people. The nation is the poorest in the western hemisphere, and this latest disaster will set back many recent efforts at development,” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a statement Wednesday morning. “I urge your concrete and immediate prayers in the form of contributions to Episcopal Relief & Development, who are already working with the Diocese of Haiti to send aid where it is most needed.”To donate to the Haiti Fund, visit www.er-d.org or call 1-800-334-7626, ext. 5129. Gifts can be mailed to Episcopal Relief & Development, PO Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058. Please put “Haiti Fund” in the memo line of all checks.

Further efforts to assist Haiti will be forthcoming. Please contact Ann Holland Faulkner.

 

Annual Meeting Reminder: Next Sunday January 31st is our Annual Meeting following the 10 O’clock service. Lunch will be provided by the Vestry. To look at a draft of the Annual Report go to stjohnsbangor.org and click on the link in the announcements section.

 

Renovation of the kitchen pantry. Please help Michael Keim raise the money for this Eagle Scout project by bringing your bottles to church next Sunday. If you would like Mike to pick up your bottles up please e-mail him @ michael.keim@hotmail.com or call him @ 991-8885.

The next meeting of St. John's Women's Book Group will be Tuesday, January 26th, 7:00 pm, at the home of Erliene Clayton, 15 Longwood Court, Orono; we will be reading The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. Book group contact is Beth Brand, 866-3521.

 

Canned goods are needed for the food pantry of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter. St. John’s has collected items for the pantry for many years and our efforts continue.  Please add one or two things each week to your regular shopping list, items that will help meet the needs of others. Just bring in your contributions and place them in the box that is located in the back of the Church.

 

Last week St. John’s Parishioner’s contributed $2403.00 to Haiti Relief. This amount doesn’t include the donations that people sent directly to Erd using the form that was provided in last week’s bulletin.

 

Thank you to Arlene Fletcher, Ann Wilbanks and Fran Mitchell who helped with the Martin Luther King reception; thanks to those that provided the desserts, Jen Wilson, Lura Williams, Betty Cobb, Pauline Conners, Jane Zenk, Arlene, Ann and Fran. Thank You!! Nancy Henry

 

Do you have a special birthday, anniversary or a special loved one you would like to remember by sponsoring the altar flowers? If so please call the church office 947-0156 or Eileen Irwin 862-5593.