Sunday Worship – We will conduct a hybrid worship this Sunday in the Parish Hall for worship and have taken steps to provide social distancing and safe worship. We have also set up to live-stream worship on our YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/OGOmv8Sa7bI.
Please consider assisting with in-person worship by reading a lesson or the Prayers of the People. Lessons will be read from the podium and the Prayers of the People may be read from your seat in church.
Vestry Election – David rotates off the Vestry at the end of December and we will need someone to replace him on the Vestry. Please pray about serving on the Vestry beginning in January 2021.
I Christmas worship – Bishop Susan Haynes and her staff will provide a worship service for the entire Diocese on the first Sunday of Christmas, December 27. The service will be Lessons and Carols with Communion. More information will be published in coming weeks.
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December 6, 2020, 10:30 am Holy Eucharist Rite II
Lessons for the Second Sunday of Advent
First Lesson: Isaiah 40:1-11
Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
Second Lesson: 2 Peter 3:8-15a
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8
Lay Participants
To be determined
Video from November 29: https://youtu.be/rSm4GGeE5JA
Sermon from November 29: https://chirb.it/hzNErk
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Updated COVID-19 Worship Guidance – The Bishop provided updated guidance regarding gathering for worship. The rector will monitor the percentage positivity figures and if conditions warrant, may suspend in-person worship.
2021 Pledge Cards – Please drop by the office to pick up your pledge card for 2021. It is an important part of the St. John’s budget process. Please submit your completed pledge card as soon as possible.
St. John’s YouTube Channel – As part of our practice during the COVID-19 Social Distancing time we created a YouTube Channel. For the moment, we share worship videos (both live stream and pre-recorded), but in the future we will connect classes and other offerings on the Channel. Our channel URL is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2QWNHHKVPYpp8mKcveYd5A
Soles-for-Souls – There is a collection box to help this worthy cause in the parish hall. Consider giving gently used or new shoes for those in need. For more information see their website: www.soles4souls.org.
Thought for the week – Promise: In a moment when things are bleak, when the future is unbearable, when all that is left is a dead, lifeless stump, Isaiah reminds God’s people that God will act, that a shoot shall come out of the stock of Jesse. This, after all, is the way of God. Life does emerge from death. Hope does spring up, when all seems hopeless. God will act, and righteousness and justice will be restored.
– Br. James Koester, SSJE
Society of Saint John the Evangelist
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Upcoming Events:
Online calendar: http://stjohnsepiscopal-suffolk.org/parish-calendar/
Online events listing: http://stjohnsepiscopal-suffolk.org/events/
Mon. Dec. 21st * Vestry Meeting – 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Thu. Dec. 24th * Christmas Eve Service – 5:00 pm
Sun. Dec. 27th * 1 Christmas service – Diocesan Staff
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PASTORAL CARE
For Michael, our presiding bishop; Susan our bishop; Jay our assisting bishop; and for Les, our priest.
Meriwether, Allen, Lon, Virginia, Jimmye, Richard, Carolyn, Diane, Ann, Patti, Bob, Lawrence, Kim and family, Catherine, John, Vicky-Ann, Casey, Tim, Marvin, the Frohman family, the Terry and family, David, David, Carolyn, Ann, Leone, Fr. Les, Carroll, Charles, Faye, Flint, and Margaret, Fred and family, Bryan & Abby and their children.
Serving in the Armed Forces and Overseas: Alexander, Leon, Alan, Sheldon & Elizabeth, and Bryan.
Parish Cycle of Prayer: Claudia
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury). The Rt. Rev. Carlos López-Lozano – Bishop of Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church.
Birthdays in December
Marcella 02 Fr. Les 08
Burr 18 Jim 19
Will 28 Susan 30
Anniversaries in December
George & Patricia 17 Don & Marcella 17
Shannon & Dotty 20 John & Elizabeth 28
Steven and Susan 30
If you are in need of Pastoral Care
Please call Father Ferguson.
Home: 757-484-8409
Minister of Music: Roger Peyton
YouTube Channel: St. John’s Chuckatuck
Website: http://StJohnsEpiscopal-Suffolk.org
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