Todays Events at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church! Tues. (6/3) No Events - Have a Blessed Day! UPCOMING EVENTS for the Week of 6/1/2014 MORNING PRAYER & HEALING SERVICES are held each Wednesday at 10:00 am. Morning Prayer lasts approximately 30 minutes. The healing service follows with laying on of hands and prayers by a prayer team with a message of healing. FACES: Our journey continues with a look at Personal Prayer Life. The topic for June 4th is Classic Prayers of the Bible where we will review the fundamentals of prayer by matching them to prayers from people such as Abraham, Hannah, David, Moses, Miriam and Daniel. Grab your bible, a pen and paper and come join us from 7-8 PM for some lively discussion! Summer Reading Series: Join us on Sundays, June 8th – July 27th, from 2-4 PM as we dive into our 2014 Summer selection. The book for this year is Cold Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace. You can get it from Amazon for $9.00 on Kindle or $14.55 in paperback or call one of the local Christian bookstores for availability. Grab a copy, read through Chapter 2 and come share your thoughts! Baseball With the Bishop: Save The Date! August 29th 7 PM the Tampa Bay Rays vs the Boston Red Sox! Benefit is for Bishop’s Episcopal Charities Fund! Lower level seats are available to us this year. Only $20 per person (a $35 value)! We have procured a 60 seat bus to take us to the game in style! Only $10 per person for the bus. So, for $30 per person why don’t you leave the hassle at home and come join the St John the Divine family for a night out at the ballgame Tickets to reserve your spot on the Bus and at the Game go on sale Sunday June the 8th. See Allie Maiocchi. IMPORTANT INFORMATION for the Week of 6/1/2014 ALTAR GUILD We need dedicated women (and men) to serve in this ministry. Help is especially needed for the 8:00 am service. It requires one hour of your time preparing the altar on Saturday morning and a few minutes after the Eucharist on Sunday. Please call Pheme Webb if you are able to help. ALUMINUM CAN RECYCLING Drink more and bring the “aluminum” cans to church. Please place them in the recycling bin next to the dumpster. In the last twelve months the church has made over $1000.00 for recycled aluminum. With your help we can double that amount. If you have any questions or would like to help with this mission, please call Don Van Gelder ART WALL We need to replace the empty spaces on the Art Wall with your works. The art work will stay up for the remainder of the summer. Please call Ilene Hemingway to let me know what you have to hang and when you can bring it. ATTENTION ALL PARISHIONERS we need to know if any parishioner or family member of a parishioner is sent to the Hospital, to Assisted Living, or under Hospice care. Your Clergy, Eucharistic Ministers, and Pastoral Care Committee members would like to visit and would like to pray for you. Also, remember that Fr. Lee would be happy to visit with you and bring home Communion. Please call office at (813) 633-3970 with the information. THANK YOU!! COFFEE HOURS On behalf of the Sunday kitchen crews, we would be grateful if you would bring in some goodies now and then for our fellowship hours. Just leave your donation in the kitchen with a note that they are for Sunday. DIVINE DOLLAR Gift cards benefit SJTD as well as solving your gift giving needs. For more information, please call Elizabeth Frecks GRACE GARDEN Introducing our GRACE GARDEN KEEPERS: Team 1 - Wendy Smith, Dick Barrett, Sharon Rose, Dick Gingrich, Linda Barnum, Fred Dealaman. Team 2 - Pat and Don Wilbert, Joe and Maggie Pliska, Carrie Van Gelder, Greg and Kathy Bolduc, Jim Ray. We have two groups. Team 1 will work on Thursdays the FIRST and SECOND weeks of the month. Team 2 will work on Wednesdays, the THIRD and FOURTH weeks of the month. This way, no one will have too heavy a load to carry while sprucing up the garden and keeping it neat and good looking. We will be having a wine and cheese party in the garden at the end of the month. If you missed out on the first meeting of the teams and would like to help out, please sign up on the Garden Keepers sheet at the north counter. Don’t forget, Bricks will be ordered on the first week of the month. Envelopes are on the north counter. Our new bricks have just arrived. HAVE YOU RETURNED YOUR PLEDGE CARD? Remember, we will soon call a full time rector and must maintain the ministries which are the reason this parish exists. Everyone’s help is needed. Please return your pledge card at your earliest convenience. Cards are available at the office and the Church Welcome Center. ONLINE GIVING IS HERE Please visit stjohndivine for details OUTREACH is Episcopal Relief and Development. This year we will be contributing to the general fund because there have been so many disasters in this country as well as internationally. We trust the ERD knows who needs our help most. Please make your checks payable to St. John the Divine and write ERD on the note line. Thank you for your continuing generosity. PRAYER CHAIN When you want to request prayer, we have a team of people who will pray for you or those you love who are in need. Call Barbara Marafiote to have your request added to the prayer chain. Or, you can send her an email at the address shown in the church directory. We will pray for you for two (2) weeks – that is unless special needs continue beyond that time period – just let us know that. To have your name listed for prayer in the weekly bulletin, call the church office. PRAYER REQUESTS To make a request for prayers at services and in the bulletin please fill out a card at the Welcome Center or call the church office at (813) 633-3970. Yellow cards are for thanksgivings; blue cards for intercessions. Normally requests are for 2 Sundays. If you need longer time, please specify the date you would like the request removed or mark “indefinitely” then place your cards in the basket. Remember, honor, or give thanks with Altar flowers: your donation of $20 will provide two vases. Mark your date on the flower chart in the parish hall. Put a $20.00 donation in the Flower Envelopes (in the pew). On the envelope note the name of person(s) and/or occasion for which flowers are offered. Please be sure to write the date to correspond with the one selected on the Flower Chart. If simply making a donation to support the Altar Guild Flower Fund, just write DONATION at the top of the Flower Envelope. Please make your checks payable to SJTD and on the memo line indicate that your check is for altar flowers. Drop the envelope in the collection plate during the offering. Questions? Please call Yoniece Miller.. REVELATIONS If anyone is NOT getting Revelations or the E-Bulletin, please call the church office and/or Carole Del Castillo with your email address. SERVE AT THE ALTAR AS A LAY EUCHARISTIC MINISTER (LEM’s) are needed to assist the priest by administering the elements of Holy Communion and anointing with oil for healing. LEM’s may serve as an acolyte if none is present at a particular service. A consultation with Fr. Lee and approval by the Bishop is required. Please contact Thom Brown for more details. UPDATING YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION Please notify the office if your contact information has changed (telephone number, email address, etc.). URGENT NEED FOR USHERS Ushers are needed – especially for the 8:00 am service. Please call Ed Patrick at (813) 355-6598 for more information. VIDEO RECORDINGS (DVD’s) of the 11:00 am service are available, FREE OF CHARGE, each week for shut-ins. For more information call Allie Maiocchi AROUND THE DIOCESE FOR 6/1/2014 BISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL Please prayerfully consider making a financial gift to the Episcopal Charities and/or DaySpring Endowment Funds in support of our Diocesan vision to Honor our Tradition, Build for the Future, with Mercy in Mission. 10% of all Episcopal Charities gifts received will be used in the current year and 90% of each gift will go to build the permanent Endowment. The 2014 Bishop’s Annual Appeal is being directly mailed to supporting individuals on our mailing list. To read more about the ministry of these Endowment Funds, learn how you may join the growing numbers of supporting members or to donate online please go to episcopalswfl.org. Thank you for your prayerful consideration. SOUTHERN CROSS The Diocese has re-launched Southern Cross, which includes news, features and stories about the work of the Episcopal Church in Southwest Florida. The three-time yearly magazine is mailed free to members of parishes in the Diocese. If you did not receive a copy in the mail, and would like to, visit episcopalswfl.org/subscribe.html to complete and submit the online form. The magazine is also online and available as a PDF by going to the Diocesan home dioswfl.org then click on the SOUTHERN CROSS.
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