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Potluck Sunday!
This Sunday we have the following events at St. John’s:
10:00 am – our regularly scheduled Christian Formation (Sunday school)
11:00 am – Holy Eucharist (Communion)
Potluck after the 11:00 am Holy Eucharist. Hamburgers and hot dogs will be provided. Please consider a side dish or dessert!
Funeral Service for Ken Phillips
It is with great sadness that we share that Ken Phillips passed away recently.
Visitation is at Hart Funeral Home, Monday, February 6, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. The funeral service will be at 2:00 pm, also at Hart Funeral Home, with a graveside service to follow.
A reception will be held for the Phillips family and others after the service at St. John’s.
January 16 service Zoom only
The January 16 Christian Formation gathering and service of Morning Prayer has been transitioned to Zoom only because of inclement weather. You may join the service with the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84383934476?pwd=bFAzNUpCSWY1c0dNakFCcEJWTUxyZz09
Christian Formation will begin at 10:00 am and the service of Morning Prayer will begin at 11:00 am.
Suspension of In-Person Worship
There had been a hope to begin moving toward in-person worship. However, the recent local and state-wide increase in COVID-19 diagnoses has prompted the vestry to decide to suspend in-person worship for at least another two weeks.
This Sunday, October 25, and Sunday, November 1, we will continue to gather on Zoom only. This Sunday will be a service of Morning Prayer with Spiritual Communion. The next Sunday will be a service of Morning Prayer.
The vestry and worship team will re-examine the safety and advisability of a limited gathering in-person after the November 1 Sunday service.
This is not an easy decision as the desire to gather in-person is strong within our community. However, we will continue to offer opportunities to gather and pray on Sundays at 11:00 am and Wednesday at 6:00 pm through Zoom. A service of Compline is also offered on Friday nights at 7:00 pm on the Facebook page.
The links to access these services is available on the front page of http://www.stjohnscorbin.org
COVID-19 Resources
Tracey Herzer Huston developed some short resource sheets about COVID-19. These sheets focus on Pastoral Care in the Time of Coronavirus, Talking with Kids about Coronavirus, and Tips for Staying Home.
You can view and download these resource sheets from the St. John’s Episcopal Church website. There is a menu link as well as a COVID-19 banner on the front page.
You can also navigate directly these resources from http://stjohnscorbin.org/?page_id=157175
Evening Prayer commemorating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please join us on Monday evening, January 20, at 6:00 pm as we gather in prayer to commemorate the life and ministry of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Evening Prayer 11-27-2019
As a number of people who usually attend Evening Prayer on Wednesday evenings will be traveling or out of town this Wednesday, the decision was made to cancel the Evening Prayer service for November 27. If you know of someone who regularly attends but may not see this message, please reach out to them to let them know.
As a side note, we are not a community of monks, but as a community of worship and prayer, we can take inspiration from some aspects of monastic practice. The Rule of St. Benedict, chapter 50, addresses the situation of community members working at a distance or traveling at the prescribed times of communal worship in the following manner:
Brothers who work so far away that they cannot return to the oratory at the proper time– and the abbot determines that is the case — are to perform the Work of God where they are, and kneel out of reverence for God. So too, those who have been sent on a journey are not to omit the prescribed hours but to observe them as best they can, not neglecting their measure of service.
When we cannot be at communal worship for a justifiable reason, a good practice would be to take a moment at the time of communal prayer and join the community in prayer from a distance. This can be as simple as a moment of silent prayer, the recitation of the Our Father, praying the Rosary, or grabbing a nearby copy of The Book of Common Prayer and praying the daily office prayers.
For all those who are traveling, may God bless your journeys and may you return safely to join your community of worship for Morning Prayer on Sunday!
Commemoration Service on Wednesday Evening
On Wednesday, October 30, St. John’s is hosting a special commemoration service to remember the 1919 Corbin Race Riot. Our evening worship service at 6:00 pm will include a candle light service with prayers of healing and reconciliation.