Mission’s Lunch Sunday - The Cantelon family - ANiC Missionaries in Jerusalem
Sunday, April 19th, after the 11 am service, please come and hear about the Cantelon family’s work in Jerusalem, where they will be working with Messianic Jews to establish churches in Israel. Everyone is welcome. Cost for the lunch is $5 per person, $10 per family.
Concert
You are invited to come and hear Jane Corrall performing. Jane will be performing in her Third Year Recital Monday, Apr 20 at 6:00 pm in the UBC Recital Hall - 6361 Memorial Road.
Legal Fund - Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC)
On May 25, 2009 we are seeking clarification from the courts regarding the ownership of our property. We continue to encourage people to donate to the ANiC legal fund in order cover the costs associated with these legal proceedings. Cheques should be made payable to The Anglican Network in Canada - St. John’s Project , and they should be marked as being designated for the legal fund. Donations may be placed in the offering plate, or delivered to the church office. For more information contact Krista Friebel at the church office, 604.731.4966 ext 19.
Seniors’ Tea
St. John’s Seniors’ Tea will be held Tuesday, April 28th at 1:30 pm in the Trendell Lounge. David Short will be the speaker. He will update folks on current events, answer questions, and talk about where we’re at now at St. John’s. Please come for fellowship and bring a friend with you. If you need a ride, please phone the church office, 604.731.4966 ext 0.
Service Opportunity
The Casserole Ministry is calling on all of those who would like to make some meals! We are looking for casseroles or soups portioned for 1 to 2 people, 3 to 4 people or family size. The Casserole Ministry tries to help out parishioners when they are dealing with an illness, death or stressful time in their lives. If you would like to help and could make a meal please call Carolyn at 604.263.4465 or Suzie at 604.271.4750 for details of where to drop it off. Thank you to all of those faithful chefs who help us out throughout the year.
Volunteers Needed... Enjoy serving in the
St. John’s greeting ministry
Matthew 10:40 “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one that sent me”. If you are interested in joining or wish to learn more, please contact the Church office, 604.731.4966 ext 15 or Harold Linnington at 604.602.9941
Two opportunities to attend Christianity Explored! A course for the curious, a place to ask questions
The Christianity Explored course runs for 7 weeks and is designed for those who are curious about Christianity
or are new to the Christian faith. Christianity Explored provides a warm, pressure-free environment to explore
questions of faith and life. It’s informal, fun and you can choose to be silent or say whatever you want. No question is too hostile or basic and no knowledge of faith is expected!
Wednesday nights ~ for all: This course will meet at 7:00 pm in the Church Hall for a wonderful home cooked meal,
short presentation and discussion. The course is free, but a small donation is asked to help cover the cost of the awesome food. The next course begins in May. If you have any questions or wish to register please email or phone Aaron at the church office, 604.731.4966 ext 22.
Thursday mornings ~ for women: This course will meet at 10:00 am in the Church Hall and run along-side Women@Ten, starting on April 23. If you have any questions or wish to register please email or phone Jan at the church office, 604.731.4966 ext 28.
Alpha Marriage Course
We are planning to run a seven-week Alpha Marriage course, beginning Monday, Apr 20. This is a course designed to help strengthen marriages and is suitable for marriages of all ages and stages, whether you are newly weds or have been married for years. If you’d like further information or would like to register, (pre-registration is required) please call Jan at the church, 604.731.4966 ext 28 or send email 
Women’s Retreat
Ladies, the brochures for the women’s retreat are now out. You can pick them up at the church office or in the sanctuary. Registration is going to start the week of March 23. You can drop your registration form off at the office, at Women@10 or in between the morning services on April 19. Because this retreat fills up fast, avoid disappointment and register early. You must fill out the form and attach payment to secure your registration. Thank you and if you have any questions that the brochures don’t answer, please feel free to contact Darrell Thomas at 604.269.9011
St. John’s and the Ratanak Project
If you have a special interest in the Ratanak Project, a missions group that works in Cambodia, please join us on Wednesday, Apr 22 at 7:30 pm in room 100 at the Church to learn more about how you can be involved. For more information contact Steven Friebel at 604.731.7508.
Keeping Company With God
“Keeping Company with God” is a one hour service of prayer, music, a short reflection on a Bible passage and
times of silence. The service is held every second and fourth Monday of the month, at 7:30 pm in the sanctuary.
Each evening is centered on a theme from the Scripture passage, usually taken from the Psalms. Some of these
have been “The Unfailing Love of God”, “Hope in the Lord” and “Strengthened in the Lord”.
Who is this service for?
• anyone, men as well as women
• not just members of St. John’s but anyone else who would like to attend
• those who have had a busy day and want a quiet time with God
• any who are feeling burdened
• those who want to lay hold of God’s promises
• any who want to pray for loved ones or the church family
• any who want to slip in and out of a service of prayer without talking to anyone
• as well as any who want individual prayer.
There is a period of 15 minutes in the middle of the service when you can listen quietly to music, pray on your own or go to two or three prayer stations where you can pray with a member of the St. John’s prayer team.
The next service will be Monday Apr 27.
VancouverVoices and the Glories of Bach:
Saturday Apr 25, 8:00 pm at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, VancouverVoices and orchestra (trumpets! tympani!) will be performing what is perhaps Bach’s greatest choral work, the Mass in B minor. Peter Butterfield will conduct; tickets ($20/$25) are available through TicketsTonight.ca or at the door. It will be a splendid and moving event, and we know you’ll be glad you came!
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Dear Friends,
We have had a wonderful Easter this year - rejoicing in the power and grace of God in raising Jesus Christ bodily from the grave. It is the beginning of the new creation and opens the door of life for all who turn to Christ. And it is one reason why we have our key gatherings on Sundays. Jesus was crucified on Friday, lay dead in the tomb on Saturday, but was raised to life on Sunday.
By the beginning of the second century AD the early Christians had abandoned Sabbath observance, along with much of the Jewish law. They chose to meet on Sunday in recognition that this was the day of resurrection. Writing around 150 AD Justin Martyr (who was indeed martyred in 165) indicates the widespread practice of Christians in the Roman Empire:
On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read.... Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. [First Apology, 67]
In Acts 20:7 Luke and Paul gathered with the disciples in Troas and “broke bread” together on “the first day of the week.” This may have been an early Sunday church service. In Revelation 1:10 the Apostle
John refers to “the Lord’s day.”
In other words, our lives are situated around the weekly celebration of the raising of Jesus from the dead. Each week we gather to remember that death, darkness and sin do not have the final word, that Christ has been raised to the highest place to be crowned with glory and honour, and that “according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” Each week we have the great relief of ceasing from trying to justify ourselves and seeing in Jesus Christ our wisdom, our righteousness our sanctification.
David.
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