SERMON NOTES
WH AT ’S UP AT S T. JOHN’S
ARNOLD MAYORGA ORDINATION TONIGHT AT 6:00 PM Tonight at the Evening Service, Bishop Trevor Walters will ordain Arnold Mayorga as a deacon. We hope that you will come to celebrate what God is doing in his life and ministry!
DIVORCECARE | STARTING IN SEPTEMBER CHANGE OF START DATE: DivorceCare will begin on September 27 We are starting a new DivorceCare group this fall. It will run on Thursday nights between 7:00 and 9:00 pm. The first session will be on September 27 and all sessions will happen at St. John’s Vancouver, 5350 Baillie Street.
JOIN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL TEAM Join our Sunday School team for the new year! We’re welcoming new volunteers at the 9:00 am, 11:00 am, and 6:00 pm services. For more info, please speak with Jeremy, Jessica or Heather or contact jeremy@sjvan.org or 604.558.4400 ext 236. Volunteers always work in pairs and we provide ongoing training and mentorship. Join our fantastic team!
PARISH RETREAT SEPTEMBER 21-23
DivorceCare helps people recover from the pain of separation and divorce and is a support group that meets weekly for 13 weeks. If this would be helpful for you, please consider joining us. If this would be helpful for someone you know, please let them know they are welcome. If you have questions or would like to register please contact Margaret Wilson margaret@sjvan.org or call 778-838-7400.
Have you registered for our fourth annual parish retreat at Stillwood Camp? It’s going to be a great weekend to make new friends and deepen existing friendships.
CELEBRATING DAVID & DAN
Chris Ley will be speaking throughout the weekend from 2 Peter on the topic of “Following Jesus in a World that doesn’t.”
On Sunday, September 9 we will celebrate David Short’s 25th, and Dan Gifford’s 20th anniversary at the 10:00 am service. As part of the celebration, we invite you to write notes of congratulations and musings that we will deliver to them on the day. Please put your cards in a sealed envelope and either send it to the church office by mail or drop it off during Sunday services in August. Your envelope should indicate whether it is for Dan or David and marked “anniversary celebration.” We need notes before September 5. Photos are welcomed.
Registration is open on the website.
IN OUR COMMUNITY ORDINATION Artizo alumni Kyle MacKenney will be ordained as priest on Sunday, September 2. The ordination will be at 10:00 am at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Pender Harbour, where he is currently serving as Rector. Please pray for Kyle as he ministers on the Sunshine Coast, and do consider visiting his congregation sometime!
LITTLE YEARS: CHAT + PLAY A new group is starting Monday, September 17 at the Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre. Little Years is a weekly program for children between birth and five years and their caregivers led by our Early Childhood Coordinator Heather LaRoy. If you are interested in partnering with us, we have a few ways for you to participate:
• We need volunteers to bake goods each week • We need volunteers to act as a St. John’s host each week • If you are a parent or caregiver of a child five or under, we want you to come
Little Years will be starting Monday, September 17. We will meet weekly from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm at the Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, 990 West 59th Ave, Vancouver. If you have questions or would like to volunteer, please contact Heather, heather@sjvan.org.
NEXT WEEK SUNDAY SERVICES SEPT 2 | Daniel 6 8:00 am Holy Communion 10:00 am Family Holy Communion 6:00 pm Evening Service
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Ordination at St. John’s Today we celebrate with Arnold Mayorga his ordination to the diaconate at our 6:00 pm Evening Service. Over the last several years Arnold has been an Artizo student and then an intern at St. John’s working with men’s ministry and family ministry. Through this time of ministry, there has been an affirmation for Arnold’s desire to serve as an ordained minister in the Anglican church. This has come through input of the St. John’s staff, the wisdom of a lay ordination discernment committee, and a diocesan Discernment of Vocation Event (DOVE). The process has involved much prayer and many conversations. We are very thankful to the many people at St. John’s who have brought wisdom and Godly insight into this process that has brought him to this ordination day. One of the ways God works through St. John’s is that we are a training church where God equips and prepares people for ministry. We have the privilege of training people to be Gospel centred and biblically shaped lay or ordained ministers who serve in Anglican churches throughout North America. Arnold is one of these people who will bless the wider church with his ministry and we are pleased at St. John’s to celebrate this new stage of Arnold’s ministry as a servant of Jesus. Arnold, his wife Michelle, and his children (Amara and Augustine) will be moving to Ottawa in a couple of weeks to take charge of two small ANiC churches in Blackburn Hamlet and Limoges, Ontario. You are all invited to attend Arnold’s ordination this evening and to pray for the Mayorga family as they begin this new ministry together.
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