Readings for Sunday 5th October, Pentecost 19.
Lamentations 3.19-26
Reading: 2 Timothy 1.1-14
Gospel: Luke 17.5-10
Psalm response: “You are all that I have, therefore I will wait for you”
Live stream link for Sunday’s service: https://youtube.com/live/-GvR8uipgJ0?feature=share
Communications – frustrated with trying to follow the Sunday service on YouTube? Us too! We
appreciate your patience and perseverance as we work through the challenges that came with
switching internet providers. We hope to have the situation corrected for the upcoming service on
Sunday October 5th. In the meantime, we are taping the services and they are available on our
website.
Blessing of the Animals promises to be a fun time at the 10.00 am service this Sunday,
5th October. Bring your (well behaved) pet as we mark the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi
(6th October).
Choir!!
Has resumed, but now with a new rehearsal time, Sunday at 11.15 am, after the 10.00 am
service. All you need is a love of music. Please come out and sing with us!
AND, Festival Choir rehearsals begin on Sunday, October 5th at 11:15 am. We will be
learning a special Christmas Cantata to perform on Sunday, December 21st
at the 10:00 am service. Please consider trying out the Festival Choir as we learn music for
this special occasion. No choral singing experience necessary, just a love of music. Hope to see you there!
Outreach
Outreach Ministry of the month for October is St. Paul’s Foodbank, plus of course
our own Breakfast Program.
St. Paul’s Foodbank
Our next time to donate food for St. Paul’s Foodbank is next Sunday, 12th October.
Breakfast Program: Many thanks to those who donated to the St. Jude’s
Breakfast Ministry through the month of September. The support of our parish family and friends
is amazing! What a difference it makes in the lives of those who come for breakfast on the 1st
and 3rd Saturday of each month. At the last breakfast, we were joined by a 3-generation family
who had just heard about us. There was the young adult son, his mother and her mother. They
seemed a bit overwhelmed by what we had to offer. Hopefully, they will come again to enjoy a
good breakfast, find some needed clothing and more importantly, experience a safe, welcoming
place to share fellowship with our team and others who join us. We served 140 at our last
breakfast.
While our time as ministry of the month is over, we continue our fundraising efforts through the
5 Km Run / Walk on Sunday October 19th. If you haven’t already done so, please consider
joining us for the walk or donate to the St. Jude’s walkers. There are pledge sheets in the Narthex
for those who prefer the low-tech option. To donate on-line at Canada Helps just follow this link
https://linktr.ee/StJohns5KRun . You can also scan the QR code on the Run / Walk posters
around the church. Support is needed now so we can avoid a deficit in our budget in the last few
months of 2025.
Our next breakfast is this Saturday October 4th from 9 – 10:30 am. All are welcome!
FundScrip. Rick will be in the Narthex this Sunday between the services to take your card
orders.
Nearly New Shop now has a great assortment of winter clothes available for all ages.
Dinner!! We are having a Beef Dinner this Saturday October 4th,at 5 pm, dine in or take out.
Cost is $25.00 for the Dinner, which includes potato salad, coleslaw, bun and homemade pie.
Kids meal will be $15.00.
Dinner will be served at 6:00 pm., with take out and pick up to start at 6 pm. Tickets can be
ordered through the office, or from Derek Shadlock.
5 Km run details.
Registration opens at 1:30 pm
At 2:30 pm. join the individuals, teams, and dog companions and set off from St. John the
Evangelist Church, walk through Gibbons Park, onto the Parkway to the University gates and
through the neighbourhood back to St. John’s for pizza and prizes. We need your help to make
this collaboration a success. This event is open to participants of all ages, St. Jude’s parishioners
and more. Here are the ways you can contribute:
• Register to run or walk on our Canada Helps website at
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/st-judes-church/p2p/St-Judes-Community-Breakfast-F
undraiser /
Use the QR code on the poster
• Register as an individual or a team,
• Send the link to your family, friends, and coworkers,
• Alternative to on-line pledges – sign up donors on paper pledge sheets which are available at
the Church;
• Pay a $10 entrance fee on race day to walk or run without pledges;
• Recruit event sponsors – business or personal – for the gold, silver and bronze levels;
• On race day help us
• with set up, registration, or clean up
• as a race marshal along the event route
• with other musicians to entertain participants. Looking for brass musicians in particular.
Alongside Hope (PWRDF) now has its Christmas cards available to order. Go to the order form
on the Alongside Hope website. Two different cards are available, in packs of 12, for each of
which a minimum donation of $25.00 is needed. Proceeds from Alongside Hope Christmas
cards support their programmes all over the world.
This year when you order cards, you’ll be sharing original artwork painted by the Rt. Rev. John
Watton, Bishop of Central Newfoundland and Labrador. Bishop John was elected Bishop in
2016, but has been painting for 25 years. “I started painting when my wife encouraged me to
‘stop talking about trying to paint, and try it!’ ” he says.
Most of his paintings are done in oils and acrylics, but Bishop John also uses water colour
techniques of pulling colours from berries and grass, and even did a painting that incorporated
mud from the River Jordan.
For Alongside Hope’s Christmas cards, Bishop John offered up several options, all widely liked
by staff. The two selected images are titled It Happened in Bethlehem and Winter Light. Both
images call to mind the everlasting light of Jesus.
Let’s Celebrate
Happy Birthday this week to Spencer D. (3rd October) and Linda W. (4th). Hope you both have
happy celebrations!