Readings from the Sixth Sunday of Easter
ST. PETE’S WEEKLY
Welcome! Whatever your religious background, and however you have come to be here, we’re glad to have you join in our praises of God today. We hope you will feel comfortable here and fulfilled and strengthened spiritually to meet the challenges of your daily life.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING:
- For Mark, our Bishop
- For Tom, our Rector
- In our Parish Cycle of Prayer, for our Sunday School Teachers
- In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, for The Anglican Church of Kenya
- In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer for all Christian Formation leaders and seekers
- For Persecuted Christians in Afghanistan
- For our President, Donald, Congress, and Judges
- For our Governor, Glenn
- In our Community Cycle of Prayer, for our Supervisors
- For U.S. troops throughout the world, our foreign service personnel and contractors
- For those who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts and are suffering from posttraumatic stress
- For our Federal, State, & Local Police Officers and Loudoun Valley Fire and Rescue Departments
- For the special needs and concerns of this congregation, especially Stuart Auld; Jake Cathers; Nancy Dillon; Ken Foreman; Matthew Forys; Theo Hanzel; Gwen Hill; Jennifer House; Gail Hunt; Peggy Kiernan; Steve Koss; Bunny Lancaster; Becky Loker; Mike Muihlbauer; Marsha Price; Martha Ramirez; Don Sengpieh; Randy Stoutenburgh; Karen Stunkel; Erica Wanis; Lucas; Reid; Sean & Libby; Debbie, and all those who suffer from any grief or trouble.
PRAYER NEEDS: Individuals and families may choose to have their names placed on the public and/or private prayer lists. The names on the public prayer list are included during the Prayers of the People during worship on Sunday and in the bulletin. St. Peter’s Prayer Quilt members spquilt@stpetes.net pray for the people on the private list. Names are listed for four weeks. If you would like someone to remain on our list, please send us an update every 4 weeks.
NEW WAYS TO PRAY! We have been doing a lot of praying in new ways this year. Consider joining us or making use of any, or all, of the opportunities below –
- Sweet Hour of Prayer every Wednesday at 10:30 with seven of us regularly gathering.
- Using our new Prayer Cards on the first Sunday during prayers of the people.
- Turning the altar in the Chapel into our Prayer Altar, covered with new prayer requests.
- The Vestry is incorporating praying together into our Strategic Plan and into Vestry meetings.
- And the latest: Gathering an intercessor team to pray for people in-person after church on Sundays. Once the crowd has left the Nave, they’d be happy to meet with you discreetly one-on-one to pray with you.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BULLETIN DEADLINE – Please submit all announcements for the Sunday Bulletin by noon on Wednesday to ensure inclusion in the upcoming bulletin. Send announcements to office@stpetes.net.
PENTECOST SUNDAY – JUNE 8, 2025 – WEAR RED! Join us as we celebrate Pentecost.
MISSION TO GUATEMALA – Our Mission team leaves for Guatemala on June 14,2025. Included in the bulletin is a prayer calendar for the mission trip. Please take it home and pray for the team.
HOPE FOR HOME – For years St. Peter’s Mission Committee has collected items needed by Hope for Home (home for severely disabled children) located in a village in Guatemala. With our help Hope for Home has thrived and grown. It now includes 2 separate homes for severely disabled children: a third for the disabled who have aged out of Hope for Home but who cannot live on their own. In addition, they have established 2 Birthing Centers that also provide Pre and Post natal services. As much as the economy is affecting each of our budgets it is ravaging Third World nations, and more children are lacking the nutritional needs to be healthy. If you would like to keep our blessings of love flowing from the U.S.A. to these needy children just pick something from the list and drop off in the box in the Narthex. These will be taken down by our Mission group in June.
Items are as follows (*bold most important):
- Food thickener
- Waterproof pads and pillow covers
- Waterproof (zippered) mattress covers for twin and/or crib size
- Absorbent/waterproof bibs for droolers
- Boys’ underwear size 10 to adult small
- Girls’ underwear sizes 5T and up
- Girl’s training bras up to adult small
- Hair bands / Chapstick
- Big and small hairbrushes
- Waterproof pads (for chairs or beds)
- Oral sensory toys
BABY BOTTLE CAMPAIGN: Mother’s Day – Father’s Day. St. Peter’s is partnering with Mosaic Virginia Pregnancy Resource Center to help provide care and encouragement to mothers in crisis. Mosaic supports women by meeting their material and emotional needs so they can focus on giving life to their unborn baby. We kicked off the Baby Bottle Campaign on Mother’s Day to support Mosaic! It’s easy to get involved. Pick up your empty baby bottle in the entryway and fill it with change, check, or cash. Then, bring it back to church by the pickup date, Father’s Day, June 15, 2025. That’s it! Your donation funds the community of moms in Loudoun County who bravely choose life. Questions? See Maggie Heim for more information.
PURCELLVILLE MEN’S BREAKFAST – Saturday, June 7, 2025 – Men of St. Peter’s! Mark your calendar for our next monthly Men’s Breakfast Fellowship! A reminder that Saturday, June 7th, the Men’s Breakfast Group meets in McCray Hall at 0700 for a hearty breakfast and good fellowship; and at 0730 a time of presentation and discussion amongst those in attendance. This month Dell Nunaley will conduct a presentation entitled: The Biblical Logic of Otherness. Please come and bring a friend for company as we explore together!
THE 2025 BEACON DINNER – at St. Peter’s, Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 6:00pm = Let’s get together as God’s Pentecostal people to break bread, have fun, and celebrate. We’d also like to show our appreciation for all the people who helped make the past year successful. This includes awarding one extra-special person the St. Peter’s Beacon Award. Dinner will be Potluck. There is a signup sheet in McCray Hall or RSVP to Paula at bookkeeper@stpetes.net so we know how many to expect. We are also looking for a couple of volunteers to coordinate setup and cleanup.
WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP – Our next get together will be Friday, June 20, 2025. We are meeting at 6:30pm at Bluemont Station. Contact Deana Czaban if you have any questions.
MT. CALVARY WOMEN’S GUILD MEETING – Our next meeting is on Monday, June 16, 2025, at 10:00 AM, at St. Peter’s in McCray Hall. The readings that we will discuss are Numbers 16-36; Deuteronomy 1-3; Mark 15-16; Luke 1-6; Psalm 55-66; & Proverbs 16-17. Please join us.
ALTAR FLOWERS: If you would like to dedicate altar flowers in memory or honor of a loved one, or in thanksgiving for a birthday, anniversary or other special event, please contact the church office with the date and details. We gratefully accept gifts in the amount of $45 to defray the cost.
LEARNING
SUNDAY SCHOOL – The program year runs from Sunday September 8, 2024, through June 1, 2025. We will continue to use a variety of curriculums, including Weaving God’s Promises, Kids Sunday School and the Children’s Chapel Workshop during the program year. The elementary Sunday School group will meet from 9:30 -10 AM on Sunday mornings. The Middle & High School kids will be meeting from 9 AM – 9:30 AM on Sunday mornings in room #202.
Nursery: If needed, Nursery care is available during our 9:30 am service. The Nursery is located on the lower level. We are always looking for a few more volunteers to help staff the nursery from 9:30 – 10:45 am. If you have any questions, you can contact Kathleen Voss at (703) 409-2314 or katvoss1970@gmail.com
FIGHT FOR SOULS: SHARING THE WORD
“Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop – some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.” Mark 4:20
“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:10-11
“But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’” Jeremiah 7:23
Father, may I decrease in my own eyes so that Christ may increase in me, for I know that it is only as He lives in me and I in Him that I will become the fruit-bearing branch that honors you. This I ask in Jesus’ name. Amen
The next meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m. on June 8, 2025, at the Novak House.