OUR MONTHLY FACILITIES USAGE- February
Outside Group Usage: 84.5 hours with 12 groups
(food collaboratives, disaster case managers, PEO, Self-help groups, etc.)
Church Groups: 72 hours with 8 groups
(music ministries, bible studies, boy scouts, Wed. studies, funerals)
Easter Offering Envelopes
Easter Offering Envelopes are on the table as you enter the church and on the stand where you fill out prayer requests. Please mark your check as EASTER OFFERING when putting it in the offering plate. You can also go online to our website and give to Easter Offering electronically. Thank you!
Agape Meal
Be sure to sign up for the Agape Meal on Thursday, March 28th!
Sign-up sheet is in the church, or call the office @ 530.894.1971.
Easter Brunch and More!
Easter is right around the corner and we are busy making plans for our EASTER BRUNCH following the ONE EASTER SERVICE at 10AM on Sunday March 31st.
We need help making breakfast casseroles, muffins, fruit salads as well as setup, servers, and cleanup crews. Many hands make light work, so please contact Becky Thompson if you are able to help. (BeckyT3031@gmail.com or call/leave a message at 530-570-6141) There will also be an Easter Egg Hunt for the children immediately after the service so please advise us how many children will be participating.
We will be selling tickets after church next Sunday or you can come by the office M-TH from 9am-2pm to purchase your ticket(s). Tickets are $10 for one or $20 for two or more. You will be given a ticket to the brunch if you sign up to provide food.
We hope you will come and celebrate our Risen Lord with your church family!
Good Friday Offering
”Please don’t forget about us.”
For 102 years, donations to the Good Friday Offering have directly supported ministries of the Anglican Communion Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Read the presiding bishop's letter posted on the PLC door. Learn about the places impacted by your donations. Watch the Good Friday concert of sacred music, created at Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, VA and streaming on episcopalchurch.org on March 29th. And please, give generously.
3 Ways to Give:
1. Scan the code on the poster in the PLC,
2. give online im.ec/goodfridayoffering, or
3. send a check to DFMS - Protestant Episcopal Church US, P.O.Box 958983, St. Louis, MO 3195-8983. Make your check payable to: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society with "Good Friday Offering" in the memo field.
PLEASE - do not write the check to St. John's.
Follow one of the three instructions above.
From the Outreach Team
The Outreach team has become aware that the Shalom Free Clinic is in need of sleeping bags, blankets and warm clothing. If anyone has these items that may be extras or maybe not used anymore, please bring them to church this Sunday and the following Sunday. We will make sure they get to the Shalom Free Clinic.
The Shalom Free Clinic operates every Sunday, and provides medical and mental health services to those who are unable to access regular care through a primary care physician. They are making a difference in our community and are funded through donations. Their staff are volunteers and have been providing this service for many years. We are connected to this organization and provide hospitality supplies every few months.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Ann Petersen
Help Needed for Easter Egg Hunt
We need some Easter helpers for the kids' egg hunt! If you could help by either bringing in plastic eggs to donate to the hunt or sign up as an "egg hider" during the Easter service, it would be a greatly appreciated. Please bring plastic egg donations to the church office and contact Mary Jannings if you are willing to help hide Easter eggs outside the church after The Peace on Easter morning
Last Days of Performances:
March 22-24, 2024
Center for the Arts @ 1475 East Ave., Chico
Please join the North State Ballet, with our very own Kacyee Wallace starring in the lead role as the Ring Master! Tickets may be purchased online here.
HOLY WEEK UPDATED SCHEDULE
Palm/Passion Sunday - March 24
8am and 10:15am
Blessing of the Palms, Procession
Reading of the Passion of St. Mark
Maundy Thursday March 28 @ 6pm
Agape Meal in SILENCE (PLC) with foot washing and
Last Supper Observance (6:30pm)
Procession of Reserved Sacrament to the Church and "
Stripping of the Altar" Ceremony
Good Friday - March 29
Private Confessions @ 11am
Meditations of the Seven Last Words - 12 noon
Veneration of the Cross (BCP) Service - 6pm
Easter Vigil - Saturday March 30 @ 7pm
Historic Service of Salvation Readings, Baptism and
renewal of vows, first Eucharist of Easter.
Easter Day - Sunday March 31
10am service only
Joint Service followed with Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch
Please sign up for brunch! Purchase a ticket by the 28th
Please call the office @ 530.894.1971 for additional information about our services. We look forward to seeing all of you!
Please contact the office by March 27th if you plan on attending brunch, Maundy Thursday and/or the Easter Egg Hunt. We need to have a final count for purchasing supplies.
Thank you!
Many Thanks for Many Hands
Huge Success for Church Clean-Up Day
Saturday was a huge success, with many hands getting a lot of work completed before our Easter services. The Altar Guild provided coffee and donuts (always a motivator), and individuals brought their vacuum cleaners and extra cleaning supplies, as well as their muscles, to fight the grime. The church looks amazing. Many thanks to those folks who spent their Saturday morning helping to spruce up our beautiful space. You are treasures!
FLOWER DONATIONS- Remember Easter Flowers
Do you have a special Sunday when you want to offer altar flowers in thanksgiving or in memory of a loved one? The 2024 Flower Donation sign up book is available in the back of the church. Remember to sign up for Easter flowers to help out our Altar Guild plan for purchasing.
SCHEDULE FOR GODLY PLAY
Godly Play is every Sunday for pre-school aged to 12 years.
The Godly Play rooms opens at 10am and we begin at 10:15.
We have "Littles" space in the sanctuary for
infants and toddlers.
Children are welcome at St. John's, as they are an
integral part of our community.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT STUDY AND FELLOWSHIP @Faith Lutheran Church
5:30PM Study
6:15 Soup Supper
7:00pm Worship
This Lenten Program will replace our Wednesday Night Lectionary Study. We will need volunteers throughout Lent.
Living Well Through Lent Devotional Study
Wednesdays and Sundays of Lent
(Wed) February 28, March 6, 13, & 20 @ 1:30pm
(Sun) March 3, 10, 17 @ 9am