FINALLY!
“Faith + Science” // Interfaith Forum // Sept 17, 3 pm, Frankfort
This Sunday, Sept. 17, Episcopal Rev. Clayton
Thomason, medical ethics director at Rush University Medical Center, will
offer a Christian take on "Faith + Science" at the latest
SWIFT Interfaith Forum. He will be joined onstage by Dr. Zaher
Sahloul, a pulmonologist at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, and
Dr. Carol Gerson, an ENT specialist and assistant professor at
Northwestern University. The free event will take place from 3-6 pm, at
the St. Francis Woods Campus in Frankfort IL (9201
W St Francis Rd). Refreshments will be served, but please bring a
non-perishable food item for Respond Now. For more details, please contact
Rob McManamy or Bryan Burke. For
more about SWIFT, of which St. John's is now a member, go to www.swiftinterfaith.org, or visit the
group's Facebook page.
We Need Your
Feedback!
The
Search Committee is asking that everyone complete the Church Assessment Tool,
or CAT. This survey is designed to tell us who we are as a parish and who
we want to be going forward as we search for our new rector. If you are
16 and over and consider St. John's your church home, please go online and take
the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StJohnEvangelistIL. Hard copies are also
available if you'd prefer. The next phase of research will be small group
discussions and all ages are encouraged to participate. More information
to come.
Got
Freshmen?
Let
us know who they are! Let's send our young adults away at college for the
first time a surprise "care package." Consider bringing in simple,
fun items, or a note of encouragement to let our fellow parishioners (or
relatives/friends) know we are thinking of them and wishing them success in
their new life phase. And when we say "simple", we mean simple:
a pack of gum, deck of cards, refrigerator magnet, pencils, stickers,
candy, etc (the Dollar Store would be the perfect place to shop).
Anything, really--use your imagination! We will have labeled boxes
in the undercroft during coffee hour over the next few weeks; toss in your
contributions (so far, we have a list of four freshmen). If you know a
college freshman you want to receive a St. John's care package, please
call/text either Mike Madden or Dee McManamy--or
see them at church. We'll need your freshman's full mailing address.
Each package will be a collective gift from the Church of St.
John--yet another way to say we are, indeed, One Body--even when we are away
from one another.
Confirmation
and Sunday School classes begin Sunday, September 17th at 9:00 a.m.
