May 31 Bulletin
Sunday Bulletin, May 31
The Day of Pentecost
8:00 a.m. - Rite I
10:30 a.m. - Rite II
The Collect
ALMIGHTY GOD, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever, Amen.
First Reading: Acts 2:1-21
Psalm 104: 25-35, 37
Second Reading: Romans 8:22-27
Gospel: John 15: 26-27; 16-4b-15
The Sermon by the Reverend Sherril Lee Page
The Holy Communion: The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer A
Prayer List:
Prayer Concerns for This Sunday: (to be read during the Sunday Service)
Sam Wayne, Kendeall Smith and family, Beth Black, and the Search Committee.
Please pray for these persons throughout the week:
David Black, Bill Beth, Dorothy Garner, Viola Harris, Charlotte Jones, Trudy Randol, Tom Shannon, Margaret Vartanoff, George Young, Mo Johnson, Bob Cefail, Samuel Sangmoor, Kitty Bransford, Cynthia Greaves, Wilma Greaves, Valerie Banks Hunte, Letecia Wyndham, Mapedro Willoughby, Norm Harry , Connie Morris and Catherine B.
Announcements:
Through Your Gifts
Last Sunday’s General Fund Receipt: $3084 2009 Pledges (as of 4/31/09)
Last week’s needs: $4271.00 Received from 91 members
2009 Budget: $222,100.00 Annual amount of pledges: $-156,089
General funds needs through May: $17,084 Average pledge: $1715.00
At the 10:30 worship service on June 14, 2009, St. Mary Magdalene will be honoring members of our parish who have succeeded in completing a particular level in their education (graduating from kindergarten, elementary middle/intermediate, high school, college or graduate school.) Please pick up and complete the "Honoring Our Graduate" form in the narthex of the curch and turn into the Fellowship mailbox by May 31, 2009.
Congregational Meeting with the Search Committee will be held on Sunday, June 7 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. in the Undercroft.