Remembering Elsie
A memorial service to remember and give thanks for the life of longtime member Elsie Lucas will be held this Saturday, June 4, at 2pm. A reception follows in the parish hall. Co-presiding at the service will be The Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald and Rev. Palmer Pardington.
This Sunday
9 a.m. Adult Inquiry concludes its discussion of Marcus Borg’s new book, Speaking Christian, focusing on Ch. 7 “Jesus” and Ch. 8 “The Death of Jesus.” Mic & Jean facilitate the conversation. NEXT Sunday, June 12, Roger Fuchs (Operation Nightwatch Chaplain) speaks about his ministry bringing the Gospel to our hospitality center guests. Roger also presented a poem and homily at last week’s Oregon Viet Nam Memorial ceremony.
Rev. Dr. Caroline Litzenberger is our guest preacher at 7:45 & 10 a.m. Eucharist. Dr. Litzenberger is Professor of History at PSU and has been an ordained Episcopal priest since 2004. Fr. Dennis and Paul are both away this Sunday.
At St Stephen’s (StSt), we celebrate one message spoken by many voices. The message is that we are all welcome at the Table. Clipboards with weekly bulletins for the children are at the back of the church.
Expanding StSt Table
Last Friday, Paul met with Oregon Food Bank services coordinator, Eric Sopkin, about ways we might provide more meals and promote a “healing neighborhood” at 13th & Clay. Eric says the most needed service in our immediate neighborhood is an emergency food box program to help those who are low-income housed but run out of food each month. The proposal is that we add a once-a-month Food Pantry on third Thursdays of the month, 2-5pm in the parish hall. A group to discuss how we might proceed will meet next Tuesday at 11:30am, during “Summer Sandwiches Tuesday” at StSt Table. Paul welcomes those interested to join the conversation or send feedback to Outreach@stst.org.
