This coming Sunday, September 17, we welcome a special guest speaker for a forum on suicide prevention. Please join poet, artist, humanism-in-medicine awardee and child psychiatrist Dr. Diane Kaufman at 10:15 am in the Nativity Hall. The title of Dr. Kaufman’s talk is “Hope, Healing, & Holding On: A Suicide Prevention Awareness Presentation.”
Interfaith Power and Light is sponsoring a webinar entitled “Inflation Reduction Act Resources to Electrify your Home” at 4:00 pm on Thursday, September 7.
ST. MICHAEL’S CHORISTERS: Grades 3 and up. The results are in! Our preferred rehearsal time is Sundays, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Rehearsals begin right away on September 10, so we can be ready to sing Evensong for the Feast of St. Michael & All Angels on September 29. It will be the 100th ANNIVERSARY of our Nave!
We’ve been collecting new backpacks and school supplies for a month or so, and the community has responded very generously. We have over 50 backpacks, and this Sunday, August 20, we’ll be packing them with supplies after the 10:00 am service.
Plans are coming together for our Eucharist and picnic next Sunday, August 27, with the gathering beginning at 10:00 am and the service at 11:00. Please note that there WILL be a 7:30 am service but NO 10:00 am or 1:00 pm services at the church. We’ll be gathering at Wilshire Park in Northeast Portland in sites A and B.
For the next few weeks, we will be trying an experiment. We’ll offer the Sunday worship bulletin in two formats – printed paper copy and digital download for your smartphone or tablet.
As we have for many years, St. Michael’s is collecting new backpacks, school supplies and gift cards for local children in the foster-care system. Please bring items to the church on Sunday, July 23, through Sunday, August 20.
The Portland Pride Parade is almost here! It is being held this coming Sunday, July 16, and St. Michael’s is pulling out all the stops. We have two brand-new banners to display! They are beautiful and will show the world that St. Michael’s cares about and celebrates all people everywhere. We hope that lots of you will come out to walk with us.
On July 4-8, four youth from St. Michael & All Angels attended Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) in Baltimore with others from around the Episcopal Church in Western Oregon and across The Episcopal Church. Rising high school senior Lucy offers this reflection from her experience at #EYE23.
At the 2022 General Convention, Episcopal Migration Ministries created the Rainbow Initiative to spotlight forced migration of LGBTQ+ people, the issues they face and why we as people of faith should care. St. Michael’s Vestry signed on in March 2023 as one of approximately 20 Rainbow Initiative Congregations committed to highlighting this intersectional social-justice issue especially during Pride month in June. As a faith community, we felt called to do so because St. Michael’s is both a welcoming congregation to the LGBTQ+ community and an Immigrant Welcoming Congregation.
Sunday Services
7:30 – Rite I Traditional language with no music.
9:00 – Rite II Holy Eucharist with choir
11:00 – Inclusive language with choir
1:00 pm – Misa en Español
© 2023 St. Michael & All Angels
