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​ANNOUNCEMENTS - The Week of June 4, 2023 (click here for the PDF version)
Here’s what’s happening at St. John’s, around the diocese, and in the local community.

• We welcome our guest preacher, Helen Payanzo, and her husband, Dylan. Helen is the program director at Cross Roads Camp and Retreat Center. She and Dylan will be available at coffee hour to answer questions about our diocesan camp and retreat center and what it has to offer for both children and adults.
• We welcome back guest organist Christian Carozza.  
• Please let Rev. Sharon know if you can volunteer for part of the day at our table at the 3rd Annual Boonton Rainbow Pride Event on Saturday, June 17, from noon-5 p.m.
• In other Tricky Tray news, the team is collecting items for the baskets and scratch-off lottery tickets in any amount for our Oct. 22 event. Can’t buy a ticket? Give a dollar or twenty to Joan Magrane or Debbie Henschel, and they will buy them for you.
• Please let Rev. Sharon know if you can volunteer for part of the day at our table at the 3rd Annual Boonton Rainbow Pride Event on Saturday, June 17, from noon to 5 p.m. Set-up is between 9 and 11:30 a.m. at Grace Lord Park. If there is inclement weather the event will take place at the Boonton Elks Lodge (125 Cornelia St). Breakdown begins at 5 p.m. when the event ends.
• We need a volunteer to help produce our weekly worship bulletin for June through August. Training provided! If you can help, let Rev. Sharon know.
• Join us at coffee hour for refreshment and fellowship after each Sunday service. To help with a future coffee hour, reach out to any vestry member.
• Would you like to dedicate altar flowers or the Sanctuary Lamp to a special person? Sign up at church or tell Kathy Cascone at casconek(at)yahoo.com.
• The Communication Team seeks volunteers to help with posting to Facebook, and Instagram, maintaining the website, and promoting to outside publications. If you have ever posted to Facebook, Instagram, or ever written an email you can join the team. Speak to Sandra after the Sunday Service, or email her at stjohnsboontonnj(at)gmail.com

Saves these dates for diocesan and wider-church events:

• Join Bishop Hughes on one of two half-day Juneteenth pilgrimages to sites in our diocese with a history liked to slavery. Both pilgrimages will follow the same itinerary of sites in Bergen County. Register online by 5 p.m. Friday, June 9 at https://dioceseofnewark.org/form/registration-juneteenth-pilgrimage-2023
• Join the Presiding Bishop for It’s all About Love, a church-wide festival or worship, learning, community and action for the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement, to be held Sunday, July 9, through Wednesday, July 12, at the Baltimore Convention Center.