Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. John Sundara
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & The Rev. John Sundara (5 pm)

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the Hall Life Center (11:15 am - with Announcements)

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Walking the Way of the King – Hall Life Center
An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit Class – Room 203
RightCare Ministry: Aging Well Series – Room 210
Adult Confirmation - Dynamics of a Vibrant Tradition – Parlor
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – Scout Room

Children's Sunday School 
2 months - age 2 | Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
2-year-olds | Rm 110 & 112
Age 3 - Kinder | Rm L07, L08
1st-3rd grade | Traditional Sunday school | Rm L16
4th - 5th grade | Rm L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

Youth Sunday School – Rm 236
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Get the Scoop
Come "get the scoop" on all things related to youth and children's ministries at 10 am in Sumners Hall. Learn about mission trips, Vacation Bible School, Sunday school, volunteering, Tween move-up, and more! Everyone who stops by to engage on these Sundays will receive a Baskin-Robbins gift certificate for a free scoop of ice cream!

RightCare Ministry: Aging Well Series
SJD’s RightCare Ministry will present a series of classes delving into the reality and challenges of aging as we enter this century’s 2nd quarter. Invite your family, friends, and neighbors to join us to learn research-based methods of improving our ability to thrive! We meet in Room 210 at 10:15 am. RSVP with Amber. This Sunday learn about Living Your Best Life Abundantly (at any age!)

Small Group Leader Lunch
Calling all small group leaders! Please join us on at 12:30 in the youth room to hear our rector, the Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill's vision for small groups. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to kpettit@sjd.org.

The Collect of the Day

O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

John 10:1-10

10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Musical Offering in the Church

Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, otherwise known as “Good Shepherd Sunday.” The name comes from the appointed gospel reading, taken from the 10th chapter of John, where Christ is described as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. The text of the Renaissance motet by the Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso, sung at the Ministration, speaks directly of the Good Shepherd: “The good Shepherd has risen, he who laid down his life for his sheep, who, for his flock, deigned to die. Alleluia!”

Today at the Offertory, we hear an arrangement of the American Folk Hymn, “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need.” The text is an Isaac Watts paraphrase of Psalm 23, today’s appointed Psalm. The arranger, Mack Wilberg, is one of the pre-eminent composers and arrangers of choral music in the United States today, as well as the director of the famed Morman Tabernacle Choir. His setting includes obbligato parts for flute and oboe. 

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