HEART FOR HAITI FUNDRAISER 2/5/10

Greetings in Christ!

Tonight, St. Gabriel's hosted the Have a Heart for Haiti Fundraiser/ Ecumenical prayer service. It consisted of evening prayer followed by a potluck dinner. Fr. John Antony from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, as well as Fr. John Atchison of St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church joined me as we led the congregation in prayer for the victims in Haiti as well as prayed for greater Christian unity among our Churches. Below you will find a photo showing three very well known Christians praying in a similar fashion as us tonight!

SOME HISTORY........

John Paul II opens the Holy Door for the Jubileee year 2000 with Anglican Archbishop Carey and Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan Athanasios. Like us, all three churches were represented: Anglicans, Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholics.

GOD BLESS!!
Fr. John+

St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Year in Review

St. Gabriel's Anglican Church Year In Review!

This is the video that aired at our annual parish meeting! We had the best year ever at St. Gabriel's in 2009! We gained over thirty new members and joined the Diocese of Fort Worth! Things are looking bright and beautiful! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!

Untitled from John Slavin on Vimeo.

God bless!!
Fr. John+

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This is going to be a short post! We got hit with a snow storm last night so not a big turn out for Midnight Mass. =( Oh well, better luck next year. But the Church looked beautiful! So I am posting pics to share with you. Also we completed our cry room for the kiddies! Now the parents can actually enjoy the service without having to worry about the children getting to loud. Praise God for all his blessings this year!!

See ya soon!

God Bless

Fr. John+

2010 ORDO CALENDARS!!

Greetings in Christ,

St. Gabriel's 2010 Ordo Calendars go on sale this weekend! $7.00! And no, the cute kids are not included in the price! =)

God Bless!

Fr. John+

Gingerbread House Party Part 2!

Greetings in Christ!

We did it!! St. Gabriel's had its FIRST Gingerbread house party! Thank you everybody for helping out and bringing the kiddies. It was such a hit we plan on doing it every year from now on. Check out the birdseed Gingerbread house created by the Kellams. WOW! Good job!! St. Francis would be so proud!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

God Bless!

Fr. John+

HOLIDAY FUN!

Greetings in Christ!

Just thought I would post this for your enjoyment! Pam decided to have some holiday fun with the kids and make these ginger bread Churches. Do you recognize this church? YEP! It's our very own St. Gabriel's parish! The best part is the stain glass windows made from melted hard candy! Nice work Pam!! She's so creative! We will be making these with the kiddies of the parish this Wednesday night as the adults say evening prayer upstairs! Bring the kids for some Holiday fun!!

Blessed Advent!

Fr. John+

St. Nicholas Antiochian Celebration

Greetings in Christ!

Tonight it was my great honor to be a clergy guest at the St. Nicholas Antiochian celebration! They were celebrating the opening of their new parish as well as their anual pastoral visit from Bishop Antoun. St. Nicholas parish is only blocks from my parish St. Gabriel's. We have worked closely with each other over the past year and a half organizing fundraisers and having fellowship together. Fr. John Atchison was elevated to Arch-Priest this Sunday by his Grace the Right Reverend Bishop Antoun! Below is a photo of the GORGEOUS Pectoral cross that was bestowed on him! My Canterbury Cross pales in comparison! Also below you will find a photo of me and Bishop Antoun he is an extremely Holy and Godly Bishop and I am grateful for having met with him. I also met with a wonderful OCA (Orthodox Church in America) Priest. We discussed His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah's talks about possible unity with the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America) as I have heard Metropolitan Jonah speak in Bedford Texas six months ago and was very impressed with his call for unity between our two groups. The love and respect I was show tonight was overwhelming and it makes me all the more grateful to be a Priest in the ACNA and especially a Priest in the Diocese of Ft. Worth. We have so much to look forward to as we work towards building the kingdom! My prayer is that Anglicans everywhere heed the call and come on board and join us! UNITY! This is what our Lord prayed for! May we soon all be ONE!