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The Rev. Robert Berra

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About Saint Barnabas

Welcome to SaintBarnabas.org, our church community’s online expression of our life and mission. If you are looking for a place that feels like home, a place where friends remember your name and become excited when they see you across the patio, a place where members share the value of deep, life-changing faith in Jesus, you’ve come to the right place. All are welcome.

6715 North Mockingbird Lane
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Phone (480) 948-5560

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Do you feel God calling you to explore a new minis

Do you feel God calling you to explore a new ministry? 🙏 If so, you may be interested in a training opportunity through Community of Hope (CoH). CoH is a pastoral care model equipping and deploying lay chaplains to minister to the needs of the community, and we are currently welcoming applications for new laypersons. A 12-week training for Community of Hope lay chaplains begins in October 13, 2022, and Saint Barnabas is welcoming applications. For more info about this 12-week training and the CoH model, check out the link saintbarnabas.org/coh-training⁠
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A Father’s Day Prayer 💖 For fathers everywhe

A Father’s Day Prayer 💖

For fathers everywhere,
who have given us life and love,
that we may show them respect and love.

Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers.

For fathers who have lost a child through death,
that their faith may give them hope,
and their family and friends support and console them
Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers who mourn.
For men, though without children of their own,
have acted as fathers and have nurtured and cared for us.

Holy God, hear this prayer for our father figures.

For step-fathers who have assumed that role with love and joy,
who have loved the children of another as their own,
and created a new family.

Holy God, hear this prayer for step-fathers.

For adoptive fathers, who have claimed the orphan
and loved the once unwanted as a precious gift from God.

Holy God, hear this prayer for adoptive fathers.

For fathers who have been unable to be a source of strength,
who have not responded to the needs of their children,
and have not sustained their families.

Holy God, have mercy on absentee fathers
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For fathers who struggle with temptation, violence, or addiction.
For those who do harm, and for those whom they have harmed.

Holy God, have mercy on fathers that struggle.

For new fathers, full of hope.
For long-time fathers, full of wisdom.
For all the fathers yet to be, and fathers soon to be.

Holy God, hear our prayers for the fathers of your Church.

For those who have shaped our lives
Without claim to family or kinship.
For those who have taught us, guided us
Shaped us and molded us into servants of Christ our Lord.

Holy God, hear our prayer for the fathers of our faith.

For our fathers who have died,
That they may have a place in your eternal kingdom.

Holy God, hear this prayer for the fathers we continue to love but see no longer.

Grant this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

— adapted by Robb McCoy from the United Methodist Book of Worship, page 441.

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#FathersDay #HappyFathersDay #Dad #love #father #family #Dadday #daddy #fathers #BoundlessPresence #fatherhood #fathersdaycelebration #superhero #dadlife #fatheranddaughter #fatherandson #episcopal #Scottsdale #ArizonaDad

Welcome to the world Koah Oliver born 8.4.2022 💛 Congratulations to our Choir Director, Robert Heyde, his wife Stephanie and their family ✨ The Saint Barnabas family is overjoyed!

Join us THIS SUNDAY, when together we will celebra

Join us THIS SUNDAY, when together we will celebrate the arrival⁠
of the Holy Spirit. 🔴 Please wear RED to church. In the midst of the⁠
lesson from Acts read during worship, we are all invited to stand up⁠
and read scripture passages aloud in different languages to replicate⁠
the probable cacophony that occurred that day 2,000 years ago. If you would like to participate in reading in a different language, please contact the Rev. Jennifer Tucker at Jennifer@saintbarnabas.org Or you may pick up a copy of a reading on the narthex credenza on your way into church. You do not need to speak a different language fluently, you simply need to be willing to join the fun. Don’t miss it! Read more about it at: saintbarnabas.org/pentecost-sunday⁠
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Creativity can come in many forms. Whether it’s

Creativity can come in many forms. Whether it’s expressing your inner vibe through fashion, making a collage, crayoning the day away, creating fabulous looks with makeup and hairstyling, arranging a room, or any other artistic medium, engaging with the arts can be an amazing gateway to joy. (Highlight from Messy Arts)⁠
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#messyarts #boundlesspresence #comeandplay #artforall

Commitment Sunday for our Welcoming the Neighborho

Commitment Sunday for our Welcoming the Neighborhood Capital project is this weekend! ⭐⁠
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The Spirit of the living God thrives within our community with a generous welcome. Our time to be inspired by the Hope of our founders and carry that Hope forward has come. Working together, we can change lives by welcoming our parishioners with an updated parish kitchen in Hutton Hall, with increased outreach to new disciples through increased video conferencing, and with support for adult and youth faith journeys in upgraded facilities. Our time of faith, leadership and action has come to ensure that our buildings and grounds also thrive with a generous, profound welcome. With God’s help, we will!⁠
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On Sunday, we will gratefully bless our pledges at the altar during both services. However you might participate toward our goal, you are helping others share the same experiences that you’ve enjoyed with God and our community. ⁠
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🌟 Click the link in the bio to pledge your support!

“Creativity”. When we think about being creati

“Creativity”. When we think about being creative, images may come to mind of starving artists in cold garrets, perhaps wearing floppy berets and wielding wooden paint palettes. 🎨 Maybe we think of creativity or “being artistic” as something lofty, unreachable, unattainable; maybe it seems to require a talent or flair we just don’t feel as though we ourselves possess. “I could never do that…” And yet… if you ever try letting all that go, and just reach for a pot of finger paint or glitter, have at it and see what happens, something wonderful may come of it. Especially when you’re sitting next to a five-year-old.⁠

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Empty your heart - Thich Nhat Hanh 💟 Listening

Empty your heart - Thich Nhat Hanh 💟 Listening is an act of presence for the other. In listening to somebody, you are given the opportunity to act as midwife for their soul: to witness the emptying of their heart. The more you learn the ability to step back - to hold back input, to set aside all judgments, to quiet the voices of interruption both internal and external, and to truly listen to what is being expressed - the greater your ability will become to quietly hold space for the ideas and “heart” being birthed by the person to whom you are listening. 💕⁠
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#boundlesspresence #wisdom #thichnhathanh #episcopalianthoughts #listening

It’s Food Drive time! 🚙🍞🍯🍱 Drive ove

It’s Food Drive time! 🚙🍞🍯🍱 Drive over to the Saint Barnabas parking lot with donations in your trunk, 8-10am THIS Saturday, May 21. A team of volunteers will unload your donations for you 😷👍. Find more info on volunteering & donation needs at the #linkinbio⁠
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#boundlesspresence #feedthehungry #fooddrive #allarewelcome

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