 Episcopal Relief & Development Offering
We will be collecting an offering to support Episcopal Relief & Development's mission to heal a hurting world. Your offering will go to the agency's Global Needs fund, which enables the agency to reach people who are most in need worldwide. Please make your donation by Monday, February 22. We will send the offering next week.
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Inquirers' Class -- ALL who wish to learn more about the Episcopal Church are invited to attend this class held on the Sundays in Lent, February 14 - March 20, at 10:00 am in the Chapel, and led on alternating weeks by Frs. Muir and Jenkins. The class is open to newer parishioners and those who have been here for a long time too!
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Veterans' Ice Cream Social
Sunday, February 21, 2:15 - 4:00 PM, Georgia War Veterans' Nursing Home
Thank our Veterans for their service Sunday afternoon, February 21, at our quarterly ice cream social. We'll Meet at the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home on 15th Street in the dining hall at 2:15
PM
to serve ice cream and cookies and spend time visiting with our Veterans. All ages welcome.
Contact Sid Trimmier
for more information.
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Cornerstone for EYC
Sunday February 21, 5:00 - 6:30 PM
EYC (grades
6-12) will meet from
5:00 - 6:30
PM
at
Cornerstone next Sunday, February 21, hosted this month by Saint Augustine's (located at 3321 Wheeler Road, Augusta, GA 30909)
. Bring your friends and join us for food, games, fellowship, and worship!
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Evensong & Reception
Sunday, February 21, 5:30 PM
The Saint Paul's Choir will sing Evensong on Sunday, February 21, at 5:30
PM. Evensong is a service of vespers sung daily in Anglican cathedrals around the world. It is almost entirely sung, has no sermon, and lasts less than an hour.
The Saint Paul's Choir will sing music of Martin Neary, Herbert Howells, and Howard Helvey. Mark Dickens will be guest organist. This is an excellent opportunity to invite a friend to Saint Paul's. The Nursery will be available and a reception in Tyler Hall follows the service.
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February 22 - 28 |
 Tuesday's Music Live
Tuesday, February 23, 12:00 noon
Tuesday's Music Live continues its 28th season Tuesday, February 23 with a free concert by Warp Trio. The full schedule is available on-line here. Lunch, catered by Sleeping Bear Kitchen, is available after the concerts by advance reservation. The cost is $12 per person. Reservations can be made online or by calling the Box Office, 706-722-3463. |
LENTEN WEDNESDAYS: Searching for Sunday
Wednesdays, Beginning February 17, noon-1 PM, Tyler Hall,
BYO lunch
Lent is the time when we intentionally prepare for the pinnacle event of our faith's proclamation on Easter Day, "Alleluia, the Lord is Risen!" This season of Lent, rather than "give up" something--like sweets--we invite you to "take up" the practice of meeting in community to take an honest look at our relationship with God and with God's Church in a conversation shaped by author Rachel Held Evans's beautiful book, Searching for Sunday, and led by our clergy. We will meet in Tyler Hall at noon on February 17th and each Wednesday following until Holy Week. While we enthusiastically recommend Evans's book (available at Amazon or Cokesbury ), reading is not required to participate in these discussions. So bring a lunch, an inquiring heart, and a healthy sense of humor.
Can't make it to the class?
1Book1Diocese
Searching for Sunday
will be our Lenten Book
You can take part by adding your comments on that reflection as well as your thoughts on the questions posed there and on anything you want to share on reading
Searching for Sunday.
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Saint Paul's Book Club
Thursday, February 25, 10:00
AM, Tyler Hall
The Saint Paul's Book Club will meet Thursday, February 25, 10:00
AM in Tyler Hall to discuss
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
New members welcome for one book or the entire season.
Contact Anita Tanner for more information.
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Master's Table Soup Kitchen
Saturday, February 27, 8:30 AM
- 12:30
PM
The Master's Table Soup Kitchen at 702 Fenwick Street will be staffed and sponsored by Saint Paul's Church volunteers on Saturday, February 27. First shift, from 8:30 - 10:30
AM,
will cook and set up; second shift, from 10:30
AM
- 12:30
PM,
will serve. We welcome all volunteers. There's a job for everyone no matter your age. Come be a part of this wonderful ministry.
Contact Marilyn Grau
for more information.
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Acolyte Training
February 28, 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, Tyler Hall and Church
Acolyte Training, for all current acolytes and anyone interested in becoming an acolyte, will be held February 28, immediately following the 11:00
AM service. Lunch will be served. The Acolyte Guild is open to anyone aged 8 and older. For more information please
contact Todd Shafer.
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 Easter Egg Hunt Preparations
The Children, Youth, and Family Committee is requesting families drop off a bag of candy to be placed in eggs for our Annual Easter Egg Hunt. There will be a box in Tyler Hall marked as the drop off point, beginning Sunday. Your candy donations are appreciated.
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Open Sundays for Altar Flowers and Easter
April 3, 10, and 24 are open Sundays for altar flowers. If you would like to sponsor the flowers in thanksgiving or memory of someone special, please contact
Lynn Mays or
Clint Carroll. Additional offerings this year for Easter Sunday: Altar Flowers - $200; Narthex arrangement - $50; Paschal Candle - $50; Pulpit - $50; Processional Crosses - $50.
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15th Annual Empty Bowl Luncheon
Sunday, March 6, 11 AM - 2:30 PM
Our Sunday school classes created ceramic bowls for the 15th Annual Empty Bowl Luncheon. The event is a joint project of the Augusta Jewish Community Center (AJCC) and the Golden Harvest Food Bank. Modeled after the soup lines of the Great Depression, Empty Bowl was created to "Ending Hunger Together," featuring a large assortment of soups, breads, and desserts, donated by generous local restaurants. Attendees receive a student created bowl. This year there will be a very special event for the kids, as they help recreate the tale "Stone Soup," which is so appropriate for the theme of the day. The event takes place on March 6, 11:00
AM - 2:30
PM at the Legends Club located at 2701 Washington Road. All proceeds benefit Golden Harvest Food Bank and the Augusta Jewish Community Center. Hope to see you there!
Presale Tickets:
Adults - $20 in advance ($25 at the door)
Children (2-10 yrs.) - $5 in advance ($7.50 at the door)
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Youth (Grades 7 - 9)
Apply for March 4-6 New Beginnings Retreat
New Beginnings will take place during the weekend of March 4 -6, 2016 at Honey Creek. New Beginnings is a weekend retreat for teenagers in grades 7-9 led by a team of mostly teenagers, with a few adults, and two clergy spiritual directors. The weekend takes participants through a discovery about ourselves, our friends, our families, our faith, and how to live out our faith in our daily lives. You are encouraged to bring friends from your church and an adult who will stay through the weekend. Everyone will take an active part in the program. You can go to New Beginnings as many times as you'd like...as long as you're in grades 7-9. We know once you go, you will want to go back. There is even an opportunity to serve on the team...you'll hear more about that at the weekend. Financial assistance is available.
Contact Ranie Neislar for more information.
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Tree Dedication in memory of The Reverend Dr. Mary-Kathleen Blanchard
March 8, 11:00 AM, Saint Paul's Churchyard
You are cordially invited to join Augusta Woman's Club for the dedication of a Camellia Japonica in memory of The Reverend Dr. Mary-Kathleen Blanchard who has been remembered by Mary Speir through the gift of a living tree. The dedication of the tree will be Tuesday, March 8, at 11
AM in the Churchyard.
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 Tuesday's Music Live
Tuesday, March 8, 12:00 noon
Tuesday's Music Live continues its 28th season Tuesday, March 8 with a free concert by Misuzu Tanaka, Pianist and Maksim Shtrykov, Clarinet. Lunch reservations can be made
online or by calling the Box Office, 706-722-3463.
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January - March Outreach Opportunities
Click here to find the winter 2016 service opportunities. Some are year-round; others are seasonal. Check often to see how you may get involved. We invite you join us as often as you are able.
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Each week the Diocese of Georgia will share a bulletin insert.
The goal is simply to spread good news through the Diocese and unite our congregations with knowledge of what everyone is accomplishing in their own communities.
We have chosen to share this information with you through the
Weekly Postings
. An archive of the Weekly Newsletter from the Diocese, "
From the Field,
" is available here. If you would like to receive the full newsletter from the Diocese, add your email address to the sign-up page on the bottom of the home page for the Diocese of GA.
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Oak Street Episcopal Mission-
Setting Goals, Looking to the Future
Oak Street Mission has recently begun to restructure the
management of its organization by returning to a totally volunteer-run organization while the board begins a search for a new After School Coordinator and eventually, a new Executive Director.
Alston Watt, Chair of the Board of Oak Street Mission, shared her thoughts on this transition: "When we realized that we were going to return to a volunteer-run program, it made us step back and reflect on our core values, goals, and aspirations."
The team at Oak Street, which consists of parishioners from three Thomasville churches, met together in December with the Very Rev. Denise Ronn, co-coordinator of the Church Leadership Development Programs. They used this meeting to reassess the core values of the program, set some goals, clearly define the roles of the board, and revitalize the volunteers in the wake of this new transition. "Denise's work with our group- she just pulled us all together beautifully. The goals we set are feeding and watering [not only the Oak Street Mission but also] our own three churches and teaching us to be a part of the hope of this neighborhood.," says Alston.
Ronn used methods taught in CDI to assist the board in examining the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, define its mission and purpose, establish some priorities, and revitalize and unify the board members.
Core Values of Afternoons at Oak Street
- Afternoons at Oak Street will always reflect in every way respect for the dignity and worth of all involved, children from the neighborhood, volunteers of all ages, employees
- Afternoons at Oak Street will always encourage children in the neighborhood to exercise their talents to the maximum and to keep all opportunities for their future open
- Afternoons at Oak Street will always be a program that inspires confidence and resiliency
- Afternoons at Oak Street will always strive to foster in the children of the neighborhood a lifelong faith in the love, mercy and faithfulness of God
- Afternoons at Oak Street will strive to help the children in the neighborhood to grow socially, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Goals for Afternoons at Oak Street
- Provide a safe, welcoming, loving environment within which the core values can be fostered
- Empower youth and adults from the Episcopal Church and other churches to be effective volunteers who understand and further the core values of the program
- Secure regular volunteer support from each of the Episcopal Churches
- Develop productive relationships with the children's parents and caregivers so that they can reinforce the life lessons that the program is trying to teach
- Communicate frequently and effectively the goals, successes and challenges with the neighbors, the three Episcopal Churches and potential future supporters
- Oak Street also plans to develop more stable funding by applying for 501c3 status in the first quarter of the year. This would be a major step for the organization that would provide future opportunities to apply for grants and other types of outside funding.
By the third quarter of the year, Oak Street will hire a full or part time Executive Director. This person will be the face of the organization in the Oak Street Community and help communicate the needs of its people to the leadership of the mission. Watt said, "We have a better understanding of our needs in an executive director than we did two years ago."
She added, "This neighborhood needs a lot of love and care. We always understood that in our heads but now we understand it in our hearts. All three churches are really committed to this work and mission."
About the Oak Street Mission
The Oak Street Mission is a ministry of the three Episcopal churches in Thomasville-All Saints, Good Shepherd, and St. Thomas. A result of the Campaign from Congregational Development's emphasis on creating Signature Ministries, the mission was founded as the Episcopal Development Agency of Thomasville (EDAT). The Oak Street Mission continues to foster the development of the Oak Street Community surrounding Good Shepherd Church.
Episcopal Diocese of Georgia
- www.gaepiscopal.org
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