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January 26 - February 4, 2018
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Annual Meeting, Parish Brunch, & Vestry Elections
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Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 28, The River Room
The 268th Annual Parish Meeting and Brunch will be held Sunday, January 28, following the 11 AM service.
Parish Brunch
Following the 11 AM service, The River Room
Anita Tanner, chair of the Hospitality Committee, is coordinating brunch. Questions?
Contact Anita.
- We need a full set up and clean up teams. Please contact Anita to sign up.
- Bring a brunch dish to share to the River Room kitchen prior to church on the 28th. Wondering what to bring? Anita is happy to make a suggestion.
- Please make sure your dish is labeled.
Sunday Worship Service Schedule for the 28th
We will not hold an 8:00 AM service on January 28; however we will hold the 5:30 PM Celtic Service.
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Vestry Elections
Carol Cook, Christine Flanagan, Donald Horton, Steve Whitney, and Bobby Wright have been nominated to fill three open Vestry positions. Brett Montroy has been nominated to serve as Chancellor. Billy Badger has been nominated as Senior Warden. Bryan Hawkins, Wright Montgomery, Claiborne Porubsky, and Brad Sandbach will conclude Vestry/Warden terms on Easter Monday.
An updated copy of the Vestry nominees' biographies is available here.
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Manna Pantry This Afternoon & Tomorrow Morning
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 Manna Pantry
Friday and Saturday, January 26 & 27, Tyler Hall
Our next Manna Pantry is Friday and Saturday, January 26 & 27, in Tyler Hall. Manna Pantry at Saint Paul's Church provides a box of food six times a year to those in our community who need this supplemental assistance. Manna Pantry volunteers unload and organize food from Golden Harvest, and assemble boxes for recipients Friday from 4:00 - 5:30
PM. Recipients are registered and served on Saturday morning from 9:30
AM - 12:00 noon. Volunteers also help carry boxes to the cars. For more information or to volunteer, please
contact Anita Tanner
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EYC at Manna Pantry
Friday, January 26, 4:00
PM,
Tyler Hall
EYC will meet next Friday January 26, to help with Manna Pantry in Tyler Hall. Friday we gather at 4 PM and will go out for an early dinner as a group afterwards. If you can't make it Friday night, you're encouraged to come Saturday AM with your family. Come and support Saint Paul's in our outreach to the Augusta community! Email Ranie with questions.
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| Our Schedule This Sunday |
January 28 |
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NO 8:00 AM service this Sunday
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8:45 - 9:30
AM
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Continental Breakfast
Tyler Hall
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9:30 - 10:30 AM
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Christian Formation Classes for all ages (see schedule below.)
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10:30 - 10:45
AM
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Coffee and Conversation
Tyler Hall
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11:00
AM
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Holy Eucharist Rite II with the Canterbury and Saint Paul's Choirs
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Following 11:00
service |
Annual Meeting & Parish Brunch
River Room
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5:30
PM
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Celtic Evening Prayer & Communion with Prayers for Healing
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Mardi Gras is early this year! Buy your tickets this Sunday!
The Mardi Gras Committee will have tickets for sale in the Narthex and at the Annual Meeting.
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 Celtic Evening Prayer & Communion
with Prayers for Healing
Sundays, 5:30 PM
Eryn Eubanks and the Family Fold are our guest musicians this Sunday.
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Cornerstone for EYC 
Sunday, 5 - 6:30 PM, Church of Our Savior
EYC (Episcopal Youth Community, grades 6-12) will meet for Cornerstone at Church of Our Savior, 4227 Columbia Rd., Augusta, for a cookout and bonfire. Email Ranie with question or for more information on our EYC 2018 spring schedule. |
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A CRASH-COURSE in The Gospel of Mark, led by Rev. John Jenkins
Session #3 of 5
Sundays, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Chapel
Wednesdays, Noon - 1:00 PM, Youth Room/Upper Tyler Hall
Mark's Gospel will be read in our Sunday Eucharistic liturgies throughout this year (Lectionary Year A: Matthew; Year B: Mark; Year C: Luke), so this is an ideal time to learn about its background, context and major theological themes. This short course will broaden your understanding and engagement with the themes of our liturgical music, prayers, and preaching throughout the coming year. There is no book for class, but all are encouraged to invest the time necessary to read the full Gospel in one sitting-about an hour and a half.
Sessions 1 and 2: We will view a video presentation of the entire Gospel of Mark-a solo recitation-in order to garner a sense of the whole story as early Christians might have experienced it and which is markedly different from what we experience in our weekly lectionary readings.
Sessions 3: Historical context and overview
Sessions 4 & 5: Major Theological themes
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Creation Care Documentary Film Series
Sundays, 9:30 - 10:30 AM, Berlin Room
Creation Care for this Sunday, January 28, features Part II of Mark Albertin's documentary "At What Cost? Pipelines, Pollution and Eminent Domain in the Rural South." Topics for discussion include the critical role of wetlands in our ecosystem and the preservation of clean drinking water in our region. Come and join us in applauding Mark's work.
Next week, we will begin a book study. If you are interested in the natural order of God's creation, you will be fascinated by David George Haskell's book,
The Forest Unseen, a Year's Watch in Nature. The author conducts a search for the universal within a tiny strip of land on the domain at Sewanee, the University of the South. Join the Creative Care team in the study of his writings about the winter season at formation classes February 4 and February 11. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Contact Bryan Haltermann for more information.
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Confirmation for 9th and 10th graders 
No Classes this Sunday.
Resumes Sunday, January 28, 9:30 AM
Confirmation for 9th and 10th graders resumes Sunday, January 28, 9:30
AM
in the Conference Room. Best b'fast Bojangles has to offer! Please
email Ranie
to confirm participation and receive a schedule for the semester.
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My Faith - My Life -- grades 6-12
Leader: Todd Shafer
Youth Formation held in the Youth Room, Upstairs Parish House. But first, breakfast to get the morning going!
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 SPARK -- Ages 8-10 or grades 3-5
Leader: Coleman Graham
Location: Room #1, Children's Ministries Center
Our older children will again immerse themselves in SPARK, where they will work with the same themes and Scripture that we all encounter in common worship. Every lesson follows a four-part pattern: Gather, Open the Bible, Activate Faith, and Send. Week after week, the children and their leaders gather together, explore the Scriptures, enjoy one another's company, pray, and discover God's presence in their midst. |
 Godly Play -- Ages 4-7
Leaders: Ginny Henson & Kim Butler
Location: Room #2 Children's Ministry Center
ALL children inherently know God, but it is up to us to give them the language of the Christian faith so they can grow to make meaning of our faith in their own lives. Godly Play is a profound method rooted in Montessori principles that forms child spirituality by attending to their natural gifts for wonder and discovery. Children are greeted at the door of the Godly Play room by Ginny, the "door person." It is VERY important for parents to respect the boundary of the door threshold by not entering the children's sacred space--their Godly Play room. We cannot wait to welcome your children each Sunday! |
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
MARDI GRAS 2018
Saturday, February 10, 6:30 PM
Come and enjoy great friends, great music with the band Swingsation and a great New Orleans style menu!
Buy chances for the 50/50 Raffle, bid on art by some of our own Saint Paul's beloved artists, raise your paddle at the Live Auction to claim a great experience with some of our creative and talented parishioners. Back by popular demand will be sailing with the Vagovics, cruising with the Shafers, a Cole Porter musical evening with Lynda & Stewart Shevitz, the Sheftalls, Bairds and Martha Scroggs are planning a German meal to remember! Maybe you would like a romantic sunset aerial tour or a weekend at an oceanfront condo at Fripp Island courtesy of the Butlers?
BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! $50 in the Narthex on Sundays, in the office on weekdays and
The Mardi Gras committee requests your donations for the Silent Auction!
Are you an artist? Do you teach a class of some sort? Do you have a hobby you are interested to share? Are you a baker or candy maker? Do you have tickets to a sporting event, concert, theater, or museum? Do you have a fine collectible or antique that you can part with? Maybe Aunt Gladys' silver candlesticks that you just don't want anymore... If you do,
contact Kathy Enicks or call her at (484) 433-4007.
ALL proceeds fund the Saint Paul's Outreach ministries. These include Manna Pantry, Masters Table Soup Kitchen, DCCM, St. James Benevolence Fund, St. Stephens Ministry, the Veteran's Ice Cream Socials, and our neighborhood school Craig-Houghton. We need your support!
So put on your dancing shoes,
grab your beads and your mask
and come to the Mardi Gras!
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| Next Week |
January 29 - February 4 |
 Quiet Day
Saturday, February 3, 9:30 AM - Noon
If the idea of a morning of total silence sounds appealing, please join the Daughters of the King, Saturday, February 3, 9:30
AM - 12 noon. Bring "prayer tools" such as your bible, journal, or anything used for meditation and Fr. Muir will lead us on a spiritual morning of quiet solitude. All are welcome, but please let us know if you'd like to join us by
emailing Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau or calling her at 706-359-4480 before February 1.
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 Tuesday's Music Live
Tuesday, February 6, 12 noon
Tuesday's Music Live, 30th season continues Tuesday, February 6, with a free concert by the Davidson Fine Arts Chorale, at
12 noon
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Lunch, catered by It's Official, is available after the concert by advance reservation. The cost is $12 per person. The full schedule including lunch menus is available at
www.TuesdaysMusicLive.com
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Welcome to Saint Paul's For Newcomers and Visitors
Sunday, February 11, 10
AM
, The Parlor OR
Wednesday, February 21, 5:30
PM
, The Parlor
New to the Saint Paul's community? Get your questions answered and meet some of our staff and parish leaders in an informal gathering in the parlor 10 AM, Sunday, February 11, or join us prior to our next fellowship dinner, Wednesday, February 21, 5:30 PM. RSVP to Elisabeth in the Parish Office. |
Pub Theology 
Monday, February 12, 7 PM, Pizza Joint
Mark your calendars for February 12, 7 pm at the Pizza Joint in downtown Augusta! Join a varied group of young(ish) adults to explore some of the "big" questions around our meaning, purpose, and God. We hope to grow in our understanding of ourselves and God as we gather together over drinks (whether coke or ale). We welcome all faiths, but especially focus on the Christian perspective informed by the Episcopal tradition. For more information please
email Ranie.
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 QUARTERLY OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES
Winter Quarter (January - March 2018)
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Are we missing your birthday?
Our "Second Sunday"
Birthday Celebration
will be February 11. Please Join us.
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