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Weekly Postings December 16 - December 25, 2016
Mentors and Students at last Saturday's Angel Tree Breakfast Party 

In This Issue
Our schedule this SUNDAY
Service Participant Schedule for December
The Lessons for This Sunday
Add your prayer to the Advent Prayer Tree in Tyler Hall
Parish-wide Advent Formation
Christmas Play Rehearsals Information for Parents
Greening of the Church
Christmas and New Year's Schedules
12th Night Winter Gathering
Baptism Offered January 8
Save the date: Annual Parish Meeting and Brunch 1/22
Vestry Nominations Requested
Diocesan News
News from our Neighboring Parishes
December Birthdays
Meeting Next Week

This Sunday December 18
  Our Schedule This Sunday      
             
8:00 AM
Holy Eucharist Rite I
8:45  AM - 9:30 AM
Continental Breakfast -
Tyler Hall
9:00 AM 
 Children's Christmas Play Rehearsal
Gather in Tyler Hall
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
 Adult and Youth Christian Formation 
Berlin Room
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
 Coffee and Conversation 
in Tyler Hall
11:00 AM
Holy Eucharist Rite II with 
the Saint Paul's  & Canterbury Choir
Following the 11:00
AM Service 
Lemonade on the Lawn
5:30 PM
Celtic Evening Prayer & Communion
with Prayers for Healing  
The lessons for Sunday  are Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18; Romans 1:1-7; and Matthew 1:18-25.
Advent Prayer Tree in Tyler Hall
The Daughters of the King, an Episcopal Prayer Ministry, invites prayers for yourself and others. Attach your prayer request to the Advent Prayer Tree located in Tyler Hall.  For more information contact Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau .
Parish-wide Advent Formation- Being Disciples
Sundays at 9:30 AM
Wednesdays at 12:00 noon
This Season of Advent, as we expectantly prepare to receive Christ into the world and into our hearts, we invite the parish to join in reading Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life by Rowan Williams. The clergy will lead conversation each Sunday during the 9:30 AM formation hour and Wednesday from noon to one o'clock in the Berlin Room (bring your own lunch). Order at Amazon.com or Cokesbury.com.
Christmas Pageant
 
Christmas Play Information for PARENTS

Our Christmas Play will take place during the 11:00 AM service this Sunday. An email with instructions for each participant has been sent directly to each parent.   Email Rebecca Massie for further information.

IF anything goes awry-late, ill, etc.-between now and 9:00 AM Sunday, inform Rebecca or Fr. Jenkins ASAP so we can proceed and make necessary adjustments. Text messaging is preferable, otherwise voice call and message (Rebecca: 224-321-0072 - John: 334-300-3027).
 
Celtic Evening Prayer & Communion
with Prayers for Healing
Every Sunday, 5:30 PM  
This Sunday's Guest Musician is Rob Foster .
 


EYC (Episcopal Youth Community grades 6-12)
Sunday, Off-site
EYC will be held off-site this Sunday.  Contact Ranie for more information.  EYC sends a separate email for monthly events and reminders.  If you are not receiving this email and would like to contact the parish office. 
Next Week December 19 - December 25
Greening of the Church
Friday, December 23, 9:30 AM
The Flower Guild will begin the Greening of the Church Friday, December 23, at 9:30 am. Contact Lynn Mays  or Clint Carroll  if you are interested in helping to decorate the church for Christmas.
Christmas and New Year's Schedules


CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR'S SCHEDULES 

Christmas Eve 4:00 PM  & 10:00 PM
Christmas Eve Festival Celebrations with Choir, Brass, & Drums
A nursery will be available for the 4:00 PM service.
The 10:00 PM service will be broadcast live on WGAC 580 AM and 95.1 FM

Christmas 10:00 AM
Christmas Eucharist in the Chapel with Carols

New Year's Day
11:00 AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
5:30 PM Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion. Eryn Eubanks will be our guest musician.
Looking Ahead 
12th Night Winter Gathering
Friday, January 6, 6:30-8:30 PM, Fr. Jenkins's home

Advent greetings! I look forward to hosting a Winter Gathering for the adults of the parish at my home on January 6, and although that Friday in fact is the Feast of the Epiphany, we gather to celebrate the last night of the Season of Christmas, the 12th night of Christmas!

Hold that date and look for an e-invitation on the 1st day of Christmas!

In peace and expectation,
John
Baptism Offered
Sunday, January 8
Holy Baptism is offered on Sunday, January 8. If you are interested in being baptized into Christ's One Holy and Catholic Church, then please contact one of our clergy or the parish office, by Sunday December 25.
Annual Parish Meeting and Brunch
Sunday, January 22
VESTRY NOMINATIONS REQUESTED

The Vestry Nominating Committee is seeking candidates whom you believe would make outstanding Vestry members for Saint Paul's. If you'd like to suggest someone, including yourself, please contact Dea Baldwin, Jr. Warden  . 
VESTRY RESPONSIBILITIES
The basic responsibilities of the Vestry are:
· to help define and articulate the mission of this congregation
· to support the church's mission by word and deed
· to support the clergy
· to ensure effective organization and planning
· to manage resources and finances
· to attend monthly vestry meetings and annual vestry retreat
· to serve as liaison to assigned parish committees
This is a 3 year term.

MINIMUM CRITERIA
To be eligible for the Vestry, a nominee must answer "yes" to all of the following questions.
· Have you been baptized?
· Do you regularly attend worship services at Saint Paul's?
· Are you a pledging member of Saint Paul's?

CANDIDATE PROFILES
Each nominee slated to run for election to the Vestry will be invited to share a profile with the parish via our regular parish communications including the weekly newsletter.


QUARTERLY OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES
Fall Quarter (October - December)
  The new Quarterly Outreach Opportunities is available here.  Mark your calendar with these October - December 2016 service opportunities.  We invite you to join us as often as you are able. 
News from the Diocese


Click here to read this week's Diocese of GA Newsletter: From the Field  
 
News from our Neighboring Parishes  
A Lesson in Waiting: An Advent Quiet Day
Saturday, December 17, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church, 3321 Wheeler Rd., Augusta
The Very Rev. Billy Alford, Dean of the Augusta Convocation, hosted by the Augusta ECW Convocation.  For more information contact Pat Solomon (706) 798-1482 or Trish Darlington (706) 863-8127.
December 2016
Are we missing your birthday?
Please contact the Parish Office to update our files.

Our Second Sunday Birthday Celebration 
will be December 11.  Please Join us. 


 

 
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