November 08, 10:30am
WE ARE OPEN!
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Masks worn by all at worship. Please bring your own!
Only one entrance. Sanitizers
will be located there.
Worshippers/households
separated by 6 feet.
No tactile passing of the Peace
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Indoor services will not have congregational singing.
Collection plate placed at
entrance to the Nave
Bread only communion distributed within Diocesan protocols.
Join us for coffee hour
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Twenty-third
Sunday After Pentecost
November 8, 2020
The Rev. Dr. Bill Shaddox
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“Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed. Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in. Most of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve, and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it. Defense will be far harder down the road if we ignore the danger signals now.” Rabbi Daniel Lapin,
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COLLECT
The church is never true to itself when it is living for itself, for if it is chiefly concerned with saving its own life, it will lose it. The nature of the church is such that it must always be engaged in finding new ways by which to transcend itself. Its main responsibility is always outside its own walls in the redemption of common life. That is why we call it a redemptive society. There are many kinds of religion, but redemptive religion, from the Christian point of view, is always that in which we are spent on those areas of existence that are located beyond ourselves and our own borders.
Elton Trueblood, The Company of the Committed
(Harper & Row, 1961), 69.
The readings may be found here.
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymn
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Communion Hymn
Recessional Hymn
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Zoom Morning Prayer Wednesdays at 10:30
To call in, use one tap mobile: +13462487799,,9037772020#
or to dial: +1 346 248 7799.
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Streaming:
Since we’re doing so much online our Google, YouTube, Facebook reviews are particularly important. Please take the time to give us a 5-star review! : https://g.page/r/CfEFxlXVrQvbEAg/review
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Our Sunday services are available live at 10:25 am (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCmlrRFxbQF7CSAnFS8H9FA) and Facebook (https://facebook.com/stpaulsepiscopalgreenville). Our recorded Sunday service is broadcast on the GEUS community Channel (Channel 34) on Wednesdays at 8 am and 6 pm. Previously recorded services may be accessed anytime on our Facebook and YouTube pages. The recorded sermons may be found on our website as MP3s.
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Remote Eucharist continues, and a few parishioners are helping me to distribute the Eucharist to parishioners’ homes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please let me know by email if you’d like to receive the Holy Sacrament remotely. The best way to contact me is fathernickfunk@gmail.com.
- The Parish office remains closed; however we continue to check voicemails and emails regularly.
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The St. Paul’s Zoom Meeting may be found at https://zoom.us/j/9037772020. Our Meeting ID is: 903 777 2020. To call in, use one tap mobile: +13462487799,,9037772020# or to dial: +1 346 248 7799.
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Morning Prayer on Wednesdays at 10:30 via a Zoom meeting, and upload it live if Zoom and Facebook work together (about 75% success rate).
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HOW DOES OUR GARDEN GROW? |
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Thank you St. Paul's gardeners!
John Shasteen, Emma Shasteen, Laura Funk, Elaina Chrisman,
David, Abagail, Lily Stipe
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Choosing Hope: Finding Light in Times of Despair |
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Living with a pandemic and political unrest is taking a heavy toll. Alcohol consumption is up by 14% compared with a year ago; even higher for women. Depression and anxiety are making homes feel like pressure cookers. Makers of cannabis vape pens and cartridges are seeing booming sales. How can we find a spiritual immunization for the cold dark winter that is coming? (continue)
Individuals, Family Members & Caregivers,
Teens & Young Adults, Veterans & Active Duty,
Identy & Cultural Dimensions, Frontline Professionals
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NOVEMBER 12, 7pm
Alpha Online via Zoom!
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Stewardship Today
Debbie Shaffer - Stewardship Committee
“Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.” ― Steve Goodier
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You can make your checks payable to "St. Paul's Episcopal Church" and mail them to:
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
8320 Jack Finney Blvd.
Greenville, TX 75402
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Every Sunday we stand together in Church and say, "We believe in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." When we say this we are affirming that we are Communion Christians, koinonia believers, by which we mean:
-together with the Anglican Communion throughout the world
-together with the apostolic inheritance of the faith
-together with fellow Episcopalians in patience, charity, and humility
-together around the gift of Prayer Book sacramental spirituality
-together with the generation to come as evangelistic witnesses and teachers.
We have approximately 65 parishes within our geographical borders that reach north to Oklahoma, east to Arkansas, south to Corsicana and west to Tarrant County.
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Pray for the Church, the Body of Christ
Please pray for those on our prayer list this week:
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Hospitalized, Rehab, or recovering at home: Bill Rolston
Prayers: Robb Horn, Dana Medford Marcy Walsh, Paula Reeves, Judy Shaddox, Dolores & Father Gordon,
Mike Lavigne, Faye Hamann
Contact our church office to add
a name to our prayer list: 903-455-5030. Names remain
for one month unless renewed or canceled.
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We also pray for our Daughters of the King Ministry as they bring their strength and service together by praying for friends and for the people.
You may also add people to the list by filling out a DOK confidential prayer card and putting them in the blue box located in the Narthex.
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DOK PRAYER REQUESTS & BOX
The Daughters of the King support your prayer needs and wishes. Each Sunday a prayer team will be available to pray with you after the Worship Service in the choir area after the 10:30 service. If you would like additional information, please see a DOK member.
They also have a intercessory prayer box on the table in the Narthex to deposit prayer requests. Prayer request cards may be found in the pews and beside the box in the Narthex. Daughters pray daily. All prayers are confidential. Each person is prayed for one month. If you wish for continued prayers, please complete another request card or contact a Daughter.
You may call the church office (903-455-5030) and specify it is for the DOK intercessory prayer list. You can hand the card to a Daughter (she is always wearing her cross).
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