E-newsletter | May 30, 2018
Next Week's Calendar
Sunday, June 3:
FIRST FRUITS
8:30am: Holy Eucharist in Chapel
9:45am: Choir Practice
10:15am: Nursery Opens
10:30am: Holy Eucharist in Sanctuary

Following Service: End of the Year Party with cookout & games
Tuesday, June 5:
9:30am: Rockin' Toddlers
7:00pm: Al-Anon in library

Wednesday, June 6:
5:30pm: Holy Eucharist in Chapel
7:00pm: Dick Underwood Book Club

Thursday, June 7:
9:30am: Garden Club
12:00noon: Al-Anon in library
Upcoming Events
To celebrate the end of another wonderful Sunday School year, we will have a cookout following the 10:30am service this Sunday, June 3rd . We will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, and black bean burgers. We will have fun and games outside, so bring your best 4 square game!

Rockin' Toddlers & Preschoolers  
This program is a creative way to reach out to neighborhood families in a fun, non-threatening way. We will play music, sing songs, and dance for 30 minutes, and then share a snack. Parents/grand-parents/caregivers will be invited to fellowship and build relationships during this time. This is a program to leverage the strengths of St. Paul's to reach young families in our community. The program is on Tuesdays from 9:30-10:30am, beginning on June 5th  and will be held downstairs in the Parish House.
Vacation Bible School Meeting
There will be a VBS Meeting for adult and youth volunteers on Monday, June 11th from 5:00-7:00pm in the Parish House. We will review the curriculum and safe church standards, please plan to attend. 
Congregation to College –
Diocese of Western North Carolina
The purpose of Congregation to College is to help our young adults connect to a church or campus/young adult ministry as they transition to a new phase and location in their lives. We would love help our young adults find a loving and supportive faith community in North Carolina or in the Province IV region. S o that we may help grow these connections, please fill out the form at https://form.jotform.com/diocesewnc/congregationtocollege
Thank you.
Donations to Crisis Assistance Ministry
This year for Father’s Day, we ask you to honor your father with a memorial gift to our Crisis Assistance Ministry.  Please put "Father's Day donation" in the memo line of your check. Thank you for honoring your loved ones by helping Crisis Ministry help our neighbors in need.
Opportunities
Office Volunteers Needed
Our Administrative Assistant, Lynne Sturdivant, will be going part-time beginning in June. Her hours will be Tuesday through Thursday, 9am–5pm. We are looking for volunteers to come on Mondays to answer phones, greet people, and do other light office work. The shifts will be: from 9am–12noon and then in the afternoon from 1pm–4pm. Ideally we would have one person working each shift on any single Monday, but several people could team up to complete a single shift. Please email Ann or Lynne if you would like to volunteer.
The Office Staff Needs Your Help!
The air conditioner in the church office is no longer working. If you have a window mounted A/C unit that you would be willing to lend to the office until the big unit is fixed, please let us know.
Next Week's Celebrations
Birthdays:
June 6-Mule Ferguson
June 6-Denise Morris
June 6-Hannah Hartzog
June 7-Bryan Hartzog
Anniversaries:
June 6-Randall & Naomi Faw
June 7-Dan & Pat Bumgarner
June 7-Ken & Laura Welborn
June 7-Chuck & Kim Forester
Prayer List
Please remember in your prayers: All those who are ill or unemployed. All those who are on our prayer list.
Illness
Rik Absher, Carol Ambrose, Jim Andrews, Bob Arthur, Joe Barber, Dub Canter, Ken Canter, Gary Coffey, Rancene Cook, LaMar Creasman, Ann Davis, Ernestine Freas, Gail Gattis, Mike Graf, Edward C. Griffith III, Janet Hartzog, Gerald Hendley, Larry Hendley, John Jacobson, Pat Jones, Joan Knox, Joe Manolovich, Maggie McCann, Susan McManus, Ann McNeill, Donna Moore, Bertie Pardue, Jeffrey Parisi, Curtis
Parker, Kathy Sapp, Bob Skees, Ester Small, Duane Smith, Carolyn Stephens, Marie Waddell, Jerry Waddell, Dick Whittington, and Cole Younger.
 

Armed Forces
Let us pray for the safety of all our troops , especially Rob Beauchaine, Alex Cline, Philip Cooney, Karl Duerk, Mike Earley, William Grant, Edward C. Griffith IV, Jacob B. Hall, Jonathan Johnson, Brandon Moore, Russ Necessary, Charlie & Lauren Pendry, Adam Pinkerton, Philip Southwell, Mark Stone, Patrick Szvetitz, Jackson Triplett, Nathan Wyatt, and all others who serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout
the world.

Please send to the church office the addresses of troops with connections to office@stpaulwilkesboro.org , especially those abroad.
Readings: The Liturgy of the Word for June 3, 2018
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

Psalm 81:1-10
Sing with joy to God our strength *
and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.

Raise a song and sound the timbrel, *
the merry harp, and the lyre.

Blow the ram's-horn at the new moon, *
and at the full moon, the day of our feast.

For this is a statute for Israel, *
a law of the God of Jacob.

He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, * when he came out of the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar voice saying *
"I eased his shoulder from the burden;
his hands were set free from bearing the load."

You called on me in trouble, and I saved
you; *
I answered you from the secret place of thunder
and tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: *
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

There shall be no strange god among you; *
you shall not worship a foreign god.

I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, *
"Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it."

2 Corinthians 4:5-12
We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the
death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Mark 2:23-3:6 
One sabbath Jesus and his disciples were going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
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