Twenty-fifth Sunday After Pentecost November 11, 2021
8am & 10:30am
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Collect
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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The readings may be found here
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymn
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High School Large Chorus - Park Plaza Church of Christ; Tulsa, OK
Recessional Hymn
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WEDNESDAYS
10:30am - Morning Prayer
7-8pm - BIBLE STUDY
Join David and Lisa Gish and
NEW - Kids Bible Study: Rita Woods and Jacob Faunce
for Wednesday Evening Bible Study in Clardy Hall.
Pizza provided to feed the body; Word of God to feed the Soul
Saturday, November 20th
8:00am - St Joseph's Guild: Breakfast, prayer followed by installation of sliding screen door in the Bell Tower.
9:00am - DOK, Daughter's of King
Sunday, November 21st
Pledge Sunday - The Stewardship Committee is providing a lunch after the 10:30am service, everyone is encouraged to stay!
Thanksgiving Food Drive Benefiting FISH
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and School are partnering in a food drive to benefit Hunt County Shared Ministries (FISH). Our goal is to collect the items FISH uses to compile Thanksgiving baskets, although all donations are welcome and encouraged! Click to view list of items. We are collecting donations until Sunday, November 21st. Please drop off donations in the box in Clardy Hall. Thank you! "
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ADVENT SERIES COMING!
December 2, 9, 16 and 23
6:00-6:30 – Dinner; 6:30-7:30 – DVD & Discussion
Dinners hosted by Vestry member
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November 14 - Charcuterie Board coffee hour. Bring your favorite items or bring a board. Signup here
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November 21-
Stewardship Day- food sponsored
November 28 -
Bring your favorite
chips or veggies
and dip
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God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on his side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else – something it never entered your head to conceive – comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.
C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
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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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Please Pray for those on
our prayer list this week:
Marie and Ken Gunter,
Ginger Higgins, Bob Lanier,
Jimmy Herring and Family, Dana Medford, Robb Horn,
Elaine Bottone, Father Gordon
Julia Gibson, Beverly Gish,
Marcy Walsh, Mike Lavigne
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 ptting them in the blue box located in the Narthex.
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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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The MEMORIAL FUND
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES
THE FOLLOWING DONATIONS
IN MEMORY OF:
PAULA BACKUS
CJ CATHEY
DOLORES MILTENBERGER
BILL ROLSTON
Given by KAREN & TOMMY CAMPBELL
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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
Giving for Jesus
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Thank you to Jeff Faunce, Jacob Faunce, David Kirklin, Brad Hamann, Frank McKee, Mary's sister, Nina and husband, Ron Gaddy, who made and installed the screens to keep inscects and debris out of the bell tower. Lower left picture, Frank installing some drainage into the bell tower.
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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.
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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.
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“Don’t take Christ out of Christmas.” That was commonly said decades ago within my hearing. It was back when Christmas was ubiquitous but people were starting to pull back from the religious side of it. It was back when “only ten shopping days until Christmas” did not mean that Christmas was ten days away, because not every day was a shopping day (stores were closed on Sundays). It was a different world.
One focal point of opposition was the word “Xmas.” I heard adults railing against it: Look, they’re taking “Christ” out and replacing him with an X! Only long later did I learn that “X” is an old abbreviation for “Christ,” being the first letter of the Greek word Xristos (= Christ).
SAVE THE DATE: Out & About. The next “Good Books & Good Talk” seminar is set for 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 28. We will discuss Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
On the Web: The Stead Center has published another essay by me on fear, this one occasioned by crippling acts of weather, such as last February’s deep freeze. People were blaming everyone—except God. That strikes me as odd. https://www.steadcenter.com/instead/fear-and-anger/
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Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Podcasts
Daily podcast from the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas offers a reflection on scripture from the Old Testament Reading of the Daily Office Morning Prayer.
Every day throughout the year we’ll be bringing you an audio
scripture reading from the Old and New Testament.
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