Spreading God's Word, Not the Virus
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The Good Shepherds:
The Rev. Dr. Stiles B. Lines
By
Tim Kilpatrick
,
Interim Youth Minister
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At the Annual Parish Meeting on January 17, 1961, the Acting Senior Warden, Leroy Diggans, presided as chairman after the rather sudden retirement of Rev. Marlan W. Zimmerman. He announced that a new Junior Warden would be elected at the next Vestry Meeting, and that, since he was rotating off the Vestry, and the Senior Warden, Ralph M. Gardner was retiring due to failing health, the Junior Warden would become the official head of St. Paul’s until a permanent Rector was appointed. The Vestry met the very next day and unanimously elected Robert B. Gracey as Junior Warden. (Robert was Barbara Gracey Backer’s uncle) Supply priests ministered to the people of St. Paul’s and conducted services for a period of about 6-months, when a new rector was called.
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Daily Reflection from
Bishop Peter Eaton
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Today the Church remembers James Weldon Johnson, the author of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a poem that Johnson wrote in 1900 to commemorate a visit by Booker T. Washington to the Stanton School, a black school in Jacksonville. It was first recited by 500 students in celebration of Lincoln’s birthday. Subsequently, Johnson’s equally talented younger brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, set the words to the music we know, and in 1919, the NAACP adopted this as “the Negro National Anthem” (now more commonly referred to as the Black National Anthem). Johnson would go on to serve the NAACP as its executive secretary for a decade, from 1920 to 1930. Both Johnson and his brother were at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
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The Episcopal Church's Response to Racist Violence
In this time of national upheaval, outrage, and fear, we are writing to share resources with you on the Church’s responses. Over the weekend, as the nation and the Church mourned the egregious death of George Floyd, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry shared this message with the Church:
“Our long-term commitment to racial justice and reconciliation is embedded in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. We will still be doing it when the news cameras are long gone.”
The Episcopal Church’s Department of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care and the Office of Government Relations assembled resources to assist individuals, congregations and communities seeking to LEARN, PRAY and ACT. We hope you find these useful, and we encourage you to make your voice heard in all the ways you are able to.
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The Efficacy of Masks and Social Distancing in Reducing COVID19 Transmission:
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Faithful Giving
Please help us to keep our mission and ministry strong. St. Paul's staff, operations, community outreach, and our missions to help the most vulnerable are dependent on Sunday offerings to keep afloat. When Sunday offerings decrease, our missions become at risk. Please support St. Paul's now by one of the options below:
Safe and secure online giving on our website
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St. Paul's has a safe and secure electronic donation service available allowing you to make single donations or set up recurring donations. Click the button below to visit our donation page:
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Mail
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If you prefer to send your pledge or other donation by check, please send your contribution to: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444.
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Zoom Coffee Hour
Sunday, June 28th, at 11:30am
Please join us for this Sunday morning coffee hour after our 10:00am virtual service!
No Zoom account needed to join:
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A snapshot of St. Paul's virtual coffee hour for Father's Day, June 21st
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Check Out Our NEW Website!
ALL new with tons of info
and pictures!
Take a video tour of Bondeau and
Meet some of the leaders!
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Please Subscribe to the South Florida Haiti Project’s YouTube Channel!
The South Florida Haiti Project now has a YouTube channel now that we will be using for our Journey with Bondeau Virtual Event on August 7. Currently all the videos from our website reside there as well. In order to have our name on the channel (
youtube.com/southfloridahaitiproject
) we must have 100 subscribers FIRST. It will be much easier for people to find us with our own name... please take 2 seconds to subscribe... it literally will take you only 2 seconds.... click on the link below and then once the page comes up, click on the subscribe button.
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Save the Date!
Friday, August 7 at 7:00 PM
You are invited to join us from your own home!
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THURSDAY, June 25:
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
From the Archives: September 2, 1945
No one can describe fully to another what it is like to be in love. And so, when asked, one hesitates to describe it fully, lest such a personal thing be spoiled in the telling or told to one who will not appreciate it.
The same is true of the reception of the sacrament. One can beat around the subject. We can say that when Napoleon was asked, during his exile, what the greatest experience of his life had been, he replied, “My first communion.” We can approach the subject in other ways, but we never seem to touch the heart.
Perhaps the best thing to say first is: Go to the sacrament full of expectation. Expect the unknown, more than has been told to you. You will not be disappointed. And if you are, go again. Great treasure is worth seeking.
MOVING FORWARD:
How is God redeeming something painful in your life? Share that good news with someone today.
Read the contemporary reflection
here
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A Prayer for Healing Racial, Systemic and Social Inequity
from Buddhist Activist and Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh
Aware of the suffering caused by racial, systemic, and social inequities, we commit ourselves, individually and as a community, to understanding the roots of these inequities, and to transforming this suffering into compassion, understanding, and love in action.
As a global community of practitioners, we are aware of the disproportionate racial violence and oppression committed by institutions and by individuals, whether consciously or unconsciously, against African Americans, Indigenous peoples and people of color across the United States and beyond.
We know that by looking deeply as individuals and as a community, we can engage the collective wisdom and energy of (our faith communities) to be our foundation for Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Mindfulness, and Right Insight. These are the practices leading to nondiscrimination, non-harming, and non-self, which heal ourselves and the world.
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Due to Covid-19 Restrictions, we are not meeting until September.
South County Civic Center
16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach, FL
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Help Wanted!
More volunteers are needed to keep this regular program of interfaith dialogue going and growing.
Specifically, we need persons with financial skills, public relations skills, leadership skills, and computer proficiency. If you are interested in joining our diverse and talented leadership team, please let us know.
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Interfaith Committee:
Shower Truck Donations Needed
In this midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, the Interfaith Committee of Delray Beach has partnered with the Delray Beach Police Department to keep their shower truck operations available to those enduring homelessness in our area.
A major aspect of this shower truck program is the distribution of clean clothing to participants afterwards,
if you would like to help by way of donating these much needed pieces of clothing, please contact Caren Kilpatrick, Parish Administrator, at (561) 319-7947.
"Specifically, the shower truck needs men’s shorts or jeans sizes 32-34 desperately. We have larger sizes!"
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Gentle Flow Yoga
With Patti Daniell
Friday, June 26th, at 9:30am
Tuesday, June 30th at 9:30am
Every week on Tuesdays and Fridays, until June 30.
(The Zoom login link has been updated as of May 6th, prior Zoom links will no longer work.)
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Prayerful Virtual Yoga
Tuesday, June 30th
at 7:00pm
TUESDAYS: 7:00pm – 8:30pm,
hosted via Zoom
We will practice a nourishing posture sequence filled with twists and turns + Breath of JOY + Blessings upon Blessings ON OUR MAT in the comfort of our own homes!!!
Root to Rise, Twist and Turn,
Energize then RELAX
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DELRAY'S COVID-19 TESTING SITE
NOW OPEN
Location: South County Civic Center
16700 S. Jog Road
Delray Beach, FL 33446
Call between 7am - 7pm
(561) 804-0250
Appointments are required!
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Palm Beach County Community Resource Guide
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The Volen Center has instituted a program using their fleet of buses to deliver free lunches to seniors 60+ in Boca, Delray and Boynton. Outlined below is the program and who can be contacted. If you have any people who might benefit, please send us the names and numbers or pass along this information to them. Anyone we can help is a plus.
Lunches delivered to residences daily and 3 meals on Friday to cover the weekend.
To enroll, e-mail or call the following staff:
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Volunteering Opportunities
Dear Volunteers,
Please see the attached a list of volunteer opportunities and agency needs. You will need to connect with the agencies directly to volunteer and/or make an item donation. If you have not completed the waiver and you do plan on volunteering, please use the link to complete the waiver
https://secure.unitedwaypbc.net/inetwork/VolunteerForm
Please note the first volunteer opportunity highlighted below, volunteers are especially needed for this event.
Volunteers are needed to sort and pack PPE for nonprofit agencies in Palm Beach County so they can continue to operate as well as provide supplies to their clients. The sorting and packing will be on Tuesday, June 30 from 1:00-5:00. We are limiting the volunteers for sorting and packing to 10.
Distribution to the nonprofit agencies will take place on Wednesday, July 1 from 9:00-11:00 and 1:30-3:30. Three volunteers are needed for each time slot to load the supplies into agency cars. Volunteers must wear a face mask and gloves; we will provide them if you do not have them. Water will be provided.
This event will take place at Clinics Can Help: 2560 Westgate Ave. West Palm Beach 33409
Check in with Owen O’Neill from Clinics Can Help and either Meghan Foley or Donna Pulda from United Way of Palm Beach County
Please send a report weekly of all hours you spent volunteering. Please provide name, phone, email, where you volunteered, and how long. This data goes a long way towards bringing much needed emergency management dollars back into our community.
Thank you!
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Dear Volunteers,
A senior assisted living facility in downtown West Palm Beach had a fire last week and approximately 100 residents were relocated temporarily to hotels. Volunteers are needed to help deliver lunch and dinner to the residents at the hotels. Please reply to me if you are able to assist. If you have not completed the waiver and you do plan on volunteering, please use the link to complete the waiver
https://secure.unitedwaypbc.net/inetwork/VolunteerForm
Volunteers are needed for lunch and dinner daily through June 30. Arrival time for lunch is 11:15 and arrival time for dinner is 4:45. Masks and gloves are provided for volunteers.
Please meet at
Homewood Suites 2455 Metrocentre Blvd, WPB
. Contact is Miguel who can be reached via phone at (561) 449-8662.
Thank you.
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Many local meetings have established their own Zoom meetings which can be found at the intergroup website for the particular county.
For example, here's the link for South Palm Beach County intergroup information on meeting closures and online meetings:
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VIRTUAL SERVICES DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
In response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, we at St. Paul's Delray Beach, together with all churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, have closed for public worship and all other public gatherings until
June 30th.
This includes St. Paul's Day School, Paul's Place after-school program, and all other ministries and scheduled events through June 30th. If you have a pastoral emergency and need the services of our clergy, please contact Fr. Paul Kane (
revpaul@stpaulsdelray.org
or 561-921-7667)
We at St. Paul's Delray will offer a virtual morning prayer at 8:00am and a virtual evening prayer at 5:00pm (
both through Facebook Live streams
), Monday through Friday, and a virtual celebration of the Holy Eucharist every weekend between now and June 30th.
Click below to view our Virtual Service for the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost:
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As a church family, we will stay connected through
social media
,
email, text messaging,
our website
, and other platforms. We will continue to spread the Good News of God's love while doing our part to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
I hope that you find peace and inspiration from the many resources for prayer and worship at home offered by
Forward Movement (forwardmovement.org)
, the Episcopal publishing house that brings us Forward Day by Day.
May God bring healing to the sick, comfort to the lonely, blessed assurance to the anxious, and hope to those in despair,
Fr. Paul+
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church
561-276-4541
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