October 25, 10:30am
WE ARE OPEN!
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Twenty-first Sunday
After Pentecost
October 25, 2020
Leaf size32.0 x 24.0 cm. copy B.
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COLLECT
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The readings may be found here.
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
H# 372
Offertory Hymn
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Communion Hymn
(A3#131)
Recessional Hymn
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Altar Flowers are given to the Glory of God
and in Memory of Father Nick's Mother, Maxine Funk
from Bill and Judy Shaddox and William and Angela Dryer
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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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It is not love in the abstract that counts. We have loved the workers, the poor, the oppressed, but we have not loved “personally.” It is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking.
Have you ever read Tolstoy’s Resurrection? He tells of political prisoners in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution for the love of their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia. It is never the brothers right next to us, but the brothers in the abstract that are easy to love.
Dorothy Day, cited by Tom Heron, We Are All Called (Lulu, 2019), 112.
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At the October Vestry meeting, the Vestry:
- Wished Vestry member Elizabeth Porter a Happy Birthday!
- Endorsed having an Advent program in 2020.
- Heard that Bishop Love of Albany has lost in an ecclesiastical trial, and that Bishop Sumner (et al) has written in support of Bishop Love.
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Heard that Diocesan Convention will be via Zoom on November 7th.
- Heard that the Safety Team has met a couple times, including with the Greenville Police Department, and expects to be fully operational by the end of the year.
- Reviewed that our church service opening (or closing) is tied to GISD. If GISD is open on a Friday, we will be open on that Sunday. An outdoor service is being considered, should the church building be closed.
- Approved new signatories for our accounts at Alliance Bank.
- Heard that St. Joseph’s Guild has not been meeting, however the work of maintaining the church plant continues, especially the additional cleaning.
- Heard that $24,000 has been donated to the roof fund.
- Heard that the School and Parish have delivered cards and water to the local firemen, and will do the same for the EMT’s and police.
- Heard that the Diocesan online Alpha Course is ongoing.
- Heard that the Nominating Committee is composed of the outgoing Vestry, and as these particular persons were appointed, rather than elected, they are not prohibited for running for election in 2021.
- Approved a Background Check Policy and Scope. This includes the requirement for all Vestry members, employees, and youth workers to undergo a background check.
October: Monthly operating income: $10,299;
Monthly expenses: $18,107; Variance: -$7,878
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Thanks to the kids from Greenville Christian School for coming over and painting our fence! Y'all are the best! (GCS- Be My Witness program)!
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OCTOBER 29, 7pm
Alpha Online via Zoom!
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Alpha teaches the basics of Christianity in an environment that fosters conversations and relationships.
HOW IT WORKS
At each session there will be a gathering time. After the gathering time, there is a dynamic talk in video form for about 25 minutes on a Christian response to a key life question. After the video we meet in discussion groups of about 8-10 people to discuss the talk with no obligation to say anything yet there is nothing you can’t say. (While the goal is to keep everyone in the same groups each week, we have had to shuffle things a little this week due to numbers, so it is possible you might be in a different group than last week.)
INVITE FRIENDS
The Complete Alpha Schedule - 7:00 pm
September 17 - Who Is Jesus?
September 24 - Why Did Jesus Die?
October 01 - How Can I Have Faith?
October 08 - Why and How Do I Pray?
October 15 - Why and How Should I Read the Bible?
October 22 - How Does God Guide Us?
October 29 - How Can I Resist Evil?
October 31 - Holy Spirit Online Retreat
November 05 - Why and How Should I Tell Others?
November 12 - Does God Heal Today?
November 19 - What About The Church?
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Stewardship Today
Frank E. McKee - Stewardship Chairman
Each week as you write your check or put your money in your offering envelop, you are making a spiritual act of thanksgiving for all of God’s gifts. It is an act of graciousness, of appreciation for God’s work throughout our daily lives. Pleas be generous for we are returning to god a portion of what God had given us.
One Minute Stewardship Sermons by The Rev. Charles Cloughen, Jr.
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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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N Is For Nothing
I know this is going to sound odd, but bear with me. God is nothing.
As I was coming to the end of my time at Saint Thomas in New York City, a friend identified a few themes that run through my teaching. One of them, he reminded me, I had set forth in my very first class there: God is nothing. Years had passed, but nonetheless, he said, he was still finding new ways to see that truth.
So, okay, here goes nothing.
First, God is no-thing. Any thing there is, is some thing. Things are made - ultimately, they are made by God. God is not made. God is the reason there are things. ( continue reading)
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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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Prayers: Robb Horn, Dana Medford Bill Rolston, 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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