Nineth Sunday After Pentecost
July 25, 2021 - 8am and 10:30am
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Vestry Highlights
At the July Vestry meeting, the Vestry:
1. Discussed Kevin Martin’s Parish Leadership Guide for the New Normal and ways to engage our online viewers.
2. Heard that Mike Lavigne and John-Paul Ballard have resigned from the Vestry
3. Heard that after more than a year of inactivity, the Circle of Care has disbanded, and the women’s groups of St. Paul’s will consider aiding in pastoral care needs.
4. Heard that the Rummage Sale was a success, and raised about $2,700.
5. Heard that St. Paul’s has reserved the Hunt County Paintball field for August 28th at 10:00 am. Members and friends will be welcome.
6. Heard that the Vestry will sponsor a Parish Potluck on August 29th.
7. Heard that the parking lot has been repaired.
8. Heard that at the request of the Clean Team, the Junior Warden is soliciting bids for cleaning.
9. Heard that Sam Asseff and Jacob Faunce are doing the mowing.
10. Heard that the Outreach Committee will produce a brochure highlighting our ongoing outreach ministries: St. Paul’s Episcopal School, Fruitful Ministries, and For the City.
11. Heard that the Outreach Committee will have a weekly column featuring needs of our school.
12. Heard that the June income was $12,536 and expenses were $14,750 thus we had a negative cash flow of $2,214.
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Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it, by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
Martin Luther King Jr., “Drum Major Instinct,”
sermon, Atlanta, February 4, 1968.
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Saturday, July 24: Trauma training 9am-12pm Clardy Hall
GISD police will conduct a training session on handling physical trauma situations (and go over contents of our
new trauma kits). Feel free to join us!
Saturday, August 28: St. Paul’s has reserved the Hunt County Paintball field for August 28th at 10:00 am. Members and friends will be welcome.
Sunday, August 29: Vestry will sponsor a Parish Potluck.
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John 6:1-15 (2003), mixed media. Image size 12.5"x21"
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Collect
O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, 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 Track 1
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Processional Hymn
Notre Dame Folk Choir
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymns
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Communion Hymns
Recessional Hymn
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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:
Julia Gibson, Beverly Gish,
Bob Lanier, Marcy Walsh,
Paula Reeves, Mike Lavigne,
Dolores & Father Gordon,
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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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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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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St. Paul’s Outreach Committee would like to introduce a new opportunity for parishoners to help support the ministry of St. Paul’s Episcopal School!
We asked our teachers and school director, Julie Hensley, to provide us with a wish list of things they need or want to enhance their classrooms. If you would like to help, you may purchase items from the link below, or use our QR code. All items will be shipped directly to the school. Please help us make our school an even better place for the children of our community!
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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, and upload it live if Zoom and Facebook work together (about 75% success rate).
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2021 Discernment Retreat
Sunday, August 08, 2021, 4:00 PM to
Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 3:00 PM
Location: Prothro Center at Lake Texoma,
269 Methodist Lane, Pottsoboro, TX , Pottsboro, TX US 75076
Are you discerning whether you are called to ordained ministry or to a more focused lay ministry in your home parish?
Join the members of the Commission on Ministry for a two-night retreat where you will hear presentations on how to discern, learn about our discernment process, and spend quiet time in prayer.
Anyone may come to the retreat. Attendance is not a commitment to begin formal discernment; but, it is an essential step for those who wish to enter the ordination process.
We are all called to lives of Christian service. The diocesan discernment retreat is a wonderful opportunity for greater in-depth exploration of the Lord’s call in your life.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Jordan Hylden
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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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