Manna Pantry

Saturday, January 27, 8:15-11:30 AM

Tyler Hall and West Parking Lot

Manna Pantry provides a box of food six times a year to those in our community who need this supplemental assistance. With your help we will unload the groceries from Golden Harvest, pack food boxes, reload the truck, and deliver all food boxes on Saturday. Sign up for the Manna Pantry Team using the link below. For more information contact Melissa Friedman .

Biscuits for Breakfast!

Sunday, 9 - 10 AM Tyler Hall

Busy morning? We have McDonald's Biscuits this Sunday in Tyler Hall at 9 AM and at 9:30 AM in the River Room. Donations welcomed.

St. Nicholas Choir (age 5 - grade 2)

Canterbury Choir (grades 3-9)

Sundays, 9:25 - 10:00 AM

The Canterbury Choir (children in grades 3-9) and the St. Nicholas Choir (age 5 through grade 2) will meet this week as scheduled.

If you or any family or friends are interested in the choir program, please email Director of Music, Keith Shafer or call (706) 724-2485 ext. 215.

"Spreading the Love"

Valentine Pastoral Care Project

(grades pk4-8)

Sunday, 10-10:45 AM

St. Patrick's Room, CMC

The next two Sundays our children and middle schoolers will be actively engaged in our pastoral care ministry. They will be making homemade Valentines for parishioners who need an extra dose of love. This ministry has become a tradition at Saint Paul’s and is so appreciated by our parishioners. We are grateful to Barbara Register and Margaret Penix for leading this important ministry. Contact Kim Butler for more information.

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Beginning January 21, 4:15-5:15 PM, The Berlin Room

Join us for a new Sunday afternoon formation gathering which precedes the Celtic Service. The clergy will lead a discussion of John Philip Newell’s Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. Books are available from many retailers and in the Narthex. Donation $15-20. A schedule of gatherings will be available. For more information contact Eric Biddy.

EYC (Episcopal Youth Community)

Grades 6-12

Sunday, 5-7 PM, River Room Kitchen

EYC Meets Sunday at St. Paul's to prepare dinners for our Saint Paul's Homebound Ministry and for Walking Tall ministry at St. Bart's.

For more information contact Elizabeth Lindroth.

Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion

with Prayers for Healing

Sundays, 5:30 PM

Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion is a candle-lit service that emphasizes the contemplative side of worship, features some of Augusta’s best Celtic musicians, and offers prayers for healing for those attending, for others, and for the world. Come as you are and enter into a place of rest, prayer, and reflection.

Celeste Ray is our guest musician this week.

Sit and Wait Meditation Group

Sundays, 6:30 PM, Chapel 

Sit and Wait will follow the Celtic Service at 6:30 PM. The format will follow An Order for Compline from the Book of Common Prayer (page 127-135). The focus of the service will be the appointed Rule of Benedict for the Day. At the end of Compline, a twenty-minute sit will follow, and everyone will leave in silence.

Please email Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau or contact by phone at (706) 910-9331 for further information.

New On-line Formation Offering

The Wounded Healer

Tuesdays; January 2 - February 6

7:30–8:30 PM

Our online formation book studies continue in January with The Wounded Healer by Henri J. M. Nouwen. Books are available from many book sellers or in the Narthex this Sunday and the parish office during the week ($15 donation). Sign up on our website. “In this hope-filled and profoundly simple book, Henri Nouwen offers a radically fresh perspective of how we can best serve others.”

Summer Mission Experience

Deadline to join the trip is January 31, 2024

Mission dates - 7 days scheduled June 6 - June 13, 2024

You are invited to join Saint Paul’s parishioners, family, and friends on a mission experience this summer to Ecuador, June 6-13, 2023. Please prayerfully consider joining us as we reach out to people in need and serve as the hands of Christ.

An information sheet is available here. If you would like additional information about Quito, Ecuador, the mission work, and trip details, please contact Gene or Rose Helmich, or call 803-640-3405. 

Mid-Week Eucharist

Thursdays, 11:30 AM

A mid-week Eucharist in the Chapel begins at 11:30 AM. Lunch in the Berlin Room follows at 12 noon with a weekly Bible study (more information below.) Join us as your schedule allows: Come for Eucharist and lunch, lunch and Bible study, or stay for all three. (So that we may honor mid-day schedules, lunch is scheduled for 15 minutes and will continue through the Bible study conversations.)

Lectio at Lunch

Thursdays, 12 Noon, Tyler Hall 

Every Thursday in Tyler Hall you’ll find a lunch combo that can’t be beat! We offer a tasty meal with a generous helping of fellowship, plus a lively discussion arising from the Gospel of Mark. Our text is N.T. Wright’s Mark for Everyone which takes this Gospel in small bites, reflecting on each week’s reading with relevant and important insights. We finish promptly at 1:00 PM and invite you to join us as your schedule allows. You may bring your own lunch or share in the meal provided. Donations accepted.

Questions? Contact Kitty Gordon.

Women of the Bible at the Sunday Forum

Sunday February 4 & 11

9:30 AM, The Berlin Room

Our Spring "Women of the Bible" Adult Christian Formation Series returns for 2 sessions in Epiphany. As in the past, this short series will focus on the lives and significance of stories of women in the Bible.

Evensong

Sunday, February 4, 5:30 PM

The Saint Paul’s Choir will sing Evensong at 5:30 PM on on Sunday, February 4, in place of the Celtic Service. Mark Dickens will be the guest organist and the choir will sing music composed by Heathcote Statham, John Stainer, and Edward Bairstow. A reception in the River Room follows the service. Join us for this beautiful sung service, bring your family, and invite friends.

Reception Following Evensong

Sunday, February 4

The River Room

The Hospitality Committee invites you to make or purchase a finger food or beverage for the Spring Evensong reception immediately following the Evensong service at 5:30 PM, Sunday, February 4.  

You may drop off your food items in the River Room kitchen between morning services or after the 11 AM service on February 4. We ask that you deliver your items on disposable serving ware, and we will plate the items for service.  

If you prefer to make a monetary donation, please make your check payable to Saint Paul's Church and annotate it for the "Evensong Reception." Questions, contact Eric Friedman. 

As always, we also need teams to help set up, serve, and clean up. Please sign up to bring items and/or serve below.

Dates for Your Calendar

February 17 - Master's Table Soup Kitchen

February 18 - Bishop Logue's Annual Visitation

February 18 - Guided Labyrinth Walk

February 20 - Tuesday's Music Live

February 21 - Senior Lunch

February 22 - Caregivers' Support Group

February 24 - Zentangle Workshop

Tuesday's Music Live

Tuesday, Feb 6, 12 noon

Tuesday’s Music Live 35th season continues Tuesday, February 6, at 12 noon, with a free concert by Thomas Pandolfi, Pianist. More information by calling the Box Office, (706) 722-3463 or tuesdaysmusiclive.com.

A Super Bowl of Chili

Sunday, February 11, following the 11 AM service

AND by take out

On Super Bowl Sunday stop by for a SUPER Bowl of Chili! We're hosting a fundraiser to help defray costs for this summer's mission trip to Ecuador. Sign up to bring a pot of chili. Enjoy a bowl (with cornbread, sour cream, and cheese) following the 11 AM service in River Room (donations welcomed) or take a quart home available in the narthex after the 8:00 and 11:00 services ($15 per quart). And if you really love it share a bowl with your parish family AND then order a quart of your favorite chili to go. For more information contact Eric Friedman.

Convocational Service

The Feast of Absalom Jones

Monday, February 12, 7 PM

The Augusta Convocation will offer a service at Saint Paul's on the Feast Day of Absalom Jones, the first African-American ordained as priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States.

Bring your Palms for the

Burning of the Palms on Shrove Tuesday

You're invited to bring your Palm Sunday palms and palm crosses to the church to be transformed into the ashes for Ash Wednesday. Please drop them off in the Narthex on Sunday or in the parish office before Tuesday, February 13.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

Tuesday, February 13, 6-7:30 PM

The men of Saint Paul’s will host and cook this year’s Pancake Supper, Tuesday, February 13, 6-7:30 PM, in the River Room. The Pancake Supper takes the place of our Men's Monthly Meal. Please note the change of date.

Ash Wednesday Services

Wednesday, February 14, 12 Noon & 7 PM

Ash Wednesday Services will be offered at 12 Noon and 7 PM, Wednesday, February 14.

A Few Notes on the "Management" of our Prayer List

Our official prayer list is an important part of our community of prayer, organizing our prayers for our beloveds. In order for our prayer list to be effective, we must all stay connected to the list, so we ask that you contact the parish office to update us on the status of your prayer request with a quick email monthly.

Twice a year the parish will begin a new prayer list: July 1 and January 31. Of course, it is fine for a name to remain on our list for an extended period of time; we ask that you simply email the parish office to let us know you’d like a name (new or continuing) to be added to our new list.