Join Saint Paul’s Creation Care Committee for an Earth Day celebration! Master gardeners from area gardening groups will be on hand to offer tips and tricks to eco-align your yard and garden. Visit our propagation booth, listen to butterfly and bird talks and take a tour of the Saint Paul’s Garden from our very own Keith Shafer! Kids can create their own terrariums and take part in a scavenger hunt, among other fun activities. There will also be demonstrations, vendors, and information about local eco-minded events. Additional activities are coming online every day! Everyone who attends our event can enter our drawing for a gift card to a local establishment. Join us on April 22 from 2-4:30 PM in the 7th Street parking lot. The schedule is available here.

For more information, contact Jennifer McKee.

11 AM Rite II

11 AM Facebook Live

11 AM YouTube Live

Busy morning? Breakfast with your friends at Saint Paul's instead! We've added McDonald's Biscuits to our Continental Breakfast. Donations welcomed.

The Forum continues with an Easter series entitled Benedict, Anglicanism, and Us. This class will explore how the ancient, practical spirituality of Benedict of Nursia can still give shape and life to our relationship with God. Weekly lessons may be attended independently from one another, but consistent attendance will aid participants as the class culminates in a session dedicated to writing a personal rule of life.

The Canterbury will begin rehearsals at 9:25 AM Sunday morning as scheduled. The St. Nicholas Choir has concluded rehearsals for the season. For more information about our choir programs, please contact Keith Shafer.

Saint Nicholas Choir has finished for this season. For our last six weeks together in this program year, we are introducing something new, and it will keep us on the same schedule. “Community Circle” for our Saint Nicholas Choir age group from 9:25 a.m. to 10 a.m. will include music and sing alongs, games, and maybe a trip or two to the playground. ☺️ We will transition to our Godly Play class at 10 a.m. as we normally do.

Contact Kim Butler for more information.

ALL children inherently know God, but it is up to us to give them the language of the Christian faith so they can grow to make meaning of our faith in their own lives. Godly Play is a profound method rooted in Montessori principles that forms child spirituality by attending to their natural gifts for wonder and discovery. We cannot wait to welcome your children each Sunday!

Contact Kim Butler for more information.

The Colaborate Curriculum is designed to help youth take an honest look at the holy mystery and the complexity of Scripture to move them onto a path of growth and discovery. Using infographics, this program will include studies of both New Testament and Old Testament lessons to start a conversation about God and what it means to follow Jesus.

For more information, contact Laurie Montgomery.

EYC (Episcopal Youth Community, grades 6-12) will meet for Cornerstone. Cornerstone is a monthly event bringing Episcopal youth from the area together. This month it is being hosted by Holy Comforter, 473 Fury’s Ferry Road, Martinez, GA 30907. You can meet us there. If you prefer to carpool from Saint Paul’s, please text Kim and we can meet at Saint Paul’s at 4:30 p.m. and ride over and back together.

For more information, email Kim Butler or call her at 706.833.8541.

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.

Carl Purdy will be our guest musician this week.

Our online adult formation book studies continue in Easter with a study of Joan Chittister’s The Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century. Though the Rule is fifteen centuries old, Chittister shows that Benedict can offer wisdom for contemporary concerns such as contemplation, humility, stewardship, equality, and conversion. Books available this Sunday in the Narthex and in the Parish Office during the week. $20 donation.

Join us Tuesday evenings on Zoom at 7:30 PM beginning April 18.  Register for the class using the link below. Group leaders will send emails to all participants with Zoom log-in details and schedules. Contact Fr. Eric Biddy for more information.

Password: Email the Parish Office to request.

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.)

This small group format begins with lunch. As we continue sharing a meal, three biblical lessons are read aloud by members of the group, followed by a reflection from Brian McLaren’s We Make the Road by Walking. We conclude our time together engaging with the reflection. Much of the work of the Holy Spirit in formation is in forming relationship. We invite you to join this small group as your schedule allows.

You may bring your own lunch or share in the meal provided. Donations accepted.

Questions? Contact Kitty Gordon.

Caregivers’ support group will meet Thursday, April 27, 3:30 PM in the chapel. This group provides support for people caring for people they love (our first thought is ailing spouses, aging parents, children who need extra attention, and other relations of mutuality in which one-way care has grown), but anyone who is a caregiver for another is welcome. Contact Fr. Eric for more information.

Thursdays begin in the Chapel with a reading or other offering to enhance this space before the “Sit” begins. After the 20-minute Sit, an open discussion follows until 7:00 PM. This is an open group with no limit on the number of participants. Please email Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau or contact by phone at (706) 910-9331 for further information and/or to enroll in the sit.

We will celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism Sunday, April 30 at the 11 am service. All who wish to be baptized are invited to contact Fr. Eric .

May 15 - Vestry Meeting

May 17 - Wednesday Night Supper

May 27 - Manna Pantry

May 28 - Parish Picnic

It’s Taco night at Saint Paul’s for our next Mmm... (Men’s Monthly Meal), Wednesday, May 3, 6 PM. The Men of Saint Paul’s will gather at 4 PM in the River Room to prepare this meal for the parish. Men, please sign up for cooking and clean up teams and everyone PLS. RSVP for dinner below. Donations welcomed.

Our Neighborhood Partner School, Hornsby, will celebrate Field Day and has asked for volunteers to help with set up and break down. Come, cheer and encourage, and celebrate with our friends from Hornsby.

We need 2 to 4 volunteers to assist with Field Day on May 4th for Kindergarten-2nd grade (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.) and May 5th for 3rd grade-5th grade (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Volunteers will be needed for the set up and breakdown.

Contact Kim Butler for more information or to sign up.

On Wednesday, May 10, we will treat the teachers and staff at Hornsby Schools to ice cream sundaes. We need volunteers to help serve the ice cream that day. Ice cream, syrup, toppings, and whipped creams will be brought in from Sonic, so we just need volunteers to help pass it out and spread the love!

Contact Kim Butler for more information or to sign up.

Parents of graduating high school seniors: Senior Sunday is May 21. Please contact the parish office as soon as possible if your son or daughter is interested in being included in this service.

Famous organists from the United States and Europe are coming to Augusta for the Southeast Region Convention of the American Guild of Organists. Chelsea Chen (Switzerland) is opening the four-day event with a concert at Saint Paul’s on June 18th. The following evening the organist of Notre Dame, Paris, Vincent Dubois, is playing a concert at St. John United Methodist Church on Greene Street. Keith Shafer is the convention coordinator and is in need of a guest room or apartment for Monsieur Dubois from Friday, 16 June, departing on Sunday, 25 June. He speaks excellent English and will have a rental car. If you are able to provide housing, please contact Keith or 706.339.7208.

The new Day by Day issue for May, June, and July has arrived and is available in the Narthex. If you would like to have one mailed to you, please contact Hannah in the parish office. Forward Day by Day is a booklet of daily, "page-a-day," inspirational meditations each reflecting on a specific Bible passage from the daily lectionary readings of the Episcopal Church. The meditations are rich in substance and offer a wide range of witness and experiences. These meditations are also available online on the Forward Movement website. 

The Daughters of the King are coordinating a Bra Drive through April. Bras and the second-hand clothing market provide a safe and powerful economic opportunity for women in the developing countries that “Free the Girls” serve. New and gently worn bras are also shared with local women's shelters i-Care and Safehomes. Collection boxes decorated white/aqua are located in Tyler Hall and the Narthex. For more information, contact Janet Olson.

The St. Ruth Byllesby Chapter of the Order of the Daughters of the King (DoK) will offer discernment classes for new members in May. DoK is an international prayer and service order in the Episcopal Church. To find out more about their ministries at Saint Paul’s and for more information about the classes, please email Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau.