The Master's Table Soup Kitchen at 702 Fenwick Street will be staffed by Saint Paul’s Church volunteers on Saturday, June 17th. Please consider serving this month; some of our regular volunteers will be out of town. We need 6 volunteers to prepare the food from 8:30 am to 10:30 am (18+) and 12 volunteers to serve the food and clean up in the dining room from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm (13+). Sign up on our website (a direct link is available in Friday’s Weekly Postings). For more information contact Al or Laraine Yarbrough .

Our Cornerstone Summer outing will bring Episcopal youth from around the area together for a kayaking adventure! We will meet at Episcopal Day School at 8 AM and take buses to the Broad River near Athens for a day of kayaking and fun. Details in the Youth email. Please contact Kim Butler or Elisabeth Price in the Parish Office for more information.

11 AM Rite II

11 AM Facebook Live

11 AM YouTube Live

This Sunday we'll take a short break in the Forum. Next Sunday we continue our Know your Neighbor series. More information below.

It’s a Beach Party in the River Room! Join us for a summer celebration of beach food, drinks, and music. Tickets on sale this Sunday before and after the 11:00 AM service.

The annual fundraiser for Outreach supports 80% of the annual Outreach budget. Proceeds to benefit Saint Paul’s Outreach Programs, including our Manna Pantry, Master’s Table Soup Kitchen, Veteran’s, Ironman, and Hornsby ministries, as well as gifts to support Compass for Hope, Episcopal Relief and Development, DCCM Food bank, and Our Little Roses. Please generously support this event through sponsorship (contact Rex Teeslink) purchasing tickets online or through any outreach Committee member, and inviting your friends to come.

For more information, contact Marilyn Grau.

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.

The American Guild of Organists Southeast Region Convention opens tonight here at Saint Paul’s Church with a concert at 7:00 PM by the celebrated organist, Chelsea Chen. General Admission tickets are $20 each and can be purchased online and will be available at the door beginning at 6:30 PM. Subsequent concerts are at 7:00 PM on Monday night at St. John United Methodist Church on Greene St. with Vincent Dubois, the Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; on Tuesday night at the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Telfair St. with Jens Korndorfer of Baylor University performing on the 1868 Jardine Organ, one of the largest and most historic instruments in America; and on Wednesday night with Alcee Chriss of Wesleyan University at the First Baptist Church on Walton Way Extension. Questions? Contact Keith Shafer Convention Coordinator.

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, June 22, 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.

Throughout the summer, we’re inviting some of the best organizations at work in our neighborhood to join us in conversation about their work, the needs and resources they see, and how we might deepen our relationship with them. These conversations will add new voices to our discernment, and it is our hope they will better equip us to proclaim the hope of God’s love to our neighbors.

Mark your calendars for these important conversations:

June 25: Community Foundation for the CSRA

July 2: Child Enrichment

July 9: Compass for Hope

July 16: Hornsby Elementary

July 23: Christ Community Health

July 30: DCCM, Downtown Cooperative Church Ministry

June 26 - Vestry Meeting (please note change of date)

July 2 - Independence Day Service

July 2 - Parish BBQ in the River Room

July 9 - Pajama's and Pancakes Sunday

July 9 - 2nd Sundays with Creation Care

July 22 - Outreach Beach Party

August 26 - Saint Paul's Night at the Ballpark

Included in this year’s Independence Day service will be patriotic music performed by guest musicians. You are invited to help make this possible by making donations in memory of a loved one, a veteran, an active-duty member of the military, or in thanksgiving for someone or something about America that you would like to celebrate or recognize. Please be in touch with Director of Music Keith Shafer or call him, (706) 724-2485 ext. 215. The deadline is Tuesday, June 27th.

Following the 11 AM service on July 2, we will gather in the River Room for a BBQ Parish Dinner. Bring your favorite BBQ; or for those whose specialty falls outside the smoker or grill, bring your favorite side dish or dessert to share. As always, we need a team to help us set up & clean up. Please sign up to let us know if you're bringing BBQ, a side, and/or will be here as part of our hospitality team using the link below, so that we can be the best hosts. 

Saint Paul's Night at the Ballpark returns Saturday, August 26, at 6:05 PM. Tickets purchased before August 1: $18 adults; children & youth (18 and under) $12 and include an all-you-can-eat buffet. Tickets purchased after August 1, $22/$15.To make a reservation, please email Eric Friedman.

This is a fellowship event for the full parish, and we do NOT want cost to be a reason for anyone to miss this event. Please contact Fr. Eric. We will have sponsored tickets available. Likewise, if you would like to sponsor tickets to be used to invite someone new to Saint Paul's or for those who may need assistance to attend, please contact Elisabeth Price.

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 1. 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.

Donate summer music in memory or in thanksgiving. The choirs begin this year’s vacation on May 28th. Please contact Keith Shafer, Director of Music, who can provide you with more complete information.