Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 25, 2021 - 8am and 10:30am


Unknown, Christ the Good Shepherd
(Rome, Italy: Catacomb of San Callisto, c. 175 AD), ceiling fresco.
Vestry Highlights

At the April Vestry meeting, the Vestry:
  • Discussed emphasizing ministries that promote the Gospel, rather than ones that center on administrative tasks.

  • Heard that Vestry background checks are ongoing.

  • Discussed changes in worship due to the Bishop’s most recent missive.

  • Heard that the Stations of Cross have been installed around Sanctuary.

  • Heard that St. Joseph’s Guild will resume meeting on Saturday, 15 May 2021.

  • Heard that the Final Inspection of new roof on Clardy Hall occurred on Wednesday, 14 April, and the final payment on Clardy Hall roof was made at that time.

  • Heard that the search for the new Director of St. Paul’s Episcopal School is close to finishing.

  • Considered starting a medical trauma team to aid the Parish during an emergency.

  • Heard that water has been delivered to the Greenville Police Department with the support of the school. Pictures are on Facebook.

  • Decided to support For the City with a donation of $3,000. $2,000 will come from church funds and $1,000 from the Vestry.

  • Heard that our garden ministry (Fruitful Ministry) will be providing fresh produce to Arms of Hope (Boles Home) when harvest comes.

  • Decided to add Debbie Shaffer as a signatories to our Alliance Bank checking account.

  • Agreed with two Parish events:
  • On May 23rd, we’ll have a Pentecost Picnic with burgers and hotdogs in the breezeway (parishioners are invited to bring side dishes).
  • On June 27th, Ss. Peter and Paul day, the Vestry will provide BBQ, and the parishioners are invited to bring side dishes.

  • Appointed Marie Aughtry to fill a Vestry vacancy. She will serve until the Annual Meeting in 2023.

  • Heard that the March income was $8,356 and expenses were $14,888, thus we had a negative cash flow of $6,532.
St. Paul’s Church and School donated about 20 cases of water to the Greenville Police Department for the Hydrating Heroes Program Tuesday, April 19th. The water will help officers when responding to incidents during our Texas Summer heat.


Thank you to all who helped
to make this possible!
A Morsel for Meditation

′′We will soon have priests reduced to the role of social workers and the message of faith reduced to political vision. Everything will seem lost, but at the right time, at the most dramatic stage of the crisis, the Church will be reborn. She will be smaller, poorer, almost catacombal, but also more holy. Because it will no longer be the Church of those who seek to please the world, but the Church of the faithful to God and his eternal law. Rebirth will be the work of a small rest, seemingly insignificant yet indomitable, passed through a process of purification. Because that's how God works. Against evil, a small herd resists."
Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Worship
Collect
O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The readings may be found here
Processional Hymn

Gospel Hymn

Offertory Hymns
Jesus, our mighty Lord
(Monk’s Gate) H478
Communion Hymns





Recessional Hymn    
Pray for the Church, the Body of Christ
Please pray for those on our prayer list this week:

Please Pray for those on
our prayer list this week:
Gail Rolston and Family,
Julia Schwartz, 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.
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.
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).
Stewardship

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
You can also make your donations at http://stpaulstx.org/giving/ to make a donation using your credit or debit card via PayPal or Tithe.ly.
Streaming
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
Masks worn by all at worship. Please bring your own!
 
Only one entrance. Sanitizers
will be located there.
 
Worshippers/households
separated by 10 feet.
No tactile passing of the Peace

Indoor services will not have congregational singing.
 
Collection plate placed at
entrance to the Nave
 
Bread only communion distributed within Diocesan protocols.
 
Join us for coffee hour
Ministry to Migrant Children at Dallas Convention Center

“I didn’t expect to go over there and do something nice for these kids and end up being sad,” said the Rev. David Petrash after volunteering to offer his pastoral services to the refugee children from South and Central America. “The best thing we can do for them is pray over them.”
Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Podcasts
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Every day throughout the year we’ll be bringing you an audio
scripture reading from the Old and New Testament.
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