Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2021 - 8am and 10:30am
(Lalibela, Ethiopia: August 20, 2005), photograph of 12th century monolithic church. Use granted under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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Volunteer Opportunity - As a consequence of some budget cuts, the Jr Warden Division is taking on the weekly task of cleaning the church offices, bathrooms, Clardy Hall and sanctuary (approximately $4,000/year). This will be effective 1 March 2021. So as not to over burden any one person or persons, volunteers are needed to lighten the load. Instructions, materials and consumables will be provided. •Volunteering your time is one of the Three T’s - Time, Talent and Treasure for the church. Cleaning teams will be 2 to 3 people at a time. •Experience has shown that the cleaning goes very quickly once started (less than 2hrs). Wiping down the church for the Sunday service will be a part of the cleaning effort. Please volunteer, your church needs you.
Contact the Jr. Warden, Frank E. McKee if you wish to volunteer
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Consider being the
hands and feet of Jesus, working together with fellow brothers and sisters in the faith to transform our community and the people living within it.
For the City 2021 will take place June 2-5.
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This year’s activities will include:
• Light Construction Projects
• Painting
• Roof Work
• Yard Work (mowing, weeding, trimming etc.)
(Kid friendly - Adult must accompany)
• Trash, clippings and brush hauling
• Food Drive and distribution to local food banks
• Public Area Cleanup on Wesley Street, Lee Street, other major thoroughfares
• Random Acts of Kindness (yard work, car washing, trimming, etc.)
(Kid friendly - Adult must accompany)
• Prayer Walking and Driving in neighborhoods and public areas such as parks, schools and public building
(Kid friendly - Adult must accompany)
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Obedience through fear is reluctant and resentful. Obedience through gratitude is joyful, instant, and spontaneous. Gratitude is like an overflowing stream, positive, outgoing. It is a powerful antiseptic that kills the germs of bitterness. Gratitude is the glue that binds and unites you to your neighbor. It is the salt that flavors all inspired relationships.
Daw Nyein Tha: Daw Nyein Tha: Joyful Revolutionary
Protect the new generation; do not let them grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Guide them away from the harmful chase after outer things and the damaging passion for distraction.… I would educate human beings who with their feet stand rooted in God’s earth, whose heads reach even into heaven and there behold truth, in whose hearts are united both earth and heaven.
Friedrich Fröbel: Their Name Is Today
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Collect
Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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The readings may be found here
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymns
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Communion Hymns
Alleluia 8-Fold (A3#6)
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 Schwartz, Gail Rolston and Family, 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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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.
- The Parish office remains closed; however we continue to check voicemails and emails regularly.
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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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Masks worn by all at worship. Please bring your own!
Only one entrance. Sanitizers
will be located there.
No tactile passing of the Peace
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Worshippers/households
separated by 10 feet.
Collection plate placed at
entrance to the Nave
Bread only communion distributed within Diocesan protocols.
Join us for coffee hour
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S is for Suspense
Our God likes a good story.
Exhibit A: The sixth day of creation. The land animals are made and God calls them good, as he has called good everything that he had so far called into being. But then the human beings are created, and God says nothing about them being good. The whole shebang, everything he has made, it’s “very good”; but there is no word about whether humans are good.
It’s as if God has set it up so that he has to wait and see how this will turn out.
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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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