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Welcome to
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Bailey's Crossroads
Sunday Worship is Holy Eucharist
and will be held in person
in our sanctuary on
May 29th at 10:30am
If you are more comfortable wearing a mask, please do so, but masks are not required.
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Greetings!
There's nothing more frustrating to me than not being able to be with those I love or, sometimes, not even being able to communicate with them. I consider the Internet and ZOOM to be gracious gifts from God. Such communication keeps us all connected to those we care about in ways that we could not have imagined only a few short years ago. While it's not the same as physically being together, it's much closer than anything we have ever had before. We all know that those connections with the people we love are soul-soothing and precious. Being able to 'see' the people we love in real time is a gift that few of us even dreamed about a few years ago. Our isolation during the heighth of the pandemic taught us how important that face-to-face time can be, not only to our relationships, but to our own sense of well-being.
Rev. Liz Tomlinson
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Love goes both ways
Jesus is the way
The extent to which God is willing to go in order to be connected to the beautiful humans that He created is beyond measure. It's breathtaking. Just as Jesus brought the divine nature of God into the world, he also took the nature of human beings into God's heavenly kingdom. In his bodily ascension into heaven in the presence of his disciples Jesus opened the pathway of reconciliation between the Almighty and all of creation. Jesus' life and mission is a gift to us beyond compare and reassures us that we have access to the Almighty through Jesus for all our lives and we can look forward, not only to access to God, but reunion with all those we love who have gone before. Our gratitude could not be more profound!
Join us on Sunday morning at 10:30am
for Holy Eucharist
and join us in celebrating the greatest gift
any of us has ever been given.
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The Church Office will be closed Monday, May 30th in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday. |
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Join Us for Coffee Hour
Following Morning Worship
We have recently resumed Coffee Hour in Fleming Hall after our morning Worship Service and it feels really good to be socializing again over a cup of coffee. We missed our Coffee Hour while it was suspended for over a year as a result of COVID. We are delighted that it is now back in place! If you would like to help plan this Coffee Hour from time to time, please contact one of our Vestry members. They are Tam Mehuron, David Wright, Anna Ko, Averill Springer and our consultant, Alvin Jones. Won't you join us in Fleming Hall immediately after our worship service to eat some delicious treats, have some excellent coffee and bask in the equally nourishing conversation?
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First we pray
What comes next?
Once again we are presented with the unthinkable tragedy of children being murdered in school. As we've known for so long, prayers are important, but they are not sufficient. They are not nearly enough. While we stand watching a future generation being slaughtered before our eyes, we need to ask God for the will and inspiration to solve this problem in our country. We are the only developed country on the face of the planet that experiences this phenomenon. And we, its citizens, are the only ones who can solve it. Get on your knees and ask for inspiration. God is not only watching. God is listening as well. And God answers prayer.
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Episcopal Relief and Development
Aid for Ukraine
This war in Ukraine seems to be unfolding in unprecedented ways...even for warfare. It's heartbreaking to know unarmed civilians are subject to attack. So many of us are looking for reliable and truly useful ways to help the people of Ukraine during this unprecedented crisis. One of the most reliable charity organizations world wide is Episcopal Relief and Development. If you would like to make an online charitable donation earmarked especially for Ukraine, please CLICK HERE to access their website.
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Updating the Directory
Staying in Touch
Now more than ever, it's important for us to be able to stay in touch with one another in any way that we can...telephone, snail-mail, e-mail, smoke signal, morse code, etc. If you aren't sure whether or not you are in the directory or if your information is correct, please contact our Parish Administrator, Linda Green at green@stpaulsbxr.org and give her your contact information so that we can update the directory. They will be ready for distribution soon and we want to be sure that everyone who should be in there is in there...and that everyone who should have a directory gets one!
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Bailey's Shelter & Supportive Housing
Volunteer Opportunities
The next meeting of the Advisory Committee will be Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 7:00pm on ZOOM. Please let Rev. Liz know if you are interested in shelter operations or volunteer opportunities and she will give you information about how to access this meeting. Although face-to-face volunteer work has been temporarily suspended the shelter is in the process of re-instating that support for the shelter clients. David Wright has been representing St. Paul's as a volunteer at the shelter and would be happy to share his experiences with you if you are interested. He also has some recent experience with Safe Haven Shelter that works through First Christian Church of Falls Church.
Contact Community & Volunteer Coordinator
Bailey's Shelter and Supportive Housing
New Hope Housing
5914 Seminary Rd
Fairfax, VA 22041
Tel: 703-578-8852
In the meantime, if you would like to make donations to the shelter, New Hope Housing has provided a Wish List (on Amazon) for the homeless who are moving into housing of their own which is SUCCESS! To access that list, please CLICK HERE. Please designate Bailey's Shelter and Supportive Housing, 5914 Seminary Rd., Falls Church, VA. 22041 when you place your order if you want your donation to go to this shelter. New Hope Housing manages a number of shelters around the county, so be sure to specify to New Hope that you want your donation to go to the Bailey's Crossroads Shelter. You can reach New Hope Housing at the Bailey's Shelter by calling 703-820-7621. You are helping to ease the way for our neighbors to get back on their feet! What an act of love!!
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The Food Pantry
Replenishment Needed
Urgent calls have come from ACCA this month for donations to the food pantry. We have hungry people around us all year long, but especially now in this season of COVID-19 when so many sources of income have disappeared. St. Paul's continues to be both faithful and generous in supporting the ACCA Food Pantry and they need our help now more than ever. At the last Vestry Meeting, the Vestry voted to double the monetary support that we give to ACCA each month. Your generosity is inspiring. If you have food to donate, please contact our Parish Administrator, Linda Green by e-mail at green@stpaulsbxr.org to make arrangements with her to drop off your donation. She is at the church several times a week to pick up the mail and keep the office running. She will be glad to arrange a time to let you in the building with your donation. Please continue to bring nonperishable foodstuffs for ACCA and place them in the wicker basket at the rear of the Sanctuary. They are particularly in need of any kind of rice, canned fruit, fresh vegetables, and canned stew.
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The Rev. Elizabeth W. Tomlinson
Priest in Charge
tomlinson@stpaulsbxr.org
703-820-2625
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