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November 10 - November 19, 2023 | |
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Pledge cards are due this Sunday! The vestry and finance committee use our pledges to build a responsible, faithful budget that will fund our mission and continue to put our resources to use for the kingdom of God. We have some challenging truths this year (property taxes are increasing significantly) and some wonderful opportunities (it looks like it may take a full-time position to fill our Director of Children, Youth, and Intergenerational Ministries job). God is at work at Saint Paul's, and we gratefully join that work with our time, talent, and treasure. Please return a pledge card or pledge online by Sunday so the church leadership can plan well!
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EVENTS THIS SUNDAY | November 12 | |
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Sunday Worship Schedule
8 AM Rite I
11 AM Rite II
11 AM Facebook Live
11 AM YouTube Live
5:30 PM - Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion
6:30 PM - Compline + Sit and Wait (Chapel)
All of our Sunday worship services are in-person.
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Biscuits for Breakfast
Sunday, 9:00 AM, Tyler Hall
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The Nursery will be open Sunday, Nov. 12
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the Saint Paul’s nursery is open for children 6 months to 4 years of age. The nursery will be available this Sunday morning beginning at 9:30 A M.
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St. Nicholas Choir (age 5 - grade 2)
Canterbury Choir (grades 3-9)
Sundays, 9:25 - 10:00 AM
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The Canterbury Choir (children in grades 3-9) and the St. Nicholas Choir (age 5 through grade 2) will meet this week as scheduled.
If you or any family or friends are interested in the choir program, please email Director of Music, Keith Shafer or call (706) 724-2485 ext. 215.
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The Way of Love
9:30 AM, The Berlin Room
Our series in the Sunday Forum continues: The Reverend Deacon Kimberly Dunn leads The Way of Love.
The Way of Love is a way of life. More than a program or curriculum, it is an intentional commitment to a set of practices. It’s a commitment to follow Jesus: Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, Rest. We will learn what this commitment and way of life looks like through loving others as Jesus exemplified and God commands. For more information, contact the Rev. Deacon Kimberly Dunn.
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Meet Saint Paul's
Children grades pk4-8
November 12, 10:00 AM
November's Meet Saint Paul's welcomes Carolyn Dolen as our special guest. We will learn about two worship ministries, our Verger and LEM ministries. We will have refreshments afterwards
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Youth Formation
Grades 6-9
November 12, 10:00 AM
Coleman Graham is meeting our Middle School for a group project in the Nursery this Sunday. Next Sunday Fr. Biddy will be joining the formation class.
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Confirmation Classes begin
Sundays, 12:30 PM, Tyler Hall
If you’ve been baptized but not confirmed, or were confirmed elsewhere and now consider the Episcopal Church your home, join us to take the next step of Confirmation or Reception. Confirmation classes are also a wonderful opportunity if you have questions and just want to know more. Signal your interest by emailing Fr. Eric. Classes begin Sunday, October 15, 2023, 12:30 PM.
YOUTH CONFIRMATION:
Students in grades 9-12 who have not been Confirmed are encouraged to contact the clergy to let them know of your interest.
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Second Sundays with Creation Care
November 12, 4:30 PM, Berlin Room
This month: Campbell Vaughn, UGA Extension Agent, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Join us for an enlightening discussion with Campbell Vaughn about how we can minimize environmental impacts in our home gardens and learn about the wide-ranging research the UGA Extension is doing in our backyard. We’ll also hear about the many programs that are available to CSRA residents. Come armed with your questions! For more information, contact Jennifer McKee.
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Cornerstone for EYC
(Episcopal Youth Community, Grades 6-12)
Sunday, 5-7 PM, at St. Bart's, North Augusta
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This Sunday we're Zooming in to Ecuador and Senegal. We'll share dinner with our Cornerstone friends.
For more information, contact Alison Nesbit or The Rev. Deacon Kimberly Dunn .
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Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion
with Prayers for Healing
Sundays, 5:30 PM
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.
Erin Montgomery is our guest musician this week.
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Sit and Wait Meditation Group
Sundays, 6:30 PM, Chapel
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Sit and Wait has moved to Sunday night with a new format beginning on September 3, 2023. This service will follow the Celtic Service at 6:30 PM. The format will follow An Order for Compline from the Book of Common Prayer (page 127-135). The focus of the service will be the appointed Rule of Benedict for the Day. At the end of Compline, a twenty-minute sit will follow, and everyone will leave in silence.
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EVENTS NEXT WEEK | November 13 - November 19 | |
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Tuesday's Music Live
November 14, 12 Noon, Nave
Tuesday’s Music Live 35th season continues Tuesday, November 14, at 12 noon, with a free concert by Ronee Boyce, Piano. More information by calling the Box Office, (706) 722-3463 or tuesdaysmusiclive.com.
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ZOOM Book Study
Tuesdays, 7:30 PM,
Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks led by Barbara Coleman.
“Every day there are reasons not to be grateful. Terrible, distressing, painful, and awful things happen all the time. Yet gratitude is a defiance, of sorts, the defiance of kindness in the face of anger, of connection in the face of division, and of hope in the face of fear. Gratefulness does not acquiesce to evil–it resists evil.”
Books are available in the Narthex on Sunday and in the parish office during the week. $20 donation. Sign up on the website, so that we can forward class schedules and updates.
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Senior Lunch at Saint Paul's
November 15, 12 Noon, Tyler Hall
New at Saint Paul's: Our 3rd monthly lunch for seniors. Just a relaxing social time. Come join us on Wednesday, November 15 at 12 Noon in Tyler Hall. Lunch is provided but donations welcome. Please sign up in the Narthex on Sunday mornings or on our website using the link below.
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Compline - ZOOM
Wednesdays, 8 - 8:15 PM Social time follows worship
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Meeting ID: 595 177 454
Dial-In: (646) 876-9923
Compline is a beautiful, simple, and quiet service to end the day together in prayer with God. This service is led by members of the parish using an on-screen bulletin so everyone may pray together.
Following the prayers, those who gather through Zoom have an opportunity for a mid-week visit.
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Mid-Week Eucharist
Thursdays, 11:30 AM
| 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.) | | | |
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Lectio at Lunch
Thursdays, 12 Noon, Tyler Hall
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Join us for a delicious and engaging Bible study!
Every Thursday in Tyler Hall you’ll find a lunch combo that can’t be beat! We offer a tasty meal with a generous helping of fellowship, plus a lively discussion arising from the Gospel of Mark. Our text is N.T. Wright’s Mark for Everyone which takes this Gospel in small bites, reflecting on each week’s reading with relevant and important insights. We finish promptly at 1:00 PM and invite you to join us as your schedule allows. You may bring your own lunch or share in the meal provided. Donations accepted.
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Caregivers' Support Group
Thursday, November 16, 3:30 PM
Please note the change of time
Caregivers’ support group will meet Thursday, November 16, 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.
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Manna Pantry
Saturday, November 18, 8:15-11:30 AM
Tyler Hall and West Parking Lot
We’re looking for extra hands for our next Manna Pantry which coincides with the Walk for Water, Saturday, November 18, 8:15-11:30 AM in Tyler Hall.
Manna Pantry provides a box of food six times a year to those in our community who need this supplemental assistance. With your help we will unload the groceries from Golden Harvest, pack food boxes, reload the truck, and deliver all food boxes on Saturday. Sign up for the Manna Pantry Team using the link below. For more information contact Melissa Friedman .
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Walk for Water
November 18, 2023, 9 AM
CSRA Walk for Water returns this year and once again Saint Paul's is the midway point of the walk. We're excited to support this event and invite you to join this important work. More information can be found on our website here.
The Walk for Water puts a creative twist on the typical “fundraising walk.” On the morning of Saturday, November 18, we expect six hundred people to walk, carrying empty buckets, from the SRP Park baseball field in North Augusta to Saint Paul’s parking lot by the River Walk, where they will fill their buckets and begin the return trek along the river. This walk connects us with the trek billions make every single day to carry home untreated water for basic subsistence.
You can support this event by creating a walking team, volunteering to serve as hospitality at Saint Paul's, or giving to our team. For more information contact Elisabeth Price.
This year provides an extra challenge: Manna Pantry will also be working Nov. 18, so extra hands will be very welcome!
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Dates for your Calendar
November 22- Thanksgiving Eve Service
December 3 - First Sunday of Advent
December 3 - Creation Care Tree Sale
December 10 - Creation Care Holiday Wrap Exchange and Party
December 16 - Ordination
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Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist
November 22, 7 PM
Bring your family and friends to the Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist, Wednesday, November 22 at 7 PM. The offering Thanksgiving Eve will be given to the DCCM (Downtown Cooperative Church Ministries) Food Bank. Join us in giving thanks on this national & religious holiday.
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Thanksgiving Eve Service
November 22, 5:30 - 6:50 PM
A Parish Fellowship Dinner precedes our Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist, Wednesday, November 22, 5:30-6:50 PM, in the River Room. Please join us for a wonderful evening with your parish family as we give thanks for our many blessings. The dinner menu will be available next week.
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OTHER RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
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The new Day by Day issue for November, December, and January 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. | | | |
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Saint Paul's Faithfulness
as of 11/8/2023
Offerings Pledged this Week $13,942.31
Pledged Offerings Received this Week $11,518.90
Total Operating Expenses to Date $856,800.09
Total Income Received to Date $902,515.95
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