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Posts by Mary Kintz

Celebrate Christmas with Us!

Celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season at St. Paul’s! All are welcome to join us at any of our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. On Christmas Eve, the 4 p.m. service has a family focus: it will feature the children’s Canterbury Choir and Canterbury Bells, and childcare will be available for children up to age 3 in the nursery. (The…

Christmas Poinsettia Orders

Donate a poinsettia decoration for our Christmas services to honor the special people in your life! Christmas poinsettia envelopes are available now in the pews. Fill out the envelope with your name and the information about your loved one(s), noting whether it is given in memory of or in thanksgiving for them. Enclose $35 per…

December Youth, Children’s and Family News

“Advent is a season of the longest nights, of preparing and waiting. A friend Amy Peterson calls Advent ‘a deep breath in the dark’ before a Christmas burst of light… During these 22 days, let St. Paul’s be a place of rest and joyful anticipation for you…” Read more from Mother Alice in the December…

Note in the Pocket Clothing Drive

Note in the Pocket is a local organization that provides quality clothing to homeless and impoverished children and families with dignity and love. Please help our Pre-EYC (4th and 5th graders) support Note in the Pocket by donating your gently used clothing and shoes, as well as new socks and underwear, through Dec. 17. All…

St. Paul’s Christmas Pageant – All are Welcome

Children are hard at work on St. Paul’s annual Christmas Pageant, but it’s not too late to join in this treasured tradition! Rehearsals occur during Sunday School on Sunday, December 10, and on Saturday, December 16 from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The pageant will take place during the 9 a.m. service on December 17, followed by…

Congratulations to New Vestry Members

In case you missed the Annual Meeting on November 5, we welcomed Dan Loughlin to the vestry, serving through 2025, as well as four members who will serve through 2026: John Goehrke, Carrie Hess, Allison Moon, and Randall Robinson. Thank you to all who serve the parish in this way.

Diocesan Convention

The 208th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina will take place November 17-18, 2023 at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem. All of our clergy and four lay delegates will be representing St. Paul’s. The diocesan website has links to resolutions and business that will be conducted at the convention, if you…

Veterans Day Commemoration

Join us in honoring all military men and women this weekend as we share our gratitude for their service. A special Veterans Day commemoration list is available in the narthex and attached here.

Visiting Eucharistic Ministers

Receiving communion is a meaningful part of our religious experience in The Episcopal Church. If injury or illness keeps you from attending church in person, Visiting Eucharistic Ministers (VEMs) are available to bring communion to you wherever you are (home, hospital or other facility) on a short- or long-term basis. VEMs carry the parish with…