On Sunday, October 16, 2016, St. Paul’s will be sponsoring a Wheels4Hope Car Blessing during Coffee Hour in the church parking lot. You are invited to join in!
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The GoDo Ministry will hold a workday on Saturday, October 22. We will be working with Family Promise of Wake County (formerly Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network). Along with rotating shelters in local churches, Family Promise offers apartment-type living for families as the next step toward more stable, permanent housing.
St. Paul’s Fall Blood Drive is Saturday, October 29 from 9:00 to 12:00. You can save up to 3 lives with just one pint of blood. Click HERE to sign up now. Continue reading for details.
We’re planning a used book sale as part of the Arts & Crafts Festival, to be held on November 12. We’re looking for donations of books in very good condition. (No encyclopedias, textbooks, or outdated travel guides, please.) All proceeds from the Festival will go to Outreach. You can drop off your books to the right…
Come to a Welcome Home party for the Karen family, a refugee family who arrived in late June from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). The party is scheduled for Sunday, September 25, 3:30-5:30 PM in the Parish Hall and will be hosted by the Refuge for Refugees Committee. We will have food, a Welcome Home cake, coffee, and…
HELP HAITI! Stop Hunger Now is rescheduled for Sunday, October 16. If you previously signed up for Oct 9, you need to re-sign up. These meals will be going to Haiti. Click HERE to sign up or donate. Continue reading for more.
We will have our next toilet paper collection for Dorcas Ministries Food Pantry on Sunday, Oct 2. In case you missed the June 26 success – we collected 842 rolls – do you think we can beat that record on Oct 2? Look for the bins in the Parish Hall, and thank you for supporting this ministry.
St. Paul’s has been a partner congregation of Wheels4Hope since 2008. Wheels4Hope accepts donations of used vehicles, refurbishes them, and places them with our neighbors who need a hand-up. Mike Sweeney has led the St. Paul’s Outreach Ministry for Wheels4Hope since 2008. Read his story on the Wheels4Hope Blog. Continue reading for more….
If you have served or currently serve in the U.S. military, St. Paul’s would like to recognize you on November 13, 2016, the Sunday after Veterans Day, by listing your name, branch of service, and rank at separation in a special insert in the bulletin. Please email that information to nicole.griffin@gmail.com no later than November 3 to ensure that you are included. Continue reading for more.
On Friday, July 29, 2016, fifteen members of St. Paul’s including two clergy (Javier Almendárez Bautista and Sarah Phelps) went to visit thirty migrant farmworkers in a labor camp in Sampson County, NC. We were accompanied by Juan Carabana of the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry who had arranged with the men in the camp for our visit. Continue reading for more….