Interested in helping out with the upcoming Habitat for Humanity Build that St. Paul’s will be participating in? There will be an interest meeting on January 3 during coffee hour, in the conference room, to provide more information on this exciting hands-on outreach opportunity. For more information, contact Dave Mackie (dw.mackie@gmail.com or 919-260-6707), or feel…
Please join us on December 19 for one last volunteer work day of the year, starting at 8:30 AM. We will meet in the Parish Hall and work throughout the day. Please feel free to come for an hour or two (or longer!). Child care will be available between 8:45 AM and 12:15 PM, and holiday cookies and beverages will be provided. Contact…
See pictures of St. Nicholas Coming to St. Paul’s on Dec 6, 2015. St. Nicholas received gifts for 430 children served by the St. Nicholas Ministry at St. Paul’s. Also, see pictures of the Youth Choir and Bell Choir who performed on St. Nicholas Sunday. Click here for more St. Paul’s photos
St. Nick is coming to St. Paul’s! Join us for St. Nicholas Sunday on December 6, 2015. St. Nicholas himself will be gathering the gifts for the needy recipients at both the 9:00 a.m. and the 11:15 a.m. services. The tags have all been taken, but cash donations are welcome. Please bring checks, made out to…
St. Paul’s offers many opportunities to share your resources, and there is no better time of year to give than during the Season of Advent. For more on these giving opportunities: Advent Envelopes, Christmas Plate, St. Nicholas Ministry, Christmas Poinsettias, Food Donations for Urban Ministries, and Heifer International, Continue reading below.
Tags are still available on the St. Nicholas Tree (see picture taken Nov 25, 2015). Each tag represents a child who will have a merry Christmas due to your generosity. Please take a tag and shop for one of these children, who is served by a local agency. Gifts will be received by St. Nicholas himself…
Thanks to the Ten Thousand Villages Store newly opened in Cary, friends of the St. Paul’s Outreach ministries can shop once for the holidays and see their gift multiplied. On Friday, December 11 from 5 to 8 p.m., St. Paul’s Outreach will receive a percentage of all sales made at the store.
Click here for pictures of the Arts and Crafts Festival. It takes a parish to host an arts and crafts festival. The festival, which took place on November 14, raised $6000 for outreach. This was possible only because of the efforts of so many parishioners, who gave generously of their time and talents and supported the festival by attending.
Compassionate and life-giving God, we are horrified at the violence in Paris. Hold back the hands that kill and maim; turn around the hearts that hate. Grant instead your strong Spirit of Peace – peace that passes our understanding but changes lives. May Bishop Pierre Whalen, and all our brothers and sisters in the Convocation…
The St. Nicholas Advent tree (2015) is up and is decorated with over 400 tags identifying needy children served by local agencies that support seasonal farmworker families, orphans and vulnerable children, homeless families, families of recovering addicts, and families in need of reasonable housing. Please take one or more of the tags from the tree. Continue Reading below