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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.
THE DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA welcomes the Rt. Rev. Peter Lee, bishop diocesan (resigned) for the Diocese of Virginia and current interim rector at Christ Church, Georgetown, as Assisting Bishop for the diocese during our time of transition and search for the 12th bishop diocesan. See Bishop Hodges-Copple’s interview with Bishop Lee. Read Please Note, Nov 17, 2015.
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 of Episcopal Churches in Europe, know and…
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
ANNOUNCEMENTS for SUNDAY, Nov 15 (edited version) Children’s Ministries Children’s Chapel will be held today at the 9:00 a.m. service only – the 11:15 a.m. Chapel is cancelled today. This Chapel is for children ages 3 through 2nd Grade. Please follow the cross processional to the youth wing. Clergy Led Chapel for 3rd-5th graders will be held at today’s 9:00 a.m. service…
At St. Paul’s annual meeting on Nov 8, four new members were elected to the vestry for the class of 2016: Rick Bradley, LaQuinta Jernigan, Jeff Kager, and Karen Smith. Congratulations to the new vestry members.
The Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the church following the 9:00 AM service on Sunday, Nov 8. Please plan to attend this important meeting to elect Vestry members and to hear parish updates. In lieu of coffee hour in the Parish Hall, coffee will be served by the Vestry in the narthex before the meeting. Learn about the vestry candidates for the…
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SUNDAY, NOV 8 (edited version) COFFEE HOUR MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS: The Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the church following the 9:00 a.m. service today. Please plan to attend this important meeting to elect Vestry members and to hear parish updates. In lieu of Coffee Hour in the parish hall, coffee will be served by the Vestry in the narthex before…
During the last 5 months this team of Bill Holmes, Dan Loughlin, Dave Mackie, the Rev. Sarah Phelps, Anne Pilgrim, Tad Richard, Kevin Swann, and Aleta McClenney, has worked towards a goal of providing St. Paul’s with a deeper, broader, richer sense of how we might live out our call as Christians to extend our faith beyond the pew on Sundays and to work, in service, with those whom Jesus blessed and whom we are called to love as we love ourselves. Information collected through adult education, surveys, listening circles, and one-on-one conversations falls into three broad categories: Philosophical, Financial, and Structural…