Read the Rector's Message on Haiti. Click here

$4,690 in Plate Collection for Haiti Relief as of 2-8-2010. (This does not count donations made directly to ERD.) THANK YOU for your generosity!

Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD) Responds to Haiti Earthquake. Donations are needed. Please give prayers and donations to support our sisters and brothers in Haiti.  Make donations online at http://www.er-d.org/, by check marked "Haiti Relief Fund" mailed to Episcopal Relief & Development, P. O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058, or by phone at 1-800-334-7626, ext. 5129. CLICK TO DONATE ONLINE TO ERD

• Haiti crisis has global impact; Anglicans display concern through generosity, prayer
• Haitian Episcopalians struggle in the present, look to the future

• Feb 14, 2010 - Center for Hope and Healing Forum with the Rev. Dr. Sally Harbold

Cursillo Ultreya, Feb 14, 6:00 PM at St. Paul's

Coffee Talk: Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in the Library. Contact Jen Dobridge through the church office. Ages and Stages Journaling Activity. Click to read more. Read more in Feb issue of St. Paul's Letter, page 3.

Women's Study Group. Day meetings at 12:00 noon in the Cry Room on the second Tuesday of each month. Evening meetings at 7:00 PM in the Library on the third Wednesday of the month. Read about Women's Study Group.

Julian Gathering: Meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays at 9:15 AM in the Cry Room. 

Women Welcoming Women: Women of all ages and life experiences meet and socialize several times a year. Read more in Feb issue of St. Paul's Letter, page 3.

EYC (Episcopal Youth Community) Meets in the Youth Wing on Sunday. Middle school 4:00 t0 6:00, High School 5:15 to 7:30, supper 5:15 to 6:00. 

• Youth Sunday, Feb 14
• HS Service Weekend, Feb 26-28. Read more in the Feb issue of St. Paul's Letter, page 8. 
• ASP Auction and Spaghetti Dinner, Mar 19
• Spring Breakout to New Orleans, Mar 24 to Apr 3.
• Youth ASP 2010, Jun 20-26. Click for application.

Acolyte Training for Feb 9 has been cancelled. If you were planning to attend this session as a “first training” please contact The Rev. Bernard J. Owens so that we can get you ready to serve!

Click for 2010 EYC Calendar

Compline, Tuesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM in the back of the church. All High School youth are invited to join us for food, fellowship, music and worship.

Read EYC UPDATES in the current St. Paul's Letter.  An EYC newsletter is emailed periodically to EYC-ers. To receive this newsletter, email Fred at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or call 467-0976. Click here for current EYC newsletter.

Pre-EYC, for all 4th and 5th graders. Meets on the first and third Sundays, 4:00 to 6:00 PM. Contact Carla Traudt or B.J. Owens.  Feb 7, "Dinner with Jesus - around the year 30 AD" Feb 21, Instructed Eucharist with Fr. B.J. Read More about Pre-EYC.

A Cub Scout Pack is Forming! Read details here.

• The bathroom in the Youth Wing needs painting. There was some repair work done.
• Two outside doors need to be painted.  One door is on the Kids Club and it faces the church.  This one needs to be sanded, primed, and painted. Chris has 2 cans of white oil spray in her office. The second door is the new parish hall door that faces the parking lot.  Chris has the paint for this door also.
• Gutters on the Chapel and Church buildings need to be cleaned out. Also, leaves need to be removed from the roof of the Kid's Club. Leaves are blocking drains.
• The church grounds need work: pruning, gardening, weeding, etc. Contact Fill Bowen or Jim Speight.

Used Cars Needed by Wheels4Hope. Donate your used car, get a great tax deduction, and help a needy person become self-reliant. Contact Mike Sweeney, 380-3360, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Mechanics needed also.

Rev. George Adamik
Homily, January 24, 2010

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We're back from our Diocesan Convention. And the "we" are the clergy here at St. Paul's and our lay delegates we have sent to represent our parish: Anne Pilgrim, Mary Wood, Lanny Wase, and Dennis Daniels.  All of us got together in Winston-Salem for Friday and Saturday; it was just a wonderful experience. I'm hearing that second reading from Paul about that variety of gifts within the faith community. You see that in a parish, when you gather a diocese together it seems to expand exponentially...

Rev. Bernard J. Owens
Homily, 
January 17, 2010 

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I would like to begin by sharing just a brief thought about my experience of being a witness, as we have all been witnesses, to what has been happening to our brothers and sisters in Haiti.  My wife and I were particularly struck by the stories we heard on the news.  This was two days and three days respectively after the earthquake had hit.  And the story we kept hearing and the frustration we kept hearing was about was this sense of mounting outreach that was growing but simply couldn't hit it's target.  Planes were in the air but there was nowhere for them to land...

Rev. George Adamik
Homily, January 10, 2010

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We find ourselves in the season referred to as Epiphany, that season where God's presence is shown forth to the world.  Today's readings are about the baptism of Jesus, one of those first moments in the Gospels where Jesus' life is beginning to expand and reach beyond just his intimate family, but into the world. And so we gather on this Feast of the Ephiphany for our annual meeting...

Mary Wood, Senior Warden
Good morning. My name is Mary Wood and I am the current but soon to be outgoing Senior Warden. I want to share a couple of thoughts about volunteering because I've had a chance to volunteer on Vestry for the last three years...

Rev. Bernard J. Owens
Homily, 
January 3, 2010 

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In this week of recalling events from the past year and the past decade I remembered a story from about two years ago. It was something that involved all of us who live in this area of the country. I was thinking about the drought of 2007, the worst drought in over a hundred years...

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Keep up with recent goings on at St. Paul's. 

• Four New Vestry Members Elected for 2010
• Buildings and Grounds Update
• St Pauls Cookbook Copies Available.
• Thanksgiving Festival of Choirs 2009
• Food Drive Brings in Over a Half-Ton of Food
• Backpacks for Veterans Project Fills 13 Backpacks
• October 2009 Stop Hunger Now Event Offers Something for All
• Flu and Health Awareness at St. Paul's
• Financial Statements are available in the kiosk in the Narthex
• 50th Anniversary DVD available

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Childcare at St. Paul's  - St. Paul's "Kid's Club" offers free childcare, provided by trained staff, during the 9 AM and 11:15 AM Sunday worship services, the Education Hour between these services, and many mid-week activities, such as choir practices.  For more information on childcare at St. Paul's, please click here.