What's Happening This Week...

SAT: Feb 11

SUN: Feb 12

MON: Feb 13

TUE: Feb 14

WED: Feb 15

THUR: Feb 16

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Ahead...

SUN: Feb 19

WED: Feb 22

ASH WEDNESDAY

SUN: Feb 26

What the 

Future Holds...

Details to Follow!

March 16

The Feast of Absalom Jones service at the Cathedral of St. Phillip is February 12 at 4:00 PM. 

Guest preacher is Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris, the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion. Included is a festival Eucharist commemorating the first African-American priest of the Episcopal Church, Absalom Jones, born a house slave in Delaware in 1746 and ordained priest in Philadelphia Feb. 13, 1802.

Visit the Diocesan Website for more details.

Next week, February 19, after the 11:15 service, the Episcopal Church Women (ECW) are holding their first Quarterly General Body Meeting . All women are invited to remain in the sanctuary after worship to take part in leading the initiatives and events that bless our church and serve others.

DID YOU KNOW:

All women are automatically members of ECW? It's the easiest group ever to join! (Let's see... be a woman. Done!)

Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to participate in the Spirituality, Sisterhood, and Service that the St. Paul's ECW Chapter has to offer!

Email Laura Sams Haynes for more information.

If you didn't get your Giving Statement for 2011 in church last week, the week before, or in the office in between... it's coming to you through the U.S. Mail!

Come Monday, February 12, if you don't have your statement, please send an email to Leslie and let her know.

Again, and as always, St. Paul's thanks you for your faithful giving!

Email Leslie Epps-Bodrick to report a missing statement.

The Lenten Devotionals will be distributed after both services this Sunday, February 12. Be sure to get yours!

Email Cheryl Maddox for more information.

Are you ready for a carnival?!? 

Can't get to New Orleans?!? 

Come Join the Sr. EYC for a evening of 

Mardi Gras Style Fun.

Tuesday, Feb 21 @ 6pm in  Bowden Hall.

Costume contests, Music, Limbo and, of course... PANCAKES!!! Donation: $5 per person

Email Robert Byrd for more information.

The St. Paul's Choir will be performing in a Black History Concert at St. Benedict's Episcopal Church on S. Atlanta Road in Smyrna on Sunday, February 19, at 4:00 PM.  Tickets are $10, and The St. Paul's Choir has tickets for sale.  Proceeds go to The St. Paul's Choir.  Come and enjoy a brief afternoon of great music from three choirs, the grand finale of which will be The St. Paul's Choir.

The St. Paul's Choir has garnered quite a local and national reputation as they continue to travel and perform in various venues such as The Georgia World Congress Center, The Cathedral of St. Philip, The Cathedral of St. Michael's and All Angels in Barbados, and St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Key West, FL. 

The St. Paul's Choir is grateful to be a part of the rich tradition of dynamic worship here at St. Paul's.  God bless the parish of St. Paul's for its loving support of The St. Paul's Choir.

Submitted by Trey Clegg, Music Director

The book for this year's Lenten Series is One Month to Life: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life by Chris & Kerry Shook. Copies of the book are available at St. Paul's for $15 each (retail $19.99). Pick up your copy in the Bowden Hall after worship or come by the office any day of the work week (ask for Leslie!).

The Lenten Series begins after Ash Wednesday (Feb 22) and includes all Bible Study classes:

Sundays @ 10:15 AM (Hodge Chivers/Classroom C)

Wednesdays @ 11:AM (Library)

Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM (Bowden Hall) 

Visit the authors' website for more information.

Email Leslie if you need help purchasing a book. 

This month in Godly Play, we are learning about the Parables of the Good Shepherd, the Good Samaritan, the Great Pearl, and the Sower.  Our Primary and Intermediate Classes will learn about historical figures in Black History and the Judges of Israel, using the book of Judges from the Bible.  Finally, our Middle and High School students will also celebrate figures in Black History and read gospel lessons relevant to these figures.

Second Sunday - Family Worship

9:00 AM: GODLY PLAY ONLY (3 years - 1st grade)

(All other students will worship with their families in the sanctuary.)

11:15 AM: NO CLASSES

(ALL students will worship with their families in the sanctuary.)

Toddler Room: Open for both services

Next Sunday: 

February 19

Third Sunday

9:00 AM: 3 years - 5th grade

11:15 AM: 3 years - 12 grade

Toddler Room: Open for both services.

 Email Azzari Jarrett for more information or to sign up! 

The Toddler Room at St. Paul's is open for young children (ages 1 to 3) so that parents may experience single-minded worship on Sundays.

○ Bring your little ones to Classroom D about 15 minutes before the each service starts.

○ Remember to sign-in and verify your name is on the calendar for a volunteer shift on an upcoming Sunday. 

○ St. Paul's provides one professional sitter each week and needs one additional grown-up for each service.  We rely on parents to support the Toddler Room by volunteering their time to help out! 

○ Bring two extra diaper changes (if needed) and a covered drink. 

○ If Animal Crackers are off-limits,  please bring an appropriate snack so your child is not left out.

○ Pick-up is immediately following each service. 

THANK YOU!

 Email Joy Jones for more information. 

 Hunger Walk 2012: Community Outreach coordinators are launching an early bird campaign to raise the most money ever for Hunger Walk (Sunday March 11). To that end, St. Paulites may begin making online donations in the "Hunger Walk" box of Access Financial Management for St. Paul's Episcopal Church today!

Please consider periodic donations so we can reach our goal; also, please forward the website address to friends and supporters for their donations. If you prefer to write a check for one of our Sunday offerings, please make it out to "St. Paul's Episcopal Church" and write "Episcopal Charities/ Hunger Walk 2012" in the memo line. For more information about Hunger Walk/Run 2012, please contact Janita Poe or Julia Wallace-Abrams.

Access Sign-up for St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Visit the HWR2012.org website for more details.

The Episcopal Urban Caucus Assembly for 2012 will held in Atlanta February 29 - March 3. Headquarters for EUC 2012 will be the Holiday Inn - Capitol Ave (near Turner Field). The theme of the conference will be "Atlanta 2012: Resurging... Singing New Songs of Faith, Hope and Love". The purpose of EUC is to hold the feet of the Episcopal Church to the fire of social justice. The conference will include a keynote panel discussion, workshops and site visits. There will be opportunities to reflect on the legacy of the Civil Rights movement as we discuss current initiatives toward social justice, and how we might best support them. The EUC Members will tap into the songs of their souls and should emerge from the conference rejuvenated and ready to work for social justice.

The EUC Eucharist will take place on Thursday Evening, March 1st, at St. Paul's. The service will honor new "Saints of the EUC" which will include the Rev. Crayton Dudley. A highlight of EUC 2012 will be a Banquet & Dance at the Holiday Inn on Friday evening, March 2. Providing the music (Old School R&B) will be our very own Cookie Dean and her friends.

A number of St. Paul's members are already planning to participate in EUC 2012. Please consider joining us!

The event hosted by St. Paul's and St. Bart's to benefit the

construction project at the St. Marc's School, in Bois Blanc, Haiti has been postponed. Regretfully, ticket sales have not satisfied the minimum requirement for to ultimately benefit the schoolchildren. If you made a donation for the silent auction, please email Jennifer Bonds or Michelle Whittaker.