What's Happening This Weekend...

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FRI: April 13

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Weekend Event

SUN: April 15

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER 

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Next Week...

TUE: April 17

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9:00 AM

Hospice Training

Bowden Hall

WED: April 18

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 11:00 AM

SAT: April 21

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9:00 AM

Hospice Training

Bowden Hall

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Ahead...

SUN: April 22

THIRD SUNDAY IN EASTER

LAW DAY

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9:00 & 11:15 AM

SAT: April 28

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9:30 AM

Town Hall Meeting

Bowden Hall

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9:30 AM

Acolyte/LEM Rehearsals

Sanctuary

SAT: April 28

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FPU Yard Sale

NEW DATE!!!

What the 

Future Holds...

SUN: April 29

FOURTH SUNDAY IN EASTER

WOMEN'S DAY

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9:00 & 11:15 AM

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

 Email Azzari Jarrett for more information. 

Jorge Lawton will be admitted to Emory Hospital on April 16 for his bone marrow transplant. 

Diagnosed 3½ years ago with a rare form of blood cancer (multiple myeloma, medically considered to be "incurable") Jorge's kidneys will not withstand any more chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant using his own healthy stem cells appears to be his last hope. 

This Sunday, April 15, St. Paul's is holding an Ecumenical Healing Service to lift Jorge and his medical team up in prayer for strength, endurance, concentration, comfort, and a successful outcome. 

In attendance will be: 

• Jorge's close clergy friends: Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Islam and other Episcopalians. 
• Internationally recognized singer, Luci Murphy, from Washington, D.C. to sing Violeta Parra's hauntingly beautiful Chilean folk song, Gracias a La Vida {Thanks for Life}. 
• Medical professionals from Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute and other Clinics who served as members of Jorge's medical teams  (including oncology, cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology, opthalmology, oral surgery, and primary care).

Everyone is invited. A light reception will follow the service.

The Youth Summit is a 4-day service program held at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. It includes interactive workshops, and service projects with other hunger fighting organizations in metro Atlanta. There are two sessions this summer and 20 metro Atlanta high school students will be chosen to participate in each session. Participants will earn 32 community service hours, have an amazing time, and build new friendships while learning so much about how to help their community! 

For more information or to download and application, visit the Atlanta Community Food Bank website.

  APPLICATION DEADLINE IS TODAY (APRIL 13)

Session #1:  June 12-15, 2012- 8:30am-4:30pm Tuesday - Friday 

Session #2: July 24 - 27, 2012 - 8:30am-4:30pm Tuesday - Friday  

All Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Sorors who are members of St. Paul's are asked to meet this Sunday (April 15) after the 11:15 worship. 

It's time to make plans for our book scholarships... and we'd love to do something different this year! 

If you have any suggestions and/or items to place on the agenda please forward that information to Carol Stone-Taylor at castpeach@bellsouth.net.  We're looking forward to greeting Sorors who are new to St. Paul's and making plans for the future. 

Everyone's participation is encouraged and appreciated.

Hospice volunteers are companions and sympathetic listeners for hospice patients who are in the last days of their lives.  They assist with patient and family care providing emotional and spiritual support.  Volunteers visit patients at home as well as in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and personal care homes.  Volunteer activities can include: conversation, listening to music, playing games, running errands, watching TV together, prayer, light housework, and looking at scrapbooks.  The list is only limited by your imagination!

Georgia Hospice is offering Saint Paul's Episcopal Church members an opportunity to learn more about becoming a hospice volunteer.  We are conducting educational seminars in Bowden Hall on Tuesday, April 17 and Saturday, April 21.  Both sessions are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM with a light breakfast and lunch provided.  You will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear presentations from our staff of administrators, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and certified nursing assistants.  In addition, for those interested in joining our team, full training is offered following the seminar. 

Contact Scott Uzzel for additional details.

St. Paul's is planning a trip to the Golden Isles in June (6/22-6/24), but we need a certain number of commitments to make it happen. 

St. Paul's has made the trip twice before and by all accounts it's a fabulous time! This weekend excursion offers a Low Country Boil, a casino cruise, and our friends at St. Athanasius Episcopal Church celebrating their 127th anniversary, all against the backdrop of the rich history, culture, and landscape of the Golden Isles of Brunswick, GA.

Don't let this getaway GET AWAY!!!

Lodging is at the Diocese of Georgia Conference Center and the cost per person is $190 (double occupancy) and children are $100 each (rooming with paid adult). The deadline for trip deposits ($50) has been extended to April 22 in hopes of securing enough folks to make it happen!  PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN!

For additional information, contact Jean Hazzard or Bob Martin.

Citizens for all Seasons will have a free showing of the movie, "The Help" on Wednesday, April 18 at 1:00PM. 

Please bring a covered dish to share.  See you in Bowden Hall! 

The Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright Scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior who demonstrates leadership and committed service at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, academic excellence and leadership in the community.  The scholarship is $1,000.

We are currently soliciting volunteers to water the plants at least 3 times a week. We invite each organization to sponsor a month (or any time span that's comfortable for the size of your group).

 Email Gale Taylor for more information or to sign up! 

Parishioners are invited to attend the 2012 Hunger Walk Awards at the 11:15 a.m. worship on Sunday, April 22. 

From Carol Chestnut, Food Pantry Chair:

Eddie Hollingsworth, and Birson Allen will chair The Community Garden Ministry with a theme of: 

We have 19 people who receive food at the St. Paul's Food Pantry signed up to volunteer with cultivating the soil, planting, and weeding. This will help to encourage self-reliance, and will help supplement their food supply with fresh vegetables.

If you like to volunteer or donate garden tools to the effort, please contact Eddie Hollingsworth. (We really need a garden tiller!)

Your kind generosity is greatly appreciated.

Eddie Hollingsworth:  

404-763-3894 or 678-410-7226 (cell)

                      eholl481@bellsouth.net

From Richard (Ricky) Wood:

I would like to give a special thanks to the special people who left their warm beds between 3:30 and 4:00 AM, to be at the church between 4:30 and 5:00 AM to prepare Easter breakfast for more than 300 St. Paul's parishioners.

The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) hope you enjoyed the First Lady's Holy Saturday Prayer Breakfast.  ECW continues its commitment to provide meaningful experiences for women and the church and invites you to Women's Day 2012, Sunday, April 29 at the 11:15 AM service.  

This year's speaker is Rev. Sherri Wood-Powe, daughter of our own Ricky & Sarah Wood. Join us as Rev. Wood-Powe speaks on "Women Building Christian Bridges".  

We ask and encourage all women to wear white on Women's Day.  Thank you!

Speaking of Women's Day... ECW is still asking all women of the church to support the RED ENVELOPE CAMPAIGN. 

Because of the vast array of ministries and events that ECW supports, they are counting at least 270 women to pay their dues in order to operate within budget for 2012 (we still need more than 125 women to contribute!). This money offsets the expenses of guest speakers, hospitality, outreach efforts, and more.

If you're a woman of the parish, you are already a member of ECW. We encourage you to activate your membership by submitting $20 for annual dues. Dues may be submitted in the red envelopes located in the pews and then placed in the alms basin. THANK YOU!

Praise God from whom all blessings flow...

Those who share in the United Thank Offering, both givers and receivers, must consider certain discernible truths. For one, tremendous efforts  bring to pass great accomplishments to the glory of God and to the benefit of people in so many varying areas of need all over the world.

Blue boxes are available for your coins, bills, or checks. Mark your calendars for the Spring In-Gathering on May 6!

Submitted by Ida Demons, UTO Committee Chair

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Submitted by Saritha Harden.

St.  Paul's parishioner, Mrs. Nadine Baker-Smith, will honored by her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Atlanta Alumnae Chapter.

Nadine will receive the Sorority's prestigious Torch Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions in education in the Atlanta Public School System as a teacher, new teacher mentor, and teacher tutor.

The presentation will take place at the chapter's Celebration of Women Luncheon at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) on May 5 at 11:30 AM.

Congratulations, Nadine!!

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