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St. Paul's Episcopal Church
March 11, 2015
Parish E-Newsletter
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Third Week in Lent
Sunday Morning Schedule
- 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
- 9:00 am Fellowship Time
- 9:30 - 10:15 Mezzanine - Classes for all ages
- 9:45 am Choir Rehearsal
- 10:30 Holy Eucharist Rite II
- 11:45 Fellowship Time
- 12 noon Sermon Reflection
New Office Hours
9:00 am - noon
Monday- Thursday
Dear People of St. Paul's,
This coming Saturday, March 14, your vestry and staff and I will be meeting off-site for the annual Vestry/Staff Retreat. Our facilitator will be The Rev. Canon Britt Olson who has recently moved to the Seattle area. Prior to this move Britt served for ten years as Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of Northern California. During our retreat we will be reexamining our mission and ministry and discern how God is calling St. Paul's as a faith community at this time. We will work on clarifying questions such as:
- What are the respective roles and mutual expectations between the rector and vestry?
- What is needed to help us all better fulfill our roles?
- How do we invite and sustain participation and leadership within the congregation?
- What is the vision and mission of St. Paul's, and how is it being lived out?
- What are our top three mutual ministry goals?
In addition to identifying mutual ministry goals we will develop action plans and timelines. We will also, pray, share a Bible study, gather around the Table for Holy Eucharist and enjoy fellowship. In an upcoming newsletter you will be provided a report of the fruits of our labors. I ask your prayers for guidance and inspiration during Saturday's retreat.
Last Saturday it was a great pleasure to welcome to St. Paul's Dr. Suzanne Crawford O'Brien, professor of Religious Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. During her spirited presentation "Losing (and Finding) My Religion: Approaching Diverse Traditions in a Global Age" Suzanne offered historical perspectives on comparative religions that included frameworks from various disciplines and thinkers. In addition to presenting thoughts about religion from Freud, Marx, Tillich, and others, core components of religion were described that include sacred sites, rites of passage and rituals of transformation. Her full outline may be found here. It was a very rich offering!
Our Episcopal faith is rich with ritual and tradition. In our walk towards Holy Week and Easter we will be living into worship and rituals whose meanings speak to of us of the deepest meanings of our existence. The cross, the symbol and center of our faith tradition, is all about the intersection, where death meets life, and the power of transformation. This evening, during our Lenten class "Fierce Landscapes" we will be looking towards our own deaths and focus on the decisions and communications we can make now in order to have our deaths be as closely aligned with our own desires as possible. It is my firm belief that it is when we can acknowledge the reality of our own inevitable death, and take care of the business that is required... both for ourselves, and to assist our loved ones once we are gone.... it is then that we can truly live well until it is time to die. One of my favorite quotations about death is from the writer Bahaya Pakuda:
Life and death are like siblings that dwell together and cannot be separated.
They are like the two extremes of a frail bridge over which all created beings travel...
This is our walk. May it be abundantly blessed,
Yours in the love of Christ,
Dianne+
The Rev. Dianne P. Andrews, Rector
[email protected]
206-817-6530 (cell)
360-344-2728 (home)
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Lenten Reflections Book 2015
(click here for flipbook)
Wednesdays in Lent
February 25 - March 25
Soup 6:00, Class 6:30 pm
Fierce Landscapes:
A Lenten Journey through Death, Grief, and Holy Living
This year's Lenten program was developed by Dianne Andrews, Bill Maxwell, and MaryAnn Seward. Bill and MaryAnn are board members of The Hospice Foundation for Jefferson Healthcare. Dianne is rector of St. Paul's. The guest presenter for the first session, Rev. Gretchen Cohan, is the chaplain at Skagit Valley Hospital.
During these sessions practical and spiritual issues related to death, dying and grief, will be covered...all for the sake of living fully on our sojourn from birth to death and beyond.
Session #1
- February 25
Our Culture of Death Anxiety & Denial - Metaphors, Euphemisms & the Theology of Death
Rev. Gretchen Cohen Slide Presentation
Session #2 - March 4
Grief: Navigating Fierce Landscapes & Helping Others Who are Grieving
MaryAnn Seward - Fierce Landscapes of Grief Notes
(click here to view)
Session #3 - March 11
Living, Dying & Loving: Preparation & Planning for the End of Life
Session #4 - March 18
Acknowledging Death & Celebrating Life: The Church Steps In
Session #5 - March 25
The Walk of Holy Week: The Cross and Beyond
LENTEN OFFERING
This year's Lenten Offering has been designated to support the Jefferson County Backpacks for Kids Weekend Nutrition Program. This program currently helps about 150 students in the Port Townsend, Chimacum, Quilcene and Brinnon school districts who are food-insecure. The number of students it serves in Port Townsend doubled this year, and the need in all these communities continues to grow.
Donations are used solely to purchase food; all the work is done by volunteers. The food they buy and pack is discreetly sent home with the students on Fridays. With creative shopping, the program can feed a child for $6.50 per weekend, $25 per month, or $225 for the school year.
Our Lenten Offering will provide a three-fold gift that nourishes body, mind, and spirit: a well-fed student is healthier, can concentrate and learn better, and has higher self-esteem. What a joy to help young people in our own community this way!
Coin boxes and materials available in narthex and church office.
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Sermon
Click on the sermon title/link to view the sermon:
Third Sunday in Lent
The Rev. Dianne Andrews
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From Your Director of Ministries
With Children, Youth, & Families
Dear St. Paul's Sisters & Brothers,
Last Sunday we had fun with wax! During Art & Soul we learned about Pascal candles -- things like:
- The word "Pascal" comes from a Hebrew word meaning Passover
- The use of Pascal candles in Christian churches dates back to the 4th Century
- Candles grew in size each year as more decorations were added to the original; records show that some candles weighed as much as 300 lbs.; in Medieval England, a Pascal candle in Salisbury was 36 feet tall!
- Each year during the Easter Vigil, we light the Pascal candle; the flame symbolizes Christ as Light of the world and his constant presence in the midst of his community -- even after his death
- We begin a new Pascal candle each Easter Vigil as a symbol of our community's participation in the Easter mystery and our new life through Christ
- The Pascal candle remains lit throughout the 50 days of Easter and -- as a sign that we are Easter people -- it is lit at burials, baptisms, and other celebrations of new life!
There's a lot of candle to cover, so please take some time this Sunday during the second coffee hour to help create beautiful, Christian symbols for our 2015 candle.
This coming Sunday, we'll continue our Lenten journey together with the following (in the Judy House):
- ALL AGES -- 9:30-10:15 a.m.: Art & Soul Sunday. Like the last three weeks (making Lenten pretzels, pressing flowers for Easter, and decorating the Pascal Candle) we'll do another Lent-related project meant to draw us closer to the Pascal mystery. This week's project will feature butterflies.
- AGES 3-9 -- 10:30~11:15 a.m.: Godly Play -- we'll continue our journey toward Holy Week with another foundational story: "Jesus as Healer and Parable Maker." These Lenten lessons are our annual, brief, mystery-filled survey of Jesus' life, death, and Resurrection.
- AGES 10-15 -- 10:30~11:15 a.m.: Youth Time -- Upstairs, Peggy St. Clair will lead our new, faith exploration adventure with youth through the use of "re:form" -- a lively curricula that cultivates critical thinking, faithful reflection, and discovery. This second week will focus on a foundational question for our series: "Why does the Bible contradict itself at times?" Please be sure to join us and please bring a friend!
A reminder for Rite 13 participants: our next meeting will take place at St. Paul's on Friday, March 20, 5:45-7:15 (please RSVP). In our meetings so far (since September), we've been exploring our own faith stories and what having a "baptismal identity" means -- with the intention of moving towards planning for/participating in a Rite 13 worship service sometime soon. This will be a worship service in which the entire congregation will have an opportunity to bless and and commit to support each teen as she/he moves closer to adulthood and further in her/his unique faith journey.
Peace be with you all,
Tanya
Rev. Tanya Barnett (Disciples of Christ)
Director of Ministries with Children, Youth, & Families
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News from the Mezzanine
"Deepening Our Faith"
Inquiring Minds "A Brief Survey of the Bible"
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Parish Hall
March 15: Apocalyptic Literature: The Book of Revelation, et. al.
March 22: The Gospels: Jesus' Last Week - final class in series
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Class Handouts
(click here)
(click here for document)
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Mezzanine: Making a Home in Prayer
The Oscar Romero retreat, previously set for April 18, is being rescheduled.
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"Art & Soul Sundays"
With Children and Youth
9:30 a.m. in the Judy House (upstairs)
Each Sunday, children and youth (ages 3-15) come together to explore the day's scripture and their own creative souls through an array of arts. For more information, please contact Tanya at :
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St. Pauls' Vestry will be reading the
Bishop's Lenten book selection:
Now You See It:
How Technology and Brain Science will Transform Schools
and Business for the 21st Century
By Cathy N. Davidsom
Join us!
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Upcoming Events
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Solemn, Chanted Compline
Thursday, March 12
8:30 p.m., in the Sanctuary
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EASTER FIRE
Easter Fire is the community sunrise service sponsored by St. Paul's on Easter Sunday at North Beach. We are looking for anyone who might be interested in helping with music or other. It's an extraordinary and fun way to begin Easter morning! Call: Elisabeth Rotchford Haight at 385-4198
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Parish Life and Announcements
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Easter Lilies
The Altar Guild is accepting donations towards Lilies to decorate the church for Easter. If you are interested in donating, you will find envelopes in the Narthex, the back entry and in the church office. On the envelope you will find a place for your name as well as your dedication such as: in Memory of_____, in Thanksgiving for _____, or other. Please fill out each part clearly and completely. Turn into the church office, place in offering plate or give to Sally Scholz by Sunday March 29th. Suggested donation is however much you wish to donate.
If you have any question please contact Sally Scholz, Altar Guild flower chair, 732-4613.
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Just Soup Servers Needed
March 18
If you are interested in helping please contact Sue Cook at (360)301-2830 or [email protected].
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Jefferson County, Washington
A United Good Neighbors Agency
FAMILY-TO-FAMILY EDUCATION PROGRAM
FREE for family members and partners of individuals living with:
Major Depression
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive Illness)
Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Panic Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Co-occurring Brain Disorders and Addictive Disorders
A series of 12, weekly classes structured to help caregivers understand and
support individuals living with serious mental illness while maintaining their
own well-being. The course is taught by a team of trained NAMI (National Alliance on
Mental Illness) family member volunteers who know what it is like to have a
loved one struggling with one of these brain disorders. There is no cost to participate in the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program.
Over 80,000 people in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have completed this
course. We think you will be pleased by how much assistance the program
offers. We invite you to contact us for more information. Registration required.
Classes Held in Port Townsend:
Saturday Mornings, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
March 28 thru June 13, 2015
Register Now. Space is Limited.
Phone: (360) 360-390-4547
Women's Spiritual Growth Group
3:00 pm Mondays
The Women's Spiritual Growth Group begins a new book the day after Easter, Monday, April 6. We will be reading The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings. The author, John Philip Newell, a former warden of Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland, has divided this most recent of his books into chapters on reconnecting. Reconnecting with - the Earth, Compassion, the Light, the Journey, Spiritual Practice, Nonviolence, the Unconscious, and Love.
We welcome all women at our meetings. It is not necessary to commit to a whole book reading. We meet every Monday in the Pollard Room 3:00-4:30 p.m. For more information, contact Katie Fleming 379-2516; [email protected]
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In an effort to make the coffee hour schedule easier for everyone, a decision has been made to divide the month into 4 Sundays, starting on November 2nd, as follows:
First Sunday of the month: last names A-G
Second Sunday of the month: last names H-Mc
Third Sunday of the month: last names Me-R
Fourth Sunday of the month: last names S-Z
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When there's a fifth Sunday, different committees/groups will be invited to sign up on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall.
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Each group will be responsible for setting up, making coffee and cleaning up. If you don't know how to do this, ask an old-timer!
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This applies to the 8 o'clock AND 10:30 coffee hours.
Highly recommended that there is some organizational conversation within each alpha group in advance of the day itself to better manage the logistics of who is setting and cleaning up. The new schedule is posted on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. See you at coffee hour
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Thursday
March 12
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| 7-8:30 am |
| Men's Bible Study (Hwy Roadhouse) |
9:30 am
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Staff Meeting
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4:00 - 5:30 pm
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Stewardship Committee (PR)
| 6:30 pm |
| Choir Rehearsal
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8:30 pm
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Compline
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| Friday March 13 |
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| 6:30 pm-9:30 |
| Bet Shira (PH/K) |
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| Saturday March 14 |
| Vestry/Staff Retreat (off-site) | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
| 2nd Saturday Potluck (PH) |
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| Sunday, March 15 | LENT IV |
| 8 am |
| Holy Eucharist, Rite I | 9 am |
| Fellowship (PH) | 9:30 am |
| Mezzanine | 9:45 am |
| Choir Rehearsal | 10:30 am |
| Holy Eucharist, Rite II | 11:45 am |
| Fellowship (PH) | 12 noon |
| Sermon Reflection (PR) |
2:00 pm
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Life Care Worship
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| Monday, March 16 |
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11:30 am
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Book Group (PR)
| 2:30 pm |
| Women's Spiritual Growth Group (PR) |
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| Tuesday, March 17 |
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| 10 am |
| Just Soup Prep (K) |
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| Wednesday, March 18 |
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| 10:30 am |
| Service of Healing and HE | 11:30 am
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| Just Soup (K/PH)
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6:00 pm
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| Lenten Soup & Class (PH) |
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JH = Judy House
K = Kitchen
PH = Parish Hall
PR = Pollard Room
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Thursday
March 19
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| 7-8:30 am |
| Men's Bible Study (Hwy Roadhouse) |
8:30 am
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Work Crew
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9:30 am
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Staff Meeting
| 6:30 pm |
| Choir Rehearsal
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8:30 pm
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Compline
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| Friday March 20 |
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| Saturday March 21 |
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| 1:30 pm |
| Patti Jarvis Memorial (PH) |
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| Sunday, March 22 | LENT V |
| 8 am |
| Holy Eucharist, Rite I | 9 am |
| Fellowship (PH) | 9:30 am |
| Mezzanine | 9:45 am |
| Choir Rehearsal | 10:30 am |
| Holy Eucharist, Rite II | 11:45 am |
| Fellowship (PH) | 12 noon |
| Sermon Reflection (PR) |
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| Monday, March 23 |
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| 2:30 pm |
| Women's Spiritual Growth Group (PR) |
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| Tuesday, March 24 |
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| 10 am |
| Just Soup Prep (K) |
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| Wednesday, March 25 |
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| 10:30 am |
| Service of Healing and HE | 11:30 am
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| Just Soup (K/PH)
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6:00 pm
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| Lenten Soup & Class (PH) |
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JH = Judy House
K = Kitchen
PH = Parish Hall
PR = Pollard Room
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Sunday Servers
March 15, 2015
Fourth Sunday in Lent
| 8:00 am |
| Presider |
| The Rev. Dianne P. Andrews | Preacher |
| The Rev. Dianne P. Andrews | Eucharistic Minister |
| Tracy Garrett | Lector |
| Margaret McGee | Eucharistic Visitor |
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| Usher |
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| Oblations |
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| Coffee Hosts |
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Last Names: Me-R
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| 10:30 am |
| Presider |
| The Rev. Dianne P. Andrews | Preacher |
| The Rev. Dianne P. Andrews | Acolyte |
| Sherri Reed | Eucharistic Minister |
| Sue Cook | Music Director |
| Jennifer Pipia | Lectors |
| Helen Cleveland & Jerome Wright | Eucharistic Visitor |
| Bob & Ginny Ford | Ushers |
| Bob ford | Greeter |
| Helen Cleveland | Bread Baker |
| Matzo Bread for Lent - Laurie Neuenschwander | Bread & Wine Bearer |
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| Church School & Childcare |
| Rev. Tanya Barnett (DOC) | Coffee Hosts |
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Last Names: H-Mc
| Prayers of the People |
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| Altar Guild |
| Team 2 | Flowers |
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Sunday's Lessons
March 15, 2015
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Year B
Gracious god, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Numbers 21:4-9
From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food." Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live." So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Page 746, BCP
Confitemini Domino
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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures for ever.
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Let all those whom the LORD has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
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He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
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Some were fools and took to rebellious ways; *
they were afflicted because of their sins.
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They abhorred all manner of food *
and drew near to death's door.
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Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.
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He sent forth his word and healed them *
and saved them from the grave.
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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.
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Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
Ephesians 2:1-10
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-- not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
John 3:14-21
Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
"Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God."
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church 1020 Jefferson St.
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360) 385-0770
We are an open and inclusive community and welcome people of all ages and of every denomination and faith.
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