On the third Thursday of each month, volunteers from local Tucson congregations provide a fantastic, delicious and nutritious lunch for people living with HIV - this event, sponsored by Tucson HIV/AIDS Network, is called Poz Café. On November 19, St. Philip's is one of the host congregations. Volunteers are needed to help serve the meal, assist in the kitchen, and clean up afterwards. We'll start about 8 a.m. on the 19th. If you are interested in volunteering, or in donating personal care items, please contact Ralph Taylor, St. Philip's TIHAN liaison, at 609-5646.

The annual AGO (American Guild of Organists) Showcase, on Friday, November 20, features the Fritts organ at St. Alban's Episcopal Church. Three organists from the Southern Arizona chapter, Dennis Grannan, Jeffrey Campbell, and Norene Walters, will perform works well fitted to the wonderful coloring of the Fritts, including collaborations with other instruments to explore its chamber qualities. Suggested donation $10. Reception before the concert at 6 p.m.; brief talk and demonstration on the Fritts organ by Stephen Keyl at 6:30, concert at 7 p.m.



Join Bishop Smith, the men of our diocese, and the Rev. Gil Stafford, Canon Theologian, at a retreat to explore a creative language for authentic conversations across generations, genders, races, and cultures. Friday, November 20, through Sunday, November 22 ($65-$195 depending on accommodations). For more information click here.
 

Join us on Sunday, November 22, for a glorious celebration of our life and work together at St. Philip's. Please bring your Estimate of Giving form, to join with us all as we make our giving commitments to God for the coming year, to support St. Philip's life-changing ministries.

The next Parish Potluck Hospitality Table will be on November 22, hosted by parishioners whose last names begin with A-F. For families who choose to participate, it is suggested that you bring food in three categories: 1. Sweet Treats; 2. Healthy Snacks (fruit, cheese, whole grain breads, low calorie muffins, gluten or peanut free snacks, etc.); 3. "Kid Friendly Snacks." If possible, food contributions should be at the table shortly after the 7:45 service so people attending that service can enjoy the food and hospitality.

Wear your tartan to the 9 or 11:15 a.m. service next Sunday, November 22, as we celebrate the Scottish heritage of the Episcopal Church. Tartans will be blessed at the conclusion of the service, and the Tucson Highlanders Band will lead the procession to and from the Church.

The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811, Joanna Bowen Gillespie, Ph.D., 2001, University of South Carolina Press

St. Philip's very own Jo Gillespie has written an eloquent and elegant biography about an 18th-century southern woman, actually in many ways a heroine, set in Charleston, South Carolina during and after the Revolutionary War. Dr. Gillespie's contribution is not only a fascinating story of a highly placed southern woman, Martha Laurens Ramsay, but also an important social history of that section of the country during turbulent times. Read more.









Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point's First Black Graduate, Jane Eppinga, Republic of Texas Press, 1996 and 2015

St. Philip's very own Jane Eppinga has written a fascinating biography of Henry Ossian Flipper, West Point's first black graduate. The grandson of slaves, Flipper was not the only black student at West Point in 1867, but he was the first graduate, who, as Eppinga correctly claims, "would assault the color barrier and march into the annals of history." Read more.