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Parish Elections – January 2020

By News, Upcoming Events

On January 19, 2020 (the same day as our Annual Meeting) we will hold our parish Elections for the three members who are rolling off of our nine member Vestry at the end of 2019: Jean Edwards, Charles Mullins and me. Vestry members serve three year terms. We also will elect an Endowment committee member to replace Jerry Knight, as well as one delegate and one alternate for the Annual Convention. Jean Edwards has served out the remainder of Boyd Richie’s term as delegate, and so we now need to elect a delegate for a three year term, as well as one alternate. The Vestry serves as the Board of Directors for the church in its capacity as a nonprofit Texas corporation. Also, according to the Vestry Handbook by Christopher Weber: “The vestry of an Episcopal church has three primary responsibilities. The first two are managerial: to take care of…

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January 10, 2020

#GiveForLife Blood Drive – Jan 11

By Outreach

National Blood Donor Month is Sweet! You can help save a life by taking an hour or so out of your day on Saturday, January 11, 2020 from 8:00 am until Noon, when the Carter BloodCare Bus will be in the St. Thomas North parking lot. Mark your calendars now and come #GiveForLife! Give blood and get a box of your favorite Girl Scout Cookies! If you have any questions, contact Volunteer Drive Coordinator Nancy LeGros at nancy.legros@bracewell.com.

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January 10, 2020

Find Your Why

By Christian Formation

Yesterday I took our now dried and brittle Christmas tree and placed it on the curb in front of our home. It wasn’t alone out there as many of our neighbors had recently done the same. Even though Christmas is over, it’s still a sad sight to see all the once beautiful Christmas trees waiting now out in the cold to be picked up and taken away. There is a lesson I find in these discarded trees that applies to a favorite activity this time of year, the making of New Year’s resolutions. Trees die quickly once they are cut off from their roots, and the same is true of resolutions. If we only focus on the what we want to change rather than the underlying why, there is a good chance our resolve to change will not last. Connecting with the why we want to change something helps us…

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January 4, 2020

Connecting at St. Thomas – Kimbell Art Museum visit

By Upcoming Events

Please join us Tuesday, January 7 at 9:00 am in the North Parking Lot so that we may car pool to the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth to see Renoir’s first major exhibition focusing on the human form. Over the course of his long career, Pierre-Auguste Renoir continually turned to the human figure for artistic inspiration. The body—particularly the nude—was the defining subject of Renoir’s artistic practice from his early days as a student copying the old masters in the Louvre to the early twentieth century, when his revolutionary style of painting inspired the masters of modernism. In recognition of the centenary of Renoir’s death, the Clark Art Institute and Kimbell Art Museum present Renoir: The Body, The Senses. This daring exhibition is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form, and it reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism…

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December 31, 2019

Little Red Socks of Love

By Outreach

Nothing personifies the mission of Bryan’s House more than the Little Red Socks of Love, which represent the little boy for whom the organization is named. Bryan Allen was the first known child in Dallas to die from AIDS after being infected perinatally from his mother, who had unknowingly contracted the disease through a blood transfusion. Bryan’s mother kept him outfitted in little red socks in hopes that he would live through the holidays. Bryan lived to see his first Christmas, but he died shortly after at only 8 months old. With nowhere to turn for help caring for her children with AIDS, Bryan’s mother Lydia Allen founded Bryan’s House to serve as a hospice for children infected with HIV / AIDS. Sadly, Lydia and her older son Matthew both passed away due to complications from AIDS. Today, Texas is ranked 49th in the USA to serve at-risk children with…

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December 18, 2019

Announcement of the 5th Rector for St. Thomas

By News

It is with great rejoicing that we announce that The Rev. Christopher Blake Thomas has been called to serve as the 5th rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Thomas the Apostle. Father Christopher’s new ministry with us will begin on February 1, 2020. Father Leo, our Interim Rector, will continue in his current position through January 31, 2020. Read more about Father Christopher >

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December 17, 2019

White Elephant Epiphany Party

By Upcoming Events

Join us on Saturday, January 4 at 6:30 pm for St. Thomas’ Downright Fabulous White Elephant Epiphany Party, to be hosted by Wynne Voorhees and in memory of Rett Evans. Randy Hering will be the Master of Ceremonies. Time to get together to celebrate Epiphany and start the year off right. Be wise and bring a WRAPPED PRESENT ($10‐15 value) and participate in an extraordinary “White Elephant Gift Exchange Game.” Also bring your favorite pot luck dish and beverage to go with it! Don’t forget to bring a friend too! Call 214‐352‐0410 for information and location.

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December 4, 2019

Loving This Holiday Season

By Christian Formation

A common teaching of many spiritual traditions involves the practice of learning to love and find peace with life just as it is in the present moment. This teaching is an antidote to the prevailing thinking of “I will not be happy, or I won’t find peace until _____ happens.” This, you see, translates into something like, “I can’t find love and peace within my life, or with this person, until some time in the future when the change I want to occur finally happens. Then and only then will I be happy.” Thinking that contentment cannot happen until some preferred future unfolds is a tempting form of distraction from not allowing ourselves to love things as they are and to be happy in the present moment. Another type of distraction from fully embracing the present is holding on to or wishing for the past. “If only it could be…

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November 22, 2019

Tis the Season for Giving

By News, Outreach

It’s the little things that make a big impact in our community! Try offering a smile to someone you pass by, visiting a neighbor that’s shut-in, volunteering at shelter, donating food to local food pantry or giving a few extra dollars to support the many ministries St. Thomas is involved in. Everyone has something to give! St. Thomas is excited to offer new, innovative and convenient ways to donate: Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3 GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. The goal is to build a world in which the catalytic power of generosity is…

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November 22, 2019

Mass + Mexican – Dec 4

By Upcoming Events

Join us for our next Connecting at St. Thomas event “Mass Plus Mexican”, on December 4 (the first Wednesday of Advent). We will start our evening with the service of Holy Eucharist at 6:30pm in the Church and then have dinner together at El Fenix Mexican Restaurant (located on Lemmon at Inwood) afterwards. Promises to be a great way to start the Advent Season plus a good and tasty time of fellowship!

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November 13, 2019