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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

It’s Toy Drive Time Again!

By Outreach

As has been a tradition at St. Thomas the Apostle for many years, we will once again collect toys for children in the custody of Child Protective Services. It is our way of supporting and helping keep hope alive for Dallas County’s youngest victims of abuse. Community Partners of Dallas organizes the drive and they rely on organizations like St. Thomas to assist in obtaining toys for these children. There will be a tree set up with Wish Cards on it for pick up beginning on Sunday, November 17. Please stop by and pick out a card or two (or more) and return the unwrapped gift(s) with the wish card attached no later than Sunday, December 1 to the PARISH HALL by the NORTH ENTRANCE. Members of St. Thomas Angels will get all of the gifts to the Community Partners’ warehouse that week.

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November 6, 2019

Swimming While Drowning – Dec 8

By Upcoming Events

For our next Beyond the Pew, we will attend Swimming While Drowning on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 2:30 pm at the Latino Cultural Center (2600 Live Oak). A coming-of-age story about self-acceptance and resilience centered in a homeless LGBTQ shelter. Angelo and Mila are fifteen and homeless. Angelo is chasing dreams while Mila is chasing survival. When they become roommates at a shelter for LGBTQ teens, they build a fragile bond that inspires them to reach for understanding and self-acceptance. Emilio Rodriguez’s poetic coming-of-age story celebrates the healing power of hope and the beautiful mystery of being a teenager. NOTE: This show runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission and no re-entry. This play contains adult language and a brief moment of intimacy. Recommended for 15 and up. Performed in English. Tickets are $18 ($13 for Seniors) and must be purchased by attendees. It is open seating, so we can…

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October 30, 2019

Thanksgiving Potluck Lunch – Nov 24

By Upcoming Events

Everyone is invited to attend our annual St. Thomas Thanksgiving Potluck Lunch on Sunday, November 24, immediately following the 10 a.m. service in the Parish Hall. A sign-up sheet is available in the Narthex. Honduras Threads will have a Pop-Up shop in the Parish Hall during the Potluck luncheon. This is a perfect opportunity to do a little gift shopping while enjoying a good meal. And you’ll be supporting a good cause. Check out their website: https://hondurasthreads.org/pages/our-story.

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October 30, 2019

Love Is a Decision

By Christian Formation

This past weekend I had the honor to officiate at the wedding of my nephew, Mark, and his wife, Jennie. In my remarks at the ceremony, I chose to reflect on the age-old question, “What is love?” because I wanted to share a perspective that was perhaps new for many of the people listening. It is common to think of love as a feeling one has for another. While feelings are certainly one aspect of love, what I believe, and what I shared in my remarks, is that love is most importantly, a decision. Feelings ebb and flow in all relationships (marriage and otherwise), and yet the decision to act with love is a choice that is always possible. If you think of the people that you love and that love you, you will likely realize that the expression of that love has involved countless decisions over time that have…

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October 23, 2019

A Call to Join in the Care of Creation

By News

On September 24, following an interfaith event in New York, New York, to address climate change, The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) issued a statement outlining the churches’ “call to join in the care of creation.” This joint statement, signed by Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton, and Church of Sweden (Lutheran) Archbishop Antje Jackelén, represents a renewed commitment among the three denominations to work together on the climate change issue. This pledge began in 2013 with the signing of a joint statement at the conclusion of the Sustaining Hope in the Face of Climate Change event in Washington, D.C. The text of the September 24 statement follows: A Call to Join in the Care of Creation From The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran)…

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October 18, 2019

November Book Club Selection – Accidental Saints

By Christian Formation

Join the Saint Thomas Book Club every Tuesday at 10 am in the South Room. Our November book selection is Accidental Saints – Finding God in all the Wrong People, by Nadia Bolz-Weber. What if that person you’ve been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? … And what if that’s the point? Nadia invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people — a church-loving agnostic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting member of the NRA. As she lives and worships alongside these “accidental saints,” Nadia is swept into first-hand encounters with grace—a gift that feels to her less like being wrapped in a warm…

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October 16, 2019