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The Struggle to Juggle | Women’s Conference – Oct 5

By Christian Formation, Upcoming Events

Equipping, Encouraging, and Empowering Women of Faith. Women often juggle several roles – wife, mom, daughter, employee, and more! Let’s be honest, juggling all these varied roles is a real struggle – especially when we see “that woman” who appears to be juggling all her roles without breaking a sweat or chipping a nail. Join us Saturday, October 5 from 9 am – 3 pm at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (in the Stanton Commons), as we learn from three gifted speakers, discuss how we can support each other with love rather than judgment, and find the power in connecting with our juggling sisters, instead of trying to do it all on our own. Register online now! Cost is $20 and lunch is provided. Or pay by check made payable to St. Philip’s and send to St. Philip’s, 6400 Stonebrook, Frisco, TX 75034 attention Brandi White. If you have any questions…

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LifeWalk 2019 – Sunday, October 6

By Outreach, Upcoming Events

LifeWalk is Dallas’ largest and longest running AIDS walk that includes a fun 5K walk/run through the Turtle Creek/Uptown neighborhoods, and festival in Turtle Creek Park (formerly Lee Park). St. Thomas has participated in EVERY YEAR since the first walk in 1990. Make plans to join us this year on Sunday, Oct. 6. The festival opens at 11:00am and the walk begins at 1:00pm. Before the walk, take advantage of free HIV testing, music, games, and more! Don’t forget to bring your 4-legged family members as well! St. Thomas teams have raised as much as $25,000 in years past. In recent years, the numbers have gone down. This year let’s set a goal of $10,000! Walk, run or just donate! Here’s how: sign up on the St. Thomas team page at www.lifewalk.org/event/team/844575/ write an email to your friends inviting them to join (include above sign up link) Post it on…

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“Stop the Bleed” and the Bleeding Control Course – Sunday, Oct 13

By Upcoming Events

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. Join us in the Parish Hall after our Coffee/Social Hour on Sunday, Oct. 13 for this valuable training. Immediate Responders … Not Bystanders No matter how rapid the arrival of professional emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes, therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss. Due to many situations, there may be a delay between the time of injury and the time a first responder is on the scene. Without intervention in these circumstances, preventable deaths will occur. People can take simple steps to keep the injured person alive until appropriate medical care is available. Here are three actions…

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Saint Thomas Oktoberfest – Oct 19

By Upcoming Events

Great parishes have great gatherings and the fall kickoff for “Beyond the Pew” and Saint Thomas Episcopal Church is no exception. Invite your friends to join us on Saturday, October 19 from 6pm to 9pm at the home of Kabir Master and Steven Lee for our parish-wide, annual Oktoberfest. Brats, pretzels, beer and cheese are the focal points of our Oktoberfest. Bring a bottle of wine or beer and something to share with your favorite nibbles. The dress is casual and the focus is fun. No need to RSVP, just show up. We are a parish with a love of others, renewing friendships while enjoying meeting newcomers to the Parish. We look forward to seeing you there. One of the great things about St. Thomas the Apostle is our love of laughter, no matter what the topic. And when we get together, the laughter keeps on coming! For questions or…

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Rumi and the Path of Love – Oct 19

By Christian Formation, Upcoming Events

Everyone is invited to a special one-day workshop, here at St. Thomas, featuring author & lecturer, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, on Saturday, October 19 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (Sign-in begins at 8:30 am). The 1,400 year-old spiritual path known as Sufism emphasizes the power of love to create transformation in a person’s consciousness. One of the greatest teachers of the Sufi path is Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian mystic and founder of the Mevlevi Order of “whirling dervishes,” whose poetry and writings on love have become extremely popular in recent years. In these talks, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, will use the stories and the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi to explore the three stages of the Sufi path of love. Cost: Early Registration is $35 per Person & $25 per Student Bring a bag lunch for the mid-day break | Morning Refreshments, Coffee & Bottled Water Included Register at www.CellOfPeace.com/workshops.htm Pir…

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Ministry Fair – Sept 22

By News

Our annual Ministry Fair is this Sunday, September 22 from 9:00 am-10:00 am and 11:00 am-12:00 pm. Please note there will only be one service at 10:00 am this Sunday! Lunch will be provided in the Parish Hall. Click the map to view this year’s participating ministries:                

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The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong

By Christian Formation

Join the Saint Thomas Book Club every Tuesday at 10 am in the South Room. We’re currently discussing the topic of immigration and how our Christian faith and tradition can play an integral role in how we address the issue. The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen Gonzalez recounts her family’s migration into the United States, connecting their tale with the stories from Scripture of people who have also fled their own homelands: Hagar, Joseph, Ruth and Jesus himself.

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If You’re Not Making Mistakes, You Probably Aren’t Trying

By Christian Formation

My wife and I just returned from a two-week Spanish language immersion experience in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It was indeed one of the most profound experiences of my life. We lived with a local host family, and so our learning experience was not just limited to the six hours of formal instruction we received each day. Mexico has always been our favorite place to visit because the people are so warm, soulful, and welcoming. This recent experience only confirmed this truth many times over. We had been considering taking this plunge for some time and finally got up our courage to do it. I thought that deciding to sign up and go would be the hardest part of the process, but soon after arriving, I faced an even more difficult decision that I had to make. I have studied Spanish sporadically throughout my adult life, even taking private online lessons with…

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Three Questions for Back to School

By Christian Formation

You can just feel the rhythms of daily routines and habits changing this time of year, not just in the changing of the seasons, but in the changing rhythms of households with children who have started a new school year. Even if you don’t have children in your household, you most likely know some child – niece or nephew, a grandchild, neighbor, or a child of a friend – who is back in school. Families everywhere are now adjusting to routines of more structured days and evenings. While there is the inevitable sense of loss over the ending of the free patterns of summer, one positive addition that many families rediscover this time of year is family dinner time. Even if it can only happen a few nights a week, time around the dinner table is precious and meaningful. This week, I read an article by a blogger, Meg Conley,…

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Balance and Ice Cream

By Christian Formation

Do you ever suffer from sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? If you do, you have no one to blame but yourself. That may sound harsh, but I know first hand about this because I, through my own doing, suffered from it again last week. That’s right, just a few days ago I made the mistake of eating my two scoop mint chocolate chip ice cream cone way too fast. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific name for what we normally refer to as a brain freeze or a dreaded ice cream headache. A brain freeze, I learned after doing a little research, is caused when the nerve fibers on the roof of one’s mouth get overwhelmed with too much of a cold sensation. When this happens the nerve fibers begin to constrict and the brain interprets the signals it is getting as pain. A brain freeze will pass relatively quickly (although it doesn’t feel…

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