Mark your calendars to join us at Cafe Express on Sunday, March 1 at noon (after coffee time) for the next Connecting at St. Thomas. Great food, lively conversations, and much fun! Cafe Express is located at 5600 Lovers Lane just east of Inwood.
Please consider joining the 2020 St. Thomas Team for approximately 4-5 hours on Thursday, January 23, to help with the 2020 National Homeless Count. Members of St. Thomas have been participating in this event since 2017. One year, we met John, a 43-year-old veteran, living in his car. He was between jobs, evicted from his apartment, saving what he could to pay the deposit and first and last month’s rent for a new apartment. Everything he owned was packed into his compact SUV. That night the temperature was close to freezing. When we saw his car full of belongings, we stopped to get his story and give him some clean socks, toiletries and food we’d brought along. Why do we need to know his story? There are special funds and resources available depending on the needs of the homeless population but unless we ask, we don’t know their needs! For…
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…
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…
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.
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!
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…
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.
Beginning October 12, Dallas will be reading Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, a story about a besieged Mexican village without any men and a group of young women who go to the United States looking for defenders, learning truths about themselves along the way. The Big Read kicks off Saturday, October 12, 1 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Branch. “A Celebration of Mexico” will include a performance by Alma y Corazon Ballet Folklorico, the story of Frida Kahlo, music by Natalie Robles and a keynote presentation by Nicolas Hernandez from RAICES. Read the book and participate in citywide events, including discussion groups, staged readings, movie screenings and craft projects. You’ll find a program listing at the Dallas Public Library > NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Say “howdy” to Big Tex and join us on Thursday, October 17 to celebrate all things Texan! Meet us in the St. Thomas north parking lot at 9:00 a.m. sharp! We will carpool to the Dart station. Note: admission for seniors (60+) is free on Thursday. The trip is sure to be fun! Just trying some of the winning dishes created for the 2019 Texas State Fair will make the trip well worth your time. And going with your St. Thomas family, well that’s just the icing on the cake.
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