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The Doubters LIVE variety show

The Doubters LIVE – June 12

By Featured, Upcoming Events
Variety Show Wednesday, June 12 in the Parish Hall begins at 6:30 pm Join the St. Thomas "Doubters" for a fun LIVE Variety Show on Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30pm in the Parish Hall. Bring your creativity and talents to share in a welcome and inviting space... you don't need to be a professional to perform! So whether you sing, dance, recite poetry, tell stories or jokes, draw, play music... ALL talents are welcome! This is an open invitation to anyone in the parish, or in the community, to come perform or just come and watch! Coffee and snacks provided. Questions? Email Lee Swift in the St. Thomas office.
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Invite Welcome Connect Pentecost Weekend Events

Invite Welcome Connect Pentecost Weekend Events

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Discovery Gathering May 18, Parish Hall 9:00am - 3:00pm Join this interactive & inspiring Invite • Welcome • Connect® event as we celebrate Pentecost and discover ways the Spirit is calling St. Thomas to live out our Baptismal Covenant. Explore the theology of welcome, the power of story, holy brainstorming, and so much more! You will leave feeling renewed for the tasks ahead and more connected to your church family. Lunch Provided. Reserve your spot, email Lee Swift by May 12! Pentecost Guest Preacher Molly Wills Carnes, May 19 8:00am & 10:30am Church Services Molly will be preaching at both services and will share her experience as a Christian advocate for the LGBTQ+ community during our Pentecost celebration lunch afterwards. Wear Red. ABOUT MOLLY Molly Wills Carnes is an Episcopal evangelist, Invite • Welcome • Connect® facilitator, LGBTQ+ advocate and mother of a transgender queer daughter. Her ministry is marked...
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Easter Flower Donations 2024

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The beautiful Easter flowers & Music have been given to the glory of God and to adorn our altar… Given in Memory of: Gerald C. Montague by Alyssa & Steven Abadinsky Herbert Sames by Susan Arellano James & Julie Brown, Jeremy Borton, Johnnie & Lois Knight by James Brown & Jerry Knight Jack & Charlene Calhoun by Dan Calhoun Fred Hagman by Kathy Carson Mildred Chaney by Tim Chaney & Dan Hall Parents & Grandparents by Joe DeuPree Martha & Bob Coleman, Hendy & Henry Hansen by Gina Drosos & Inger Eckert Alison Etzel Hunt & Tex Etzel by Robyn Etzel & Margaret Howland Lucy Tamez Creech by Janet & Richard Elsea Gwendolyn Followill by Murray Followill Bud Knight & Chet Flake by Barbara Foster Wallace & Zelta Hess by David Hess Twin Sister, Betsy Katz and Parents Mary Virginia & Bradley Prann by The Rev. Virginia Holleman Helen &…

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Palm Sunday’s Message – Mar 2024

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Good Morning Doubters, I woke up specifically with those of you who were not able to be with us for Palm Sunday (the start of the holiest week of the Christian year) on my heart. If you were the kid who never got chosen first, or at all, on the play ground; If you were the one who wasn’t big enough, or fast enough, or smart enough; If you were the one who got called fag, or lez, or queer, or something much worse; If you were the one who got spat on; If you were (or maybe even now) always feeling on the outside, passed over, left out; (Or maybe you were the one who did some of these things); You missed a sermon meant just for YOU, and God put it on my heart this early morning to send it to you. The text is below. It is…

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Joe Henry Organ Recital

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Join us for a captivating organ recital on Sunday, March 10 at Noon (following the 10:30 am church service) in the Nave. Recital will feature Dr. Joe Henry, St. Thomas the Apostle’s Music Director and Organist. Dr. Joseph W. (Joe) Henry, Director of Music Ministries, has spent his life as a teacher, a performer and as a church music director. He has taught at Grambling State University (Grambling, Louisiana), Louisiana Tech University (Ruston, LA), the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN), Concordia University (St. Paul, MN),) and Union County College (Cranford, NJ). He has served the church as a choir director, music director, organist and vocal soloist for over forty years at churches in Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Louisiana, and Texas. His degrees in piano performance are from the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM, MM in accompanying) and the Manhattan School of Music (DMA in vocal accompanying: thesis: The…

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