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Pledge Commitment Weekend is November 5 & 6 – Note service time change
Bring your pledge card forward during services (more cards will be available). You may also complete your pledge online. https://stthomasop.breezechms.com/form/pledge202163. Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
Saturday, November 5 – 5:30 pm Eucharist
Plan to stay for dinner!
Sunday, November 6 – 10:00 am single service
Nursery will be offered for children 6 months through 4 years from 9:00am until the end of the 10:00 service.
After the service we’ll have 2 food trucks with food available for purchase + a caricature artist.
Be reminded that we go off daylight savings time this weekend and we
“fall back” an hour on Saturday night.
Blessing of the Animals
Sunday, October 2
4:00 PM
Join St. Thomas for our annual Blessing of the Animals, a service of celebration and thanksgiving for the animals that give us so much joy. Each animal will be blessed by clergy and receive a special medal for their collar, crate, cage, or aquarium.
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.
from Hymns for Little Children, 1848, Cecil Alexander
Services times for this weekend:
Saturday, July 2 — 5:30 pm
One Service Only on Sunday, July 3, at 10:00am.
We will have a coffee hour with pastries following the Sunday service in the Parish Hall.
Service info for July 2 & 3, 2022
Lenten Offerings at St. Thomas
“Last Word” Speaker Series
Each Wednesday through Lent from Noon-1pm
We will again be hosting Lenten Lectures during Lent. The theme is “Last Word” and is modeled after Carnegie Mellon University’s “The Last Lecture Series.” We are inviting distinguished leaders to share thoughts on what really matters to them. You can watch all sessions on Youtube.
March 9: Toriano Porter is a national award-winning opinion writer for the Kansas City Star Editorial Board.
March 16: Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic.
March 23: Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director and author. She was rector of St. Clement’s Church in Manhattan’s Theatre district. many years in combining the lively arts and the life of faith.
March 30: The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth is an episcopal priest, an artist, an author, an accomplished public speaker and retreat facilitator. opportunity for women and girls.
April 6: Brad Hill. Executive Director of Heart Connexion Seminars and humanitarian.
Adult Forum through Lent
Meets on Sunday mornings at 10am in Parish Hall 2
During the season of Lent, St. Thomas’ Adult Forum will offer an opportunity for parishioners to consider how their talents, passions, and values can be put to service in God’s Kingdom through their everyday lives. This course will be led by Dr. George Phillips, Senior Warden at St. Thomas. Over his career in academic medicine, George has worked with numerous emerging and established leaders to assist them in discerning paths toward goals in their professional and personal lives. George also uses that experience with our high school youth in The Giving Project, helping them design a personal mission statement that informs their area of service in God’s Kingdom. As our Lenten traditions encourage us to explore areas for personal growth, please consider joining Adult Forum for this opportunity for a guided approach to introspection that may open new paths for living out your faith.
Almost Daily Reflections
This video series typically posts Monday-Friday at 7am and includes a reflection along with Scripture and/or other resources as a daily dose of spirituality and encouragement. Follow along each day on the St. Thomas Episcopal OP Facebook page or You Tube channel.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Tailgate
On Shrove Tuesday, March 1, from 4-7pm, we will have the Great Pancake Tailgate OR Drive-Thru (Can’t Wait!). The youth will have pancakes and sausage available that you can eat here or get some to go. It will be a freewill offering and the money will go towards our summer camp programming. In case of inclement weather we will just move to the drive through option.
Ash Wednesday March 2
Join us for an Ash Wednesday Service as we
prayerfully enter into the season of Lent.
Ash Wednesday services
March 2, 2022
7am, Noon, 6 pm – Imposition of Ashes
7:00 pm – Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion
All services will include the imposition of ashes on the forehead, the “Litany of Penitence” (or list of things to repent of), and the liturgical invitation in the themes of a holy Lent.
The 6:00pm service is a shorter, interactive service designed for families with children of any age, and the questions they often have regarding the use of ashes (Are they hot? Will they burn?), what Lent is all about, and the coming Mystery of Easter.