St. Thomas the Apostle

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Meribeth

Annual Holiday Cookie Sale

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Saturday, December 6 | 9am – 4pm
in the Parish Hall at St. Thomas

The famous St. Thomas Christmas Cookie/Bake Sale is just around the corner and we need your help! This is one of the major fundraisers for the summer youth program and there are several ways you can participate:

  1. Please come and buy goodies at the sale! We look forward to selling lots and lots of wonderful, yummy Cookies and baked goods!
  2. We need bakers to make LOTS of HEAVY cookies and goodies- decorated cookies, “Special” cookies, chocolate chip, bar cookies, sugar & spice and everything … Scrumptious! Candies and pies are also welcome. (Heavy because we sell by the pound.) We need items with nuts, without nuts, with gluten, gluten free… you name it! You do not need to bring them in fancy containers or anything since we sell in bulk.

    Drop-off is at the church on Friday, Dec. 5 from noon-7pm or Saturday before 9am. You can also bring them anytime this week and we’ll keep them in the freezer. Click this link to sign up to be a baker: YES! I WANT TO BAKE COOKIES!

Weekend Worship and Christian Education

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Saturday worship at 5:30pm

Sunday worship services at 8:45 and 11:00am
Nursery is available from 8:30am to 12:15pm (or end of 11:00 service) for children ages 6 months through 4 years.

Sunday Morning Christian Formation:
Children’s Godly Play (preschool thru 5th grade)— 9:45-10:45am, Educ Wing
Youth Giving Project (9-12th grade)—10am, Lower Level
Youth Path to Confirmation (6-8th grade)—10am, Assembly Rm
Adult Christian Formation—10-10:45am, Parish Hall 2

Blessing of the Backpacks & Back to School Bash!

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Sunday, August 17, during the 10:00am service:
Please join us when all students and educators will be invited forward for a special blessing on the start of their new school year!  After worship, we’ll enjoy lunch and special FUN for the kids!! (**Bubble Party**)  Don’t miss it!
 

Sunday, April 28

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Sunday, April 28:

Confirmation will take place during the 11:00am service with The Rt. Rev. Cathleen Chittenden Bascom, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, presiding. You will also hear selections from Handel’s “Messiah” throughout the service, presented by the St. Thomas Chancel Choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

Holy Week and Easter Services

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You can Live Stream all services by going to the home page on this website and clicking on the Red Arrow.

You can also join us on the following sites:

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/stthomasop/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/stthomasop/

Palm Sunday Weekend – March 23 & 24

Services on Saturday at 5:30 pm
Sunday at 8:15 and 11:00 am

The congregation will assemble outside the church to start the liturgy. Palm fronds will be distributed. We gather to recall Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem with the procession of palms, and the story of Christ’s passion and death will be read, as told in Mark’s gospel, followed by a prayer service.

Palm Sunday Evening “Soup & Stations”

5-7pm in Parish Halls 1 and 2
Please join us for our 2nd Annual Palm Sunday Agape Soup Supper and Walk Through Holy Week Stations.  This intergenerational event allows us to share a meal together as we celebrate the ultimate gift of love we have in Jesus and to remember his final journey through Jerusalem as we prepare to greet the Mystery and Miracle of Easter!  This is a potluck style event where everyone is encouraged to bring something to share.  Questions may be directed to Barbara McCall at . Sign Up here: “SOUP & STATIONS”

Maundy Thursday – March 28, 7:00 pm

Holy Communion, Foot Washing, Stripping of the Altar
This marks the Last Supper, Jesus’s gift to us of the Eucharist and Jesus’s servant leadership by washing the feet of his friends. We will pray and witness the stripping of the altar. All ages welcome. Nursery and Children’s Chapel will be available.

Good Friday – March 29

Stations of the Cross – Noon
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy – 7:00 pm

The service at 7:00 includes the reading of the passion according to John, familiar hymns, customary prayers for the day and veneration of the cross of Christ.

Great Vigil of Easter – March 30

Holy Communion at 5:30 pm

Easter Sunday – March 31

6:30am – Sunrise service with Holy Communion (in The Apostle’s Garden)
8:45 and 11:00 am – Holy Communion

The Nursery and Children’s Chapel will be available during the 8:45 and 11:00 services. No Christian Formation classes.