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I'm New
We know finding a church can be hard. We were all new to St. Thomas once, so let us tell you a little about ourselves. We are a place for knowing Christ and making Christ known. We are a congregation that seeks, welcomes, and v...Read More ›
Joining St. Thomas
After worshipping with St. Thomas and meeting other members of Christ's body in this community, if you discern that this is where God is calling you to live out the vows of baptism, we invite you to become a member of St. Thomas. Baptism in any ch...Read More ›
Welcome
You are welcome here at St Thomas! We are a church of loving, committed and searching Christians who value diversity and cherish the gifts of young and old alike. We welcome ALL God’s children into our sacramental community, respecting the dign...Read More ›
Who We Are
We Love Every Person - all people everywhere and the individual standing before us. We are a community of learning grounded in scripture and open to new ideas. We are a vibrant community with beautiful worship in which God speaks through liturgy,...Read More ›
Annual Reports
One of the ways you can get to know St. Thomas is to read our Annual Parish Reports. Each January we create two versions of this report – a summary report and a long version. Annual Parish Reports. Each January we create two versions of this rep...Read More ›
History of St. Thomas
In 1957, the Diocese of Atlanta, under the leadership and direction of the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, began discussion about starting a second Episcopal Church in Columbus. In 1958 a group of Trinity parishioners petitioned to form a new congreg...Read More ›
The Windows of St. Thomas
The stained glass windows in the nave of St. Thomas depict major scenes from The Old and New Testaments. There are six main window panels, three on each side of the nave, with each panel depicting five different biblical scenes. The scenes ru...Read More ›
Staff & Clergy
By virtue of Baptism, we are all called and equipped by the Holy Spirit for ministry through the Church and in the world. Our staff lead ministries of worship, formation, service, community, administration, and hospitality to help St. Thomas membe...Read More ›
Worship
We Love God - through worship, sacraments, prayer, attention to the scriptures, and how we live. Above our altar, you will read Dominus Meus Et Deus Meus. These words, “My Lord and My God,” were spoken by St. Thomas to the risen Christ after ...Read More ›
Baptism
Holy Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ’s Body the Church. The bond which God establishes in Baptism is indissoluble. Book of Common Prayer, p. 298. All people of all ages are invited to the waters of Baptism. S...Read More ›
Confirmation & Reception
Baptism is full initiation into the Church. If you have never been baptized, we invite you to make this commitment. Confirmation marks a mature affirmation of the Baptismal Covenant. If you were baptized long ago at a young age and now wish to cla...Read More ›
The Word & the Holy Communion
The Service of the Word includes prayers, Scripture readings, the sermon, and a Creed. These help us focus on God’s work in the world and the good news of Jesus. Holy Communion is a sacrament in which we receive holy gifts and become holy peop...Read More ›
This Sunday
New to St. Thomas? Fill out our Online Welcome Card. 8:30 BULLETIN HERE February 2 For a copy of our 10:30 bulletin click here to be added to our email newsletter list or find a link in the...Read More ›
Music
St. Thomas has a long history of excellence in music . We sing Anglican classics as well as music of living Episcopal composers. We have commissioned several choral and handbell works. The St. Thomas Choir also likes to travel, and in the last dec...Read More ›
Choir
This non-auditioned choir sings for the 10:30 worship service and for special services during the church year. Singing in the choir requires an enthusiasm for choral singing and basic music reading skills. The St. Thomas choir is composed of adult...Read More ›
Summer Choir
This is an inter-generational choir that provides general musical leadership while the St. Thomas Choir is off in the summer. This non-vested choir meets in the choir room at 10 AM to prepare for the service at 10:30. This is a perfect time to bri...Read More ›
Instrumentalists
If you play a musical instrument proficiently we would love to feature you in our services. Please contact Organist and Choir Master, Rick McKnight, directly.Read More ›
Past Performances
Click on the image to read more. St. Thomas Episcopal Church Choir, sings Ubi Caritas in the Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral in Ely, United Kingdom. St. Thomas Episcopal Church Choir at Ely Cathedral in Ely, United King...Read More ›
Adult Formation
Growing in Christ is a lifelong journey, shaped by worship, service, study, and prayer. At St. Thomas, we gather online and in person to learn together. Here are some of our adult formation offerings.Read More ›
Learn
We Learn - taught by scripture, tradition, and reason through the work of the Holy Spirit. As Episcopalians, we look to scripture (the Bible, both Hebrew and Christian scriptures), tradition (the teaching and practice of the church over centuries...Read More ›
Wednesday Word from Taylor Mack, June 12, 2024
posted on Jun 12, 2024Many of you have heard about the upcoming 81st Episcopal General Convention. Adult Formation classes have been learning about General Convention all this month and our diocese has been buzzing with conversations about Bishop Wright’s nomination ...
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Summer of Service 2024
posted on Jun 5, 2024Last summer we began some strategic planning related to St. Thomas Outreach. We spent time learning, visiting, and volunteering with both new and old partners in our community. This summer as we continue our work of Making Room for All in our phys...
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Support WNN in June
posted on Jun 1, 2024June is our month to collect items for Wynnton Neighborhood Network. Needed items include canned veggies: sweet peas, carrots, corn canned beans: green and black, canned meat: tuna, chicken, ham, canned fruit, spaghetti sauce and noodles, mac and ...
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St. Thomas Swag Shop
posted on May 28, 2024The online swag shop is open! Apparel, bags, and more are available with the St. Thomas logo and tagline. Bright tiedye shirts are perfect for Pride this summer! Find the link on our website or go to shop.threadmob.com/stthomaschurch/shop/ or us...
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Wednesday Word from Rev. Grace, May 22, 2024
posted on May 22, 2024Friends - On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit showed up in the form of wind, fire, and conversation. On the first Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate Trinity Sunday, a day to reflect on the nature of God as an equal and mutual relationship o...
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Music Notes
posted on May 22, 2024From: Rick McKnight Summer Choir The St. Thomas Choir wraps up its season on Pentecost Sunday. Summer Choir begins on May 26. Summer Choir is an intergenerational, non-vested choir. Each Sunday the Summer Choir meets at 10 o'clock to go over the ...
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Listen, Learn & Discuss
posted on May 17, 2024Join us for Sunday morning conversations with current and potential St. Thomas Outreach partners. Collect & Share Safehouse Ministries has a list of ongoing needs including men’s clothing, coffee, and sugar. In June we offer extra support to ...
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Sermons this Summer: Theology on Stage
posted on May 17, 2024This was fun last year, so we’re trying it again! Join us this summer for sermons focused on Jesus but with an eye toward familiar stories from the stage. On dates not listed, a guest preacher will be with us. June 2 - Sound of Music June 9 - H...
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Worship in this Season
posted on May 17, 2024Thanks be to all who are working so diligently to make worship in the All Saints Hall at 10:30 beautiful, reverent, and inspiring. If you have not joined us yet, know that we still have a procession with acolytes and servers. We still sing hymns, ...
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Wednesday Word from Rev. Grace, May 15, 2024
posted on May 15, 2024When the day of Pentecost had come . . . The lesson from Acts 2 begins in this matter-of-fact way. The day of Pentecost had been celebrated for centuries as a harvest festival, fifty days after Passover. By the 1st Century, it had also become a ce...
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Wednesday Word Rogation Days Meditation from Art France
posted on May 8, 2024The earth is our mother. She gives us life. She gives life to all. She provides for us all we need to sustain our lives. We thrive on the bounty she creates and grow rich in the beauty and wonder of her creation. When we see this bounty clearly, W...
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VBS Registration is LIVE!
posted on May 7, 2024ReNew is an environmentally-focused VBS program that inspires kids and adults to grow in faith, have fun, and change the world as they practice stewardship of creation! You can still expect many of the things you love about VBS—kids learning abo...
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Wednesday Word from Chaplain Echols, May 1, 2024
posted on May 1, 2024As some of you may have seen in the Order of Worship for 5 May 2024, I am Chaplain (MAJ) Stephen Echols. I am an Active Duty US Army Chaplain and Episcopal Priest currently serving as the Ethics Instructor and Writer at the Maneuver Center of Exce...
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Construction Update!
posted on Apr 22, 2024Batson-Cook - our contractor for Making Room for All - will be sending us these Project Update Newsletters every month or so. Click here to see the first report! We've also gathered all of the Making Room for All photos into one photo album ...
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10:30 Worship in All Saints' Hall
posted on Apr 12, 2024Here's what to expect on Sundays during construction. Both services will also be livestreamed. 8:30 serviceIn the chapel as usual. Enter through the chapel door or columbarium door. Narthex doors will be closed. A piano is in the chapel temporar...
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Easter Offerings & Dedications
posted on Mar 19, 2024St. Thomas invites special offerings for flowers, music, and other ministries during Easter Season. Gifts may be dedicated in honor or memory of someone and will be listed in the Easter Sunday bulletin on March 31. Submit your contributions and de...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Alaina Harrison
posted on Mar 18, 2024Growing up, I was a perfectionist and I prided myself in rising above the standards and expectations that were set for me. Before I knew it, I had set goals for my life based on what other people would approve or like for me to achieve. I'm a peop...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Kathleen Mullins
posted on Mar 15, 2024In January of 2023, I officially became a member of St. Thomas and a new Episcopalian. I would be lying if I said when I joined I had all things Episcopal figured out. Today, I am still learning. On this journey of learning about my new church ho...
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Letting Go Meditation by Susie Olive-Allison
posted on Mar 8, 2024Because my children have all gone through phases of obsession with the movie Frozen, I cannot hear this phrase without thinking of Elsa flaunting her powers in her ice castle, oblivious to the path of destruction she has created in her kingdom bel...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Kathy Bonner Herren
posted on Mar 4, 2024Ecclesiastes 3:6 - A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to castaway I have experienced many forms of “letting go” and none of them have been easy. I always have to go through a period of grief and reflection before I c...
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Lessons from Yentl
posted on Jul 9, 2023O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ...
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Fiddler on the Roof and Temptation
posted on Jul 2, 2023Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple ...
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Theological Lessons in Pippin
posted on Jun 25, 2023Click here to see the sermon on Youtube. Genesis 21:8-21 Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17 Romans 6:1b-11 Matthew 10:24-39
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God Save the PEOPLE
posted on Jun 11, 2023The Second Sunday after Pentecost, O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you...
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Annie & Trinity Sunday
posted on Jun 4, 2023Sermons this Summer Theology on Stage June 4 - Trinity Sunday - Annie Collect of the Day: Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity...
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Easter Sunday 2023
posted on Apr 9, 2023Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your lif...
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Who is the Christ
posted on Mar 19, 2023Fourth Sunday in Lent Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and t...
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Christmas Eve 2022
posted on Dec 24, 2022Collect of the Day BCP 213 Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born of Mary, his mother: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be rene...
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God's Dream of Welcome
posted on Jun 5, 2022Day of Pentecost Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the en...
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Rejoice in Hope
posted on May 29, 2022Seventh Sunday of Easter O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place whe...
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Rejoice, Everyone
posted on May 15, 2022Fifth Sunday of Easter Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life...
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Rejoice in Forgiveness
posted on May 1, 2022Third Sunday of Easter O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spi...
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Rejoice in St. Thomas
posted on Apr 24, 2022Second Sunday of Easter Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profe...
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Easter Sunday 2022
posted on Apr 17, 2022Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-...
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Life is Transformed When We Forgive Ourselves & Others
posted on Mar 27, 2022Fourth Sunday in Lent Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and t...
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Life is Transformed When We Turn Aside to See
posted on Mar 20, 2022Third Sunday in Lent Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from a...
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Life is Transformed When We Focus on the Future
posted on Mar 13, 2022Second Sunday in Lent O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word...
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Life is Transformed When We Gather and Give
posted on Mar 6, 2022First Sunday in Lent Collect of the Day Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find y...
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A Voice in the Cloud
posted on Feb 27, 2022Last Sunday after the Epiphany The Collect of the Day O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be stre...
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Funeral homily for Clifford J. Swift, III
posted on Jan 5, 2022Click here to read the homily offered at Clifford's funeral on January 5, 2022.
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