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Serve at St. Thomas
Our Ministry Pledge form outlines all opportunities for service at St. Thomas. Below you’ll see some unique opportunities to serve our church community. We have a variety of opportunities for service in worship.Read More ›
Acolytes
Acolytes are students (kindergarten - 12th grade) who carry crosses, candles, and other items in procession and help in a number of ways throughout the service. Serving as an acolyte is a great way for children to gain leadership experience and le...Read More ›
Altar Guild
The purpose of the Altar Guild is to prepare the altar for worship. Care of the altar, sanctuary, vessels, and vestments are “behind the scenes” tasks necessary to support the liturgical life of the parish. Although circumstances have change...Read More ›
Flower Guild
The Flower Guild provides flowers or greenery on the altars of the Nave and Chapel each week to the Glory of God as appropriate with each season of the church year. Some members prefer to work in pairs and others do flowers by themselves. The only...Read More ›
Worship Ministries
Lay Eucharistic Minister Lay Eucharistic Ministers – often referred to as Chalice Bearers – are people who assist the priest with communion. LEMs process in and out, holding the Gospel for Gospel readings by the priest. LEMs must be baptized m...Read More ›
Church Buildings and Grounds, Leadership Committees, and Special Projects
The Building and Grounds Committee hosts inside and outside work days in the spring and fall and invites participation from all ages. Office Volunteers Volunteers are needed occasionally to assist with mailings or other special projects. We welcom...Read More ›
Children & Youth Volunteers
Lead or co-lead Children's Chapel one Sunday morning a month during the 10:30 worship service. Volunteer in the nursery as a "Rocker and Roller" during the 10:30 service. Rockers and Rollers assist with the care of babies and toddlers when extra h...Read More ›
Serve Our Members
Often we assume that pastoral care is solely the realm of clergy. Not so at St. Thomas! Our model is more like Jesus and the disciples -- each person using their particular gifts to minister to others within and beyond the church. Here are poss...Read More ›
GIPL – Georgia Interfaith Power and Light
GIPL inspires and empowers people of faith and faith communities to care for Creation through worship, education, and stewardship of our natural resources. GIPL is part of the national Interfaith Power & Light movement. The Georgia initiative was ...Read More ›
Jubilee Ministries
St. Thomas was designated a Jubilee Center of The Episcopal Church in 2001 and reaffirmed during its 50th Anniversary in 2008. Jubilee Ministries commit themselves to be a ministry of joint discipleship in Christ with poor and oppressed people, p...Read More ›
Labyrinth
The outdoor labyrinth is located in the natural area on the left side of the drive at 2100 Hilton Avenue that leads into the church. The area is within a residential neighborhood. The labyrinth is wheelchair accessible with a paved path to the sit...Read More ›
Our Building & Grounds
The Nave or Sanctuary is our setting for worship but is also a beautiful place to pray and find reminders of the story of God’s love for you. The words over the altar, Dominus Meus Et Deus Meus, are Latin for My Lord and My God which was a resp...Read More ›
Journey Groups
Strength for the Journey AND Manna & Mercy Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice by Renee MillerOur Vestry read this book for their devotions in 2024. Now we are offering it to the whole congregation. This slim volume explores tw...Read More ›
Women's Lectionary Bible Study
10-11:00 am in person and on Zoom. This one-hour women's lectionary study and discussion, led by the Rev. Cindy Cox Garrard, will be available both in-person and on Zoom and focuses on the lectionary texts for the coming week. Rev. Garrard provide...Read More ›
Sunday Adult Formation
9:30 - 10:15 am in-person in the church library and on Zoom We use this time each week to explore a variety of biblical, theological, liturgical, ethical, societal and spirituality issues, using shared leadership in short-term series or stand-al...Read More ›
Welcome Classes
These are offered periodically to introduce newcomers to St. Thomas and to the Episcopal Church. Use this form to let us know you're coming to the August and September 2022 classes. [module:cb-Events:individual:238:listBlocks:5:someBlocks:allO...Read More ›
Advent & Christmas at St. Thomas
People Look EastIt’s one of my favorite Advent hymns - People, look east. The time is near of the crowning of the year.Make your house fair as you are able, trim the hearth and set the table.People, look east and sing today: Love the Guest, is o...Read More ›
Creation Keepers
St. Thomas Creation Keepers are working to strengthen partnerships to promote action in safeguarding God's good earth in our community. Mission: Creation Keepers commit as faithful stewards to reduce climate disruption. As we REAP our Lord’s bou...Read More ›
Give
We are grateful for God’s provision through all who give to St. Thomas. CLICK HERE TO GIVE! No log-in required. For a one-time gift, you will be asked to load a form of payment to be debited when you make your gift. Click here to log into ACS...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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