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Wednesday Dinner
Wonderful Wednesdays at St. Thomas Schedule: 5:30 to 6 - Eucharist in the Chapel 5:30 to 6:15 - Dinner served on the buffet. New menus! Details below. Youth room open for youth to eat together there. 6:00 - Playground open for children who h...Read More ›
A Message from Rev. Grace & Sermons this Season
A phrase we hear in one of our readings for Ash Wednesday is this: Return to the Lord. The prophet Joel wrote during a calamity - a plague of locusts. The prophet begged the people to let the calamity inspire them to RETURN to worship - not becaus...Read More ›
Young Adults
Young Adult Ministries at St. Thomas include events and formation opportunities specifically designed to meet the interests of individuals under 40 in all walks of life. The two groups avaible for this age range are ECM (Episcopal Campus Ministry)...Read More ›
Printed Newsletter
St. Thomas prints and distributes seasonal newsletters. We call these Seasons at St. Thomas. Click below for recent editions. Seasons Newsletter: Late Pentecost 2024 Seasons Newsletter 2024 Mid Pentecost Seasons Newsletter Early Penteco...Read More ›
Altar Flowers & Greenery
The giving of Altar Flowers on Sunday is a wonderful way to celebrate a special occasion or remember our loved ones. In addition to enhancing the beauty of worship, the name(s) of those being honored or remembered and the name(s) of the donor will...Read More ›
Easter Offerings
St. 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 April 9. Submit your contributions and ded...Read More ›
Training and Background Checks for Volunteers
We promise in baptism to "seek and serve Christ in all persons" and "respect the dignity of every human being." One way we live out these promises is by seeking to create a safe environment for children, youth, and adults who take part in St. Thom...Read More ›
St. Thomas Sunday
In other churches, this is often “low Sunday.” For us, it is a special day as we hear again the story of St. Thomas! To celebrate, we will have a BBQ chicken lunch after church in the parish hall and on the gro...Read More ›
Rejoice Now: Easter Season 2022
Easter Sunday is only the beginning! A great fifty-day feast (known as “Eastertide,” “Easter Season,” or “Easter Time,” as well as “Paschaltide,” “Paschal Season,” or “Paschal Time”) kicks off on Easter Day. In the Church Y...Read More ›
Easter Season Message & Sermons
At the Easter Vigil each year a cantor chants the Exsultet, a beautiful ancient proclamation of Easter. As the cantor sings, the congregation sits in darkness and lights candles from the new Paschal Candle, sharing the light of Christ. The chant...Read More ›
Holy Week 2022
Holy Week is when the foundational story of Christianity – Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection – is remembered and retold, both in words and in ritual actions, at services throughout the week. It ends at sundown on Holy Saturday with a...Read More ›
Holy Week & Easter Services
Holy Week is when the foundational story of Christianity – Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection – is remembered and retold, both in words and in ritual actions, at services throughout the week. It ends at sundown on Holy Saturday with a...Read More ›
Easter Services
The Easter Vigil, also known as the Great Vigil, is the most comprehensive and dramatic worship service of the church. It is the first celebration of Easter. The Gr...Read More ›
Easter Season Events
More than any other season of the year, Easter invites us to Rejoice. Easter recognizes that life is not all sunshine. The first proclamation of Easter begins in darkness. We all go through times when rejoicing may seem out of place. But still, we...Read More ›
Photo Galleries!
All our photos in one place! Check out the images of St. Thomas at work, worship, fellowship, and formation! [mod...Read More ›
Sustaining Creation Care during Eco-Crisis
In the Journey Groups' discussion of the book Manna and Mercy by Daniel Erlander, we've learned that God intended harmony and balance between God, humans, and the rest of creation, Yet climate change and its disruptions are irrefutable. We therefo...Read More ›
Pentecost 2022: Living Into God’s Dream
Our children will explore this theme for Vacation Bible School from May 31 to June 3 this year. The curriculum was written by our own Malinda Shamburger and friends from the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing to help children begin to learn a...Read More ›
Day of Pentecost Photos
Pentecost Sunday! A full morning of worship, fellowship, welcome, acolyte training, baptism and celebrating the Spirit!Read More ›
Day of Pentecost Photos
Pentecost Sunday! A full morning of worship, fellowship, welcome, acolyte training, baptism and celebrating the Spirit!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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