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A Beautiful Life: August 2022
The Alma Thomas exhibition at The Columbus Museum, Everything is Beautiful, is on our minds as summer ends and the school year begins. The ugliness we so often see in the world and in the news can distress us. We want children and everyone to enjo...Read More ›
Shine Time Sunday School for Children
Sunday School for Children & Tweens Sundays, 9:30-10:15 Each week, we hear stories from the Bible and learn about God’s love and grace for all people. All students are given a handout to take home with information on the lesson and suggested di...Read More ›
My St. Thomas Story
Help tell the St. Thomas Story. Our stewardship committee is developing materials and video to help us share St. Thomas more widely with others. You can help by making a 30 to 90 second video (details here). And on August 28, those in worship wil...Read More ›
Late Pentecost 2022
The St. Thomas Story Did you know that the St. Thomas nave and chapel were built in 1972? The beautiful spaces where we worship were consecrated on October 1, 1972, a half-century ago. Some among us were present that day and have been part of eve...Read More ›
The St. Thomas Story
The St. Thomas Story Did you know that the St. Thomas nave and chapel were built in 1972? The beautiful spaces where we worship were consecrated on October 1, 1972, a half-century ago. Some among us were present that day and have been part of ev...Read More ›
St. Thomas Excursions
Beginning fall 2022, Rev. Roxane Gwyn is offering monthly opportunities for St. Thomas parishioners and friends to attend cultural, educational, and engaging events in the community together. [module:cb-Events:some:170:listBlocks:5:so...Read More ›
Challenges WE Face as part of the Worldwide Anglican Communion
WE are part of the worldwide Anglican Communion – over 85 million of us in more than 165 countries. What challenges do WE face as we deal with our ministry in and around Columbus, yet part of that much larger family? We will consider this during...Read More ›
YACT
Young Adults Connecting Together (YACT) is an affirming Christian fellowship group for young adults 21+ in the Columbus area. Join us for one of our monthly socials! [module:cb-Events:some:120,173:listBlocks:5:someBlocks:allOccurre...Read More ›
Worship in Christmas Season
Christmas Eve Services - 4:30 and 10:30 pm. Two nearly identical services with Eucharist, candlelight, and the Christmas story. Children’s chapel and nursery care are offered at the 4:30 service only. Incense will be used at the 10:30 service...Read More ›
Christmas Eve Services
4:30 pm & 10:30 pm Two nearly identical services with Eucharist, candlelight, and the Christmas story. Children’s chapel and nursery care are offered at the 4:30 service only. Incense will be used at the 10:30 service only. The 4:30 service wi...Read More ›
Endowment
St. Thomas finances are divided into three categories -the Annual Budget derived from your yearly stewardship giving used for salaries, repairs and utilities; Capital Reserve Fund for larger specific projects; and the Endowment Fund for long term ...Read More ›
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VBS
Monday, July 22 - Friday, July 29, 9am - 1pm each day. All children (rising preK-5th grade) are invited to participate in ReNew: The Green VBS. ReNew is about hope, opportunity, and service. Kids will have the chance to grow in faith as they p...Read More ›
Easter Season
For several years, my mother has wanted to visit Amsterdam. Her great-grandfather had Dutch ancestry (Frank van Houten, buried at Riverdale Cemetery). She wanted to see his part of the world, so I planned an Easter season trip with her and my dad ...Read More ›
Sermons in Easter Season
This We Believe St. Thomas Journey Groups continue their discussion of The Nicene Creed in Easter season. Sermons in this season will illuminate the Journey Group topic for the week, exploring our shared confession of faith. April 16, Easter 2 �...Read More ›
ECM
Episcopal Campus Ministry (ECM) is an affirming Christian community for college students in the Columbus area. ECM gathers on Tuesday nights for Evening Prayer, dinner, and conversation in the Davidson Student Center on Columbus State University's...Read More ›
Women's Group
Gather with women at St. Thomas for a meal and fellowship. This group meets once a month and typically alternates between meeting for lunch at dinner at a restaurant. All who identify as women are welcome to gather.Read More ›
Pledge
Crossing the Threshold: St. Thomas Stewardship for 2025 Thank you for your generous past support of the St. Thomas budget. Thanks to your gifts, we can support a growing ministry and be good stewards of the church facility, which leaves us in a st...Read More ›
St. Thomas Vestry
posted on Jan 6, 2025The Vestry is the governing body of the parish, with responsibility to see that the congregation’s administrative and financial life allows our ministries to flourish. We elect three members each year to serve three-year terms. Retiring vestry m...
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Sign up for 2025 Journey Groups
posted on Jan 4, 2025Strength 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...
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Brewer Buddy Packs
posted on Nov 23, 2024A Great Christmas Gift Idea! Margo Easterbrook, St. Thomas Partnership in Education Coordinator Double your Christmas Giving by making a donation in honor or memory of someone special. Brewer Buddy Packs are packets of food that go home in the...
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Episcokids in Advent
posted on Nov 23, 2024St. Nicholas Visits! December 4, Parish Hall Children and adults will hear about St. Nicholas and prepare for his visit. He typically visits on December 6, but we asked him to come a couple of days early this year. Let Ms. Shayla know if you�...
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Christmas Music and Flowers
posted on Nov 23, 2024Special donations for Christmas Music and Flowers help us celebrate this season. We hope to fill the new nave with festive poinsettias! Gifts may be made in honor or memory of someone and a listing of names will appear in the Christmas Eve bulleti...
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The Music of Advent
posted on Nov 23, 2024by Debbie Anderson The glorious music of the season of Advent reminds us, once again, to pray for and prepare for the day that God will live among us. In our hymnal, Advent hymns are the hymns numbered 53-76. Some are filled with words of longing...
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A Healthy Community: St. Thomas Advent Lunches
posted on Nov 23, 2024First three Mondays in Advent from noon to 1 pm Gather in the parish hall for a vegetarian soup and salad lunch and a time to reflect on community health. Our renovated nave will be open for tours after each lunch on December 9 & 16. December 2: F...
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Remembering Beloved Saints
posted on Oct 3, 2024A meaningful All Saints custom at St. Thomas is the remembrance of those who have gone before us in the faith. To add a name to our necrology (a list of names of those who have died), please complete the form below or email to office@stthomascolu...
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Remembering the Faithful Departed
posted on Oct 3, 2024All Saints Day is more than a day. It is three days to give thanks and remember those who have crossed the threshold from this life to the life to come whose faith still inspires us today. All Saints Eve (aka Halloween, October 31) acknowledges t...
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Music Search Update
posted on Sep 18, 2024by Ron Wirt The music search committee, composed of Raymond Campbell, Donna Dooley, Jessica Ezzell, Ruth Nichols, Linda Prince, Brian Walker, Rev. Grace, Patty Slembarski and me, has held two meetings and agreed to request from Vestry the fundi...
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Creation Keepers News!
posted on Sep 2, 2024Save the date: Saturday October 19! St. Mark’s Episcopal in LaGrange, in collaboration with St. Thomas Creation Keepers and Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, will host a Re-Wilding Workshop. Registration information forthcoming. Bio-diversity ...
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Rolling Out the Welcome Mat
posted on Aug 10, 2024St. Thomas 2024 Ministry Offerings Each August, we invite parishioners to sign up for different ways to learn and serve together through our annual Ministry Offering. This online form lists many ways to serve and participate, and they all have ...
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Brewer Elementary School Update
posted on Aug 10, 2024From: Margo Easterbrook Brewer Elementary School is in the midst of an enormous transformation and will open its doors to students on August 8 as the Brewer K-2 Accelerated Learning Academy. With a new Principal and a mostly new staff, Brewer wil...
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One Small Step America
posted on Aug 10, 2024Columbus, Georgia was a model city for One Small Step, an initiative from StoryCorps that brings together strangers with different points of view to talk with one another as people. St. Thomas participated in the kick off last year. Now, StoryCorp...
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Children's Info Form
posted on Aug 10, 2024Ms. Shayla is collecting information on children who participate in activities at St. Thomas. If your child or grandchild participates - even on an occasional basis - please complete the Episcokid Info Form below. Email is the best way to reach M...
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The EpiscoKid Adventurers
posted on Aug 10, 2024From Ms. Shayla I am planning a new adventure for our awesome Episcokids --- field trips to several places where they can spend time with each other outside of church, deepen their friendships, and experience some of the amazing things our commun...
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More Welcoming Language in our Liturgies
posted on Aug 10, 2024A few years ago, the Episcopal Church authorized optional updates to some of the language in our worship liturgies. These subtle changes provide more inclusive language for people and more expansive language for God. The goal of these offerings is...
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Services for Rick McKnight
posted on Jul 31, 2024Click here for a bulletin for the Funeral Service for Rick McKnight. Our Wednesday Eucharist on July 31 at 5:30 in All Saints Hall will be offered to the glory of God and in thanksgiving for Rick. Visitation is on Thursday from 5 to 7 at St. ...
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Foyers Sign Ups!
posted on Jul 24, 2024Foyers dinner groups start meeting in the fall and are social groups designed to encourage fellowship and connection with other St. Thomas folks. Deadline to sign up is Sunday, August 18th . Once the groups are formed, you will be notified by dinn...
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Phishing Scam from Rev. Grace
posted on Jun 27, 2024Every now and then, a parishioner reports receiving a vague text or email which appears to be from one of our staff members or clergy asking for help. The message often does not describe the kind of help needed. People who have responded have rece...
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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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