St. Paul's In-Person Worship Guidelines
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WORSHIP: In-Person, Live Streamed, Recorded
In celebrating the beauty and strength created through diversity, we welcome, value, and include all of God's children regardless of race, culture, age, sexual orientation, gender expression, ability, appearance, or citizenship. St. Paul's is committed to racial equity.
"Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ."
1 Corinthians 12:12
If you are not attending in person and would like to make a contribution online, you can make a recurring contribution in the "giving" tab on this website or use the QR code to the left to get you there directly.
We have a live link to our Sunday morning Worship Service which begins at 11:00 AM.
Click HERE and you will be taken to the live feed on our Vimeo Link.
VIDEOS at St. Paul's Lutheran Church -- This link will take you to our VIMEO page and you may select any Sunday or special worship service, as well as an assortment of other videos related to St. Paul's, anytime.
Worship with us in person on Sundays at 8:30 and 11:00 am. On Sundays, we are using Setting One of the ELW. The 8:30 service will be in-person only, the 11:00 am will be in-person, live-streamed (information below) and recorded for our Vimeo channel.
St. Paul's Mission Statement: "The mission of St. Paul's Lutheran Church as a part of the family of God is to share God in Christ with the world by equipping one another through worship, learning, witness, service, and support."
Announcements
We are worshiping at 8:30 and 11:00 am using Setting One in the ELW for both services. The 8:30 worship will continue to be in-person only, the 11:00 am service will be in-person, live-streamed, and recorded.
Pastor's Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark
Thursday mornings at 10:30 am. Notes will be emailed a few days prior to the class.
Adult Sunday School (Trinity Hall, 9:45am - 10:30 am)
Children's Sunday School is meeting each week from 9:45 to 10:45 AM, downstairs in the Genesis room (the downstairs kitchen). All children are welcome and encouraged to join us for a time of Bible stories, crafts, cooking, and fun! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Carole Ostrowski or Betty Hinshaw.
Cherokee, NC Food Bank Support
St. Paul's is helping to re-supply a food bank in Cherokee, NC which was impacted by Hurricane Helene. Please consider helping by donating cereal, canned meat, and/or peanut butter crackers by October 27.
UMD Volunteer Update
Amanda Anderson
Moving forward, we are back to the original time frame, 11:30-1:30 pm. We'll help with meal prep before serving lunch just as we did previously, only four volunteers are needed. Volunteers MUST sign up online to participate. Sign up here: https;//bit.ly/UMD_Signup As always, please reach out to Amanda with questions about of volunteering.
Dropped Stitch meetings gather at 1:00 pm on the fourth Fridays, in the church atrium sofa area.
The Tongue and Thimble group creates small quilts which are distributed to nurseries at local hospitals for their young critical patients. They meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month from 10:00am - 12:00pm downstairs in the Fiber Arts/Music room off Genesis Hall.
Young In Spirit meets on November 13 at 11:30 am. It will be a meet and eat at Monterrey Mexican Restaurant, Oak Creek shopping center, 4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Come and enjoy an authentic Mexican lunch and great fellowship.
Growing thru Grief is continuing to offer grief support to those grieving the loss of a loved one. Here is our upcoming schedule.
Oct 29 "The Path Forward" with Bill Dahl and William Holloman
Nov 5 "Resilience and Hope -- Dancing with Divine Fire," with Thankam Regana
Nov 12 "Tokens that Tell the Story," with Jim Lewis
Nov 19 "Preparing for the Holiday Season in the Midst of Grief," with Margaret Albert and the Duke Bereavement Center Team
We meet at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, from 4 to 6 pm. All are welcome.
St. Paul's Readers - November 21 at 3 pm
Our final meeting for 2024 is on November 21 when we will discuss The Engineer's Wife: A Novel by Tracey Enerson Wood Brooks. This book is the fictionalized story of the real couple who undertook the immense Brooklyn Bridge construction project. We welcome suggestions for our 2025 reading list which will be chosen in the next several weeks. We try to select books from different genres to stretch our own horizons, as well as to appeal to a wide range of readers. So, if you have a favorite book that you think our readers would enjoy, please let us know.
"Adopt a Duke Lutheran" Program
The Adopt a Duke Lutheran program fosters deeper connections between students and our partner churches by matching church families with students. The "adopted" student may appreciate rides to the store or airport, help getting to know Durham a little bit better, take them to a worship service with you, go out for a meal or coffee, etc. You can decide how much time you'd like to spend together and how you might be helpful and supportive of your student.
PASTA for PARKTOWN!!
Help Stock the St. Paul’s Shelf at Parktown Food Hub!
Keep it coming! THANKS to your generosity the “St. Paul’s Dry Boxed Pasta Shelf” stays stocked and ready to help hungry families. Please continue to add dry pasta to your shopping list to share with the St. Paul’s shelf. The Women’s Connection Group is leading this initiative to support the Parktown Food Hub, led by Pastor Sharon Schulze.
SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, October 30th is Trunk or Treat! Hot dog supper at 6 pm and Trunk or Treating at 6:30 pm. All are welcome -- invite friends neighbors. Our preschool and Wildflower Cottage are all invited as well!
Response
Lutheran Disaster Response brings God’s hope, healing and renewal to people whose lives have been disrupted by disasters in the United States and around the world.
Here is the LINK to their webpage which offers the opportunity to make a donation, search their blog, or just get updates on ongoing situations.
"Let us begin by acknowledging the land upon which we gather today. This land has been playground and campground for many generations of people, including the Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, Cheraw, Catawba, Occaneechi, and Shakori Nations. Its waterways were their highways, its flora and fauna their banquet table, its starry skies their canvas upon which their stories were painted. They cared for this land, and we remember their lives here with gratitude. We give thanks for all Indigenous peoples who continue to care for this land and to call it their home."
-- Vicar Amanda Spangler