Messages from the Rector, week of November 30
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THIS WEEKThursday, December 3
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St. Paul’s Prayer in the Park: starts December 3
Morning Prayer
Thursdays at 10 am across Grand Avenue from St. Paul’s at Lake Merritt Park beginning on Dec. 3 Please join us for a masked and socially distanced weekly lay-led Morning Prayer Service in the park near the lake side. We will use the BCP Morning Prayer Rite 2 structure, or other Episcopal Church approved versions of Morning Prayer. We’ll try some different things to see what works best for the group. Please feel free to bring your own folding chair if you need to be seated. Please email pamela.kruse.buckingham@gmail.com for any questions, or to indicate your interest. I will create an email list of interested folks in order to send out a PDF of the worship leaflet on Monday or Tuesday of each week, or any notifications for the service, in case of inclement weather. Follow THIS LINK for the exact location coordinates. |
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Give One Thousand Days of Love this Advent!
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Every Advent season, the St. Paul’s community, remembering that Christ came into the world as a poor child, prepares for Christmas by helping impoverished children here in Oakland and around the world. Many of you may remember Nets Over the Creche, an Advent initiative that saw our village of St. Paul’s, through Episcopal Relief & Development, donate enough mosquito nets to protect the children in up to four villages from
malaria-carrying insects.
A thousand for a thousand in 2020. This year, like everything else in 2020, will be a little different, but we will once again be working with Episcopal Relief & Development and its Gifts for Life program, this time through the One Thousand Days of Love campaign.
Our “village” of St. Paul’s will have as its goal a $1,000 gift of a One Thousand Days of Love package to a village that needs our help.
The package includes:
How can my family help? A dollar from your family will give a day of love to another family. Talk about gifts of love and what they mean to you. Decide as a family how you will give financially to help a village raise its children. To contribute your days of love, please send a check made out to SPEC and with “1,000 Days” in the memo line to Fr. Mauricio, St. Paul’s, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610. You may also donate via PayPal (see the "Donate" button, above), but please remember to specify in the memo space that it is for 1000 Days Outreach.
Help make this Advent Season a season of love for children.
Questions? Get in touch with Carolyn Knapp: csknapp@earthlink.net .
malaria-carrying insects.
A thousand for a thousand in 2020. This year, like everything else in 2020, will be a little different, but we will once again be working with Episcopal Relief & Development and its Gifts for Life program, this time through the One Thousand Days of Love campaign.
Our “village” of St. Paul’s will have as its goal a $1,000 gift of a One Thousand Days of Love package to a village that needs our help.
The package includes:
- care for five moms and their newborns,
- nurture and nourishment for 12 children,
- bicycles for three community volunteers,
- mosquito nets and training for 10 families
- four savings and loan group memberships.
How can my family help? A dollar from your family will give a day of love to another family. Talk about gifts of love and what they mean to you. Decide as a family how you will give financially to help a village raise its children. To contribute your days of love, please send a check made out to SPEC and with “1,000 Days” in the memo line to Fr. Mauricio, St. Paul’s, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610. You may also donate via PayPal (see the "Donate" button, above), but please remember to specify in the memo space that it is for 1000 Days Outreach.
Help make this Advent Season a season of love for children.
Questions? Get in touch with Carolyn Knapp: csknapp@earthlink.net .
Regathering Update: Evolving Plans
Mid-November 2020
Greetings, fellow St. Paul’s parishioners! Although two months have passed since the last Roundup, regathering projects have been proceeding apace. While careful plans had been laid for in-person indoor worship at the end of this month, those have had to be set aside now that Alameda County is back in the purple tier.
What about earlier plans to worship outdoors? Those also had to be put aside because of unforeseen weather, smoke, noise and logistical difficulties with using the courtyard and the School’s playground.
The Regathering Task Force has finished cleaning and decluttering. Hymnals, Prayer Books, toys, and much more have been put in storage, decades of dust have been removed from all areas, including the upper reaches of the building, and the last of the touchless paper towel and hand-sanitizer dispensers have been installed.
Efforts to keep our environment clean and our people safe will cost money that was not in the budget. We are grateful for any contributions you can make to help us navigate this challenging time!
Parish database completely updated. Thanks to the efforts of Tom McGarrell, Allison Sass, Robert Knapp, Mother Anne, Father Mauricio, and Jackie Kamakate, who reviewed the list and got in touch with many people on it, we now have far cleaner and better information which we can use for worship reservations and to produce a new directory for the use of the congregation.
Remaining Regathering Task Force projects include
Stay safe and stay with us, everyone. We are in this together!
Carolyn Knapp, Correspondent for the St. Paul’s Regathering Task Force
Greetings, fellow St. Paul’s parishioners! Although two months have passed since the last Roundup, regathering projects have been proceeding apace. While careful plans had been laid for in-person indoor worship at the end of this month, those have had to be set aside now that Alameda County is back in the purple tier.
What about earlier plans to worship outdoors? Those also had to be put aside because of unforeseen weather, smoke, noise and logistical difficulties with using the courtyard and the School’s playground.
The Regathering Task Force has finished cleaning and decluttering. Hymnals, Prayer Books, toys, and much more have been put in storage, decades of dust have been removed from all areas, including the upper reaches of the building, and the last of the touchless paper towel and hand-sanitizer dispensers have been installed.
Efforts to keep our environment clean and our people safe will cost money that was not in the budget. We are grateful for any contributions you can make to help us navigate this challenging time!
Parish database completely updated. Thanks to the efforts of Tom McGarrell, Allison Sass, Robert Knapp, Mother Anne, Father Mauricio, and Jackie Kamakate, who reviewed the list and got in touch with many people on it, we now have far cleaner and better information which we can use for worship reservations and to produce a new directory for the use of the congregation.
Remaining Regathering Task Force projects include
- a professional evaluation of ventilation in the church building to determine the safety of indoor worship – in progress
- commissioning a small group to evaluate and make recommendations for audio and video systems in the church, as well as the means to operate and maintain them – the group has been formed and there has been at least one estimate of the cost for an integrated, “turnkey” system. The thinking is that we will want to use this system long after the pandemic has passed, but finding people to run it may be the most challenging aspect.
Stay safe and stay with us, everyone. We are in this together!
Carolyn Knapp, Correspondent for the St. Paul’s Regathering Task Force
THE PANTRY OF HOPE CONTINUES ITS WORK!
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St. Paul's is carrying on with providing food to our neighbors through the work of our Food Pantry. We are only able to continue this work because of your financial gifts and volunteer time. Thank you for all the work you do to donate to the effort! Please reach out to Archdeacon Carolyn Bolton or Father Mauricio if you would like to volunteer.
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