Thanks to all who have submitted a Pledge Card, but we need more pledges to make our goal.
To make a financial pledge for 2023, get your pledge card here.
The November newsletter is HERE!
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Faith & Mission: St. Paul's Archivist Liz Hook's history of St. Paul's is available!
GET YOUR COPY NOW! MAKES A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT! Catch Liz after a service, and she will autograph it for you! If you would like a copy mailed to you please contact Robert Knapp (rcknapp2@gmail.com) and he will arrange this. The suggested donation is $35 which goes far toward covering the actual cost of each book ($46). Faith and Mission 1871-2020 is a comprehensive, exciting account of how St. Paul’s began a century and a half ago as the second Episcopal parish in Oakland, grew to be an important part of the city’s religious and community life, and, in the late twentieth century, came to represent the best in progressive approach-es to social and religious engagement—a tradition that has carried on strongly throughout its most recent fifty years. Elizabeth Hook’s endeavors as our archivist led first to a series of articles in the church news-letter that treated various aspects of our history. About three years ago, she and Robert Knapp took up the larger project of editing these articles into book form and adding various chapters on more recent history. Then Vicki Larson volunteered her considerable graphic design talents to turn our manuscript into a love-ly masterpiece while also adding vital details and images to what Liz and Robert had put together. |
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If you wish to attend in-person services, please follow the Community Covenant guidelines, below. All services are also live streamed to our Facebook Group page.In-person Entry Wednesday, November 2312:10p.m. Holy Eucharist, streamed. Program
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St. Paul’s has embarked on a year-long celebration of God’s many gifts to us, and how we respond to them in ministry. The Apostle Paul, in his first letter to the community in Corinth, reminds us that we are all gifted in some way by God, to be used in furtherance of God’s kingdom on earth. This is the essence of the stewardship mindset: receive the gift, reflect on the gift, respond to the gift. Our collective gifts help shape and guide our faith community, through worship, prayer, learning, and serving, as we live into our baptismal covenant.
Learn more about how we allocate our resources. Get your 2023 pledge card here 
Mayor's Proclamation in recognition of the end of St.. Paul's Church's 150th year as a parish.
Our GUNS to GARDENS project is in the NEWS!
Published in Oaklandside! MONARCH BUTTERFLIES!
Our first caterpillar has arrived! Thriving on the milkweed planted in the spring.
On July 23, we finished the first planting of the pollinator garden. Native plants were installed that will provide places to lay eggs and nectar for monarch’s and other pollinators.
St Pauls would like to grow our monitoring team. You can also monitor milkweed in your own garden. For more information or to sign up for the Pollinator Posse or monitoring training, sign up on the list in the Northax or email tagindy@aol.com See the new Monarch Ministry page here Grow your own Milkweed! Read this CREATION CARE 101We are encouraging everyone to consider signing up for Creation Care 101, a free program, toolkit, and community building resource, designed for churches. It is a free program, series of eight sessions, September, 2022 – April 2023.
Parishioners are encouraged to sign up and invite family, friends and colleagues and neighbors. Creative Care Collective will engage congregations in faith-based conversations for practical applications of environmental healing and justice, in church and home contexts. Developed alongside advisors at Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology and Oxford University’s Laudato Si’ Institute, the Creation Care 101 Program connects the dots between faith, science, justice, and creation care. This program is free for churches and welcomes people from all parts of the Christian family. Check out their website HERE In-Person Services in the Church AND Live-Streamed
- 8am Holy Eucharist, EVERY SUNDAY - 10am Choral Eucharist, EVERY SUNDAY - 8pm Compline, 4th Sundays - 4pm Evensong, 1st Sundays (Oct-June) Live-Streamed ONLY - Noonday Prayer 12:10pm Wednesdays Live-Streaming for ALL services is on our Facebook Group page Click to the Facebook Group page, and ask to join the Group. One of us will let you in, and you can watch all live stream services as they occur, and once they end, all can be found under the Facebook Media/Videos tab. Some older videos are also available on our YouTube Channel. |
THE PANTRY OF HOPE CONTINUES ITS WORK!
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 DONATE as you are able, and reach out to Archdeacon Carolyn Bolton or Father Mauricio if you would like to volunteer.
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 DONATE as you are able, and reach out to Archdeacon Carolyn Bolton or Father Mauricio if you would like to volunteer.