As we witness the devastation that Hurricane Harvey has brought to the people of Texas and Louisiana, we are called to respond with generosity and compassion. Any natural disaster like this has three stages: rescue, relief, and recovery. First responders and military personnel have been focused on saving lives and getting people out of harm’s way.
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Rescheduled for October 21
We will have a training day for all current and prospective lay readers, chalice bearers, ushers, and greeters. The training sessions will take place in church and are scheduled as follows:
Lay Readers – 9 to 10 am
Chalice Bearers –
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August 27 – September 3
This week, St. Paul’s will welcome three families to spend the week here at St. Paul’s. Thank you to our many wonderful volunteers who helped with set-up, take down, dinners, social hosting, and laundry.
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September 2 and 3
Taylor Kilpatrick, guest speaker
With funds from the Diocesan Budget, Endowments and Individual gifts, Episcopal Charities, our partner in grace, transforms the lives of thousands each month. At St. Paul’s we have been blessed to receive a grant for our Paul’s Place After School Program and we are grateful!
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Thursdays, 4:30-6pm beginning Sept. 7
This Royal School of Church Music-affiliated choir will sing throughout the church year, including for our annual Lessons & Carols service. For more information, contact Dr. Paul Cienniwa (drpaul@stpaulsdelray.org, 561-578-6003) or sign up online at https://stpaulsdelray.org/youth-choir.
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Sunday, September 10
If you have been attending St. Paul’s for less than a year and have not attended a Newcomer’s Brunch, we hope you will! Brunch will be held following the 10am service and will begin with a guided tour of the campus. Clergy and members of the Vestry will be on hand to answer any questions you may have and to get better acquainted.
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Sunday, August 27 at 6pm
The choir will perform a concert of Gospel music here at St. Paul’s. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door to benefit the Thowana Kemp Scholarship Fund.
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Did you know that 22.5% of children in Palm Beach County are food insecure? That means that 60,340 children go to bed hungry in our community. Did you know that 14.7% of all people in our county are food insecure? That means that 199,460 people in our community do not know where they will get their next meal.
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Plan to join us after the 10am service on Sunday to sort and pack the food that is donated this weekend for CROS Ministries!
Gibbie Nauman, Director of Development and Community Relations at CROS will join us after the 10am service to answer any questions about the work of CROS in our community and describe the End Hunger Walk on October 7.
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Sunday, September 3
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will be cooking our annual Labor Day BBQ Chicken dinner. New to the traditional offering of one-half chicken and three bean salad, we will be serving Ron Backer’s homemade baked beans. Proceeds from this event go to funding St.
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At a time when white supremacists are still assembling to foment hate and division, when terrorists who have perverted the message of Islam are still perpetrating death and destruction, advocating tolerance seems like a necessary starting place for restoring respect and civility to the public square. But how do we,
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Believe it or not, this Monday, our Day School begins its 54th year of providing quality education in a loving, Christian atmosphere! Please pray for Liz Ryan, our Day School director, and our teachers: Grace Aho, Morgan Miller, and Kathy Yates, as we begin the 2017-18 school year. We have 34 children enrolled this year!
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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. This special feast day invites us to embrace anew the divine gift of Jesus Christ, revealed to Peter, James, and John as the Son of God, the Chosen Messiah. Jesus, in his transfigured glory, appears with Moses and Elijah.
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Believe it or not, it is the last weekend of July, which means the new school year starts in two weeks! Our Children, Youth, and Family Advisory Council met this past week and we are excited about the new school year for Church School and Youth Group. In the Acts of St.
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It is wonderful to be back after two weeks of vacation. Irene and I spent a week in southern California helping to move our daughter Ingrid into her new home in Anaheim. We enjoyed many special family moments, and now Irene and I are adjusting to the bittersweet reality of our “nest” no longer including Ingrid.
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Saturday, August 5, from 10 to 4 at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach (3300A South Seacrest Blvd)
Contemplative Outreach, together with St. Paul’s and St. Joseph’s, will be offering an Introduction to Centering Prayer.Contemplative Outreach is a worldwide organization dedicated to fostering the contemplative dimension of Christianity as reintroduced to the modern world by Fr.
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The next series of classes begin:
Tuesdays: July 11, 18, August 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 (No class – July 25) Drop in fee: $8
Bring a mat, towel, and water to class. Email Yoga Instructor Sally Grillo to attend: salasana18@hotmail.com
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Warm-up at 9am in Music Room on Sundays.
We encourage anyone who enjoys singing to come sing with us – no auditions are necessary!
A Summer Choir rehearsal will be held on Thursday, July 6 at 7pm. Anyone from the congregation is welcome to attend! We will be rehearsing music for upcoming Sunday services.
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Happy Independence Day! This long four-day weekend, as we celebrate our independence, is a great opportunity to count our blessings as citizens of the United States. We often think of freedom as “freedom from…”, yet the blessings of freedom are perhaps most powerfully exercised in terms of “freedom to…”. In this country,
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Annie Lamott will be discussed on Tuesday, July 11 at 7pm. This is our first ‘non-fiction’ book and written as part memoir and part commentary by an author who is deeply grounded in faith and thinks outside the box.
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani will be discussed on Tuesday,
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Congratulations to us! This past week, Delray Beach was selected for the prestigious “All-America City” award by the National Civic League. This is the third year (previously 1993 and 2001) that our city has received this distinction! This follows being named a “Pacesetter Community” by the nationally distinguished Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
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Tuesday, June 27 from 4pm to 6pm
April Hazamy will be honored for her work as the director of the CROS Ministries Caring Kitchen for the past 17 years! St. Paul’s is hosting the CROS Ministries event as the community thanks and wishes April well as she moves to Michigan.
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Saturday, July 29 at 9:30am
Families with elementary-aged children are invited to join us for a fun family outing at Lion Country Safari! Meet at the entrance at 9:30 am (2003 Lion Country Safari Road, Loxahatchee, FL 33470). Sign-up sheet located on the cart in the courtyard.
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Today, we honor and celebrate the men in our lives who have nurtured and nourished us. At our services this weekend, we will ask God’s blessing on the special men of our parish and we will prayerfully remember those dads who have gone on to the larger life of heaven.
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Today, we have many reasons to celebrate! We join the Church throughout the world in celebrating Trinity Sunday. This foundational doctrine of the Christian faith, one God in three persons, reminds us that we worship and walk with a God who is constantly creating, redeeming, and sanctifying us.
We also continue to celebrate the arrival of Dr.
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Saturday, July 15 from 4:30 – 11 pm
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is sponsoring a family “Take Me Out to the Ballpark”. Families and friends are invited to the Miami Marlins vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game. We will meet at St. Paul’s at 4:30pm for a tailgate party that will include hot dogs,
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Music at St. Paul’s Concert:
“French Sweets”
Dr. Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
Sunday, June 11 at 3pm
Dr. Paul Cienniwa will present a concert of harpsichord music by Couperin, J.S. Bach, and Rameau. Please plan to attend this FREE concert and invite your friends.
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Today, as we observe Memorial Day weekend, we prayerfully remember the women and men who died in service to our country. As we were painfully reminded once again this week with the dreadful bombing in Manchester, England, we live in a world in which far too many people turn to violence and terror as a means of imposing their own personal worldview on the global community.
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Our congregation is blessed by those who serve at St. Paul’s – by their presence, their voices, their careful and reverent movements…
Over the past several weeks we have invited all of our Liturgical Lay Leaders to reaffirm their commitment to their ministries.
On May 20 and 21 we bless and commission our Flower and Altar Guilds.
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Love to cook? Love good food? Have some wonderful family recipes to share? We are thinking of assembling a cookbook to include delicious recipes from our many great cooks and bakers as a fundraiser for St. Paul’s. Potential ideas also include events to taste and test prior to publication such as “appetizing” cocktail parties,
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We are excited to be welcoming our new Director of Music Ministries on June 1! Dr. Paul’s first Sunday with us will be Pentecost Sunday, June 4 with a reception to follow. He will lead music for the next week of Vacation Bible School, and then he will be giving a free concert for our congregation and the community on June 11.
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Sunday, June 4 at the 10am service
Please contact the office if you or someone you know would like to be baptized: 561-276-4541.
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Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement, which invites Christians around the world to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for more people to come to know Jesus Christ. To participate in this international and ecumenical call to prayer go to: www.thykingdomcome.global
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Thursday, May 25 at 12:10pm
Our regular healing service will include the lessons and observance of Ascension Day.
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This Sunday marks the last day of Fr. David’s season with us. We look forward to welcoming him back in October. Please join us after the 10am service for a slice of cake and an opportunity to bid Fr. David farewell!
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Sunday May 14, after 8am & 10am services
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew cordially invites everyone to its annual Mother’s Day Brunch. Join us as we celebrate and honor the important women in our lives!
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Wednesday, June 14
Life Line Screening, a leading provider of community-based preventive health screenings, will offer their affordable, non-invasive and painless health screenings at St Paul’s. Five screenings will be offered that scan for potential health problems related to: blocked arteries which is a leading cause of stroke;
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On April 22 and 23, we will have a special presentation on our Vision 2020 Strategic Plan. Please plan to join us in the Parish Hall after each service as Fr. Paul and our Vision 2020 Strategic Plan co-chairs Kristen Murtaugh and Lorraine Sciara-Kelley share this exciting vision for our future as a parish family.
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Thursday, April 27 at 6pm in the Parish Hall
What is going on with the property next door? That’s a question many, if not all of you have asked for a long while. We now have the opportunity to learn the answers that will
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We are happy to announce that our Passport to Peru VBS for 2017 is open for registration! We will be exploring God’s great gifts through the cross-cultural adventure of Passport to Peru. Art, crafts, music, games and, of course, yummy snacks will fill our morning program with excitement and fun.
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This weekend the secular calendar moves from March to April. For sports fans like me, that means its time to enjoy the thrill of the college basketball finals and the excitement of baseball’s Opening Day!
Meanwhile, our Church calendar welcomes us into the Fifth Sunday of Lent. As we continue our journey of Lent,
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April 22 and 23 at all services
On this weekend, we will honor and celebrate all those over 80. We have been blessed by the wisdom and devotion of those who have passed on the faith to us. To celebrate this wonderful occasion, you are encouraged to bring an elder who has been special in your life.
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Monday, April 3, 2017 at 7pm
Join us for this inspirational Lenten presentation by our own Dr. Kollander, a renowned scholar on Hitler and Nazism. She will lead us in exploring the selfless witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident who was murdered at the Flossenb¸rg,
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Are you the sort of person who loves a win/win situation? Then our Day School here at St. Paul’s has an opportunity for you! The Day School is raising funds for a shade for the playground. And to do that, they are selling SaveAround Coupon books that have $5000 worth of coupons for businesses in and around Palm Beach County!
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Tuesday, March 28 at 12:30pm
In addition to good food and fellowship, we will have a special speaker telling a true and great World War II story about his father. Robert Smith was the pilot of a B-26 Marauder mid-range bomber and in June 1943 he flew his own plane across the Atlantic,
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On the night that Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Maundy Thursday), He explained to His disciples that He was about to undertake one of the most difficult trials in His earthly existence. After Supper was ended, He went to the Garden and prayed to the Father for strength to accept what was going to happen.
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