Our Monthly Newsletter
To Serve Them All My Days
At the end of April, St Paul’s will host an uncommon event in the life of the Church – the service that marks the beginning of a new ordained ministry. John Shirley will be presented to Bishop Scanlan to be made a deacon. (In the older versions of the Book of Common Prayer, de...
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A Heart for the World
On March 1st, the Reverend Deacon Jim Jenkins will begin his ministry at Saint Paul’s. As best I can tell, the parish has never had a deacon, so part of Jim’s job, and mine, over the next few months will be to help everyone learn about this new kind of ministry. The first thin...
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Standing Together
At the end of January, the clergy of the Susquehanna Convocation – the eleven Episcopal churches in Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Union, and Snyder Counties – met with Bishop Scanlan. We do this every other month to hear what is going on elsewhere in the Diocese and to te...
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Faithful Through Another Year
With the advice of this month’s Devotional still ringing in my ears, I am nonetheless inclined to look back over where we have been in 2016 and where we are going in 2017. To begin with numbers, as is my habit, in 2016 we had: 183 services of public worship11 Vestry meetings7 ...
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