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Like the First Morning First Sunday After the Epiphany / Baptism of Our Lord | Bulletin Make your financial pledge for 2021 We continue to hold each other in prayer, you can add your prayer requests here. Please help us continue to create meaningful virtual worship and support essential ministries by giving online or emailing donate@stpaulandstandrew.org […]

All Through the Night Epiphany Sunday | Bulletin Join us this week for a midwinter Confirmation Sunday! At the end of a long and isolating year, five of our youth have chosen to confirm their faith and renew their relationship with this community of believers. Why now? What does SPSA mean to them in this chapter […]

Making All Things New First Sunday After Christmas | Bulletin Now the Work of Christmas Begins by Howard Thurman When the song of the angels is stilled,when the star in the sky is gone,when the kings and princes are home,when the shepherds are back with their flocks,the work of Christmas begins:to find the lost,to heal […]

Candlelight Service at 5pm Candlelight Service at 11pm Merry Christmas!   Most of us I imagine will be home for Christmas, though not exactly the way the songs have it.  Wherever you are, we hope you will join us Christmas Eve for our beautiful services, online.  Here they are:  Christmas Eve Family Service:  5:00 pm […]

Lessons & Carols Fourth Sunday of Advent Our ‘Service of Lessons & Carols’ is a long-cherished tradition at St Paul & St Andrew. This year, of course, we cannot gather in our beautiful sanctuary, filled with friends and poinsettias and candles and music. But we’ll do the next best thing. The message of John 1 […]

A Good News Story Third Sunday of Advent It seems absolutely fitting that the week we reflect on God’s promises to us, we are led in worship by the kids, youth, and families of our church. It seems even more appropriate that we convey God’s steadfast love, revelatory promise to dwell among us, and great […]

The Beginning of Good News Second Sunday of Advent Today’s Readings: Mark 1: 1-8 “The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Child of God…” Mark 1:1 Mark doesn’t promise too much, to start. He is living at a time of bad news. Very bad news. And, in the middle of that, he […]

Alert, Awake, Alive First Sunday in Advent Today’s Readings: Isaiah 40: 1-11, Mark 13: 24-37 Happy New Year! No, it’s not that we’re so anxious for 2020 to be over that we’re deluding ourselves into a magical fast-forward.  But this Sunday, the first Sunday in Advent, does start a new year in the Christian calendar.  […]

SPSA member Hannah Reasoner is currently in Colombia as a UM Global Mission Fellow. Each month, we will post her Newsletter update. NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER Hola,  On October 15, after packing and repacking my bags, receiving a negative covid test, hugging my parents, and five or six hours in the air, I was welcomed back to […]

Gratitude Thanksgiving Sunday Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 8:7-18 Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gained me this wealth.’ Deuteronomy 8:17 On this Thanksgiving Sunday, we want to consider one of the most important of all Christian virtues, gratitude. And we are doing that with the help of […]