Hello faith family! This is the Second Sunday in Lent – February 25, 2024, Year B. This week, we celebrate George Herbert: poet and priest. He was noted for unfailing care for his parishioners, bringing the sacraments to them when they were ill and providing food and clothing for those in need. Henry Vaughan called him “a most glorious saint and seer”.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting on March 10, 2024. See other news items:

• The final Annual Meeting prep is this Sunday at 9 a.m. Please come and add your voice. If you missed the first, here is your opportunity! If you did attend the first, please come again and let’s expand on what was started.
• 2 Saints Readers’ next book is “How To Know A Person” by David Brooks at 10 a.m. on Wed. Mar 6, Mar 20, and April 3, 2024.
• There will be a blood drive at St. Thomas’s on March 23, 2024 from 9 a.m. -2 p.m. Please let your friends and neighbors know about this opportunity to give blood and save a life.
• Look for an email invitation to Lenten Evening Prayer this and every Sunday in Lent. The service is online only via YouTube, beginning at 7 p.m. We are all encouraged to participate in the live chat.
• Are you enjoying Fr Howie’s Daily Lenten podcast? How can we continue to grow the Graceful Waves podcast ministry?

Our weekly Worship schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
• Wednesday at noon – Intercessory Prayer with Holy Communion in-person. (Intercessory Prayer booklet).
• Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).

This Sunday’s Schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sun., Feb 25, 2024 from 9-10 a.m. – Annual Meeting prep
• Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Adult Education
• Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
• Sundays at at 7 p.m. on YouTube – Lenten Evening Prayer

Growth and Fellowship

• Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
• Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
• 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Feb. 19, 2024
• Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
• Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

• Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Parish Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
• Sat., March 23, 2024 – Blood Drive
• March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
• Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

Hello faith family! This is the First Sunday in Lent – February 18, 2024, Year B.

This week, we celebrate Frederick Douglass, who was was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

Douglass believed in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, as well as, after breaking with William Lloyd Garrison, in the anti-slavery interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto “No Union with Slaveholders”, criticized Douglass’s willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, he replied: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting on March 10, 2024. See other news items:

• The trip to the Walthers Museum leaves from St. Thomas’s at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday, February 17, 2024, to carpool to Baltimore. Everyone is invited! Please contact Fr. Howie or the office if you have any questions. There are seats available!
• There will be a blood drive at St. Thomas’s on March 23, 2024 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Please let your friends and neighbors know about this opportunity to give blood and save a life.
• Look for an email invitation to Lenten Evening Prayer this and every Sunday in Lent. The service is online only via YouTube, beginning at 7 p.m. We are all encouraged to participate in the live chat.
• Are you enjoying Fr Howie’s Daily Lenten podcast? How can we continue to grow the Graceful Waves podcast ministry?

Our weekly Worship schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
• Wednesday at noon – Intercessory Prayer with Holy Communion in-person. (Intercessory Prayer booklet).
• Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).

This Sunday’s Schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sun., Feb 25, 2024 from 9-10 a.m. – Annual Meeting prep
• Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Adult Education
• Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
• Sundays at at 7 p.m. on YouTube – Lenten Evening Prayer

Growth and Fellowship

• Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
• Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
• 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Feb. 19, 2024
• Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
• Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

• Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Parish Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
• Sat., March 23, 2024 – Blood Drive
• March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
• Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

Hello faith family! This is the Last Sunday after Epiphany – February 11, 2024, Year B.

This week, we celebrate Absalom Jones, who was from Delaware! He is also featured in our St Thomas Pilgrimage Windows; can you find him this Sunday? He was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War. In 1794, Jones founded the first Black Episcopal congregation, and in 1802, he was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States.

Weekly News

See our Carpenter’s Helper Weekly Newsletter. See info on our Annual Parish Meeting.

Our weekly Worship schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
• Wednesday at noon – Intercessory Prayer with Holy Communion in-person. (Intercessory Prayer booklet).
• Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).

This Sunday’s Schedule

• Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
• Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Adult Education
• Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries program
• Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).

Growth and Fellowship

• Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
• Third Sundays at 9:15 a.m. – Novel Theology
• 3rd Monday of the month – Hope Dining Room on Jan. 15, 2024
• Last Sunday of the month – Family Church Sunday
• Last Sunday of the month – Coffee and Fellowship between services

Other Parish Events

• Tue., Feb. 13, 2024 – Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner
• Wed., Feb. 14, 2024 – Valentines Day and Ash Wednesday
• Sun., March 10, 2024 – Annual Meeting and Daylight Savings Time
• March 25-30, 2024 Holy Week
• Sun., March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday

The church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to our church or online giving.

If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.

To see worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.

Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit:  Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644