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Inside this Issue
From the Pastor’s Desk
New Adult Forum
Mid Week Study
Living Compass Article What’s Happening Birthdays, Anniversaries Prayers Grateful Thanks Community Schedule February Calendar
February Ministry Schedule
VISION STATEMENT: “St. Paul’s Episcopal Church seeks to provide an open
community of faith for all who need love, hope, and acceptance.”
February 2019
Upcoming:
Tuesday, March 5th,
Shrove Tuesday Pancake
Dinner
Wednesday, March 6th,
Ash Wednesday.
Loving Worshiping Learning Serving,
In the name of Christ.
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We just finished our annual meeting in late January. So many things stood out but most importantly that 2018 was a great year at St. Paul’s. We added book studies and Bible studies. We challenged each other to grow more like Christ. We explored what it means to be Episcopal followers of the Jesus Movement. We served and cared for our neighbors. We started a choir and a children’s ministry and we
worshiped our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As I reflect on the year of change that 2018 was, I am excited about the future of St. Paul’s and I hope you are too. Often times, change can be unsettling but it has seemed to have a settling effect on us. If you have not been to church in a while I invite you to come and experience it. These changes have helped us draw closer as a community and brought new people in. The word community is interesting because it cannot exclude and still call itself community. This means that we need one another as well as the other. Community is
always participating and inviting.
I want to invite you, no wait I want to challenge you in 2019 to commit yourself to this community. I want to challenge you to be a part of every Sunday service possible. I want to worship, learn, serve, and love with you this year. I want to lay this challenge out there because I think we can be better with you, and I think you can be better with us. Let’s grow together toward Christ and toward each other this year. If you find yourself already participating I want to challenge you to invite someone new into our community. If you have ideas on how that might happen even better, we want to hear them. Service is at 10:00am. We
hope to see you there.
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Romans Mid Week Bible Study
Wednesdays at 6pm
Join Us!
Level One Snow Emergency - All Bible Studies and activities are cancelled. Church offices will be open with discretion. Level Two and Three Snow Emergency - Worship services are cancelled, and church offices will
be closed.
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Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It.
Mary Oliver, my absolute favorite poet, died this week at the age of eighty-three, and there is an ache in my heart. Accompanying the sadness is the gratitude I feel for how thoroughly she has enriched my life. Her poems make the deep accessible, describing the most profound and sacred mysteries of life with words that always stir my heart and
soul.
Writer Ruth Franklin perfectly captures the essence of this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. "The way she writes these poems that feel like prayers, she channels the voice of somebody who it seems might possibly have access to God. I think her
work does give a sense of someone who is in tune with the deepest mysteries of the universe."
If you are not familiar with Mary Oliver's poetry, do yourself a favor and spend some time getting to know her work. To help you get started, I am sharing with you of my favorite of her poems, "Sometimes." You can find more of her po-ems in books such as American Primitive for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 and in New and Selected
Poems for which she won The National Book Award for poetry in 1992.
Thank you, Mary, for connecting us with the Sacred both within and around us.
Weekly Words of Wellness Scott Stoner
The Living Compass Wellness Initiative January 18, 2019
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"Sometimes" by Mary Oliver
1. Something came up out of the dark. It wasn’t anything I had ever seen before. It wasn’t an animal or a flower,
unless it was both.
Something came up out of the water, a head the size of a cat but muddy and without ears. I don’t know what God is.
I don’t know what death is.
But I believe they have between them
some fervent and necessary arrangement.
2. Sometime
melancholy leaves me breathless…
3. Water from the heavens! Electricity from the source!
Both of them mad to create something!
The lighting brighter than any flower.
The thunder without a drowsy bone in its body.
4. Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished.
Tell about it.
5. Two or three times in my life I discovered love. Each time it seemed to solve everything. Each time it solved a great many things but not everything. Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and
thoroughly, solved everything.
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God, rest in my heart and fortify me, take away my hunger for answers,
let the hours play upon my body
like the hands of my beloved. Let the cathead appear again— the smallest of your mysteries, some wild cousin of my own blood probably— some cousin of my own wild blood probably,
in the black dinner-bowl of the pond.
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Death waits for me, I know it, around one corner or another. This doesn’t amuse me.
Neither does it frighten me.
After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers. It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.
I walked slowly, and listened
to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and
growing.
"Sometimes" is from Red Bird by Mary Oliver, published by
Beacon Press, 2008.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE PALMS FOR PALM SUNDAY IN APRIL?
Yes, it is Epiphany but it is time to order palms for Palm Sunday.
If you would like to provide palms this year, and possible future years,
please contact Jo at 419-332-3032 for more information.
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Feb 2nd
Men’s Breakfast, 8am
The men of St. Paul’s meet at
Frisch’s the first Saturday of
the month.
Feb 3rd
Benevolence
Sunday
Feb 17th
Vestry Meeting, 11:30am
Feb 23rd
AA/Al Anon Euchre Potluck, 4pm
Feb 24th
Community Meal,
5-6pm
Mid Week Bible Study
Wednesdays at 6pm
Adult Forum
“Does The Bible Really Say That?”
Sunday at 9am, Feb 3– Feb 24
Upcoming:
Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Dinner
Tuesday, March 5th
at 5pm
Ash
Wednesday
Service
Wednesday,
March 6th at 6pm
(No Mid Week Bible Study)
Romans 101, an introduction to the Letter to the Romans and a great way to delve into the Good Book Club this Epiphany! Study
continues until Lent.
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Happy Anniversary!
♥ Brian & Bernadette Earhart 2/7
♥ Mr. & Mrs. Stan Johnson 2/14
♥ Mr. & Mrs. Ed Williams 2/17
♥ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Goodhand 2/28
♥ Mr. & Mrs. Peter Straube 2/28
Molly Orr 2/1
Ann Savage 2/2
Simon Nagy 2/3
Larry Polter 2/3
Beth Hackenburg 2/5
Brian Earhart 2/7
Hannah Nagy 2/7
Shana Anderes 2/9
Paul Verdell 2/9
Bonnie Franks 2/10
Joel Hasselbach 2/12
David Tolhurst 2/12
Bernice Shaffer 2/13
Kathi Hinrichs 2/14
Julie Horn 2/17
Mary Lynne Moyers 2/19
George Perkins 2/22
Brooke Taylor 2/24
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Intercessions: Bonnie Aten, Glenn Baker, Janet & Harry
Burger, Samantha Burgess and family, Alicia Garcia, Tom &
Tina Hasselbach, Jacob Hasselbach, Jill Hennings, Becky
Heslet, Ann Holt and family, Jamie Holt, Ben Huss (military),
Emily King, Sonja & Brian Lee, Tom Lee, Violet Rose Mann,
Heather & Allen McRobbie, Megan, Mary Lynne Moyers,
Jerry Parker, Clarice Sayle, Angie Schroeder, Allison Scott,
Rebecca Shields, Brian Taylor, Brooke Taylor, Deloris
Tolhurst, Lori & David Tolhurst and family, Sarge, and
Katherine Young.
In the Diocese of Ohio February 3, 2019 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for Retired Clergy. The Rev. Nancy W. Rich The Rev. Jeffery M. Richards, Supply at St. Andrew's Church, Akron The Rev. Leon E. Richey The Rev. Nancy L. Roth The Rev. David S. Sipes The Rev. Dr. Carey E. Sloan III, AOJN The Rev. Eugene E. Smercina The Rev. M. Elden Smith The Rev. Dr. Erwin M. Smuda, Interim Rector, St. Paul’s, Canton The Rev. George M. Tarsis The Rev. Roger L. Tiffany The Rev. William F. Tompkin, Deacon The Rev. John L. Trumble Jr. The Rev. Robert Walcott The Rev. Robert C. Weaver The Rev. Nicholson B. White The Rev. James H. Wichman, Deacon, Retired; Fire Dept. Chaplain The Rev. John W. Wigle
The Rev. Nancy H. Wittig; Interim Rector, All Saints, Parma
February 10, 2019 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for Our Bishops and Diocesan Staff. The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth Jr., Bishop of Ohio The Rt. Rev. Arthur B. Williams Jr., Assisting Bishop The Rt. Rev. William D. Persell, Assisting Bishop Ms. Beth Bergstrom The Rev. Vincent E. Black Ms. Christina Butterfield Ms. Eva J. Cole The Rev. Margaret D’Anieri Mr. Brandon Gooch The Rev. Percy Grant Ms. Laura R. Hnat Ms. Janine Johnson Mr. Isaac Hollingsworth Ms. Betty Kondrich
Ms. Susan M. Leishman Ms. Katie Ong-Landini Mr. Kyle Mitchell Mr. William A. Powel, III The Rev. A. Bradford Purdom III Ms. Jessica Rocha Ms. Mary Ann Semple Will Skinner Ms. Antoinette Taylor The Rev. Dr. Brian K. Wilbert
Ms. Claudia Wilson
February 17, 2019 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for Central East Mission Area. Trinity Church, Alliance, The Rev. J. Kip H. Colegrove, Rector St. Mark's Church, Canton, the Rev. Elizabeth Frank, Interim Rector St. Paul's Church, Canton Trinity Church, Coshocton, The Rev. Kathryn P. Clausen,
Extended Supply
February 24, 2019 In the Diocese of Ohio, pray for Central East Mission Area. St. Timothy's Church, Massillon, The Rev. George R. Baum, Rector Trinity Church, New Philadelphia Church of Our Saviour, Salem, The Rev. J. Kip H. Colegrove, Rector New Life Episcopal Church, Uniontown, the Rev. Barbara L. Bond, Interim Rector
The Rev. Joseph G. Butler, IV, Regional Deacon
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We give thanks to
God for the
following people
and we give
thanks to them as
well .
Bernadette & Brian
Earhart, Tina
Hasselbach, and
Mary Bower for
hosting coffee hour
in January.
Thank you to Jordan Speer for hosting the January Community Meal. Thank you to everyone who contributed anything to the Annual Parish meeting reports.
Parishioners and
friends of the parish
who donate altar
flowers to enhance
our Sunday worship.
Community Schedule
Sunday Free Community Meal AA
4th Sunday 5-6pm (P) Sept-May 8 pm (B)
Monday Fit >50 Zumba Gold* AA (Men & Women) AA Spanish
8:30-9:30 am (P) 10 am (B) 8 pm (B)
Tuesday Fit over 50 Accelerated* AA Mindful Movement:
Tai Chi/Qi Gong* Myofascial* Hatha Yoga*
AA Al Anon/Ala Teen
8:30-9:15 am (P) 10 am (B) 6:15-6:45 pm (P) 6:45-7 pm (P) 7-8 pm (P) 7:30 pm (B) 7:30 pm (N)
Wednesday Fit>50 Tai Chi & Yoga* AA Men
8:30-9:30 am (P) 7 pm (B)
Friday Fit>50 Circuit* AA AA
8:30-9:30 am (P) 10 am (B) 8 pm (B)
Saturday AA AA Sponsored by AA (Last Sat., Oct-May)
10 am (B) 10 pm (B) Euchre/Potluck 4-? pm
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Basement Nursery Parish Hall Freewill Donation
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The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop
The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., Bishop, Diocese of Ohio The Rev. Matt Wahlgren, Priest-in-Charge
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Vestry Members:
Beth Hackenburg (20) Senior Warden, Kay Klein (18) Treasurer
Bob Parker (19) Junior Warden, Carolyn Speer (20), Brooke Taylor (19)
Chyleen Scott (19), Marcia Webster (18) Clerk & Financial Secretary
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Church Phone: 419-332-3032
Church E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00am-2:00pm
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