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To download the April and Holy Week Servers Schedules, click on the links below: Those Who Serve, April 2025 Holy Week Servers Schedule If you cannot serve on the date assigned, please call the verger and church office with the name of your replacement. Thank you. Grounds, Garden of the Resurrection and Church Clean Up Day!!! Please come and lend your helping hands this Saturday, April 5th as we will have Grounds, Garden of the Resurrection and Church Clean-Up Day. Thack and Donna will be preparing breakfast at 7 am for all those who would like to have breakfast. If you plan to have breakfast please RSVP to the parish office as quickly as possible, call - 251-626-2421 or email - officestpaulsdaphne@gmail.com, so Thack and Donna can have enough food prepared. Discovering the Apocrypha: A Special Great Wednesday@6 Series Next Class is April 2nd Homework for April 2nd is to read  The Prayer of Manasseh, Bel and the Dragon, Letter of Jeremiah and Psalm 151 Click on the links below to download the readings: Prayer of Manasseh Psalm 151 Bel and the Dragon Letter of Jeremiah When: Wednesday evenings at 6:00 p.m. through Lent Where: Malone Hall Instructor: Thack Dyson Join us as we continue with the study on the Books of the Apocrypha. Even if you haven't been to the previous classes you are welcome to come. Each session includes a light dinner, time for discussion, and a brief lecture.  PLEASE RSVP TO THE CHURCH OFFICE  IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND  SO WE CAN ORDER ENOUGH FOOD. St. Paul's Episcopal Church Vacation Bible School 2025 June 23-26, 2025 9 am - 1 pm Guide kids on the ultimate Alaskan adventure where northern lights glow over majestic mountains, racing rivers, and glistening glaciers. As kids trek the tundra, they’ll explore how easy it is to lose sight of what’s true in our wild world today. Pointing them toward Jesus, True North VBS shows them that he is a faithful friend we can always trust. He’s our True North! For VBS Information Click on the link below: https://vbspro.events/p_early/stpaulseasternshore Kairos #71 - COOKIES NEEDED We (Kairos Team #71) would like to have ready by 4-21-2025. 1000 dozen HOME MADE cookies. Whatever you can make to contribute to this Agape special mission is a blessing.  Cookie Preparation: They should be between 2 - 2.5 in diameter ½ inch thick. Nuts, oatmeal, Peanut Butter, Molasses chocolate chips, ginger, sugar, are all Okay.  Key Ingredient: Pray over the ingredients before and during and the mixing. Ask God to use your cookies as a source of His love to shine on the prisoners and staff for this Kairos weekend. These cookies will share the love of God and enter the spirit of those who consume your creation. Packing the Cookies:: In large zip lock bags place a dozen or so, thoroughly cooled cookies labeled with type. Bring bags to church and we will find a freezer space for Kairos cookies.  Collection dates 3-30 till 4-21-2025. For more information call Charlie Harner., 678-334-1333 You are invited to St. Paul's Parish Breakfast Sunday, April 6th immediately following the 8 am service in the Howard Wilson Life Center. The breakfast is prepared for you by St. Paul's Men's Group. No charge for children. There will be no Coffee Hour due to the parish breakfast. 2025 Easter Flowers Dear Saint Paul’s, Easter is fast approaching us and we are making plans for the Easter flowers. This year we are using fresh cut flowers of many varieties. I would like to use your yard flowers in addition to the ones we will order. If any of you have daffodils, iris, phlox, snapdragons, verbena, forsythia, spiraea, narcissi, gladioli, orchids, roses or any other beautiful blooming flower you would like to share with the church please let me know. Also we plan to decorate the base of the cross in the prayer garden with flower stems and small that the children bring in on Easter morning. Please remember to let your children bring a few flowers for that. The forms for the Easter Memorials and Honorariums are in the narthex and printed in the Newsletter. The deadline is Friday, April 11th, which is just a few weeks away. If you can’t find one please ask me or the   office for a copy. We depend on and appreciate your donations and support very much. We will start preparing the flowers on Good Friday . We will start decorating the church on Holy Saturday after the 9:00 service. If you are new and want to help please let me know. You are always welcome to join us. Rebecca Dyson _____________________ EASTER FLOWER ORDER FORM To donate toward the Easter flowers used to decorate the church please complete the form linked below and return it to the church office with your payment of $30.00, no later than Friday, April 11th. Questions, call Rebecca Dyson, 251-923-8173. All donations will be accepted and acknowledged in Easter Memorial and Honorarium bulletin insert.  Please click on the link below to download the order form. 2025 Easter Flower Order Form NIGHT WATCH SIGN-UP - April 17-18 Night Watch begins at immediately following the Maundy Thursday service, Thursday, April 17. Sign-up times are available every hour starting immediately after the Maundy Thursday Service and ending at Noon on Friday, April 18 at which time the Good Friday Service begins. Please call or email the church office as soon as possible if you would like to sign up to pray and meditate throughout the night. We need 1-2 people to sign up for each hour.  Thank you, Terri Church Calendar To view the church calendar click on the link below: Church Calendar Link