Category Archives: General Announcements

Anti-Racism Covenant

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From Bishop Greg Rickel:

Dear People of the Diocese of Olympia and beyond,
At our most recent Diocesan Convention, you overwhelmingly passed a resolution supporting the Anti-Racism Covenant put forth initially by the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson, Bishop of Missouri, and co-sponsored by many other bishops. My name has been on this covenant since just after its posting, however, I have now, on your behalf, added not just my name and office but the entire Diocese of Olympia. Read it and more importantly, read it regularly, use it as a rule of life right now, study it in your congregations, and hold it up as the ideal we are striving for. As I said at our convention, signing such documents, passing such resolutions, really is the easy part. The difficult part, the part that will change this Church, this country, this world, is our following it, acting on it, living into it. I offer it here as I vow to do just that personally.
Blessings,
+Greg

You can read more about this Covenant, see the list of signers, and sign yourself here. A PDF is available here.

Christmas Eve at St. Paul’s

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We will be having a bilingual Christmas Eve service with La Iglesia Episcopal de la Resurrección on Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. PST.

The worship details will magically appear here and on our Facebook page at 5:00 p.m., an hour before worship begins.

We aren’t doing our normal carol sing before church tonight, so here’s a playlist of all the Christmas hymns in The Hymnal 1982.

Vigil for Black Lives Matter

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For those attending online:

The Zoom link is here.

For those who call in by telephone, the number is +1 253 215 8782, the meeting ID is 894 7224 6280, and the password is 767284.

The video will be up on Facebook and on the Live Stream page around 9 p.m.

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It has been way too long since St. Paul’s has been able to gather in person, but we’ll be doing so this Tuesday, August 4, for a reason beyond our desire to worship together. We’ll be meeting on the front lawn of our church for a prayer service and vigil in support of Black Lives Matter.

Those attending the outdoor service, which will start at 7 pm on the east lawn of St. Paul’s (across the street from the Kiwanis Park) will be required to wear a mask and maintain recommended social distancing. According to Father Paul Moore, “The service is styled on evening prayer, but embellished with prayers from other sources, and will make a peaceful, quiet, reverential, and public statement about Black Lives Matter.”

The Tuesday evening prayer service will also feature a sermon from local African-American pastor, Vernon Washington.

“On its surface, the statement ‘Black Lives Matter,’ is self-evident,” says Father Paul. “It wants me to say that Brown lives matter…and Asian lives matter…and LGBTQ lives matter, and trans lives matter…and White lives matter — and that’s all true as well. But right now, ‘black lives matter’ is more than just an acknowledgment of the value of African-American lives at the exclusion of others.”

“I believe that what people in our country are really striving to say is that we have not paid attention to the stories of racial minorities. We have not let the minority stories among us as American citizens inform our national dialogue. We still tend to build society in our White image, and ‘black lives matter’ is a call to a deeper awareness of multiculturalism and inclusiveness. It just so happens that the largest minority among us is African-Americans, and they are the majority in some parts of our country. We need to include their story, and in so doing we can become more aware that the American Story is not just a White story.”

For our gathering this Tuesday we ask people to bring their own chairs and insect repellent… and an open and worshipful heart.

Quick Facts

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is a place where people encounter the living God and the challenging, inspiring, and reconciling Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are an open and affirming community, and we welcome everyone regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, status, ability, doubts, or questions. There is one God, but God’s encounter with each of us is as unique as we are! Our vision may seem bold; it is however at the heart of our beliefs as a church and at the heart of the Gospel message.

On Sundays, we have the following options for worship:

  • At 8:00, we have Eucharist on the 1st and 3rd Sundays with Morning Prayer the rest of the time
  • At 9:30, we have Eucharist with music. This service is both in person and streamed on Zoom.
  • On the 5th Sunday of the month, we have a bilingual service with our sister congregation La Iglesia Episcopal de la Resurrección.

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