Welcome
If you are looking for a church community, you may have just found it! St Paul’s has a long tradition of superb music, an inviting Sunday School, active youth group and effective outreach. This is a place where God is first and you can make a difference. "No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them." ~ Matthew 13: 29 Summer Schedule of Services Saturday 5:15 pm in the Old Narragansett Church Sunday 7:30 am in St. Paul's Church Sunday 9:30 am in the Old Narragansett Church |
Announcements: 7 Pentecost + Sunday School Continues through the summer. Activities on the Greeneway at 9:30, unless it rains (then there is no Sunday School). + Next movie on the Greeneway, July 30th. (not this week, but next) + How did you see God today? On a walk today, there were two wildflowers I've never seen before. They looked like a coral red floral firework. They seemed to be growing with almost no sunlight and very poor soil. + Parish Prayer focus for July is Adult Education. Are you thinking about EFM? There are lots of openings in the day seminar and a few in the evening seminar as well. Please be praying about it and ask. Fabulous opportunity.... + Food Pantry Requests for July: canned fruits and protein foods such as canned tuna, chicken and turkey. + The third annual Baseball benefit-Bishop's Ocean State Waves Baseball Game will be held at 6:30 pm on July 13th at Old Mountain Field in Wakefield. Bishop Knisely will throw out the first pitch. All parishes are invited to participate. $5 tickets are sold and each church keeps half the proceeds to benefit Outreach. We need someone to volunteer to sell tickets for our parish. Please contact the church office to volunteer for this fun, creative event. |
From Inside the Collar
Matthew has a lot to say about judgement. That makes him popular with both fundamentalists/ literalists and those who dismiss Church as backward. What do they have in common: they are both judgmental.
Read carefully. Matthew speaks of judgement, against those things that twist and break, perplex and torture us, not us. It is the evil spirits upon which vengeance is exercised, not people. All of creation is groaning under the agony. Judgement is on everything that breaks us and lies to us. It is not violence, but skillful surgery. It is promise and cure, not punishment.
Every human is %100 Saint and %100 Sinner, only God is qualified to choose which part is which. Only God is qualified to judge, and he would rather die than do it. The cure is for all.
Bring it.
Loaves & Fishes RI
Dear Friends,
Our upcoming truck run (Tues., July 11) is almost exactly in the middle of what most of us consider summer. The cool weather through most of June may have been a mercy to our homeless friends in the city, but the hot days ahead will hit them harder than many of us. We look forward to delivering our brimful truck to the Emmanuel House shelter, with cold drinks added to our usual fare so generously donated by you. Thank you once again for providing so much good food and drink to the homeless and hungry folks we serve. May God bless your caing hearts.
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