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Education & Formation We provide opportunities for education and spiritual formation for all parishioners - adults, youth and children. These include Sunday activities before and after worship, events throughout the week, and special seasonal programs. Members of the ministry serve as Sunday school teachers; we plan and facilitate activities in the areas of education and spiritual formation; and we are responsibile for seasonal programs throughout the church year, as well as for preparing persons for confirmation as adult members of the church. Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. in the Guild Room. If you are interested in helping out with this work or joining this committee, please email Wayne Floyd at waynefloyd1@verizon.net.
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Interested in Confirmation, Reception, or Reaffirmation?
The next diocesan service for confirmation/reception/reaffirmation will be May 12. Preparation classes will begin at the start of March and continue through the middle of May.
If you are interested in confirmation or in reception into the Episcopal Church or in publicly reaffirming your commitment to Christ in the Episcopal Church or if you simply have questions, please speak to Nancy Lee.
A good, downloadable description of how the Episcopal Church views Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation can be found here . More details to follow soon.
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With 2012 around the corner, there has been media attention about the end of the world. Before that, you've probably seen at least one movie about "the end of it all" -- whether its due to cosmic divine intervention or a more ordinary stray asteroid.
The Advent and Christmas seasons that we will immerse ourselves in during the next several weeks are about the expectation and arrival of Jesus the first time. Yet many of the biblical readings we hear especially in the Season of Advent also are about the return of Jesus in the future, if not the end of time.
 The Gospel according to Mark is thought to be the oldest of the four Gospel accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus. But Mark doesn't talk about the birth of Jesus at all, like the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Instead he raises for us some provocative questions about the return of Jesus in the future.
• So what did the earliest followers of Jesus believe about the return of Jesus?
• And how does Mark treat the topic in his gospel?
• Does this apply to our lives and spirituality, anyway, as Christians living in the 21st century?
Please join St. Thomas's seminarian Becky Zartman from Virginia Theological Seminary and her lay committee from our parish in a four-part Advent adult education series, to be held after the 11:00 service on November 27th and December 4th, 11th, and 18th.
The discussion will be about an hour, and light refreshments will be served.
Please join us in learning and discussion as we wait and prepare during the season of Advent.
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REGISTER ONLINE for St. Thomas' Parish Fall Retreat
Join us in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley on November 4-6 as we make space for reflection, silence, and community.
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DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 19
TIME: 7:00 P.M.
PLACE: GUILD ROOM, ST. THOMAS' PARISH
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR: DAVID KUCHARSKI
Attention gay men: Whether you're single or already in a relationship, do you struggle to balance your romantic and sexual needs with your calling to live Christian principles?
Plan to attend the workshop "Christian Relationships for Gay Men" at St. Thomas at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 19th, in the Guild Room (first floor meeting room).
Facilitated by Dave Kucharski, a St. Thomas parishioner who's a former theology student and a licensed psychotherapist for individuals and couples, the workshop will help you discover how to be the boyfriend/partner/husband God wants you to be.
For more information and to RSVP if you plan to attend (we'd like to have a head count), contact Dave at davidkucharski@rcn.com
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Would you like to know more about St. Thomas’? Interested in confirmation or reception into the Episcopal Church? If you are considering a deeper relationship with St. Thomas’ through confirmation, transfer of church membership, or reception into the Episcopal Church, we want to hear from you! The adult classes usually take place in the fall, but if you are interested in being confirmed or being received into the Episcopal Church, please speak to or email our rector, the Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose . If you are interested, or would like more information about the classes, please e-mail Tim Johnson. |
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Souper Bowl Sunday
Feb 5 – Football & Food . . . and Madonna! HELP TACKLE HUNGER Join us on Sun, Feb. 5, after our weekly Taizé Service (~6PM), for the heavenliest Super Bowl party around. Of course there’s football on the big screen in the Guild Room. Also, in coordination with Souper Bowl of Caring, we are [...]
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How can I keep from singing?
I live a fortunate, indeed by most of the world’s standards a privileged, life. Yet few days are just “eazy peazy” – many are a challenge for me like lots of people, even if for different reasons. Today has been on of my most challenging in a while; don’t ask me why … I told [...]
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Caging the Tiger
Violence comes in many forms. Bombs. Guns. Fists. As well as words, gestures, posturing. Bullying-behavior rarely resorts to the former; but bullies are masters-of-manipulation with the latter. We live in the middle of what Ryan Halligan, a staff writer for the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, has described as “An Epidemic of Bullying,” verging on a [...]
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