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Are you interested in learning more about the lectionary readings for this week's worship services? If so, click on the small picture below for all of the readings for the upcoming Sunday along with scripture backgrounds and reflections. The readings are updated weekly, so please check back often.
Preparing for Sunday

Weekly Services

Sunday:
8:00 AM  Holy Eucharist I
10:30 AM  Holy Eucharist II
5:30 PM  Inclusive Language Liturgy
 
Wednesday:
12:10 PM  Holy Eucharist I   

Monday through Friday:
5:15 PM  Evening Prayer

Address / Telephone

276 South College Ave.
Newark, Delaware 19711-5235

Phone: 302-368-4644
Fax: 302-366-0272 

Parish Photos

Groovin' in The Grove Photos
 
July 10th
"A String and a Prayer" - A Bluegrass Jam
 
July 17th
"Proximity Effect" - A Night of Rock & Roll
Photos of the Evening
 
July 24th
"David Stein" - Indie/Rock
Photos of the Evening
 

Emmaus House

Donations Needed

Dear Fellow Parishioners,
 
Emmaus House needs paper dinner napkins, paper towels, bath tissue, and facial tissue.Your donations are always greatly appreciated and may be left in or on the container in the Great Hall. Thank you for your generosity! All donations may be placed in the blue container in the Great Hall.  On behalf of the residents and staff, thank you!

Karen Krauss

 

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Coming Events

Adults with ADD/ADHD Support Group
September 09, 2010 (7:00 pm)
Meets in the Classroom off the Great Hall
Adult Choir Rehearsal
September 09, 2010 (7:30 pm)
Meets in the Music Room
Bluegrass/Open Jam Group
September 09, 2010 (7:30 pm)
will meet in the Undercroft. Interested musicians are welcome to attend!
Inquirers' Class
September 11, 2010 (9:00 am)
Delaware 12-Step Meditation and Recovery
September 11, 2010 (7:30 pm)
Meets in the Undercroft
Holy Eucharist I
September 12, 2010 (8:00 am)
Children's Sunday School
September 12, 2010 (9:30 am)
Godly Play
The Creche (Child Cate to age 3)
September 12, 2010 (9:30 am)
Will be in the Pre-School building behind the church
Adult Christian Education
September 12, 2010 (9:45 am)
Will meet in the Parlor
Toddler Fold
September 12, 2010 (10:15 am)
Holy Eucharist II
September 12, 2010 (10:30 am)
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Welcome to St. Thomas's Parish!

Though the comforts of a church building are important, it is the people coming together within its walls who define the parish. St. Thomas affords all hearts & minds a safe and loving home in which all may explore their relationship with God and this beautiful world.

      … love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your soul…

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Weekly Rumination PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Rev. Paul Gennett Jr.   
Thursday, 19 August 2010
THE SEASON OF PENTECOST
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BACK TO OUR FUTURE!

Fr. PaulThe past week I have been reading about the ministry of Ezra and  Nehemiah through my daily One Year Bible Online reading. Rising from 40 years of exile in Babylon in 537 B.C., Ezra led a remnant of the Hebrew people, now freed by King Cyrus of Persia, back to the promised and and the Holy City Jerusalem. They returned to a city in ruin, the Temple built by Solomon laid to waste, and a disheartened and hopeless people.

Ezra was the priest, and his work began rebuilding the spiritual life and worship of God’s people once again. Returning with Temple artifacts for worship, he started where they were  and with what they found, rebuilt the place and practices of worship, and returned to the life of prayer with hope, reverence, and joy. Nehemiah was the architect and builder. Using his talent for organizing the gifts and talents of others, he put the people to work rebuilding the walls and the temple, preparing and serving food for the workers, and assigning security to protect them from the surrounding cultures whose vision was not for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Ezra the priest … Nehemiah the architect and organizer … both giving of their talent to God’s glory and the people with whom they served.

This same formula for God’s kingdom building through St. Thomas’s goes on this very day. We continue in our mutual ministry to build and rebuild our spiritual life in worship and through ministry with different people and resources than in the past. Changes in the levels of giving in time, talent, and treasure during these challenging economic times and work environment invite us to continue in our ministry, yet in different ways, walking as yet by faith in God’s leading presence. Likewise, we follow the path of rebuilding the physical parts of our worshiping community.  During 2009, a group of our parish family took on the task of initiating a strategic planning process. This group looked back over the rich 168 year history of St. Thomas’s, and in particular the 50+ years in our current home of worship, to frame what has happened over this journey of faith to where we are now. They made their report and recommendations earlier this year that is the framework for the current strategic planning ministry team, lovingly known as SP2. This group of faithful people share their time and talent, gathered by Senior Warden Debbie Supplee, to move toward this future through defining the vision and mission of St. Thomas’s, considering, dreaming, and conversing of ministries to serve God, our parish family, and our community in the near and longer term, and  defining the available and needed resources of time, talent, and treasure to move forward in this future, with God’s help always.

Like Ezra and Nehemiah, we are ALL called to build the spiritual and temporal life of St. Thomas’s parish together – brick by brick … prayer by prayer … day by day … with God’s help. I am deeply grateful to SP1 in laying the foundations that SP2 now builds upon, and the enthusiastic sharing of talents by each and every servant of God. Please keep them in your prayers … join the group to share in the common work and mission … and may we soon be replicating the celebration led by Ezra and Nehemiah of the new Jerusalem ... “With praise and thanksgiving the people sang to the Lord, ’God is good; God’s love to Israel endures forever.’ And all the people gave a great should of praise to the Lord, for the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.” Ezra 3:11

In peace always, your servant in Christ,
Paul+
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