Hello – Sunday is the feast of Pentecost, when we remember the birth of the church in wind, flames and speaking in many tongues. It is also the first of our annual Pentapalooza celebrations. This summer marks the one year anniversary of St. Paul’s being on a Runway for Growth. Deliberately, strategically and with many…
Hello – Tomorrow night I invite you to use your imagination to learn to love your neighbor. In Duncan Hall and on Zoom, at 7pm, I offer a one hour class. The heart of the class will be two teachings. In the first, I offer a spectrum of ways we treat other people, from contempt…
Hello – Next Wednesday night and next Sunday morning mark two new beginnings at St. Paul’s. On Wednesday night, June 1st, I begin teaching how to love our neighbors through reading three chapters of a great novel. Together, we are going to humbly use our imaginations to picture ourselves in the midst of three extreme situations…
Hello – This Sunday, we celebrate those who have birthdays or anniversaries in the month of May. If that’s you or someone you love, please email me at cmartin@stpaulssanrafael.org and I’ll be sure and include you in the list of folks we pray for. Cara will be our preacher. Also, there are three important things in…
Hello – This Sunday is a celebration of flowers at St. Paul’s. This year, May 1st, which is an ancient day to celebrate Mary the mother of Jesus with flowers, falls on a Sunday. To celebrate that coincidence, we are doing two new and exciting things. • Our worship at 10am will begin with a song…
Hello – Tomorrow is Good Friday, one of the most important days of the Christian year. At noon we have an hour long service in the church that features the bringing in of the cross. After the service, we will set up Stations of the Cross in the courtyard and you are free to come…
Hello – A distinguishing mark of our St. Paul’s community is that we are a church OF small groups, not a church WITH small groups. Here are three weekly small groups where the door is open to you if you would like to grow in friendships and in Jesus. Thursday Night Bible Study on Zoom.…
Hello – This Sunday we will say a prayer for all who have birthdays or anniversaries in the month of March, like Chloe and Scott, so please email me if you’d like us to pray for you at cmartin@stpaulssanrafael.org. We are still exploring the possibility of going mask optional starting in April, with a mask-only…
Hello – This is the last call for the first round of Learn to Love. Together, we are learning to love God through rich and beautiful language with the help of Christian poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You can jump in now if you’d like by doing three things: 1. Send me an email at cmartin@stpaulssanrafael.org and…
Hello – Wednesday night I was joined by 20 people, about half in person and about half on Zoom, for my first class of Learn to Love in 2022. Thanks to Jacob, that first class was recorded in high quality and is now available on YouTube. Here it is on our St. Paul’s, San Rafael…