Hello – This Sunday is Palm Sunday, and the most important week of the year begins. Here’s the quick run down. • Palm Sunday. March 20. Services at 8am and 10am. It includes blessing of the palms, the reading of the passion narrative and leaving the church is silence. We remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into…
Creative youth from our local High School were searching for a suitably old and beautiful church to film their tale of Anne Hutchinson and found St. Paul’s. Watch this short and beautiful film about religious freedom, with a climactic scene right at our altar.
Your Unique Call Hello – God has given each of us gifts. We become most ourselves and most fully alive when we use them for God’s glory. What are your gifts? How are you using them for God’s glory? I believe modern life breaks us into segments but Christian call makes us whole. For the…
Hello – Those of you who have been to the two previous workshops know that these are warm and yet powerful times of connection and learning. If you are not yet in a group, this is the perfect way to find out more, not just from me, but from others who are following this way…
Dear Friend, This promises to be a very rich and exciting Holy Week at St. Paul’s. There is a lot of energy and excitement in our community right now as we commit ourselves to follow Jesus together in the practices of worship, prayer, and service. I feel certain that God will bless us in some…
Hello – This Sunday the Martin family will host one of our two bi-annual Open Houses. All are welcome, of all ages, to come to our home in San Anselmo from 4pm to 6pm this Sunday. Email me for the address if you don’t already have it. And yes, we will have our TV on…
Hello – After a very busy and productive start to the new year, we now hit something like our ordinary rhythm for the next few weeks. Our biggest event this week is hosting our Bishop, Bishop Marc, this Sunday afternoon for a a regional ‘thank you’ event to thank all who have remembered their parish…
Hello – Here are three things I’d love for you to know: 1. This Sunday, after the 10am service, Jay Luther will be giving his inimitable tour of the inside of our church with all of its rich, quirky and sometimes deeply moving stories. Over the years, this tour has become something like an entrance…
Hello – Tomorrow marks the beginning of the penitential season of Lent, a season where we prepare our hearts to receive with joy the remembrance of the mighty acts by which we were saved in Holy Week. Come to St. Paul’s and receive the imposition of ashes on your forehead with the words ‘remember you…
The Restoration Project The Rev. Christopher H. Martin January, 2016 If you were to visit my parish of St. Paul’s, San Rafael, California, I believe you would find it familiar. We are a pastoral size parish with just under a hundred people on most Sundays. The sanctuary is in the carpenter gothic style, from 1869,…