An Episcopal Church in Magnolia Springs, Alabama

St. Paul’s annual United Thank Offering (UTO) Ingathering will be May 18. Before our Ingathering, please count your own offering from your UTO box, write a check for the equivalent amount made payable to St. Paul’s Chapel, marked UTO in the memo space. Place the check in a UTO offering envelope (found in your pews, the tract rack, and in the Parish Hall). The Episcopal Church and the UTO support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG.) These goals are concerted efforts to fight global abject poverty and disease, and all the ills that stem from them.

The May luncheon will be at Big Daddy’s on Fish River Thursday, May 22, at 1PM.  Please contact Dick Jeffers if you have questions or need a ride.

Our new, up to date, telephone directories are available. See Kathy or contact Donna in the Church Office. One directory per family, please. We’ve grown and there are lots of new people and new changes!

St. Paul’s Mother’s Day Brunch is set for May 10 - be sure to sign the sheet on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY! Planned is a delectable brunch with women’s fashions of the past fifty years on display. Don’t miss it! Any woman, whether a mother or not, is invited to attend. Bring your friends! Sorry, gentlemen - you have your own luncheons!

St. Paul’s Annual United Thank Offering Ingathering (UTO) will be on May 18. This Sunday, please take a UTO Blue Box home to use for your UTO offerings throughout the year. An offering envelop will be provided at the time of the Ingathering.

According to the United Thank Offering Committee, the UTO Mission Statement is "to expand the circle of thankful people. To achieve this mission we encourage daily prayers, offerings, and awareness of the abundance of God’s blessings."

One example of what the offerings made by Episcopalians in the U.S. in 2007 funded: The Diocese of California, San Francisco General Hospital, for the Sojourn Chaplaincy. $9,069 to fund the development and 1st year of a training program in domestic violence diagnosis, referral, intervention, and prevention education for chaplains.

Please forward all bulletin announcements to Betsy by noon on Thursdays.

The Vestry will meet on April 28 - if you cannot attend, please call the Rector or Kathy, Clerk of the Vestry.

St. Paul’s celebrates Mother’s Day on Saturday, May 10—be sure to sign the sheet on the Parish Hall bulletin board. There will be a delectable brunch with women’s fashions of the past fifty years on display. Don’t miss it! Any woman, whether a mother or not, is invited to attend. Bring your friends! Sorry, gentlemen, but you have your own luncheons!