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Save the Date:
June 3 is Christopher Borges' last Sunday!
Our beloved choir director of the past 9 years (Grace and St. Paul’s), Christopher has been recruited to be the Choir Director at Graded School, the American School in Såo Paulo, Brazil. So he will be wrapping up his 18-year career at Bakersfield High School this month, and his last Sunday at St. Paul’s will be June 3. The choir is planning extra music to celebrate his music ministry and share our joy for singing on his last Sunday with us. Please plan to join us on June 3 to help us give Christopher a loving send-off—one that reflects our gratitude and appreciation for his tireless work directing the music at Grace/St. Paul’s. We have been so blessed to have had him sharing his musical talents with us for nearly a decade!
June 3 is Christopher Borges' last Sunday!
Our beloved choir director of the past 9 years (Grace and St. Paul’s), Christopher has been recruited to be the Choir Director at Graded School, the American School in Såo Paulo, Brazil. So he will be wrapping up his 18-year career at Bakersfield High School this month, and his last Sunday at St. Paul’s will be June 3. The choir is planning extra music to celebrate his music ministry and share our joy for singing on his last Sunday with us. Please plan to join us on June 3 to help us give Christopher a loving send-off—one that reflects our gratitude and appreciation for his tireless work directing the music at Grace/St. Paul’s. We have been so blessed to have had him sharing his musical talents with us for nearly a decade!
Bible Study at St. Paul’s
Hi Friends,
I invite you to Bible Study in my home on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m..
I will have childcare available with a donation cup to put whatever you can afford in to help with the cost. If you can’t afford to donate please do not let that keep you from coming and bringing your children. I also ask for the first few meetings you bring something for your child to do during the time or an activity and/or game that can be shared. Once I get an idea of how many kids will be coming and their ages, I will have things available to occupy them.
Please call or text me to let me know you are coming (661) 805-5127 so I make sure we have enough seats.
Thank you and I hope to see you on Wednesdays.
Elaine Berg
I invite you to Bible Study in my home on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m..
I will have childcare available with a donation cup to put whatever you can afford in to help with the cost. If you can’t afford to donate please do not let that keep you from coming and bringing your children. I also ask for the first few meetings you bring something for your child to do during the time or an activity and/or game that can be shared. Once I get an idea of how many kids will be coming and their ages, I will have things available to occupy them.
Please call or text me to let me know you are coming (661) 805-5127 so I make sure we have enough seats.
Thank you and I hope to see you on Wednesdays.
Elaine Berg
Pledge (Giving) Statements
We are switching our dissemination of quarterly and end-of-year pledge statements to email. To save postage, printing, and envelope costs, we would like to send as many as possible by email.
Diane has set up a simple Google form for this; it asks only for your name and email address and takes only a few seconds. Please sign up. Click here!
Diane has set up a simple Google form for this; it asks only for your name and email address and takes only a few seconds. Please sign up. Click here!
What St. Paul’s Means to Me!
If you would like to contribute, please write a brief narrative
of what St. Paul’s means to you and attach a photograph.
Email it to Elaine by clicking here!
Saint Paul’s has been the place my heart was longing to find. I have always been a person of strong faith and grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, but never really felt connected to the church as I don’t agree with a lot of their positions on certain matters. I have never been part of a church community and have never felt embraced by a church and I honestly never thought I would . . . .
After 5 years of marriage and struggles to conceive, God blessed me with my first born, my son Andres. He was born prematurely with a host of different health problems but my biggest heartache was when we found out that he was blind. God showed me his strength and my faith would get us through the trials coming ahead . . . . I realized that as he was getting older I needed to find a place that was accepting of “ALL” people, loving and embracing. We needed a Church Home.
I first learned about the Episcopal church through my husband’s family and loved that as it was different and more accepting of “ALL” people it still had the foundation of the Catholic church I grew up with. I finally made the decision to “check this place out” and I’m so grateful I did. I will always treasure that moment, the moment Armida greeted us with such a big smile and the moment Lori and Patty took Andres by the arm and had him join Sunday School with all the other children. The look on my son’s face was priceless. We were home! So I can say that no matter where life takes us, God has a way to bring you back home.
Thank you St. Paul’s!
Claudia Trejo
After 5 years of marriage and struggles to conceive, God blessed me with my first born, my son Andres. He was born prematurely with a host of different health problems but my biggest heartache was when we found out that he was blind. God showed me his strength and my faith would get us through the trials coming ahead . . . . I realized that as he was getting older I needed to find a place that was accepting of “ALL” people, loving and embracing. We needed a Church Home.
I first learned about the Episcopal church through my husband’s family and loved that as it was different and more accepting of “ALL” people it still had the foundation of the Catholic church I grew up with. I finally made the decision to “check this place out” and I’m so grateful I did. I will always treasure that moment, the moment Armida greeted us with such a big smile and the moment Lori and Patty took Andres by the arm and had him join Sunday School with all the other children. The look on my son’s face was priceless. We were home! So I can say that no matter where life takes us, God has a way to bring you back home.
Thank you St. Paul’s!
Claudia Trejo