Well, we have entered that Annual Madness called the Fireworks Fundraiser. St. Paul’s has sponsored and staffed a Fireworks booth for around thirty years. It has been a major fundraising source for the parish. At times, in the past, it kept the lights on. Thankfully, we can now use some of the money for outreach [...]
I really don’t know where the ideas for these came from. You might remember that Mother Delia used to do an Instructed Eucharist every year, and it is possible that her predecessors here at St. Paul’s did them also. If I remember, it was like going through a Eucharistic service with an instruction manual coordinated [...]
Yesterday, I was talking to some leaders from another church, and I said that St. Paul’s was being blessed by God. In the course of our conversation, one of them asked me, “What are you doing that makes this happen?” That is an interesting question, and a slightly embarrassing one. You see, I don’t know [...]
Just wanted to let you know that the Atrium and the Catechesis program will close for two months this summer, starting in July. We are going to do some expansion and remodeling of the Atrium during the summer break. During those two months, the children are invited to be in the playroom off the narthex [...]
This is the first post on the new church blog for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oroville, CA. I am excited!!! We are a congregation in the Diocese of Northern California, and have been in existence since 1950. We are a congregation in transition. That is why the ‘journey’ motif in the title of this [...]
