Each
Sunday at
9:00 AM we begin our worship service, a celebration
of the Eucharist.
Communion, open to
every baptized
Christian regardless of church affiliation,
is offered every Sunday.
Singing by the
congregation features piano
accompaniment, with jazz
clarinet,
saxophone or flute. Sometimes there
is
organ as well. Other musicians are
always
welcome.
Hymns are
selected from both The
Hymnal
1982 and from Lift Every
Voice and Sing
II.
To get a sense of
our order of worship, here are
some samples from
the Program of our Sunday
Service:
* One Sunday during Lent, click
here
* Palm Sunday, click here
* Our
Homecoming Sunday, click here
St. Augustine's has a Sunday Religious
Education curriculum for our pre-school,
elementary and
middle-school students.
For
adults, a Bible Study
class meets
every week.
On most Sundays people stay after
service for
the easy fellowship at a full
breakfast, prepared
in our church kitchen. It's
free for our first-time
visitors
To read our pastor's
sermon:
*
at Homecoming, click
here.
*
at a Lenten service, click
here.
Our
Church's Outreach
Projects
 For over 8
years Your Place has been a major outreach project
of
St. Augustine's. It is the first major social
service ministry
in this diocese since Resurrection
House.
Your Place is a Day Shelter for young
adults ages 14 to 24. It's a place of hope and life:
a location for the development of personal, leadership
and employment skills. It's a "3/4 House" -- a place to
help young people ease back into the
community.
Britt
House Not far from St. Augustine's
is a facility for young men who are paying
their debt to society. Members of our church have been
ministering to these youths every Wednesday for
over nine years. Scheduled study sessions,
counseling and mentoring have brought some extraordinary
turnarounds with this outreach. Occasionally some of the young
men attend our
Sunday service.
Some Annual Church
Events:
Men's Prayer
Breakfast. Our Men's Brotherhood -- the
longest-running Men's
Club in this diocese -- all
sell tickets to an even heartier breakfast than usual.
That day's service begins earlier (8:00
AM) and features a community leader
as guest
speaker. Usually in early December.
Mass at the
Beach. Come summertime we all trundle out to
Fort DeSoto ("one
of the best beaches in America"), set up
in a pavilion and worship there. We
bring lots of
friends, eat heartily, play games and celebrate
life.
The Tasters' Luncheon.
This is a fine old tradition here that draws out the
best recipes in the congregation. We sell tickets to friends
from all over the area and
they each get tastes of an
enormous variety of specialty dishes, salads and desserts.
ECW Service
Auction. Yes, we really do auction off people's
skills -- from house cleaning assistance to a Creole Banquet
... all kinds of instructional help from computers to
making Jamaican ginger beer ... house painting, yard work and
quilting classes.
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