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Showers of Blessings recently celebrated its FIRST ANNIVERSARY!!! One beautiful year of offering Showers, haircuts, breakfasts, donated clothing, fellowship and sometimes music with our neighbors who live in Balboa Park. As we look forward to the coming years we are immensely proud of our work so far and we hope not only to keep it … READ MORE…
Help us celebrate Fair Trade and the anniversary of our designation as a Fair Trade Congregation on Sunday, May 8. Come to the forum at 9 a.m. for a special presentation about Fair Trade by Maria Arroyo. She has spent several months living with a Fair Trade coffee cooperative in Chiapas. You will be treated … READ MORE…
Water, water everywhere … Did you notice that water is a feature of three of our Scripture readings this morning? How fortuitous that we are celebrating Creation Care Sunday today with a special focus in our forum on oceans, and our lectionary hands us the opportunity to meditate in our worship on water. In the … READ MORE…
Marilyn Slater spreads the Good Word at Balboa Park’s EarthFair. Simpler Living demonstrated the impact of sea level rise on the San Diego Coastline. Dozens of children and their adults enjoyed interacting with the relief map and measuring cups of water which represented melting of icebergs as a result of excessive CO2. Visitors also added their prayers and wishes … READ MORE…
The SPC Outreach Team invites you to Support an Additional Tutoring Day for Refugee Children Provided by RefugeeNet at St. Mark’s in City Heights. The St. Paul’s Outreach Team will match all donations up to $750! What does it mean to be a “refugee” in this great lumpy, global melting pot? No house, no territory … READ MORE…
Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. Jesus’ love for his disciples includes everything from the most menial, earthy act of footwashing to the grandest self-sacrifice of laying down his life. So if we actually think about it, this is no quaint, small, sentimental thing he is … READ MORE…
From my usual vantage point standing in the back of the church, I often see Vicki welcoming a friend from the park or putting a comforting hand on someone’s back. I’ve run into her at the Del Mar Fair as she pushed a woman in a wheelchair. She miraculously appeared one day while on her … READ MORE…
One of our long time showers guests in his new donated jacket at Christmas What kind of shoes would you want to wear if you lived on the street night and day and had to walk long distances to get whatever you needed? What kind of pants and shirts would you choose to wear if … READ MORE…
Lots of our friends at St Paul’s are eager users of facebook. Unfortunately, there are a lot of eager Facebook users who are not our friends, and who want to scam or steal information. In this blog post, we’ll describe some basic steps to secure your information (and that of your friends) on facebook. Importantly, … READ MORE…
Last week, as you may know, I traveled to Pennsylvania to attend the annual conference of cathedral deans of North America in Erie, the seat of the diocese of North Western PA. On my way I stayed overnight with an old friend in Philadelphia. Clare is the priest who got me thinking, nearly 24 years … READ MORE…