For more details, contact Rev. Karyn Richards-Kuan via krichards-kuan@stpaulshouston.org.

Social Emotional Development and Your Child
A St. Paul’s School Parent Education Event

Emma Wilking and Diana Dang will discuss the six basic functional emotional developmental levels based on the Developmental, Individual Differences, and Relationship-based Model (DIR).

Wilking and Dang are pediatric occupational therapists who opened Foundations Pediatric Therapy to offer integrated and holistic care for children and their families. They believe in building meaningful relationships to support social emotional development, facilitate sensory integration, improve gross and fine motor coordination, and decrease anxiety. Foundations Pediatric Therapy serves children with sensory processing disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD/ADD, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, genetic disorders, emotional/behavioral challenges, learning disorders, and developmental delays. 

Cost: free; Parent Education Events are open to everyone. 

The book for discussion April 16 is The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner.

Chapter One Book Group is open to anyone who enjoys reading and discussing a wide variety of books. The group meets the third Tuesday of the month at 7 pm in J-203 (previously in J-202).

To be added to the email list for group notifications, please contact Linda Harmes at hblinda@hibit.com.

Our popular Friday-night program for children 4 months to 5th grade includes a full schedule of games, crafts, play, snacks and supervised activities from 6 to 10:30 pm while parents enjoy an evening on their own. The cost is $25/child/night ($5/each additional sibling).  A light supper is served around 6:30. During December, this activity becomes Kids Day Out.

Kids Night/Day Out is available for families of St. Paul’s Church and School. Reservations, which are required due to limited space and staff, are accepted for each date up to two weeks in advance.

Please use this secure link to register and pay. For questions or special needs, please contact Ellen Edwards via eedwards@stpaulshouston.org.

2019 LENTEN RECITAL SERIES

Sponsored by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society | Free admission | Sanctuary

Thursday, April 11, at 7 pm
Jeremy Filsell, piano & Erik Suter, organ
*Note: this is an evening performance.
Internationally renowned performers, Jeremy Filsell and Erik Suter, present a varied program, including Franz Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on BACH, Earl Wild’s Etudes on themes by George Gershwin, and Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a theme of Paganini, arranged for piano and organ.

Lunch and children's programming will be provided. For more details or to RSVP, contact Rev. Karyn Richards-Kuan via krichards-kuan@stpaulshouston.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 | 10 AM–NOON
Fondren Hall at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church (5501 Main Street, 77004)
Cost: Free; refreshments provided

We dream of a day when no one encounters housing insecurity or experiences homelessness. But how do we respond to the homelessness that we and those in our community experience today? Listen to and engage with a panel of faith and community leaders to kindle reflection and interaction with faithful responses to homelessness in our city.

Presentation by:

• Thao Costis, President and CEO of SEARCH Homeless Services

Panel participants:

• Robert Williamson, Lead Pastor of Mercy Community Church

• Martha Macris, President and CEO of Memorial Assistance Ministries

• Lisa Levy, Spiritual Support Coordinator of SEARCH

For more details, contact Rev. Karyn Richards-Kuan via krichards-kuan@stpaulshouston.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 | 6:30 PM
Wesley Hall at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church (12955 Memorial Drive)
Cost: $15 for entry and meal; books available for purchase

Dr. Robert Williamson teaches Religious Studies at Hendrix College in Conway, AR and is founding pastor of Mercy Community Church in Little Rock, AR.

In his new book, The Forgotten Books of the Bible, Dr. Williamson guides readers to see how the Five Scrolls of the Old Testament (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther) deserve more attention in the life of the church and how neglecting them prevents us from having relevant conversations about sexuality, grief, existential despair, ethnic identity, and power. With scholarly wisdom and a quick wit, Williamson skillfully guides readers as they rediscover the relevance for the Five Scrolls today.

Dr. Williamson will be with us to discuss his new book, answer questions about his scholarly work, and share dinner with us.

2019 LENTEN RECITAL SERIES

Sponsored by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society | Free admission | Sanctuary

Thursday, April 4, at 12:15 pm
Robert Walzel, clarinet
Robert Walzel plays Gerald Finzi’s Five Bagatelles, and compositions for clarinet by four Houston musicians: James Scott Balantine, Michael Horvit, Robert Nelson, and David Ashley White.

Sunday, March 31, at 4 pm in the Sanctuary
Choral Evensong for the Season of Lent
Sung by St. Paul's Treble Choir and St. Paul's Choral Scholars

• Agnus Dei - Lang

• Responses - Tallis

• Psalm 46 - Luther

• Magnificat and Nunc dimmitis (Short Service) - Gibbons

• Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies Sake - Tye

2019 LENTEN RECITAL SERIES

Sponsored by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society | Free admission | Sanctuary

Thursday, March 28, at 12:15 pm
St. Paul’s Chamber Choir
Music for Lent and Holy Week - Thomas Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah and anthems by William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Anton Bruckner and Pablo Casals.

More details and sign up: www.stpaulshouston.org/border

Spring Picnic & Playtime for Families with Babies, Toddlers, and Two’s 
Sunday, March 24 • 12:15–2 pm 

Enjoy a picnic lunch, play on St. Paul’s playground, and make new friends in your church family! Older siblings and extended family members are welcome. A picnic lunch will be provided, but of course you may bring food for your own child. 

Mark your calendar for the annual Easter Egg Hunt for infants through Kindergarten. It’s Saturday, April 20, at 10 am on the playground. 

For information about nursery care and ministries especially for young children, contact Ellen Edwards, Director of Children’s Ministries, via eedwards@stpaulshouston.org or 713-528-0527. 

Conspire co-facilitated by Brooke Summers-Perry and Lindsay Espejel
Sundays, March 10–April 21, 11:05 am-noon
J-203 (Jones Building, 2nd floor)

Inhale and engage spiritual practice as a breath of fresh air on the journey. Conspire provides an alternative to a world characterized by overwhelming speed, frantic lives, and failures to connect with others, ourselves, and the Holy. Conspire is designed to create places of community, belonging, spiritual formation, and compassion in action.

Fore more details, contact Brooke Summers-Perry via: brooke@summers-perry.com

Sign up for more details: www.stpaulshouston.org/gatherings

The East End Missional Community currently participates in community organizing around two key concerns: housing affordability and food insecurity.

With our partners in the East End, we have created a garden collaborative that connects all the community gardens throughout the area. We are also establishing garden clubs at each local elementary, middle, and high school.

These community gardens not only produce fruits and vegetables that can supplement the diets of our neighbors, they also give students and neighbors places of pride in their community. 

So far, we have had tremendous support from students, parents, teachers, and community members who want to start gardening or are expert gardeners. Come join us!

Rev. Paul Richards-Kuan invites members and friends in the St. Paul's community to come volunteer on Saturday, March 23, 9 am–1 pm, at Navarro Middle School (5100 Polk Houston, TX 77023). “This would be an excellent way get to know some East End neighbors, see some of the East End, and get your hands dirty in service to God,” he says.

For more details or to be added to a list of future community garden volunteering opportunities, email prichards-kuan@stpaulshouston.org or call 713-528-0527.

Under the direction of Dr. Gary Seighman, the Trinity University Chamber Singers are comprised of 48 undergraduate musicians committed to choral artistry of the highest quality. They will be joined in their concert program at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston on Friday, March 22, at 7 pm, by St. Paul’s Choral Scholars. This performance is free and open to the public.

In 2017, Trinity University Chamber Singers were one of only 12 choirs in the country selected to perform for the National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference in Baton Rouge, LA. They are also regularly invited to perform for the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Convention. The Chamber Singers enjoy touring nationally, throughout the region, and abroad. They recently served as ensemble-in-residence for the 2018 Eisenstadt Classical Music Festival in Austria where they performed Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major. In Spring of 2020, they will be traveling to New York City where they have been invited as the featured ensemble for a program at Carnegie Hall. There they will perform a major work with the New York Chamber Orchestra and also give a spotlight a cappella program of their own on the main stage.  

The Chamber Singers are frequent collaborators with the San Antonio Symphony, having recently performed Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe, and works by Verdi, Berlioz, and Brahms. As advocates for new music, the Chamber Singers have introduced many new works to the choral repertoire including joint premieres with Grammy-nominated New York Polyphony and the renowned Minneapolis-based ensemble, Cantus.  They premiered a composition at the 2017 College Music Society National Convention based on astronomical data from the NASA Kepler Mission and traditional melodies of the Coahuiltecan people indigenous to South Texas. In 2018, they enjoyed a collaboration with Chanticleer and renowned composer Dan Forrest.

Other recent projects include a Spanish Baroque program with the Walden Chamber Players of Boston, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with period instruments, Tomás Luis de Victoria’s 12-voice Missa “Laetatus sum” in Washington, DC, Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning in Dallas, and the nationally-touring Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess multimedia concert at the Majestic Theatre.

Our popular Friday-night program for children 4 months to 5th grade includes a full schedule of games, crafts, play, snacks and supervised activities from 6 to 10:30 pm while parents enjoy an evening on their own. The cost is $25/child/night ($5/each additional sibling).  A light supper is served around 6:30. During December, this activity becomes Kids Day Out.

Kids Night/Day Out is available for families of St. Paul’s Church and School. Reservations, which are required due to limited space and staff, are accepted for each date up to two weeks in advance.

Please use this secure link to register and pay. For questions or special needs, please contact Ellen Edwards via eedwards@stpaulshouston.org.

Iconoclast Sessions

Iconoclast Sessions are free performance gatherings that pair academic poets with spoken word poets. In addition to introducing Iconoclast students to a wide variety of literary expressions, these sessions create a context where communities that would not otherwise meet can begin to build friendships. Learn more about the upcoming featured poets in Houston and Galveston locations: www.iconoclastartists.org.

Houston session Thursday, March 21 ■ 7 pm
St. Paul’s UMC: Fondren Hall
Special guests: Cristina Martinez, community poet + Joseph Machado, academic poet

Sign up for more details: www.stpaulshouston.org/gatherings

2019 LENTEN RECITAL SERIES

Sponsored by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society | Free admission | Sanctuary

Thursday, March 21, at 12:15 pm
Ben Kerswell & Collin Boothby, organ

Featuring the talent of two organists on St. Paul's grand Schantz organ:
- Ben Kerswell, Organ Scholar at St. Paul's UMC
- Collin Boothby, Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church*

Program:
Toccata - Gigout
Trio Sonata No. 5, BWV 529: - Bach
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Prière, Op. 37 - Joseph Jongen
Fugue in E Minor “Wedge”, BWV 548 - Bach
Introduction & Passacaglia in D Minor, WoO 4, No. 6 - Reger 

*Special thanks to Collin Boothby for substituting for Christopher Betts who was originally scheduled to perform this recital but is recuperating from a foot injury.

[ Postponed one week from original start date of March 13 ]

RSVP online: www.stpaulshouston.org/gatherings

Build a trusting relationship and share on Sunday mornings the spiritual life of a child with special needs through individually designed activities. One hour on Sunday mornings can make a world of difference in the life of a child. No prior experience required; training and background checks are provided. 

To learn more about this opportunity, attend an informational luncheon on Sunday, March 17, at 12:15 pm, in Fondren Lounge. Led by Helen Spaw, MPS, lunch and childcare will be provided with RSVP via hspaw@stpaulshouston.org. 

For more details, contact Rev. Andrew Wolfe via awolfe@stpaulshouston.org or 713-528-0527.

2019 LENTEN RECITAL SERIES

Sponsored by the St. Paul’s Chamber Music Society | Free admission | Sanctuary

Thursday, March 14, at 12:15 pm
Studio Artists from Houston Grand Opera
HGO Artists Blair Salter, Yelena Dyachek, Lindsay Kate Brown, and Kyle Naig perform art songs, and music from Norma and Madame Butterfly.

St. Paul’s Primetimers is an activity-based group for senior adults who are interested in lifelong learning. Programs are presented on cultural, historical, social issues, and local topics of interest, featuring noted experts in these areas.

This Thursday’s gathering begins in Fondren Hall at 10 am with light refreshments, and the program begins at 10:30 am. (The group is meeting earlier than usual to allow time for folks to listen to the Lenten Recital Series performance in the Sanctuary at 12:15 pm..

Free of charge, and anyone is welcome to attend, regardless of church membership or age. Lunch ($10) is served to those who have made a reservation within two weekdays prior to the meeting to Nina Hall via 713-528-0527 x113 or nina@stpaulshouston.org.

Space on the Labyrinth on Wednesday, March 13, at 6:15 pm, will be dedicated to a service of prayer. We will gather as a community to worship and pray with our LGBTQ members and friends.

In case of thunderstorms, we will move indoors to the Sanctuary.

For more details, contact Rev. Karyn Richards-Kuan via krichards-kuan@stpaulshouston.org.