Summer Sunday School:
Studying Saul

This summer our Sunday School will follow the many adventures of St. Paul spreading the “Good News” about Jesus Christ.  We will join Paul on his visits to the early churches, share his observations about how these Christians lived and how they should behave.  We will look at the letters or “epistles” to these churches that we still read today.  We will play games, cook, and make projects to help us understand these lessons.

June 24       Conversion of Saul (it was more than changing his initials!)

July 1         Family Service and
Fourth of July Parade Float activities

July 8         Paul Escapes.

July 15       Jailed!!

July 22       Shipwrecked!!

July 29       Paul writes about God’s Gift to us.

August 5     Family Outdoor Service on the lawn,
followed by potluck BBQ.

August 12   Paul says not to worry about anything.

August 19   Paul writes about the fruit of the spirit
(we will be preparing refreshments).

August 26   Paul writes to tell us to have confidence.

Sept. 2        Labor Day weekend,
review Paul’s ministry.

Floating A New Idea

St. Philip’s would like to enter a float in the July 4th Parade down Scotts Valley Drive on Wednesday, July 4th. Our idea was to decorate a pick-up truck to look like an ark, and then let the kids ride in the back dressed as animals. They can blow bubbles and wave at the spectators. We’ll need help from parents to make this a really fun event for them.

Sheryl McEwan has graciously offered to drive her truck and let us decorate it. I expect to have an adult or 2 in the truck bed with the kids, and parents will be welcome to walk alongside it too. Let us know if you’ll be able to participate!

             Carter, Julie and Vicky

But Did He Get
Writer’s Cramp?

Fourteen epistles are attributed to Paul.  Since there are twenty-seven books in the New Testament, that means that over half of them were written by this one prolific person!  Paul’s fourteen:

· Epistle to the Romans.

· First Epistle to the Corinthians.

· Second Epistle to the Corinthians.

· Epistle to the Galatians.

· Epistle to the Ephesians.

· Epistle to the Philippians.

· Epistle to the Colossians.

· First Epistle to the Thessalonians.

· Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.

· First Epistle to Timothy.

· Second Epistle to Timothy.

· Epistle to Titus.

· Epistle to Philemon.

· Epistle to the Hebrews.

Paul At His Best:
1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.