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ASP Youth Mission Trip

St. Paul's adults and youth with tools on a newly rebuilt porch. Mission Trip 2013St. Paul’s High School Youth Group is planning its seventh mission trip with Appalachia Service Project in June 2023, to repair and renovate homes and trailers in places of rural poverty.

Our sixth trip, rescheduled from June 2020 to July 2021, took three vans and 19 people (seven adults, twelve youth) to Wise County, VA. In 2019 a small (two-van) group working at ASP’s year-round center in Guyan Valley. In 2018, we returned to Craigsville, WV, with our biggest group so far: four vans and 29 people. In 2016, we undertook our third trip, to Bland County, Virginia (seventeen youth, seven adults) following successful trips in 2013 to Logan County, WV (four youth, two adults) and 2015 to Craigsville, WV (eleven youth, four adults). Participants have learned how to build railings and ramps, repair and replace tin and mulehide roofs, and replace floors and wallboards, among many other skills. Along the way, tripgoers spend time socializing with the individuals and families whose homes they’re working on, meeting other volunteers from around the country, and experiencing a different way of life.

If you’d like to contribute funds to support our trip, you can donate online, or send a check payable to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, with “ASP donation” in the memo line. Thank you!

For more information about ASP, visit www.asphome.org.

Outreach

The Outreach Committee coordinates congregational activities such as regular mission trips and Bread for the World’s annual Offering of Letters. In addition, we participate locally in the Bedford Community Table and Food Pantry, the Diocese’s B-SAFE summer youth program, several knitting ministries (including Project Linus), and other local activities.

Worship & Music

Worship is the centerpiece of our life together in Christ. Our adult choir sings at every Sunday service. We rehearse at 7:00pm on Thursday evenings and 9:00am on Sunday mornings, before church. The children’s choir sings approximately once a month, on Family Sundays, and rehearses Sundays after church.

Education

At St. Paul’s we believe that we are all continually striving to understand our relationship with God more fully. Children’s education on Sundays uses the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for preschoolers and a Kairos model for elementary ages. High school and middle school youth groups meet monthly. Adult education takes place through study groups and learning forums.

Fellowship

St. Paul’s is a family of God, and as a family, we enjoy being together, sharing our time, our interests, and our faith. We share food and fellowship at weekly and annual events throughout the year. We also provide meals, rides, prayers, and other support for our members in times of need through our Inreach Committee.

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