About our Church
St. Teresa is a Christ-centered Episcopal Church of the World-wide Anglican Communion. That means that on Sundays you will hear a lot about Jesus and about the Bible. Every week you will find Bible studies, weekday worship services, and education programs for all ages, all designed to help you get to know God through a relationship with his Son Jesus Christ. At St. Teresa, you will find smiling faces and friendly people, engaging and exciting sermons (well, pretty good sermons, sometimes), joyful worship, practical teaching, humans of all ages, and a great deal of fun. You will find it easy to participate in any and all of the many activities and programs at St. Teresa, but you are totally free to be as involved or as laid-back as you wish. God loves you and He created you for a purpose. Find it and live it at St. Teresa!
ST. TERESA CHURCH
850/926-4288
st-teresa@nettally.com
Exhortation
We close most services with an exhortation of St. Teresa's. May these be our parting words to you today:
"Let nothing disturb you, nothing dismay you. All things pass. God never changes. Patience attains all things that it strives for. He who has God finds he lacks nothing. God alone suffices."
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OUR LIFE TOGETHER THIS WEEK
THIS WEEK...
W WEDNESDAY WISDOM continues.
Supper (prepared by our master chefs Esther & Mike) is at
Adult classes this week:
& WOW wait till you get there
tomorrow….
The-someday-probably-Rev-Dr. Dennis Morreau,
noted master of the NASB, baseball arcanery, will
lead the first session of the Kerygma study of the New
Testament.
And the BIBLE STUDY: Sapphira in the Women of the New Testament
W THURSDAY BIBLE STUDY – is not meeting this week
W SUNDAY ADULT EDUCATION
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W The GAFCON (Global
Anglican Futures Conference) is in full sway in
Here are just a few juicy quotes from Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, of the Diocese of Rochester in the
“the future of the Anglican Communion is
to be found in its authentic nature, not in recent innovations or
explanations.”
That nature, he said, is submitted to the authority of scripture,
confessing, and governed by councils with the ability and authority to lead the
church and teach the Christian faith.
No church, said Bishop Nazir-Ali, can have
any other basis of authority than scripture. “The Bible is the norm by
which we appreciate what is authentically apostolic. That is the reason for the
Bible being the ultimate and final authority for us in our faith and our lives
and this is the reason why Anglicans have taken our study of the Bible so
seriously.”
Authentic Anglicanism is also a confessing church, said bishop Nazir-Ali. From the very beginning, being Anglican has meant
confessing the faith that Christians have held always, everywhere and by all.
“We have to be clear that we are a confessing church. Some people have
the mistaken idea that Anglicans can believe anything, or that Anglicans can
believe nothing. I don’t know which one is more serious,” said
Bishop Nazir-Ali.
W The St. Teresa PRISON
MINISTRY needs YOU! As
you know, our primary ministry of outreach and service is with the inmates at
Wakulla Correctional and Work Camp. Currently, in addition to the Rev Mssrs. Defoor, Huguenin and Spicer, Suzanne Beauregard mentors
every month, Loraine Sundberg and Esther Ellis volunteer
in the literacy program, and in the past, different members of St. Teresa have
helped out with the WCI Chapel Episcopal Sunday service. We are praying
and working to expand our number of volunteers.
And there are opportunities for ministry OUTSIDE the institution itself. We
understand that not everyone is comfortable actually going through the gates.
But inmates deeply appreciate letters. And there are several administrative
tasks we could use some help with.
Please keep this in your thoughts and prayers. If you'd like to come along
someday, please let me know, and we'll get your clearance. If you have
questions and/or suggestions, they would be most welcome.
W RECORDED SERMONS are
available. Contact Lynn Gorham by phone or e-mail. 926-2209 lgorhamcfl@comcast.net
IN OUR PRAYERS.....Donna
Pope, Crystal Crawford, Jim Childs, Gary Nichols, Mike Ellis, Sue Morris, Rory
Colvin, Larry Hayes, Harry Posey, Loree Bland, Bessie
Green, Mary Wilson, Evelyn Ward, Richard Unson, Guffy and Martha Wardlaw, the
Devlin family, Jane Pecheukonis, Herman Mathers, Judy, and Matthew; and for Lyle Morreau, Wesley Woods, and A.J. Scott, who are in service
in war zones.