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Holy Week Video

Holy Week Schedule

Bishop Jos Visit

Good Friday Offering

Easter Flower Donations

Easter Candy Offering

Visioning Recording + Update

Music Updates

Green Team Tip

Community Urgent Needs

CYF Key Dates

Rector's Discussion Group

Mid-Week Eucharist

Prayer List

Click Below for a Holy Week Message from the Rev. Kathleen Bean

Holy Week

In observance of Palm Sunday, there will be no coffee hour this week.

Maundy Thursday Agape* Meal and Holy Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar - Thursday, April 17 at 5:30 p.m.

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples,

 if you have love for one another.” John 13:35

The Thursday of Holy Week is a night we come together in community to commemorate and experience Jesus’ final teachings about love, as demonstrated in washing his disciples’ feet and in the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. 

This year, we will begin our Maundy Thursday service with a simple meal of soup and bread in The Parish Hall. Then, we will process upstairs for the Eucharist. Finally, we will strip the altar and enter into the darkness of Christ’s passion.

*Agape is a Greek word for love. Agape, as opposed to eros, characterizes love as an act of service and humility before others.

Good Friday, April 18

12:00 noon. At this traditional solemn service we hear the Passion story and venerate the cross.

5:30 p.m.  This is a new, contemplative offering of St. Thomas designed to engage the senses with a dramatic reading of the Stations of the Cross accompanied by thematic organ music.

Bishop Jos Visits on Easter Sunday

Bishop Jos Tharakan will be at St. Thomas on Easter Sunday to preach and lead us in worship.

For 103 years, Episcopalians have generously shared their love, compassion, and financial gifts to support the ministry of the Anglican Communion Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. These gifts have made an astounding difference in the lives of many people in the homeland of Jesus and beyond.

To learn more, visit: www.episcopalchurch.org/good-friday-offering

Easter Flowers

If you would like to make a donation, either in thanksgiving or memory of someone, please click here! Please submit your donation before April 15 to ensure it makes it in the bulletin.

Easter Candy

We are collecting Easter candy for the

children & youth of St. Thomas.



If you are interested in contributing to our Easter Celebration, please drop off at the St. Thomas Office in our baskets.

(Please no nuts!)

Visioning Presentation Recording

VISIONING COMMITTEE UPDATE

April 2025

As Graham/Baba Architects progress in their design work, the Visioning Committee is preparing for its next phase – a Capital Campaign.   After interviewing three firms, the Committee received approval from the Vestry to retain the services of Campbell & Company, a Seattle based Consulting firm, to assist the  Committee in setting strategy and refining communications. Campbell & Company know our valley well as they were involved with the Community Library Capital Campaign and are currently working with St Luke’s Wood River on their campaign. Preliminary work with Campbell begins this month.

We have also, with Vestry approval, contracted services for 6 months with Giving Insight,  a company specializing in data management. In order to run an effective campaign, we need to have current and accurate contact information. St Thomas desperately needs to update and coordinate its various data systems and consolidate them in one place.  Giving Insight will work with us to accomplish this as well as to develop report writing capability.  In addition to the Capital Campaign, this data integrity effort will help many aspects of St Thomas including Stewardship and St Thomas Playhouse. This work also begins this month.

As with the Graham/Baba contract, the cost of these contracts is being covered by donations and does not come out of the church budget.

Rebecca Waycott and Janet Schaumburg

Visioning Committee Co-Chairs

Music Updates

Joel Bejot

Thanks to all who came to Matei Varga's amazing piano concert last Sunday. I heard everything went very well. Also, a big thanks to the donors for the Music Fund, without which this concert would not be possible.

Thanks to Patrick Herb at WRHS for allowing St. Thomas to borrow their timpani. They add so much to our Palm Sunday and Easter services!

Green Team Tip

This year would be a good time to have your garden become

"Trout Friendly"!

This encourages water conservation, use of native planting, and

use of practices that reduce and improve the quality of runoff that affects our aquifer, Big Wood River and its tributaries.

Contact the Wood River Land Trust for more information.

Urgent Needs

For many years St. Thomas has made small grants to people in our community who find themselves in “urgent need,” whether for a utility or medical bill, a month’s rent, or a car repair. These requests come to us from St. Luke’s or the Advocates, which screens the recipients.

Payments are made directly to the utility, landlord or other creditor.

If you would like to make a gift to support this ministry, please write a check to St. Thomas and note “Community Urgent Needs” in the memo field. If you have any questions, please contact Stefanie in the church office.

Children Youth and Family Key Dates

Palm Sunday is Sunday, April 13. Kids love the procession to the church waving palms and shouting Hosannah! One of our high school seniors recently commented on how much she loves this ritual and remembers waving her palm from the time she could walk. Bring your kids for this beginning to Holy Week.

Easter is Sunday, April 20^th and our children and youth will help “flower the cross” at the 10:00 a.m. service.

Graduation celebration for our High School Seniors is on Sunday, May 4^th at the 9:30 service.

Rector's Discussion Group

The Rector’s Discussion Group continues this Winter with a study of Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians. In addition to establishing Paul’s theology of Christ’s grace, this Epistle asks its readers to consider what benefit Christ is to them (Gal 5:2). Has Christ’s grace changed the way we live? Or is life the same old, same old? Do we truly appreciate that in Christ “there is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer man and woman” (Gal 3:28)? Or do we see one another as the world would have us see each other?  Have our souls, our minds and our hearts been set free by the spirit, or are we still bound by what Paul calls the flesh?

This gathering facilitated by Jonah meets via zoom at 12pm on Wednesdays. Contact stefanie@stthomassv.org for the zoom link.

The schedule is as follows:

April 16 5:1-26:

Freedom and the Works of the Flesh and the Spirit

April 23 6:1-18:

Bearing Each Other’s Burdens and Final Words

Mid-Week Eucharist Reminder

Take a break in your busy week to enter the peace and quiet of our sanctuary for a brief Eucharist service. It's a chance to stop, breathe, and reflect, and go back to your day refreshed. Every Tuesday at noon.

Prayer List



Amanda, Loring, Tara, Bob, Tyler, Patrick, Terry, Lisa, Evelyn, Mike, Tayt, Cindy, Judy, Sam, Luella, Kris, Lois, Molly, Blake, Myrna, Mary, Sally, Reuben, Rachel, Jane Alexandra, Aimee, Amy, Gunner, Anne, Jane, Anne, Barbara, Alyson, Marilyn, Susan, Sarah, Lynda, River Thomas, Hollie, Calder, Hewitt, Margaret, Philip, Mike, Barry, Lindy, John, Genevieve Mae, Arthur, Page, Bill, Jane, Kathryn, Michael, Karen, Horace, Vincent, Dana, David, Richard, John, Red, Marty, Becca, Ashley, Kathleen, Robert, Gretchen, Fan, Teresa, Gunner, Carole, Scott, Janie,  Elizabeth, Melinda, Benjamin, Robin, Chuck, Bob, Carol, Susan, Greet, Alice and John, Jill, Steve, Cece, Judy, Sunday, Lisa, Margie, Darren, Austin, Kirky, Claudia, Leila, Kenny, Patty, Juli, Maria, Landon, John, George, and Ethan.