St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church

December 24, Christmas Eve  (5 PM & 9:30 PM)

Family Service (5 PM)

We will have an all-family service at 5 pm. We set up the Nativity Scene or Creche in the Church. All are invited to participate. We will sing carols which tell the story and which invite us to pray to the Lord Jesus. We then share the Holy Eucharist and sing “Silent Night” by candlelight.

Candlelight Service with Carols (9:30 PM)

9:30 PM: During the gathering of the congregation, the Choir leads us in Christmas hymns and music. 10 PM: The hymns and music of Christmas, Sermon, Prayers for the world, and Holy Eucharist. 

December 25, Christmas Morning  (9:30 AM)

A simple celebration of the Holy Eucharist, with carols sung around the Nativity Scene.

4 sessions ~ Sundays 12/2-12/23, after church

Journeying the Way of Love

Come “try on” the spiritual practices of the Presiding Bishop’s Way of Love. Everyone is welcome to any or all sessions! Find out more.

Greetings to all from your Bishop’s Committee!

We are delighted and excited to announce that we have a new Interim Vicar joining us on Sunday, September 9^th and for the near future.

Rev. Sabeth Fitzgibbons is very happy to agree to be our spiritual leader and shepherd as we continue on our journey to find our new vicar over the next several months.  She will encourage us when we become impatient, and she will reassure us as we move forward in our search.

Sabeth began as an English major at Seattle University.  She is wonderful at weaving engaging stories. She will get us to drop our guards and allow ourselves to walk with her through the scriptures.  We look forward to hearing her sermons, and to her leading us in our worship and prayers to our Lord.

Sabeth most recently served for 22 months as Interim Rector at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island.  She comes with a strong love of liturgy, the skills to guide us in building our community, and leadership as we look forward with hope and faith into the future that God has in mind for us.

Please join us in welcoming Sabeth into our midst as we celebrate the beginning of our next chapter as the family of St. Hilda St. Patrick!

In peace,

Michael Rader
Senior Warden

The Search Committee is working to apply the St. Hilda St. Patrick Profile to interested clergy members forwarded by the Diocese. At the end of the process, they will report one nominee for consideration by the Bishop’s Committee (congregation governing council). The BC will take it from there. All this will take some several months more. We are now in the second of the two stages of transition work: Searching for the clergy member to nominate.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that our Profile has been enthusiastically approved by Bishop Greg Rickel, and we have just posted links to it on our St. Hilda St. Patrick website Transition page.

I invite each of you to open it and read it. It is an amazing portrait of our church family. It represents months of hard work and dedication by our Profile Committee – and great participation by the members of SHSP in both small groups and in the CAT survey.

With the achievement of this milestone we are now ready for the next phase, and we begin calling our Search Committee. And we eagerly wait for the Diocese to send us news of interest in our wonderful church by clergy looking for a church like ours.

Now, just as much as ever, your prayers for the Episcopal Church of St Hilda St Patrick are vital. Please pray also for the Bishop’s Committee as they begin the work of discerning whom they will call to be part of the Search Committee.

Stay tuned for more details!!

In Christ,
Michael Rader
your Senior Warden

This hands-on, “Montessori”-style learning time is for children in 1st through 3rd/4th grades. It is based on learning the stories of the Bible by showing them in small images and figures which the children handle, and then asking “I wonder…” about how it was to be there when these stories happened.

Godly Play meets every Sunday at 9:30am (at the same time as the regular service).