Calling All (Male) Cooks to St. Paul the Apostle's Men Who Cook Event on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018! Men Who Cook is a wonderful evening of delicious food, great music, and fabulous friends featuring our parish’s best male cooks serving up their favorite appetizers, entrees, and desserts. Money raised goes to support ACTS ministries and the parish. This year’s coordinators, Shawn and Alicia Root, are currently seeking cooks to participate in this fun and delicious event. Contact them at sroot68@gmail.com.

SAVE THE DATE! St. Paul's 3rd Annual TRIVIA NIGHT will be held on the evening of Saturday, September 8. Start assembling your team now, and keep an eye out for an announcement about registration later this summer. For more information, contact Paul Emig at paul_emig@yahoo.com.

To raise money for the Nursery at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Jimmy John's will donate 10% of their June 24, 2018's Net Sales. All you have to do is go to 1830 Nasa Pkwy. in Nassau Bay on June 24 between the hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., take the flyer (click on photo) and show it to the cashier or show the flyer on your smartphone, and tell the cashier prior to ordering to make sure your purchase counts. It's that easy!

The Blessed Sacrament will be reposed at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3, 2018, remain reposed all day Wednesday, July 4 and not exposed until 9:00 a.m. Thursday, July 5.

Our annual Habitat for Humanity fund drive started the weekend of June 16-17, 2018. Your donations make it possible for hard working families to purchase homes of their own. This year, donated funds also are being used to help needy families recover from Hurricane Harvey. Your donations can be dropped off at the Welcome Center throughout the month. You can also put them in the Sunday collection being mindful to earmark them for Habitat.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Father Wencil will be enjoying some well-deserved vacation time in July, so please click on the title link for changes to the usual schedule.

June is the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ask the Legion of Mary how you may have your Home Enthroned to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Contact María Lorenzo, 832.814.8248 or mclorenzo11@gmail.com.

Join us as we plan for Out of This World Festival! The meeting dates are on Wednesdays, August 16th, 30, September 13th, 27th, October 11th, 18th and tentatively October 25th, at 7 PM in the Conference Room at St. Paul the Apostle.

Do you have a special talent? Your Opportunity to shine is HERE! Share your talents with our Parish in our Festival. WHEN: Festival Day, Sunday, October 27, 2018; TIME: Performances start at noon; REGISTER BY: August 12, 2018. TALK TO: Call/Text Julio Acevedo 832.541.7815 or julio.acevedo1@gmail.com1 (OR talk to one of our Festival committee members: Juan Carlos Nuñez, 713.449.1488, or Mele Paul, 281.455.3187.)

We are in need of friendly volunteers to help prepare parents who are bringing infants for Baptism. This would involve helping facilitate a Saturday-afternoon session about the sacrament, making the parents feel welcome, and helping facilitate discussion about the topics presented. No previous experience necessary—just a friendly, welcoming person or couple. Contact Heidi at hclark@stpaulcatholic.org.

We are pleased to bring a special, new ministry to the parish that is aimed at building community, helping you meet your fellow parishioners, enjoying good food, and having an inexpensive evening of fun! Supper clubs are a great way to accomplish all these things! Our supper clubs will be open to all parishioners whether you are single, married, divorced, or widowed. This is not a gourmet cooking club! Start talking about this special, new opportunity among your friends now. We’ll begin sign-ups of interested people later this summer, and we’ll meet for a large, kick-off potluck on Saturday, August 25. We’re also looking for someone to help coordinate the administrative aspects of this new ministry. If this sounds like something up your alley, please let Heidi know at hclark@stpaulcatholic.org or call 281.333.3891, ext. 328. Please click on the title link for more info.

Registration for the 2018-2019 school year has begun. Don’t let your little one miss out on the great things going on in our AWESOME PRE-SCHOOL! New this upcoming school year will be the addition of an ECP LIBRARY. Please click on the title link for more information.

Our 2018 Diocesan Services Fund (DSF) begins next weekend in every parish throughout the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. ​​​​​​​Your kind gift to DSF enables us to reach out to people in this parish and throughout the entire archdiocese through more than 60 important programs. ​​​​​​​Your generosity will allow our Catholic Community to continue many vital programs and services. Our parish goal for this year is $130,000.00. Please click on the title link for more information.

Due to damages sustained from Hurricane Harvey, the Nursery, Beck Hall and the Youth Room are under repairs and not available for usage until all repairs are complete and pass inspections. Please stay out of these areas until further notice. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Notice: Santuario Del Divio Nino Jesus -Please be advised the celebration of Mass and/or the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament has been prohibited at the following location:Santuario Del Divion Nino Jesus 1411 Beaumont Street, South Houston, TX 77587. This facility that is not owned or operated by the Archdiocese and its activites are not sanctioned by the Archdiocese.

If so, we extend a warm, joyful welcome to you. We are more and we are better because of you. Please take a moment to pick up a parish registration form on the wall adjacent to the Welcome Center. ​​​​​​​If you’ve been away from the Church for a while, we’d love to welcome you back in a very special, personal way, with our Catholics Come Home program beginning after the first of the year. Contact Heidi Clark, our director of adult ministry, for more information: 281.333.3891, ext. 328 or email hclark@stpaulcatholic.org. http://www.catholicscomehome.org/

Usually Catholics have lots of saint medals, rosaries, prayer cards, saint statues, religious pictures, Catholic literature and brand new Catholic Bibles (because all they need to use is one). Please consider donating them to the Legion of Mary or Legion de Maria to use for Door-to-Door Evangelization and Book Borrow. Items may be dropped off at the Welcome Center with Legion of Mary written on the bag or Lora Ruzicka. The Legion de Maria needs all of the above but in Spanish. Thank you in advance for helping the Legion on their mission. For more information in English contact Lora at lruzicka@stpaulcatholic.org or for Spanish contact Josefina at igcruz72@yahoo.com .

We have established a special needs lending closet for caregivers. Among the items available are transport chairs, a shower chair, portable commode, portable ramps, and more. Contact Heidi Clark at 281.333.3891 Ext. 328 or email hclark@stpaulcatholic.org for more info.

AMERICAN EXPRESS CREDIT CARD St. Paul has received a very favorable rate for American Express credit card transactions. Therefore, effective immediately we will accept this credit card in addition to MasterCard, Discover and Visa. This applies to all transactions including thru Faith Direct.

If you were not able to be a part of the 50th Anniversary Pictorial Directory but would like to own one, they are available at the Welcome Center for $20.