If storm damage occurs, it is best for parishes to reach out directly to Church Insurance. The number for Claims is1.800.223.5705.Churches can useAlacrity Contractor Servicesoffered by Church Insurance.
The Peach Street Farmer’s Market started with an idea from members of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Angleton to provide an opportunity for small businesses to get their start and to connect their community with healthy, locally-grown food. Even as organizers spent two years preparing to launch the market in August of 2017, they had no idea the level of impact they would have on their community.
The 2020 General Election offers the ideal opportunity for churches to be of service to both your congregations and to the community in a variety of ways. Anglicans and Episcopalians have a long history of involvement in elections.
There are so many unsung heroes in a diocese like ours, men and women who strengthen our witness to the Gospel with consistent, competent behind-the-scenes work. We are writing you today to recognize one such extraordinary individual
When the Church remains silent
What voice shall testify
How shall it answer the needy’s cry
Refute the world’s lie
Truth, verify
The God of our salvation glorify?
For the third time (second year in a row), Christ Church Cathedral has won Best Campaign at the annual Episcopal Communicators national awards – this year for Rally Against Hunger.
Over the past few weeks we have experienced a significant increase in the number of phishing email messages that impersonate a diocesan staff member, especially Bishop Doyle. Phishing attacks are on the rise and are getting more sophisticated.
Following a rescheduled ceremony due to the rising COVID-19 cases in Harris County, 10 new deacons were ordained at Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Saturday, August 1. The event was live-streamed and closed to the public.
Three months shy of their graduation, the Class of 2020 for FIND ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ School for Spiritual Direction and Formation was in the final preparation for a Lenten Day of Prayer. It’s a much-looked-forward-to event in which the graduating class fashions a retreat around what they’ve learned in the three-year school and presents it for the under-classmates, faculty and alums.
Ever since my husband shared them with me, I have been fascinated with some old letters that he let me read. The letters written in 1935 and 1936, now nearly a century ago, were exchanged between Bishop Clinton S. Quin, the 3rd Bishop of Texas and my father-in-law, The Rev. John E. Culmer, who at that time was priest at St. Agnes Episcopal Church in Miami, FL, and who later became Archdeacon of South Florida.
I am an adolescent medicine specialist and I take care of teenagers with a variety of problems. Over the last few months I have seen teens struggle with the lack of structure that school attendance provides.
I am an ICU physician working on the “front lines” during this health crisis. Although I am accustomed to dealing with critically ill people, the current pandemic has presented a new set of challenges that has shaken and redefined the health care community.
Celebrating 175 years of mission in Christ, we are a diverse community of believers following the Episcopal tradition across our 81-county diocese spanning nearly 70,000 square miles in the central, eastern, and northern regions of Texas. Founded in 1838, we are more than 450 active clergy-strong with 175 congregations, over 100 missional communities, 20 campus missions, chaplaincies, foundations, institutions, and over 72,000 parishioners.
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