On Saturday, July 4, St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church will offer the fourth of its monthly fresh food distribution to neighbors in need throughout Nassau Bay, Webster, and Pasadena. This distribution is in coordination with the Galveston Food Bank. A
The spiritual, “Sit at the Welcome Table,” was a double entendre. When slaves, who were unwelcome at their masters’ tables, sang about the “welcome table,” they were singing about someday sitting down together at the table with and being welcomed by those who had once been their oppressors, as well as singing about a time when they would sit at the table at the marriage feast of the Lamb spoken of in the New Testament book of Revelation.
In an additional round of funding related to COVID-19, Episcopal Health Foundation has awarded $1.3 million in grants to 32 nonprofit clinics and other organizations that are serving at-risk communities in Texas on the front lines of the pandemic. Along with initial funding announced in May, EHF’s grant investment for COVID-19 now totals $5 million. Grant funding is just one part of the foundation’s $10 million comprehensive plan to address the crisis across the state.
Bishop Andy Doyle with the Episcopal Diocese of Texas discusses how each of their congregations is responding to COVID-19 and the commitment they have made to their communities with the Masks for All campaign.
Tired and weary though we may sometimes get, let us not forget those who have come before us and made a way for us, that we too may walk in the way that has been prepared and even beyond it, until we have reached a better day and made a better way. For indeed, God has not brought us this far to leave us.
I am an Associate Professor at UTHealth School of Public Health and an American Public Health Association Executive Board Member. Many decades ago, when I was in graduate school studying viruses and epidemiology, we speculated about the next pandemic. Even then we felt it could happen at any time. We thought maybe H1N1 flu was the big one, and, although widespread, it was not that lethal.
As this pandemic season stretches on, our profound grief for those who have died is compounded by daily reminders of the economic hardship the plague has brought to many of our communities. Even those who have not suffered great losses are enduring smaller ones, such as the cancelation of graduations, summer camps and other occasions to gather in person. The experience and feeling of loss is real for us all, yet it is important for us to remember that our canceled plans represent our best efforts to love one another as Jesus commanded. That commitment to live and act in the way of unselfish, sacrificial love must guide all of our decisions and actions.
Technology Grant in Response to COVID-19 We realize the toll this pandemic has taken on all of us in various ways. In an effort to …
El Buen Samaritano is an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas committed to helping Latino and other families in Central Texas lead healthy, productive and secure lives through high-quality family literacy programs, food assistance, economic-stability services, health education, as well as access to health care.
We, in America, are living again in a moment when unjust actions have brought us to protests, riots, and burning. Our cities are on fire, quite literally, because there are deep wounds over continuing American racism. This moment invites us to answer a call to be a different kind of people.
BEAUMONT, Texas ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Southeast Texas non-profit organizations recently received $55,000 in community outreach grants from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Downtown Beaumont. The grants would usually have been presented at a special ceremony at the downtown church, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, was not able to happen this year.
A word to the Church from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry: “Our long-term commitment to racial justice and reconciliation is embedded in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. We will still be doing it when the news cameras are long gone.”
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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