Saint Isidore Episcopal Church is ready to serve the community just as it’s needed most. Four months before Hurricane Harvey, the church launched a food truck to feed those in need, Abundant Harvest. Now, it has opened it’s food pantry and community kitchen right as COVID-19 precautions are putting people out of work.
After the Civil War, white Episcopalians found themselves in a spiritual and ethical quandary as to what to do about freed slaves. Several issues faced them: 1) Reclaiming the masses of newly emancipated slaves who fled the church once they were declared “free;” 2) Training of black preachers whose fitness to be ministers they questioned; 3) How and if and to what extent to allow these “freedmen” to have voice in the governance of the Church–their own and the larger Church; and 4) Whether or not to create separate racial jurisdictions.
St. Stephen’s is pleased to announce that three students have been named Scholastic Art and Writing National Medalists. Christopher Aung, 8th grade, was awarded a Silver Medal for his writing submission titled Half-Breed (teachers Vicki Woodruff and Miriam Murtuza)
Rev. Bill Richter, rector of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Kingwood, said his church altered its services in stages, moving from restricting access to communion cups to canceling services entirely.
For the third consecutive year, clergy lay leaders, and community partners gathered for the Episcopal Health Foundation’s In Common event. The gathering serves as a place for Episcopal congregations and their community partners to dream big, be inspired, and create a vision with like-minded individuals and congregations interested in building healthier communities.
We will lose lives and health; but, if we lean in, we might not lose each other.
Regardless of your faith or belief system, this is a time to lean towards one another – to lean towards family, friends, and coworkers.
With the global pandemic, the need for food has increased significantly. The Abundant Harvest Kitchen, part of St. Isidore, Spring, is on the front lines meeting the needs of the most vulnerable in our community. In this work, we are looking for partners to help staff a mobile non-contact food pantry.
The mobile food pantry has been providing food in Alvin on a weekly basis since January 3, 2020. We have partnered with Manvel Community Outreach and the Houston Food Bank in order to bring fresh food and produce to Alvin, an area that struggles with food insecurity.
The West Coast was an early flashpoint in the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. “It sort of came on fast here in Seattle,” said the Rev. Doyt Conn Jr., rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church. As of March 17, at least 56 people had died in Seattle and King County, Washington, more than a third of all U.S. coronavirus deaths.
In light of the necessity for virtual worship, for $100, a local professional producer/videographer is offering congregations a sleek and professional production for worship this …
W.E.B. Dubois observed in his history of the Reconstruction era that news of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation resulted in exuberant expressions of religious feelings among African Americans in the South. Beginning on January 1, 1863, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Army camps became both bases of military operations and havens for thousands of jubilant runaways.
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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