Domestic Poverty
Prison Stories Visits Pine Bluff Men's Facility
An article from the December 2014 issue St. Paul’s Episcopal Episcopal Church Communicant. Transcribed from an article written by Katie Nichol. In early November, the Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project visited the Randall L. Williams Correctional Facility in Pine Bluff for a staged reading of the best of the last four “Stories from the Inside […]
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Southwest Virginia parish finds its mission in the students of Anglican school in poor area of Belize
Over the past six years, clergy and parishioners of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lynchburg, VA, have fostered a caring relationship with Holy Cross Anglican School on Ambergris Caye in Belize, Central America. A number of intergenerational groups have spent time there to work and play with students at the school in San Mateo, one of […]
I wonder what walking humbly would look like?
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. (Luke 4:18-19) In this, our […]
Long Island churches focus on being OF the community, not just IN the community
Bob Cottrell, the junior warden at St. James Episcopal Church in Long Beach, N.Y., in the Diocese of Long Island, already had a vision of what his parish might do to better serve the needs of the recovery community, which is quite large in Long Beach. But it certainly never involved sponsoring mental health talks […]
Bus trip opens doors to encounters with angels
Editor’s Note: Dianne Aid is in the process of collecting stories from the streets, fields and back roads. “My encounters with many have been my own redemption from seeing a world I thought I had to have, never could achieve, and lived with the low self esteem of scarcity for years and years. Through some […]
Sacred Space brings church, food, compassion to the homeless in Oakland
Editor’s Note: The Diocese of California recently requested – and received – a $1,000 Jubilee Ministry Diocesan Development grant to help fund the work of Sacred Space~Oakland, a ministry to bring church to the street people of Oakland. We invited the ministry’s founder, Deacon John Trubina, to share the story of how Sacred Space came […]
Ministry reaches out to nursing home residents who feel church has forgotten them
Think of the Rev. Donna Hall as a kind of 21st century circuit riding preacher. There are some 50 nursing homes in the immediate vicinity of Palm Beach, Fla., and as chaplain of the North Palm Beach Deanery Nursing Home/Outreach to the Elderly ministry, Hall visits about 30 of them every month. “I go every […]
JusticeandMercyME embodies the both/and approach to fighting domestic poverty in Maine
In 2010, a loosely-organized group of laity and clergy from the Episcopal Diocese of Maine came together in response to the call of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. 2009 General Convention Resolution A155 for the church to “recognize the pressing challenges to those living in poverty and the working poor throughout this nation.” At the same […]
The "Spirit of Jubilee" grows in San Diego, which declares itself to be a "Jubilee Diocese"
There was already a Spirit of Jubilee moving through our Diocese before we received the $1,000 Diocesan grant and started planning our Jubilee workshop. Only it had another name–“Servant Ministry.” The Diocese of San Diego recently went through an 18-month strategic planning process to develop a new Mission Plan and Goals for the next 3-5 […]
