Discovering your spiritual gifts, and learning about peace, reconciliation, tolerance, acceptance and service will be topics of discussion on Saturday, May 5, when the ECW (Episcopal Church Women) Central Deanery Annual Meeting is held. The meeting, which has a Year 3 theme of “Building Bridges of Peace and Reconciliation,” will be held from 10 a.m….

No One Hungry, a food bank ministry at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church and Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Titusville, started as a call from God to “feed my people” and a choir room filled with canned goods. The mission today has spread beyond the walls of the pantry and into a homeless camp near the…

Bringing middle schoolers to Christ is a fun thing for staff members at Camp Wingmann. It’s all about “New Beginnings” through an array of activities, food, prayer, laughter and more. A weekend retreat established by the Diocese of Central Florida more than 30 years ago, New Beginnings is one of the more popular events at…

When Joslyn Williams was growing up in Antigua, she learned how to play a makeshift piano made from cardboard and clothes pins. It was an unorthodox start to music but one that struck a chord deep inside her heart. “My parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis, now deceased, saw my gift,” Williams said. “This was…

Poetry and literature lovers can learn about the connection of famous writings to religion when St. Richard’s Episcopal Church in Winter Park next week holds its next Summoning the Divine sessions. Led by session designer-facilitator Pamela Menke, the Summoning the Divine: “Walking the Path with Jesus and Kahlil Gibran” readings will be held from 6:30…

The Absalom Jones legacy continues when the Central Florida Chapter Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) presents its annual Absalom Jones Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, at The Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Winter Garden. The theme, “The Church & UBE Saving Children & Youth Today for a Better Tomorrow” is an extension of…

Serious and impactful social issues such as human trafficking, feeding the homeless and aiding Puerto Rico in the wake of last summer’s hurricane damage will be among the topics this weekend at the Canterbury Retreat & Conference Center in Oviedo. Approximately 50 brothers from chapters in Miami, Jacksonville and Central Florida will gather at Canterbury…

The Rev. Bill Yates used to love to hunt and fish while growing up in Lakeland, but he never favored the use of an AR-15 – the weapon that has been used in countless mass shootings in America, including the one this week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Yates, who is the…

For 60 years, Holy Trinity has focused on educating and nourishing the whole child – mind, body and spirit – in the Episcopal tradition. Dr. Katherine Cobb, the first president of Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, plans to continue that practice. A former provost and associate vice president for Eastern Florida State College (formerly…