The lives of immigrant children in Marion County, Florida, will be enriched and impacted thanks to the efforts of Ocala’s Grace Episcopal Church, which recently received $10,000 in grants from The Episcopal Church and the David and Lisa Midgett Foundation. The monies, awarded for churches addressing racial disparity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will…
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La Iglesia Episcopal St. John’s en Melbourne, tiene planes excitantes para ministrar a las personas de habla hispana durante el próximo año. “Esperamos lanzar servicios y reuniones cada fin de semana empe en enero de 2021”, dijo el reverendo Eric Turner, rector. Este nuevo alcance será mucho más que un ministerio en español simplemente usando…
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St. John’s, Melbourne, has some exciting plans to minister to Spanish-speaking people in the year ahead. “We hope to launch weekend services and gatherings in January 2021,” said The Rev. Eric Turner, rector. This new outreach will be much more than a Spanish ministry merely using the church’s facilities, Turner said. “Folks who become part…
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The youth group at St. Elizabeth’s, Sebastian, has started a new ministry. Adopt a Grandfriend pairs a young person with an elderly retired person. In the early fall, Joanne Knott, the church’s youth minister, began thinking of a project that would involve the youth group and the parish seniors. Knott said, “Our parish is predominantly…
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In late 2019 St. George Episcopal, The Villages, formed a volunteer Communications Committee. The advent of COVID-19 thrust the committee, which was originally exploring how to revamp the church website, into investigating new ways to keep parishioners in communion during the initial lockdown. One of the many things the committee did was to explore the…
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On Friday, June 5, a city-wide “Walk of Mourning and Restoration” was held to decry racism and work toward unity, with many Episcopal ministers participating, including The Rt. Rev. Greg Brewer, bishop of the Diocese of Central Florida. The walk, which tied into larger protests and vigils around the country in response to the death…
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2 Timothy 2:8-15 Psalm 25:1-12 Mark 12:28-34 Preview photo: © Jonah Cowie
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Day of Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020 Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21 John 20:19-23 or John 7:37-39 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 The Collect Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout…
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When the “shelter-in-place” order was announced for Central Florida, The Rev. Charles Myers of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist in Orlando knew that his church’s mission still needed to move forward. “The church asked me, ‘Can we keep the food pantry open?’,” he said. Since the shutdown and services moving online, Myers…
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Second Sunday of Easter April 19, 2020 Acts 2:14a, 22-32 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Psalm 16 Bishop Brewer reflects on the readings assigned for the Second Sunday of the Easter Season.
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