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Rector's Note / Link in Bio / Racial Justice
The Verdict and the Ongoing Commitment
posted on Apr 21, 2021 Posted April 21, 2021
April 20, 2021 was a tense day for me and for many of you. I waited for the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin with a tight knot in my stomach and jangly nerves throughout my body. When the guilty verdict was announc...
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At Home At Church / Children & Families / Easter Season / Forming Faith / Link in Bio
Where do we find peace?
posted on Apr 19, 2021 Posted April 19, 2021 Dear parents and families, After another traumatic week, I alternate between glazed-over and heartbroken. Another mass shooting. Another week of gun violence in Philly. Another life lost to police brutality. Another, an...
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Prayer List / Beyond Borders
Prayer List: April 15, 2021
posted on Apr 15, 2021 St. Martin's ministries and partners: Beyond Borders and Blessed Bakers. Prayers: Claire Concilio; Max and family; Sharika Browne; Lyn and Andrew Fulton; Stacey Hogan-Tietz; Guiseppe Parra; Alexandra Ashbrook; Jennifer, Tyson, Lawson, and ...
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Rector's Note / Easter Season / Community Engagement / POWER / Link in Bio
Risen, Wounded Body
posted on Apr 14, 2021 Posted April 14, 2021
Last week your clergy participated in a Zoom meeting with Chantay Love, the Director of EMIR Healing Center in Germantown. EMIR (Every Murder is Real) is a healing ministry for families affected by violence. Chantay c...
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Refugee Resettlement Ministry / Community Engagement
Diaper Drive Update
posted on Apr 13, 2021 Posted on April 13, 2021
Thank you one and all for your generous and continuous contributions to the diaper drive! Your donations have made a great difference in supporting immigrants through Juntos . Through connections with Juntos and the...
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At Home At Church / Climate Change / Prayer List / Community Engagement / Link in Bio / Easter Season
Week-long Earth Day Challenge
posted on Apr 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021
Join the St. Martin's community this year as we serve as faithful stewards of God's creation by participating in our Earth Day Challenge. You are invited to post photos of yourselves and your families participating in t...
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Children & Families / Easter Season / Forming Faith / Worship with Children / At Home At Church
"God is light"
posted on Apr 12, 2021 Dear parents and families,
On Easter Sunday it was wonderful and life-giving to meet new people, and to see so many people I had only met over a Zoom screen. Watching children collect eggs, hearing old friends talk, and feeling the palpable jo...
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Refugee Resettlement Ministry / Lay Leadership
Prayer List: April 8, 2021
posted on Apr 8, 2021 St. Martin's ministries and partners: Refugee Resettlement and Lay Eucharistic Ministers
Prayers: Claire Concilio; Max and family; Sharika Browne; Lyn and Andrew Fulton; Stacey Hogan-Tietz; Guiseppe Parra; Alexandra Ashbrook; Jennifer, T...
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Rector's Note / Forming Faith / Easter Season
A Quote to Ponder Post-Easter
posted on Apr 6, 2021 Posted April 6, 2021
The Rector is taking a break after Easter and offers this quote by Reinhold Niebuhr in lieu of his usual essay.
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing...
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Guatemala Companion Parish Ministry
Prayer List: April 1, 2021
posted on Apr 1, 2021 St. Martin's ministries and partners: St. Martin’s Morning Prayer Leaders and Community Engagement Guatemala Companion Parishes Prayers: Claire Concilio; Max and family; Sharika Browne; Lyn and Andrew Fulton; Stacey Hogan-Tietz; Guis...
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