VIRTUAL COFFEE HOURS Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Nov. 15, Nov. 22, and Nov. 29 This Sunday, Father David will host a Zoom coffee hour at 11:00 a.m. and every Sunday through November 29. Have you missed seeing people at SsAM? They have missed seeing you! Please Zoom in this Sunday at 11:00 a.m. After reviewing READ MORE »
Invite, Welcome, Connect!
If you are already a member of our church, consider the ways you can invite others to worship and serve God, how to welcome them when they visit our church, and how to connect with them when they return. Click on any of the headlines or thumbnail images below to see recent posts about SsAM’s Invite-Welcome-Connect program.
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew
Virtual Coffee Hours, Sundays at 11:00 a.m. through November 29 People miss seeing you! Let them see your shining face this Sunday! Click here to learn more. Feed The Hungry! Our church is encouraging everyone to join us in donating to local food pantries. Click here to learn more. Angel Tree Gifts to Children in READ MORE »
Advent Calendar from Friendship House
Every day in December, you are invited to do something generous, studious, or prayerful. Here are fun, interactive activities that will get you and your family into the holiday spirit and involved in the community. Friendship House serves the homeless in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, a ministry strongly supported by our church. Click here to see READ MORE »
Angel Tree Gift Giving Christmas 2020
This year — 2020 — we will support the mothers and children from Friendship House’s Transitional Housing at Christmas. Since we are currently not gathering at church, we are asking members of SsAM to participate by donating either $25 or $50 gift cards from either Visa or Walmart so that the mothers and older children READ MORE »
Monthly Walks for Justice and Peace
Friday, Dec. 4 and Every First Friday at 5:30 p.m. from First & Central, 10th & Market, to SsAM, 8th & Shipley. Since June 19, 2020, we have been sponsoring monthly first-Friday Walks for Justice and Peace in downtown Wilmington, Delaware at 5:30 p.m. These marches are hosted collaboratively with First & Central Presbyterian Church. READ MORE »
Guiding Principles, Statements of Mission and Vision
The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM) is a nurturing faith community born out of the 1996 consolidation of two downtown churches. This multi-racial congregation welcomes all people who seek the love of God without regard to ability, age, economic circumstance, ethnic background, family configuration, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, political affiliation, educational achievement, READ MORE »
Transitioning from Pre-Recorded Worship to Live Streaming
FR. DAVID’S BLOG OF 10/9/2020 — We hope to live stream our worship services via video soon! Since Easter Sunday we have been pre-recording our Sunday morning worship services. Pre-recording has allowed us to stay safe and healthy during this time of pandemic. Participants (choir, lectors, acolyte, priest and organist) schedule a good time to READ MORE »
The Country Is On Fire: Prayer Changes Things
ZOOM TIME OF PRAYER, Thursday, October 1, Noon. FR. DAVID’S BLOG OF 9/25/2020 — This past week has been devastating for this country. Last Friday evening Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. On Wednesday of this week a grand jury in Kentucky did not indict the police officers READ MORE »
Howard Thurman Retreat and Follow-Up Discussion
You are invited to participate in an on-line spiritual retreat now and then to discuss the retreat with others at SsAM in October. The Salem Institute on-line retreat is offered free to encourage people spiritually as we fight for racial justice. Lerita Coleman Brown has created this retreat to explore Howard Thurman’s life and contemplative READ MORE »
SsAM 25th Anniversary
April 26 , 2021, will mark 25 years since the founding of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. This silver anniversary will be celebrated in many ways. If you would like to help us celebrate, please click here to contact us using the form on this website or reach READ MORE »
ECW is Supporting The Way Home Project.
As of August 14, 2020, the SsAM Episcopal Church Women ministry has been asked by the State ECW to participate in collecting items for “The Way Home Project” and United Thank Offering (UTO). “The Way Home” is a project to assist incarcerated persons who are being released from prison. The request is for monetary donations READ MORE »
To Make Ourselves At Home
Here is an invitation to participate in a program offered by my friends, the Rev. Robert Gallagher and Ms. Michelle Heyne from the Order of the Ascension. I hope all members of SsAM will take the time to read what Robert and Michelle are offering to parishes around the country at this time as we READ MORE »
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge and Other Opportunities
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, August 17 to September 6 Bishop Brown calls us all to take part in a 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge from August 17 to September 6, 2020. Led by the United Way of Delaware and YWCA Delaware, the challenge is a state-wide journey (never leaving our homes) into the history of racism READ MORE »
SsAM Prayer during COVID-19 Pandemic
Oh God, you have promised that when two or three are gathered in your name, you are in the midst of them. During this period of social distancing, we, your people at SsAM, are not able to gather physically, but are still gathering in the Spirit. We are praying for the safety and well-being of READ MORE »
Worship at SsAM: the Sunday Documents, Church News, and More
SERVICES VIA VIDEO Our Sunday services of worship and weekday Morning and Evening Prayer services are on YouTube and Facebook Live. Click here for details SUNDAY LEAFLET (Order of Worship) Leaflet for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, November 22, 2020 Weekly News Mini WV 11.27.20 Re-gathering letter 11.18.20 R. Gaskell OUR LITURGY UNFOLDED OUR LITURGY READ MORE »
From Visitor To Acolyte
Click the triangle below to watch an inspiring six-minute video in which Silas, who was homeless, tells his story of finding a spiritual refuge at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, a place where he could belong and serve. Click the square icon in the lower right to see READ MORE »
My White Privilege and My White Fragility
— Fr. David’s Blog of 6/19/2020 — I am really looking forward to this Sunday’s live video conversation with Canon Casson and Rabbi Krantz. That’s this Sunday, June 28, at 11:00 a.m. Not on the E-Blast? Click here to contact us! We will add you to the list. Or call Danny Schweers at 302 475-0998 (even READ MORE »
White Fagility: Repairing The Breach
FR. DAVID’S BLOG OF 6/12/2020 — This past Sunday the SsAM Facebook Book Club met to discuss Robin Diangelo’s powerful book, White Fragility. I am reading this book for the second time and I am grateful for the folks who gathered last Sunday morning to reflect on what white fragility is – especially during this READ MORE »
Black Lives Matter Banner Painting Photos
On Memorial Day, 2020, Mr. George Floyd died as a result of being pinned to the ground while handcuffed by a Minneapolis police officer for over nine minutes. The national outrage was swift as cities all over the country mobilized and began peaceful marches and protests demanding justice in response to the death of Mr. READ MORE »
Holy Week and Easter Celebrated by Video in Wilmington, Delaware in 2020
All our recent services can be seen on SsAM’s Facebook Page. Click here to see the Easter Sunday service. Holy Week began on Palm Sunday, April 5 Father David blessed the palms in the sanctuary of our church, then he and D-L Casson moved outside church to hand out palms to people driving up in READ MORE »
