You are invited to take part in Worship Services, Morning & Evening Prayer, Centering Prayer, and in Walks for Justice and Peace. Fr. David invites all members of SsAM to join him and members of SsAM for the events below. Worship Services on Sundays Via Video on YouTube and Facebook Click here to learn more 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.
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 »
Monthly Walks for Justice and Peace
First Fridays, 5:30 p.m. beginning at First & Central, 10th & Market, ending at Saints Andrew & Matthew, 8th & Shipley. Following the meaningful event on June 19, we will begin monthly first-Friday Walks for Justice and Peace in downtown Wilmington, Delaware beginning in September, 2020. These marches will be hosted collaboratively by First & 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 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 20, 2020 Weekly News Mini WV 9.18.20 OUR LITURGY UNFOLDED Our Liturgy Unfolded Pentecost RECTOR’S REFLECTION 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 »
Guiding Principles
Living History: The GUIDING PRINCIPLES of the EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SAINTS ANDREW AND MATTHEW (Adopted at the Joint Vestry Meeting, May 14, 1994; that is, at a time just before the two churches consolidated — St. Andrew’s and St. Matthew’s — two churches with histories going back for decades.) We will create a new Christian 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 »
Carnival Sunday and Shrove Tuesday Photos, February 23 & 25, 2020
CARNIVAL SUNDAY FESTIVAL CHORAL EUCHARIST AND SERMON, Sunday, February 23, 2020, 10:30 am. Carnival Sunday is celebrated at the 10:30 a.m. service on the Sunday before the start of Lent. It is an occasion for us to worship with great festivity in the spirit of the Mardi Gras and Caribbean Carnival traditions. In this joy-filled, READ MORE »
Carnival Sunday – February 23, 2020
Here are links to Carnival Sunday photos and videos. At the 10:30 a.m. service on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, we celebrate Eucharist in the tradition of Carnival and Mardi Gras with colorful beads, scarves, and boas, with silly and outlandish hats, with masks and more. It is a time to be joyous before the READ MORE »
Welcome To SsAM. Our worship services are now via video.
Please follow these links to learn more about the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. WE ARE CHILDREN: Our ministry to children. YOUTH & YOUNG FAMILIES: Our ministry to teens and their families. ADULTS: Adult Education and other opportunities. CLERGY: Our ordained ministers. STAFF: Our professional staff. VESTRY: Our current READ MORE »
Personal Faith Development with Father David in 2020
In these early months of 2020, I am offering many ways for you and I to support each other in our personal faith development. It is vitally important that each of us find what works for us if we are to be active disciples of Jesus Christ in the world today. Part of my role READ MORE »
Humorous Video: The Perfect Family Arrives At Church
Here is a trenchant video about the truth behind the “perfect family” as they arrive at church. Our advice? Dress up or come in your pajamas but get here!