You are invited to our 25th Anniversary Launch Party on Sunday, January 31, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. via video. Fun for the entire family! Music! Surprises! Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester will be our special guest. Please wear your 25th Anniversary Pin during the meeting. Didn’t get one in the mail? Contact us! This will READ MORE »
Worship With Us Via Video
Use Facebook to join us for worship this Sunday at 10:00 a.m.! Coffee Hour follows using Zoom. On Sunday, January 3, we go back to pre-recorded services on Facebook starting at 10:00 a.m. Click here to visit our Facebook page. Coffee Hour starts on Zoom after worship ends. Zoom connection details are in the Friday READ MORE »
Virtual Coffee Hour This Sunday
VIRTUAL COFFEE HOURS Sunday immediately following 10:00 a.m. worship. The Zoom code for Dec. 27 is 825 1254 7666. The passcode was emailed to members, but you can also text or call Danny Schweers at 302 475-0998 for the passcode. Unlike previous Sundays, the same Zoom login is being used for worship and coffee hour. READ MORE »
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew
Our building is closed but we are busier than ever! 25th Anniversary Launch Party on Sunday, January 31, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Fun for the entire family! Music! Surprises! Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester will be our special guest. Please wear your 25th Anniversary Pin during the meeting. Connect via video or regular phone. Click here READ MORE »
Racism In America – The History We Did Not Learn In School
Sundays at 1:00 p.m., through January 24, 2021. You are invited to develop a better understanding of how America’s race relations developed. You can find the Zoom.us login info in the email blast from SsAM on Thursday, December 31, but you can also text or call Danny Schweers at 302 475-0998. Call if you need READ MORE »
The Good Book Club
We are reading the Gospel of Mark! Fr. David is inviting all members of SsAM to join him reading the Gospel of Mark during the session of Epiphany. The Good Book Club returns as we read the earliest and shortest of the four gospels through Shrove Tuesday, February 16. The Good Book Club is sponsored READ MORE »
A Day that Will Live in Infamy
On Wednesday morning, January 6, 2021, I celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany with Morning Prayer on Facebook Live. That afternoon, the U.S. House and Senate convened a joint session to certify the election of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice-President of the United States. During Morning Prayer, at READ MORE »
Feed The Hungry
Please make a donation to a local food pantry! Children and families in our community are going hungry. You can help! So says our church’s Advocacy Committee. The number of Americans facing hunger is going up every day. The coronavirus pandemic has turned food-insufficiency into hunger all across America. Locally, more than 121,000 Delawareans are READ MORE »
Monthly Walks for Justice and Peace
First Fridays at 5:30 p.m. Date of next march has yet to be confirmed. Since June 19, 2020, SsAM and other churches have been sponsoring silent Walks for Justice and Peace in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. These prayerful pilgrimages are hosted collaboratively with First & Central Presbyterian Church. We gather in front of the steps of READ MORE »
Opening Up the Sunday Scriptures
You are invited — Lectionary Study and Sermon Study, Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m., through January 19, 2021. Father David’s vision for this lectionary/sermon discussion is to meet weekly (via Zoom) to read the appointed scriptures for the coming Sunday and also to reflect on the sermon from the previous week. I see this as an READ MORE »
Undee Sunday Results 2020
Despite the Coronavirus pandemic, in 2020 we were able to exceed last year’s contribution to the Friendship House Clothing Bank. The Community Advocacy Committee thanks all of you who helped make Undee Sunday a tremendous success. Forman Mills donated 100 sets of thermal underwear for children, women and men. Dariel Janerette worked with Luvenia, Manager, READ MORE »
Imagine Racial Justice: An Interview with Canon Casson
Can you imagine this country being a model to the world for racial justice? In the September 20, 2020 edition of the Delaware Communion Magazine, the Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson was interviewed by Michael Redmond on the topic of racial justice, something for which Canon Casson has been hoping for many decades. He has not READ MORE »
Books About Race, Race Relations, and Racial History – A Bibliography
Here is a list of books and articles that enlighten us about race, race relations, racial history, and related topics. Click here to make a recommendation. Let us know, too, if you want to join SsAM’s Book Discussion Group. Developing a SsAM Bibliography… We are developing a bibliography of books (and articles). In his reflection READ MORE »
News of Our City, Wilmington, Delaware
Our city is still vibrant even during the coronavirus emergency. Here are news items of interest to anyone connected to downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Our church, and the churches from which we were formed, go back many, many decades here in the heart of the city. God willing, we will be thriving in this city for 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 »
Children, Youth, and Young Families
Above: Rabbi-in-Residence Douglas Krantz teaches during Children’s Chapel about Hanukah, the Miracle of Light. In the long nights of winter, we transform the darkness with our light, just as God transforms our darkness. [NOTE: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of these programs have been suspended.] Children’s Chapel: This is a worship, music, and learning experience READ MORE »
