Please join us for a Finance Committee update! Town Hall Meeting – August 2, 2020 Discuss: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going? on Zoom at 11:15 AM (following 10 AM Service) We hope you will join us to discuss the changes and challenges we face during the pandemic. We will share our READ MORE »
Stewardship Posts
Stewardship is the active care of those things put into our hands by God; our time, talent, and treasure.
Vestry View of July 15, 2020
by Danny Schweers, Vestry Member. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. — Matthew 18:20 — At our last meeting on Wednesday, July 8, every vestry member was there! And, our faith assures us that Jesus was there us, too! — even though we were meeting virtually via READ MORE »
Vestry View of July 4, 2020
We have been gathering together! Yes, there is something odd about celebrating Independence Day while staying isolated in our dwellings, hardly daring to venture outside, wary of anyone coming within six feet of us, our church closed. Even so, we at SsAM can celebrate some recently successful gatherings. A Conversation About Racism, Sunday, June 28 READ MORE »
Finance Town Hall, Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 11:15 a.m.
SsAM’s Finance Committee will hold a town hall meeting on Sunday, August 2, at 11:15 a.m., immediately following the worship service. Details are to come! This meeting will be held using the Zoom.us video-conference application. Members of SsAM will be emailed login instructions. You will be able to participate with a regular dial-up phone or 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 »
Vestry View of May 23, 2020
by Danny Schweers, Vestry Member When you assemble, let each one have a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. — 1 Corinthians 14:26 Our last vestry meeting was one of unending song, teachings, and of many revelations. Did some speak in tongues? If I could READ MORE »
Stronger Ties in a Time of Social Distancing
Click here to see the most recent issue of the Vestry View. VESTRY VIEW OF 4-29-2020 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds READ MORE »
Vestry View, April 15, 2020
A Way Forward — On April 15, 2020, your SsAM vestry passed a balanced operating budget for calendar year 2020. This revised operating budget is based on recommendations from the COVID-19 Taskforce and the Finance Committee. We estimate our income for 2020 will be 13% less than last year, for a total of $628,013. So READ MORE »
Vestry View, April 1, 2020
Our vestry meeting on March 25, 2020, was unlike any other vestry meeting I have ever attended because each one of us took lots of time to talk about our own lives and not church business. We sensed that, in this time of pandemic, connecting to each other was fundamental to church business. We talked READ MORE »
Vestry View, March 25, 2020
In the midst of a rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, vestry members met a week ago using Zoom video-conferencing software from our homes. Most of us used the video capabilities from our home computers, but many simply called in using their telephones. Every vestry member attended, including our newest member, Gary Jolly. One unexpected benefit of READ MORE »
Friendship House Needs Specific Supplies
As of March 24, 2020, Friendship House is in need of doughnuts, bread to make sandwiches, sandwich-sized and snack-sized plastic baggies, coffee, sugar, and creamer. If you can help with this, please contact the church so we can arrange delivery. In an email sent on Tuesday, March 24, Executive Director Kim Eppehimer said: In light READ MORE »
Vestry View, February 19, 2020
At its productive meeting on February 12, 2020, the SsAM Vestry heard from four guests; went over reports from our rector, music director, and finance and property committees; moved forward on strategic initiatives, formed a nominating committee, planned the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, assigned vestry liaisons to various ministries, and set a June 14 date READ MORE »
Stewardship Rodeo
VESTRY VIEW, JANUARY 22, 2020: The Vestry’s turn at the Stewardship Rodeo has begun. At their meeting on Wednesday evening, January 15, members of your Vestry gallantly entered their first round of the Line Item Roping, Bucking Endowment Riding, and Budget Bull Riding competitions. It wasn’t pretty. Again and again, we tried to ride but READ MORE »
SsAM i AM – Rethinking Stewardship One Pillar At A Time
As 2020 begins, we are looking again at our church’s four guiding principles, the four strategic principles set by our Vestry in 2014, the four pillars guiding our stewardship: To strengthen and grow Youth and Young Families; To create a sustainable financial picture; To provide engaging worship that is rich and meaningful and brings people READ MORE »
Angel Tree Ministry
“The reactions have been amazing. Some were in tears. Every mother who picked up bags/boxes of wrapped presents were overwhelmed by the huge showing of love, support, and generosity by your congregation. I know that each one of them will have a Christmas that would have been impossible without all of you! I know that READ MORE »
Have You Made Your Pledge? Thank God!
So far we have received pledges of $423,615 from 141 pledging units as of January 9. That is 92% of the way towards our goal of $460,000. We thank God for your generosity! Our budget for 2020 is based on the pledges you and others make, so please provide your pledge as soon as possible READ MORE »
Alice Sawyer Chastises Wilmington YMCA
An op-ed by Alice Sawyer, a long-time member of our church and a 30-year employee of the YMCA, appeared in the December 5, 2019 issue of the News Journal newspaper. Entitled, “The Wilmington YMCA should serve all and not close 41 beds dedicated to homeless”, the op-ed takes the YMCA to task for its recent READ MORE »
Here Is When We Connect: Coffee Hour
Our coffee hour — 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. on Sundays — often has a generous offering of fruit, veggies, dips, chips, and more, depending on what goodies our members bring to church. Sometimes there is a cake to celebrate a birthday or graduation! And there is always sweet tea and hot coffee. If you are READ MORE »
Reflections on the last Financial Town Meeting of 2019
Member development is not one standalone line item in the budget. It is about everything we are about as a parish. by the Rev. David T. Andrews, Rector. A couple of weeks ago the finance committee presented information about where SsAM is financially. The committee has worked faithfully the last couple of months READ MORE »
Code Purple Ministry
Every winter, SsAM offers its auditorium space to accommodate the homeless community on nights the city declares a Code Purple Alert. Code Purple is declared any time the actual temperature is 20°F or below or the wind chill is 15ºF or below. Then Friendship House opens the Wilmington Empowerment Center (in our building) from 2:30 READ MORE »