Our Environmental Justice Ministry in Wilmington, Delaware is work which grew out of Michele Roberts’ preaching at SsAM during the Season of Creation several years ago. An official description of Delaware Concerned Residents for Environmental Justice appears below. Several SsAM members are a part of this statewide group. Environmental justice advocacy is needed now more READ MORE »
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Worship With Us Via Video
We are celebrating our faith via video until we can gather together again in downtown Wilmington, Delaware at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew. [Updated 9/18/2020] Sunday Services via Video on Facebook and YouTube Our Sunday Worship services are posted on both Facebook and YouTube. You can see them any time after 10:00 READ MORE »
Upcoming Events at SsAM
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 »
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 »
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 »
From Transaction to Transformation
FR. DAVID’S BLOG OF 9/11/2020 — Let me begin by acknowledging how our world and our lives changed nineteen years ago today. The horrific events of September 11, 2001 are still very present in our memories and I invite us sometime today to stop whatever we are doing to stand or sit in silence and 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 »
Halimah DeLaine Prado appointed General Counsel to Google.
SsAM congratulates Halimah DeLaine Prado on her appointment as General Counsel for Google, Inc. Halimah is the daughter of SsAM member Renee Andrews DeLaine. Senior Vice-President Kent Walker said: “Halimah has been a trusted counselor and exceptional leader, having navigated a variety of cross-product and company-wide issues over the course of her nearly 14-year career 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 »
Democracy, Values, and the 2020 Election: A Voter Reflection Guide for Faith Communities.
Here is a Voter Reflection Guide for Faith Communities by Interfaith Power & Light. As people of faith across the country, we believe the 2020 election is a referendum on the values that will shape our future. How can we renew our fragile democracy? How do we honor the human dignity of every person? Will READ MORE »
Vestry View of August 19, 2020
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” —Jeremiah 29:11 At its last meeting, the Vestry of Saints Andrew & Matthew made the hard decision not to approve additional funding for the Music Ministry. 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 »
A Letter from Brighton Kaoma, Environmental Activist, 2020
Many of you may remember Brighton was our preacher during the Season of Creation and for the Environmental Justice Forum in 2018. Here is a letter he sent in August, 2020. Dear Michele, The Roberts Family, and Friends, I hope this message finds you in a good state of mental and physical well being. I READ MORE »
Litany of Reconciliation
Here is a Litany of Reconciliation crafted by the Rev. Chris Keene of Immanuel-on-the-Green in New Castle, Delaware. He prepared it for a Delaware Episcopal clergy Zoom meeting where white supremacy was the topic. Here it is as a congregational resource, and as a litany to pray when we gather. In hope that the arc READ MORE »
Living from our Essence during COVID-19
Fr. David’s blog of 8/14/2020 — For several months I was offering Daily Morning Prayer on Facebook. Each morning at the time for intercessions I offered prayers for those who had died and would die as well as for those who had tested positive and were either in hospital or recovering from home. I would 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 »
A Toxic Relationship
About 2,000 official and potential Superfund sites — sites contaminated by extremely hazardous chemicals — are located within 25 miles of the East or Gulf Coast. Delaware is in the red zone. As sea levels rise, many of these toxic sites are at risk of flooding. Millions of people live near these sites, and flooding READ MORE »
Going Deeper: Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership
— Fr. David’s Blog of 8/7/2020 — Last fall I applied to a two-year program entitled, “Going Deeper: Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership” hosted by the Shalem Spiritual Institute (Shalem.org). I was accepted into the program and will be taking one week of continuing education the week of August 13 to 20. Because of the READ MORE »