October 9, 2022 To SsAM members and supporters, The Stewardship Committee wishes to inform you about the 2023 Stewardship Campaign here at SsAM and encourage your prayerful participation. This year we have developed a seven-week campaign to align with the seven weeks of the Season Of Creation. Our stewardship theme this year is taken from READ MORE »
Welcome To SsAM. You are invited!
SsAM, the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, welcomes you! Looking for something in particular on this website? Please use the search box in the above masthead. It will search only this website, not the entire Internet. Come to God’s Table! Come, you have much faith, and you who have READ MORE »
Worship with us this Sunday at 8am and 10:30am!
You are invited to praise God with us this Sunday, October 9, at 8am and 10:30am in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Come to God’s Table! Come, you have much faith, and you who have little, or are questioning faith. Come, you who have been here often, and you who have not been for a long READ MORE »
Season of Creation
The Season of Creation begins Sunday, October 9, at 10:30 a.m. Season of Creation is a seven-week spiritual journey into all aspects of creation – humans, other living creatures, and the natural environment. It is celebrated at SsAM at the 10:30 a.m. worship service on the last seven Sundays of Pentecost. It often features guest READ MORE »
Do Something New
A Stewardship Reflection, October 9, 2022 We hope that you have received your Stewardship mailing. It starts our 7-week campaign, October 9 through November 20: “Behold, we are about to do something new”. We have been doing new things as we lived through the pandemic. Through your support, volunteer time and gifts: We stayed in READ MORE »
Clergy Transition – Our Search for a New Rector
SsAM is in the middle of a clergy transition process. A Rector Search Committee has been appointed. On August 18, 2022, the Vestry was pleased to announce the names of those who will serve on our Rector Search Committee. Many members were nominated to serve, but only seven could be appointed. Those appointed are shown READ MORE »
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events
Upcoming events at SsAM or recommended by our church. Silent Walk for Justice and Peace, 5:30pm on Friday, October 7. We begin at the SsAM parking lot and then walk to Rodney Square. These walks began in response to the murder of George Floyd, but now we are faced with more racially motivated murders than READ MORE »
Adult Education – Faith and Practice
I hope that you have seen the announcement about Adult Christian Education, also known as Adult Formation: “Episcopal-ness: From The Beginning. A five-Sunday look at the origin, faith, and practice of Episcopalians” began on Sunday, October 2, 2022, for the five Sundays of October, between the services, from 9:15am to 10:15am in the Auditorium. While READ MORE »
First Friday Walks for Justice and Peace in Wilmington, Delaware
The next walk begins on Friday, October 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the SsAM parking lot, 713 N. Shipley Street. These walks are a public display of our belief that society needs to be more just in terms of race, sex, economics, and more. We begin at the SsAM parking lot (813 N. Shipley Street) READ MORE »
Eugene R. Young, Jr.
Eugene R. Young, Jr., Director of the Delaware State Housing Authority, will be our preacher on Sunday, October 30, at 10:30 a.m. “Our World at Peace” is his subject. Director Young was appointed to his current position by Governor John Carney in May of 2021. In cooperation with other state agencies and advocates, Director Young READ MORE »
Meet The Need
A Newly Formed Ministry: Meet The Need. In order to better serve our community, the Episcopal Church Women (ECW) of SsAM and the church’s Community Advocacy Committee joined together in September, 2022 to promote a new ministry called “Meet the Need”. Under this ministry we will coordinate in-kind contributions at SsAM. Please support both groups, READ MORE »
Get The Vaccine!
2022-09-19 — New COVID-19 booster vaccines are making their debut this fall, and they’ve been modified to target specific omicron variants that are causing the majority of new cases in the United States. The boosters — made by Pfizer and Moderna — won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week. The Centers for Disease READ MORE »
Reflection: Creation and Conflict
Wing-ed white whispers of fluffy dandelion airies were drafting as feathery angels through the breezy late summer-like air as I wrote today, in flurries as if on a winter’s morn, yet warm and bright in the sun: Creation and Re-Creation at work. Yet also as I wrote, Puerto Rico has suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane READ MORE »
Cynthia Primo Martin honored
We are delighted to announce that Cynthia Primo Martin, a long-time member of SsAM and daughter of the late Bishop Quintin E. Primo, Jr., was recognized in 2022 for the Alumni Wall of Fame at the University of Delaware. Click here to read more In July, 2021, we congratulated Cynthia Primo Martin on the publication READ MORE »
Prayer Services at SsAM
Every weekday at 8am, 5pm, and 8pm. Also on Saturdays at 10:30am. Prayer Services at SsAM are via Video. Click here to see our Facebook Live page. You can watch these services as they are broadcast, or you can play them on demand afterwards. You do need a Facebook account to see these broadcasts. If READ MORE »
Chris White Art Gallery and Shipley Artist Lofts.
Solo exhibit by Roderick Hidalgo • Art Loop Reception, Friday, November 4, 5-9pm “Serious Play” solo art exhibit by Roderick Hidalgo at the Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, at the other end of the block from our church. This exhibit was curated by Andy Vible. Three members of our church consider this non-profit READ MORE »
Rejoice With Me!
A reflection by Danny Schweers, 18 September 2022. At one point in my adult life — I was 28 years old — the Spirit said, “Rejoice with me!” I do not want to say that I heard those actual words or that I heard words at all but that was the meaning. I was called. READ MORE »
Member Profile: Audrey Collins, Drummer
MEMBER PROFILE — AUDREY COLLINS. Social-media photographer Sharon Bryant was at the 28th Annual African American Family Festival on Saturday, September 10, 2022. There she found Audrey Collins (2nd from left) performing with the Wilmington African Drummers. Audrey is a long-time member of our church. Also performing at the Festival was SsAM member Norwood Coleman READ MORE »
Reflection: What is The Daily Office?
Click here to see our schedule of Prayer Services via Facebook. by Christina Brennan Lee. What is The Daily Office? A place I used to go to before I retired. Well, yes and not quite! If you were present during our Annual Meeting in 2022, or, perhaps watched it on SsAM’s YouTube Channel (or are READ MORE »
Power Outage
Reflection of 9-9-2022 by Christina Brennan Lee. On Tuesday, I woke with a good spark of energy. I had my first cup of coffee and tidied up the kitchen a bit. I went downstairs and started a load of laundry. Came back up and poured a second cup of coffee. Then to the laptop to READ MORE »
