Angel Tree 2021 Donations Due By December 11 This year we will support the mothers and children from Friendship House’s Empowerment Center. We are asking members of SsAM to participate by donating either $25 or $50 gift cards from either Visa or Walmart so that the mothers and older children can purchase gifts. Please drop 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.
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events
Here is a list of upcoming events at SsAM or recommended by us. 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Services are now in-person. They are also televised live and on demand afterwards on YouTube. As the Season of Advent begins, the Rev. Deacon Cecily Sawyer Harmon will preach on Sunday, November 28. Our new HVAC system READ MORE »
Chris White Art Gallery and Shipley Artist Lofts
“Held in Bloom” Paintings by Chloe McEldowney. Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, Delaware. You are invited to see the paintings of local artist Chloe McEldowney. Of her work, she says, “For me, painting is the endless pursuit of understanding. On the surface, my paintings portray a singular figure, but my work READ MORE »
25 Years at SsAM: The Two Rectors Talk
Father David’s post of October 29, 2021 — My heart is full after the conversation between Canon Casson and me last Sunday afternoon. It would have been very easy for the two of us to have continued sharing beyond the hour and fifteen minutes. I would be remiss if I did not thank Jonathan Whitney READ MORE »
Prayer Services at SsAM
Every weekday at 8am, 5pm, and 8pm. Also on Saturdays at 8am and Noon. Prayer Services at SsAM via Video. Click here to see our Facebook Live page. You can watch these services (and our Sunday services) as they are broadcast, or you can play them on demand afterwards. You do not need to have READ MORE »
Monthly Walks for Justice and Peace in Wilmington, Delaware
First Fridays at 5:30 p.m. Next walks are December 3, 2021 and January 7, 2022. For over a year, members from SsAM and other churches have been showing up for silent Walks for Justice and Peace in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. These prayerful pilgrimages are hosted collaboratively with First & Central Presbyterian Church. We gather in READ MORE »
Memories of the First 25 Years of SsAM
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew (SsAM), in 2021 members shared some of their memories of our church’s first twenty-five years. Older posts are first; newer at the bottom. She Said, “Please Come Back” by Pat Saunders It was December 30, 2006. I had moved READ MORE »
Children, Youth, and Young Families
Gateway to the Future – SsAM Youth Programs A church-wide Zoom meeting was held on Sunday, August 29, 2021 to determine the future of youth programs at SsAM. Comments harvested from our young people and their parents on Youth Programs were shared. That was followed by an interactive discussion of the topic. Strengthening youth and READ MORE »
Join A Listening Group!
Change in Meeting Dates Because the Episcopal Church Women’s monthly meeting is the second Saturday of the month, Fr. David has decided on the following schedule of Saturday meetings that will not conflict with ECW. Our first small listening group will meet on the following days from 10am to Noon: September 18 and 25, READ MORE »
Friendship House, Ministry to the Homeless, Wilmington, Delaware
Since the pandemic hit in March, 2020, Friendship House has been hard at work ensuring that those who experience street-level homelessness have access to bathrooms, hand-washing stations, food, and water. Click here to visit the Friendship House website. Friendship House is unique because it focuses on serving where gaps exist. For the gentleman living on READ MORE »
New Carillon at SsAM
In August, 2021, the bell tower was cleaned and a digital carillon was added. The carillon is all new, pre-programmed with about 200 hymn tunes plus different sounds, including bells, chimes and bagpipes. The carillon can be custom programmed and timed remotely from a tablet and played wirelessly in real time from the organ console. READ MORE »
Get Involved with “Last Stop to Freedom”
Father David’s post of July 16, 2021 — Please join me in supporting the “Last Stop to Freedom” organization. “Last Stop to Freedom” is what Wilmington, Delaware was called by Harriet Tubman and the enslaved Africans who escaped with her leadership. The underground railroad brought the enslaved seeking freedom to Wilmington and then they were READ MORE »
Going Deeper: Clergy Spirituality and Leadership
Small Listening Groups with Father David; and, “Entering the Same Door, Differently”. Father David’s post of July 9, 2021 — This past week I have been participating in the second year of a two-year residency program created by the Shalem Spiritual Institute in Washington, DC. I am away this week at a retreat center on READ MORE »
Adult Education Offerings: July to December, 2021
• “From Shared Trauma to Imagining the Future” Retreat • “Faith Talk About Race” 6-session program • “Deeper Relationships with God” 5-session small groups Last week I shared with the parish that a one-day retreat will be offered likely in July entitled, “Entering the Same Door Differently”, which will give participants time to share their READ MORE »
In-Person Sunday Services Have Begun
In-person worship services have begun on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.! The Sunday services are also broadcast on YouTube. After each broadcast, the services are available on-demand for you to watch when your schedule allows. The installation and testing of our new HVAC system is complete, as is the “deep COVID-level” cleaning. Click here to see READ MORE »
SsAM 25th Anniversary Continues!
25th Anniversary Time Capsule We invite you to help us develop the 25th Anniversary Time Capsule to be buried in 2022. Click here to send D-L Casson, our church administrator, your ideas about what should be placed in the time capsule. Suggested items for the time capsule are due by December 19, 2021. Items that READ MORE »
Photos: People in Church after 15 Months Away
On Sunday, June 6, 2021, seventy-seven people came to the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware to worship God. This is news because the numbers attending SsAM in-person have been zero for most of the last 15 months. We have been worshiping via video, not in person. We continue to READ MORE »
Way of Love Pentecost Revival Weekend
Father David’s post of May 14, 2021 — In 2021, the Season of Pentecost begins on Sunday, May 23. The Day of Pentecost is also known as Whitsunday and many of us will wear red on that day, to remind us of the fire of the Spirt. Pentecost, the coming of the Spirit of God, READ MORE »
Worship at SsAM: Sunday Leaflet, Church News, and More
SERVICE LEAFLET (Order of Worship) Leaflet for Season of Creation 7 – November 21, 2021 – The Cosmic Christ SERVICES IN PERSON AND VIA VIDEO In-person worship is offered on Sundays at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Worship via video is also offered on Sundays for the 10:30 a.m. service. There will be a single READ MORE »
Racial Justice and Reconciliation in Delaware
Newly Formed: The Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission of The Episcopal Church in Delaware On May 25, 2020, the world witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement. This brutal event reawakened many to the ongoing reality of racism within individuals and systems. In response to that tragedy, Bishop Brown created READ MORE »
