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News Items at SsAM
News items, recent accomplishments, and praise.
Worship with us this Sunday at 8am and 10:30am!
You are invited to praise God with us this Sunday, October 2, 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 »
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events
Upcoming events at SsAM or recommended by our church. Worship God with us this Sunday, October 2, at 10:30am. You are invited to praise God with us in-person and via video this Sunday, at 8:00 and 10:30am. Click here to learn more. The 10:30am service is broadcast live and is available afterwards on-demand, to watch 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 »
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 and then walk to 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 »
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 »
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 not need to have a Facebook account to see READ MORE »
Chris White Art Gallery and Shipley Artist Lofts.
Solo exhibit by Roderick Hidalgo • Opening, Friday, October 7, 5-9pm • Closing, 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 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 »
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 »
What Is Love?
by Mary Lou Edgar, September 2, 2022. Each of us has probably been in love at one time or another. Maybe it was when we were very young and the intensity of our first major infatuation disrupted everything else in our lives. Possibly it was after we completed a plan for our life and decided READ MORE »
Children’s Chapel begins October 9 at 10:30am.
Children’s Chapel Planning for 2022-2023: On Sunday, October 9 at 10:30 a.m., Children’s Chapel will begin! Recently, Carey Corbin, Celia Corbin, Noel Williams, Mary Lou Edgar, and Moni Edgar met to begin planning a Sunday liturgy for SsAM’s young people. After discussing what the committee members found to be special in the Children’s Chapel before READ MORE »
Feed The Hungry
Please bring food to SsAM to feed the hungry in our community. In September, the “Feed the Hungry Ministry” invites us to bring groceries to church to support the Sunday Breakfast Mission, a Delaware Institution that ministers to women and families, providing nourishment and shelter. The Sunday Breakfast Mission was started 125 years ago, in READ MORE »
Take Four Steps to Peace and Justice
SsAM Peace and Justice Initiative Communication No. 1 by Norwood Coleman, Sr. I am humbled to have been invited to serve as the liaison between SsAM and the Diocesan Justice and Reconciliation Commission. It is my intent to facilitate our church’s efforts by involving as many fellow congregants as possible in our deliberations. I am READ MORE »
The Rev. Deacon Clay Brown
The Rev. Deacon Clay Brown joined the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM) on August 15, 2022 as a newly ordained transitional deacon. Prior to his ordination, he was a member of Christ Church Christiana Hundred. At the request of our bishop, and with the approval of the vestry, Deacon Clay will serve READ MORE »
A Busy Fall at SsAM
If you did not hear Father Jim’s sermon on the last day of July, he announced that he is looking forward with pleasure to serving as our church’s interim rector through the rest of 2022 and into 2023. This was greeted by applause. He made other announcements well worth mentioning. He announced that the members READ MORE »
