Each day in Advent, please set aside groceries for local community food banks using the calendar below. Then take your groceries to church every Sunday in Advent or wait to take everything in on Sunday, December 19. Or donate directly to your favorite food pantry. And say a prayer over every item, for the people READ MORE »
News Items at SsAM
News items, recent accomplishments, and praise.
Four Steps To Quiet Stillness in Prayer
Father David’s post of 11/19/2021 — “Be still and know that I am God” — from Psalm 46 — is the Bible verse I say each morning at the beginning of my twenty-minute sit. I begin by saying each word slowly. Then I repeat the verse, removing words from the end of the verse READ MORE »
Angel Tree Gift Giving At Christmas
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 »
Worship With Us In Person and Via Video
Praise God with us in-person this Sunday at 8:00 or 10:30 a.m. Or worship with us via YouTube video at 10:30 a.m. Video services are available on-demand after each broadcast. The Rev. Canon Lloyd S. Canon, Rector Emeritus, will preach on Sunday, November 21 on “The Cosmic Christ” as the last of our Season of READ MORE »
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 »
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 »
Parish Development Clinic, December, 2021
Father David’s post of 2021-11-12 — The Order of the Ascension is offering a three-session opportunity in December 2021 to reflect on several central issues and dynamics of every church. Participants will be from parishes throughout the country. There is no fee for the program offering through Zoom, but registration is required. There are a READ MORE »
Season of Creation
The Season of Creation is a 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 features guest speakers, storytellers and artists, contemporary liturgy, readings, dance, music, and other art READ MORE »
Undee Sunday at SsAM in Wilmington, Delaware
Undee Sunday happens every November at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, Wilmington, Delaware when we collect thermal underwear for the homeless. November 14, 2021 was our most recent Undee Sunday. With the winter and cold temperatures approaching, our homeless friends are in dire need of long underwear. Along with your pledge READ MORE »
Network Delaware
Network Delaware works in the areas of leadership development, policy change (safe communities, reproductive justice, smart justice) and civic engagement. As of November, 2021, our own Drew Serres is the Executive Director. Are you looking to get more involved and learn how to make a difference in our community? Network Delaware is a community of READ MORE »
Feed The Hungry
Please make a donation to a local food pantry or bring your donations to church. Children and families in our community are going hungry. You can help! As the coronavirus hit our community, local food pantries sprang into action to ensure that children, families, and individuals would not go hungry. The virus presented challenges that 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 »
Holy Currencies at SsAM for 2022
Explore with us the Holy Currencies of Time and Place, Relationships, Truth, Wellness, Money, and Gracious Leadership. Holy Currencies is a way of thinking about the dynamic exchange of all our resources, not just money – the inward flow to renew and strengthen internal relationships and to increase the graciousness of leadership – and the READ MORE »
Money and Soul Are Deeply United in Stewardship
Holy Currencies, A Profound River — Money and soul are united on a deep level of stewardship. This truth is reappearing from the deep stream of wisdom traditions after centuries of almost total splitting and separation at the conscious level. [1] There is un río profundo, a river beneath the river. The upper stream has 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 »
Books About Race, Race Relations, and Racial History – A Bibliography
Here is a list of books, articles, and videos 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). This bibliography 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 »
