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: Thomas READ MORE »
News Items at SsAM
News items, recent accomplishments, and praise.
25th Anniversary: Memories of the First 25 Years of SsAM
Time Capsule The time capsule from the Tenth Anniversary was opened in 2021 and the contents were displayed in Crypt Hall for several months. As of August 5, 2022, folks have been working on collecting items for the new time capsule and we are ready to order the capsule itself whenever the contents are ready. READ MORE »
Remembering Helen Roberts Thomas
by Pat Saunders, August 8, 2022. Helen Thomas was one of the few people I already knew when I moved to the Lorelton Retirement and Assisted Living Community seven years ago. She, too, was a member of SsAM, and although I didn’t know her well, at 94, she was a sweet, charming and absolutely “sharp READ MORE »
Reflection: To Do, To Be, or Not To Be
To Do is To Be ~ Socrates To Be is To Do ~ Plato To Be or Not to Be ~ Shakespeare We in western culture are a doing people. Independent, pull-ourselves-up-by-our-bootstraps kind of people, where asking for help is considered, at least internally, as a weakness. Who hasn’t grown up with the saying God READ MORE »
Volunteer with the Choir School of Delaware
The Choir School of Delaware is a local after-school program. The school offers a unique opportunity to minister to community youth. Our church members volunteer and invite you to volunteer as well. The Choir School supports local youth by providing musical training, leadership and language skills, academic support and college-bound mentoring. Needed: Mentors and Other READ MORE »
Put Your Name Forward for Diocesan Office
Diane Clarke Streett hopes you will consider running for a Diocesan office of leadership! Deadline for nominations is Friday, August 20, 2022. Click here to learn more on the Episcopal Church in Delaware website. As members of the Episcopal Church, we all share in its leadership and oversight, often by serving on parish and diocesan READ MORE »
General Convention 2022 in Baltimore
News from the 80th General Convention, 2022 Click here to see the YouTube video of Maryland Bishop Eugene Sutton’s challenge the Episcopal Church to “tear down the walls” of division across both church and community, to do it with love, truth-telling, reckoning, and reconciliation. Racial justice, reconciliation, and healing topped the agenda of the 80th READ MORE »
Pledge Form, On-Line Payment Link
If you want to make your pledge to SsAM for 2023, you can use the on-line form found below. It does NOT ask for bank account or credit card information. Your pledge is only seen by one person at the church, the church administrator. If you would prefer a paper pledge card, please click here READ MORE »
Reflection: What Does Freedom Mean?
by Mary Lou Edgar. Freedom. We hear it all the time, and especially now as we approach Independence Day and celebrate our freedom from the British in 1776. As a child of the ’60s, there was much music that made freedom a household word (Everyone Has Got to be Free, Born Free). At the heart READ MORE »
Spiritual Music in Wilmington, Delaware
Here are some details about the sacred music being performed in Wilmington, Delaware, much of it choral. In particular, we call your attention to the Choir School of Delaware and the Wilmington Children’s Chorus. Wanted: Alto, Tenor and Bass staff singers beginning September, 2022 at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew. Sunday services READ MORE »
Reflection – Stitched Love
“There’s going to be a scar,” the doctor says. We are so grateful. We were so afraid. We expected the worst, now we have hope. We put ourselves in the doctor’s hands. Jesus told Thomas to touch his side, there where the spear went in; to touch his hands, there where they put the nails. READ MORE »
Support For Ukraine
Episcopal Migration Ministries Episcopal Migration Ministries welcomes refugees, educates communities, and mobilizes congregations to advocate for the protection and rights of all migrants. Click here to visit the Episcopal Migration Ministries website. Relief and Development As we pray for an end to violence and for those fleeing Ukraine, please also pray for Episcopal Relief & READ MORE »
Johannes Chow wins Earth Day recognition
Johannes Chow, a 12-year-old seventh grader at Brandywine Springs School in Wilmington, was recognized for the video “We Have Only One World”. DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin recognized student winners from throughout the state who won this year’s Earth Day video contest hosted by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The contest READ MORE »
Reflection: The End of Separation
On the Day of Pentecost, Christians celebrate the end of separation — separation from God and from each other. Pentecost is the day the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples of Jesus. We, like them, followers of God, are no longer separate from God. On this day the Holy Spirit began dwelling in every human READ MORE »
Reflection – May We All Be One
I was starting down a different path for this piece. And then the news of the school shooting in Texas hit and on the heels of the horror in Buffalo. Tuesday was the 199th mass shooting THIS YEAR, 2022, 27 of which were at schools. In 2021 there were 693, six-hundred ninety-three, mass shootings in READ MORE »
Dr. Joseph E. Johnson Recognized by City of Wilmington, Delaware
Highlands Elementary School has been re-named for Joe Johnson. Highlands Elementary School was re-dedicated and re-named for Joseph E. Johnson on Monday, May 23, 2022. Mayor’s Press Release The former school superintendent, Army veteran, civil rights activist, and long-time member of our church died in Wilmington on April 21, 2020, at the age of 85. READ MORE »
Reflection – We All Deserve A Chance
by Mary Lou Edgar. Many of you know that I worked in adoption and foster care for my entire career. May is Foster Care Month and I thought I would share how my work relates to my spiritual life. I knew I wanted to adopt children when I was very young. I thought about it READ MORE »
National Issues and the Episcopal Church
Women’s Health May 7, 2022 — Since 1967, The Episcopal Church has maintained its “unequivocal opposition to any legislation on the part of the national or state governments which would abridge or deny the right of individuals to reach informed decisions [about the termination of pregnancy] and to act upon them.” In light of the READ MORE »
Reflection – Listen to the Word Proclaimed
Imagine yourself at the theater, you’ve settled into your seat, ready for the curtain to open. You have your script of the play open and ready to follow as the curtain reveals the actors, and the dialogue begins. The lines on page one move quickly and as the actors are speaking, there’s an uneven rustling READ MORE »
Books and Videos 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. Developing a SsAM Bibliography… We are developing a bibliography of books (and articles). This bibliography is part of that effort that began when 60 of us met on June 26, 2020 to discuss READ MORE »
