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 »
News Items at SsAM
News items, recent accomplishments, and praise.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Josh Martin Honored
Joshua W. Martin III, a long-time member of our church, was featured in the Spring, 2022 issue of Delaware Lawyer. The article, written by David B. Brown, begins with Josh learning about life by shining shoes at his father’s barber shop. Much later in life he was appointed to the Delaware Superior Court and then READ MORE »
