Tag: Saturday Collection

It’s been sort of slow the past few Saturdays, but today the Saturday collection is back with three stories of local ministry and parish events worth noting.

A miscellany of interesting and encouraging bits from the news – kids against hunger, Lady Gaga Mass, and knitting your way into the royal wedding:

Alternative liturgies are featured in this week’s Saturday Collection, with one congregation doing a modern adaption of Evensong for Superbowl weekend, a PA parish doing a U2’charist to raise funds for the Sudan, and an Interfaith worship service in Rochester NY. There’s an account of a particularly industrious way to raise money for a parish Food Bank and of a different twist to Youth ministry.

This week’s Saturday collection features a parish pet, a personal account of one parish’s involvement in sheltering homeless families, and another parish’s 100 year observance of yearly tradition.

You can tell that it’s Advent out there because this week’s news coverage of the ministries of Episcopal parishes is pretty sparse. That doesn’t mean

This week’s news from parish ministries around the Episcopal Church has rightly focused on the ways congregations are responding to community need especially during the

This week’s collection of parish news around the Episcopal Church has a congregation partnering with local business to renovate a homeless shelter, a parish celebrating three hundred years of ministry to a community and youth sleeping outside in the middle of the city in solidarity.

Episcopal congregations have been busy this week and there are a few interesting stories in particular to highlight: A new interdenominational thrift store with “treats”, a cathedral recreating green-space in the downtown and a parish that now has its own eponymous brew.

This week’s collection brings us stories of medical ministry to people across the country struggling to find appropriate treatment, and two congregations on the west coast finding new ways to reach out and share the Good News with people in their community.

A fire, a protest, and a convention comprise our Saturday collection this week.