Prayer Chalkboard
At the beginning of this ongoing COVID pandemic, we set up a chalk mural for families with children to come to the campus one at a time to place their prayers and see the prayers of one another. It was a big success! Not…
At the beginning of this ongoing COVID pandemic, we set up a chalk mural for families with children to come to the campus one at a time to place their prayers and see the prayers of one another. It was a big success! Not…
Please click on the link below to view the survey results. https://churchofstmartin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Regathering-Survey-Results-Final.pdf
From Robert Fuller-Lynch, The pandemic has upended life, TYGMOS (This Youth Group Meets Online Sometimes) included. In this time, one analogy that I have found helpful to frame my thinking about TYGMOS and youth ministry in general is the idea of a blizzard, the…
Congregational Highlight: St. Martin’s in Davis Achieves Zero Carbon The following article appeared in a a new series that California IPL (Interfaith Power and Light) uses to highlight congregations that are making a difference and inspiring others to do the same. They wrote, “A decade…
The summer 2020 edition of the Episcopal Community Services newsletter highlights the work St. Martin’s and our partners have done with the Families Together Project. Launched in 2019, this program has been a critical piece of our social justice and outreach work, as well…
Ask who Atticus Finch is, and most will remember him from high school English as the heroic lawyer defending an unjustly charged African-American man in To Kill a Mockingbird. Ever since Harper Lee imagined him into life in 1960, the name “Atticus Finch” has become shorthand…
Intimidated or confused by Zoom? Think you might like to participate in St. Martin’s Zoom worship services as a reader or leader of Prayers of the People but not sure of yourself in using this technology which is new and somewhat mysterious to many…
On June 15, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a new rule, “Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review.” The proposed rule is one among many actions that have been aimed at…