News From the Back Door Food Pantry

The following letter was recently sent via email to Back Door Food Pantry volunteers. We’re posting it here to keep you, our friends and supporters, up to date. July 7, 2020 Dear Back Door Food Pantry Volunteers and Friends, We hope you and your dear ones are...

Make Us Brave

May God make us brave. May God root us in our own and others’ absolute belovedness. May God grant us a vision for beloved community and lead us with care and boldness on the sacred path toward that dream. Amen. -the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the...

Racial Injustices: The Time to Act is Now

Our long-term commitment to racial justice and reconciliation is embedded in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. We will still be doing it when the news cameras are long gone. Opening and changing hearts does not happen overnight. The Christian race is...

Prayer for Social Justice

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart [especially the hearts of the people of this land], that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in...

May/June Vestry Notes

(Highlights of recent Vestry meetings) Zooming: Your Vestry continues to meet via zoom. In May the Vestry transferred $20,000 to the Haiti Outreach Mission from the Haiti Outreach Mission account where wine auction and other funds designated for Haiti were being kept....