Eucharist – from the Greek meaning “good gift.” Bishop Cate Waynick visited St. Andrew’s on February 12th sharing a message about the “good gift” we have been given through the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. The gift begins with “leitourgia” – a public work at private cost. The gift begins with the incarnation – the Holy Trinity agreeing to send part of itself to be enfleshed and live among us. The gift continues – it is not ...
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Thank you everyone for the wonderful turn out for pancakes, sausage, fellowship and jazz. Thank you to Pam for decorations. Thank you to Jim, Thom and Page for the wonderful cooking. And thank you to the jazz players – wonderful music.
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church has welcomed the students in the DePauw Community Service program as partners in the work of the Putnam County Non-Food Pantry.
Students Sharon Maes, Courtney Crosby and Sandra Bertin helped out in late January. These students encouraged other DePauw students to join them in supporting the project. At the DePauw Community Service Fair, 23 students expressed interest in the program.
These students will help transporting cases of items for the pantry, as well as organizing the pantry, preparing ...
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The people of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 520 E. Seminary St., Greencastle, invite members of the community to join them…
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Victor can’t see and he can’t walk. But he had a dream. To be an acolyte at his parish in the Diocese of Atlanta.[1]
“I’m so sorry, but you can’t see and you can’t walk, so you can’t be an acolyte.” A knee-jerk reaction that too often is “we can’t do that” or “we’ve never done it that way.” It’s comfortable to do things the way we have always done them. It’s safer to do things the way we ...
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Kathleen Norris in her essay on preaching says that one of the best parts of what is often a difficult task is the opportunity to delve deeply into the text. Each time she reads and studies the text on which she is preaching, she learns more – she sinks deeper into the word of God. Sermon preparation can be wonderfully fascinating as individual words and the whole text are studied and questions arise. Each time we read or hear the ...
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This is a day of great joy for St. Andrew’s. We welcome a new Senior Warden and we commission the Search Committee for the next Rector for this parish. New beginnings- filled with excitement and anticipation and perhaps a little bit of anxiety. We read earlier about the call of Samuel to move into the next phase of his ministry to the Lord. Up to this point, Samuel had been ministering under Eli. The voice of God had not been ...
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