Same Sex Marriage at St. Andrew’s

Dear Friends,  As you may know, at this past summer’s General Convention, The Episcopal Church passed a resolution allowing all rectors of Episcopal Churches to perform same sex marriages.  This means that every Episcopalian now has the opportunity to Read more
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Meet our Vestry nominees

The following parishioners have been nominated for the Vestry Class of 2021. We are grateful for their willingness to serve: 

Tonia Graves

Moving to Virginia, it was important our children have a say in choosing our church.  The Read more
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Advent is almost here: Got repentance?

Next Sunday December 2 is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the four-week season of Advent. The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, which means “coming,” or “arrival.” For many Christians today, Advent is the time Read more
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Love always conquers hate

As part of the Prayer Vigil held at St. Andrew’s following the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, cards expressing our grief, and love, were sent to our Jewish friends. This response was received from Congregation Emet Read more
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Some thoughts about solicitations at church

Maybe it’s happened to you: You are coming into St. Andrew’s for a service or volunteering at the front desk or just chatting with a friend in the lobby, and someone comes up to you to ask for money.  Read more
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Veterans Day 2018

There is a time for everything…a time for everything that is done on earth. There is a time to be born and there a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up Read more
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Prayer vigil for Tree of Life Synagogue

Please join us on Monday, October 29 at 7 p.m.for a prayer vigil for the victims of attack on Tree of Life Synagogue in PIttsburgh. 

You can read the statement from Bishop Dorsey McConnell, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese Read more
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The invisible thread

When God took on the form of a human being in Christ Jesus, he experienced all that inhabiting flesh entails – exhaustion, hunger, thirst, pain, birth, death.  Like Jesus, all of have suffered physically, some in extreme and unbearable Read more

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Applications for Lackey Outreach Fund Grants are now being accepted

Thanks to a substantial trust left by Carolyn Lackey to benefit the less fortunate, St. Andrew’s has disbursed over $100,000 to charitable organizations since 2014.  Some of these worthy organizations include LINK, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Menchville House Ministries, Read more
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Take my life

In my 20 years of ordained ministry, I have attended many Confirmation services, and brought many young people to the Bishop to be confirmed. I have great memories of those services, including the joy of seeing each young person Read more
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