The school is closing; now what?

Dear friends, A number of parishioners have been asking what’s next, now that St. Andrew’s Episcopal School as we have known it is closing.  That is an excellent and appropriate question, one that the vestry and I take very Read more
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Youth Sunday is May 6

We are blessed with talented, intelligent and great young people here at St. Andrew’s.  Our youth are involved in several aspects of church life, including being acolytes and serving church and community through outreach projects. On Sunday, May 6, Read more
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Did you hear that?

From the Collect for Easter 3:  “…Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work…” Easter Sunday at St. Andrew’s, the beginning of Communion – Doug Burgoyne, Sarah Charlock and Dan Waddill Read more
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Alleluia: Our Word for the Season

Finally!  On Easter Day, finally, we welcome the word Alleluia back into our worship – and we do so in droves!  In Easter season, Alleluia is the first and last word of every Eucharist.  We begin with, Read more
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Walking through Holy Week

Dear friends, It has arrived: the holiest time of the year, the days when we commemorate Jesus’ saving actions that give our lives their ultimate hope and meaning.  We are poised once again to walk through the searing sorrow Read more
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Maundy Thursday: What Does It All Mean?

Dear Friends, As we prepare to walk through Holy Week together, I thought it might be helpful to share with you some of the rich symbolism embedded in our Maundy Thursday worship.  Because we do this liturgy only once Read more
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An invitation to Confession…

Dear friends,

One of the five sacramental rites in the Episcopal Church is The Reconciliation of a Penitent, more commonly known as “Confession.”  This is the rite in which a parishioner meets privately with a priest to confess Read more
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EYC to participate in March for Our Lives

Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 A few days after the shootings at the high school in Parkland, Florida, which Read more
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St. Andrew’s makes outreach grants totaling $21,000

In February, the St. Andrew’s Outreach Team approved the carefully considered plan of the steering committee of the Carolyn Lackey Trust to make 2018 allocations as listed below.

Allocations totaling $21,000 were made to beneficiaries chosen with Ms. Lackey’s instruction in Read more

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A call to support St. Andrew’s School

Seventy-two years ago, our church started a school as an educational mission.  The year was 1946.  Since that time, a lot has changed – we all know it, and we feel it.  While we must accept the fact that Read more
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