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Reader’s Digest – Caring for Neighbors Makes Yardley the Nicest Place in Pennsylvania – Coronavirus couldn’t stop this congregation’s spirit of giving.
Kirkland Reporter – Kirkland churches display Say Their Names memorial – The public display is part of a nationwide memorial campaign out of Portland, Oregon.
Daily Mountain Eagle – St. Mary’s receives United Thank Offering grant – United Thank Offering recently announced the grant recipients for the 2021 granting year. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Jasper will receive funding for St. Mary’s Food Bank Cooler/Freezer Project.
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Caring for Neighbors Makes Yardley the Nicest Place in Pennsylvania
Reader’s Digest
Yardley has a long history as a community that cares. Back in the days of the Underground Railroad, at least five places in this Delaware River town housed runaway slaves. For the past four decades, a good portion of the altruism has been centered at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, whose members meet in the 19th-century parish house every month to fix meals for elderly and shut-in residents across the Philadelphia region.
Barbara Taeffner Kulp enjoyed this generosity twice. “When I broke both my legs, St. Andrew’s fed my husband and myself in such abundance that with great thanks I had to say stop,” she says. “My husband—jokingly, I hope—asked me to break my legs every month because he loved the food.” When he passed away, the cards and calls were “unending,” Kulp says. They helped her know she was never alone. […]
Kirkland churches display Say Their Names memorial
Kirkland Reporter – Kirkland, OR
Kirkland churches are joining in a national movement creating “Say Their Names” Memorials throughout the U.S., putting names and faces to the racial injustice and violence Black Americans have faced.
The Say Their Names Memorial was installed on Oct. 20 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Kirkland, and will be open to the public through November. Masks and social distancing are required.
The memorial along the outsides of churches features 240 pictures of Black victims of systemic racism, including violence from police brutality, since the mid-nineteenth century. It’s also accompanied by donated flowers from local florists that were placed by volunteers who spent hours to put together the display. […]
St. Mary’s receives United Thank Offering grant
Daily Mountain Eagle – Jasper, AL
United Thank Offering recently announced the grant recipients for the 2021 granting year. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Jasper will receive funding for St. Mary’s Food Bank Cooler/Freezer Project. The focus of the granting process this year was “Recovering with Love and Gratitude: An Episcopal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Local Contexts.”
Walker County experienced poverty challenges before the pandemic, and the economic downturn has made the situation even worse. As a result, the St. Mary’s Community Food Bank is serving many new families whose income providers have lost their jobs or hours/shifts due to the pandemic.
St. Mary’s hosts the largest food bank in Walker County, and in 2020 has already given out over 20,000 bags of groceries (retail value over $500,000 worth of food). […]
Renovation adds modern amenities to historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Lenox
Berkshire Eagle – Lenox, MA
Against a sun-dappled autumnal palette, religious and political leaders Thursday celebrated the completion of a three-year, $600,000 renovation project at the historic Trinity Episcopal Church.
The ceremony adjacent to the 1886 church marked the opening of a handicapped-accessible ramp into the parish house, a gathering place next to the church for social events, lectures and community meetings. Five new parking spaces were added, with landscaping planned for next spring.
The project included restoration of an original Tiffany window taken apart and reassembled to fit into the ramp’s doorway.
It also marks the 30th anniversary year of the Americans with Disabilities Act, noted the Rev. Michael Tuck, the church pastor. The civil rights law barring discrimination based on disability was approved by Congress and signed by President George H.W. Bush in July 1990. […]