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Bham Now – 15 local clergywomen: what they’re praying for now and where you can find them this Christmas – As Christmas 2020 draws near, we found ourselves wondering about senior clergywomen…
News Channel 6 – Augusta woman creates needlepoint kneelers for Washington National Cathedral – “We’re starting with a lovely project you might call “Stitches for God…”
Daily Commercial – Amid pandemic, church finds new ways to fundraise – “Some of us recalled how for many years parishioner Jody Stokes had a little gift shop at St. James on Sundays and thought it would be the perfect way to raise funds since we couldn’t have the bazaar,” Bonnie Binneveld, the Episcopal Church Women’s President, said…
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15 local clergywomen: what they’re praying for now and where you can find them this Christmas
Bham Now – USA
As Christmas 2020 draws near, we found ourselves wondering about senior clergywomen in Birmingham: who and where are they? What did it take for them to get to where they are now? What are they praying for this holiday season? If they’re having Christmas or Christmas Eve services this year, where can people find them?
We discovered more women clergy in the Greater Birmingham area than we could possibly include. So, we pulled together a group of 15 women leaders representing eight denominations. Keep reading to meet them and find out what they had to say. […]
Augusta woman creates needlepoint kneelers for Washington National Cathedral
News Channel 6 – Augusta, GA
Nancy Hussey is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, on the riverfront in downtown Augusta. In the 1970’s she was a docent at the Washington National Cathedral, where she learned about the wonderful works of art housed there… and the magnificent needlepoint kneelers throughout the chapel.
She’s completed more than a dozen pieces for the WNC. During the quarantine she’s finished her most recent needlepoint, honoring the late President George H. W. Bush. Other note worthy kneelers she’s completed or repaired include those honoring Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton. […]
Amid pandemic, church finds new ways to fundraise
Daily Commercial – Leesburg, FL
St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg traditionally holds its annual bazaar in November, but it was cancelled this year due to COVID-19.
The funds from the event usually brings the church about $20,000, which is used to support local charities throughout the following year. With no bazaar, there would be no budget for good deeds next year.
But for a group of church members, this just wouldn’t do so they created a small holiday gift shop in a vacant church room to sell gift items through the holiday season. […]
“Jingle Bells Organ” at home in a Tallahassee church
WCTV – Tallahassee, FL
One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols was written more than 150 years ago on an organ that’s now tucked away in the chapel of a Tallahassee church.
It’s a quintessential Christmas carol. Jingle Bells was written way back in the 1850′s and is still a holiday staple.
“I think it sort of appeals to nostalgia about Christmases past about when there were actually horse drawn sleighs carrying people through the snow and the tune itself is very catchy, easy to sing and easy to remember,” said FSU Professor Emeritus Michael Corzine.
“I think it’s the carol that we all learn when we are little kids,” said St. John’s Episcopal Church Music Director Betsy Calhoun, “and we have a lot of fun when we do it.”
Just off the sanctuary at St. John’s Episcopal Church downtown, sits the pipe organ on which James Pierpont composed that Christmas classic. […]