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Mission and Outreach
at Saint Mary's
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Honduras Mission 2008
On January 14 - January 20, 2008, a group from Saint Mary's and several other churches in the Diocese, led by Ms. Rebecca Weiner Tompkins - a Postulant for Ordination to the Diaconate sponsored by Saint Mary's - will go to Honduras. Please speak to Ms. Weiner Tompkins for more information.
In 2007 Lyson Bazile, John Beddingfield, Julie Gillis, Michael McNett, Sue Moshier, Justin Myers, Andrew Smith, Rebecca Weiner, and Kathy Wenner visited the Church of San Juan Evangelista in Tegucigalpa. They helped with children's programs, construction and gardening projects.
In 2007, during the season of Lent, Saint Mary's parishioners and friends fasted a meal or two a week and put that money toward the Maundy Thursday offering, which went entirely to our friends in Honduras. We were able to send $5,000 for support with the weekday lunch program and with support for the micro-businesses that are growing through the parish.
AIDS WALK NEW YORK
SUNDAY, MAY 18
Walk with the Saint Mary’s Team - Support the Saint Mary’s Team
Join the Saint Mary’s AIDS Walk team, now in its third year. In our first year, we raised almost $10,000; last year, we raised more than $17,000. In 2008, our goal is $20,000 and 30 walkers. We’d like to exceed our goal. Join us now, contribute to our team. Stand up in the fight against HIV / AIDS! 
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The purpose of Ecclesia Ministries of New York is to form and support communities of faith. These communities are reflective of the broad spectrum of society, but are largely made up of the people who live on the streets without suitable shelter or other resources. Each "church" worships out of doors in public space; spaces which already attract street people and serve as common ground for meeting and social discourse. These churches offer the same mutual support, pastoral care, and worship as traditional communities of faith, but with increased emphasis on needs and issues common to the marginalized of our society.
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Thanks to those who contributed toys.
Many thanks to those who contributed toys, books, and clothing for the Saint Nicholas Celebration benefitting AIDS Action International. The gifts were taken to the cathedral on November 28 for the Saint Nicholas Celebration that evening at 7:30 PM. Volunteers from the New York City Police distribute the gifts to Saint Mary’s Children’s Hospital AIDS Home Care Program, Montefiore Medical Center’s AIDS Family Center, Saint Mary’s Episcopal Center, Bailey House and A Better Place.
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Thanks to the Saint Mary's Team in the AIDS Walk
THANKS TO ALL WHO SUPPORTED THE AIDS WALK
Fourteen Saint Marians and three friends of the parish walked in the AIDS Walk New York on May 14 and close to $10,000 was raised. Thanks to those who coordinated, who gave, who prayed and who walked. The Saint Mary’s team was one of the largest from an individual church and joined the other ten churches in the Episcopal Response to AIDS group. The entire walk raised over six million dollars that goes to over fifty local agencies who work with persons who have HIV/AIDS, with families of victims and with treatment and prevention.
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A Poem reflecting on a Mission to Honduras
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Help us establish Ecclesia Ministries of New York
The purpose of Ecclesia Ministries of New York is to form and support communities of faith that are reflective of the broad spectrum of society, but are largely made up of the people who live on the streets without suitable shelter or other resources. The "church" will worship out of doors in public space; spaces which already attract street people and serve as common ground for meeting and social discourse. This gathering of people as "church" will then offer the same mutual support, pastoral care, and worship as traditional communitites of faith, but with increased emphasis on needs and issues common to the marginalized of our society. If you're interested in helping in any way, contact Father Beddingfield.
For information on the parent program, Ecclesia Ministries - Common Cathedral, see Ecclesia Ministries
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 Saint Marians help with Homeless Count
Local Opportunities for Mission
Bag Lunch Program
Every Saturday morning at 9:45 AM throughout the year, volunteers gather in the Parish House of Saint Thomas Church (One West Fifty-Third Street) to prepare between 350 and 400 bag lunches consisting of soup or fruit cup, a sandwich and cookies. Distribution of the lunches along routes in mid-Manhattan begins at 11:00 and is completed by 12:30 PM.
Common Ground and Street2Home Initiative
Saint Mary’s works with Common Ground Community to help move people from homelessness to housing. Several times a year, there are street counts of the homeless in West Midtown. Also, Saint Mary’s is working to help develop the Jacob’s Tents program that helps parishioners be good neighbors with the homeless in our area.
Encore Senior Services
The Encore Senior Services Center located at Saint Malachy’s Church, 239 West 49th Street, needs volunteers to help with visiting seniors in their homes, hospitals or nursing homes; escorting and shopping for seniors, packing and serving meals at the Senior Center or assisting with activities. For more information about volunteer opportunities, call 212-591-2910.
Food Pantry at St. Bart’s
The Food Pantry at Saint Bartholomew’s Church (50th Street at Park Avenue) provides non-perishable food for eligible persons once a month. To volunteer, contact the Reverend J.D. Clarke at 212-378-0200.
Hartley House
Hartley House, located at 416 West 46th Street, offers programs to serve the changing Hell’s Kitchen community, offering the Home Outreach Program for Elders (HOPE), after-school programs for children, and educational programs for all ages. To find out more about how you can help further the mission of Hartley House, call 212 246-9885.
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
The Soup Kitchen at Holy Apostles (Ninth Avenue and 28th Street) serves 1,100 meals everyday to the homeless, elderly and the working poor. To find out more or to volunteer, contact call the coordinator of volunteer programs, Clyde Kuemmerle, at 212- 924-0167 ext. 237.
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 The Church of San Juan Evagelista
Global Opportunities for Mission
The Church of San Juan Evangelista, Villanueva,Honduras
We will be visiting our friends at the Church of San Juan Evangelista in Tegucigalpa January 15, 2007 through January 21, 2007. Though we will know more as time draws closer, we will most likely be involved in some programs with the children of the village, a construction project, the effort to provide good meals for the whole parish during the work week, and a mentoring project with some of the young adults. In late summer or early fall there will be a meeting for those who are interested in hearing more about the upcoming trip. The overall cost of the trip per person would be around $1,100.00. Each person pays his or her own way so that all of the mission funds raised by the parish may go directly to the people of Villanueva.
Diocese of Chennai (Madras), India
Department of Liturgy and Music
Dr. Randall Giles is an appointed missionary of the Episcopal Church. Since 2000, he has been working with the Church of South India's Madras Diocese, as director of its department of Liturgy and Music. In that capacity, he has mounted workshops and short courses for church musicians in the diocese, an annual Summer School of Music specifically designed for Village church musicians, and workshops for parishes wanting to work through issues of liturgy and music's place in it. He has initiated a large project to restore several of the nineteenth century pipe organs in the city of Chennai (formerly called Madras), where no work on maintaining these instruments has been able to be done for many decades. Interest in this work has spread to other localities in South India, where pipe organ restoration has begun with European builders engaged to do the work. Join us at Saint Mary's as we continue to discern new ways of supporting Randall and the church in South India. For more information about the ministry there see www.randallgiles.org
The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Sagada, Philippines
In 1904 the Reverend John Staunton, former curate of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York City, established a mission in the mountains of Luzon, Philippines. Out of this mission grew the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Mary’s School, and many other programs to help the Igorot people. As the Episcopal Church in the Philippines moves toward full financial self-sufficiency, there increasing opportunities to be mission partners with the parish and the school in Sagada.
Office of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations, New York, New York
The ministry of the Anglican Observer is essentially to interact with various entities of the United Nations and of government missions and covey the concerns of the Anglican Communion. The office works with appropriate Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies and also aims to keep the Anglican Communion informed about United Nations initiatives and how they could benefit from, or be effective partners to UN programmes. Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Matalavea, Anglican Observer, is a friend of Saint Mary’s, and Brother William Jones, OSG is a member of Saint Mary’s. To volunteer, contact Brother William at 212-716-6263.
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