Every day thousands of people languish in jail simply because they are too poor to make bail. The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization is organizing a Mass Bail Out action to end wealth-based incarceration. The Mass Bail Out is designed to free four hundred women and fifty teens detained at Rikers Island jail. The Mass Bail Out will demonstrate the truth of our inalienable human right: No one should be held in jail simply because they cannot afford the ransom on their freedom. The Mass Bail Out begins this week (October 1), runs for 2 weeks, and volunteers are needed to post bail. The money has been raised, and support services are in place, but we need volunteers willing to do the paperwork and post bail. Each volunteer must attend a 90-minute training and be available for a minimum of 3 hours for the bailout process. A training will be held at St. Paul’s Chapel on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30. Learn more learn more with this link, or speak to Mother Liz. For more details read the Mass Bail Out overview and the Volunteer Trainings.
Newsletter
Parish News: May 24
In this week’s newsletter, the rector notes Pentecost’s reversal of Babel—not by restoring a single language, but by enabling understanding across difference as each speaks and hears in their own tongue. She treasures hearing parishioners read “God’s deeds of power” in many languages during worship, and invites us to consider what it means to speak of God in our own heart language—whether shaped by mother tongue, place, trust, or profound shared experience. In a time of contempt for difference, Pentecost reveals the blessing of many tongues and the Holy Spirit’s gift of mutual understanding across culture, faith, and ethnic background.
