Rehearsals continue for our Children’s Choir for girls and boys who love to sing. Rehearsals are held in the church from 12:40-1:45pm on Sunday afternoons in January. The choir will sing on Sunday, February 5, 2019. No prior singing experience is necessary — just a willingness to jump in and have fun! Please contact Amaranta Viera at vieraamaranta@gmail.com for more information.
On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 10:30 AM the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine invited everyone to celebrate of the life and work of Blessed Absalom Jones. The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Bishop of New York, will be the celebrant and The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of Indianapolis, will preach at this
Rehearsals continue on Sunday afternoons for our Children’s Choir for girls and boys who love to sing. Rehearsals are held in the church from 12:40-1:45pm and the choir will sing on Sunday, February 5, 2019. No prior singing experience is necessary — just a willingness to jump in and have fun! Please contact Amaranta Viera at vieraamaranta@gmail.com for more information.
Stop Human Trafficking! Come see this film and join the growing effort to identify and interrupt this heartbreaking, worldwide tragedy! TRICKED: A Feature Documentary, is a shocking, ground-breaking account of the sex industry as seen through the eyes of its key “players”: the exploited, the exploiters, and the cops who try to stop it. NYPD Sgt. Gregory Graves will be our guest speaker. Join
On the 12th Night of Christmas…January 5, 2019 from 5pm-7:30pm there is a celebration at Ascension! Please join us for the last festivities and a wonderful winter holiday celebration, the Twelfth Night of Christmas at the Church of the Ascension this Saturday in the church on Fifth Avenue & 10th Street. Twelfth Night is a traditional time for mirth and revelry, and we will
On the 12th Night of Christmas…There is a celebration at Ascension! Please join us for the last festivities and a wonderful winter holiday celebration, the Twelfth Night of Christmas at the Church of the Ascension on Saturday, January 5, 2019 from 5:00-7:30pm in the church. Twelfth Night is a traditional time for mirth and revelry, and we will have circus performers, wandering musicians, face
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has invited Episcopalians to take up The Way of Love, a rule of life focused on practices for Jesus-Centered Life. This Advent and Christmas season, we will explore these practices through two chapters of the gospel of Luke and conversation about our own faith journeys. All are invited to join after coffee hour on Sundays December 9, 16, 23 and
Family Holiday Concert on December 15, 2018 at 5 PM This year Voices of Ascension has added a Family Holiday Concert on December 15, 2018, Saturday afternoon, at 5 PM. Shorter in length than our regular Christmas concerts but every bit as glorious, this family-friendly program will feature Voices of Ascension, a guest Youth Chorus, organ and trumpet, and an audience sing-along, all amidst
This Saturday, December 1st – Join us from 6-8 pm in the Parish Hall with Byline Bible writers Lisa Daniels, Richard Dodd, Gail Eisenberg, India Garcia, Alex Miller, Susan Shapiro, Lavanya Sunkara, Darnell McGee Saba Ali, Sybil Sage & Gigi Blanchard. Suggested donation is $10 to benefit Gigi’s nonprofit The Kite, which teaches creative writing to inmates of Riker’s Island and homeless youth at
Ascension Outreach & Resistance Cinema Present BURKINABÈ BOUNTY: Agroecology in Burkina Faso on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Parish Hall. Burkinabè Bounty, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, chronicles agricultural resistance and the fight for food sovereignty in Burkina Faso—a small, landlocked country in West Africa. Showcasing activist farmers, students, artists, and leaders in the local Slow Food movement,