This year we are again collecting backpacks and school supplies for the school children in Uganda. We need backpacks (new or used), crayons, notebooks, note paper, pencils, pencil sharpeners, and pens. We will collect the supplies in a basket in the narthex through Sunday, September 30, where we will bless them at the 11am service. No time to shop? You may go to trustlines.org/donate,
EfM is a four year program (students only commit one year at a time) that focuses on “doing theology.” Participants learn to explore and develop their own theological understanding through discussions of Old Testament, New Testament, church history, and living in a multicultural world. Our first meeting on Tuesday, September 11, at 6:00 pm (starting in the Church) will be an open house for
Join us Wednesday evening, August 29, for the last of our monthly summer barbecues — 6:30 p.m. in front of the church, Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street in Greenwich Village. Call the parish office at 212-254-8620 to let us know you’re coming, and what you might like to bring. We hope to see you there!
We have all heard the news of the flooding in the South Indian state of Kerala, caused by the extraordinary rains that came in this year’s monsoon season. This is the most serious flood India has experienced in a century, and is a disaster of historic proportions. The Diocese of New York has long-standing and strong ties to the Church of South India, and
If you missed a Sunday and the sermon, most of the sermons can be heard online the following week at the right sidebar below on this page in the section “From our Pulpit”. You can hear recent sermons such as Father Ed Chinery’s sermon on August 19 all the way back to the first audio sermon posted May 3, 2015, the Fifth Sunday of
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This Sunday, August 19, 2018, the 11am service will take place in the air-conditioned Parish Hall. During the summer months on warmer Sundays the 11am service will take place there. Watch here or in the weekly email for updates. On those days you may enter through the front door of the church on Fifth Avenue or the Parish Hall door at 12 West 11th
Dear Ascension parishioners and friends, Many of you have asked what we can do in response to the immigration crisis of families separated at the border, and now perhaps held in indefinite detention. There are many lists of good options available on the internet, but here are some suggestions based on the research I have done. Continue to call your elected representatives. Urge them
The Centering Prayer group meets every Wednesday morning from 7:30–8:15 a.m. All are welcome! Join us in contemplative silent prayer with friends in the presence of God. Enter through the Chapel doors to the right of the Church entrance on Fifth Avenue in the middle of the block between 10th and 11th Streets.
“Be still and know that I am God.” A still summer morning can be a perfect time to gather in silence and enter into the centrality of God’s presence. Please join us in the Chapel on Wednesday mornings from 7:30 to 8:15 for Centering Prayer. All are welcome! Join us as you are able. Enter through the Chapel doors to the right of the