Posts from December 2021
Year-end contributions
As you pray over your year-end donations for 2021, please consider making a donation to the Episcopal Church in North Texas. This will help support diocesan ministries and support to congregations, including mission and outreach grants. There are several options for your gift: A gift to a specific ministry, organization, or group, such as the United Thank Offering (UTO), Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), the diocesan disaster relief/recovery fund, Christian education, support to seminarians, or scholarships to Education for Ministry…
Christmas Eve services
The congregations of the Episcopal Church in North Texas invite you to spend Christmas Eve with them. Bishop Scott Mayer’s Christmas Message Watch Bishop Mayer’s Christmas Message, and/or read the text. services ARLINGTON St. Alban’s Episcopal Church holding services at Theatre Arlington 305 W. Main, Arlington, TX 76010 Christmas Eve Las Posadas Procession Event, a reenactment of Joseph and Mary’s search for a place to welcome Baby Jesus, followed by Holy Communion 3 pm Friday, December 24, in Theatre Arlington…
We are all Mary
This is Bishop Scott Mayer’s Christmas message to the Episcopal Church in North Texas. Watch it below or on YouTube. The video is close captioned. Or you can read the text of the message below. We are all Mary As we have moved through Advent, we have kindled one candle after another to lighten the gloom of the mid-winter world. Those candles illuminate the approach of Christmas, preparations for which began very early as people hunger for cheer…
Blue Christmas services
The holidays are often the loneliest time of the year for those who have experienced some kind of recent — or not so recent — loss in their lives. Whether the death of a loved one, loss of a job, divorce, death of a dear pet, loss of health, or some other loss, a Blue Christmas service is space in which to acknowledge our losses and our pain, and to take comfort in God’s love and care for us, especially…
Chanta Bhan ordained priest at All Saints’ School
Marcia Chanta Bhan was ordained to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Gayle Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts, on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, in the All Saints’ Chapel at the All Saints’ Episcopal School. The Rt. Rev. Carol Gallagher, Regional Canon for the Central Region of the Diocese of Massachusetts, was the preacher. The Rt. Rev. Scott Mayer, bishop of the Episcopal Church in North Texas, assisted. The Rev. Bhan is the Interim Middle School and Upper…
Bishop Scott Mayer and Lutheran bishop visit St. Christopher/St. Matthew’s
Bishop Scott Mayer and Bishop Erik Gronberg, bishop of the Northern-Texas Northern Louisiana Synod/Mission, made a visit to a joint service of St. Christopher at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. St. Christopher has been worshiping there since they lost their building in the conclusion of the litigation. Bishop Gronberg officially installed the Rev. Lesley M. Radius, the pastor of St. Matthew’s, and baptized Harper Frame. Bishop Mayer confirmed Don Hicks, Jerrel Nichols, Hannah Saito, Gerry Graham, Ian Wiley, Dennis Scoggin and…
Bishop Mayer visits St. Mary’s, Hillsboro
Bishop Scott Mayer visited St. Mary’s. Hillsboro, on December 5, 2021, the Second Sunday of Advent. It was his first visit to the congregation since they have moved into their new worship space — which they have created out of a former Bank of America Drive Thru facility. They are using one large room for worship and the other for their Parish Hall. An added luxury for them is that their Parish Hall has bathrooms. When they shared their historic…
New podcast focuses on challenges, joys of small church ministry
Please note that the Rev. Allison Sandlin Liles of St. Stephen’s, Hurst, is part of the leadership of this national group. Ann Arbor, Michigan—The Small Churches Big Impact Collective (SCBI) is pleased to announce the launch of its new podcast of the same name. Episode 1: “Welcome to Small Churches Big Impact Collective” will be released on December 2, 2021, with six additional episodes to be released weekly. The podcast can be found via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you…