Posts by Katie Sherrod (Page 29)
Presiding bishop to visit Parker County, refugee ministries
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry will be in the diocese April 6-8. On Thursday morning, April 6, Bishop Curry will tour Parker County and take a look from afar at the scale of Walsh, the new community being built on the site of the Walsh Ranch west of Fort Worth (it’s not open to the public yet). Parker County is the site of a new church plant being funded in part by a grant from The Episcopal Church. The anticipated…
Lay leader Owanah Anderson died Friday
This tribute to Owanah Anderson was written by the Rev. Bruce Coggin, who served as a “circuit rider” for Wichita Falls Episcopalians after the departure of a former bishop and other leaders from The Episcopal Church. —————- Early in the morning of Friday, March 24, Owanah Patricia Anderson “walked on” from this life to the next. She died with her son and others gathered to her. She will be buried at 10 am Wednesday, March 29, 2017, from All Saints’ Church,…
Church planter hired for Parker County
The Rev. Hunter Ruffin has been hired as the church planter for Parker County. In early March the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church approved a $100,00 grant to the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth for a church plant in Parker County. Parker County is the site of Walsh, the new development west of Fort Worth on what was the Walsh Ranch. It is currently the largest buildout in the United States. Ruffin will begin work in early June. The grant is…
Join Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at kick off dinner
All are invited to join the Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, for a dinner launching the New Life Fund: Growing in New Ways fundraising campaign at 6 pm Friday, April 7, at Colonial Country Club (Map below). Free valet parking will be available at the front door of the club. The New Life Fund: Growing in New Ways campaign will raise $200,000 over a two-year-period in matching funds for the $600,000 in grant money from…
All invited to join Women of the Passion in retreat
Everyone — men as well as women — is invited to take part in a half-day Lenten retreat at St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Saturday, March 25. A light lunch will be served, so please RSVP to martelmarsha@gmail.com so enough food can be prepared. “Women of the Passion: A Journey to the Cross” is based on a book of the same name. It will start with registration at 8:30 am. At 9 am,…
Clergy reaffirm ordination vows
On Tuesday, March 7, 2017, the clergy of the diocese, led by Bishop Scott Mayer, reaffirmed their ordination vows, collected chrism for healing and baptism, worship in Holy Eucharist, and shared a collegial meal afterward. The annual event, this year at St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth, is usually held during Holy Week, but given how busy a time that is, it was moved to an earlier time in Lent. See more photos at the diocesan Flickr gallery. Read…
Bishop Mayer visits St. Stephen’s, Hurst
Bishop Scott Mayer made his first official visit to St. Stephen’s, Hurst, on Sunday, March 5. He preached and celebrated. After Eucharist, the worship space was quickly transformed into a parish hall, with tables set up for lunch. After lunch, Bishop Mayer met with the vestry. Read the text of the sermon. St Stephen’s Hurst 2017 1 Lent – Year A March 5 Watch a video of the bishop’s sermon below, or on YouTube. Click or swipe through to see more photos…
Join us for Lenten programs
The liturgical season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for approximately 40 days before culminating in Easter Sunday. Ash Wednesday was on March 1 this year. On Ash Wednesday, priests take ashes made from the burning of palms from the previous Palm Sunday and make the sign of the cross on people’s foreheads as a symbolic reminder of our mortality. Lent traditionally has been a time of retreat, reflection, and repentance, a time to clear away the distractions of…
4Saints blessed and officially opened
Bishop J. Scott Mayer and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price joined with Bo Soderbergh, director of the Tarrant Area Food Bank, and Patricia Callahan, president of the 4Saints Episcopal Food Pantry board, to cut a bright red ribbon tied to two fully loaded food carts. With that symbolic act, they officially opened the food pantry, which has been functioning since mid-January. Prior to the ribbon cutting, the Rev. Karen Calafat, priest in charge of St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort…
Bishop Mayer baptizes, confirms, receives at St. Luke’s, Fort Worth
Bishop J. Scott Mayer visited St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth, on Sunday, February 12. He baptized Daun Harner-Weeks and confirmed Tracy Bechtel and Amanda Harner-Weeks. Patrick Callahan reaffirmed his Baptismal vows. See more photographs at the Diocesan Flickr Gallery. Read the bishop’s sermon: St Luke’s in the Meadow 2017 6 Epiphany – Year A February 12 Watch a video of the bishop’s sermon below or on YouTube.
Star-Telegram covers refugee family being helped by Episcopalians
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a story on Friday, February 2, 2017, about the family of Syrian refugees who arrived late Wednesday night. Read excerpts from the story below. Syrian refugee family arrives in Fort Worth during pause in travel ban Fahmi Mousa Al Kazma has been looking for a safe place to raise his six children since 2011, when militias forced the farmer out of his village near Aleppo, Syria. The family’s new safe haven is a four-bedroom apartment…
WFAA Channel 8 covers Episcopalians helping refugees
Reporter Lauren Zakalik of WFAA interviewed the Rev. Tracie Middleton as part of her report on a refugee family settling in Fort Worth. Watch the news story and read the transcript below. Since 2011, the Mousa Al Kazma family has been looking for a place to call home because the place they called home isn’t safe enough to call home any longer. The family of eight, including two sets of twins, is from Aleppo, Syria. After years of living as refugees…
National Cathedral to offer Holy Eucharist for Peace
A Holy Eucharist for Peace will be offered at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, also known as the Washington National Cathedral, at noon on Friday, February 10, 2017. This service includes hymns, readings from Holy Scripture, a sermon, and Holy Communion. The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, will preach and preside. All are welcome. The service will be live streamed here.
Solemn Evensong at All Saints’ Fort Worth February 12
All are invited to experience Solemn Evensong at All Saints’ Episcopal Church at 6 pm on Sunday, February 12. The All Saints’ Choir will sing under the direction of Frederick Grimes, organist and choirmaster. In a fully choral service of evensong, all of the service except the penitential introduction, lessons, and some the final prayers are sung or chanted by the officiating cleric (or a lay cantor) and the choir.
Faith leaders plead for refugees
On Wednesday, February 8, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published an Op-Ed article from several local faith leaders opposing a religious test for admitting refugees and offering reasons for offering them succor. The signatories included Episcopalians: the Rev. Carlye Hughes, rector of Trinity, Fort Worth; the Rev. Canon Janet Waggoner, canon to the ordinary; the Rev. Gayland Pool, retired priest of the diocese; and the Rev. William Stanford, rector, St. Christopher, Fort Worth. You can read the article below or at…
All are invited to food pantry opening
The blessing and grand opening of 4Saints Episcopal Food Pantry will be at 10 am Thursday, February 16, at St. Luke in the Meadow Episcopal Church, 4301 Meadowbrook Drive, Fort Worth, 76103. The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer, bishop of Fort Worth, will bless the space. Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, Bo Soderbergh, Executive Director Tarrant Area Food Bank, and Jeanette Scott of the Tarrant Area Food Bank also will speak briefly. Fort Worth Bishop Scott Mayer said, “The Episcopal Diocese…