'St. Mary’s Hillsboro' Tagged Posts
St. Mary’s celebrates 150th
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hillsboro, the oldest continuing congregation in the Episcopal Church in North Texas, celebrated their 150th Anniversary on Saturday, March 26, with a reception, and a worship service on Sunday, March 27. Bishop Scott Mayer presided and the Rev. Paula Jefferson preached. The Rev. Canon Janet Waggoner served as the bishop’s chaplain and the Rev. Bryn Skelton Caddell proclaimed the Gospel. Proclamation At the reception, Megan Henderson, city manager of Hillsboro, read a proclamation declaring March…
St. Mary’s, Hillsboro, prevails in bequest dispute with ACNA
[Episcopal News Service] A county court has affirmed that a North Texas Episcopal congregation is entitled to a large bequest from a former parishioner, rejecting the claim to the money made by a breakaway congregation that is aligned with the Anglican Church in North America, or ACNA. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hillsboro received more than $1.3 million from the estate of Hendley McDonald after he died in 2017. ACNA officials laid claim to the bequest, arguing the money rightfully belonged to…
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…
St. Mary’s, Hillsboro, worships in new space
The congregation of St. Mary’s, Hillsboro, who earlier this year lost their historic building to people who left The Episcopal Church, worshiped in their new space at 301 S Waco Street on Sunday, June 27, 2021. For several weeks, they worshiped in a borrowed office space while they looked for something more permanent. Then a local businessman offered them a vacant bank drive-through facility on a main street in town. All they had to do was clean it up and…
St. Mary’s Hillsboro: Episcopalian as a verb
This is the reflection the Rev. Paula Jefferson of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller, wrote after she spent a recent afternoon working with the people of St. Mary’s, Hillsboro. St. Mary’s is one of the congregations shut out of their building after the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear our appeal, letting stand the judgment of the Texas Supreme Court awarding Episcopal Church property to a group that left The Episcopal Church in 2008. Jefferson leads worship at St.…
Bishop High visits St. Mary’s, Hillsboro
Bishop Rayford B. High, Jr., visited St. Mary’s, Hillsboro, on Sunday, December 21, 2014, where he celebrated and preached. There was a luncheon afterward at the home of David and Roberta Skelton. See more photos at the diocesan Flickr gallery. Watch of video of the bishop’s sermon, “Nothing is impossible with God.”