Mar 21, 2025

Every day at 7 a.m. for over 17 years, a team of volunteers has served hot breakfast to the people who have spent the night at the shelter and many more unhoused people who come to the walk-up window. The Episcopal churches of Greensboro staff the project each Tuesday, and St. Andrew’s has been an active partner since the beginning. Besides sending volunteers, we regularly pledge financial support through our Mission & Outreach. Please continue to lift up this ministry in prayer. The need continues to grow, and financial gifts are also needed. If you would like to sponsor a Tuesday breakfast, your gift of $312 will cover food costs for the week of your choice. $25 feeds one guest for three months, $50 for six months, and $100 feeds one guest for a whole year. Give by check with memo “Episcopal Breakfast” to Greensboro Urban Ministry, 305 W. Gate City Blvd., 27406, or online using the link below.
Sep 8, 2024
Come to Our Fall Kickoff and Parish Picnic
This is a joyous time to gather as a parish, meet new friends, and prepare for a fall season of fellowship, formation, and worship. Please join us after worship for an all-parish picnic with activities for kids, church tours, and an opportunity to add or update your church directory listing and photo! We look forward to sharing a warm St. Andrew’s welcome as we begin a new program year.
Sep 8, 2024
St. Andrew’s is Hiring for a Part-Time Facilities Manager
Have you always dreamed of more house to take care of? Do you binge watch re-runs of “This Old Church?” Are you unflustered by minor flushing adjustments? If you answer yes to one or more of these questions, St. Andrew’s would love to hear from you—by email, please! Send your resume and two references to parish@standrewsgso.org. The Part-Time Facilities Manager at St. Andrew’s will maintain and oversee the property, ensuring the church campus is clean, safe, and functional. This includes collaborating with clergy, staff, vestry, congregational leaders, and outside contractors. This is a part-time managerial and task-oriented role reporting to the Parish Administrator, with varying hours week to week, based on need. Please see the job description at https://bit.ly/StAHiringPTFM for details, and feel free to share with potential candidates.
Sep 8, 2024
Adult Formation Begins September 15 with a Book Study on A Voice in the Wilderness
Sundays at 11:15 a.m., September 15, 22, 29 (Cloister)
In 2022, The Next Big Idea Club listed A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems (Basic Books) by Joseph L. Graves, Jr., as one of its 26 best science books of the year (https://bit.ly/Top26ScienceBooks2022). In May 2023, Christianity Today published a scathing review of the book written by the anti-science Discovery Institute. And a month later, the scholarly journal Black Theology hailed it for its “prophetic voice.” A Voice in the Wilderness is an exploration of the scientific career of Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr., who is a St. Andrew’s parishioner. This month, we will offer a three-week formation study to discuss the main themes of the book: racism within science and how Joe Graves became the first African American evolutionary biologist; how to have a productive dialog between faith and science; and what evolutionary science can tell us about how to solve some of our biggest social problems. We hope you will start reading now and join us Sundays, September 15, 22, and 29, right after worship. Our study will focus on Chapters 1, 9, 10, and 14. The book is available for order through local book sellers and online.
Nov 24, 2020
Give: A Reflection by Pat Baker
When I ponder the word “give”, the first thing that comes to me is that for such a short word, it is complex in its meaning. I went to my dictionary to find that there are 16 definitions, many with subheadings for the word “give.” And that doesn’t include the numerous words given as synonyms. Where to start?
One of the first responses I had was to rank myself, considering if, and/or how, I measured up. When it comes to resources, do I give to those causes that are important to me to the fullest extent I am able? How about volunteer time? Do I give of the time that, in retirement, I have in such abundance? Relationships? Do I give my utmost to build and strengthen the relationships that enrich my life?
I tested the waters by dipping my toe into several of the other definitions and synonyms given, and after a bit of time reflecting in that manner, I found that I repeatedly came back to the idea of give as a bending, a flexibility, a reaching, if you will.
A beautiful picture that came to me was of the incomparably lovely, to me, white birch trees that are so much a part of the New England landscape. One of my fondest memories is admiring them as they bent themselves under the stresses of winter, giving themselves to the requirement of the season.I was also reminded of my Yoga practice. I once practiced a very physical form of Yoga. It challenged me, and I greatly enjoyed it. However, with advancing age and the lingering effects of significant injury, I can no longer keep up with that practice. What is available to me, however, is the practice of deep stretch Yoga that, when safely taught and practiced, helps keep muscles and tendons flexible, maintaining my body’s ability to give so that movement remains not only possible, but enjoyable, and reminds me always, as the psalmist says, to praise God, my maker, because I am “fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Ps 139: 13)
And then I came face to face with the reality of the situation in which we now find ourselves: a global pandemic that shows no real signs of abating, almost surely partially due to a slowness to give, to bend and stretch, into the new ways of being that we are told are, and will probably remain, important in our attempts to overcome the illness as quickly as possible.
Along with the physical illness we are experiencing, we have also had to come to grips with another illness that infects us: systemic racism. I’ve heard people say that we may be noticing more the instances of brutality against our brothers and sisters of color because many of us are watching more television, and reading more newspapers due to having less to occupy our time and attention in this time of dealing with COVID-19. If that is indeed the case, then I am grateful to God for giving us this path that we can follow toward acknowledgment of the terrible cost of, I believe, our most egregious sin – the institution of slavery. The aftermath, and remaining vestiges of the horrifying practice of forcing our brothers and sisters conscripted by ruthless human traders into living as chattel of other human beings has sickened our common life as surely as has the germ of the corona virus. And here I found my dictionary helpful again in defining “give” as to “undergo or submit to change,” going on to use as an example “if the plan is to succeed, stubborn objections will have to give.”
Toward the end of ensuring the “plan” to build a more loving and inclusive world does indeed succeed, I wonder if we might try and visualize ways in which we can give of ourselves, our hearts and minds to change, to stretch in the direction of love and concern for all those around us; undertaking to, even in the smallest of ways, bend ourselves as do the beautiful birches, into a different stance, submit to any bit of movement in our thinking and being about all our brothers and sisters gloriously made in God’s own image.
If that seems daunting, which I must admit it often does to me, let us, who live blessed by our connection in Christ, remember that we have the ultimate embodiment of this kind of giving in our Lord. One of my most cherished pieces of liturgy in our faith tradition is in the Eucharistic Prayer’s reminder that Jesus “stretched out his arms upon the cross, and offered himself, in obedience to your will, a perfect sacrifice for the whole world.” The enormity, the totality, of that stretch, that sacrificial gift strikes awe in my heart every time I hear it.
Let us wholeheartedly and thankfully accept that perfect gift, and seek to share it as we give our own stretching, bending, and movement toward the wholeness our loving God desires for us.
Apr 1, 2020
Outreach Opportunity
As this virus seriously disrupts our ability through church to collect and distribute food to those in need at the food pantry, we humbly suggest that you replace your donation of canned foods etc. with a check for an amount to cover several weeks.
Checks should be made payable to – One Step Further Food Pantry and mailed to them, in c/o First Christian Church 1900 West Market Street 27403. Please remember to list St.Andrews on the memo line.
Please Help Us, Too
We know this pandemic will affect us all financially. We do have to continue paying all bills and payroll during the suspension in activities. If you are able, please mail in your pledge, add us to your online banking or pay through our website .
Apr 1, 2020
Clergy Connection – During this time, our rector,
Reverend Ginny Inman, will be offering pastoral care through e-mail, phone, and
video chat. If you would like to connect, please email her at ginny@standrewsgso.org
Errand Ministry – If you need errand help to get
things such as groceries, pet food, or prescriptions, please contact Kimberly
Rathburn at parish@standrewsgso.org or
at 336-275-1651. If you would like to volunteer to help with this
ministry, please email Doug Sanecki at outreach.ministry@standrewsgso.org
Prayer and Connection Circle
We will be praying for those on our prayer list daily by name,
as well as the concerns of our church, community, and world. We are also
gathering a team of people ready to be in regular contact with those who would
like phone calls, e-mails or notes. If you are called to this ministry or
would like to be added to our prayer list, contact Kimberly Rathburn at parish@standrewsgso.org or
at 336-275-1651.
Apr 1, 2020
Online – Jesus Today: A Book Study
Wednesdays at 11:00 am Meeting ID: 312 933 827 https://zoom.us/j/312933827
In
Father Albert Nolan’s book, Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom,
he proposes a practical spirituality for today based on an analysis of the
spirituality of Jesus and the challenges of our 21st century
culture. Eight-week study led by Rev.
Tricia deBeer and Rev. John deBeer.
Online – Choir Gathering
Wednesdays at 7:30 pm Meeting ID: 122 489 113 https://zoom.us/j/122489113
A
time to gather, check in, and share musical sustenance during these days of
quarantine.
Online – Hearing the Gospel
Thursdays at 10:30 am Meeting ID: 591 492 036
https://zoom.us/j/591492036
This
weekly bible study uses lectio divina to reflect together on the Gospel for the
coming Sunday. No preparation is
required and all are welcome.
Apr 1, 2020
Here is a great Holy Week Spiritual Resource Guide which offers guidance on how to observe this important time at home. Instructions are even inclded to help you make your own palm cross!
Sunday Worship with us online via YouTube Live
Worship on Wednesdays – we will offer a prayer office from the Book of Common Prayer through ZOOM. Check our website or Facebook for additional times.
Wednesday, April 8 to May 27 at 9:00 am – Each Service Varies Meeting ID: 220 749 041 https://zoom.us/j/220749041