Governor Kehoe recently announced that Missouri expects a $1 billion shortfall in general revenue in FY 2027. This shortfall is expected mostly because of the implementation of previously passed tax cuts. COVID-related savings temporarily masked the shortfall, and this budget gap has grown as state legislators continued to approve additional tax cuts. The recently passed federal budget cuts will magnify this gap. Over the past five years, extraordinary federal funds designed to address the he...| Missouri Budget Project
Hurricanes, Fires, and Floods and More — Anytime, All the Time, and Everywhere I Choose To Watch, To Listen in Fear, with Tears, with Rage — OR… A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for August 31, 2025. … Or I can take a breath, a long, slow, deep breath, or turn off the 24/7 loud […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A Special Announcement from the Vestry, August 29, 2025. Dear Members of the SsAM community, Matthew 25 reminds us our calling is to care for the “least of these” among us. Our own mission statement affirms our community role: To be an inclusive Christian community which worships God, follows Christ in all aspects of our […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Coffee Hour and Artist Talk in the Gallery, Sunday, August 17, Noon to 1pm. SsAM provides the coffee, tea, and refreshments; the gallery provides space to gather, talk, and enjoy local art. Yonnie, the artist whose work is on display, will talk about her art at 12:30pm or so. The gallery is at the other […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
I have been thinking (as we all have) of our world situation right now and wanted to share with you a prayer written by Marion Wright Edleman. She adapted it from something written by Ina Hughes. A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 17, 2025. Marion Wright Edleman is the founder of The Children’s […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Support Asylum Seekers! Should immigrants seeking asylum be incarcerated? Put in prison? SsAM members met on Sunday, August 10, 2025 to write letters to their federal representatives. You can too! Elizabeth “Ketty” De Los Santos, (in photo, right) a 59-year-old grandmother from Peru and a parishioner of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in White Plains, New […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Organizing meeting for Healing Tree Mentor Program, Saturday, September 27, 10am at SsAM.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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The recently passed budget reconciliation bill prioritizes tax cuts and expands loopholes for the wealthy and corporations while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance – all while adding $3.4 trillion to the national deficit. This legislation leaves hardworking Missouri families behind by providing only modest, temporary tax reductions that are outweighed by the loss of health coverage, food assistance, and other critical benefits – while permanently expanding loo...| Missouri Budget Project - Shaping Policies. Creating Opportunties.
Medicaid (called MO HealthNet in Missouri) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) help keep Missourians and their families healthy and fed, so they can work, succeed in school, and contribute to their communities. But recently passed provisions included in the final budget reconciliation bill (OBBB) amount to the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history and would take health coverage and food assistance away from Missourians, shift costs to states, and make life harder...| Missouri Budget Project
The best art, the best writing, opens up a world to the one who looks, to the one who reads. The medium carries the message but the message is something other than daubs of paint on a canvas or an alphabet arranged into words and paragraphs. A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for Sunday, July READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In reviewing this Sunday’s liturgy, I was inspired most by the words of the Prophet Jeremiah. | Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
HERE&QUEER at Chris White Art Gallery, Friday, July 11, 5-8pm. HERE&QUEER is an open-call Pride exhibition ending on July 11 at the Chris White Gallery. This exhibit connects with, highlights, and supports 2SLGBTQIA+ artists in Delaware of all ages, identities, and experiences. This is an Art Loop reception, one of many in Wilmington. Many other READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Recently I was asked to write prayers for a camp week in another Episcopal Diocese. I felt honored to be asked and accepted gratefully. Their theme for the week is “Creation” — how God interacts with it, especially water. They’ll be using the Thanksgiving over the Water from the Baptismal service in the Book of Common Prayer (pages 306-70) to focus their theme. That gave me quite a bit of material to work with.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In a letter to the congregation, Father Patrick called on everyone active at our church to participate in one of five upcoming listening sessions that begin July 13. Dearly Beloved in Christ, I write to you today to share information about upcoming community listening sessions that we will host in July. Below is information READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
During the 2025 State Legislative Session, lawmakers passed House Bill 594, which exempts capital gains from income tax, making Missouri the only state in the nation that levies an individual income tax that does not also tax capital gains.[i] Capital gains are income generated from the profits individuals and businesses make on stocks, cryptocurrencies, real estate and other valuables. The exemption is expensive and will reduce state general revenue by at least $341 million and likely in exc...| Missouri Budget Project
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The next walks are on Friday, July 4 or 11 (because of holiday), and every first Friday at 5:30pm. They begin in the SsAM parking lot, 713 N. Shipley Street. Join us for a peaceful, prayerful walk through the center of Wilmington to call attention to racial, social, and other injustices. We gather in the READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Dearly beloved in Christ,| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
If you visit our church in the early morning, you will often find people asleep outside our doors, really anywhere that seems out of the way, places where our uninvited guests hope to be undisturbed for a few hours.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
SsAM’s Housing Ministry Working Group.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
“I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word. And, to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now kneel before the Lord, our maker and redeemer.” | Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
So much to do and nobody else is going to do it. It is up to me. The other eight billion people on the planet have other plans.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
“I will light candles this Christmas” is a poem by Howard Thurman that deserves everyone’s attention.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
We are quickly moving towards Christmas.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Worship services downtown Wilmington, Delaware at SsAM -- The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew. Sunday services at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. plus many weekday prayer services. Praise God!| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
SsAM Presents = Upcoming Events at or supported by the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, downtown Wilmington, Delaware.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Everyone wants to fit in. Everyone wants to stand out. In. Out. In. Out. We are all dancing.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)