Six Housing Listening Sessions were held in July, 2025.
Do you have an opinion about redeveloping the parking lot into a hub for housing justice?| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Do you have an opinion about redeveloping the parking lot into a hub for housing justice?| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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in celebration of The Season of Creation Free parking in the SsAM parking lot 713 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 Click here for directions. Jonathan Whitney, drums and musical direction Joe Anderson, trumpet Robert Rutigliano, woodwinds Jeff Knoettner, piano Mike Boone, bass Click here to see more upcoming events.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
We are surrounded by love! Do not tell me my belief is absurd. A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for October 19, 2025. As a photographer, I teach my students who are looking for something to photograph to take time to simply stop and look. It may take time but the world is eager to […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Autumn! What an incredible season! This week we begin to celebrate the Season of Creation, and it seems very appropriate to consider the season of autumn at the same time. A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for October 11, 2025. Autumn is special to me. Most likely all seasons are for each of us in […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Our pledge campaign for 2026 has begun. Our goal, as in years past, is for everyone to pledge who considers SsAM their spiritual home. Click here to make a pledge! Here is what Dan Edgar and Danny Schweers wrote at the beginning of the campaign: We are members of the Stewardship Committee – actually we […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
On September 30, 2025, Fr. Patrick Burke and other advocates responded to the report and recommendations made by the City of Wilmington’s Homelessness Task Force that day. Together the group called for solutions that will make a more meaningful impact such as more emergency shelter beds, access to restrooms and showers, investment in permanent supportive […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
We want everyone connected to SsAM to make a stewardship pledge to support our church for 2026| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Hello, SsAM! My name is Patrick Burke, and it is with joy and excitement that I accept the call to be your next rector.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In this video, we see Tom Palmer, keyboard; Rob Swanson, bass; and Jonathan Whitney, percussion. They performed on September 17, 2023 at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew (SsAM) at a welcome reception for the church’s new rector, the Rev. Patrick Burke.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, downtown Wilmington, Delaware, was created in 1996 when two churches, one black, one white, merged. Our members are lovingly mixed by race, gender, age, career, sexual orientation, education, and senses of humor. We offer wonderful music, too!| www.ssam.org
I would like to share my layperson’s view of some key messages in the early verses of the Gospel of St. John, chapter 4. Now, the disciples of Jesus came while he was speaking to the woman at the well and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
For a couple of years, in the age before COVID, several of us met once a month to discuss the writings of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, theologian, prolific author, and all around fascinating man. A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for September 28, 2025. We used a series of study guides. For each session […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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Wired for God’s Love: How Does the Church Respond to Adolescents?| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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Children’s Chapel continues on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 10:15am. Children’s Chapel for grades K-7 runs from 10:15-11an each Sunday morning in the Demby Room. The program is centered around 3 main components: 1 Sunday per month will be focused on Music, led by Jonathan Whitney, that the children will offer during the 10:30 service once […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In my world, if you do not do it yourself, it does not get done. A reflection by Danny N. Schweers for September 21, 2025. For years, I let my books and other things pile up in what my wife and I call our reading room. I lived with the clutter. I ignored the piles […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Recently I’ve been trying to take a hard look at myself and make some decisions about my life moving forward. I get an email each morning titled “Morning Coffee”. A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for September 14, 2025. When I first got this email, I was intrigued by the title. It is a brief […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Let us reflect on the death and resurrection of Jesus’ friend, Lazarus as found in the New Testament verses of the Gospel of John, Chapter 11. An essay by Bob Young for Sunday, September 7, 2025. We were reminded in previous reflections of the power of faith in shaping our destiny, as well as our frame […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Blessing of the Animals, Sunday, October 5, at both worship services: 8am and 10:30am. God’s animals inhabit the skies, the land, and the sea; we share the earth with them, and like them rely on God’s blessing to sustain and preserve us. We gather in communion and friendship with Francis of Assisi who preached to […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Come and celebrate The Creative Spirit of God’s Creation:| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
“Developer” and “lawyer” are NOT bad words and it saddens me to hear those words used that way. | 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)
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)
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)
Housing Advocacy at SsAM| www.ssam.org
Dearly beloved in Christ,| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
It must be a great disappointment to God, says Mary Oliver, if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.| 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)
Reflections by Danny Nelson Schweers| www.ssam.org
The world has never had it so good. By many indicators — energy use, life expectancy, income, education, communications, fewer deaths due to warfare, etc. — more people have better lives today than ever before. We have so much to be thankful for!| 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)
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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)
Reflections by Christina Brennan Lee| www.ssam.org
“I will light candles this Christmas” is a poem by Howard Thurman that deserves everyone’s attention.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Reflections by Mary Lou Edgar| www.ssam.org
We are quickly moving towards Christmas.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Reflections on Our Christian Faith| www.ssam.org
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)
A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for December 1, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A reflection by the Rev. Patrick Burke for November 6, 2025.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for November 24, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
These words — Be afraid. Be VERY afraid — are usually said in jest. Usually.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
