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The next deadline for college scholarship applications will be in July 2026.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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
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)
“Developer” and “lawyer” are NOT bad words and it saddens me to hear those words used that way. A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for August 24, 2025. I think of Chris White, who was both lawyer and developer. As a lawyer, he worked for Community Legal Aid Society, which offers free legal assistance to […]| 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)
The next deadline for college scholarship applications will be in July 2026.| 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)
At turbulent times like ours, it is useful, almost therapeutic, to contemplate a message about the power of faith that contains practical examples from the past. A reflection by Bob Young for Sunday, August 10, 2025. Early in Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews, believers are reminded that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, […]| 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)
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)
My head is swirling in words. On Mondays I write pretty much all day ~ well, actually, I sit and ponder and wonder and walk around and sit down and play with consonants and contractions and vowels and grammar and phrasing and sentences and punctuation and paragraphs until they come together in a way that READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to reflect quite a bit. In our present-day world, it is a necessity. I work each day to have time to let my thoughts move to the place where our world circumstances cause me to be confused and perplexed. I then begin to pray about it.| 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)
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What makes a place feel like home? Something more than familiarity. There is a relaxing connection, a letting go of tension, feeling comfortable and safe and something more: a resonance, a connection.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
SsAM Sunday Service Leaflet Bulletin, Schedule of worship and prayer services, Weekly Vision news, and other publications from the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, Wilmington, Delaware.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Every weekday at 8am, 5pm, and 8pm.| 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)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” is a classic song that began as a poem written by Bob Dylan. It was written in 1962 and Bob Dylan recorded it in 1963.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A reflection by Carynn Kelley-Katz for December 15, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Showers and Laundry at SsAM for the Un-Housed began the Week of June 24, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
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A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for May 26, 2024.| 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)
