Deacons Champion Creation Care in West Tennessee
In the Ordination of Deacons, there is a sentence in the Examination stating, “You are to interpret to the Church the needs, concerns, and hopes of the world.” This sentence…
Diocesan Youth Council
The Diocese of West Tennessee is proud to announce the young people selected to serve on the Diocesan Youth Council. To learn more about diocesan youth ministry, go to EDWTN.org/ministries/youth-programs/.…
A home to Happening of West Tennessee for over 30 years, St. Columba gratefully welcomed back teenagers for Happening 70 in February 2023. A spiritual awakening weekend, participants prayed, dance, sung, played Mud Volleyball and had deep experiences with their faith and with each other.
St. Columba and New Growth
When my wife and I moved to Memphis in September of 2018, I entered a world of construction. I had been called to serve as a new associate rector at…
College Night always draws a smiling crowd! College students gather together for prayer, a meal, and fellowship each Sunday evening.
A Place For You to Be: The Barth House
Barth House is a place for you to be. That’s all you have to do—just be. You can study, work, pray, socialize, eat your lunch, use the WiFi, and find…
Recovering Food, Feeding Hope
Recover Food, Feed Hope, an outreach ministry based at Church of the Holy Communion, evolved from efforts to feed the Constance Abbey community during the pandemic. Volunteers started gleaning in…
Growing God’s Holy Garden
Rebirth and restart are themes that have been on everyone's mind over the past year. Questions that we were already asking about the future of organized faith were only pressed…
2023 Bishop’s Missionary Appeal
https://youtu.be/O3thb_kujEc Dear Friends in Christ, For a moment, pretend it's 2033. How do you see your church thriving? Perhaps thriving means your church is participating in meaningful community outreach. There…
Vital Christian Community in West Tennessee
https://youtu.be/LlJ8yBafqR0To our diocesan family:I'm here to let you know about a special edition of our weekly e-newsletter that begins today.Last Thursday at Grace-St. Luke's in Memphis, there was a diocesan…
Holy Trinity parishioner Jeane Chapman and Reverend Hester assemble the more than 800 hearts that were collected. Photo courtesy of Sharon Alexander.
Wrapped In Love: Holy Trinity creatively responds to Alabama Church Tragedy
The Reverend Hester Mathes, priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity and chaplain of the Memphis campus of St. George's Independent School, was traveling when news broke earlier this Summer that a gunman…
