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2020 UBE Celebrates - Feast Rev Alexander Crummell- Patron Saint Sept 10th & UBE Sunday Sept 13th

9/10/2020

 
Union of Black Episcopalians President Kim Coleman reflects on the contributions of UBE Patron Saint, the Rev. Alexander Crummell.  He was an Episcopal Priest, educator, scholar, abolitionist and organizer against racism. 

We celebrate the feast of Rev. Alexander Crummell on September 10th and UBE Sunday September 13th.  Feel free to add this video to your Sunday Worship Service.

The Rev. Dr. Lynn A. Collins
PHOTOGRAPHY and MEDIA PRODUCTION


Listen to Excerpts of Frederick Douglass' Historic Speech - What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

7/8/2020

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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

– A Video recorded at the Frederick Douglass Circle in New York City

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On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass delivered this speech in Rochester, NY.

The speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," is one of Douglass’ most iconic and thought-provoking presentations and remains a source of critical conversation in our country today.  

This video of excerpts of the speech was recorded at the Frederick Douglaass Circle in New York City. We invite you to listen, reflect and take action in your communities.



The Board of Directors of the Episcopal Urban Caucus, July 7, 2020 
This news item was provided by Fr. Sheldon Hamblin, EUC Board Member.


​*A transcript of the entire speech may be found at: 
https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945
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Episcopal Urban Caucus
P. O. Box 21182

Park West Station

New York, NY 10025

EUC Assembly Email: eucassemblyinfo@gmail.com
https://www.episcopalurbancaucus.org/



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NY1 - st. alban the martyr parishioners return but with masks

7/5/2020

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CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO SEE THE NY1 NEWS VIDEO:
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/07/05/queens-church-parishioners-return-but-with-maskswww.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/07/05/queens-church-parishioners-return-but-with-masks


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the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a terrible toll on the world’s economy, as well as on our relationships, mental health, and lives overall.

6/25/2020

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CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ
​THE LIVING CHURCH/COVENANT LANDON MOORE ARTICLE:
https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2020/06/25/meaninglessness-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
The Rev. Landon Moore is an associate priest
at the Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn
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For more from Fr. Landon Moore, visit his YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtw51Scr856uNFhi_0wPAQg

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St. Agnes Cathedral reopens, while other Rockville Centre places of worship hold off

6/15/2020

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>> Click Here for News Article from liherald.com

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The Church of Ascension in Rockville Centre will reopen on July 5 with social distancing guidelines in place. With Phase Two now in effect on Long Island, places of worship were permitted to reopen at 25 percent capacity on June 10.
CHRISTINA DALY / HERALD

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East Hampton Protestors Demand ‘Stop The Hatred’

6/8/2020

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>> Click Here for News Article from indyeastend.com

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the new world of virtual ministry

5/11/2020

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Stephanie Tonnesen Hornbac of All Saints Episcopal Church in Bayside submitted the following article by parishioner Diana Gilday and SUNY Purchase student who wrote for her campus newspaper about the church’s move to online services due to the coronavirus.  Please click on the following web link to see the article.
>>  ​https://www.purchasenews.org/post/the-new-world-of-virtual-ministry
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Teddy Byrne setting up the live-stream before the first virtual Sunday service on March 15.  (Photo by Diana Gilday)

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bIG CITY: CHARITY, SPIRITUALITY AND CRISIS

4/30/2020

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​How can faith help us face the challenges of coronavirus? How do we manage our desire to help others while maintaining our own safety? Father John Merz, an Episcopal priest in Brooklyn, has answers. Drawing on his disaster relief experiences during Hurricane Sandy, Father Merz shares practical lessons for doing charitable work in times of crisis, as well as spiritual lessons for helping loved ones through one of the greatest struggles of our lifetime. Hosted by Ginia Bellafante, writer of the Big City column in The Times.
>> CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE NEW YORK TIMES AUDIO CALL ON YOU TUBE
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presiding bishop:  what would love do?

4/29/2020

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From The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Word to the Church: What Would Love Do?
In the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, we are now at another one of those threshold moments when important and significant decisions must be made on all levels of our global community for the good and the well-being of the entire human family. In this moment, I would ask you to allow me to share with you a Word to the Church: What Would Love Do? 
Click on the following web link to see the
Presiding Bishop's video message, and transcript.
​https://episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/presiding-bishop-michael-currys-word-church-what-would-love-do

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Indigent Burials

4/27/2020

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Advice please: 

We've been contacted by a local funeral home, because they've been contacted by whatever dept in Nassau County, seeking burial space for the remains of twenty indigent/homeless persons, claiming that there is no space available in public cemeteries in Nassau, and no private or church cemeteries will take them. One of our cemetery committee members suggests that public cemeteries, being state-regulated, are required to accommodate.

Perusing the diocesan directory, I have no idea whom to contact there. I'm also not finding pertinent info on the NYS Division of Cemeteries or Indigent Legal Services pages. 
So, does anyone here have any helpful info to offer? Anyone? Anyone?

Tks

Ian Wetmore+
iancwetmore@gmail.com

St James Episcopal Church
490 N Country Rd
Saint James, New York
(631) 584-5560
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queens clergy - face masks available

4/26/2020

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Dear Queens Clergy,

Through a link I have with Taiwan and a Buddhist community there, I have been connected to a monastic community of theirs here in Queens.

In short, I have been asked to help them distribute face masks through networks of faith and service to people in need (while they continue their own distributing to hospitals, shelters and jails). 

Under this umbrella of need would be senior members of your congregations, immuno-compromised persons, single parents/single persons who have to venture out for groceries etc and, of course, people who are going out to work daily.  In other words, and to put it simply, you would be free to distribute to your members as you see the need.

In addition, perhaps your congregation has an outreach connection with a service organization in your neighborhood and you know they have need.

If you could reply by Tuesday, based on those of you stating the need, I could then let you know approximately how many masks I could get to you.

These are disposal medical grade masks (not N95). There is an easy sanitizing method (low oven heat for a few minutes) which renders each mask reusable up to 5 times).

I pray that you all are well.
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If these masks would be helpful, kindly let me know by Tuesday.

Faithfully yours,

Tom

The Rev. Thomas F. Reese, Rector
Saint Luke's Church
85 Greenway South
Forest Hills, NY 11375
718-268-6021 (office)

Thomas Reese <stlukestom@gmail.com>


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nORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS "ESSENTIAL SERVICE" IN COVID BATTLE / neighbors feeding heroes

4/8/2020

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Friends

The organization our church, Episcopal Church of the Ascension co-founded, North Brooklyn Angels; Neighbors Helping Neighbors has been named an Essential Service in Covid battle. 
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We have been feeding 60% above normal at our 5 sites in North Brooklyn but we have taken on an additional effort called Neighbors Feeding Heroes at Woodhull Hospital. 

This week we began to deliver 3 square meals (300) to all the Doctors and Nurses at Woodhull, in partnership with our friends at Jimmy's Diner (Angel Outpost 1) where we are restoring their worker's jobs by paying them.

Please visit our gofundme, spread some love to the hospital and help local workers too.  Donate here https://www.gofundme.com/f/neighbors-feeding-heroes  

We are scaling up and as of tonight's dinner service added an additional 150 meals per meal per day at Woodhull for newly arrived unpaid military volunteers from around the country. Sadly the need is rising. We're with them through this and beyond, until the wheels come off. 

We are working out kinks on some other exciting projects before public launch so please donate, spread the love on Instagram and Twitter too and check back as more develops.  

Twitter https://twitter.com/nbrooklynangels
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/northbrooklynangels/?hl=en


Stay Safe
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​John Merz

The Reverend John Merz 
Vicar + Church of the Ascension

www.ascensionbrooklyn.org
www.northbrooklynangels.org


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disaster loan programs for eligible non-profits and faith-based entities

3/31/2020

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Information shared by the Rev. Sheldon N.N. Hamblin, St. Paul's Church, Flatbush, Brooklyn
Message from
Lauren Elvers Collins, 
Executive Director
Flatbush Ave. BID & Church Avenue BID  (BID - Business Improvement District)
2244 Church Avenue, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY  11226
These programs are available to commercial property owners, eligible nonprofits and faith-based entities, sole proprietors, etc. We recommend you start gathering your financial information and apply today.

1. SBA's Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available now and include $10,000 you can keep.
These loans for working capital of up to $2 million to help pay bills are now available for any business with 500 employees or less with low interest rates and 30 years to repay. Funds are available within 3 days. Important: If you complete an application, you can request a $10,000 advance during the application process and, regardless whether you are approved for the loan, this $10,000 does not have to be repaid. Apply here. If you have questions, you can get SBA help 24/7 at 800-659-2955.

2. Paycheck Protection Program loan to include partial/full loan forgiveness if you keep all workers on your payroll
Details of this grant are being worked out and the SBA hopes to have them by Friday but we recommend that you contact your local lender to start the process now.
This program will set aside $349 billion for loans of up to $10 million for job retention and some other economic expenses. Loans will be determined by 8 weeks of prior average payroll plus an additional 25% of that amount. Loan payments will be deferred for 6 months. 
Important: once you qualify and receive the money and if you can show that you have kept all employees on your payroll for 8 weeks, this loan will be forgiven for the portion of the loan that is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities. The loans will be very easy to get and will be distributed through local lenders so contact your local lender or bank today to find out if they are offering it. Get more information here.

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Worship on Facebook Live is turning out to be a welcome mat

3/30/2020

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​From the Diocese of LI Clergy Email Listserv
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I just wanted to share, and to see how many others have found this to be the case, that streaming worship on Facebook Live is turning out to be a welcome mat for a lot of folks who have been disconnected from Church, or never connected to it at all.

​In addition to my own friends and family scattered across the continent, a lot of local people have been joining us, whether through being directly invited by a parishioner, or having seen the church's FB invitation as it's been reposted by parishioners, or whatever. I've received positive feedback directly from some of these folks, and indirectly through their fam/friends who are members of St James, for which, "Praise ye the Lord!"
   
May our good and gracious God inspire us who have been locked out of our churches to go out, once this time of trouble has gone by, into the highways and hedges to invite them into the feast.

The Rev. Ian Wetmore
St. James Episcopal Church
490 North Country Rd (Rt 25A)
Saint James NY 11780
stjamesc@optonline.net

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Worshippers from Cathedral of the Incarnation come together to pray — Newsday online

3/29/2020

 
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​Worshippers from the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City attended a service Sunday using Zoom teleconferencing. Credit: Kris Vieira
By Olivia Winslow
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olivia.winslow@newsday.com Updated March 29, 2020 4:47 PM
On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, worshippers from the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City were gathered for morning prayer, though not in the sanctuary.

They were seated before computer screens, tablets or phones in their kitchens, living rooms and elsewhere, as they settled in for service and the discussion to follow through Zoom videoconferencing.

Many said they appreciated the ability to commune with one another — even if only virtually — since the coronavirus' spread has led governments to halt large gatherings and urge people to stay home.

"Being able to pray this way on Sunday morning is a good relief," said one cathedral worshipper, who was among 50 people who joined the videoconference. Said another, "It's wonderful to see you, even though we can't see each other in person."

"It's wonderful to see you all for prayer," said The Very Rev. Dr. Michael Sniffen, a priest who is the dean of the cathedral. The cathedral has a membership of about 800 families, and is the mother church for the 60,000 member Episcopal Diocese on Long Island, he said.

In an interview later, Sniffen said of shifting to Zoom videoconferencing: "We’re really learning on the fly. We’re building it as it happens. For us, it seems like the pastoral connection and seeing each others' faces is the most important part."

Before the service started, Sniffen gave instructions on how to communicate in the videoconference. Parishioners were encouraged to "unmute yourself when we're sharing intercessions and petitions. ... And we do encourage you to pray out loud at home just as if you were in church as we raise our prayers together."

A prayer was said, followed by the hymn "How Firm a Foundation," sung a cappella by the Rev. Canon Michael F. Delaney, cathedral vicar. One line reads, "Fear not, I am with you."

Then in prayer, Father Delaney asked God to "look with mercy on those who have contracted the coronavirus, on all who are vulnerable and on all who feel endangered. Through this time of global concern, by your Holy Spirit, bring out the best, not the worst in us. Make us more aware of our interdependence on each other."

Some congregants asked for prayers for family members who have fallen ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Others sought prayers for the safety of family members who are health care workers and first-responders who are attending to those sickened by the virus.

During the virtual coffee-hour following service, a health care worker, who could be seen wearing a surgical face mask and scrubs — two co-workers similarly clad could be seen standing behind her — said: "We're hanging in there. I'm at work right now. ... I was wondering, if it was not too much trouble, if we can get a special prayer today?"

The Rev. Adam Bucko responded, asking God "To hold them with care, support them, to encourage them, and most of all to protect them. May you please keep them safe, may you inspire all of their actions ... and may you let them know they are never alone." 

Sniffen, in the interview, said of the coronavirus' effect on his congregation: "One of the things that I’m noticing specifically, as a pastoral caregiver, is grief, all the stages: Anger, denial, acceptance, all of those things swirling around because there’s such a sense of loss, on all of the ways we connect."

He said there was "concern for family and friends in the hospital. So it’s really important for us to walk alongside each other to help people process grief, and process it out loud."

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