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bIG CITY: CHARITY, SPIRITUALITY AND CRISIS

4/30/2020

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.

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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

AT ST. JAMES

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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.

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.

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

John Merz
The Reverend John Merz
Vicar + Church of the Ascension
www.ascensionbrooklyn.org
www.northbrooklynangels.org

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bIG CITY: CHARITY, SPIRITUALITY AND CRISIS

presiding bishop: what would love do?

Indigent Burials

queens clergy - face masks available

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queens clergy - face masks available

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

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