Are you someone who loves to come to church, but can’t get here on your own? In other words, do you need a ride to church?
Are you someone who would be willing to drive someone else to church and back?
If so, please fill out the form below to let us know and we’ll do our best to try and match you up!
Not savvy with our online forms? No problem! Call the Parish Administrator, Anika Rinker at 817-431-2396 or email her at stmartin@stmartininthefields.org.
Sisters of the Spirit will begin discussing Lone Star Spooks by Nate Riddle on Monday, October 11.
Take a ghostly tour of Texas and discover what creepy tales lay hidden in its old buildings and gloomy corners. – amazon.com
This quick read will conclude on October 18. Our next discussion begins on October 25 about Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah.
Sisters of the Spirit (SOS) is a group for women who are interested in exploring their faith through book discussion and the shared experience of friendship. SOS meets weekly at 1 pm Mondays in the small parish hall or by Zoom to discuss books from many genres, and all women are invited.
Contact Kerry Angle, kkangle@prodigy.net for more information and to get on the email list to find out about books, events, and more, or to join the conversation by Zoom.
Want to feel more connected during Sunday service at St. Martin’s? Have a prayer request that didn’t make it into this week’s bulletin? Use the LIVE CHAT feature on YouTube during the live stream worship on Sunday Mornings at 10:30 am.
If you want to enter a prayer request, give peace, or comment on the music during the service, you can use the Live Chat feature during the live stream on our YouTube channel. We’ll post your comments at the musical interludes during the offertory or the postlude, or if it’s a prayer request at the appropriate time during the Prayers of the People. Using the Live Chat feature can help us feel more connected to our worship community.
In the summer of 2020, Eagle Scout Chris McSwain planned and built two raised beds and irrigation to help begin a community garden, and so our Good News Garden began!
The Episcopal Church, in response to needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic and with the guidance of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, created the movement called “Good News Gardens.” St. Martin’s elected to join this important movement.
“We believe that one thing that love could do right now is call a community of people with the ability to plant gardens of all sizes and kinds
together – from small pots of herbs to hundreds of acres of corn – in order to share the love of Christ through word and action, food and labor. We believe that one new and sacrificial act of love that we could offer is to commit to planting more, praying more, and proclaiming more, in order to share the loving, liberating, and life-giving Good News of God’s love with all people.” – episcopalchurch.org/good-news-gardens
St. Martin’s goal is to help provide fresh produce to 4Saints Episcopal Food Pantry, whose needs for supplies have only grown since the start of the pandemic. So many families have found themselves in urgent need of food, and 4Saints is able to help them through donations like this!
But more than that, this community garden will help to bring people back together in a shared mission of awareness and appreciation.
Interim Rector Ron Pogue sums up the mission: “This project will be especially helpful at this time for parishioners who miss gathering at St. Martin’s for worship, prayer, study, and service.”
Currently, we have five garden leaders: Norma Barbier, Kayla McSwain and family, Linda and Dick Seeber, and Liza Goodner who have been diligently working in the garden. We have already grown broccoli and lettuce and were able to donate green beans and small tomatoes. This spring we have planted tomatoes and okra, and plan to do more as the season progresses.
St. Martin’s members or anyone else who wishes to be a part of this project are encouraged to join in the creation and maintenance of our Good News Garden. Youth members who participate can also earn service hours!
If you are interested in being a part of the Good News Garden, please let us know! Seeding, weeding and general upkeep will be needed continually.
Please contact us or sign-up if you’d like to get involved.
Do you have a home garden and find yourself with too many zuchini, melons, or other produce? Consider donating them! Contact Liza Goodner for details.
We currently have a budget of $1,100 for things like soil, seeds and water for the Good News Garden. Your continued donations will help us maintain an amazing garden.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church
PO Box 1149
Keller, TX 76244
Following the guidelines of The Episcopal Church, St. Martin’s invites you to use their tools and practices of evangelism. You already have the skills you need.
Episcopalians are passionate about proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ in our words and actions. Through the spiritual practice of evangelism, we seek, name and celebrate Jesus’ loving presence in the stories of all people – then invite everyone to MORE. – episcopalchurch.org
Read, study and follow the guidelines here.
Introducing a Practical Theology of Episcopal Evangelism
Are you interested in an Evangelism Study Group? One is in the works! Please contact Ron Hitchcock at ronhitch33@gmail.com or 972-741-4064 if you’d like to participate, or have any questions about evangelism.
If you invite God into your life, beware. There may be no going back. If you open your life to God’s Holy Spirit – if you dare to pray, with your heart, “Come Holy Spirit,” there is no knowing where the Spirit may lead you. This I do know: God did not create you to live life in the shallows, to fritter your life away. God created you to be fully alive. -Br. Geoffrey Tristram, Society of Saint John the Evangelist