The St. Andrew’s Multi-Media Outreach effort, coordinated by Father David Bridges, YouTube videos, newspaper articles and ads, Facebook, Twitter and other emerging ministries. The church has placed a high priority on re-vamping its web site as a means of providing up-to-date information to the congregation and general public.
Each Sunday service is videotaped for distribution on YouTube, Facebook and the web site. This outreach project is especially appreciated by people unable to attend the services in person. Judy Campbell coordinates videotaping and Carolyn Rhodes edits the videos for YouTube. We hope other volunteers will step forward to work with audio and video production and management of Facebook.
Weekly columns by Father David Bridges are published in the Grove Sun, sharing faith-based topics and experiences. We also are seeking new ideas for multi-media outreach.
Below are contacts for our various multi-media outreach efforts:
The St. Andrew’s Gift Shop offers quality gifts, cards and supplies at a reasonable price. Many of our cards are from DaySpring, a popular resource for greeting cards, and we are able to offer them for 50 cents each. Proceeds from the sale of items offered go to the Priest’s Discretionary Fund, which helps us to help those in need. We also stock CDs, books, decals and more.
This group tends to the raised-bed vegetable gardens behind the church. Volunteers are welcome to help plant, weed, prune and harvest. The produce raised goes to anyone in the congregation or community, as well as benefiting the Christian H.E.L.P. Center.
The Bluegrass Jam program invites musicians and music-lovers throughout the community to sit in on sessions every Monday evening at 6:00pm – whether just to listen or join in the jam. Father David Bridges, an accomplished guitarist, songwriter and singer, initiated and coordinates this fun program.
On occasion, participants offer up their talents during church fundraisers, such as the annual Fish-Fry. The public is invited to participate.
United Thank Offering (UTO) is a ministry of the Episcopal Church to address compelling human need. UTO provides grants to projects that alleviate poverty, both domestic and international, within the Anglican provinces, dioceses and companion dioceses.
St. Andrew’s issues a call each year for contributions from the congregation to this important cause.
This Episcopal organization works to disseminate books and other publications to targeted audience. For example, contributions go to the “Miles of Pennies,” which helps meet the religious or secular book needs of children worldwide. Other CPC collections are used by the National Book Fund to help seminarians and to provide prayer books and other materials for developing countries as well as some of our own needy congregations.
At St. Andrew’s, we circulate a basket during Coffee Hour to receive contributions for this worthy cause.
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ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 555 E. Third Street | Grove, OK 74344 (918) 801-2203