Church of the Redeemer’s Social Justice Education Program will show the 68-minute 2012 film Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the US on Thursday, January 24, at 7:30. This film, exploring the intersection of race, poverty, and our criminal justice and penal systems, demonstrates that people of [...]

Pittsburgh Youth Initiative will be attending the St. Peter's Youth Group's 4th annual Winter Wake Up Call! The youth concert will take place January 26th at St. Peter's Episcopal Church 4048 Brownsville Road in Brentwood.  Doors open at 6 p.m., with the concert starting at 6:30. Tickets are only five dollars. Bands include: Sanctified, All We Are, Wendigo, [...]

Calvary Camp has announced the schedule for the summer of 2013. A full description of each session is available on the programs page of the camp's web site.    Coed Session I, June 16-22; Coed Session II, June 23-29; Ready, Set, Camp!, June 30-July 3; Day Camp, July 1-5; Coed Session III, July 7-13; Coed Session IV, July 14-27; Coed Session V, Jul 28-Aug [...]

Dear Friends in Christ: On Saturday, February 2nd at Trinity Cathedral, the diocese will celebrate the life of Absalom Jones, the first African-American ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. We will be privileged to have as our preacher the Rev. Angela Shepherd, Canon for Mission in the Diocese of Maryland. I encourage you to [...]

Dear Participants of any diocesan Anti-Racism Training Workshop,  The first reunion of workshop participants was a huge success last year and those attending requested another. Please come to our second Anti-Racism Training Reunion – January 25, 6- 9 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 378 Delaware Ave., Oakmont, PA 15139. Appetizers start at 6 p.m. and dinner [...]

Pittsburgh Youth Initiative would like to invite anyone involved (or interested in being involved) in youth ministry around the Diocese to a light breakfast. The event will take place at Calvary Church in Pittsburgh from 9:30 to 11:30am on Saturday, January 19th. The get-together will give us a chance to discuss past and future events [...]

News Flash! Based on the success of the 2010 Habitat for Humanity project, the diocesan Social Justice and Outreach Committee (SJOC) has identified and plans to adopt another house to renovate in partnership with Habitat in 2013. In the spring and summer of 2010 the SJOC helped renovate a house in Sharpsburg for a refugee [...]

  Congratulations to Jessie Hipolit, a member of the diocesan Commission on Ministry and Program Director of a new Lay Ministry Initiative, on receiving a $20,000 Roanridge Trust Award Grant to help the diocese develop and equip lay persons for ministry.   "This is a real indication of how far we have come as a diocese," said Jessie. "I believe [...]