updates

As we prepare for the beginning of the program year in September, I wanted to update all of you on what is happening at Memorial.


First, we miss you. I hope you will join us (in person or on zoom) for Homecoming Sunday - September 19th. We will continue to follow all necessary COVID protocols and are working on a way to make sure children who are not yet eligible to receive the vaccine can fully participate. Below are some additional updates.


  • The Memorial Makes Room campaign is nearly complete. We are still looking for approximately 25k in pledges towards the effort.

  • The renovation work is set to begin in mid to late September. Join us for homecoming as we say goodbye to the old cork floor

  • The Guy Hollyday Justice and Reparations Initiative has reached its financial goal for 2021, though we still would love to have you make contributions or sustaining pledges going forward. A neighbor of the church emailed me this week to let me know they had set up a regular monthly payment from their account directly into the fund. What a great model!

  • We are currently searching for a Children's and Youth Minister and a Parish Administrator. If you or someone you know might be interested, please let us know!

  • The Rev. Natalie Conway is dealing with some health issues this month and will be taking some time off. Keep her in your prayers and say hi if she joins us on zoom from time to time!

  • Our Annual meeting will be January 23, 2022. We will be electing between 4 and 6 new members to the vestry. I would ask that you all prayerfully consider whether this is something you are called to.


That's all! See you in Church!


Grey+

Join Our Team

Memorial Episcopal Church is seeking a Children’s and youth minister to serve on our staff. Are you interested in joining our team?

Memorial Episcopal Church

Children’s and Youth Minister Job Description 

Memorial Church is seeking an energetic and young at heart person of faith to lead Children and Youth Programming in Mid-Town/West Baltimore. The Children and Youth Minister has overall responsibility for the ministry and outreach to Memorial Children

This position involves three principal efforts:

  1. Planning, teaching and coordinating Children and Youth Programming at Memorial Church (with parent support) including Sunday Morning Children’s Chapel, Youth programming and Sunday School.

A) Utilizing the ‘Prayground’ space during services

B) Organizing two seasonal ‘Sunday school’ programs           (Christmas Pageant and Palm Sunday Pageant/Parade)

C) Helping to integrate children into the worship at Memorial

D) At least monthly afternoon and evening programs for children and youth 

  1. Creative online programming and content through social media, zoom or other mediums to connect children with each other and the church

  2. Once a quarter Justice and Reparations actions for children and youth to engage with the surrounding community. 

Qualifications

Previous experience working with young children in a faith based setting

Submit to a Criminal and financial background check

College Degree preferred

Previous Education and Experience with Christian Children’s Ministry desired

A Faith in our savior Jesus Christ and a willingness to share God’s love with the World

Experience with social media, email, multi-media communications required.

Willing to complete ‘All God’s Children’ child abuse prevention program (provided free by the Diocese of Maryland)

Compensation: 

Salary: $20 an hour

Basic Health Insurance for the Candidate

Start Date: August 15th, 2021

Hrs: 30 hours a week

Days: Sunday, Tues, Wed, Thurs (Saturdays on occasion for events)


Length of Agreement - One Year. Possible extension if mutually desirable. 

To apply please submit resume and cover letter to grey@memorialepiscopal.org


Transfiguration: 12 PM, Friday, August 6th

Or join us in person at Noon on Friday, August 6th!

Sign-up no longer required.

To join us online, all you need to do is click on the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen to follow along. We recognize that all of us have different levels of comfort with technology - we will do our best to help everyone do what they need to feel comfortable and participate!

Two tips for Zoom worship:

1) Let us see your face! If at all possible, please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance. 

2) Please mute yourself unless you have a speaking role in the service. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute yourself unless asked. However - even when you are muted, please do respond to the prayers and readings, as we are all worshipping together. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84992001341?pwd=QUMvMFYzZU9HQkRLVmxISkVPRGlIQT09

Meeting ID: 849 9200 1341

Password: 563025

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (Germantown)

+19292056099,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (New York)

One tap mobile
+13017158592,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

Meeting ID: 876 9436 6639

Password: 729226

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdoU8Ii34Q

E-Church 9:30am, 8/1

Or join us in person! Sign-up no longer required.

To join us online, all you need to do is click on the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen to follow along. We recognize that all of us have different levels of comfort with technology - we will do our best to help everyone do what they need to feel comfortable and participate!

Two tips for Zoom worship:

1) Let us see your face! If at all possible, please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance. 

2) Please mute yourself unless you have a speaking role in the service. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute yourself unless asked. However - even when you are muted, please do respond to the prayers and readings, as we are all worshipping together. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84992001341?pwd=QUMvMFYzZU9HQkRLVmxISkVPRGlIQT09

Meeting ID: 849 9200 1341

Password: 563025

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (Germantown)

+19292056099,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (New York)

One tap mobile
+13017158592,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

Meeting ID: 876 9436 6639

Password: 729226

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdoU8Ii34Q

E-Faith@8, 8/1

The Faith@8 group is continuing to meet during this time of social distancing. Join us for an informal, community led service with more questions than answers and an open spot for whoever appears. Just follow the Zoom link below!

Memorial Faith@8

Time: Sundays at 8:00AM Eastern

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83309554789?pwd=czZUbWt6Yk1WVmgvNlAwNExQUWc5QT09

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106

Redevelopment

by the Rev. Natalie Conway

A former parishioner called me recently incensed by an article in the Baltimore Sun. The article was about the Poppleton community in West Baltimore and how homeowners were being forced out of their neighborhood. He wondered why there wasn’t an outcry to this city eviction. I don’t subscribe to the Baltimore Sun but I told him I would check it out.

The article was on the front page of the Friday, July 23rd edition. The first thing that struck me was a quote: “You’re not doing that in Federal Hill.” You might as well have said: “You’re not dong that in Bolton Hill” or any other predominately White communities in West Baltimore. The second thing that struck me was the City of Baltimore was using eminent domain—how the government takes private property for public use and it’s legal. The third thing that struck me was eminent domain—such as bad as redlining.

“In an aging city with several ongoing redevelopment projects, such property seizure is commonplace. But some argue its use is uneven, typically resulting in the displacement of low-income and working-class people in communities of color.”

“The Poppleton community houses Black churches, landmarks, and schools, and the Edgar Allen Poe house, and the first public housing complex, Poe Homes, which will be overhauled with federal dollars.”

Poppleton community is probably not the first displacement of individuals of color and it won’t be the last. Poppleton like other predominately Black communities has been neglected for decades. Take a ride down Druid Hill Avenue and up McCulloch Street and look at the boarded up houses. Where is the cry for injustice when one is forced out of their home using eminent domain and where is one to go? Redevelopment in these areas could allow people to stay in neighborhoods where they grew up, started families, and maintained a sense of pride in their neighborhoods. A great example of this is the Fulton Avenue redevelopment.

Charm City is not Charm City when the redevelopment line is on one side of Eutaw Place but not the other. What can we do—Memorial? We have a new Justice Missioner, an advisory board, and money to invest. Take a few moments and read the article in the Baltimore Sun. Maybe it will stir up something within you to write to your council member about the injustices in the redevelopment of Baltimore neighborhoods.

Peace and Blessings,

Deacon Natalie

E-Faith@8, 7/25

The Faith@8 group is continuing to meet during this time of social distancing. Join us for an informal, community led service with more questions than answers and an open spot for whoever appears. Just follow the Zoom link below!

Memorial Faith@8

Time: Sundays at 8:00AM Eastern

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83309554789?pwd=czZUbWt6Yk1WVmgvNlAwNExQUWc5QT09

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106

Outside Church 9:30am, 7/25

The 9:30 service will be at Liberty Pavilion in Druid Hill Park. There will be no Zoom for the in-person, outdoor 9:30 Service.

Faith@8 will remain an online-only Zoom service through the summer: Faith@8 Click Here

Meet us in the Liberty Pavilion of Druid Hill Park

  • There is parking on Greenspring and also at the zoo, but the walk from the zoo parking is up a steep hill.

  • Water, lemonade, and pastries will be provided; please do not bring food to share as we do not yet have permission for that.

E-Church 9:30am, 7/18

Or join us in person! Sign-up no longer required.

To join us online, all you need to do is click on the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen to follow along. We recognize that all of us have different levels of comfort with technology - we will do our best to help everyone do what they need to feel comfortable and participate!

Two tips for Zoom worship:

1) Let us see your face! If at all possible, please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance. 

2) Please mute yourself unless you have a speaking role in the service. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute yourself unless asked. However - even when you are muted, please do respond to the prayers and readings, as we are all worshipping together. 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84992001341?pwd=QUMvMFYzZU9HQkRLVmxISkVPRGlIQT09

Meeting ID: 849 9200 1341

Password: 563025

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (Germantown)

+19292056099,,84992001341#,,,,0#,,563025# US (New York)

One tap mobile
+13017158592,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,85296035556#,,1#,141735# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

Meeting ID: 876 9436 6639

Password: 729226

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdoU8Ii34Q

E-Faith@8, 7/18

The Faith@8 group is continuing to meet during this time of social distancing. Join us for an informal, community led service with more questions than answers and an open spot for whoever appears. Just follow the Zoom link below!

Memorial Faith@8

Time: Sundays at 8:00AM Eastern

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83309554789?pwd=czZUbWt6Yk1WVmgvNlAwNExQUWc5QT09

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 833 0955 4789

Passcode: 214106