Mission
The days of just “serving tea and polishing silver” are
long gone for the ECW of St. Peter’s. Today’s members of the
Episcopal Church Women are focused on developing women as leaders in
our church and society. The ECW continues its strong tradition of
healing human hurts and building hope through its support of the
United Thank Offering (UTO) and its outreach services.
http://ecusa.anglican.org/uto/
The United Thank Offering is a personal and family devotional program of the Episcopal Church. UTO provides a way for men, women and children of the Episcopal Church to give daily thanks to God. The discipline starts in the homes by dropping coins into a special container, known as the “Blue Box.” Some Episcopalians fill a blue envelope, but toward the same purpose and with the same sense of gratitude. These monetary gifts are used to help others. Every coin is used to support grants for missions and ministry. St. Peter’s has two ingatherings for UTO, one in the Spring and one in the Fall.
There are lots of reasons to be excited here at St. Peter’s! One of them is our involvement with the Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN). As you know, St. Peter’s hosts several homeless families several times a year. What does this mean? During "host weeks" we serve as a site for homeless families. There are no more than 14 people or 5 families at any one time. A family, in this case, is defined as a couple with children; a single parent/ guardian with children or a mother who is at least 7 months pregnant.
Our congregation takes responsibility for the kick-off night (Sundays) and the families’ last evening at St. Peters (Saturdays).
Our guests stay at St Peter’s in the evening hours and overnight for 1 week at a time. Along with the help of volunteers from several other congregations, we provide friendship, food, safe overnight lodging and entertainment for these families during our host week. This means we need volunteers! We need help cooking and serving healthy dinners, cleaning up, playing with children or helping them with homework and talking with and listening to parents after a long day. Our main focus is to provide a spirit of warmth, respect, support and compassion. Volunteers can be a source of hope when hope has been lost.
We post Volunteer Sign-Up sheets in the Parish Hall and on the tables at the back of the church. There are two Volunteer Trainings offered each year. We ask that ALL volunteers attend one training in order to learn more about the workings of IHN and how to best interact with our guests. For more information, contact the parish office.
In order to best accommodate our families’ needs, we need quite a few items. Please check to see what you may be able to supply to the families and let Ted Hardy know.
Thanks so much for your support! We’ll keep you updated.
St. Peter’s is first and foremost a community of prayer and no matter who you are or where you find yourself on the spiritual journey, you are welcome here. One of the extraordinary aspects of our parish is the spontaneous and sustained desire of our people to address human hurts and hopes. Teams of people at St. Peter’s regularly participate in direct, “hands on” mission. By giving to others, we find our faith is strengthened and renewed. Below are some of the ways you can get involved in making a difference in our community.
There are many time and ways to get involved in direct, “hands on” mission work. The people of St. Peter’s join together throughout the year to participate in:
Christmas in April is an annual, one-day volunteer effort to assist low-income, elderly, and disabled homeowners in rehabilitating their homes and making necessary reports. Every year it’s the last Saturday in April and every year it is a great blessing to those who participate and those who receive. People from all walks of life with all types of skills can contribute to really make a difference in our community. It is neighbor helping neighbor, people helping people.
Habitat for Humanity in the Peninsula is currently building 36 town houses in Redwood City. Teams from St. Peter’s are organized periodically and individuals can volunteer at any time.
The Clifford School is Redwood City’s magnet elementary school for Marine Science and Technology. Volunteers from St. Peter’s help with tutoring and help as classroom and activity assistants.
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) is a program that uses existing space (including churches) to help families without housing. Nine sites in the San Mateo area are currently being developed.
One of our goals for 2001 are to find more people to help with rides to and from church. We are also looking to re-initiate our relationship with Hopkins Manor residential care home (just one block away) and do a short service of hymns and prayers with them at least once a month. If you are interested in training to be a Lay Eucharistic Minister to bring Communion to those who are unable to attend worship due to illness or infirmity, please speak with our rector, Father Chip. Training is offered twice a year in our Diocese.
The Church Periodical Club was founded in 1888 by Mary Ann Fargo of New York City to provide literature and related materials without charge to those who need and request them and cannot obtain them otherwise. St. Peter’s supports this important work week-by-week through used book sales (as part of the St. Peter’s Gift Shop). The simple pleasure of donating your used books to the CPC table and buying books has a big impact on children’s literacy at home and abroad.
The Maple Street Shelter is a year-round 24-hour emergency shelter for homeless single men and women in San Mateo County. St. Peter’s actively supports the shelter with quarterly linen drives to collect towels, twin sheets, pillows, blankets, and quilts. St. Peter’s also holds periodic potlucks and celebrations to support the residents.
1580A Maple Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: +1 (650) 364-1150
http://www.baha.org/cgi-bin/agtempldz.asp?ID=81
If you know someone who is in need of emergency housing, please visit the referral Web site for San Mateo County.
http://www.shelternetwork.org/referrals.html
Shelter Network works with over 30 referral agencies throughout San Mateo County. If you are homeless or about to become homeless, Shelter Network may be able to help.
http://www.crawshawdesign.com/pages/EC-Home.html
Episcopal Charities is an administrative services entity providing a wide range of services to organizations representing those in need in the Bay Area. Our primary focus is the poor and those who are on the fringes of society. Our services combine social work to those organizations established to provide faith-based responses to individual needs in our communities. Episcopal Charities is firmly rooted in the Episcopal community, but our services are offered to all in need, without condition. We currently have offices in Berkeley and Redwood City with plans to expand into other areas of the Diocese.
http://www.diocal.org/
The Diocese of California is organized into commissions, ministries, congregations, and service organizations. Please visit the Diocesan Web site for information about the Bay Area Seafarer’s Service, the Bishop’s Ranch conference center, Canterbury Foundation, Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco, Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, the Henry Olhoff House for the treatment of alcohol and drug-related problems, St. Luke’s Hospital, and a host of other innovative programs and groups that serve the people of the Bay Area.
http://ecusa.anglican.org/ecw/
“Rooted in our past and growing in God’s future” is the motto of the Episcopal Church Women’s national organization. The ECW consists of women of all ages, ethnic origins, and socio-economic backgrounds in the Episcopal Church. The life of ECW begins in the local congregation and continues at the diocesan, provincial, and national levels. Episcopal Church Women are an integral part of the Episcopal Church.
http://ecusa.anglican.org/uto/
The United Thank Offering is a personal and family devotional program of the Episcopal Church. UTO provides a way for men, women and children of the Episcopal Church to give daily thanks to God. The discipline starts in the homes by dropping coins into a special container, known as the “Blue Box.” Some Episcopalians fill a blue envelope, but toward the same purpose and with the same sense of gratitude. These monetary gifts are used to help others. Every coin is used to support grants for missions and ministry. St. Peter’s has two ingatherings for UTO, one in the Spring and one in the Fall.
There are lots of reasons to be excited here at St. Peter’s! One of them is our involvement with the Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN). As you know, St. Peter’s hosts several homeless families several times a year. What does this mean? During "host weeks" we serve as a site for homeless families. There are no more than 14 people or 5 families at any one time. A family, in this case, is defined as a couple with children; a single parent/ guardian with children or a mother who is at least 7 months pregnant.
Our congregation takes responsibility for the kick-off night (Sundays) and the families’ last evening at St. Peters (Saturdays).
Our guests stay at St Peter’s in the evening hours and overnight for 1 week at a time. Along with the help of volunteers from several other congregations, we provide friendship, food, safe overnight lodging and entertainment for these families during our host week. This means we need volunteers! We need help cooking and serving healthy dinners, cleaning up, playing with children or helping them with homework and talking with and listening to parents after a long day. Our main focus is to provide a spirit of warmth, respect, support and compassion. Volunteers can be a source of hope when hope has been lost.
We post Volunteer Sign-Up sheets in the Parish Hall and on the tables at the back of the church. There are two Volunteer Trainings offered each year. We ask that ALL volunteers attend one training in order to learn more about the workings of IHN and how to best interact with our guests. For more information, contact the parish office.
In order to best accommodate our families’ needs, we need quite a few items. Please check to see what you may be able to supply to the families and let Ted Hardy know.
Thanks so much for your support! We’ll keep you updated.
Reaching Out! You are the Heart and Hands of Christ
Outreach, or service to the world in the name of Christ, is an
important part of the life and ministry of St. Peter’s. Modeled
after the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the mission of
St. Peter’s outreach ministry is to serve, through the
involvement of our church family, those in our community who are in
need. The Outreach Committee of St. Peter’s acts as a conduit for
outreach opportunities to our parishioners and also helps to identify
specific outreach projects that we as a parish wish to take on. In
this way, we are able to both facilitate volunteerism among our
parishioners and focus our parish-wide efforts to help the needy.St. Peter’s is first and foremost a community of prayer and no matter who you are or where you find yourself on the spiritual journey, you are welcome here. One of the extraordinary aspects of our parish is the spontaneous and sustained desire of our people to address human hurts and hopes. Teams of people at St. Peter’s regularly participate in direct, “hands on” mission. By giving to others, we find our faith is strengthened and renewed. Below are some of the ways you can get involved in making a difference in our community.
There are many time and ways to get involved in direct, “hands on” mission work. The people of St. Peter’s join together throughout the year to participate in:
Christmas in April is an annual, one-day volunteer effort to assist low-income, elderly, and disabled homeowners in rehabilitating their homes and making necessary reports. Every year it’s the last Saturday in April and every year it is a great blessing to those who participate and those who receive. People from all walks of life with all types of skills can contribute to really make a difference in our community. It is neighbor helping neighbor, people helping people.
Habitat for Humanity in the Peninsula is currently building 36 town houses in Redwood City. Teams from St. Peter’s are organized periodically and individuals can volunteer at any time.
The Clifford School is Redwood City’s magnet elementary school for Marine Science and Technology. Volunteers from St. Peter’s help with tutoring and help as classroom and activity assistants.
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) is a program that uses existing space (including churches) to help families without housing. Nine sites in the San Mateo area are currently being developed.
One of our goals for 2001 are to find more people to help with rides to and from church. We are also looking to re-initiate our relationship with Hopkins Manor residential care home (just one block away) and do a short service of hymns and prayers with them at least once a month. If you are interested in training to be a Lay Eucharistic Minister to bring Communion to those who are unable to attend worship due to illness or infirmity, please speak with our rector, Father Chip. Training is offered twice a year in our Diocese.
The Church Periodical Club was founded in 1888 by Mary Ann Fargo of New York City to provide literature and related materials without charge to those who need and request them and cannot obtain them otherwise. St. Peter’s supports this important work week-by-week through used book sales (as part of the St. Peter’s Gift Shop). The simple pleasure of donating your used books to the CPC table and buying books has a big impact on children’s literacy at home and abroad.
The Maple Street Shelter is a year-round 24-hour emergency shelter for homeless single men and women in San Mateo County. St. Peter’s actively supports the shelter with quarterly linen drives to collect towels, twin sheets, pillows, blankets, and quilts. St. Peter’s also holds periodic potlucks and celebrations to support the residents.
1580A Maple Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: +1 (650) 364-1150
http://www.baha.org/cgi-bin/agtempldz.asp?ID=81
If you know someone who is in need of emergency housing, please visit the referral Web site for San Mateo County.
http://www.shelternetwork.org/referrals.html
Shelter Network works with over 30 referral agencies throughout San Mateo County. If you are homeless or about to become homeless, Shelter Network may be able to help.
http://www.crawshawdesign.com/pages/EC-Home.html
Episcopal Charities is an administrative services entity providing a wide range of services to organizations representing those in need in the Bay Area. Our primary focus is the poor and those who are on the fringes of society. Our services combine social work to those organizations established to provide faith-based responses to individual needs in our communities. Episcopal Charities is firmly rooted in the Episcopal community, but our services are offered to all in need, without condition. We currently have offices in Berkeley and Redwood City with plans to expand into other areas of the Diocese.
http://www.diocal.org/
The Diocese of California is organized into commissions, ministries, congregations, and service organizations. Please visit the Diocesan Web site for information about the Bay Area Seafarer’s Service, the Bishop’s Ranch conference center, Canterbury Foundation, Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco, Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, the Henry Olhoff House for the treatment of alcohol and drug-related problems, St. Luke’s Hospital, and a host of other innovative programs and groups that serve the people of the Bay Area.
http://ecusa.anglican.org/ecw/
“Rooted in our past and growing in God’s future” is the motto of the Episcopal Church Women’s national organization. The ECW consists of women of all ages, ethnic origins, and socio-economic backgrounds in the Episcopal Church. The life of ECW begins in the local congregation and continues at the diocesan, provincial, and national levels. Episcopal Church Women are an integral part of the Episcopal Church.