Chattahoochee Valley Episcopal Ministry, Inc. (CVEM)
A 30-year-old outreach convocational ministry, this Jubilee Center of the Episcopal Church directly assists those in need; develops and runs programs for children, youth, and women; engages in advocacy, empowerment, faith, justice work and more!
CVEM is led by Lay Missioner and St. Thomas parishioner Vicky Partin.
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McCann African Mission
The Rev. Sandra McCann, MD, and Dr. Martin McCann spent many years as parishioners at St. Thomas, serving in local outreach ministries. They were both employed as doctors in the community; Sandra retired as Chief of Radiology from Hughston Hospital and Martin retired as Chief of Pathology from St. Francis Hospital. Sandra received her MDiv in 2003 from Virginia Theological Seminary. In 2004 the McCanns were appointed missionaries of the Episcopal Church of USA.
Their assignment is in Dodoma, Tanzania, where she is a full-time faculty member of Msalato Theological College. Dodoma is the nominal capital of Tanzania and is located in the Diocese of Central Tanganyika.
During his first year of retirement, Martin obtained a certificate in Tropical Medicine. After the McCanns moved to Dodoma in 2004, Martin set up a histopathology laboratory in the Mackay House Anglican Mission Clinic in the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. In addition, he is working as a consultant and teacher at the Mvumi Anglican Mission Hospital about 30 kilometers outside Dodoma.
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St. Thomas is deeply involved in educational and healthcare ministries in central Tanzania. We are presently building a well which will provide safer drinking water to a village of 3000 people.
Valley Interfaith Promise (VIP)
To help homeless families achieve lasting independence by providing temporary shelter, meals, and support services utilizing local churches and volunteers.
Since fall of 2006, St. Thomas Episcopal Church and St. Matthew's Lutheran Church have partnered to host homeless families at St. Thomas. We turn former classrooms and the library into cozy resting places for up to 14 people or three families. The families are truly our guests. We provide food, offer games and movies, assist when schoolwork if asked, spend the night, and basically get to know them on their terms.
VIP provides St. Thomas an opportunity to live out its mandate as a Jubilee Center of the greater Church. This program combines simple charity, advocacy, education about homeless issues, and evangelism. Without seeing the faces of these children, we might not really believe the plight of the homeless. The Lord has blessed us as we have swung open our doors!
Malinda Shamburger is our Parish Coordinator for this program.
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| St. Thomas Earth Stewards
This group formed as a response to the call set forth by Bishop Alexander in his commissioning of a Diocesan Task Force on the Environment in 2008. Its goal is to respond to our Creator's call to earth stewardship in our own church home and personal lives, and by these actions, to provide to others in the larger community resources and models for a creative response to the concerns about sustainability we all share.
Many exciting things are happening with this group. Any interested parishioners are invited to join in its work to develop understanding, provide resources, and promote positive change in our community's call to environmental stewardship.
John Partin, Convener
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Integrity
Working for the full inclusion of all the baptized in all the sacraments.
Integrity is a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Episcopalians and our straight friends. Since our founding by Dr. Louie Crew in rural Georgia in 1974, Integrity has been the leading grassroots voice for the full inclusion of LGBT persons in the Episcopal Church and our equal access to its rites. However, advocacy is only one facet of our ministry. At the national level and in local chapters and diocesan networks throughout the country, the primary activities are:
- worship
- fellowship
- education
- communication
- outreach
- service to the church
Through Integrity's evangelism, thousands of LGBT people, estranged from the Episcopal Church and other denominations, have returned to parish life. Whatever your sexual orientation, Integrity needs and welcomes your support and membership.
Contact Jackson Griffin for additional information.
Wynnton Neighborhood Network
WNN is an ecumenical, interfaith food pantry and utility assistance ministry housed in the Outreach Center of St. Thomas. Seven congregations are involved and many volunteers participate to keep the doors open 5 days a week, 10:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Approximately 2500 families, half of which include children, receive food annually from this ministry.
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