[The Living Church] Signs of vitality abound these days at St. George’s Church in Maplewood, New Jersey. Attendance is up more than 10 percent in the past five years to 135. Each Sunday, newcomer parents and their young kids add to the laughter, banter, and joyful songs that fill the space.
[The Jersey Journal] The homeless, hungry, and poor congregated inside Old Bergen Church in Jersey City with homeless advocates today for the sixth annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Day interfaith service.
The Venerable Peter Jackson, Archdeacon, is quoted in this article.
[The Record] A reality show star joined other anti-hunger activists at the State House and urged New Jersey lawmakers to increase funding for food programs and to approve bills in votes Monday that would ease restrictions and get benefits to people faster.
The Rev. Janet Broderick of St. Peter's Church in Morristown is quoted in this article.
[Morristown Green] In a strange confluence of sights and sounds, demonstrators chanted for the rights of black men as White Christmas wafted from the Green on Saturday.
We are shocked and saddened by the death of the Rev. John Negrotto, 71, late Saturday afternoon, December 13, of an apparent heart attack.
Christ Church in Bloomfield/Glen Ridge is included in this article.
[International Business Times] Mark DeYmaz was a youth pastor for a megachurch in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1990s when he realized the 5,000 people in the pews all looked alike. “The only minorities were the janitors,” DeYmaz said about the nearly all-white Protestant evangelical church. That realization led him to leave his post in 2001 and found Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas, with the aim to bring diverse people together to worship as one.
[The Alternative Press] Saint James Episcopal Church has been selected for the 2014 Best of Montclair Award in the Places of Worship category by the Montclair Award Program.
In preparation for Kitty Kawecki’s last day as a member of diocesan staff on December 23, 2014, there has been a reassignment of responsibilities within Episcopal House, including a promotion.
Gerard "Jerry" A. Racioppi is scheduled to be ordained to the Transitional Diaconate (a step in the process toward ordination to the Priesthood) at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral in Newark. All are welcome to attend.
The Rev. Greg Lisby, Rector of Christ Church in Ridgewood, is quoted in this article.
[The Ridgewood News] Ridgewood leaders came together this week to discuss the need for more civility in public discourse.
