Churches

Celebrating 100 years of service, Jersey City’s Episcopal Church of the Incarnation will welcome The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the 26th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church (USA). The Presiding Bishop will celebrate and preach at the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, December 11, at the church which is located at 68 Storms Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07306.

The service is open to the public. All are invited and encouraged to attend.

The Youth of St. James’ Church in Upper Montclair presented a special night of scary ghost tales and spooky tours on Sunday evening, October 30, 2011.

Ghosts and Spirits that hide in secret corners and hallways of St. James came out to hear their stories shared with visiting tourists on the eve before Halloween.

The Youth Group collected $150 in donations which will go to the Alleluia Fund in support of diocesan outreach programs.

The outlook was grim for the tricksters. Make that horrorific!

Officials in communities across New Jersey labeled their streets unsafe for trick-or-treating today after Saturday’s snowstorm downed trees and power lines.

In some places, Halloween was officially delayed until the weekend. Grotesque! Creepy!

But just when things were looking really bad, two mothers in Essex Fells figured out how to save Halloween — at least for their kids and a few dozen others.

At a ceremony on October 21, Dr. Lauren Harrison and Beverley Hamilton were honored by the Literacy Volunteers of America for their work with a satellite literacy center at Church of the Epiphany in Orange.

Church choirs have been around forever—a Sunday morning fixture in many churches. Popular perception is that a choir rehearses once or twice a week during most of the year, and steps it up a bit for the holidays. Thumbing through the want ads for choir director will bring up a number of part-time jobs.

That’s not how it works for Anne Matlack, D.M.A., full-time organist and choirmaster at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.

Retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, who has risked his own life and that of his family as an advocate for gay-, lesbian- and transgender rights, shared his experiences and beliefs at the Adult Forum at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Morristown on Sunday.

In 2007, Senyonjo was relieved of his duties as a bishop in Uganda. “They never formally put me out of the church, but simply took away my duties,” he said.

For the 19th year in a row, St. Andrew's Church in Harrington Park held a town-wide food drive.

Members of the church and other volunteers including Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, delivered empty bags to local residents in the hope that they would be filled with much-needed groceries for local food pantries. Pictured are four young members of St. Andrew's assisting with the in-gathering of nearly 300 filled bags on September 25.

The food was distributed to food pantries in Harrington Park and River Vale, plus the Center for Food Action in Englewood.

On September 16 and 17, 2011, P.A.R.K.S. Corporation, a New Jersey community development corporation established through Church of the Holy Communion in Paterson, produced its first annual Shakespeare event at their park at 333-335 Ellison Street, Paterson. Taking part in these two performances were some dozen Episcopalians, many from St. James’ Church in Upper Montclair, as well as children from a local homeless shelter.