In the News

[NVTV News] “Even as the economy has progressed and gotten better, and people have gone back to work, hunger is still a really prevalent problem,” said Diane Riley, director of advocacy for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

More than 1 million people in New Jersey don’t get enough food to eat on a daily basis, a startling reality in one of the wealthiest states in the nation.

[Mount Olive Chronicle] Nine years ago, Ray Bonker had an idea for how his daughter, who is on the autism spectrum, could participate and enjoy in Sunday services at Christ Episcopal Church in Budd Lake.

Grace Church Van Vorst, St. Paul's Church in Bergen and Church of the Incarnation were among the more than 30 congregations who joined the public launch of Jersey City Together, a new interfaith community action group.

[Episcopal News Service] Forming a monastic community of young adults at Lambeth Palace to embrace a yearlong commitment to prayer, study and service may have been an audacious experiment, but members of its first class say the initiative has been a major triumph and an extraordinary life-changing experience.

[FiOS1 News] For Pastor Richard Hong and congregants from the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, which was severely damaged by a fire, this Easter will have a particularly special meaning.

[The Montclair Times] When we last checked in on Toni's Kitchen — the warm and welcoming drop-in dining room at St. Luke's Episcopal Church — Tara Chowaniec and Anne Mernin were explaining operational details to the day's volunteers (my daughter and I among them).

[The Star-Ledger] The basement of the Grace Church in Newark is catacomb-like, with a narrow stone tunnel that runs almost a city block long. There are a few musty rooms down there, and much of the Anglican Catholic parish's history is stacked among discarded furniture, old hymnals and dismantled organ keyboards and pipes.

[NorthJersey.com] Beginning on March 23, a labyrinth will be open to the public at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 215 Boulevard in Mountain Lakes.

[Daily Record] The Church of the Redeemer is hosting an exhibit made by an artist to stay sane during a more than two-decade stint in solitary confinement in state prison.

[Jersey Journal] I recently stopped by the Hoboken Shelter and was greeted by a nice, young man in the reception office.  I since have run into him on the streets of Hoboken and just assumed he worked there, which he does.

But Spike Enzweiler, 24, is a volunteer with a relatively new program called Newark Acts, run by the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.  This year, he and three other young adults are spending at least one year, and perhaps two, in a Hudson County institution.