“Rise up and go into the city, and it will be given to you what to do.” - Acts 9:6
Neighborhood Action
As a community, we want to grow more fully into our baptismal covenant, and we believe we can do this best by connecting our liturgical practices to how we go out into the world. We want to be a more integral part of our neighborhood, and to work together with our wider community. We believe our urban location calls us into fresh engagement with those around us.
We feel called to continue to find ways to engage, serve, and minister in our wider neighborhood and invest our resources in meaningful programs that impact the world around us. From engaging with social justice issues to carefully and consistently engaging in deliberate acts of mercy, to building relationships with both individuals and organizations beyond our doors, we expect that the coming years will be rich in challenge and opportunity for our congregation in this space (which we are working on making more accessible).
Our Neighborhood Action ministries give us opportunities to do much more collectively than we could on our own. We believe that in coming to know those who may at first seem very different from ourselves we are able to more clearly see God’s presence in all of us and expand our understanding of our own privileges and the impact of systemic racism, capitalism, misogyny, and other ways in which the poor and marginalized are oppressed by our society.
Here are some of the active and emerging ministries in our parish. Click the links to learn more:
Mental Health Chaplaincy - The Mental Health Chaplaincy (MHC) has impacted our parish’s approach to companionship and outreach. With their office at St. Paul’s, the MHC provides a compassionate, companioning presence in the Pacific Northwest, reaching out to our neighbors in need, educating communities, and advocating for readily accessible mental health care that attends to the whole person.