TOCCOA, GA – Of the seven summer camps at Camp Mikell, Work Camp is unlike any of the other sessions. First, while the other six are gatherings for relaxing, singing, skits, swimming, hiking, and making new friends for life, Work Camp is, well, work. Each year...
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta is celebrating the ongoing impact of its Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools® summer programs in Atlanta and Macon. Bishop Rob Wright said both programs have proven to close the achievement gap by improving literacy and learning...
ATLANTA – Dr. Catherine Meeks, founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, on August 26, received The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Volunteer Service Award medal during a...
SANDY SPRINGS, GA – Diocese of Atlanta lay and clergy enrolled in a new two-year intensive program are learning how to strengthen and grow healthy parishes. Thirty-four parishioners and priests from 11 congregations attended the second annual Diocese of Atlanta...
The parking lot at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Sandy Springs overflowed Friday with hundreds of faculty and students. Students grouped from preschool to 12th grade stood shoulder to shoulder shouting school slogans as they waited for the new Lower School...
A HeartBeat Story * CLAYTON, GA – “Here it comes!” the excited group called out as they watched the new Kubota garden tractor and attachments roll into the driveway of Victory Home. The tractor’s arrival marked the culmination of a fast and furious...
Opening of The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, October 2017. (pictured left to right) The Right Rev. Robert C. Wright, Bishop of Atlanta; Center founding director Catherine Meeks, PhD., The Right Rev. Victor Atta-Baffoe, Bishop of the Anglican...
Members of the Diocese of Atlanta deputies to General Convention 80 in Baltimore returned with indelible memories of what by all accounts was a most unusual gathering. Normally a festival of the church this year’s triennial convention was just the opposite – no...
The Rev. Canon John Thompson-Quartey views memorials in front of Emanuel AME Church on the day he delivered the donation from the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Photo: Don Plummer. In June 2015, a mass shooting during an evening Bible study at historically Black...
A HeartBeat Story * GAINESVILLE, GA – A grant from the Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia helped the Gateway Center Against Domestic Violence make vital improvements to its facilities and services. Gateway board member Dr. Susanne Turner...
