After special training for their own ministries, 19 people were commissioned as licensed lay ministers (LLMs). This designation permits people who are not clergy to provide pastoral care, sermons, Eucharist and more.

St. Thomas Columbus dedicated a newly accessible nave funded through the “Making Room for All” campaign. The project leveled the sacred spaces that symbolize the passage between earth and heaven.

Christ Church in Macon, considered the mother church of the Diocese of Atlanta, celebrated its 200th birthday with a midweek service drawing an interfaith audience.

St. Alban’s Elberton shares space with Grace United Methodist Church as a permanent “resident congregation” and a vital co-participant in worship and ministry.

On the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Christ Church Norcross made a pilgrimage to Selma and Montgomery, the culmination of a parish study of James Cone’s “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.”

Episcopalians and partners celebrated tripling the size of the free Macon Volunteer Clinic through a challenge grant from the Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia that was matched by Christ Church Macon, two blocks from the clinic.

On the fifth anniversary of the pandemic, St. Dunstan’s consecrated a large icon with intricate scenes of the COVID era. It also honors Joe Monti, the husband of Rector Patricia Templeton, who died of this disease.

Bishop Wright urged the governing House of Bishops to stand up to Christian nationalism with the fearlessness of marchers who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago today.

All Saints’ Atlanta urgently recruited volunteers after raising $470,000 through Hallelujah Anyhow, an event with chefs that benefited more than 30 refugee families. St. Dunstan’s Lenten campaign raised $40,000 to support Cameroon refugees.

The surviving steeple of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Athens attracted R.E.M. fans on the band’s 45th birthday. It’s where R.E.M first performed on April 5, 1980.

The Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia (ECF) announced grants up to $83,000 to church partnerships in Dahlonega, Athens, and Monroe. In fall 2025, grants of nearly $75,000 went to churches in Rome, Hamilton, and Atlanta.

In the fifth pilgrimage of its kind, 22 lay and clergy traveled to Ghana’s Cape Coast Diocese to foster racial reconciliation and partner with Anglican churches in the Cape Coast Diocese.

Under the leadership of Acting Executive Director Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright, the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing enters a new era with a refreshed mission, expanded offerings, and a bold vision for spiritual and social transformation.

Fewer churches are offering VBS, but five parishes bucked that trend by partnering to provide full-day programming for K-5 children. Combined resources took pressure off parents to volunteer, and the parishes made the most of their strengths.

Christ Church Norcross parishioners fulfill their mission to live, love and serve boldly in a rainbow of ways at Gwinnett Pride, a rapidly growing celebration started by two of their own.

Church of the Incarnation’s Juneteenth service featured Black and white clergy in conversation about racial reconciliation. A related Anderson Cooper documentary, “The Simril(l)s: A Family in Black and White,” is now on HBO Max.

Parishioners created and installed “Mapping Confession/Placing Repentance,” an art series — begun in Lent — reflecting what St. Mark’s has done and left undone in LaGrange.

The first eight lay volunteers started the year-long Forma education and support program which, upon completion, earns them a Certificate in Lifelong Christian Formation. It’s the first remote opportunity for this training.

In the state’s second biggest county, St. Mary and St. Martha of Bethany Episcopal Church hosted a free Sensory Fair for children and families. More than half of Gwinnett kindergarteners are unprepared socially, developmentally, and cognitively.

Presiding Bishop Sean W. Rowe urged bolder witnessing from more than 200 clergy from the Dioceses of Georgia and Atlanta who gathered in Eatonton.

St. Margaret’s second Pumpkin Pickin’ Festival is the harvest of remarkable lay leadership.

On the eve of the nationwide SNAP Crisis, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church combined strengths with Emmaus House to serve 205 families.

About 500 delegates and attendees gathered at the Cathedral of St. Philip for the 119th Annual Council. Guided by the theme, “Reclaim, Respond, and Rejoice,” they focused on strategic mission funding, policy advocacy, and strengthening relationships.

Christian radio network KLOVE interviewed Bishop Wright about how his life, ministry, and personal story are rooted in grace and a passion for serving others.

The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing (AJECRH) hosted its first commissioning of 25 pilgrims heading to Cape Coast, Ghana, in 2026. They were joined by those on the four previous journeys.

Jesus entered a world focused on control but chose vulnerability to bring about redemption. Often when we recognize holy things happening, particularly among the economically precarious, we have to move. Joy comes from resisting whatever isn’t God’s love.