Photos from Welcome Back Sunday

The Ministry Fair was great! And will remain up for two more weeks.

Welcome Back Sunday - September 13th

Join us for worship at 10:00 am and for a fun ministry fair following, with prizes!

Holy Comforter at PrideFest Richmond

We are there! Visit our table if you would like :)

Labor Day Sermon - What does the Church have to say about Labor Day?

Our life together, as members and friends of HoCo, is a life that is also lived in community with our wider community. Within walking distance from the church is Broad St., where many people labor for very little money. This sermon, give yesterday, Sunday September 6th, is a Labor Day sermon. What does God desire for the working poor?

Wisdom for Life, Justice for the Poor

Book club meets monthly

We have a really great book club group at HoCo.

Everyone is invited to join. Here is info about it for this month. To find the group, enter from the Staples Mill Rd side of the church, through the red doors, they will be down the hall on the left, in the parlor. --- Our book club will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 9th at 6:30 pm for light snacks and discussion of the modern classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston. The group meets monthly. 

The Spirit at Work

Bp Shannon:  I agree that it is certainly true that there are many arguments for and against whether or not we are putting canons in conflict with the prayer book and all of that, but I must suggest that we -  I speak in favor of this motion.  I must suggest that we cannot make the perfect the enemy of the good.  Before I came to General Convention I wrote a very strongly worded letter to my diocese asserting my utter and absolute commitment to marriage equality and wanted to bring the fullest, strongest, statement for that, that we can provide.  I think after many days of consultation this is the best we can do, and it’s something I can support.  I came here with the sense that we couldn’t do this by a simply canonical route. That we needed to do something fuller that required a little more time and a two-reading sort of way, and I’m pleased with that.  And I think we need to be careful that, however important they are, making idols out of our rules.  And I’m reminded that our Lord said that humankind was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for humankind.  We know that in Jesus’ day that would be akin to us saying that we repeal the Holy Communion.  If we have to wait some time to sort out a conflict between canon and liturgy, rules and that sort of thing, I’d much rather it be a canon than a loving couple that wants to bring honor and glory and witness to God through the bond and covenant of marriage.