Sacred Ground is a sensitive, prayerful resource that creates space for difficult but respectful and transformative dialogue on race and racism. Starting in October, J2J (Journey to Justice) will be offering several Sacred Ground discussion groups. These groups will meet every other week for 11 sessions. Sessions will be facilitated by parishioners who have completed the course. Please let us know if you are interested (no commitment yet!) here, and we will be in touch in early September. In March 2025, we hope to embark on a Racial Justice Pilgrimage to Atlanta, Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham as the culmination of our learning. Participation in Sacred Ground is a prerequisite for attending the pilgrimage. 

Our Parish Weekend Away in New Hampshire is coming up on September 27-29. We have special merch designed by Rev. Janelle available now, including unisex, women's, and youth t-shirts; hoodies; and crewneck sweatshirts. Click to orders yours! 

Epiphany's vestry wants to hear from you! Our leadership is interested in knowing that has been helpful to your spiritual growth this past year; what we have been doing that has been great; what activities you hope the church might offer in the future; and your hopes for the upcoming year. To share your thoughts, please fill out our survey! Children and youth under 18 can also submit answers with parent permission.

Congratulations to Ilario Faienza and Liam Cumming, who performed on Tuesday, June 25 at King’s Chapel in Boston as scholarship winners of the Young Organist Initiative hosted by the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Mark your calendars now for June 24, 2025 at 12:15 pm, when the 2024-25 scholarship winners will perform at King’s Chapel. These seven winners include Ilario Faienza as a second-year scholarship recipient, and Katherine Cumming as a new recipient.

Starting this July, Winchester Community Access & Media (WinCAM) will begin streaming Parish of the Epiphany’s services on their local television network. Viewers can tune in on Mondays at 2 pm via Comcast channel 8 or Verizon channel 36. Services will also be available in HD on Mondays at 4 pm via Comcast channel 1073 or Verizon channel 2136. WinCAM will begin with older services and work towards catching up with our current streams. 

This summer, join Journey to Justice (J2J) as we read Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. This powerful book challenges the way we understand poverty in the United States and offers some ways to work towards a more just and equitable society. This will be a low-key book study, with one group on Zoom and one group in person, likely meeting two times throughout the summer. Please click to sign up! For questions, please contact Rev. Janelle.

Every Sunday through Labor Day weekend, the Summer Choir will assist in leading the music at our 10:00 am services, and we would like to invite anyone interested to join in. No commitment needed — simply be in the choir loft at 9:00 am on any Sunday you choose, and we will prepare the music for that day. Make it a family event if you like; anyone entering second grade or older is invited to sing. The summer choir will not vest or process. This is your chance to give choir a try in a more relaxed setting! We hope to see some new faces and hear some new voices over the summer. If you have questions, please contact Jeremy Bruns in the music office. 

As we approach the end of our program year, we want to gather and give thanks for the life we've shared here in this place. There are few better ways to celebrate together than to share a meal. Breaking bread together binds us together and reminds us of the joy and laughter and nourishment that we share here at Epiphany.

On Sunday, June 2 at 11:15 am, all are invited to our Celebration Potluck as we close our program year together. We will gather in Hadley Hall and share in a festive meal and nourishing fellowship. A simple main dish will be provided. We ask that you bring a side or dessert to share. Simply drop it off in Hadley Hall before the 10:00 am service; you'll find tables marked as to where to place your item. We invite you to bring: 

Last names A-M: Side dish
Last name N-Z: Dessert

Bring a favorite family recipe or the deal of the week at Market Basket! Together, we will celebrate and rejoice in it.

It’s spring again and of course that means that your pedal-pounding fellow parishioners are at it again. Team Epiphany will once again mount our bicycles and ride in the Tri-State Trek to combat ALS. For quite a few years now, you have supported us as we have pedals across England to raise money for the ALS Therapy Development Institute. ALS-TDI has been a leader in research for discovering effective treatments to ed ALS for many years. Such discoveries take a long time, and ALS-TDI has launched the ALS Research Collaborative, which acts as a clearing house for gathered data from people with ALS and sharing them with researchers. They are also the only non-profit biotech to bring a potential treatment, togoprubart, to a clinical trial.

The Team will once again be traveling to New Hampshire again this June 22-23 after last year’s format change. We’ll be attempting various distances, from 30 to 200 miles over one or two days, looping through Maine and Massachusetts around Durham, NH.

And so, once again, we ask for your support:

1. Please navigate to www.team-epiphany.org and make a pledge. We hope to break our record on fundraising. It will also show you who’s on the team and what they’ve signed up for. Sponsor your favorite rider or the team at large. It’s all good!
2. You could join the team. No, I’m not kidding, and it’s not too late. There are many ways to participate, both in person and virtually. We’d love to swell our ranks – https://tst.als.net/the-ride/participation-options/. Not a cyclist? Doesn’t matter, you can participate virtually walking, running, or doing any kind of exercise.
3. Pray for us. We will be training heavily between now and then. We’d especially like your prayers for the safety of all riders and volunteers on the weekend of June 22-23.

ALS has hit this parish hard over the years, and we ride in honor of our fallen friends, Steve Lewis and Rick Marks. Yet, we know there are lots of pressing needs in the world so we thank you in advance for considering supporting us.

Our all-parish, intergenerational retreat weekend at the Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center in Greenfield, NH will be the weekend of September 27-29, 2024. Immerse yourself in the peace and beauty of creation, and the community and welcome of our Annual All-Parish Weekend Away. The weekend offers nature walks and canoeing, art and music workshops, worship and Bible study, morning yoga and evening hikes. Please click to register now!