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As state and local officials grapple with supporting migrant families in more official settings like the state emergency shelter system and overflow sites, they’re also leaning on faith groups and residents to lend a helping hand. Church leaders and groups are encouraging more people to join that…

St. Andrew's Church in Edgartown and Grace Church in Vineyard Haven are among the churches offering local community supper programs: "As the Island’s cost of living continues to rise, local community supper programs are seeing an increase in residents looking for relief, with demand for food at an…

A healthy dose of curiosity and a love of research has led a deacon to uncover information that revises accepted Episcopal Church history. Prompted by her dedication to the diaconate, the Rev. Daphne B. Noyes, deacon at the Church of the Advent in Boston, researched the life and ministry of…

For the first time in nearly two years, there are no scaffolds covering the front of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Route 30. Work was recently completed to repair and restore the masonry at the Southborough church’s bell and clock tower. “The bell and clock tower will continue to serve as a…

Children’s Services of Roxbury (CSR) founders the Rev. Richard Richardson and Jestina Richardson received the Drum Major Award at the 54th Annual Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast on Jan. 15 for their extraordinary contributions to justice, diversity and inclusion efforts in Boston. The…

St. Paul’s Church of Malden, an Episcopal church located at 26 Washington Street and Florence Street, was built in 1913. The Malden City Council at a recent meeting formally congratulated St. Paul’s Church on its 110th year. Ward 4 Councillor Ryan O’Malley noted the church is one of the few places…

For nearly 20 years, St. John's Church in Sandwich has displayed a giant illuminated sculpture representing the shield of The Episcopal Church in the garden at the front of the church at 159 Main Street, starting Thanksgiving week and continuing through Christmas. The illuminated wire sculpture…

Ron Bearse, a member of St. Mary's Church in Barnstable Village, and Caronanne Procaccini, the director of Client Self-Sufficiency and Compliance at the Community Action Committee of Cape & Islands, talk about the Thanksgiving Turkeys for Cape Codders program.  As part of efforts to address…

The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for organists and the unique instruments they play. However, for curious listeners, this also means it’s one of the easiest times to hear these instruments sounding off live. And you should hear them live, since no two organs, or spaces…

An outreach group is upgrading to more spacious quarters to house women experiencing homelessness in Falmouth through the winter months. Belonging To Each Other has teamed up with St. Barnabas’s Church to offer a home with more bedrooms and common areas than they have had in the past as a refuge…