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[Episcopal News Service] It was the first day of the summer B-SAFE program in the Diocese of Massachusetts, and one girl in Priscilla Alcantara’s group kept wandering off, unwilling to talk to the other sixth-graders because her friends were in a different group. Alcantara, a teen staff member,…

Havenside, a nonprofit independent-living apartment complex for elders on Martha's Vineyard, will host its annual "Summer Soiree" for residents on Thursday, Aug. 9, 3-5 p.m., during which two buildings will be formally dedicated and named in honor of two individuals for their contributions to…

Members of the diocese's Youth Leadership Academy (YLA) and their adult mentors, including Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, will spend July 21-28 in El Salvador, learning more about the country and its history and building relationships with Salvadoran youth.They will be sharing reflections about their…

Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Tracy J. Sukraw Partnerships, on May 24 visited St. Stephen's Church in Boston and the lively Blackstone Elementary…

A tithe of $2 million from the ongoing diocesan Together Now fundraising campaign is designated for mission beyond the Diocese of Massachusetts; $500,000 of that tithe amount will fund existing mission partnerships.  Late last year, Diocesan Council approved grants of $250,000 to the Bishop…

“We emerge with abundant hope, better discipline for working together and with partners beyond this church, for our fundamental reason for being--engagement with God’s mission,” E piscopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori states in her…

Under bright and beautiful blue skies on May 19, a group of 75 volunteers and clergy members representing five Mystic Valley Deanery Episcopal churches gathered at Grace Church in Medford for a barbecue and joyful celebration of three years of shared ministries at St. Luke’s/San Lucas …

This spring, 23 congregations of the diocese were awarded a combined total of $174,392 in Gretchen Umholtz The Rev. Moses Sowale of Grace Chapel in Brockton helps plant a garden of…