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My Two Neighborhoods Lost to Gentrification
As a little girl, I lived at 523 S. Wilmington Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Wilmington Street was the beginning of the Third Ward, our Black community. On the five hundred block of Wilmington was St. Ambrose Church and Parsonage. Dr. Manassa Pope and his family...
The Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention – Mission Work of the Diocese of North Carolina
by Cassandra Deck-Brown Over the past several years, communities have faced realities that would have proven difficult to imagine even if one was significantly paid to write such unimaginable scripts. And each time we hear of a different news story involving someone...
Annual Parish Meeting Continuation
Download the Runoff Ballot Here Pastoral Letter to the Congregation Dear Church Family, In the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit: One God. Amen. The Annual Meeting took place at 12 noon on Sunday, January 28, 2024. The church membership elected the vestry class...
St. Ambrose Wins Statewide PTA Award
Written by Ms. Phyllis Gray A PARTNERSHIP OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR CHURCH AND SCHOOL Gray receiving the 2023 state PTA Community Partner Award on behalf of St. Ambrose Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh was awarded the North Carolina Parent Teacher Association (PTA)...
Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Reparations
Read the bishops' pastoral letter on reparations here.
Marked as Christ’s Own Forever: A Response to Gun Violence
By the Rev. Jemonde Taylor and Ms. Cassandra Deck-Brown, Retired City of Raleigh Chief of Police In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;...
Baptized in Dirty Water
The Reverend Jemonde Taylor wrote an article for the 2023 Spring edition of The Disciple, the Diocese of North Carolina's quarterly magazine. His article, Baptized in Dirty Water, recounts Saint Ambrose's response to environmental racism in Southeast Raleigh. Read the...
Endeavors in Ethiopian Spirituality Sabbatical
Overview Saint Ambrose received a $50,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Program. Our rector, the Reverend Jemonde Taylor, worked with the congregation and vestry on an eight (8) month process that included listening sessions to design a grant...
Groundbreaking With The Rev. Robert Jemonde Taylor
Father Taylor was featured in a Sewanee: The University of The South article highlighting his many achievements and his service to The Episcopal Church. "To Taylor, environmental justice and racial equality go hand in hand. Growing up on the Thomas-Taylor Farm in...
A Pastoral Response to the Loss of Life in the Hedingham Community, Raleigh, NC on October 13, 2022
“Listen; your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!” Genesis 4:10 The City of Raleigh is mourning. A teenage gunman Thursday, October 13 in the East Raleigh Hedingham neighborhood shot seven people, killing five. The mass shootings we read about...
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