Area Ministries

Performing Arts Series – Watershed Project – Lecture Series

Bede’s folk participate in a wide variety of social ministries throughout the Bay Area and the world. Listed below are the ministries in which our parishioners are currently active.. To learn more or to help with any of these programs, follow the links and/or contact our Parish Deacon and Administrator, The Rev. Judy Werner-Hall at jwhall@stbedesmenlopark.org or 650-854-6555. And check out our recent blog posts related to Service and Social Justice.

Music

• Arts at St. Bede’s Performing Arts Series
• Choral evensong with St. Paul’s, Burlingame
• Choral evensongs with Christ Church, Portola Valley and Christ Church, Los Altos

Education

• Trinity School, serving 3 year-olds through 5th graders, a collaborative corporation partnership with Holy Trinity, Menlo Park
• Seekers Dinners: monthly young adult theology conversations
• Eco-Camp: week-long summer camp with theology of ecology themes
• Breaking Bread at Bede’s Dinner and Lecture Series
• Los Ayudantes Tutoring & Mentoring: Redwood City Public Schools tutoring program, founded by Bede’s folk, with ongoing support from St. Bede’s, Christ Church, Portola Valley, Holy Trinity, Menlo Park, as well as Episcopal Charities; Bede’s folk serve as volunteer tutors and board members
• Stanford Episcopal-Lutheran Campus Ministry, providing volunteers and funds to board of directors

Worship

• Coordination of joint Anglican/Lutheran Ascension services at Stanford Memorial Church

Chaplaincy

• Stanford Hospital Chaplaincy with local Episcopal congregations, providing volunteers and funds
• Sharon Heights Convalescent ministry (recently closed)

Housing

• San Mateo County Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN), with other congregations, providing volunteers, food, funds
• Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA): ecumenical, interfaith community organizing group working to make local housing affordable; providing volunteers and funding, involvement with local housing commission

Environment

• Bede’s Bog San Fransiquito Creek Watershed Project, working with local entities (Watershed Council, Acterra, Save-the-Bay, Baylands Park Rangers) to restore and clean up the San Francisquito Creek and Palo Alto Baylands

Local Food and Clothing

• Volunteering with Mother Onedia Branch’s clothing and food bank in East Palo Alto
• Participation in Adopt-a-Family with Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP)
• Peninsula Food Drive for Second Harvest of Santa Clara with local congregations and businesses

Jail Ministry

• San Mateo County Jail Ministry, providing volunteers, gifts, funds

Local Mission Support

• Collaboration with local mission congregation, El Buen Pastor in Redwood Ciy

National

• Summer ‘08 service trip to Rosebud Lakota Sioux Reservation in South Dakota with St. Mary’s, St. James, and St. John’s Presbyterian, all of San Francisco
• Rosebud children’s clothing drive

International

• In cooperation with Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) fundraising for Nets-for-Life malaria nets program in Africa
• Long relationship with Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) fundraising for orphan care and nursing school scholarships in Malawi
• Fundraising for Central Asia Institute (CAI) Pennies-for-Peace program to fund education in Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan