Deacon Reflections

These are in deed trying times and probably times that were not much different than the times when the characters in Jesus’ parable of the “Good Samaritan” were told. When Jesus told this story he was essentially asking the list...

My name is Wendy Merrill, and I am a deacon serving at St. John's , Charlotte. I was ordained this January (2020) so the role of deacon is still a bit new for me. When I was invited to write this reflection about myself as a deacon, my react...

I believe God started tapping me on the shoulder when I was about 5 or 6 years old, when in the summers at the beach with my grandparents (all of us good Presbyterians!), we went to church every Sunday morning.The closest church was a chapel in R...

One of the joys about being selected to lead a diocesan committee is that you get to “drive the boat,” and as the one who drives the boat, you often get to decide where the boat goes. A few weeks ago during a Board of Directors mee...

"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, the oldest among you will dream dreams,the youngest will see visions.” Joel 2:28 I am an older man who had a dream. For nearly five years af...

By The Rev. Russell Settles On June 12, 1999, after several years of informal and formal discernment, followed by four years of deacon formation, I was ordained. Since then, I have served as a deacon on the staffs of three parishes in Charl...

When I think of my journey as a deacon from my ordination on May 19, 2001 to the present, I feel the sentiment of the words of Langston Hughes’, poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers : “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” I live near two...

By The Rev. Harrel Johnson   On behalf of the Bishop’s Committee for the Diaconate, I offer this gift to you all for the holiday season. - The Rev. Harrel Johnson   Some ...

By The Rev. Robin Sands When I think about being ordained as a deacon in The Episcopal Church, I am reminded of some old song lyrics by The Grateful Dead, in the song, "Truckin’": “What a long, s...

By The Rev. Eugene Humphreys It’s always about Martha and Mary! In all of our ministries and all of our works, it’s amazing how a reflection can drift back to the Gospel story of Martha and Mary....