St. Luke's Episcopal Church/Haworth

09/11/2026

The bulletin for tonight's livestreamed service is available on our website at www.StLukesHaworth.org

Everyone is welcome to attend.

09/06/2026

Pentecost 15

08/30/2026

Pentecost 14

08/23/2026

Pentecost 13

08/21/2026

Everyone is welcome to attend.

08/16/2026

Pentecost 12

07/05/2026

Damaged power lines at church

07/05/2026

NO CHURCH SERVICE TODAY!!!

Unfortunately, the wicked winds knocked down the power pole and pulled the lines off the rectory and Parish Hall during the storm. There is no electricity and no internet, so our service is cancelled this morning.

06/01/2026

Today, the Church marks the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As described in Luke 1:36–56, Mary, who is pregnant with Jesus, travels from Nazareth to the hill country of Judea to visit her cousin Elizabeth, the wife of Zechariah, who was about six months pregnant with John the Baptist. To discover what this meeting foretold, read about it in the Gospel according to Luke,
Chapter 1, verses 36–56. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201%3A39-56&version=NRSVA

05/25/2026

Rev. Beverly shared this poem on Sunday.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DgoGgCaaR/

We like faith
when it stays manageable.

Neat. Quiet. Contained.

A candle lit gently.
A prayer whispered softly.
A hymn sung the way we’ve always sung it.

But Pentecost arrives
like the windows have been flung open
without warning.

Wind rushing through frightened hearts.
Fire dancing above ordinary people.
Voices rising louder than fear.

And suddenly
disciples who’d hidden away
are in the streets
speaking about Jesus
like the story matters too much
to keep to themselves anymore.

Not scholars.
Not the powerful.
Just ordinary people
set alight by the Spirit of God.

People who’d doubted.
People who’d failed.
People who’d run away when things became costly.

Yet God chose them anyway.

Because the Spirit doesn’t wait
for polished people
with perfect words and unwavering confidence.

The Spirit comes to real people.
To anxious people.
To weary people.
To people who still carry grief in their bones
and uncertainty in their stomachs.

And through wind and fire
and trembling voices
the good news travels.

Across languages.
Across barriers.
Across the spaces
we keep trying to divide into us and them.

Because the peace of Christ
isn't something to hide away
behind locked church doors
or careful conversations.

It moves.

Through kindness shared freely.
Through courage that surprises us.
Through invitations spoken awkwardly
but honestly.
Through people willing to say
this story changed me
and I think it might change you too.

Pentecost isn't a festival of standing still.

It is wind.
It is movement.
It is hearts catching fire again.

And in the noise and wonder of it all
God is still there
breathing life
into tired people,
and sending ordinary disciples
into the world
carrying the love of Christ in their hands.

© E Hamilton 2026