St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh
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Sacred Ground Race Dialogue Circles
Sacred Ground is dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race, racism, and whiteness while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. The 10-part series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories.
Sacred Ground is a resource coming out of Becoming Beloved Community, The Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society. This series is especially designed to help white people talk with other white people, while being open to all racial/ethnic groups. Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope and love.
International Relationships
Agua Para el Pueblo (APP)
Honduras Water Mission: Since 2001 Rob MacNamara has organized The Honduras Water Mission, which helps to build gravity-fed water systems in remote villages in northwestern Honduras. We have established a partnership with APP (Agua Para el Pueblo) a Honduran NGO. In addition to putting boots on the ground in Honduras, we raise the funds necessary to buy the supplies to build the water systems. Since 2001, The Outreach Committee of St. Thomas, Whitemarsh has allocated money to help support the Honduras Water Mission. Every March, Rob MacNamara leads groups of about 8-10 people, who travel to Honduras to work side by side with Honduran villagers digging trenches for the PVC pipe from the water source in the mountains down to their village. Once the project is completed, we can return the following year to celebrate clean water with village residents.
Recently, we have established a relationship with AguaClara Cornell, out of Cornell University. AguaClara is the brain-child of Dr. Monroe Weber-Shirk, an environmental engineer. AguaClara has assisted us in improving our purifying systems. AguaClara's system can purify the water even in the rainy season (when our systems would sometimes become overwhelmed resulting in turbid water). The next Honduras Water Mission takes off next March.
7020 Camp Hill Road
Fort Washington, PA 19034
United States
