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If you are looking for a spiritual home, searching for a place of acceptance and belonging, or are intrigued by the Christian faith and practices, we invite you to come to our church.
Emmanuel Church in Newport, as a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, has long been known as “the Church of the people,” where “rich and poor, high and low, great and humble all worship and work together as friends.” Because Emmanuel welcomed everyone, the parish developed around the needs of all its members, from mill workers, domestic servants, and fishermen to teachers, merchants, lawyers, and bankers. The similar diversity of today’s congregation—a microcosm of our island-wide community—is proof that this tradition of inclusiveness and welcome continues.
Compassion for our neighbors is another Emmanuel tradition. Our history shines with community engagement with those in need. Some of these programs have been incubators, growing beyond our walls to become community-wide institutions, including Island Hospice, The Church Community Corporation (affordable housing), The Maher Center (a sheltered workshop) whose roots include a former Emmanuel support group for parents of special-needs children, and “Soup’s On” (begun in 1982), which offers hot meals as part of a community network that helps ensure that those who are hungry can find nourishment for body and soul every day of the year.
In short, Emmanuel Church has a big heart and open arms. From its first days, Emmanuel Church has served as a neighborhood anchor providing vital support, critical assistance, inspirational worship, and lifelong friendship. Come inside and take a look. The people make it happen. Join us in worship and experience the loving embrace of this exciting faith community. You will be glad that you did!
Worship times
In person service, Holy eucharist rite 2 spoken.
In person and simultaneously streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelnewport.
Volunteer opportunities
Soup's On - a monthly feeding ministry that serves approximately 70 meals.
Hydroponics Garden - a ministry that provides fresh produce to the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center for their food pantry.
Community Garden - an open door ministry to all of Newport to activley engage in caring for our planet. Harvested crops to assist our Newport family in need of nutritious food within scarcity.
Ministries
Soup's On
With a goal simply to feed people, "Soup's On" began at Emmanuel Church and blossomed into a cooperative ministry of 19 churches of 10 different denominations, working together to provide at least one meal every day of the month to an average of 100 people. A community meal is still offered at Emmanuel at 5 pm on the first Tuesday of every month.
Hydroponic Garden
The hydroponics garden has three growing beds that now producie Kale and Swiss Chard with almost 100 bags of produce each month for distribution at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Newport on their “Produce to the People” day. The organically grown produce provides healthy benefits to those most in need of help.
Community Garden
Out in our new community garden, the tomatoes are beginning to blossom and fruit, bell and banana peppers are growing, and gorgeous blooming marigolds safely fend off winged leaf nibblers. We now have herbs ready to pick and use, and enough arugula and lettuce up from the seeds I planted to have our first salads from the garden. The prize for the first two people to see this sentence and ask me about it is a fresh arugula or mesclun salad. I’ll even pick it and wash it myself for you.
Just this week we’ve figured out our first two prototype wagons that will make participating in our community garden easy and accessible for everyone, including anyone with mobility limitations. After seeing how we all thrive and grow in community at Emmanuel, I invite you to bring in your pots from home — tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, herbs, flowers, anything ya got now, as the song goes — and let’s see how our garden thrives in community. We’ll place them on the wagon platforms and grow our garden together. God does marvelous things at Emmanuel every day.
International Relationships
Compass Rose Society
The Compass Rose Society supports the programs and ministries of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the organization that sets the goals and direction for the Communion.
The Society helps the ACC in three important ways - raising funds, mission projects and building community.
Jerusalem Peacebuilders
Our Vision
Jerusalem Peacebuilders (JPB) vision is a Jerusalem and a world where Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze live together as sisters and brothers in dignity, equality, and peace.
Our Mission
Jerusalem Peacebuilders (JPB) is an interfaith, non-profit organization with a mission to create a better future for humanity across religions, cultures, and identities. Integral to that mission is the belief that the future of Jerusalem is the future of the world. To that end, JPB promotes transformational, person-to-person encounters among the peoples of Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, and the United States.
JPB’s interfaith programs focus on uniting Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans and providing them with the opportunities, relationships, and skills they need to become future leaders for peace. A passion for peace drives our mission and partnerships power our program.
St. George's College, Jerusalem
St. George’s College is the Anglican pilgrimage centre in Jerusalem welcoming people as pilgrims from all around the world. The College is part of the complex that includes the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr, the Pilgrim Guest House, and the offices of the Diocese of Jerusalem.
St. George’s College proudly celebrated its 100th year in 2020. Its length of service and unique context mean we offer a place where clergy and lay people from across the Anglican Communion as well as a variety of other traditions, can share in a short-term experience of community, pilgrimage, education, interfaith dialogue, and reconciliation.
Jerusalem is not only a meeting place for Christians from around the world. It is also a home to Jews and Muslims, it offers rich possibilities for interfaith engagement for those who visit. All of the College pilgrimages provide encounters with local Palestinian Christians and address the historical and current complexities of the Abrahamic faiths in the Land through presentations of interweaving narratives.
Through service to the Anglican world and beyond, St. George’s College aims to fulfill its mission:
- Local – as a mission institution of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem we bear witness to Christ in the Holy Land
- Global – we offer opportunities for pilgrimage, interfaith encounter, reconciliation, research and spiritual formation within the Anglican Communion, reaching other churches as well
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