St. Alban's Episcopal Church

The St. Alban’s Outreach Center welcomes our outreach partners in ministry into the space formerly used by St. Alban’s Memorial School. For questions, please contact Lori Youngblood, our Business Manager. 

Numerous 12 Step Programs use the Outreach Center for their meetings, such as Al-Anon, Al-A-Teen and Overeaters Anonymous. For more information, see http://centexintergroup.com.

Using the Suzuki method, SAOW teaches children to play stringed instruments, mainly during the afternoon hours. 

Our parish partner, All Saints in Nambiti, is in southeast Malawi, a small and peaceful African country. The parish is comprised of 5 different churches spread across 5 villages, with villages in-between. On any given Sunday, the rector may only celebrate in one to three of the locations.

So far, St. Alban’s has sent two teams to Malawi. The first trip was really more relationship building and focused on assessing the situation. The second trip involved a health and well-being focus. We gave about 2000 doses of vitamin A and albendazole (an anti-parisitic) to children under 5, and weighed and measured all of them. While the Malawi government mandates this program, they don’t have the resources to make it happen so they’re quite happy with these results.

St. Alban’s also sponsored a Malawi opthamalogist who worked with our team to see over 1500 patients. Thanks to Lions Club International, we were able to pass out about 500 pairs of eyeglasses to those who needed them.

The team also tested 26 sites for water quality. Thankfully, the rectory’s well is giving good quality water!

Currently, we are planning another trip for the future and raising funds for a chicken coop. Raising chickens will provide the people of Nambiti with income, as well as a sustainable protein source.

Please contact Al Melis at alberto@stalbanswaco.org if you are interested in being involved in our ministry in Malawi.

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.