12 Step Worship

Let us pray for the Church and for the world. Loving God, you have set us in families and clans, in cities and neighborhoods. Our common life began in a garden,... but our destiny lies in the city. You have placed us in and around Buffalo. This is our home. Your creativity is on display here through the work of human hearts and hands. We pray for Buffalo todayfor the East Side and the West Side, North Buffalo and South Buffalo. We pray for our poorest neighbors and for powerful people in banks and businesses downtown. We pray for people from the First Ward and the Fruit Belt. We pray for neighboring communities from Olcott to Olean, from Angola to Albion, and a thousand other cities connected to our own. In all our neighborhoods this day there will be crime and callous moneymaking; there will be powerful people unable or unwilling to see the vulnerable who are their neighbors. There will also be beautiful acts of compassion and creativity in all these placesforgiveness and generosity; neighbors working together for a more just community. Help us see this place as something other than a battleground between us and them, where our imaginations are limited by win/lose propositions and endless rivalry. Show us a deeper reality, God: Show us your Beloved Community. We pray also for all who are sick or lonely, all who are overwhelmed by difficult circumstances, or trapped in harmful relationships. We pray for all who grieve, and all who live in fear. We pray for all who are dependent on the compassionate care of others, and for those who work tirelessly to care for the ones who are in need. Prosper our city, and help us to trust that you are God, we pray in the name of the one who wept over the city. Amen

Love knowing a great Buffalo photographer who captures beauty in and around our city. Thank you, Bill Faught! #buffalochurches #churchcourtyard #historicbuffalo #episcopal #theepiscopalchurch #episcopalchurch #architecturephotography #pandemicphotography

OUR BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! First annual Little Smiles Western New York Holiday Toy Drive 2020 We are all navigating through this 2020 year! We at Little Smiles fi...gure we need to secure Christmas for those in need in WNY. We will be collecting new unwrapped toys along with a TEXT TO DONATE and an Amazon wish list. The links will be posted soon! We need all of our Little Smiles team to come together and share this ! We will also be giving to Buffalo Dream CBuffalo Dream Centeraign of Boxes of Love. @pastor Eric Johns does an amazing job helping this community. Let’s have an awesome finish to this completely crazy year and create a lot of LITTLE SMILES! See more

This is the reality of an addict. Everyday an addict is on a mission and will do anything and everything to complete that mission. TO GET HIGH!! See I never int...ended to be an addict. I didn’t just wake up one day and say Yup today’s a good day to be an addict. I made a poor decision to try pills and coke at a party and instantly became addicted. That was my outlet and my escape from all the things taking place in my life. This was taken in 2011 which was right before I hit my rock bottom! The picture on the right is who I am today. 8 years sober! I post things like this as a reminder to people struggling and people facing challenges in there life....that YOU CAN make it out of anything that you’re going through!! I broke out of mine in 2012 and I never looked back since. 09/12/12 #SobrietyIsPossible #OneDayAtATime See more