This support group offers participants a way to share and learn from each other’s experiences in coping with challenges while caring for someone with Alzheimer’s.

Make blessed blankets to bring relief for those who need comfort.

Come join this ministry. No sewing experience is needed and there are opportunities for everyone. The group makes approximately 4,000 blankets annually for newborns or infants cared for at Ben Taub Hospital each year. This ministry is looking for volunteers to iron or sew hems, even if it is only a few times a year. Drop-ins are welcome and volunteers can take the materials home to make the blankets!

We live in a contentious time, where it can sometimes seem like our arguments are as noisy as they are shallow. Yet we possess a great inheritance of wisdom in the Christian tradition that can shake up our present-day perspective and give us deeper roots in richer soil if only we would seek it out. In this monthly series, we’ll take C.S. Lewis’s advice to read the old books, at least two representing a different era. We’ll study great figures from the Christian tradition, alongside some insightful writers on present-day questions.

Volunteer trained docents share knowledge and love of The Church.

St. Martin’s docents offer free, public and private tours. Everyone is welcome regardless of religious affiliation. Trained volunteers serve as tour guides, providing information about The Church’s Gothic architecture, stained-glass windows and the details and symbolism throughout the worship spaces.

Tours are available for Parish members (groups and individuals), schools and local community organizations. Special tours of the Church Windows, Christ Chapel and a Campus tour of the Gardens are available on request.

Would you like to find a place where you can define, refine, articulate and live your faith?  Then Education for Ministry is for you! EfM is a challenging and affirming four-year study in Old Testament, New Testament, Church History and Theology developed and administered by the University of the South’s School of Theology with world-wide groups who worship and study in a community of 12 participants and accredited mentor.

St. Martin’s Faith in Literature day and evening groups explore, discuss and make relevant connections between faith and works of fiction, past and present. While operating within the framework of Christian theology, we seek to ascertain how all good literature, even if by omission, deals with and reflects themes of faith.

Welcome Parishioners and visitors on Sundays.

This ministry comprises Parishioners who greet worshipers before and after the 9 and 11:15 a.m. worship services. Stationed at the east and west Narthex doors and in the Narthex, greeters welcome everyone who enters The Church.

Volunteers Needed to Straighten the Pews!

Volunteers are needed to help straighten and organize the pew racks in The Church and Christ Chapel.

The Order of St. Luke (OSL) meets weekly to learn and grow in the practice of prayer for healing. The group offers prayers after the Sunday services and hosts the Service of Prayer for Healing and Wholeness on the first Wednesday of the month.

Knit for love, hope and healing.

Participants in this caring ministry knit and crochet God’s love, care and warmth into shawls that are blessed before they are donated to those in need. Novice and well-experienced needlework group members knit prayer shawls, baby blankets and cancer caps in all sizes and shapes.

Bringing Saintly devotion through the love of needlecraft.

The men and women of Saintly Stitchers fill St. Martin’s with beautiful needlepoint pew kneelers, the prie-dieu cushion for the Patron’s Chapel and acolyte pew kneelers. Sponsor a kneeler or join the group to stitch, whether you are an expert or a novice.

Transform your expression of God’s love, one stitch at a time.

St. Clare’s Needlepoint Guild creates beautiful needlepoint items to sell and raise funds for outreach and Church projects. The Guild welcomes stitchers of any skill level and teaches needlepoint from basic stitches to detailed and advanced work.

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Summer Book Club
Join our young adults’ group this summer as we explore Don Thorsen’s “An Exploration of Christian Theology.” Meeting locations will vary, so contact the Rev. Wesley Arning for specific dates and details. Everyone is welcome and you don’t need to have read the book in advance to participate in the discussion.

The Gathering is dedicated to using its resources and time to support Church members and others in our community who are experiencing memory loss. This program offers a safe and nurturing environment filled with creative and stimulating activities for care partners, giving their caregivers a much-needed break from daily responsibilities. The Gathering is a program of CarePartners and is hosted by St. Martin’s.