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Ordination of Clelia Pinza Garrity
Ordination of Clelia Pinza Garrity as a Deacon in the Episcopal Church. Service was held at St. Martin’s in the Desert Episcopal Church on April 10, 2010. Pictured in Photo are Rev. William H. Stokes, Rector St. Paul’s Church Delray Beach, FL, The Rt. Rev. Dan T. Edwards, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada and [...]
Five Christian Considerations for Health-Care Reform
I approach the discussion about health-care reform from the perspective of an urban minister. I’ve worked with urban core neighbors, neighborhoods, congregations, and community groups for more than 20 years. I’ve watched people struggle to access basic health services in the shadow of world-class hospitals. I know hardworking people caught in the “catch-22” level of income: They make too much to access Medicaid but too little to afford health insurance premiums. They work for companies that either don’t offer health insurance or offer it partially at a level these employees can’t afford. Workers are forced to use a patchwork of health fairs, free clinics, and doctors who will see them occasionally without cost (God bless these). They put off illness or pain until it becomes chronic or unbearable and then make a dash to an emergency room. The health costs they incur are a greater portion of their household income than most Americans. The cost to their dignity is inestimable. But the cost to America’s integrity is even higher.
How the Church Can Help
How the Church can help laid-off workers–like me
By Derek Olsen
The January unemployment numbers are out and things don’t look good. In January alone the American economy lost 598,000 jobs. The official unemployment number is 7.6% but that’s an artificially low figure; it doesn’t include those unemployed for over a year or contractors who have no [...]
In The News: Our First Baptisms in the New Church!
The Pahrump Valley Times (Dec. 17, 2008) reported on our first baptismal service held on November 22. Along with four baptisms, of course, the service also included five confirmations, two receptions, and 17 reaffirmations.
St. Martin’s Dedicates New Church
One Sunday in 1989, Paul and Nancy Lunsford were making their usual trip from Pahrump “over the hump” to church in Las Vegas. On this Sunday, however, after an accident that totaled their car, they decided that Pahrump needed an Episcopal Church. They, along with friends Marion Hutchinson and Robert and Melanie Adams, began meeting [...]
New Website In Progress!
We’re in the process of launching the brand-spankin’ new St. Martin’s website (this one), so there will likely be some odds and ends that are out of place for a little while longer. Please bear with us, and check back soon for a ton of great stuff, and for an easy way to keep up-to-date [...]
