Service is an important part of our commitment to be “boldly incarnational” in the world. A partial list of our service activities appears below. Just as all are welcome at our Sunday services, all are welcome to participate.
Amnesty Int’l Write for Rights
Folder Drive With The Simple Way
St. Philip’s Sock Drive for the Homeless
Amnesty Int’l Write for Rights
Every December, parishioners and friends of St. Philip’s participate in Write for Rights, an Amnesty Int’l initiative designed to let political prisoners – and the governments holding them – know they are not forgotten. Over the course of an afternoon at St. Philip’s, we write hundreds of letters and cards to prisoners of conscience and their captors. Contact Liz Oliver at lizfieldingo@yahoo.com for more information.
Free Food Market
The Free Food Market provides fresh. canned, and dried foods to members of our Community who need a little help.
Every Friday, 2-4 p.m., all are welcome to pick up food at the parish house.
Dinner with Friends
Volunteers from St. Philip’s can frequently be found cooking up something delicious in support of "Dinner with Friends" (formerly Peacemeal) at the Solebury Friends Meeting House in their Fellowship Hall.. Learn more about Dinner with Friends.
Folder Drive With The Simple Way
Since 2016, in partnership with our friends at The Simple Way, members of St. Philip’s have collected thousands of two-pocket folders and composition-style notebooks for schoolkids in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, where The Simple Way is headquartered. The Simple Way is a nonprofit organization and community that describes itself as “a web of subversive friends conspiring to spread the vision of ‘Loving God, Loving People, and Following Jesus’ in our neighborhoods and in our world.”
In-Church Food Collection
For more than a decade now, demand for necessities by people in our community who are food insecure has outstripped the ability of local service organizations to provide them. In response, St. Philip’s parishioners collect non-perishable food items and other essentials each week to distribute to food banks such as the Bucks County Housing Group and Fisherman's Mark Free Market in Lambertville, N.J.
A regularly updated list of most-needed items is posted on the bulletin board in the back of the church. To help, please bring non-perishable items to St. Philip’s and leave them in the basket behind the altar.
Meal-Packing Events
Our patron, St. Philip, is associated with the miracle of the loaves and fishes. So it’s fitting that many of our outreach efforts involve food and sharing from our abundance. Each year St. Philip’s parishioners take part in various meal-packing events organized by the United Way and other service organizations.
Pastoral Care
Are you homebound following an illness or surgery? Do you wish you could come to services at St. Philip’s but you no longer drive? Do you need help getting to and from a medical appointment or treatment and friends and family are unable to take you?
Volunteers from St. Philip’s provide home-cooked meals, transportation and other pastoral care services to church members and others in need.
St. Philip’s Blessing Box
The St. Philip’s Blessing Box is a micro food larder located on the church grounds. Learn more.
St. Philip’s Sock Drive for the Homeless
Every Christmas, St. Philip’s collects new socks to benefit homeless people in our community. Learn more about our sock drive.
Yoga at St. Philip’s
We are offering a yoga class for people of all ages and abilities every Thursday, 10:00-11:00AM. Beth Hawkey, the teacher, has practiced yoga for 20 years and is a certified instructor with 200 hours of training. We meet at the Parish House, 6843 Chapel Rd, New Hope and request a free-will donation ($10 suggested).
If you have any questions email Andrew Budwig andrew.budwig@gmail.com.