Serve the Community | St. Christopher's Oak Park

Outreach and Social Justice are important to the people of St. Christopher’s for at least two reasons: one, because such ministry helps others, and two, because it changes our lives. Like a medical school whose primary mission is to train doctors and nurses, the church's primary mission is to train disciples. In the process, we treat the sick, but just as importantly, we create healers. For this reason, it's not enough to write a check for outreach from the church treasury. The check is important, but we also need to send people along with the check if we are to be changed. Both help make God's love visible in the world, but the latter helps make the world's needs visible to the church as well, especially when a member returns saying, "My eyes have been opened; my life is changed."

Beyond Hunger

Beyond Hunger

For over 40 years, Beyond Hunger has provided hunger-relief programming and services to 13 zip codes across Cook County, including Oak Park and surrounding communities. St. Christopher's has actively supported Beyond Hunger' mission for the last decade. On the second Saturday of each month, St. C's has a dedicated spot for about 10 parishioners to spend a couple of h…

Housing Forward

Housing Forward

In its 30-year history, Housing Forward, located in Maywood, IL, has evolved from just providing emergency overnight shelter to local homeless people, to providing a wide range of permanent solutions to prevent the occurrence or reoccurrence of homelessness. Members of St. Christopher's have actively worked with Housing Forward for almost its entire history. In the…

St. C.'s Community Migrant Closet

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Here is what we are accepting as of 12/3. All other supplies may be turned away. We will accept these donations on Wednesday, 12/6 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, December 9th, from 11-2 p.m.

Children's snow pants ages 3T to youth XL
Resale or excellent condition children's boot…

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We look forward to welcoming you to St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, an open and affirming congregation in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

We pray that you will find here the love that is Christ’s law – love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things – knowing that God’s love is bigger than anything we can ask or imagine.

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In the Episcopal Church, we call holy life events sacraments. We acknowledge that God is present in every occasion of our lives. Some of these we mark together with special celebrations of worship to highlight the ways in which God is always at work throughout our life’s eventss. As Episcopalians, we believe that these observations reveal God's grace to us in new ways and call them sacramental.

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We have created a Sunday morning for Children and Families beginning with worship at 9:30AM. Then, immediately following snack, the young people participate in the Whole People of God lectionary-based Sunday School curriculum, so that everyone in the church is reflecting on the same scripture. Children engage the themes and stories of the day in our 9:30 worship. Art, activities like acting out the story, and music reinforce what happens in worship.

In the Episcopal Church the people of God, ordained through baptism, are to be ministers of Jesus wherever they live, work, and play. The Priest is the pastor to the people who proclaims the gospel; administers the sacraments; and blesses and declares pardon in the name of God.

Supporting the Ministers of God are the Staff and Vestry. The Rector is elected by a vestry with the bishop‘s approval.

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We as Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. St. Paul's is part of the Episcopal Church, a church that is both rich with ancient tradition and relevant to life in the 21st century. We believe that God loves you - no exceptions.

We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the whole world.

Everything on our beautiful church campus is paid for by the people of St. Christopher’s. Our worship, our music, our Sunday School, our outreach, our staff, our buildings and every candle is made possible by the generosity of our church members, friends, and supporters. Please give now so that we can continue to build the Kingdom of God together.

The people of St. Christopher’s are our service ministers and, working with the staff and vestry, are full stewards of the mission and ministry of our congregation. Steward is an ancient concept. A steward is a person who is responsible for someone else's property, finances, or affairs.

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