St Luke's Episcopal Church

New Neighbors Coalition Bike Giveaway
2024-05-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
In October 2023, with the generous support of Matt Canby from Pearl City Cycle and community donations, New Neighbors Coalition donated over 20 bikes and helmets to new neighbors to help facilitate transportation needs. We are planning another event on May 10th at 4pm in the St. Luke’s Undercroft, in honor of Bike to Work Week, which is held from May 13-19th. Similar to the last event, the goal is to provide newly arrived immigrants who have come to our region since October with a functional donated bike, a helmet, and a [no]crash course in road safety for bikers.
Do you have a gently used bicycle sitting in your garage or storage unit? Instead of letting it collect dust, why not donate it to someone in need? Your donation can make a significant difference in someone’s life by providing them with a means of transportation to school, work, or other essential destinations. Bicycles in need of minor reparations are also accepted. We also need financial donations to purchase helmets. For further donation instructions, please contact Momina Di Blasio at momina@stlukesjamestown.org or call St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at (716)
483-6405.

Rhythms of Grace
2024-05-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
St. Luke’s Ministry for Children, Youth, and Families will offers Rhythms of Grace – a church experience for busy families and those who may not feel comfortable in a traditional worship setting – on Saturday, April 13th at 10am in the Undercroft.

This program especially supports children on the Autism Spectrum, but the interactive service is also intended for families of all kinds: with small, active children or children with special needs.

Since St. Luke’s launched Rhythms of Grace this fall, we have explored Bible stories with simple songs, Instax photographs, parachute games, puppet shows, and more.

A simple, family-friendly brunch will follow the service.

Ascension Day Evensong
2024-05-09 19:00 - 20:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
As we come to the end of the programmatic year, we are wrapping up our Ron McEntire Choral Scholars Program with an Evensong on Ascension Day, May 9th at 7pm in the church.
Presented through the liturgy, the Evensong will be interspersing the sacred music repertoire the scholars have been working on during the term. The Prelude will be provided by Ron himself, pieces he recorded on the console of the organ (isn’t it amazing we can keep a part of him alive?). After the conclusion of the liturgy, the scholars will perform their secular rep, spanning from the Elizabethan Age to recent musical theatre. It is promising to be a beautiful night to feature these amazing singers, and honor Ron.

Solidarity Walk for Gaza Ceasefire
2024-05-04 07:00 - 17:00 | Lakeside Park, 50 W. Lake Road, Mayville,, 50 West Lake Road, Mayville, NY, 14757, United States
St. Luke’s is organizing a solidarity walk with calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. We will gather at the Lakeside Park in Mayville, NY (50 W Lake Rd – by the playground) at 7 am on May 4, departing at 7:30 sharp, in order to walk 22 miles along Chautauqua Lake – walking nearly the equivalent of the length of Gaza – to raise awareness of and solidarity with the people of Gaza. The group will arrive at St. Luke’s by 5 pm. The day’s activities will conclude with interfaith prayers and reflection.
The walk will include breaks for food, water, and rest. People of diverse ages and abilities are welcome to get involved:

Participants are welcome to walk (there will be a support vehicle available for folks who are not able to walk the entire trip),
offer support (water or food at rest stops, etc.)
We are also collecting donations in support of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (https://tinyurl.com/GazaWalk; select “Gaza Relief” in the drop down menu.)

For more information and ways to get involved, contact the Rev. Jessica Frederick (jessica.frederick@stlukesjamestown.org)

LGBTQ+ Drum Circle
2024-05-01 19:00 - 20:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Come explore creative drumming, enjoy music in a playful atmosphere, and make connections with other LGBTQ+ members of the community! This group will foster joy and connection to yourself and with others in a safe, supportive environment. Facilitator Karen Hewes Suber (she/her) is a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) with a passion for community music making and the “Aha!” moments it can bring. Sessions run approx. 1.5 hours. Monthly meetings on the first Wednesday @ 7 pm (Or as dates are edited online!) at St. Luke’s in the Undercroft on 4th St. Hosted in cooperation with St. Luke’s. Donations are welcome, and instruments are provided. Bringing your own instrument(s) is also welcomed!

Monday Night Cafe
2024-04-29 06:00 - 19:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
The next Monday Night Cafe is April 29 at 6pm in the Undercroft. As always, the food is locally sourced as possible! The dinner is completely free, and everyone is welcome. Menu to be posted on our social media soon.

Heritage Pipe Organs Presents: Paul Fey in Concert
2024-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
On Friday the 26th of April at 7pm in the church, St. Luke’s is hosting a recital performed by Composer and Organist Paul Fey sponsored by our organ builder, Heritage Pipe Organs. A German organist, Fey will perform works by Bach and Mendelssohn; as well has his own compositions on the magnificent Aeolian Skinner pipe organ. It is a free concert, but there will be a freewill offering.

Living As Leading: Youth Sunday
2024-04-21 10:00 - 11:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
It is a solemn tradition at St. Luke’s to let our young people take over the 10 am service for a special Youth Sunday worship planned and lead by the gifted youth of St. Luke’s. This year, St. Luke’s Youth Sunday tradition has grown with the youth taking on the planning of two services – one in the fall and another in the spring.
On April 21st at 10 am in the church, St. Luke’s will celebrate Youth Sunday. Planning this worship experience is a highlight in the programmatic year for the young people of St. Luke’s, and this spring is no exception: the youth have chosen “Living as Leading” as the theme for the day’s service. On Youth Sunday, the mood tends to be more playful, and the music a bit more secular and rambunctious. Aidan McCleery, one of St. Luke’s remarkable high school seniors (pictured here as St. John in our 2023 Christmas Eve Pageant!) will be the morning’s guest preacher.
In preparation for Youth Sunday, teens from 6th through 12th grade are invited to join the youth group for lock-in the night before (April 20th at 7 pm): a rehearsal of the worship service, games, an overnight in the Undercroft, and breakfast together the next morning.

Trivia Night
2024-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Our own Gavin Card will lead us in a fun trivia night on Saturday, April 20th at 7 pm in the Undercroft. We promise the questions will not all be about St Luke’s! Drinks and snacks will be provided & prizes will be awarded.

Pasta Pilgrimage Dinner
2024-04-20 17:30 - 18:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
With the gracious support of the whole congregation, 8 youth and 3 adult pilgrims went on the journey of a lifetime—walking over 75 miles from the medieval city of Viterbo to the Vatican in Rome. On Saturday April 20th at 5:30pm, you are invited to come feast on the experience as the youth prepare a special pasta dinner and “fill up” on all the details of the trip, which included two impromptu baptisms, a 9th century castle visited by Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, a tour of both the Vatican museums as well as the catacombs, much delicious food and lots of blisters. There is no cost for the dinner, but we will invite donations to start saving the for the next youth pilgrimage in 2026. Come for dinner and stay for the Trivia event following.

Chadakoin Chamber Ensemble: You Had me at Cello
2024-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
The Chamber Ensemble returns in concert on Friday, April 19 at 7pm in the church for a cello focused program. Enjoy a journey through time and experience both period and modern instruments. The program is hosted by Katie Ferrie and Mandy Majtan. As always, there is no cost for the concert but there will be a freewill offering to help cover the cost of the concert.

Easter Sunday
2024-03-31 10:00 - 11:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Join on Easter Sunday at 8am and 10am as we celebrate the power of the resurrection. The church will be adorned in its Easter best with flowers and special music.

Easter Egg Hunt
2024-03-31 09:30 - 09:45 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Join us at 9:30 am on Easter Sunday in the Chapel as children, youth, and families of St. Luke’s are invited to participate in the St. Luke’s Easter Egg Hunt.

The Great Vigil
2024-03-30 19:00 - 20:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
The mysterious service begins in darkness on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter, and consists of four parts: The Service of Light (kindling of new fire, lighting the Paschal candle, the Exsultet); The Service of Lessons (readings from the Hebrew Scriptures interspersed with psalms, canticles, and prayers); Christian Initiation (Holy Baptism) or the Renewal of Baptismal Vows; and the Eucharist.

Good Friday Service PM
2024-03-29 19:00 - 20:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
On Good Friday, we’ll remember the way that God’s willingness to suffer with us creates for all of humanity an abiding sense of goodness…which is why the call the day “good” even though it contains so much sadness and “badness.” The service includes special music, the veneration of the cross and mass of the presanctified.

Good Friday Service AM
2024-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States

Maundy Thursday PM
2024-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
On Maundy Thursday, we remember the new commandment that Jesus gives us by loving through humble service—even the washing of feet. We conclude the service by stripping the altar to prepare for Good Friday. Join us in vulnerability of love.
Services are in the chapel at 12:05pm and in the church at 7:00pm with choir.

Maundy Thursday AM
2024-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States

Tenebrae
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
Tenebrae is a service of about the play of shadows and light that prepares us for the mystery of Triduum. With Scripture reading, singing and candle extinguishing we sink into the passion of Christ’s last days.

Chrism Liturgy and Renewal of Vows
2024-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Clergy from both the Diocese of Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania will join Bishop Sean Rowe at the annual Chrism liturgy to renew their vows (and lay folks in attendance their baptismal vows). The bishop will also consecrate holy oil to be used in baptism and anointing the sick. The service is open to the public.

Monday Night Cafe
2024-03-25 18:00 - 19:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Join us in the Undercroft at St. Luke’s as we start up Monday Night Cafe for the 2024 season!

This meal is free to everyone in the community and the food is sourced as much as possible from right here in New York and Chautauqua County.

We will be highlighting locally grown and baked bread from Grain Bakery in Westfield. Their bread will be an add-on option in this season‘s CSA!

A fruity dessert will be served up with fruit from Abers Acres.

And local meat will be used in the entree!

Full menu to come!

"Bearing Witness" : St. Luke's Lenten Program 2
2024-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Through video, Scripture, and discussion, we explore the situation (past and present) in the Holy Land – with a specific focus on the Episcopal Church’s ministry in the Diocese of Jerusalem. Having spent several years living in Palestine, Jessica Frederick will lead this session.

Prior to this discussion, we will gather in the church with a special stations of the cross service – an ancient practice which developed by pilgrims to the Holy Land to bring back some of the mystery and spirituality of Jesus’s march to Golgotha. The stations installed at St. Luke’s symbolically depict Jesus as a monarch butterfly on migration to transformation. These images dovetail with work of the New Neighbors Coalition and brings the stations in to contemporary focus as we invite Jesus into our current global instability and global crisis of human safety around the world.

Service on the Slopes
2024-03-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Holiday Valley Ski Resort, 6557 Holiday Valley Rd, Ellicottville, NY, 14731, United States
A brief ecumenical service of prayer, scripture reading and communion with a conversational sermon on the slopes of Holiday Valley. We meet in the Warming Hut on top of Cindy’s lift. All are welcome.

My Name is Rachel Corrie 2
2024-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 | The Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 E 4th St, Jamestown, 14701, United States
On March 15 and 16 at 7 p.m., St. Luke’s theatre group, the Winged Ox Players, will present the one-woman play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie” at the Robert H. Jackson Center. Corrie was an American diarist, activist, and human rights advocate who traveled to, and died in, Gaza in 2003. March 15 marks the 21 year anniversary of Corrie’s death. The script is composed of excerpts from Rachel’s diaries and emails, edited by actor Alan Rickman and journalist Katharine Viner.

The Rev. Jessica Frederick, who lived in the West Bank from 2007 to 2010 while doing human rights documentation and advocacy work with Community Peacemaker Teams, will lead the production. Each performance will include a talkback session. This staging of “My Name is Rachel Corrie” is directed by Loren Masanqué. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. All proceeds from the performance will go to Gaza relief through the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.

My name is Rachel Corrie
2024-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 E 4th St, Jamestown, 14701, United States

"Bearing Witness" : St Luke's Lenten Program
2024-03-12 18:30 - 20:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States

The Philadelphia Eleven Film Screening
2024-03-01 19:00 - 20:30 | The Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 E 4th St, Jamestown, 14701, United States
The year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church. At the beginning of Women’s History Month (March), St. Luke’s Church in partnership with the Robert H. Jackson Center is screening a new documentary, “The Philadelphia Eleven,” about the timely and daring 1974 ordination of the first eleven women priests in the Episcopal Church. The free screening, March 1st at 7pm, will be open to any and all who wish to attend.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
2024-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper & Prayer Stations
Before the austerity of Lent, we celebrate with a pre-Lenten feast of pancakes and sausage on Shrove (from the Old English—to shrive: to confess) Tuesday, February 13th from 5pm to 7pm in the Undercroft. The dinner costs $7 and all of the proceeds will support the Youth Pilgrimage to Italy. This year, the festivities will also include some interactive and educational prayer stations to mark the Feast of The Rev. Absalom Jones, who was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States. While you are waiting to be served or after you have eaten, you are invited to engage with a series of interactive stations that will lead you to listen, learn, lament and love. These Stations are a project of the Dismantling Racism Committee.

Handel's Messiah Sing Along
2023-12-29 19:00 - 20:30 | St Luke’s Church, 410 N Main ST, NY, 14701, United States
Come and celebrate the Christmas season by joining the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and other special guests for a Messiah sing along. The program will include Part 1, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, the Trumpet Shall Sound, and conclude with the Hallelujah Chorus. Sheet music will be provided.

The sing-a-long will be Conducted by Jeffrey Dean, with soloists Blessing Agu, Soprano, Loren Masánqué, Countertenor, Adam Rohler, Tenor, and Gavin Card, Baritone, and accompanied by Richard Gress and the Chadakoin Chamber Ensemble. The event is free and open to the public.

Donations will be accepted.

Rehearsals for the choir will be on the 28th of December at 8pm.
