Upcoming Events  

Not in Our Pews  A regional conference, Not in Our Pews: Teaming Up to End Domestic Violence, is being offered October 27 and 28, 2010 at the Olympia Resort and Conference Center in Oconomowoc, WI. The conference will work in partnership with and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wings of Faith Ministries' annual domestic violence training for faith leaders. The Rev. Al Miles, hospital ministry coordinator at the Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, is the featured speaker. He is the author of a number of books and articles on faith and domestic violence including Violence in Families: What Every Christian Needs to Know and Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know. The conference goals are to build partnerships between congregational leaders, service providers and law enforcement programs.

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Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie Quiet Day - Time for Peace

Proclaiming the Mysteries of Advent and Christmas 

Trustees of Funds & Endowments revises Combined Fund distribution formula

Antique Show at Church of the Holy Communion, Lake Geneva (August 13-14

Volunteer withTrinity, Wauwatosa - Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity project

Support Sundries on the Avenue (St. James, Milwaukee) -- save your "sundries"!

Education for Ministry program offered in Madison

 News from Around the Diocese  

Our Next Generation, Inc. celebrates successful year!

Photos from the  Blessing of Dogs at St. Mark's, South Milwaukee

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St. Bartholomew's garden provides food for the soul

By Rebecca Seymour

“I am at peace now,” said Gaw Paw, looking over the huge garden she helped plant. The 68-year-old great-grandmother is a refugee from Burma. She and her family fled for their lives from the war-torn country, also known as Myanmar, and spent more than 10 years in a refugee camp on the Thailand border.

They had no electricity and no running water. The crowded camps offered little shelter, and diseases like malaria were commonplace. They had little hope for freedom and certainly, no sense of peace. What they did have, however, was a garden.

Through the support of humanitarian organizations and local churches, such as St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Pewaukee, Gaw Paw and her family escaped their unfathomable living conditions and have been living in Waukesha since 2007.