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St. Luke’s is once again hosting a food drive for RIFA, and this summer we are supporting their Snack Backpack program. The RIFA Snack Backpack ministry works to fill this gap by providing kid-friendly, easy-to-prepare, nutritious food items for children who are at risk of going hungry on Saturdays and Sundays. If you would like to participate, we are asking those who are able in the Parish bring the following items on Sundays in June and July. June 14: Pop-Tarts June 21: Chi

During the month of June, our parish choir will be focusing on singing a simple anthem each Sunday together with simple choral arrangements of our hymns. If you like to sing and have thought about singing with our parish choir, but have worried about the difficulty of the repertoire during our regular choral season, this is a perfect opportunity to try singing in our parish choir during the summer, with low pressure, summer choir camp type programming. We meet on Wednesdays f

Come join us on Sunday, May 31st to hear our guest preacher The Rt. Rev. Larry Benfield. Bishop Benfield graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1990, following a Masters of Arts in Business Administration in 1979. Elected in 2006, Bishop Benfield served as the thirteenth bishop of Arkansas from 2007-2022, and was Fr. Jesse’s ordaining bishop in 2009. The baptism of Parker Haley, born on May 3rd to Samantha and Chase Haley, will also be taking place on this specia

Come to the Feast of Fire: Pentecost Sunday, May 24 Fifty days after Easter, the Church celebrates one of its most ancient and joyful feasts: Pentecost. It was on this day, as recounted in the second chapter of Acts, that the Holy Spirit descended on the gathered disciples like rushing wind and tongues of flame — and the Church was born. What had been a small, frightened band of followers was transformed into a community of bold witnesses, sent out into the world with purpose

On Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 4:oo pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will present a service of Choral Evensong for the Feast of Pentecost, featuring the St. Luke’s Evensong Choir and with voluntaries before and after the service offered by the St. Luke’s Handbell Ringers. This will be the last Choral Evensong of the 2025-2026 Choral Season. A wine and cheese reception in the parish commons will follow the service.

Hello St. Luke’s! I am excited to share the new of our new deacon appointment: meet Pam Evans. Pam will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on May 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, and then will be with us for a year of intentional mentoring before being ordained a priest. She will primarily be joining us on Sundays and special events as she continues to work full time during the week, and you can expect to hear her preach once a month or so as schedules allow. Please join

This service will feature canticles and an anthem by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C Major, Op. 115 and the Easter anthem Ye choirs of new Jerusalem. The service also includes a popular recent setting of the canticle Phos Hilaron by British composer Owain Park (b. 1993) .

Established in 1832, St. Luke's is one of the oldest churches in Jackson and the first Episcopal church to be founded in West Tennessee. The historic building we now use on the corner of Baltimore and Church street was erected in 1844. Once the building was completed, St. Luke's was consecrated on May 14, 1853. St. Luke's has Parish records dating back to the late 1800's. If you have an inquiry for genealogical purposes, feel free to reach out and we will try to help out the

portrait of Scarlatti in the Naples Conservatory, attr. to Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1678-1745) On Good Friday, April 3, 2026 at 6:30 pm, sopranos Carrie Prewitt and Esther Gray will sing Stabat Mater dolorosa b y Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) as part of our Stations of the Cross devotion and meditation, accompanied by organist and director of music Jeffrey Hoffman at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 309 E. Baltimore St., Jackson, TN. Pergolesi was a pre-eminent compos