A New Community With Deep Roots

God loves you. This has been the simple core message of the Church for two thousand years. God loves you is easy to say, but takes some effort to feel, to experience, and to act on in the world.

Holy Apostles and St. Stephen are a community that shares that simple message that God loves all of us, that God loves every part of creation. We share this because love challenges us to grow, brings us closer together, nurtures life, and helps us to serve with thankful hearts. Ultimately love can and will change the world and make the world more like the place that God is calling it to be.

The world is a changing place, and how we share this love here and now is different. In March of 2019, a Lutheran (ELCA) church and an Episcopal (Anglican) church decided to come together as one community. Our churches have served the area around Arbutus, Catonsville, and Southwest Baltimore for over a hundred and thirty years. Our worship is both ancient and new, inspired by tradition, but growing together every week and finding new ways to praise God, new ways to invite our neighbors, new ways to inspire faith, new ways to reach out, and new ways to say “God loves you!”

Will you join us?

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