Friday, 29 May 2026 - Friday after the Feast of Pentecost

Dear friends,

Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes as Meg, Judy and I have welcomed Wren to our family. He continues to be a great eater, and a joy to all of us. Over the last two weeks there have been blissful moments, hair-pulling moments, extremely groggy moments. And all that is almost certainly going to continue.

Meg and I have been really noticing how different it feels to have a baby now than it did in February 2022, when Judy was born. We were pretty new to the neighborhood then, and COVID restrictions and precautions were more widespread. We didn’t have much community here at all. But this time around, we feel surrounded by the love and care of so many folks—and you all are among them. We feel so much gratitude for this community.

I heard from both Mother Kate and Mother Marie how much they appreciated the hospitality and the depth of this community when they celebrated these last two weeks. I was like, I know, they’re pretty great, right? So I’m really looking forward to being back with you this week for Trinity Sunday (although I will have far fewer active brain cells than usual).

One other transition must be noted here: our wonderful music director and remixer, Ali Dineen, has begun her family leave (although as of this writing we have no news of a baby being born. We hold Ali and her husband Chris in our prayers, and wait in hope with them…) That means that we’ll have great substitute musicians filling in this summer, including Kyle Morgan, who will join us for Trinity Sunday. Read more about him below!

in peace,
carl+

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With influences ranging from the classic roots music of the Carter Family and Hank Williams to more modern artists like Thom Yorke and Rufus Wainwright, Kyle sings songs of spiritual longing, struggle and redemption in an earnest tenor voice. You can see and hear more of Kyle here—and he has a new album just out!

The Sunday Circle will meet on June 7 at 5pm.

We will have a "Community Check-in" on Sunday, June 14 during Coffee Hour.

Our leadership will share some of the things that are unfolding in our mission. Even more importantly, this will be a chance to hear from all of you what's resonating, what's not quite right, what opportunities and challenges you see ahead of us. How can we better cultivate integrity as a faith community? How else can we show this neighborhood that "things which have been cast down being raised up, and things which have grown old are being made new?"

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Ari and Cristina of Citation Needed to offer afterschool art classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning September 22. We’ve been so blessed by this partnership since we began hosting monthly Process Art gatherings in the fall of 2024, and we’re excited to pilot a new program—exploring what it might look like to offer a full-fledged afterschool program beginning in September 2027.

You can learn more here—and if you have questions feel free to reach out to Ari or Fr. Carl. But the basics are…

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (extended day available 5-5:30 PM)

K-5th Grade

Full school year coverage, following the DOE calendar. Starting September 22, 2026 and ending June 17, 2027…

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In June, we’ll have even more news to share about new and exciting things happening this fall…stay tuned!

Looking for ways to protect this community from ICE?

The neighborhood ICE Watch “Office Hours” meets every Saturday from 2-3 pm in the sanctuary. This is a great way to get connected to the work of protecting our neighbors and building power. All are welcome.

Cristina Ferrigno
Tabula Rasa

Cristina Ferrigno is a Colombian-born, Brooklyn-raised artist based in Sunnyside. Her work explores cultural “in-betweenness” as a transnational adoptee through combined-media practices and ongoing community-based projects. She loves all kinds of prints and printmaking, photography and image-making processes, as well as working with personal and visual archives.

This work grew out of experiments using leftover paper pulp from an intergenerational workshop she led in the church garden in August 2025. This lovely, messy, hot event was an epic collaboration between the Episcopal Mission in Sunnyside and Citation Needed, a community-based press and workshop series where Cristina has served as Studio Director since 2025. So this work invites the question…

What's something you’re working on that feels like a soggy, smelly mess?

Here are two responses we’ve received so far:

My own sense of self, in bad moments, can feel like a soggy smelly mess.

Sometimes it feels this way as I endeavor to be a good husband, a good mentor, a good friend, a good son. I’m navigating my mom’s cognitive decline and the mortality of my family, while trying to heal a shoulder injury and finding a new job. I navigate it by staying focused and in the present moment, by staying for hope.

Let us know what YOU think on the Little Window Gallery website! We’ll anonymously post all the responses there, and on the LWG’s Instagram page. And in a few weeks we’ll randomly select one of the people who responded and they’ll get to keep a print of Cristina’s paper pulp poem—a local work of art for their very own!

Thanks to Cristina for sharing this tender reflection on grief—and for sharing her practice with us in so many ways, and in ways yet to come!

Please—if you're yearning for something that you haven't seen here, reach out start a conversation. This new mission in Sunnyside is made up of...US. So it gets to be what we want it to be...