Servants Sharing Stories | Church of the Servant Wilmington

“Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint crammed with bar graphs never can.”
- Joe Lazauskas and Shane Snow, The Storytelling Edge

We all have stories to share. We meet others and create new experiences. We learn new things, venture into different territories, and gain new insight. Sometimes it means going beyond our comfort zone. Our stories paint a picture, evoke emotions, inspire others.

Here are just a few of the many stories our COS "servants" have to share.

Blessing of the Animals

We welcomed a warm, early autumn afternoon on October 1 and we invited parishioners and their pets to congregate on the front lawn at Church of the Servant to celebrate the Blessing of the Ani…

1st Annual Jazz and Race Symposium

On Saturday, September 16, the Racial Healing Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina hosted the 1st Annual Jazz and Race Symposium. The event held at St. James Episcopal Church, …

Getting to know Catherine Charles, Music Director at Church of the Servant

Q: We'd love to know something about your career and life in music up until the time you joined us. Please tell us about that.

I attended UNC-Greensboro where I majored in music. I got a j…

Reflections on “It’s All About Love: A Festival for the Jesus Movement”

Across the church and around the world, we are hungry for revival and renewal. On July 9-12, a churchwide festival of worship, learning, community, and action for the Episcopal branch of the J…

Memorial Garden at Church of the Servant

Our beautiful Memorial Garden was incorporated into the 1996 sanctuary dedication as a place of peace and meditation. Name engraved stones mark the location of the ashes of the 34 souls curr…

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These are the first words spoken by Jesus in John’s gospel, directed to a seeker named Andrew. We are all seekers, and while we may not know how to express what it is we’re looking for, we trust that we’ll know it when we see it.

At Church of the Servant, we seek, serve, and celebrate God and each other in a safe and accepting community. We welcome people from various backgrounds and ethnicities, those who are straight, LGBTQ, married, partnered, single, from other denominations and faith traditions, life-long Episcopalians, brand new to church or returning to church after a long absence.

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We are an inclusive group of people searching for spirituality and meaning in our lives.
We honor people for who they are and where they are in their lives.
We live our lives in thanksgiving for the love that God has bestowed on all creation, rather than live our lives in order to earn that love.
We are a growing church filled with love and creativity.
We work together, play together and search together.

God is present in every occasion of our lives. Together we mark these special times with celebrations of worship to highlight the ways in which God is always at work throughout the events of our lives.

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